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Informed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at this award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Eminent scholars Peter C. Rollins and John O'Connor make an important contribution to the field with an eclectic mix of essays, which translate visual language into on-screen politics. While the series may be criticized as "idealistic," its clever techniques of camera work, lighting, editing, and mise en scene reflect America's best image of itself, and entertains a loyal audience that desperately wants to believe in the nobility of the American dream. This collection introduces readers to the sensibilities to appreciate the show's nuances and the necessary knowledge to avoid any misreadings. It will be of interest to students of politics, popular culture, fans and critics alike. 
Each president brings to the White House a distinct set of personal characteristics and a preferred leadership style, but just how much have individual presidents shaped domestic policy? To understand and assess what factors determine one president's success and another's limited accomplishments, it is important to examine both the individual's leadership roles and the circumstances which shape their opportunities for success. This new book systematically examines the first terms of every president from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to William Jefferson Clinton and assesses the leadership style, the policy agenda, and the "political opportunity" of each. Each president's success in effecting landmark legislation and other policy change is measured and evaluated. William W. Lammers and Michael A. Genovese look at how different levels of opportunity affect leadership and how each president played the political hands he was dealt. By dividing presidents along opportunity lines, Lammers and Genovese assess how skillful each president was in the art of presidential leadership, what strategies and tactics they employed to achieve their goals, and the policy legacies left by each.
This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 7428 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: This article examines President William J. Clinton's use of presidential exemplars from 1991 to 2001. While many observers have called attention to the fact that Clinton made efforts to connect his presidency to Democratic "greats" Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt, his rhetoric reveals a more complex pattern of identification and use of his predecessors. Not only did he reference Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt--Republican "greats"--as often as Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt, but he appears to have used them to talk across party lines and move his fellow partisans to the center. This rhetorical pattern became more prominent after the 1994 midterm election, when the Republicans won majority control of Congress. Hence, this article asserts that Clinton used his predecessors to help him carry out his political agenda and his constitutional duties. Further, he learned from his predecessors about how they had used ideological and partisan constructs during their administrations, and this led to his reconsidering the "great debate" between Jefferson and Hamilton. This research concludes that President William J. Clinton left a Hamiltonian--not Jeffersonian--legacy for the Democratic party. Citation Details Title: The contemporary presidency: the greats and the great debate: President William J. Clinton's use of presidential exemplars. Author: Lara M. Brown Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 1, 2007 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 37 Issue: 1 Page: 124(15) Distributed by Thomson Gale Author: Lara M. Brown Digital: 25 pages HTML Company: Thomson Gale (2007-03-01) (2007-06-22) List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.95 
The Monica Lewinsky scandal challenged President Clinton's political credibility. Robert Busby identifies and analyzes the damage limitation strategies adopted by the Clinton administration to contend with the Lewinsky scandal, and explains how and why Clinton survived the most serious Constitutional crisis since Watergate. Author: Robert Busby Hardcover: 264 pages Company: Palgrave Macmillan (2001-11-02) ISBN: 0333912500 List Price: $99.95 Amazon Price: $52.11 Used Price: $30.40
This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Center for the Study of the Presidency on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 849 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency. (Book Reviews). (book review) Author: Glen Sussman Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed) Date: December 1, 2001 Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency Volume: 31 Issue: 4 Page: 750(3) Article Type: Book Review Distributed by Thomson Gale Author: Glen Sussman Digital: 3 pages HTML Company: Center for the Study of the Presidency (2001-12-01) (2005-07-28) List Price: $5.95 Amazon Price: $5.95 
Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House? Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office. In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.Author: David Maraniss Paperback: 512 pages Company: Simon & Schuster (1996-02-08) (1996-02-08) ISBN: 0684818906 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $1.99 Used Price: $0.01
This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 548 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency.(Book Review) Author: Jeff Broadwater Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal) Date: June 22, 2003 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 65 Issue: 4 Page: 992(2) Article Type: Book Review Distributed by Thomson Gale Author: Jeff Broadwater Digital: 2 pages HTML Company: Thomson Gale (2003-06-22) (2005-09-03) List Price: $5.95 Amazon Price: $5.95 
