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81) Jim Crow: voices from a century of struggle.Part One:1876-1919 : Reconstruction to the Red Summer
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Library of America volume 376
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line"...
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Library of America volume 364
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel daringly engages with the authoritarian impulses in the American...
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Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights in all its diversity and intersectionality, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it: the most recognizable figures in the campaign for women's suffrage, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims,...
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Library of America volume 253-254
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this first volume of a lavishly produced two-volume collector's edition, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the evolution of the musical from the groundbreaking Show Boat through the genre's glorious mid-century. Based on new research, the complete libretto of each musical is presented in its Broadway opening night version, making these beloved cultural treasures available as never before. The texts are supplemented...
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Library of America volume 350
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century, Du Bois brought all his intellectual powers to bear on...
86) Novels 1987-1997
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Series
Library of America volume 273
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
..."The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Vietnam vet and disgraced academic, Vonnegut...
87) Autobiographies
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Library of America volume 274
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Series
Library of America volume 289
Publisher
The Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Few Americans appreciate the significance and intensity of America's experience of World War I, the global cataclysm that transformed the modern world. Published to mark the centenary of the American entry into the conflict, [this anthology] brings together a wide range of writings by American participants and observers to tell a ... firsthand story from the outbreak of war in 1914 through the Armistice, the Paris Peace Conference, and the League...
89) Complete novels
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Library of America volume 324
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Library of America volume 340
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Library of America presents three environmental classics from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E. O. Wilson, a masterful writer-scientist whose graceful prose is equal to his groundbreaking discoveries. These books illuminate the evolution and complex beauty of our imperiled ecosystems and the flora, fauna, and civilization they sustain, even as they reveal the personal evolution of one of the greatest scientific minds of our age. Here are the lyrical,...
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Library of America volume 314
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of opportunity, sexual harassment, and racism conspire to limit Lutie's...
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Library of America volume 283
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Library of America volume 293
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Library of America volume 352
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
The pioneering naturalist's works exploring the Earth's oceans.
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Library of America volume 261
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
97) Complete stories
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Library of America volume 298-299
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along...
99) Collected poems
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Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first and last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final publication, So Far So Good, which she delivered to her editor...
100) Art in America 1945-1970: writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism
Series
Library of America volume 259
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An invigorating panorama of art writing from a crucial quarter century, adding vital context with incisive commentaries.