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"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 |
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100 Milestone Documents from U.S. History
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"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 |
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Our  Founding  Fathers  &  Pioneers
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Benjamin Franklin [1706-90]
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"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 |
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"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
Ralph Bunche [1904-71]: Nobel Peace Prize 1950
John C. Calhoun
George Crook
Jefferson Davis
John C. Fremont
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [1841-1935]
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Gen. George Patton
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Daniel Webster
Sen. Paul Wellstone [1944-2002]
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"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 |
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"Paul Wellstone: The Life of A Passionate Progressive" [2005] by Bill Lofy Univ MI Press 8x5 pb [8/2005] for $13.57 |
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"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
"America's  Business  Is  Business"
Warren Buffett {Berkshire-Hathaway}:
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Andrew Carnegie {steel}: PBS bio PBS bio on VHS
Castle & Cooke [est. 1851]
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Dr. W. Edwards Deming [1900-93] Page
Walt Disney: browse books
Edward L. Doheny {oil}: "Dark Side of Fortune" bio [1995]
Donald Douglas {aircraft}
George Eastman [1854-1932] {Kodak, Inc.}
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Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
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David Oreck {vacuum cleaners}
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Joseph Pulitzer [1847-1911] {newspapers}
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Levi Strauss {pants}
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A  Few  Bad  Guys
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neo-conservative Leo Strauss [1899-1973]
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"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  
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"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
Johnny Appleseed: Festival
artist-dancer Marta Becket
Amargosa Opera House & Hotel |
docufilm [2000]
Lucius Beebe: books
comedy team Bob & Ray {Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding}
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sculptor Gutzon Borglum: PBS Mt. Rushmore special
comedian Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
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Lord Buckley [1907-60]
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Paul Bunyan
comedian Margaret Cho: recordings video/DVDs official website
Clifford Clinton [1900-69] {restaurants}
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movie "Big Heat" [1953]
Pearl Buck novel [1953]
Prof. Irwin Corey
aviator Amelia Earhart: browse books PBS bio on VHS
W.C. Fields [1880-1946]
Stan Freberg
R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1993] Page
author-actor Spalding Gray [1941-2004]
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John Henry
Casey Jones
Helen Keller: H.K. Festival
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"The Best of Ernie Kovacs" [1977 P.B.S. series] White Star b&w DVD [11/2000] 2 disks for $44.99 |
Oscar Levant
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Mabel Dodge Luhan [1879-1962]
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historic house in Taos, NM
Charles F. Lummis [1859-1928] Page
Aimee Semple McPherson [1890-1944]: browse books Wikipedia
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gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore Page
pioneer conservationist John Muir
Emperor Norton I: fansite E.N. Records about
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aviator Wiley Post
Sabato 'Simon' Rodia [1879-1965]
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humorist Will Rogers
Death Valley Scotty: article
gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005] Page
performer Mae West
radio commentator Walter Winchell
architect Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] Page
Modern  American  Activists  &  Movements
A.F.L.-C.I.O. U.S. Labor History Timeline
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Saul D. Alinsky [1909-72]
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Susan B. Anthony
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Cesar E. Chavez [1927-93]
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"Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa" [1975] by Jacques Levy [19272004] Univ MN Press 9x6 pb [8/2007] for $14.96 W.W. Norton hardcover [9/75] out of print/used |
feminist Betty Friedan [1921-2006]
"The Feminine Mystique" [1963]
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progressive activist Jim Hightower
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [1929-68]
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consumer activist Ralph Nader
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Rosa Parks [1913-2005]
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Luis J. Rodriguez
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'The Tech' museum of innovation: Inspiring the Innovator in Everyone
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"Men of Achievement: Inventors" [1893] by Philip G. Hubert Digital Scanning 9x6 pb [4/2001] for $17.95 Digital Scanning Adobe Reader ebook [4/2001] for $4.95 |
Alexander Graham Bell [1847-1922]
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T. Townsend Brown [1905-85]
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Luther Burbank [1849-1926]
Rachel Carson [1907-64]
"Silent Spring" [1962]
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George Washington Carver [1864-1943]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
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inventor Philo T. Farnsworth [1906-71] Page
physicist Richard P. Feynman [1918-88]
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Alfred C. Kinsey [1894-1956]
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Samuel F.B. Morse [1791-1872]
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author philosopher revolutionary G.E. Nordell
The 'Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment' site
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'WMail' Working Minds Philosophy ezine [2000-2007]
Dateline Chamesa weblog [est. 2005]
list of 70+ essays from the WMail ezine & Dateline Chamesa blog
Robert Noyce [1927-90], co-inventor of the microchip
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Trancendentalist Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
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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
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"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 |
Wright Brothers
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PBS 'Innovators' episode
Centennial Dec 2003
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Amazon's 'Celebration of Flight'
Honorary  Americans
Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
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Joseph Conrad [1857-1924]
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J.C. Fndtn
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Thor Heyerdahl [1914-2002]
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Gustav Mahler [1860-1911]
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composer Arnold Schoenberg [1874-1951]
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A.S. Center in Austria
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Scots-Canadian Robert W. Service [1874-1958]
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George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]
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visionary architect Paolo Soleri in Arizona
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