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Toys & Games • Baseball • The Circus • The Rodeo • Carousels
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Movie Palaces Page • Drive-In Theaters Page • Old Time Radio Page
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This  Land  of  Ours

Historic Documents • Flags Page • State Info • Organizations

G.E. Nordell's U.S.A. Travel Pages

National Constitution Center in Philadelphia PA [opened 4 July 2003]
Knott's Berry Farm replica of Independence Hall in Buena Park, CA
Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA

Books on U.S. Politics & Elections

	"Booknotes Stories from American History: Leading Historians on the Events That Shaped Our Country" [2001] Edited by Brian Lamb (host of Booknotes on C-SPAN) Penguin 9x6 pb [10/2002] for $11.20 Public Affairs 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2001] for $20.97
	"TIME America: An Illustrated History" [2007] Edited by Kelly Knauer & the editors of Time Magazine Time Magazine hardcover [10/2007] for $19.77 Time Inc.'s official booksite
	"The Smart Aleck's Guide To American History" [YA 2009] by Adam Selzer Delacorte Books for Young Readers 8¾x6 pb [12/2009] for $9.35 Delacorte Books 9½x6½ library hardcover [12/2009] for $15.99

English version Spanish version [est. 2003]

Headlines from September 12, 2001

100 Milestone Documents from U.S. History

'Celebrate America' catalog at Amazon.com
'Great Americans' catalog at Amazon.com

Atomic U.S.A. Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
Books, movies & links about the atomic weapons programs of America,
including Los Alamos NM, the Manhattan Project, Bikini Atoll, Enewitok Island,
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japan, the Nevada Test Site, White Sands/Trinity Test Site, and Civil Defense.
click here

Our  Founding  Fathers  &  Pioneers

'Founding Fathers of the U.S.A.' Page

U.S. Presidents Page

Books on U.S. Politics & Elections

Benjamin Franklin [1706-90]
browse books • new biography [10/2002] • Electric Franklin

Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] Page

George Washington [1732-99]: browse books

	"The Quotable Founding Fathers: A Treasury of 2,500 Wise & Witty Quotations from the Men & Women Who Created America" [2004] Edited by Buckner F. Melton jr Brassey's 9¼x6.3 hardcover [4/2004] for $35.00
	"A History of the American Revolution" [1969] by John R. Alden Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/89] for $21.00 Random House hardcover [2/69] out of print/used

Statesmen  &  Military  Leaders

Wm. Jennings Bryan [1860-1925]

Ralph Bunche [1904-71]: Nobel Peace Prize 1950

John C. Calhoun [1782-1850]

George Crook [1828-90]

Jefferson Davis [1808-89]

John C. Fr้mont [1813-90]

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [1841-1935]
browse books • browse bios & memoirs

Robert E. Lee [1807-70]: browse books

Gen. Douglas MacArthur [1880-1964]
PBS bio • PBS bio on VHS

Gen. George Patton [1885-1945]

Gen. John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing [1860-1948]

Daniel Webster [1782-1852]

Sen. Paul Wellstone [1944-2002]
Wellstone Action! website

	"The Conscience of A Liberal: Reclaiming The Compassionate Agenda" [2001] by Senator Paul Wellstone Univ MN Press 8½x5½ pb [10/2002] for $12.21 Random House 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] out of print/used
	"Paul Wellstone: The Life of A Passionate Progressive" [2005] by Bill Lofy Univ MI Press 8x5 pb [8/2005] for $13.57
	"Politics the Wellstone Way: How To Elect Progressive Candidates & Win On Issues" [2005] by Bill Lofy Univ MN Press 11x8½ pb [9/2005] for $13.57

Sgt. Alvin C. York [1887-1964]

"America's  Business  Is  Business"

capitalist Warren Buffett Page

steel baron Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919]
PBS bio • PBS bio on VHS

Castle & Cooke [est. 1851]