In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had sex with a young White House intern, to his testimony before the grand jury, to the nation's decision not to remove Clinton from office. Brick by brick, Bennett dismantles the wall of defenses offered by Clinton and his apologists, and casts the clear light of moral reason and common sense on a shameful chapter in American history.Author: William J. Bennett Paperback: 170 pages Company: Free Press (1999-09-06) (1999-09-06) ISBN: 0684864037 List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $0.01 Used Price: $0.01
This digital document is an article from Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, published by University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 6998 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: Appellate judicial appointments during the Clinton presidency: an inside perspective. Author: Sarah Wilson Publication: Journal of Appellate Practice and Process (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 22, 2003 Publisher: University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Page: 29(19) Distributed by Thomson Gale Author: Sarah Wilson Digital: 24 pages HTML Company: University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law (2003-03-22) (2005-07-31) List Price: $5.95 Amazon Price: $5.95 
From the Center to the Edge is the first historical interpretation of the politics and public policies of the Clinton administration. Eminent political historian William C. Berman describes in penetrating detail the origins, evolution, and transformation of Clinton's programs for change as well as the reasons for its various successes and failures. Berman sheds new light on both domestic matters--such as welfare reform, deficit reduction, and the impeachment process--and key foreign policy issues, including American relations with Russia and China, and the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo. From the Center to the Edge provides a balanced but critical perspective of the Clinton administration, and is strongly recommended for anyone interested in presidential politics and recent American history.Author: William C. Berman Paperback: 160 pages Company: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2001-04-11) ISBN: 0847696154 List Price: $28.95 Amazon Price: $15.68 Used Price: $2.76
Cultural Writing. African American Studies. Biography and Memoir. Former Clinton diarist, Janis F. Kearney, pens a biography that is part historical narrative and part oral history. In 2001, Kearney began a journey, in search of black American's stories about the south that shaped a man and a leader such as William Jefferson Clinton; and memories about this southern enigma, from those who knew him. Over a two year span she collected conversations, memories, and stories from men and women from across the country. These conversations, and a carefully painted abstract of the pre-civil rights Arkansas that Bill Clinton called home; are the centerpieces of this biography. CONVERSATIONS includes rare and unheard voices of black Americans speaking candidly about America's 42nd President. Their memories, stories and thoughts on William J. Clinton, the man, the president and the enigma offer unique and rare pictures of Bill Clinton and his role in American and presidential history. The book include narratives from former President William J. Clinton; former Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, U.S. Congressman John Lewis; Civil Rights leader, and NFPW Founder Dorothy Height; Baseball Great Hank Aaron; Pulitizer Prize winning biographer David Levering Lewis, and Harvard Sociologist, professor, William Julius Wilson, and many more.
Author: Janis F. Kearney Hardcover: 416 pages Company: Writing Our World Press (2006-01-01) ISBN: 0976205815 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $27.57 Used Price: $0.01
In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had sex with a young White House intern, to his testimony before the grand jury, to the nation's decision not to remove Clinton from office. Brick by brick, Bennett dismantles the wall of defenses offered by Clinton and his apologists, and casts the clear light of moral reason and common sense on a shameful chapter in American history.Author: William J. Bennett Paperback: 170 pages Company: Free Press (1999-09-06) (1999-09-06) ISBN: 0684864037 List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $0.01 Used Price: $0.01 
Author: Ann HeinrichsLibrary Binding: 64 pages Company: Compass Point Books (2002-01) ISBN: 0756502071 List Price: $29.32 Amazon Price: $24.45 Used Price: $2.62 
Bill Bowen’s memoir deals with many of the most important events and years in Arkansas history in the twentieth century. Bowen was born and raised in Altheimer, in the Arkansas Delta, a section of the country that was among the most impoverished in the nation during the Depression. His adolescence was shaped by the Depression, and as a young adult he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served in the U.S. Naval Reserve until 1963. After the war, Bowen became a tax attorney. He used his unique skills to refine the legal aspects of investment banking in Arkansas and became so proficient at it that he moved into the banking field to serve first as president then board chairman of one of Arkansas’s largest banks. Legal and banking experience led naturally to politics, and he became chief of staff for Gov. Bill Clinton. After Clinton announced his candidacy for president, it became Bowen’s task to protect the interests and programs of Governor Clinton in the face of intense pressure from then Lt. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to become de facto governor. Even in retirement he continued to lead an energetic, productive life as he prepared himself for yet another career, this one in education, serving two years as dean of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Law School, which now bears his name. Author: William H. Bowen Paperback: 200 pages Company: University of Arkansas Press (2006-05-01) ISBN: 1557288186 List Price: $22.50 Amazon Price: $17.65 Used Price: $4.19 
