Discovering The Real America

Author : Lewis Diuguid
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1599424215
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Real America written by Lewis Diuguid and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the Real America examines the often overlooked history of white privilege, racism and discrimination in the United States. The text explains how the media have played a big part in maintaining the status quo. The book offers solutions to overcoming the obstacles of bigotry so that people can finally discover that the richness in the real America is in the long-overlooked diversity of this nation's multiethnic, multiracial, multicultural, multinational, multitalented people.

Author : Edwin Markham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real America in Romance written by Edwin Markham and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amunhotep Chavis El-Bey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781513658209
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America is the True Old World written by Amunhotep Chavis El-Bey and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, "America is the True Old World," is destined to rewrite the history books, because this book demonstrates that the Americas is the Far East, the land of the Bible, and the oldest landmass. This Book discusses the discovery of Mu, Atlantis found, Hyperborea, Ancient India, and Ancient Sumer.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering America's Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 450 accounts of the myriad customs, beliefs, legends, languages, adventures, and traditions that helped form America, illustrated with over 700 photographs, paintings, and engravings.

Author : Lance deHaven-Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292743793
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy Theory in America written by Lance deHaven-Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserts that the Founders' hard-nosed realism about the likelihood of elite political misconduct—articulated in the Declaration of Independence—has been replaced by today's blanket condemnation of conspiracy beliefs as ludicrous by definition.

Author : Ginger Strand
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 029274210X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Ginger Strand and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime meets cultural history in this story of how America’s interstate highway system opened a world of mobility and opportunity . . . for serial killers. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them: the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on “ghetto kids” in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates—how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation—and how we came to equate them with violence. Through the stories of highway killers, we see how the “killer on the road,” like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway—conceived as a road to utopia—came to be feared as a highway to hell. “Strand . . . Explores the connection between America’s sprawling highway system and the pathology of the murderers who have made them a killing ground. . . . The grim stories of murder on the highway may do for road trips what Jaws did for surfing. An interesting detour into a true-crime niche.” ―Kirkus Reviews “Strand’s cross-threaded tales of drifters, stranded motorists, and madmen got its hooks into me. Reading Ms. Strand’s thoughtful book is like driving a Nash Rambler after midnight on a highway to hell.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “A titillating, clever volume that mixes the sweeping sociological assertions of an urban-studies textbook with the chilling gore of true-crime stories.” —Bookforum “Ginger Strand is in possession of a sharp eye, a biting wit, a beguiling sense of fun—and a magnificent obsession.” —Bloomberg

Author : Gunnar Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Discovery written by Gunnar Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Rodriguez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101161507
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown written by Richard Rodriguez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.

Author : Claudia L. Bushman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Discovers Columbus written by Claudia L. Bushman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively look at how each generation of Americans has reinvented Columbus in its own image and for its own purposes. Was Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain, discoverer or destroyer? ... By focusing on popular representation of the explorer and his story through the years, rather than the actual man or deeds, Bushman chronicles the invention of Columbian tradition. In doing so, she provides a historical and cultural context for the quincentennial debate over Columbus's legacy, demonstrating that the current questioning is only the latest in a long tradition of revising the explorer's reputation."--From publisher.

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274420
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O America written by William Least Heat-Moon and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848 an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. When arriving in Baltimore, Trennant stumbles onto its slave market and witnesses the horrors of human bondage. One night in a boardinghouse he discovers under his bed a runaway slave. Disturbed and angered by the selling of human lives, he offers to help the young man escape, a criminal action that will put the fugitive slave and physician into flight from both the law and opportunistic slave hunters. Traveling by foot, horse, stage, canal boat, and steamer, Nathaniel and Nicodemus explore the backcountry and forge a deep friendship as they encounter a host of memorable characters who reveal the nature of the American experiment, one still in its early stages but already under the stress of social injustices and economic inequities.