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America's Music Pages
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... as well as artists & groups from many categories

Bluegrass & Traditional Music Page   •   Rock 'n' Roll Page
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Nostalgic Americana Pages
main page
Toys & Games • Baseball • The Circus • The Rodeo • Carousels
Bear Country • Square Dance • Lighthouses, Bridges & Barns

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


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

Stories from American History  "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 Illustrated History   "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
Smart Aleck's Guide To American History YA book by Adam Selzer   "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

Archiving Early America

Federal Links   English version
Spanish version
[est. 2003]

Federal Election Commission Voting FAQs       People For The American Way

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


Quotable Founding Fathers  "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
History of the American Revolution  "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. Frιmont [1813-90]


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


Robert M. 'Fighting Bob' La Follette, Sr. [1855-1925]

'Fighting Bob' Festival [Sept 2010 = #9] in Baraboo, WI


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
Conscience of a Liberal  
"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 bio   "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   "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"

Spirit of America's
U.S. Business Leaders Page

capitalist Warren Buffett Page


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


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


inventor Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931] Page


Howard R. Hughes [1905-76] Page


American Railroads Pages


automaker Preston Tucker [1903-56] Page


A  Few  Bad  Guys

Washington Post chronology of the WaterGate Cover-Up
Spirit of America's 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 biography  
"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 / Innovators  "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


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


Paul Bunyan


television chef & author Julia Child [1912-2004]


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


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

"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}
Fox widescreen color Blu-ray [2/2010] 2 disks for $26.49  
Fox widescreen color DVD [2/2010] for $17.49  
full credits from IMDb • official movie site


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


publisher/hedonist Hugh M. Hefner


John Henry


Casey Jones


Helen Keller [1880-1968]
Helen Keller Festival


aviator Charles A. Lindbergh [1902-74]
Spirit of America's 'A History of Aviation' Pages

Voices of History from the British Library  "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/


pioneer conservationist John Muir [1838-1914]


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


Pecos Bill


aviator Wiley Post [1898-1935]
Spirit of America's 'A History of Aviation' Pages


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

Watts Towers book  
"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


radio commentator Walter Winchell [1897-1972]


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

Selected  Singular  Entertainers


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

"Bob & Ray" radio collesction - 376 performances on 3 CDs
http://www.amazon.com/Award-Winning-Film-Bob-Ray/dp/B001D0I8KU/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Ray-Elliott-Goulding/dp/1892091259/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Ray-Elliott-Goulding/dp/1892091267/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Ray-3/dp/1892091275/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Ray-Elliott-Goulding/dp/1892091283/
http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Ray-Tom-Dan-Gillespie/dp/1593930097/
http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Ray-Night-Compact-Discs-2/dp/189209102X/
http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Bob-Ray-CBS-Years/dp/189209133X/
http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Bob-Ray-Early-Years/dp/1892091348/


comedian Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
browse books | albums | videos/DVDs | 1974 movie | IMDb

"Let the Buyer Beware" performance box set [2004]
Shout! Factory audio CD [9/2004] 83 tracks on 6 disks for $60.98


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


comedian Margaret Cho
recordings • video/DVDs • official website


entertainer Prof. Irwin Corey [b. 1914]


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


entertainer Stan Freberg [b. 1926]


author-actor Spalding Gray [1941-2004]


radio commentator Paul Harvey [1918-2009]
official website • wikipedia


TV comedian Ernie Kovacs [1919-62]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia
Best of Ernie Kovacs DVD  
"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]


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


performer Mae West [1893-1980]

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 • 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

novel "Music of The Mill"


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  
"Men of Achievement: Inventors" [1893]
by Philip G. Hubert

Digital Scanning 9x6 pb [4/2001] for $17.95
Age of Invention 1921 book by Holland Thompson   "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'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore


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

Library of America Ralph Waldo Emerson   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'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore


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


rocket scientist Robert Goddard [1882-1945]
Spirit of America's 'A History of Aviation' Pages


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)
listed on Time Magazine 100 for 2010

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto book by Jaron Lanier  "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'Κtre 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

Library of America Henry David Thoreau   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'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore


Apple Computer Inc.
Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs

Apple Computer Inc.
Steve Jobs listed on Time Magazine 100 for 2010

iCon: Steve Jobs  
"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'
Spirit of America's 'A History of Aviation' Pages


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'Κtre 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

open daily 9am-5pm; tours, windbells, cafe on site  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'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore


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


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Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore & Beatnik Coffeehouse
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