Cited by White House press secretary Mike McCurry as the origin of every major Clinton scandal story, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has done more than any other journalist to expose the truth about the Clintons. Now Evans-Pritchard is breaking the biggest scoop of all: an assiduously documented expose of "the black-water scandals" - the scandals that have gone unreported in the American media, but that characterize the Clinton presidency as the most corrupt in history. Among the secrets Evans-Pritchard exposes: The Oklahoma City bombing as a government sting operation that flew out of control when the stingers were outstung. Evans-Pritchard tells the story that the FBI and the Justice Department don't want you to know. Eyewitnesses to corruption in Clinton's Arkansas - many have met with brutal harassment, physical intimidation, and, in some cases, even suspicious death. Those who survived tell Evans-Pritchard their story. Bill Clinton's involvement in the drug underworld of Arkansas. Evans-Pritchard talks to the smugglers, the Arkansas state troopers, the federal agents and prosecutors, and the young girls who were the victims of "the good times." The true story of Vince Foster's death - what the official report won't tell you, but what eyewitnesses saw, and why the government is being sued for falsifying sworn testimony. In the aftermath of Vince Foster, the shocking story of the murder of Jerry Parks, head of Clinton security in Little Rock. Why Parks predicted his own death. Why the Left was right about Mena Airport: Evans-Pritchard discovers the missing evidence.Author: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Hardcover: 320 pages Company: Regnery Publishing (1997-10-01) ISBN: 0895264080 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $7.85 Used Price: $0.01 
One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until his death in 1999 and wrote many of the landmark decisions instrumental in desegregating the American South. In this revealing biography, law professor Joel William Friedman explores Judge Wisdom's substantial legal contributions and political work at a critical time in the history of the South. In 1957, President Eisenhower appointed Wisdom to the Fifth Circuit, which included some of the most deeply segregated southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. In the tumultuous two decades following its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court issued only a few civil rights decisions, preferring instead to affirm Fifth Circuit Court opinions or let them stand without hearing an appeal. Judge Wisdom, therefore, authored many of the decisions that transformed the South and broke down barriers of all kinds for African Americans, including the desegregation of public schools. In preparing this first full-length biography of Judge Wisdom, Friedman had unrestricted access to Wisdom's voluminous repository of personal and professional papers. In addition, he draws on personal interviews with law clerks who served under Judge Wisdom, resulting in a unique, behind-the-scenes account of some of the nation's most important legal decisions: the admission of the first black student to the University of Mississippi, the initiation of contempt proceedings against Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, and the destruction of obstacles that had previously kept black Americans from voting. Friedman also explores Wisdom's political life prior to joining the federal bench, including his pivotal role in resurrecting the Louisiana Republican Party and in securing the Republican presidential nomination for Eisenhower. A compelling account of how a child of privilege from one of America's most socially and racially stratified cities came to serve as the driving force behind the legal effort to end segregation, Champion of Civil Rights offers judicial biography at its best.
Author: Ann Graham GainesLibrary Binding: 48 pages Company: Child's World (2008-08-01) ISBN: 160253070X List Price: $32.79 Amazon Price: $28.79 Used Price: $21.45 
Farmers, shopkeepers, businessmen, politicians—the fathers of the presidents of the United States have come from a wide variety of professions and all walks of life. In many cases, they provided their sons and future presidents with a political philosophy that they carried to the White House. In a few instances, the politics of the son differed significantly from that of his father. This unique reference work provides biographies of both the biological and adoptive fathers of the 41 men who have served as president of the United States. Were the personalities of the father and son similar? What role did the father play in the son’s upbringing? How did the father’s view influence the son’s? These questions and others are covered in each entry, in addition to the biographical sketches of the fathers of the presidents. 
Word count: 3838.Author: --Sketch by Glenn Wright Digital: 13 pages HTML Company: Thomson Gale (2005-01-01) (2007-12-16) List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.95 
This fact-filled book will provide your students with biographical information about President Bill Clinton while they learn to draw the iconic symbols of his life and times.Author: Miriam J. Gross Library Binding: 32 pages Company: Powerkids Pr (2006-08) ISBN: 1404230181 List Price: $25.25 Amazon Price: $10.00 Used Price: $10.00 
Here are 100 ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the annals of American history! The candidates range from Andrew Jackson (“Defender of Beauty and Booty”) and William Henry Harrison (“Have Some Hard Cider!”) to Richard Nixon (“He’s the One!”), Barack Obama (“Hope”), and many, many more. The posters are backed with colorful historical commentary and additional artwork; best of all, they’re bound with clean microperforated edges so they can be removed, framed, and displayed. Presidential Campaign Posters is the perfect gift for political junkies of all ages!Author: The Library Of Congress Paperback: 208 pages Company: Quirk Books (2012-05-15) (2012-05-15) ISBN: 1594745544 List Price: $40.00 Amazon Price: $20.00 Used Price: $15.98 
In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story—the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms—Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal.
