Building America

Author : Harry C. Boyte
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566394581
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America written by Harry C. Boyte and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors compare the "public spirited work [that] enabled diverse peoples to forge connection, gain a stake in the nation, and find intellectual challenges [to] a time when people are predominately consumers instead of producers." They offer many current examples which demonstrate encouraging changes.

Author : Thomas B. Edsall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465018165
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Red America written by Thomas B. Edsall and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edsall brings home to readers the true extent of the Republican takeover of American politics, by revealing the chief architects of political revolution. The result is a masterful--and disturbing--work of political journalism.

Author : Gwendolyn Wright
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307817113
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building The Dream written by Gwendolyn Wright and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves? Why were all the walls in nineteenth-century tenements painted white? Why did the parlor suddenly disappear from middle-class houses at the turn of the century? How did the federal highway system change the way millions of Americans raised their families? Building the Dream introduces the parade of people, policies, and ideologies that have shaped the course of our daily lives by shaping the rooms we have grown up in. In the row houses of colonial Philadelphia, the luxury apartments of New York City, the prefab houses of Levittown, and the public-housing towers of Chicago, Wright discovers revealing clues to our past and a new way of looking at such contemporary issues as integration, sustainable energy, the needs of the elderly, and how we define "family."

Author : Jean H. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190696451
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America written by Jean H. Baker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English émigré who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created some of the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall and the Senate, House, and Supreme Court Chambers. As a young man, Latrobe was apprenticed to both a leading architect and civil engineer in London, studied the European continent's architectural and engineering monuments, worked on canals, and designed private houses. After the death of his first wife, he was bankrupt and emigrated to the United States in 1796 to restart his career. For the new nation with grand political expectations, he intended buildings and engineering projects to match those aspirations. Like his patron Thomas Jefferson, Latrobe saw his neoclassical designs as a way to convey American democracy. He envisioned his engineering projects, such as the canals and municipal water systems for Philadelphia and New Orleans, as a way to unite the nation and improve public health. Jean Baker conveys the personality of this charming, driven, and often frustrated genius and the era in which he lived. Latrobe tried to establish architecture as a profession with high standards, established fees, and recognized procedures, though he was unable to collect fees and earn the living his work was worth. Like many of his peers, he speculated and found himself in bankruptcy several times. Building America masterfully narrates the life and legacy of a key figure in creating an American aesthetic in the new United States.

Author : Ronald A. Reis
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438119372
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empire State Building written by Ronald A. Reis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was to be a structure like no other: the largest and tallest skyscraper in the world. Initial plans for the Empire State Building called for an Art Deco masterwork to rise 1,000 feet, with 80 stories of rental space. The high-rise was to completely fill the 84,000-square-foot site of the former Waldorf-Astoria, then New Yorks most opulent hotel. Hopes were high that the Empire State Building would accelerate Midtown Manhattans stride toward commercial prominence, pulling more business uptown. Built in the early years of the Great Depression, during which one out of four New Yorkers was out of work, the Empire State Buildings construction was thought by many to be a foolish undertaking. Yet, it was completed under budget and ahead of schedule, and the commercial colossus has stood through good times and bad as a symbol of daring, beauty, and American invention.

Author : Streeter Seidell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440557144
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Whine written by Streeter Seidell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how good you have it--there's always something to whine about White Whine chronicles the everyday difficulties that plague our lives. From having too much food to eat and desperately needing the latest version of the iPhone to the ever-present inconvenience of having a vacation interrupted by a natural disaster, this book is your opportunity to vent your unrelenting hardships. You'll recoil in disbelief at all the injustices in the world and recall your own experiences of losing faith in everything around you. Whether you feel helpless when your phone charger won't reach your bed or you're just pissed your boat won't be ready for Memorial Day, you will enjoy pounding out your first-world problems with White Whine.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America's Competitiveness written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. President's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1832 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America's Health written by United States. President's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America's Might written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George E. Thomas
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235159
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America's First University written by George E. Thomas and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than a guide, this is a thorough and engaging study of a great American institution."--Choice