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The Other American The Life Of Michael Harrington

The Other American The Life Of Michael Harrington

Maurice Isserman

Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Worker movement, his abandonment of his once deeply-held Catholicism, his life in 1950s Greenwich Village, and is evolution as a thinker. Along the way he dispels.
World War II

World War II

Maurice Isserman

An account of America's war in Europe and in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to the Normandy invasion, and the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri.
The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

Maurice Isserman

Discusses the historical and political background, military strategies, and battles of the Vietnam War.
Vietnam War

Vietnam War

Maurice Isserman

Praise for the previous edition:"Statistics are interwoven in the text for a meaningful presentation. Interspersed throughout are quotes from personal interviews, letters, government memos, newspapers and memoirs, all of which add an eyew
Exploring North America, 1800-1900

Exploring North America, 1800-1900

Maurice Isserman

This text covers; African Americans in the western fur trade; The artist as predator: John James Audubon; The discovery of South Pass; How Alexander Mackenzie inspired the Lewis and Clark Expedition; Jack London and the romance of Alaska; ...
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from ...

Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from ...

Maurice Isserman

In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave ...
The Other American The Life Of Michael Harrington

The Other American The Life Of Michael Harrington

Maurice Isserman

87 Andrew Battista, “Political Divisions in Organized Labor, 1968–1988,” Polity 24 (winter 1991), pp. 179– 180. “From the Steelworkers Convention at Las Vegas ,” John Herling's Labor Letter, September 12, 1972, p.1. Max Green, “McGovern ...
Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering

Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering

Maurice Isserman

This magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself.
Flying Off Everest: A Journey from the Summit to the Sea

Flying Off Everest: A Journey from the Summit to the Sea

Dave Costello

... Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season, by Nick Heil; Fallen Giants: A History ofHimalayan Mountaineeringfrom the Age ofEmpire to the Age ofExtremes, by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver; Ganga:AJour-  ...
Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Walter Cronkite

" Illustrated with heartwarming photos of Walter and Betsy Cronkite during the war from the family collection, the book is edited by Cronkite's grandson, CBS associate producer Walter Cronkite IV, and esteemed historian Maurice Isserman, ...
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s

Maurice Isserman

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of 1960s America.
The End of School Reform

The End of School Reform

Maurice R. Berube

Allen, Dwight to Maurice R. Berube, e-mail, November 8, 2004. Apple, Michael to Maurice R. Berube, e-mail, December, 18, 2004. Aronowitz, Stanley to Maurice R . Berube, e-mail, November 22, 2004- Berube Maurice R. Interview with Fred ...
Barthes: A Biography

Barthes: A Biography

Tiphaine Samoyault

(letters to Maurice Pinguet, 10 November and 2 December 1967, Fonds Maurice Pinguet, IMEC). 95. Letter to Maurice Pinguet, 8 April 1967. Barthes wrote this letter straight after he had got back from his second trip. 96. Letter to Maurice ...
Maurice Dobb: Political Economist

Maurice Dobb: Political Economist

T. Shenk

Dobb, Political Economy, 337–8;Maurice Dobb, “Economic Planning in the Soviet Union,” Science and Society6.4(Fall 1942), 305. 67. “Aspects,” DD75. 68. Quoted in Laybournand Murphy,Red Flag, 107. 69. Maurice Dobb, “Socialist ...
The Theology of F. D. Maurice

The Theology of F. D. Maurice

Alec Vidler

An examination of the work of 19th-century English Christian socialist and theologian F.D. Maurice.
The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary ...

The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary ...

Maurice Rickards

A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator , and Historian Maurice Rickards Michael Twyman. Editor's introduction This encyclopedia is essentially the work of Maurice Rickards, whose death in 1998 after ...
The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays: Translation and ...

The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays: Translation and ...

Maurice Blondel

Translation and Introduction by Fiachra Long, Annotations by Fiachra Long and Claude Troisfontaines Maurice Blondel. APPENDIX Chronological List of Main Books and Articles written on Maurice Blondel or containing significant reference to ...
Radical Reformers: The Influence of the Left in American ...

Radical Reformers: The Influence of the Left in American ...

Maurice R. Berube

The Influence of the Left in American Education Maurice R. Berube ... and the Politics of the Curriculum 75 8. Conclusion: The End of Educational History 89 References 101 Index 107 For my lovely son, John Maurice Berube, born December 27,
Maurice

Maurice

E M Forster

As Maurice Hall makes his way through a traditional English education, he projects an outer confidence that masks troubling questions about his own identity.
Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

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Roumani, Maurice M. “The Military, Ethnicity, and Integration in Israel – Revisited. ” In Ethnicity, Integration, and the Military, edited by Henry Dietz, Jerrold Elkin, and Maurice Roumani, 51–80. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991. Roumani, Maurice ...
Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning

Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning

Maurice Dobb

This volume consists of lectures and articles by Maurice Dobb selected from among those delivered or written by him during the 1950s and 60s.
Fred Wilson: objects and installations 1979-2000

Fred Wilson: objects and installations 1979-2000

Maurice Berger

Edited by John Alan Farmer and Antonia Gardner. Essays by Maurice Berger, Jennifer Gonzalez.
Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice ...

Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice ...

Richard William Hunt

A group of essays on medieval England collected and published to honor Sir Maurice Powicke.
Halfmen Of O

Halfmen Of O

Maurice Gee

From the multi-award-winning author, Maurice Gee.

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