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Fables / by Lobel, Arnold.;
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
Subjects: Fables, American.;
© 1983, c1980., Harper & Row,
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A Treasury of children's literature / by Eisen, Armand.;
A collection of traditional and original stories and poems by such authors as Aesop and Lewis Carroll, including excerpts from "The Wind in the Willows" and "Peter Pan."Goldilocks and the three bears -- Sleeping Beauty -- Three billy goats gruff -- Jack and the beanstalk -- Three little pigs -- Little Red Riding hood -- Aesop's fables -- Cinderella -- Hansel and Gretel -- Rapunzel -- Frog prince -- Brementown musicians -- Snow White -- Rumpelstiltskin -- Mother Goose's nursery rhymes -- Mad tea-party -- Cat and the fox again -- Piper at the gates of dawn -- Toyland and the capital of Toyland -- Hook or me this time -- Child's garden of verses -- Brer Rabbit -- Johnny Appleseed -- John Henry -- Paul Bunyan -- Night before Christmas -- Ugly duckling -- Nightingale --Steadfast tin soldier -- Emperor's new clothes -- Princess and the pea -- Little match girl -- Thumbelina.Traditional stories, Grimm's fairy tales, Aesop's fables, American tales and fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen retold by Sheila Black.
Subjects: Children's literature.; Children's literature.; Literature;
© 1992., Houghton Mifflin,
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Complete poems / by Parker, Dorothy,1893-1967.; Meade, Marion,1934-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literary coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputation as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humor earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America.
Subjects: American poetry.; American poetry.; Poetry, American.;
© 2010., Penguin Books,
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Fables of identity : studies in poetic mythology / by Frye, Northrop.;
Includes bibliographical references.1. The archetypes of literature -- Myth, fiction, and displacement -- Nature and Homer -- New directions from old -- 2. The structure of imagery in The faerie queene -- How true a Twain -- Recognition in The winter's tale -- Literature as context: Milton's Lycidas -- Towards defining an age of sensibility -- Blake after two centuries -- The imaginative and the imaginary -- Lord Byron -- 3. Emily Dickinson -- Yeats and the language of symbolism -- The realistic oriole: a study of Wallace Stevens -- Quest and cycle in Finnegan's wake.
Subjects: English poetry; American poetry; Mythology in literature.; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.; Poetics.;
© c1963., Harcourt, Brace & World,
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Fables for our time : and famous poems illustrated / by Thurber, James,1894-1961.;
Fables: Mouse who went to the country -- Little girl and the wolf -- Two turkeys -- Tiger who understood people -- Fairly intelligent fly -- Lion who wanted to zoom -- Very proper gander -- Moth and the star -- Shrike and the chipmunks -- Seal who became famous -- Hunter and the elephant -- Scotty who knew too much -- Bear who let it alone -- Owl who was God -- Sheep in wolf's clothing -- Stork who married a dumb wife -- Green isle in the sea -- Crow and the oriole -- Elephant who challenged the world -- Birds and the foxes -- Courtship of Arthur and Al -- Hen who wouldn't fly -- Glass in the field -- Tortoise and the hare -- Patient and the bloodhound -- Unicorn in the garden -- Rabbits who caused all the trouble -- Hen and the heavens. -- Poems: Excelsior -- Sands of o'Dee -- Lochinvar -- Locksley hall -- "Oh when I was you -- Curfew must not ring to-night -- Barbara Fretchie -- Glove and the lions -- Ben Bolt.
Subjects: American wit and humor.;
© 1990., Perennial Library,
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White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / by Isenberg, Nancy.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Fables we forget by -- To begin the world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World ; John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia ; Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity ; Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class ; Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man -- Degeneration of the American Breed. Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters ; Cowards, Poltroons, and mudsills : civil war as class warfare ; Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics ; Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression ; The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- The white trash makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye ; Outing Rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin -- America's strange breed : the long legacy of white trash."A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party,"--NoveList.
Subjects: Social classes; Poor whites; Working class whites;
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Ottawa stories from the Springs : anishinaabe dibaadjimowinan wodi gaa binjibaamigak wodi mookodjiwong e zhinikaadek / by Webkamigad, Howard,translator,editor.;
"Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded, after first being kept in their original copper wire format by the American Philosophical Society and later being converted onto cassettes and held by Dr. James McClurken of Michigan State University. These rich tales, recorded by Anishinaabe people in the Harbor Springs area of Michigan, draw on the legends, fables, trickster stories, parables, and humor of Anishinaabe culture. Reaching back to the distant past but also delving into more recent events, this book contains a broad swath of the history of the Ojibwe/Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatomi, Algonkian, Abenaki, Saulteau, Mashkiigowok/Cree, and other groups that make up the broad range of the Anishinaabe-speaking peoples. Provided here are original stories transcribed from Anishinaabe-language recordings alongside Howard Webkamigad's English translations. These stories not only provide a textured portrait of a complex people but also will help Anishinaabe-language learners see patterns in the language and get a sense of how it flows. Featuring side-by-side Anishinaabe/English translations"--Note on the recordings / by James McClurken -- Foreword / by Frank Ettawageshik -- Introduction -- Anishinaabemowin sounds -- Part 1. Nenibozhoo stories -- Part 2. Legends and cultural stories -- Part 3. Historical stories -- Part 4. Contemporary stories.
