The Scourge of "Low Inflation" in Australia
Looking back ... the great American "stabilisation" of 1922-1929 was really a vast attempt to destabilise the value of money in terms of human effort by means of a colossal programme of investment ... which succeeded for a surprisingly long ... [... more]
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Thomas Hindmarch
Somewhere along the way to becoming the next great American novelist, Thomas Hindmarch was diverted to the bizarre world of writing about video games. It pays well enough, but what he really likes is the ability to make virtually anyone envious ... [... more]
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Mary Stegner
Edited by Wallace Stegner and Mary Stegner Great American Short Stories Wallace Stegner and Mary Stegner [... more]
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Breach of Faith
Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made ... [... more]
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Joel Conarroe
The author of books and essays about American poetry and fiction and the editor Here are the most enduring works of six great American poets, collected in a single authoritative volume. From the overflowing pantheism of Walt Whitman to the ... [... more]
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Robert Forster
The Legend of Kid Delicious, The Last Great American Pool Hustler In many sports, the pinnacle is Wheaties-box fame and notoriety. But in the world of pool, notoriety is the last thing a hustler desires. Such is the dilemma that faces Danny ... [... more]
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Colin L. Powell
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at... Colin L. Powell and Joseph E. Persico "A GREAT AMERICAN ... [... more]
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Bertie Bowman
A Memoir of Hope, Friendship, Perseverance, and Living the American Dream A great American story of an ordinary man who is living an extraordinary life, Step by Step is the inspiring personal account of Bertie Bowman's remarkable rise from ... [... more]
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Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister ... [... more]
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Romare Bearden
A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, ... [... more]
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Constance Hale
Today's writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make ... [... more]
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Jane Jacobs
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in ... [... more]
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