Joshua Lionel Cowen [1877-1965]
Lionel Corp. [1901-1969] Section on the American Railroads Pages

Dr. W. Edwards Deming [1900-93] Page
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

Walt Disney [1901-66] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

oil baron Edward L. Doheny [1856-1935]
"Dark Side of Fortune" bio [1995]

Donald Douglas [1892-1981] {Douglas Aircraft Company}

George Eastman [1854-1932] {Kodak, Inc.}
George Eastman entry at Wikipedia
Kodak website
George Eastman House Museum of Photography [built 1905; chartered 1947]
P.B.S. George Eastman bio
P.B.S. bio on VHS

inventor Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931] Page

automobile maker Henry Ford [1863-1947]

Bill Gates {Microsoft, Inc.}: browse books

toy maker & inventor A.C. Gilbert [1884-1961]
A.C. Gilbert entry at Wikipedia
A.C. Gilbert biography [new 10/2002]
ACGilbert biopic "The Man Who Saved Christmas" [2002]

Erector Set™ [est. 1911] entry at Wikipedia
BB's 'Erectorฎ Sets' fansite

King Gillette [1855-1932] {razor blades}

Fred Harvey [1836-1901] {restaurants}
Harvey House Museum in Bel้n, NM • Harvey House fansite • Fred Harvey Archives at A.S.U.

Howard R. Hughes [1905-76] Page

Henry J. Kaiser [1882-1967]

billionaire Kirk Kerkorian [b. 1917]

David Oreck [b. 1923] {vacuum cleaners}
official website/bio • products at Amazon.com

Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911] {newspapers}
bio on Pulitzer Prize website

American Railroads Pages

oil baron John D. Rockefeller [1839-1937]
PBS bio • PBS bio on VHS

"Taking On The Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller - How An Investigative Journalist Brought Down Standard Oil" [2008] by Steve Weinberg W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [8/2009] for $12.92   W.W. Norton 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2008] for $17.13

pants maker Levi Strauss [1829-1902]

automaker Preston Tucker [1903-56] Page

Ted Turner {cable television}

George Westinghouse [1846-1914]

chewing gum baron William Wrigley, Jr. [1861-1932]

A  Few  Bad  Guys

Washington Post chronology of the WaterGate Cover-Up
Working Minds Timeline of the TreasonGate Cover-Up

John Dillinger [1903-34] Page

The Klan

neo-conservative Leo Strauss [1899-1973]
Leo Strauss entry at Wikipedia

"Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography" [2005] by Daniel Tanguay, translated by Christopher Nadon Yale Univ Press 8½x5¾ 1st English edition hardcover [4/2007] for $19.80

Sen. Joseph McCarthy [1908-57] Page

The Nation of Islam

Organized Crime Page

Nostalgic  Americana
main page

Baseball  •  The Circus  •  The Rodeo  •  Bear Country
Square Dance  •  Toys & Games  •  Amusement Parks & Rides
Life On The Farm  •  Life On The Road  •  Lighthouses, Barns & Bridges

Movie Palaces Page  •   Drive-In Theaters Page   •   Route 66 Pages
Old Time Radio Page   •   Pirates Page   •   American Food Traditions
Surfing Pages   •   American Railroads Pages   •   Roadside Diners Page

Great  Americans

Singular Americans • Activists • Scientists, Inventors & Thinkers • Honorary Americans

"They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine - Two Centuries of Innovators" [2004] by Sir Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland & David Lefer Innovators covered include Robert Fulton, John Fitch, Lewis Tappan, Samuel Colt, Samuel Insull, Amadeo Giannini (Bank of America), Ida Rosenthal (Maidenform®), Juan Trippe, Ruth Handler {Barbie®), Ted Turner & Russell Simmons Little, Brown 11¼x9¼ hardcover [10/2004] for $26.40 Time Warner audio CD [10/2004] for $21.11 Time Warner ABR audio [10/2004] for $17.15 PBS/WGBH color DVD [11/2004] 2 disks for $26.96 PBS official movie site

