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The Presidents of the United States of America

The Presidents of the United States of America

Frank Burt Freidel

Single-page biographies with pictures of the 39 Presidents.
Our country's Presidents

Our country's Presidents

Frank Burt Freidel

Presents brief biographies of the Presidents from George Washington to Jimmy Carter.
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

David Freidel

In this book, two of the first central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available in all its detail.
Harvard Guide to American History

Harvard Guide to American History

Frank Freidel

Notes on research methods and materials accompany a one-volume reference guide to publications dealing with America's historical development
Maya Yucatán: An Artist's Journey

Maya Yucatán: An Artist's Journey

Phillip Hofstetter

—David Freidel In May 1991, I took up David Freidel's invitation to visit his archaeology project at Yaxuná. It was my second visit to Yucatán, so I was getting used to the topes, the speed bumps that every village puts in the street to slow down ...
America in the Twentieth Century

America in the Twentieth Century

Frank Freidel

An illustrated survey of twentieth-century American life, domestic development, and international involvement up to the time of Watergate
Frank Merriwell's Faith

Frank Merriwell's Faith

Burt L. Standish

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny

Frank Freidel

Although he details Roosevelt's life before his presidency, the focus is on the Depression and wartime periods. This will probably become the standard one-volume biography. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Political Issues in America: The 1990s

Political Issues in America: The 1990s

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13 See Burt Solomon, 'In Bush's image', National Journal, 1 July 1990, p. 1642- 7 , and Burt Solomon, 'Bush cultivates the press corps hoping for a harvest of goodwill', National Journal, 5 May 1990, pp. 1104-5. 14 See Burt Solomon, ' Bush's ...
The Strong Eye of Shamanism: A Journey into the Caves of ...

The Strong Eye of Shamanism: A Journey into the Caves of ...

Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D.

... Maya by Linda Schele and David Freidel, © 1990 by Linda Schele and David Freidel, by permission of William Morrow & Company, Inc.; Princeton University Press for excerpts from Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy ...
Presidents of the United States of America

Presidents of the United States of America

Frank Freidel

With a forward by President Bill Clinton, this volume presents the biography of each of the forty-one men who have been President of the U.S. Official White House portraits or color photos appear opposite each biography.
The Presidents of the United States of America

The Presidents of the United States of America

Frank Freidel

Single-page biographies with portraits of the forty-six presidents of the United States.
Francis Lieber: Nineteenth-Century Liberal

Francis Lieber: Nineteenth-Century Liberal

Frank Freidel

Dictionary of American Biography VI: 236-237. "There have been earlier studies of the career of Francis Lieber, but this book will rank as the definitive biography.
Over There: The American Experience in World War I

Over There: The American Experience in World War I

Frank Freidel

Here is the story of the American experience in World War I, told largely in the words of the soldiers and sailors themselves.
FDR v. The Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the ...

FDR v. The Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the ...

Burt Solomon

Historian Burt Solomon, deeply steeped in Washington's lore, skillfully chronicles one of the great set pieces in American history, illuminating the inner workings of the nation's capital as the three branches of our government squared off.
Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Authenticity Vs. Fantasy

Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Authenticity Vs. Fantasy

John Haines

Ed Andreychuk, Burt Lancaster: A Filmography and Biography (Jefferson: McFarland, 2000), 48; it was not yet titled The Flame and the Arrow; cf. Robyn Karney, Burt Lancaster: A Singular Man (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), 50. In studying this ...
The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential ...

The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential ...

Daniel S. Burt

The revised and expanded edition of Daniel S. Burt's assessment of the 100 most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all times and cultures--now with 25 additional entries and some reassessments.
Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s

Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s

Martha M. Burt

This is the disturbing conclusion drawn by Martha Burt in Over the Edge, a timely book that takes a clear-eyed look at the astonishing surge in the homeless population during the 1980s.
Jet

Jet

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McKinley Burt, president of McKinley Burt Associates educational contracting firm , has been elected chairman of the Oregon Black Educators Assn. Beatrice Lewis James King & Clifford M. Spottsville, a Kansas City, Mo., Municipal Court judge, ...
Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative ...

Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative ...

Kenneth E. Collier

Burt Solomon, “George Bush's Congressional Crew Has an Oar or Two Out of Sync,” National journal, June 24, 1989, 1651. 8. Balz, “The Guardian of Bipartisanship,” 17. 9. Burt Solomon, “The People Who Keep the White House Going,” ...
Helping America's Homeless: Emergency Shelter Or Affordable ...

Helping America's Homeless: Emergency Shelter Or Affordable ...

Martha R. Burt

In this new volume, Helping America's Homeless, Martha Burt and coauthors return to the problem with the most in-depth analysis of homelessness that has ever been published.
The Murder of Willie Lincoln: A Novel

The Murder of Willie Lincoln: A Novel

Burt Solomon

The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction debut by award-winning political journalist and Washington insider Burt Solomon.
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

Jonathan Eig

212 What was the point of playing: Golenbock, Bums, 216. 212 “You fellas can win the pennant: Ibid., 169. 212 “Put Burt on a bench”: “About a 2d Stringer Named Burt Shotton,” Brooklyn Eagle, July 30, 1947. 214 Myron Uhlberg received two ...
The Alumni Quarterly of the University of Illinois

The Alumni Quarterly of the University of Illinois

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... Simpson Theodore Meade Smith Irvin Sherwood Sprecher Harold Wilson Stewart Cornelius Stocker John Philemon Stout Rathindra Nath Taoore Clinton P . Trotter Theron Lloyd Warrick Burt F. White Frank White Harry Clark Woodworth ...
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...

Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...

Burt Green Wilder

In his introduction to the volume, Richard M. Reid analyzes Burt Wilder's diary and places it within the context of the war, the experience of African American troops, and Wilder's life and career. RICHARD M. REID is professor of history, ...

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