Author: Robert Scheer Paperback: 304 pages Company: Nation Books (2010-09-07) ISBN: 1568584342 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $6.57 Used Price: $4.95 
President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us "back in the future business.” He explains how we got into the current economic crisis, and offers specific recommendations on how we can put people back to work, increase bank lending and corporate investment, double our exports, restore our manufacturing base, and create new businesses. He supports President Obama’s emphasis on green technology, saying that changing the way we produce and consume energy is the strategy most likely to spark a fast-growing economy while enhancing our national security.Clinton also stresses that we need a strong private sector and a smart government working together to restore prosperity and progress, demonstrating that whenever we’ve given in to the temptation to blame government for all our problems, we’ve lost our ability to produce sustained economic growth and shared prosperity. Clinton writes, “There is simply no evidence that we can succeed in the twenty-first century with an antigovernment strategy,” based on “a philosophy grounded in ‘you’re on your own’ rather than ‘we’re all in this together.’ ” He believes that conflict between government and the private sector has proved to be good politics but has produced bad policies, giving us a weak economy with not enough jobs, growing income inequality and poverty, and a decline in our competitive position. In the real world, cooperation works much better than conflict, and “Americans need victories in real life.” Author: Bill Clinton Hardcover: 208 pages Deckle Edge Company: Knopf (2011-11-08) (2011-11-08) ISBN: 0307959759 List Price: $23.95 Amazon Price: $5.39 Used Price: $4.14
In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had sex with a young White House intern, to his testimony before the grand jury, to the nation's decision not to remove Clinton from office. Brick by brick, Bennett dismantles the wall of defenses offered by Clinton and his apologists, and casts the clear light of moral reason and common sense on a shameful chapter in American history.Author: William J. Bennett Paperback: 170 pages Company: Free Press (1999-09-06) (1999-09-06) ISBN: 0684864037 List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $0.01 Used Price: $0.01
This digital document is an article from Dictionary of American History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 918 words. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.
Author: William C. Berman Digital: 2 pages HTML Company: Charles Scribner's Sons (2003) List Price: $3.90 Amazon Price: $3.90 
A master Civil War historian re-creates the final year of our nation’s greatest crisis. With Tarnished Victory William Marvel concludes his sweeping four-part series—this final volume beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns in May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865. In the course of that year the war grows ever more deadly, the home front is stripped to fill the armies, and the economy is crippled by debt and inflation, while the stubborn survival of the Confederacy seriously undermines support for Lincoln’s war. In the end, it seems that Lincoln’s early critics, who played such a pivotal role at the start of the series, are proven correct. Victory did require massive bloodshed and complete conquest of the South. It also required decades of occupation to cement the achievements of 1865, and the failure of Lincoln’s political heirs to carry through with that occupation squandered the most commendable of those achievements, ultimately making it a tarnished victory. Marvel, called the “Civil War’s master historical detective” by Stephen Sears, has unearthed provocative details and rich stories long buried beneath a century of accumulated distortion and misinterpretation to create revisionist history at its best. 
In this explosive book, two veteran congressional investigators deliver detailed evidence of the most shocking Clinton scandal expose to date: How Bill Clinton compromised American security for Chinese money.Author: Edward Timperlake, William C. Triplett II Hardcover: 275 pages Company: Regnery Publishing (1998-10-01) ISBN: 0895263335 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $0.98 Used Price: $0.01 
On Sunday, December 7, 1862, two armies collided at an obscure Arkansas hamlet named Prairie Grove in a desperate battle that effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. In Fields of Blood, historian William L. Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding Prairie Grove, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War.Shea provides a colorful account of a grueling campaign that lasted five months and covered hundreds of miles of rugged Ozark terrain. In a fascinating analysis of the personal, geographical, and strategic elements that led to the fateful clash in northwest Arkansas, he describes a campaign notable for rapid marching, bold movements, hard fighting, and the most remarkable raid of the Civil War. After months of intricate maneuvering punctuated by five battles in three states, armies led by Thomas C. Hindman and James G. Blunt met one last time at Prairie Grove. The costly daylong struggle was a tactical draw but a key strategic victory for the Union, as the Confederates never again seriously attempted to recover Missouri or threaten Kansas. Historians have long ignored the complex campaign that ended in such spectacular fashion at Prairie Grove, but it is at last brought to life in these pages. Author: William L. Shea Hardcover: 392 pages Company: The University of North Carolina Press (2009-11-15) (2009-10-24) ISBN: 0807833150 List Price: $37.50 Amazon Price: $14.99 Used Price: $14.40 
In America's Right Turn historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. Berman demonstrates the key roles played by conservative populism and the conservative backlash to the rights revolution in the collapse of Democratic hegemony. But most importantly, he shows how conservative politics became allied with conservative economics—an alliance forged with singular success during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In this new edition, Berman discusses the initial failure of the Clinton administration to establish a viable political alternative to the GOP. Berman also shows how Clinton won reelection in l996 by moving steadily to the center, even to the extent of co-opting the Republican agenda, while defending a number of key Democratic programs. Author: William C. Berman Paperback: 240 pages Company: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1998-04-14) ISBN: 0801858720 List Price: $22.95 Amazon Price: $11.98 Used Price: $0.88 