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians; Ottawa Indians; Ojibwa Indians; Ottawa Indians; Ojibwa language;
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White fire / by Preston, Douglas J.; Child, Lincoln,author.;
Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law when he uncovers a mysterious connection between long-dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to an outbreak of modern day killings involving a deadly arsonist.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American.; Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character);
© 2013., Grand Central Publishing,
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Gospel according to the Klan : the KKK's appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 / by Baker, Kelly(Kelly J.);
Includes bibliographical references and index."Let's get behind Old Glory and the church of Jesus Christ": religion, American narratives, and the 1920s Klan -- "Thank God for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan": the Klan's protestantism -- "Take the Christ out of America, and America fails!": the Klan's nationalism -- "God give us men": the Klan's Christian knighthood -- "The sacredness of motherhood": white womanhood, maternity, and marriage in the 1920s Klan -- "White skin will not redeem a black heart": the Klan's whiteness, white supremacy, and American race -- "Rome's reputation is stained with protestant blood": the Klan-Notre Dame Riot of May 1924 -- "Guardians of privilege": what the Klan tells us about American (religious) history -- "Passing the torch": the Klan's brand in America.To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture. Most studies of the KKK dismiss it as an organization of racists attempting to intimidate minorities and argue that the Klan used religion only as a rhetorical device. Baker contends instead that the KKK based its justifications for hatred on a particular brand of Protestantism that resonated with mainstream Americans, one that employed burning crosses and robes to explicitly exclude Jews and Catholics. To show how the Klan used religion to further its agenda of hate while appealing to everyday Americans, Kelly Baker takes readers back to its "second incarnation" in the 1920s. During that decade, the revived Klan hired a public relations firm that suggested it could reach a wider audience by presenting itself as a "fraternal Protestant organization that championed white supremacy as opposed to marauders of the night." That campaign was so successful that the Klan established chapters in all forty-eight states. Baker has scoured official newspapers and magazines issued by the Klan during that era to reveal the inner workings of the order and show how its leadership manipulated religion, nationalism, gender, and race. Through these publications we see a Klan trying to adapt its hate-based positions with the changing times in order to expand its base by reaching beyond a narrowly defined white male Protestant America. This engrossing expose looks closely at the Klan's definition of Protestantism, its belief in a strong relationship between church and state, its notions of masculinity and femininity, and its views on Jews and African Americans. The book also examines in detail the Klan's infamous 1924 anti-Catholic riot at Notre Dame University and draws alarming parallels between the Klan's message of the 1920s and current posturing by some Tea Party members and their sympathizers. Analyzing the complex religious arguments the Klan crafted to gain acceptability -- and credibility -- among angry Americans, Baker reveals that the Klan was more successful at crafting this message than has been credited by historians. To tell American history from this startling perspective demonstrates that some citizens still participate in intolerant behavior to protect a fabled white Protestant nation. - Publisher.
Subjects: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Protestantism;
© 2011., University Press of Kansas,
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Every man a speculator : a history of Wall Street in American life / by Fraser, Steve,1945-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Buccaneers and confidence men on the financial frontier. -- Revolution and counterrevolution -- Monsters, aristocrats, and confidence men -- From confidence man to colossus -- Wall Street in Coventry -- pt. 2. The imperial age. -- The engine room of corporate capitalism -- The great Satan -- Wall Street and the decline of Western Civilization -- Wall Street is dead! long live Wall Street! -- Other people's money -- War and peace on Wall Street -- A season in Utopia -- pt. 3. The age of Ignominy. -- Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? -- Evicted from the temple -- The long good-bye -- pt. 4. The world turned upside down. -- The return of the repressed -- Shareholder nation.For more than two hundred years, Americans have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Long an object of suspicion and fear, it eventually came to be seen as a more inviting place, an open road to wealth and freedom. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding this fabled street, Steve Fraser shows that the remarkable transformation of Wall Street as a cultural icon -- its odyssey from perdition to salvation, from darkness into light -- is a story that goes to the heart of the American character. Long before we became a shareholder nation, back when only a minuscule part of the country's population invested, Wall Street had already provoked America's collective imagination. From the days when Alexander Hamilton was forced to confess his marital infidelities in order to defend his vision of the Republic's financial future, to Gordon Gekko's mantra "Greed is good" in the movie Wall Street, Americans have always been preoccupied with the virtues and sins of the stock market. Indeed, Wall Street is the place where we have constantly returned to wrestle with our ancestral attitudes about work and play, equality and wealth, God and mammon, heroes and villains, national purpose and economic well-being. Beginning in the Revolutionary era, Every Man a Speculator reveals the extraordinary power of Wall Street and its impact on our democracy; the moral dilemma posed for a society committed to the work ethic yet lured by the promise of instant wealth; and the chronic tension between our native egalitarianism and the forces of social hierarchy unleashed by the Street. In doing so, it spans the ages, from Captain Kidd's sojourn on the Street through the Civil War and Great Depression to the present day, when power brokers stalk the canyons of lower Manhattan speculating on the fate of whole nations. In Every Man a Speculator, Steve Fraser brings this epic history to life with colorful tales of confidence men and aristocrats, Napoleonic financiers and reckless adventurers, master builders and roguish destroyers, men to the manor born and men from nowhere. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, this is a gripping, powerful chronicle that casts new light on the metamorphosis of our nation's most cherished values.
Subjects: Securities industry; Investments;
© 2006, c2005., Harper Perennial,
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