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- catalog abstract "American Greats offers compelling evidence of the courage and character, invention and resilience, that helps define this nation. It's about action and, therefore, character. It celebrates what the late Commissioner of Baseball, Bart Giamatti described as "that compound whose mix forms the American character-of moral energy and pragmatic efficiency, optimism and guile, respect for law, admiration for the maverick, and love of the underdog." This book, finally, is about the never-ending American story: possibility.".
- catalog contributor b11401272.
- catalog contributor b11401273.
- catalog contributor b11401274.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization Miscellanea.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "American Greats offers compelling evidence of the courage and character, invention and resilience, that helps define this nation. It's about action and, therefore, character. It celebrates what the late Commissioner of Baseball, Bart Giamatti described as "that compound whose mix forms the American character-of moral energy and pragmatic efficiency, optimism and guile, respect for law, admiration for the maverick, and love of the underdog." This book, finally, is about the never-ending American story: possibility.".
- catalog description "Common sense : 'tis time to part -- The automobile self-starter : Kettering's practical solution -- Barbed wire: the devil's hatband -- The baseball diamond -- The Berlin airlift : we stay in Berlin. Period -- The birds of America : Audubon's great idea -- Black baseball : the bumpy, begrudging road -- The Brooklyn Bridge -- Burroughs-Wellcome and Gertrude Elion : the perfect chemistry -- C-SPAN : where content is the star -- Calder mobiles -- Carnegie libraries -- There is only one Chez Panisse -- The Chicago defender : aiding and abetting the great migration -- Coca-Cola's recipe : the greatest secret ever kept, told by the man who keeps it -- Coney Island -- The Corvette : like a bat out of hell -- Country music : the Bristol sessions -- The Duke Ellington Orchestra -- Edison's invention factories : "stick-to-itiveness" -- The elements of style : parvum opus -- Farm Security Administration photographers -- FDR's Fireside Chats : holding us together -- Freedom of expression -- ".
- catalog description "Freedom Riders : "we are prepared to die" -- The G.I. Bill : helping create the middle class -- The Gettysburg Address -- A great day in Harlem -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Iditarod : the last great race -- Industrial design : "a superior sense of the practical" -- Industrial light and magic : :to leap without looking" -- Keeneland : racing as it was meant to be -- The Kimbell Museum : the client is human nature -- Lend lease : "the most unsordid act" -- The Library of America -- LIFE Magazine -- M*A*S*H : the final episode -- The Marshall Plan : essentials for European recovery -- Mohawk steel workers : dealing with the fear -- Making journalism history : "we take you now to London" -- N.C. Wyeth's Treasure Island illustrations : scaring us stiff -- National Geographic maps : a sense of where we are -- Navajo code talkers : the century's best kept secret -- The New York Public Library's room 315 -- The New York Times -- The New Yorker -- ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-303) and index.".
- catalog description "The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 : :a handful of white dice thrown out across the prairie" -- The Pony Express -- The Populists : "caught in the tentacles of circumstance" -- The Portable Faulkner -- The transfer of presidential power -- The pursuit of happiness -- A romance with the road : "light out for the territory" -- Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? -- The skyscraper -- The Smithsonian Institution : the nation's attic -- The snapshot -- Sousa's band : the music men -- The Spirit of St. Louis : shooting star -- Sportswriting : the golden age -- Sun records : "when all hell broke loose" -- Surfing Oahu's north shore : "Eddie would go" -- Tabasco sauce -- Television situation comedy -- Ticker-tape parades -- Travis's letter from the Alamo : "victory or death" -- The Tuskegee airmen : all blood runs red -- The Underground Railroad : following the North Star -- Volkswagen's campaign in America -- Webster's American dictionary : "the final volley of independence" -- ".
- catalog description "The woman suffrage movement : "failure is impossible" -- Wright brothers : concept of genius -- Yellow fever : "a common cause for a disease all too common" -- Yellowstone, our first national park -- Your Show of Shows : a legacy of laughter -- West Point.".
- catalog extent "xv, 315 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1891620487".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : PublicAffairs,".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization Miscellanea.".
- catalog subject "973 21".
- catalog subject "E169.1 .A471985 1999".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American Miscellanea.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Common sense : 'tis time to part -- The automobile self-starter : Kettering's practical solution -- Barbed wire: the devil's hatband -- The baseball diamond -- The Berlin airlift : we stay in Berlin. Period -- The birds of America : Audubon's great idea -- Black baseball : the bumpy, begrudging road -- The Brooklyn Bridge -- Burroughs-Wellcome and Gertrude Elion : the perfect chemistry -- C-SPAN : where content is the star -- Calder mobiles -- Carnegie libraries -- There is only one Chez Panisse -- The Chicago defender : aiding and abetting the great migration -- Coca-Cola's recipe : the greatest secret ever kept, told by the man who keeps it -- Coney Island -- The Corvette : like a bat out of hell -- Country music : the Bristol sessions -- The Duke Ellington Orchestra -- Edison's invention factories : "stick-to-itiveness" -- The elements of style : parvum opus -- Farm Security Administration photographers -- FDR's Fireside Chats : holding us together -- Freedom of expression -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Freedom Riders : "we are prepared to die" -- The G.I. Bill : helping create the middle class -- The Gettysburg Address -- A great day in Harlem -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Iditarod : the last great race -- Industrial design : "a superior sense of the practical" -- Industrial light and magic : :to leap without looking" -- Keeneland : racing as it was meant to be -- The Kimbell Museum : the client is human nature -- Lend lease : "the most unsordid act" -- The Library of America -- LIFE Magazine -- M*A*S*H : the final episode -- The Marshall Plan : essentials for European recovery -- Mohawk steel workers : dealing with the fear -- Making journalism history : "we take you now to London" -- N.C. Wyeth's Treasure Island illustrations : scaring us stiff -- National Geographic maps : a sense of where we are -- Navajo code talkers : the century's best kept secret -- The New York Public Library's room 315 -- The New York Times -- The New Yorker -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 : :a handful of white dice thrown out across the prairie" -- The Pony Express -- The Populists : "caught in the tentacles of circumstance" -- The Portable Faulkner -- The transfer of presidential power -- The pursuit of happiness -- A romance with the road : "light out for the territory" -- Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? -- The skyscraper -- The Smithsonian Institution : the nation's attic -- The snapshot -- Sousa's band : the music men -- The Spirit of St. Louis : shooting star -- Sportswriting : the golden age -- Sun records : "when all hell broke loose" -- Surfing Oahu's north shore : "Eddie would go" -- Tabasco sauce -- Television situation comedy -- Ticker-tape parades -- Travis's letter from the Alamo : "victory or death" -- The Tuskegee airmen : all blood runs red -- The Underground Railroad : following the North Star -- Volkswagen's campaign in America -- Webster's American dictionary : "the final volley of independence" -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The woman suffrage movement : "failure is impossible" -- Wright brothers : concept of genius -- Yellow fever : "a common cause for a disease all too common" -- Yellowstone, our first national park -- Your Show of Shows : a legacy of laughter -- West Point.".
- catalog title "American greats / edited by Robert Wilson and Stanley Marcus.".
- catalog type "Miscellanea. fast".
- catalog type "text".