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Real American Ethics

Author : Albert Borgmann
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781459605657

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America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by materialism and consumerism. But America, for better or for worse, is still a nation that we have built. So why then, asks Albert Borgmann in this most timely and urgent work, are we failing to take responsibility for it? In Real American Ethics, Borgmann asks us to reevaluate our role in the making of American values. Taking his cue from Winston Churchill - who once observed that we shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us - Borgmann considers the power of our most enduring institutions and the condition of our present moral makeup to propose inspired new ways in which we, as ordinary citizens, can act to improve our country. This, he shows, includes everything from where we choose to live and what we spend our money on to daunting tasks like the reshaping of our cities - habits and actions that can guide us to more accomplished and virtuous lives. Using prose that is easy and direct throughout, Borgmann's position is grounded neither by conservative nor liberal ideology, but in his understanding that he is a devoted citizen among many. In an age in which the blame game is the only game in town, this patriotic book is an eloquent reminder of the political strength we all wield when we work together.

One Real American

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781647001636

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Children’s book icon Joseph Bruchac tells the fascinating story of a Seneca (Iroquois) Civil War officer Ely S. Parker (1828–1895) is one of the most unique but little-known figures in US history. A member of the Seneca (Iroquois) Nation, Parker was an attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. Raised on a reservation but schooled at a Catholic institution, he learned English at a young age and became an interpreter for his people. During the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel and was the primary draftsman of the terms of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. He eventually became President Grant’s Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first Native American to hold that post. Award-winning children’s book author and Native American scholar Joseph Bruchac provides an expertly researched, intimate look at a man who achieved great success in two worlds yet was caught between them. Includes archival photos, maps, endnotes, bibliography, and timeline.

The Real American Dream

Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674253681

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Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville’s words, “the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart,” how have we Americans made do? In The Real American Dream one of the nation’s premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and stories by which Americans have reached for something beyond worldly desire. A spiritual history ranging from the first English settlements to the present day, the book is also a lively, deeply learned meditation on hope. Andrew Delbanco tells of the stringent God of Protestant Christianity, who exerted immense force over the language, institutions, and customs of the culture for nearly 200 years. He describes the falling away of this God and the rise of the idea of a sacred nation-state. And, finally, he speaks of our own moment, when symbols of nationalism are in decline, leaving us with nothing to satisfy the longing for transcendence once sustained by God and nation. From the Christian story that expressed the earliest Puritan yearnings to New Age spirituality, apocalyptic environmentalism, and the multicultural search for ancestral roots that divert our own, The Real American Dream evokes the tidal rhythm of American history. It shows how Americans have organized their days and ordered their lives—and ultimately created a culture—to make sense of the pain, desire, pleasure, and fear that are the stuff of human experience. In a time of cultural crisis, when the old stories seem to be faltering, this book offers a lesson in the painstaking remaking of the American dream.

The 'Real' American Diet

Author : Kevin C. Alston Sr
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781514420973

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The 'Real' American Diet by Kevin C. Alston Sr Pdf

This book is a culmination of the author's life, but mainly the past 10 years, where personal tragedies have led him to discover more about the correlation with food, nutrition & the diseases of today, & how it affects us all. This program is an experiment of sorts, with the author using himself as the guinea pig, with positive results having been discovered, & hopefully, in time, even bigger positive results yet to come. Between our government & Big Business, we, the people, are already involved in an experiment. It's like a big laboratory. With all of the harmful toxins that are allowed in our air, food, & water, diseases are at epidemic-like levels, & the author, for one, would like to know if there is more to this than is being told to us. It speaks volumes when other nations refuse to accept grains & meats from us, or at least it does to the author. Most of the ailments we suffer from today emanate from our guts, & our poor diets keep the sickness-wheels turning, costing each of us millions of dollars, a whole lot of heartache, pain, & suffering. It's time to make a change, & that change started with the author's experiment on himself.

A Real American Character

Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628460483

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Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in over two hundred motion pictures and became the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting, which celebrated the actor's unique role as the voice of the American Western. His life journey from Swampscott, Massachusetts, to Hollywood, to a twelve thousand-acre cattle ranch in Joseph, Oregon, is one of the great American stories. In the first biography of this epic figure, Carl Rollyson reveals Brennan's consummate mastery of virtually every kind of role while playing against and often stealing scenes from such stars as Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne. Rollyson fully explores Brennan's work with Hollywood's greatest directors, such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today. His conservative politics, which grew out of his New England upbringing and his devout Catholicism, receive meticulous attention and a balanced assessment in A Real American Character. Written with the full cooperation of the Brennan family and drawing on material in archives from every region of the United States, this new biography presents an artist and family man who lived and breathed an American idealism that made him the Real McCoy.

G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #305

Author : Larry Hama
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9798368809496

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G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #305 by Larry Hama Pdf

DAWN MORENOÉBETRAYED?Ê Dawn Moreno is confronted by a shocking betrayal in Springfield, while her ÔJoe allies discover that dead doesnÕt mean dead when it comes to CobraÕs newest weapon.Ê And what is Serpentor KhanÕs true plan?