In this comprehensive guide to the language of contemporary American politics, Binning offers clear descriptions of terms such as soft money, gerrymandering, and blanket primary. Examples are frequently offered to help clarify definitions. Particular attention is given to the ever-changing organizational structure of parties and contemporary electoral systems. In addition to defining political terms and systems, however, this encyclopedia explains campaign finance reform laws and the Voting Rights Act. The more significant Supreme Court decisions in these areas are summarized, with an eye to giving readers a greater understanding of how these laws have been interpreted and applied. This encyclopedia also describes the modern political campaign. Highlighted are the role of the media, the significance of presidential debates, the influence of campaign consultants, and the importance, types, and timing of primaries and caucuses. Brief biographies of important political figures such as presidents, vice presidents, and congressional and party leaders are also included, along with a concise summary of every presidential election since 1789. Author: William C. Binning, Larry E. Esterly, Paul A. Sracic Hardcover: 480 pages Company: Greenwood (1999-07-30) ISBN: 0313303126 List Price: $145.00 Amazon Price: $117.00 Used Price: $2.38 
Title: History of the War in the Peninsula and in the south of France, from the year 1807 to the year 1814. vol. 4.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++ British Library Napier, William Francis Patrick; Moore, John; Smythe, Percy Clinton Sydney Strangford; 1848. 8º. 9180.ee.14.Author: William Francis Patrick Napier, John Moore, Percy Clinton Sydney Strangford Smythe Paperback: 730 pages Company: British Library, Historical Print Editions (2011-03-25) ISBN: 1241448884 List Price: $50.75 Amazon Price: $27.60 Used Price: $77.66 
Since 1940, almost every president has found some use for recording conversations, covertly or otherwise. William Doyle unearths these tapes from oblivion to present a flesh and blood drama of the presidency in action.Author: William Doyle Paperback: 365 pages Bargain Price Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2002-03-22) List Price: $17.00 Amazon Price: $7.48 Used Price: $4.63
In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had sex with a young White House intern, to his testimony before the grand jury, to the nation's decision not to remove Clinton from office. Brick by brick, Bennett dismantles the wall of defenses offered by Clinton and his apologists, and casts the clear light of moral reason and common sense on a shameful chapter in American history.Author: William J. Bennett Paperback: 170 pages Company: Free Press (1999-09-06) (1999-09-06) ISBN: 0684864037 List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $0.01 Used Price: $0.01 
Author: J. William ClintonHardcover: 144 pages Company: IndyPublish.com (2006-05) ISBN: 1421997835 List Price: $77.99 Amazon Price: $77.99
From the Center to the Edge is the first historical interpretation of the politics and public policies of the Clinton administration. Eminent political historian William C. Berman describes in penetrating detail the origins, evolution, and transformation of Clinton's programs for change as well as the reasons for its various successes and failures. Berman sheds new light on both domestic matters--such as welfare reform, deficit reduction, and the impeachment process--and key foreign policy issues, including American relations with Russia and China, and the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo. From the Center to the Edge provides a balanced but critical perspective of the Clinton administration, and is strongly recommended for anyone interested in presidential politics and recent American history.Author: William C. Berman Paperback: 160 pages Company: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2001-04-11) ISBN: 0847696154 List Price: $28.95 Amazon Price: $15.68 Used Price: $2.76 
Between Hope and History is the President's articulation of his political philosophy - a philosophy that underpins all his policies and programs as America enters the twenty-first century.The book is also a concise statement of the fundamental principles and values that have guided his administration since its inception in 1993. It continues, as he writes, "the conversation I have had with the American people about our destiny as a nation." In Between Hope and History, President Clinton sees America poised on the edge of "the age of possibility." He declares that "the era of big government is over," and asserts his belief that the global economy will place a premium on education. The President also discusses the roles that individuals, families, businesses, and government must play as America prepares for the twenty-first century. Author: William Jefferson Clinton Hardcover: 178 pages Company: RANDOM HOUSE (1996-08-21) (1996-09-01) ISBN: 0812929136 List Price: $3.99 Amazon Price: $2.40 Used Price: $0.01 
This book discusses President Bill Clinton's approach to health care industry reform.Author: David Dranove, William D. White Paperback: 29 pages Company: Aei Press (1994-01-01) ISBN: 0844770248 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.92 Used Price: $0.01
In America's Right Turn historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. Berman demonstrates the key roles played by conservative populism and the conservative backlash to the rights revolution in the collapse of Democratic hegemony. But most importantly, he shows how conservative politics became allied with conservative economics—an alliance forged with singular success during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In this new edition, Berman discusses the initial failure of the Clinton administration to establish a viable political alternative to the GOP. Berman also shows how Clinton won reelection in l996 by moving steadily to the center, even to the extent of co-opting the Republican agenda, while defending a number of key Democratic programs. Author: William C. Berman Paperback: 240 pages Company: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1998-04-14) ISBN: 0801858720 List Price: $22.95 Amazon Price: $11.98 Used Price: $0.88 