Singular  Americans  &  Folk  Heroes

Red Adair [1915-2004]

Johnny Appleseed: Festival

Lucky Baldwin [1828-1909]

artist-dancer Marta Becket [b. 1925]
Amargosa Opera House & Hotel | docufilm [2000]

writer Lucius Beebe [1902-66]: books

comedy team Bob & Ray {Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding}
official website | Wikipedia

"Bob & Ray" radio collesction - 376 performances on 3 CDs

sculptor Gutzon Borglum [1867-1941]
PBS Mt. Rushmore special

comedian Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
browse books | albums | videos/DVDs | 1974 movie | IMDb
"Let the Buyer Beware" performance box set: audio CD [9/2004] 6 disks for $59.99

entertainer Lord Buckley [1907-60]
albums | books | bio by OT | TDK's fansite | MM's fansite

Paul Bunyan

television chef & author Julia Child [1912-2004]

comedian Margaret Cho
recordings • video/DVDs • official website

Clifford Clinton [1900-69] {restaurants}
Clifton's Cafeteria • movie "Big Heat" [1953] • Pearl Buck novel [1953]

entertainer Prof. Irwin Corey [b. 1914]

'Death Valley Scotty'
Walter Edward Scott [1872-1954] entry at Wikipedia
National Park Service: Scotty's Castle Page • Walter Scott Page
Walter Scott Page at Desert U.S.A.

aviator Amelia Earhart [1897-1937]
browse books • PBS bio on VHS

"Amelia" [Avalon/Fox Searchlight Oct 2009]   Directed by Mira Nair; starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Mia Wasikowska, Virginia Madsen, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson, Aaron Abrams, Mark Caven, Dylan Roberts & William Cuddy {as Gore Vidal} video/DVD not yet available; full credits from IMDb

entertainer W.C. Fields [1880-1946] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

entertainer Stan Freberg [b. 1926]

R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1993] Page
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

author-actor Spalding Gray [1941-2004]

radio commentator Paul Harvey [1918-2009]: official website

publisher/hedonist Hugh M. Hefner

John Henry

Casey Jones

Helen Keller [1880-1968]
H.K. Festival

TV comedian Ernie Kovacs [1919-62]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"The Best of Ernie Kovacs" [1977 P.B.S. series] White Star b&w DVD [11/2000] 2 disks for $17.99

entertainer Oscar Levant [1906-72]

entertainer Ted Lewis [1892-1971]

aviator Charles A. Lindbergh [1902-74]

"Voices of History, Volume 2: Arts, Science & Exploration" [2006] British Library Sound Archive audio CD [1/2006] 2 disks for $41.49 38 tracks on 2 disks, mostly from very early in the XXth Century, including the voices of P.T. Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Alva Edison, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Charles Lindbergh ("Col. Lindbergh's address before the Press Club at Washington D.C."), Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Edwin Peary, Alice Ellen Terry & Leo Tolstoy

Mabel Dodge Luhan [1879-1962]
browse books • historic house in Taos, NM

four-volume "Intimate Memories"

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Charles F. Lummis [1859-1928] Page

Aimee Semple McPherson [1890-1944]
browse books • Wikipedia

feature film written & directed by Richard Rossi [indep 2006]
official movie site • credits at IMDb

http://www.amazon.com/Sister-Aimee-Semple-Mcpherson-Story/dp/B0012RLWRU/

gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

pioneer conservationist John Muir [1838-1914]

Emperor Norton I [1819-80]: fansite • E.N. Records about

Pecos Bill

aviator Wiley Post [1898-1935]

Sabato 'Simon' Rodia [1879-1965]
GreatBuildings webpage • entry at Wikipedia

The Watts Towers
GreatBuildings webpage • entry at Wikipedia

Watts Towers State Historic Park
Friends of The Watts Towers Arts Center
Watts Towers fansite

