An American Childhood

• Author : Annie Dillard
• Publisher : Canongate Books
• Release Date : 2016-04-07
• Total pages : 272
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : An American Childhood is the electrifying memoir of the wide-eyed and unconventional upbringing that influenced the lifetime love of nature and the stunning writing career of Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard. From her mother's boundless energy to her father's low-budget horror movies, jokes and lonesome river trips down to New ...

• Author : Anne Scott MacLeod
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release Date : 1995-10-01
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are suggested in nearly two centuries of children's stories. Most of the essays concern domestic novels for children or adolescents--stories set more or less in the time of ...

• Author : Fielding Dawson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1984
• Total pages : 213
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : Download or read online Tiger Lilies written by Fielding Dawson, published by which was released on 1984. Get Tiger Lilies Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Micah Perks
• Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
• Release Date : 2009-11
• Total pages : 161
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : A young woman raised on a commune in the Adirondack Mountains recalls her feelings and observations as she came of age during the 1960s in a community that was deliberating destroying convention and creating a new, "pagan" lifestyle to replace it. 20,000 first printing....

• Author : Steven Mintz
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release Date : 2004
• Total pages : 445
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : Explores many aspects of the changing societal role of children throughout American history, and credits the impact that children have had on major historical events....

• Author : Ann Kimmage
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release Date : 1998-10-01
• Total pages : 288
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : This is the story of a young woman's secret life behind the Iron Curtain....

• Author : Paula S. Fass
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2017-11-07
• Total pages : 352
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed Americans' attitudes toward children. But ...

• Author : Joseph M. Hawes,N. Ray Hiner
• Publisher : Greenwood
• Release Date : 1985
• Total pages : 711
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : "All libraries supporting work on the history of American families, women, and children should acquire this book, and active scholars in these fields will probably want their own copies." Choice...

• Author : Annie Dillard
• Publisher : Harper Perennial
• Release Date : 1990-11-21
• Total pages : 624
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : A stunning collection of Annie Dillard's most popular books in one volume....

• Author : Paul Hertneky
• Publisher : Bauhan Pub
• Release Date : 2016
• Total pages : 223
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : Tales of a largely unknown and recurrent Promised Land, revealing the soul of industrial life, and a yearning for broader horizons...

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1956
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : Includes music (mostly songs with piano accompaniment)....

• Author : Judy Haisten
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2012
• Total pages : 279
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : In 1964, Edwin and Jean Armbruster left their home in the United States to raise their family on the Panama Canal Zone, a little known American territory in the Central American country of Panama. In Canal Zone Daughter, Judy (Armbruster) Haisten chronicles her unique childhood culminating to the crushing loss when ...

• Author : Joel P. Rhodes
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release Date : 2019
• Total pages : 286
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : For American children raised exclusively in wartime--that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia--and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience. Walter Cronkite was the voice of the conflict, and grim, nightly statistics the most ...

• Author : Ralph Nader
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release Date : 2009-10-13
• Total pages : 160
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : “The Seventeen Traditions brings us back to what’s important in life—and what makes America truly great.” —Jim Hightower, Illinois Times The activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate named one of the 100 most influential figures in American history by The Atlantic—one of only three living Americans so honored—...

• Author : Anthony M. Gisolfi
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1985
• Total pages : 222
• ISBN : 1782117768

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Summary : Download or read online Caudine Country written by Anthony M. Gisolfi, published by which was released on 1985. Get Caudine Country Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....