G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #303

Author : Larry Hama
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:IMG23F1X0

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G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #303 by Larry Hama Pdf

The Joes send a covert team to learn the truth about Springfield, but Serpentor Khan has a deadly surprise in store for them

G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #1

Author : Larry Hama
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:IMG2310LE

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G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #1 by Larry Hama Pdf

Celebrate the return of G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO with the definitive edition of its historic first issue! This issue restores Larry HamaÕs original, unedited dialogue, which has never before seen print!

Still More Real American Stories

Author : Bob Quirk
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496901606

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The book contains almost fifty stories whose topics are drawn from world history, local history and family history. They cover the author's travel adventures and those of his family members. He writes about the local impact of big events such as World War II and of smaller things like a graduation ceremony or a drive-in movie. Big-city life and rural America each have stories included. Articles on sporting events are scattered throughout the book and include players and games ranging from local high school basketball through professional baseball.

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas

Author : Anand Giridharadas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393239508

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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas by Anand Giridharadas Pdf

Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgives his assailant and petitions the State of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty. 20,000 first printing.

Real American

Author : Julie Lythcott-Haims
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250137753

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“Courageous, achingly honest." —Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness “A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called an American. Engaging, heartfelt and beautifully written, Lythcott-Haims explores the American spectrum of identity with refreshing courage and compassion.” —Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption A fearless memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a black woman in America. Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called "micro" aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims’s path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other." The author of the New York Times bestselling anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims has written a different sort of book this time out, but one that will nevertheless resonate with the legions of students, educators and parents to whom she is now well known, by whom she is beloved, and to whom she has always provided wise and necessary counsel about how to embrace and nurture their best selves. Real American is an affecting memoir, an unforgettable cri de coeur, and a clarion call to all of us to live more wisely, generously and fully.

The True American

Author : Joseph Coe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Presidents
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4G1I

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So It Was True: American Protestant Press and the Nazi Persecution of the Jews

Author : Robert W. Ross
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579101220

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So It Was True: American Protestant Press and the Nazi Persecution of the Jews by Robert W. Ross Pdf

How much did American Protestants know about the Nazi persecution of European Jews before and during Word War II? Very little, many of them claimed in the postwar years. Robert W. Ross challenges that answer in this analysis of the ways in which Protestant journals ranging from The Christian CenturyÓ to The Arkansas BaptistÓ reported and editorialized on the subject from 1933 through 1945.

Go, Get ‘Em! —The True Adventures Of An American Aviator Of The Lafayette Flying Corps - [Illustrated Edition]

Author : William Augustus Wellman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782891178

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Go, Get ‘Em! —The True Adventures Of An American Aviator Of The Lafayette Flying Corps - [Illustrated Edition] by William Augustus Wellman Pdf

“The adventures of a renowned American fighter pilot-in his own words After initially enlisting as an ambulance driver during the Great War, American born Wellman transferred into the French Foreign Legion. By the end of 1917 he had earned his wings as a fighter pilot and had joined N. 87 escadrille of the Lafayette Flying Corps. The ‘Black Cats’ flew Nieuport ‘pursuit’ aircraft-first 17s and latterly 24s. Wellman named his own plane Celia-after his mother. In his career as a fighter pilot Wellman chalked up three confirmed ‘kills’ and five ‘probables’ before eventually being shot down by German anti-aircraft fire in March 1918. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with two palms. Due to his crash injury he was invalided out of French service and returned to the United States where he began a highly regarded career as a film director. This book, published in 1918, recounts Wellman’s wartime experiences while they were still fresh in the mind, as such it is an invaluable first-hand account of the aerial war over the Western Front from the first days of air combat. Recommended.”—Leonaur Print Version Author — Wellman, William Augustus, 1896-1975 Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in Boston, The Page company, 1918 Original Page Count – 284 pages Illustration — 16 illustrations.

Backlund

Author : Bob Backlund,Robert H. Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613216965

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Backlund by Bob Backlund,Robert H. Miller Pdf

Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people. He was a below-average student with a lackluster work ethic and a bad attitude, who hung with the wrong crowd and made a lot of bad choices. He was a kid whose life was headed for disaster—until a local coach took interest in him, suggested that he take up amateur wrestling, and offered to work with him if he promised to stay out of trouble. It was in North Dakota that Bob Backlund had the first of several chance encounters that would shape his destiny. While working out at the YMCA gymnasium in Fargo, North Dakota, where he wrestled for North Dakota State, Backlund met a well-known professional wrestler, “Superstar” Billy Graham. The men talked, and at Graham’s suggestion, Backlund was inspired to pursue a career in professional wrestling. Less than five years from that day, on February 20, 1978, Backlund would find himself halfway across the country, standing in the middle of the ring at Madison Square Garden with his hand raised in victory as the newly crowned World Wide Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Champion. The man Backlund pinned for the championship that night was none other than "Superstar" Billy Graham. Featuring contributions from Bruno Sammartino, Harley Race, Terry Funk, Pat Patterson, Ken Patera, Sergeant Slaughter, The Magnificent Muraco, George “The Animal” Steele, “Mr. USA” Tony Atlas, The Iron Sheik, and many others, this book tells the incredible story of the life and nearly forty-year career of one of the most famous men to ever grace the squared circle. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.