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The eve of destruction : how 1965 transformed America
The author argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph--but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court--or President Eisenhower--have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954?.
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Private Berlin
The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner.
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The dread disease : cancer and modern American culture
In a subtle and penetrating cultural history, Patterson examines reactions to the disease through a century of American life. Readers interested in the cultural dimensions of science and medicine as well as historians, sociologists, and political scientists will be enlightened and challenged by this book.
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Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens
From courtship and marriage to adultery and prostitution, Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens takes a broad look at the sex lives and sexual beliefs of ancient Athenians.
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Tenacious of Life
Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case
for considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped
essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of
Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After
completing The Birds of America (1826-38), Audubon began
developing his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds
of North America volumes show an antebellum view of nature as
fundamentally dynamic and simultaneously grotesque and
awe-inspiring. The quadruped essays are rich with good stories
about these mammals and the humans who observe, pursue, and admire
them. For help with the science and the essays, Audubon enlisted
the Reverend John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina. While he
has been acknowledged as coauthor of the essays, Bachman has
received little attention as an American nature writer. While
almost all works that describe the history of American nature
writing include Audubon, Bachman shows up only in a subordinate
clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives to restore
Bachman's status as an important American nature writer. Patterson
and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the voices of
Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous hunting
stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and bombast, and of
Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist, scientific detective,
moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and humorist. Drawing on
all the primary and secondary evidence, Patterson and Russell tell
the story of the coauthors' fascinating, conflicted relationship.
This collection offers windows onto the early United States and
much forgotten lore, often in the form of travel writing, natural
history, and unique anecdotes, all told in the compelling voices of
Antebellum America's two leading naturalists.
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