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Series
Publisher
Taurus
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Collects the author's best "New Yorker" pieces, including an essay on why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one type of ketchup, an assessment of what makes a safer car, and an examination of a machine built to predict hit movies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From Native American traditions to immigrant inventions, from diversity to democracy, from ice cream cones to apple pie, this picture book is filled with fun facts and historical trivia, celebrating the melting pot and mosaic that is America. Did you know that the inventor of American cheese actually came from Canada? Or that founding father Benjamin Franklin was inspired to create a democratic society by a confederacy of Native American tribes who...
Publisher
Peter Frumkin Productions
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Written by Woody Guthrie in 1940, "This land is your land" is one of the United States' most famous songs. Its Oklahoma-born author, Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie, was a complex, multi-talented man whose songs would come to exemplify that strain of American music. Yet his life was a tangle of unresolved contradictions: an indifferent guitar player yet an accomplished musician; three times married, but a perennially unfaithful husband; distant or...
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