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Blind Rage
As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the
refrain, \"Why can't you be more like Helen Keller?\" Kleege's
resentment culminates in her book Blind Rage: Letters to Helen
Keller , an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned
international figure using 21st-century sensibilities. Kleege's
absorption with Keller originated as an angry response to the ideal
of a secular saint, which no real blind or deaf person could ever
emulate. However, her investigation into the genuine person
revealed that a much more complex set of characters and
circumstances shaped Keller's life. Blind Rage employs an
adroit form of creative nonfiction to review the critical junctures
in Keller's life. The simple facts about Helen Keller are
well-known: how Anne Sullivan taught her deaf-blind pupil to
communicate and learn; her impressive career as a Radcliffe
graduate and author; her countless public appearances in various
venues, from cinema to vaudeville, to campaigns for the American
Foundation for the Blind. But Kleege delves below the surface to
question the perfection of this image. Through the device of her
letters, she challenges Keller to reveal her actual emotions, the
real nature of her long relationship with Sullivan, with Sullivan's
husband, and her brief engagement to Peter Fagan. Kleege's
imaginative dramatization, distinguished by her depiction of
Keller's command of abstract sensations, gradually shifts in
perspective from anger to admiration. Blind Rage
criticizes the Helen Keller myth for prolonging an unrealistic
model for blind people, yet it appreciates the individual who found
a practical way to live despite the restrictions of her myth.
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The great G.O.A.T. debate : the best of the best in everything from sports to science
\"This book will expand the horizons of teen and pre-teen readers in an exciting and engaging way, by debating the Greatest of All Time in a variety of categories. Topics include the greatest athlete of all time, greatest band, greatest inventor, greatest scientist, greatest writer, greatest sci-fi franchise, and more\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Religion and the American presidency
This volume opens a new avenue toward understanding the politics and policies of many US presidents. As the essays in this book reveal, religion has had an enormous impact on many critical presidencies in US history. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, these essays reveal the deeply religious side to Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan, among others.
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Ask an astronaut
\"Based on his historic mission to the International Space Station, Ask and Astronaut is Tim Peake's guide to life in space, filled with answers to the best of the thousands of questions he's been asked by people all over the world since his return to Earth.\"--Jacket.
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What they didn’t teach you in American history class
Let's try this again: they were looking for China and Japan but ended up in America? -- Remember, one if by land, two if by sea? No, this is not a math question! -- George Washington...some say that it was because of his teeth but if you had his problems, you wouldn't be smiling either -- If the British set fire to the White House, why didn't the smoke detectors go off? -- Americans won their freedom on battles fought in the east. So when it was over, they moved west. Sure, that makes sense -- The Civil War: America's real family feud -- Following the war, America lived happily ever after for the next few years -- The inventors: if you build it, someone will probably show up -- If it was the 20th century, then why was it in the 1900s? -- You mean John Wayne didn't win the war for our side? -- Hey Grandpa...were you a hippie? -- The 1980s and 1990s, or, as we call it, the days when machines took over the country -- Y2k...was that like the first cell phone? -- Internal briefings: the presidency -- One more time! As history repeats -- Unfinished business.
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Truth or lie : presidents!
\"The Truth Sleuth guides readers through a series of truths (and lies) about American presidents.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Afterlife of John Brown
The Afterlife of John Brown explores the impact of the uncompromising abolitionist John Brown since his execution in 1859. The essays in this collection examine this divisive figure, lauded as a principled hero and demonized as a home-grown terrorist. The essays trace his presence in a variety of narrative and artistic forms, including poetry, the visual arts, children's literature, biography, and political polemic. John Brown is a figure whose status within the cultural imagination of the United States has never been settled. This book is the first to explore the diversity of artistic response that such unsettling has evoked.
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Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
\"Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. As Frenkel proves, a mathematical formula can be as elegant and beautiful as a painting, a poem, or a piece of music. And the process of creating new mathematics is just that, an artistic pursuit--a deeply personal experience, which requires passion, dedication, and love. In Love and Math, Frenkel shows readers the aesthetic--and the truly powerful--side of mathematics, and enables appreciation of the field even from those who have long been terrified by it.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Interior Places
\"We must include Knopp among those whom Barry Lopez calls our 'local geniuses of the American landscape,'\" Fran Shaw remarks in the journal Parabola. And, indeed, in this new book, Lisa Knopp's singular genius burrows deep into that landscape in showing us what it is to know, feel, and inhabit unique yet quintessentially American places. A collection of essays embracing nonfiction from memoir and biography to travel writing and natural history, Interior Places offers a curiously detailed group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape. Here is an essay about the origin, history, and influence of corn. Here we find an exploration of a childhood meeting with Frederick Leopold, youngest brother of the great naturalist Aldo. Here also are a chronicle of the 146-year alliance between Burlington, Iowa, and the Burlington Route (later the CB&O, the BN, and finally, the BNSF) and a pilgrimage to Amelia Earhart's Kansas hometown. Whether writing about the lives of two of P. T. Barnum's giants or the \"secret\" nuclear weapons plant in southeastern Iowa, about hunger in Lincoln, Nebraska, or bird banding on the Platte River, Knopp captures the inner character of the Midwest as Nature dictates it, people live it, and history reveals it.
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