Author: William E. LeuchtenburgPaperback: 408 pages Company: Cornell Univ Pr (1993-09) ISBN: 0801481236 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $2.00 Used Price: $0.01 
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913. Excerpt: ... LEGISLATION PREVIOUS TO 1836. For convenience of discussion we divide the pop ulation of the country into four classes. The first consists of the solid, substantial, aggressive, so-called middle class that carves out its career by adaptation to and control of its environment. It is the element that forms settlements and subdues wildernesses. The second consists of those who are dissatisfied with the prevailing economic and industrial regime. They are the hardy adventurers who push into the hitherto unexplored regions for notoriety, honor and gain. They are the birds of fortune whose flight is checked only by exhaustion. A few remain and effect settlements, but the larger portion are restless and moving continually. The third consists of those who are unable to keep pace with economic progress. They are the aged and the infirm; the sick and the victims of accidents; the deficient in vitality and the destitute of ambition and motive. The fourth consists of the anti-social, the parasites who sap the l1fe of society. They are the vicious, the criminal and the dissolute. Very few paupers come from the ranks of classes one and two. Many of those in class three are cared for privately. But the remainder of class three and the whole of class four furnish nearly all the recruits for the pauper class. Class four, however, is cared for very largely in prisons, work houses and houses of correction. Consequently, the remainder of our discussion will be devoted to a consideration of enactments by assemblies and legislatures in their efforts to deal with the problems of relief presented by class three and those of the other classes that may happen to fall at some time or other below the poverty line. During the first twenty years of the province's existence, the number ...Author: William Clinton Heffner Paperback: 312 pages Company: University of Michigan Library (1913-01-01) List Price: $21.99 Amazon Price: $21.99 
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, “regardless of income, available time, age, and skills,” can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams.Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving. Among them: Dr. Paul Farmer, who grew up living in the family bus in a trailer park, vowed to devote his life to giving high-quality medical care to the poor and has built innovative public health-care clinics first in Haiti and then in Rwanda; a New York couple, in Africa for a wedding, who visited several schools in Zimbabwe and were appalled by the absence of textbooks and school supplies. They founded their own organization to gather and ship materials to thirty-five schools. After three years, the percentage of seventh-graders who pass reading tests increased from 5 percent to 60 percent;' Oseola McCarty, who after seventy-five years of eking out a living by washing and ironing, gave $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for African-American students; Andre Agassi, who has created a college preparatory academy in the Las Vegas neighborhood with the city’s highest percentage of at-risk kids. “Tennis was a stepping-stone for me,” says Agassi. “Changing a child’s life is what I always wanted to do”; Heifer International, which gave twelve goats to a Ugandan village. Within a year, Beatrice Biira’s mother had earned enough money selling goat’s milk to pay Beatrice’s school fees and eventually to send all her children to school—and, as required, to pass on a baby goat to another family, thus multiplying the impact of the gift. Clinton writes about men and women who traded in their corporate careers, and the fulfillment they now experience through giving. He writes about energy-efficient practices, about progressive companies going green, about promoting fair wages and decent working conditions around the world. He shows us how one of the most important ways of giving can be an effort to change, improve, or protect a government policy. He outlines what we as individuals can do, the steps we can take, how much we should consider giving, and why our giving is so important. Bill Clinton’s own actions in his post-presidential years have had an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Through his foundation and his work in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has become an international spokesperson and model for the power of giving. “We all have the capacity to do great things,” President Clinton says. “My hope is that the people and stories in this book will lift spirits, touch hearts, and demonstrate that citizen activism and service can be a powerful agent of change in the world.” Author: Bill Clinton Hardcover: 256 pages Deckle Edge Company: Knopf (2007-09-04) (2007-09-04) ISBN: 0307266745 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $1.00 Used Price: $0.01 
Barack Obama’s approval ratings are at an all-time low. A recent Gallup poll found that half of the Americans polled said Obama did not deserve a second term. Weary of the corruption that gushes from the White House faster than a Gulf Coast oil spill, voters are ready to put a cap on smear campaigns, pay-to-play schemes, recess appointments, and Chicago politics. In the updated paperback edition of her #1 New York Times bestselling book Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies , Michelle Malkin says, I told you so,” citing a new host of examples of Obama’s broken promises and brass knuckled Chicago way. Culture of Corruption proves once again this isn’t just any politics. It’s boodle”-clogged, dissent-squelching, redistributive Chicago politics. The 2010 elections promise to be an anti-corruption referendum for the history books. After all,” Malkin says You can’t reform corruptocrats, but you can vote them out.” New revelations in the updated Culture of Corruption:
Powerful, damning, and comprehensive, the paperback edition of Culture of Corruption reveals the ever-growing mountain of sleaze and self-dealing that the Obama administration would rather you not know. Author: Michelle Malkin Paperback: 436 pages Company: Regnery Publishing (2010-08-09) (2010-08-09) ISBN: 1596986204 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $9.72 Used Price: $5.40
