Download or read book Driving America written by The Henry Ford and published by Beckon Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving America: The Henry Ford Automotive Collection is the first major book published by The Henry Ford that showcases its premier collection of automobiles. It includes 300 stunning, art-quality, never-seen-before-published images along with a foreword by Jay Leno and introduction by Edsel Ford II. The book also features essays from Patricia Mooradian, president of The Henry Ford; Matt Anderson, curator of transportation; Bob Casey, retired senior curator of transportation from The Henry Ford; and Mark Harmer, exhibition photographer. From the 1865 Roper, the oldest surviving American car, to the hybrid 2002 Prius, the collection helps tell the story of how automotive innovations have changed our lives and influenced American culture.
Download or read book Driving Women written by Deborah Clarke and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Republic of Drivers written by Cotten Seiler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising gas prices, sprawl and congestion, global warming, even obesity—driving is a factor in many of the most contentious issues of our time. So how did we get here? How did automobile use become so vital to the identity of Americans? Republic of Drivers looks back at the period between 1895 and 1961—from the founding of the first automobile factory in America to the creation of the Interstate Highway System—to find out how driving evolved into a crucial symbol of freedom and agency. Cotten Seiler combs through a vast number of historical, social scientific, philosophical, and literary sources to illustrate the importance of driving to modern American conceptions of the self and the social and political order. He finds that as the figure of the driver blurred into the figure of the citizen, automobility became a powerful resource for women, African Americans, and others seeking entry into the public sphere. And yet, he argues, the individualistic but anonymous act of driving has also monopolized our thinking about freedom and democracy, discouraging the crafting of a more sustainable way of life. As our fantasies of the open road turn into fears of a looming energy crisis, Seiler shows us just how we ended up a republic of drivers—and where we might be headed.
Download or read book Driving While Black African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights written by Gretchen Sorin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.
Download or read book Roads written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he crisscrosses America—driving in search of the present, the past, and himself—Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them. Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry has felt the pull of the road. His town was thoroughly landlocked, making the highway his "river, its hidden reaches a mystery and an enticement. I began my life beside it and I want to drift down the entire length of it before I end this book." In Roads, McMurtry embarks on a cross-country trip where his route is also his destination. As he drives, McMurtry reminisces about the places he's seen, the people he's met, and the books he's read, including more than 3,000 books about travel. He explains why watching episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show might be the best way to find joie de vivre in Minnesota; the scenic differences between Route 35 and I-801; which vigilantes lived in Montana and which hailed from Idaho; and the histories of Lewis and Clark, Sitting Bull, and Custer that still haunt Route 2 today. As it makes its way from South Florida to North Dakota, from eastern Long Island to Oregon, Roads is travel writing at its best.
Download or read book Drive written by Daniel H. Pink and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
Download or read book Through America written by Walter Gore Marshall and published by London : S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. This book was released on 1881 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s War against Global Jihad written by William R. Nester and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specter haunts America, the specter of Global Jihad, Islamic Holy War. This specter was never more horrific than on September 11, 2001, when nineteen fanatics hijacked four jetliners and used them as guided missiles to destroy the twin World Trade Towers, damage the Pentagon, murder nearly 3,000 people, and cause as much as several hundred billion dollars’ worth of direct and indirect damage to New York City and the national economy. But Jihadists have periodically attacked Americans ever since November 1979, when mobs shouting death to America overran the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 officials hostage for 444 days. President George W. Bush responded to the September 11 atrocities by declaring a global war on terror. Now in its second decade, that war has cost the United States thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Americans are haunted by horrific televised images from across a swath of the Muslim world of bomb-blasted cities, hundreds of slaughtered bodies, thousands of refugees huddled in squalid camps, and American journalists in orange jump suits kneeling in the desert before the black robed and masked men who will behead them. Americans increasingly question whether the global war on terror has been worth those costs for their own nation and the lands where it is fought. This book analyzes America’s crusade against Jihadism. The key related questions it addresses are these: Looking back, what were the successes and failures of Washington’s counter-Jihadist strategy before and after September 11? Looking ahead, should Americans stay the course or cut their losses in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere? Was the catastrophic September 11 attack a one-time event or could its equivalent or worse in death and destruction happen again? Renowned Harvard professor Samuel Huntington asserted that: “The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism, it is Islam, a different civilization, whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.” Is that true? Just what of Muhammad’s words and deeds, if any, justifies the barbarism of al Qaeda, Islamic State, and other Jihadists? Finally, just how corporeal is that specter of global Jihad to the United States? A startling surprise awaits the reader in the final chapter as acclaimed expert William Nester weighs the specter of global Jihad against an array of other national security threats.
