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The American Poet Who Went Home Again

by Aberjhani

Published: 2008-05-07

Paperback: 312 pages

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The American Poet Who Went Home Again is a book of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, literary journalism, history, and biography to tell the story of one writer's rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself. It is composed of four sections containing collectively some...

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American Presidents: Martin Van Buren

by Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger

Published: 2005-01-05

Hardcover: 189 pages

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The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic champion Andrew...

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American Primitive

by Mary Oliver

Published: 1983-04-30

Paperback: 88 pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryHer most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside."American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric v...

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Published: 2005-04-05

Hardcover: 721 pages

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American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, ?father of the atomic bomb,? the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous...

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American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

Published: 1991-03-01

Paperback: 399 pages

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Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis im...

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The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

by Gordon S. Wood

Published: 2003-08-19

Paperback: 224 pages

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“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.”-Joseph J. Ellis...

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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

by Karen Abbott

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 448 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmerica was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stri...

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American Rust

by Philipp Meyer

Published: 2010-03-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them who dream of a future be...

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American Rust: A Novel

by Philipp Meyer

Published: 2010-01-12

Paperback: 400 pages

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The debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The SonSet in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—that arise from i...

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American Salvage (Made in Michigan Writers Series)

by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Published: 2009-12-21

Hardcover: 192 pages

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These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence. National Book Award citation American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love...