"The Los Angeles Watts Towers" [1997] by Bud Goldstone & Arloa Paquin Goldstone Getty Trust 10x8 pb [11/97] for $16.47

humorist Will Rogers [1879-1935]

Spirit of America Bookstore's
gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005] Page

performer Mae West [1893-1980]

radio commentator Walter Winchell [1897-1972]

Spirit of America Bookstore's
architect Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] Page

Modern  American  Activists  &  Movements

A.F.L.-C.I.O. U.S. Labor History Timeline
National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN

Spirit of America Bookstore's
American Labor Movements Page

Saul D. Alinsky [1909-72]
browse books • autobiography [1989] • Wikipedia entry

Susan B. Anthony [1820-1906]

The Black Panthers

Erin Brockovich: browse books • videos/DVDs

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Cesar E. Chavez [1927-93] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Daniel Ellsberg Page

feminist Betty Friedan [1921-2006]
"The Feminine Mystique" [1963] • "The Second Stage" [1980] • Wikipedia

progressive activist Jim Hightower
browse books & audio • official website

Joe Hill  [1879-1915]  &  the  I.W.W.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [1929-68]
browse books • The King Center • papers at Stanford • listing at IMDb
Time Magazine's Martin Luther King Jr. archive pages

consumer activist Ralph Nader
browse books • 'The Nader Page' • weekly column

Rosa Parks [1913-2005]
browse books • museum [dead site?] • R.&R.P. Institute • CBS-TV bio

Lucy Parsons [1853-1942]

A. Philip Randolph [1889-1979]

journalist John Reed [1887-1920]
"TDTSTW" book • movie credits + "Reds" (1981 film): video • IMDb

Luis J. Rodriguez
browse books • official site • Tia Chucha's • L.R.N.A. • agency page

Paul Robeson [1898-1976]

Bayard Rustin [1912-87]
browse books • PBS docu website • papers at Univ NC • AFL-CIO tribute

Karen Silkwood [1945-74]
browse books • videos/DVDs

Malcolm X [1925-65]
browse books • videos/DVDs • movie credits • Univ Toledo site

American  Scientists,  Inventors  &  Thinkers

Spirit of America's 'A History of Aviation' Pages

The Black Inventor Online Museum
Museum of Black Inventors
Lemelson-M.I.T 'Invention Dimension' site
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Inventors at About [dot] com
'The Tech' museum of innovation: Inspiring the Innovator in Everyone

PBS program on the invention of the transistor

	"Men of Achievement: Inventors" [1893] by Philip G. Hubert Digital Scanning 9x6 pb [4/2001] for $17.95
	"The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest" [1921 classic] by Holland Thompson Echo Library 14¼x8¾ pb [10/2006] for $9.90 BiblioBazaar 8¾x5¾ pb [2/2009] for $17.15 IndyPublish hardcover [12/2001] for $23.99

Alexander Graham Bell [1847-1922]
PBS special 'The Telephone' on VHS

T. Townsend Brown [1905-85]
Paul's fansite • book "Defying Gravity" • Wikipedia

Luther Burbank [1849-1926]

Rachel Carson [1907-64]
"Silent Spring" [1962] • bio by LJL [1997] • LJL's R.C. site

George Washington Carver [1864-1943]

Albert Einstein [1879-1955] Page
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82] Page

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures [1983] Edited by Joel Porte Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [11/83] for $23.10 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations [1994] Edited by Harold Bloom & Paul Kane Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/94] for $25.55 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays & Poems [1996] Edited by Harold Bloom & Paul Kane Library of America College Editions pb [5/96] for $15.95

Werner Erhard Page
at Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment website

Spirit of America Bookstore's
inventor Philo T. Farnsworth [1906-71] Page

physicist Richard P. Feynman [1918-88] Page
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1993] Page
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

rocket scientist Robert Goddard [1882-1945]