Download or read book America in Black and White written by Dr. Carl O. Duddersoon and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, authors Carl O. Duddersoon, Sr. and Carl J. Duddersoon, Jr. share a personal journey fueled by intimate motivations and a growing awareness of the profound social injustices deeply ingrained in American society. Drawing on experience in the United States and comparing an upbringing in England, the authors question why race holds such pervasive influence in America. The narrative delves into America’s decline, scrutinizing internal political divisions and their impact on the nation’s vulnerability to destructive forces. Key themes explored include failed leadership, questionable democracy, moral turpitude in the treatment of the Black race, and the pitfalls of affirmative action. Ultimately, America in Black and White concludes that racism is not just ingrained but serves as the bedrock shaping almost all interactions and decisions across America. It calls for a reevaluation of voting power, urging the Black population to wield it effectively and break from blind allegiance to either political party that clearly do not represent their interests. Prepare to unveil America’s chilling truths, providing a stark examination of challenges amid its downward trajectory and advocating for meaningful change.
Download or read book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America Right or Wrong written by Anatol Lieven and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published over half a decade ago, Anatol Lieven's America Right or Wrong has become a classic analysis of the special character of American nationalism. As he demonstrated, America's foreign policy response to the 9/11 attacks flowed directly from a nationalistic tradition that was two centuries in the making. Within that nationalism, Lieven identified two strands. The first was the "American thesis," a civic nationalism based on the democratic values of what has been called the "American Creed." These values are held to be universal, and anyone can become an American by adopting them. The other tradition, the "American antithesis" is a populist and often chauvinist nationalism, which tends to see America as a closed national culture and civilization threatened by a hostile and barbarous outside world. Much has changed since 9/11. The American public has turned inward in the wake of the Great Recession, but interestingly, Lieven's fundamental analysis of American nationalism remains powerful and convincing. In this expanded new edition, he includes and in-depth analysis of the domestic component of both the American creed and the American antithesis. Barack Obama's improbable election to the presidency illustrates well the first strand. The rise of the Tea Party in response to both the financial crisis and the Obama administration's response is highly characteristic of the second strand. Lieven concentrates especially on the Tea Party's hard-edged American nationalism, which is evident in anti-immigration sentiment, hatred of Obama, and opposition to redistributive social programs that allegedly reward the unworthy. His account of Obama's election and the right-wing response to the economic collapse not only bring the story up to the present, but indicate the staying power of the book's hard-hitting thesis.
Download or read book American History Volume 2 written by Thomas S. Kidd and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American History volume 2 gives a wide overview of America’s history from the end of the Civil War era, to the political and cultural struggles of contemporary times. Thomas S. Kidd employs lessons learned from his own scholarly expertise and history classes to weave together a compelling narrative of the defeats and triumphs that have defined the American national experience. Unlike many textbooks of modern American history, religion and faith remain central aspects of the book’s coverage, through present-day America. It gives detailed treatment of episodes such as America’s military conflicts, the Civil Rights movement, and the culture wars of the past half-century. Professor Kidd also considers the development of America’s obsession with entertainment, from the rise of the first movies, to the social media age. American History volume 2 will help students wrestle with the political and cultural changes that have dramatically transformed contemporary American life
Download or read book Men who are Making America written by Bertie Charles Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circular written by Purdue University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiscal Accountability in the U S Forest Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Literature of the Twenty First Century and the Black Arts written by Stephen Casmier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 50 years, a trend in African American literary history quarantined the Black Arts era of the 1960s and 1970s, separating it from the brilliantly creative and aesthetically experimental writing that took off in the 1980s. According to that history, the new literature discarded and distanced the anti-aesthetic posture of the Black Arts moment which emphasized racial tension, strident polemics, and romantic solidarity with the Black underclass. Yet according to the author, the six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 complicate this reductive characterization of the black arts. They overflow with the criminal element: accused rapists and murderers; victims of unsanctioned lynching and sanctioned executions. As they engage in aesthetic experimentation, they express continuities with a spirit of restless invention and improvisation that derive from an ongoing engagement with African or Black Atlantic cosmology. They thus enable reassessment of the black arts legacy, entering the world on their own terms, producing their own reality, and working through the black arts notion of functional art. They are the result of a magical Black Atlantic craft that brings writing beyond written representation, transforming the novel itself into a functional tool – a charm -- of protection and healing.
Download or read book American Manifesto written by Gary W. Babb and published by Fiction4All. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Children are back to save America yet again. They're requested by the military and American patriots to help plan, launch, and defend a revolution in the USA to take back the country from a treasonous and corrupt government. This fictional story is presented in American Manifesto and is based largely upon and mirrors recognizable past and current political events commonly seen in the media and Internet. The developed strategy is masterfully conceived, highly unconventional, exceptionally high tech, and initially extremely shocking. The story describes how this Coup was planned and implemented and delves into the "Whys". American Manifesto is a SciFi standalone story that is built upon characters created in Star Children, a recent Finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. It relates the history of the Star Children and their involvement in helping save Earth from world domination. They are gifted with acute, mental powers created by genetic engineering of an alien race, the Arcadians. The Star Children use their keen intellect and advanced alien technology to purge the U.S. government of the treasonous conspirators and operatives heavily embedded within the government. They are aided in the planning strategy by General Max Bruner, a NAZI SS military operative from a secret base in Antarctica. In this story the American Manifesto becomes a rallying document embraced by the American patriots, which dictates to the government a declarations of conformity to the revolution, a document that will go down in the annals of infamy alongside the Declaration of Independence.