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You've heard of the Dog Whisperer? Meet the Ancestor Rescuer. Part forensic scientist, part master sleuth, Megan Smolenyak has solved some of America's oldest and most fascinating genealogical mysteries. You've read the headlines; now get the inside story as the "Indiana Jones of genealogy" reveals how she cracked her news-making cases, became the face of this increasingly popular field--and redefined history along the way. How did Smolenyak discover Barack Obama's Irish ancestry--and his relation to Brad Pitt? Or the journey of Michelle Obama's family from slavery to the White House? Or the startling links between outspoken politicians Al Sharpton and Strom Thurmond? And why is Smolenyak's name squared? Test your own skills as she shares her exciting secrets. Whether she's scouring websites to uncover the surprising connections between famous figures or using cutting-edge DNA tests to locate family members of fallen soldiers dating back to the Civil War, Smolenyak's historical sleuthing is as provocative, richly layered, and exciting as America itself. "Thank you for taking the time to lay out our family map. . . You're practically family. You certainly know more about us than we do." –Stephen Colbert "Megan is a genealogist's dream, a forensic investigator who can also tell a great story." –Sam Roberts, The New York Times "Megan is a blessing to cold case detectives and a master genealogist." –Julie M. Haney, special agent, NCIS Cold Case Homicide Unit "The Indiana Jones of genealogy. . . Megan Smolenyak is a national treasure." –Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree “In this breezy narrative, Smolenyak allows us to look over the shoulder of a relentless genealogist as she works the puzzle pieces of her craft. Whether unearthing evidence from Internet databases, newspaper offices, court houses, libraries and cemeteries, consulting translators, historians or her vast network of fellow genealogists, pioneering the use of genealogical DNA testing, solving the mystery or occasionally hitting a brick wall, Smolenyak remains wholly committed, curious and cheery, eager to share her methods and excitement. Bottom-up history from a top-shelf researcher.”-Kirkus Review Megan Smolenyak is an incurable genealogist who loves solving mysteries, making unexpected discoveries, and pushing the boundaries of conventional genealogy. A popular writer, speaker, and TV guest, she does all she can to get the g-word out there and inspire others in their quest for roots. She has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today show, CNN, NPR, and the BBC, and consulted on shows ranging from Who Do You Think You Are? to Top Chef. Megan is the author of six books (including Who Do You Think You Are? The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History, companion guide to the NBC series), a Huffington Post contributor, and former chief family historian and spokesperson for Ancestry.com. She lives in southern New Jersey with her husband and lots of research tools. 
THE LUNDY FAMILY.The Lundy lineage, so far as known, begins with three names, which represent three successive generations—father, son, and grandson. First. The father was Sylvester Lundy of Axminster, County of Devon, England; our only known ancestor in the Lundy line who lived and died in the Old World. Second. The son was Richard Lundy the First, born in England, a resident^of Axminster, an emigrator to the New World in 1676, a settler in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the Founder of the Lundy Family in America. He was an Elder in the Religious Society of Friends. Third. The grandson was Richard Lundy the Second,, the first American-born Lundy. He was born in the County of Bucks, Pennsylvania, in 1692; and died in the County of Warren, New Jersey, in 1772. He was an Elder in the Religious Society of Friends, and was active at the organization of three new Meetings, or Churches, in the wilderness—the Buckingham, the Plumstead, and the Hardwick. From this Richard the Second have sprung numerous Lundy households, which are now widely scattered throughout the United States and Canada. We will now speak more fully concerning each of these three men. SYLVESTER LUNDY. Very brief, indeed, is the account that has come down to us concerning this man who leads the list of our Lundy forefathers. We know his name and the town he lived in and that he begot a son Richard. These items, so meager and barely sufficient for the inscription on a tombstone, comprise the whole record; there is nothing else known about him. No definite answer can be given to the many queries which naturally arise concerning his rank, occupation and religious belief, his wife, and his other children, if others there were, and his parentage and remote ancestry. SYLVESTER LUNDY. But our authority for what little we do know is excellent; and a great satisfaction it is to have the history of the Lundy Family open, not with some vague tantalizing tradition, but with matter of early historical record. Our authority is an official entry which was made about 1685 in a book kept by a public officer in pursuance of a colonial law. The entry begins thus: "Richard Lundy, of Axminster, in the County of Devon, son of Sylvester Lundy, of the said town in old England . . ." These words, as it will appear when we describe more fully the document from which they are quoted, were undoubtedly taken down by the Register of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from the lips of Richard himself. We have now told all that is known about Sylvester Lundy and have given our authority; and yet although we have a long genealogical story to tell, we cannot pass on at once, but feel that we must pause and muse in reverent spirit as by the side of an ancient grave newly-found wherein rests one of whom we would fain learn more. Here, too, seems to be the appropriate place in our narrative to introduce a short account of Axminster, "the said town in old England," the trans-atlantic home of our ancestor Sylvester Lundy. What and where is Axminster, and why was it so named? Devon is one of the southern counties of England, and Axminster is one of the southern towns of Devon. It is a small market-town with less than three thousand inhabitants, on the river Axe, three miles from the English Channel. It is much too small to be on the map in a common geography; on a map of larger scale, it will be found on the southern coast-line of England a little west of the Isle of Wight. How came the place to have that name? The word minster has the same origin as the word monastery, and means a church, a place of worship, and hence Axminster means the church on the river Axe. More than a thousand years ago King Aethelstan of England defeated the heathen Danes, who had invaded his realm, in a great battle on the banks of the river Axe; and in his gratitude he erected a church on the field of his victory and called it Axminster. Gradually a village grew up around the church, and the name Axminster was then ... Author: William Clinton Armstrong Kindle Edition: 554 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2012-03-27) (2012-03-27) List Price: Amazon Price: 
