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Listening Is An Act Of Love : A Celebration Of American Life From The StoryCorps Project

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edited and with an introduction by Dave Isay
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Book, Penguin Press, 2007
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From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps-the largest oral history project in the nation’s history-presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. In Listening Is an Act of Love, StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects some of the most remarkable stories from the already vast collection and arranges them thematically into a moving portrait of American life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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StoryCorps (Project) · National characteristics, American · Anecdotes · Interviews · United States · Oral history · Social life and customs · 1945-1970 · 1971- · History · 1945- · Biography · Isay, David · StoryCorps (Project)
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.Z8 L49 2007 AVAILABLE

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The Culture Of Calamity : Disaster And The Making Of Modern America

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Kevin Rozario
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 2007
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Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. Beginning with the Puritan view of disaster as God?s instrument of correction, Rozario explores how catastrophic events frequently inspired positive reactions. Terror alerts and duct tape represent the cynical politician?s attitude about 9/11, but Rozario focuses on how the attacks registered in the popular imagination?how responses to genuine calamity were mediated by the hyperreal thrills of movies; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Disasters · United States · History · Social aspects · Psychological aspects · National characteristics, American · Civilization · Social conditions · Anecdotes · Rozario, Kevin
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(LOWER LEVEL) E179 .R9 2007 AVAILABLE

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Booknotes : On American Character

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[compiled by] Brian Lamb
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Book, 1st ed, PublicAffairs, 2004
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The bestselling Booknotes series celebrates C-SPAN’s 25th anniversary with a new collection examining our country and its character. Over the past fifteen years, Brian Lamb, the CEO of C-SPAN and host of Booknotes, has interviewed 765 authors on the program, and these deep and wide-ranging interviews have been the basis for three bestselling Booknotes books. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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National characteristics, American · Anecdotes · Authors, American · 20th century · Interviews · United States · Civilization · History · Politics and government · Biography · Lamb, Brian, 1941-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .B74 2004 AVAILABLE

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The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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Sarah Vowell
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Book, Simon & Schuster, 2002
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In The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell — widely hailed for her inimitable narratives on public radio’s This American Life — ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Vowell, Sarah, · 1969- · Anecdotes · National characteristics, American · United States · History · Politics and government · Description and travel · Vowell, Sarah, 1969-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E178.6 .V68 2002 AVAILABLE

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American Disasters

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edited by Steven Biel
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Book, New York University Press, 2001
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Examining immediate and long term responses to such disasters as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the Challenger explosion, American Disasters explores what natural and man made catastrophes reveal about the societies in which they occur. Ranging widely, essayists here examine the 1900 storm that ravaged Galveston, Texas, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Titanic sinking, the Northridge earthquake, the crash of Air Florida Flight 90, the 1977 Chicago El train crash, and many other devastating events. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Disasters · United States · History · Social aspects · Psychological aspects · National characteristics, American · Social conditions · Anecdotes · Biel, Steven, 1960-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E179 .A494 2001 AVAILABLE

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The Sylvan Path : A Journey Through America’s Forests

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Gary Ferguson
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Book, 1st. ed, St. Martin’s Press, 1997
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Ferguson, Gary, · 1956- · Travel · United States · Anecdotes · Forest reserves · National characteristics, American · Description and travel · Ferguson, Gary, 1956-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.04 .F467 1997 AVAILABLE

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