Eric Hoffer [1902-83]: books • Papers at Stanford • quotes

Alfred C. Kinsey [1894-1956]
browse books • Kinsey Institute [est. 1947] • 2004 movie

Edward P. & Robert C. LaForce of Vermont

U.S. Patent 4020811: Recirculating Fuel Feed & Vaporization Apparatus & Method (May 1977)
report on EPA's third evaluation, Dec 1974

visionary Jaron Lanier of Berkeley, California
IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

text of article "One-Half of A Manifesto" in Wired Magazine (Dec 2000)

"You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto" [2010]   by Jaron Lanier "Encapsulation is what allows for the possibility of testing and feedback that enables a quest for excellence. To be constantly diffused in a global mush is to embrace mundanity." — Jaron Lanier Knopf 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/2010] for $14.97

sociologist C. Wright Mills [1916-62] Page
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

Samuel F.B. Morse [1791-1872]

inventor Joseph W. Newman
official Newman Energy Machine website
Joseph Newman entry at Wikipedia

author • philosopher • revolutionary G.E. Nordell
The 'Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment' website
Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment / Solutions
'WMail' Working Minds Philosophy ezine [2000-2007]
Dateline Chamesa weblog [est. 2005]
index of 90+ essays from the WMail ezine & Dateline Chamesa blog
Meaning and Purpose website
'Rick Walker, Private Investigator' mystery novels website
"Hollywood Tales: An Entertainment" booksite

Robert Noyce [1927-90], co-inventor of the microchip
2005 bio • official booksite • P.B.S. bio page • Noyce Foundation

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Trancendentalist Henry David Thoreau [1817-62] Page

Henry David Thoreau: "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers", "Walden, or Life In The Woods", "The Maine Woods", "Cape Cod" [1985] Edited by Robert F. Sayre Library of America 8x5½ hardcover [9/85] for $23.10 includes books "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers" [1849], "Walden, or Life In The Woods" [1854], "The Maine Woods" [1864] and "Cape Cod" [1865] Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems [2001] Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [4/2001] for $23.10 Thoreau: "Walden", "Maine Woods", Essays & Poems [2007] Edited by Robert F. Sayre & Elizabeth Hall Witherell Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [6/2007] for $17.95

economist Thorstein B. Veblen [1857-1929] Page
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs

Apple Computer Inc.

"iCon: Steve Jobs - The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business" [2005] by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon Wiley & Sons pb [4/2006] for $10.17 Wiley & Sons 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/2005] for $18.21 Penton Overseas ABR audio CD [4/2006] for $12.89

The Wright Brothers
Orville Wright [1871–1948] & Wilbur Wright [1867–1912]
books • website • PBS 'Innovators' episode • Centennial Dec 2003 • PBS bio

Amazon's 'Celebration of Flight'

Honorary  Americans

Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
browse books • official website • Gutenberg etexts

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Joseph Conrad [1857-1924] Page

Thor Heyerdahl [1914-2002]
browse books • T.H. Award • Kon-Tiki Museum

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Frida Kahlo [1907-54] Art Page

composer Gustav Mahler [1860-1911]
browse music • 1975 Ken Russell movie: on VHS | on DVD

Ayn Rand [1905-82] Pages
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

composer Arnold Schoenberg [1874-1951]
browse books • A.S. Center in Austria • A.S. at Musica Classica

Scots-Canadian Robert W. Service [1874-1958]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]
browse books • browse audio • browse DVDs • credits at IMDb

visionary architect Paolo Soleri in Arizona
browse books • Wikipedia

  Arcosanti official site in Cordes Junction, AZ
Cosanti in Paradise Valley, AZ

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94] Page

inventor Nikola Tesla [1856-1943] Pages
at Maison d'สtre Philosophy Bookstore

Spirit of America Bookstore's
author Leonard Wibberley [1915-83] Page

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