Genealogy research can be hindered by a number of problems: incomplete or missing records, census irregularities, individuals of the same name and burned courthouses. In "The Family Tree Problem Solver" readers find proven methods for overcoming all of these 'brick walls' and more. Real-life case studies illustrate the solutions without burdening the readers with overly complicated explanations of theories and record overviews. And new appendices provide readers with best practices for using DNA and online research to solve their genealogy problems.Author: Marsha Hoffman Rising Paperback: 256 pages Company: Family Tree Books (2011-04-19) ISBN: 1440311935 List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $13.00 Used Price: $11.50 
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.Author: William Hyslop Fuller Paperback: 350 pages Company: BiblioBazaar (2008-08-21) ISBN: 0554994062 List Price: $23.99 Amazon Price: $15.47
Author: William Clinton Armstrong
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.Author: Henry William Clark Paperback: 134 pages Company: BiblioBazaar (2009-10-19) ISBN: 1115749560 List Price: $19.99 Amazon Price: $13.35 
This work, which treats the same area as Kozee's Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky , is largely a source-book of genealogical data, rather than a collection of family histories. Genealogical information on each county is uniform and is arranged in the following manner: first is given the boundary and establishment by law of each county; next, a synopsis of the earliest court records pertaining to the county; then, often a list of pioneer families according to the 1810 federal census and various county tax lists--alphabetically arranged by head of household; and finally, and of greatest importance to the researcher, marriage records of various southeastern Kentucky counties. Additional sections of interest include lists of Revolutionary, War of 1812, and Civil War soldiers.Author: William C. Kozee Paperback: 286 pages Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2009-05-27) ISBN: 0806305762 List Price: $33.00 Amazon Price: $33.00 Used Price: $41.40 
Trace and record your family history online Are you a descendant of ancient kings? Were your ancestors fierce warriors? Are you related to an eminent scholar? With The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy, 2nd Edition, now you can find out! If you're interested in your family history, you have a wealth of information and misinformation at your fingertips. Enter expert genealogist Kimberly Powell to steer you in the right direction. Powell helps you:Effectively search various websites Decipher census data and other online records Choose the best way to share your data both on and offline Connect with other genealogists via social media outlets Packed with tips on free databases, search sites and downloadable government records, you'll have all you need to find your ancestors going back dozens of generations! Author: Kimberly Powell Paperback: 304 pages Company: Adams Media (2011-01-18) ISBN: 1440511683 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $9.99 Used Price: $10.23 
This work is a genealogical outline of the descendants of William Longstreet who married Hannah Randolph. It proceeds through eleven generations and contains hundreds of different surnames.Author: Clark T. Thornton Paperback: 212 pages Company: CreateSpace (2011-11-25) ISBN: 1467956236 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $20.95 Used Price: $20.40
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Citation Details Title: Global ObamaCare & the "Good Club" billionaires; Hillary Clinton announced that the Obama administration plans to spend $63 billion on "family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide"--abortion.(CULTURE) Author: William F. Jasper Publication: The New American (Magazine/Journal) Date: February 15, 2010 Publisher: American Opinion Publishing, Inc. Volume: 26 Issue: 4 Page: 25(4) Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Author: William F. Jasper Digital: 7 pages HTML Company: American Opinion Publishing, Inc. (2010-02-15) (2010-03-04) List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.95 
We all know of families or marriages in crisis. When those suffering in such situations turn to us for help, where do we turn? The Quick-Reference Guide to Marriage and Family Counseling provides the answers. It is an A-Z guide for assisting people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations. Issues addressed by Clinton and Trent include affairs and adultery, communication in marriage, parenting, sibling rivalry, and many more. Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: 1) typical symptoms and patterns, 2) definitions and key thoughts, 3) questions to ask, 4) directions for the conversation, 5) action steps, 6) biblical insights, 7) prayer starters, and 8) recommended resources.About the series The Quick-Reference Guides are A-Z guides that assist people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, youth workers, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in (formal and informal) counseling situations. Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies: 1) typical symptoms and patterns, 2) definitions and key thoughts, 3) questions to ask, 4) directions for the conversation, 5) action steps, 6) biblical insights, 7) prayer starters, and 8) recommended resources. Author: Dr. Tim Clinton, Dr. John Trent Paperback: 301 pages Company: Baker Books (2009-09-01) ISBN: 0801072247 List Price: $28.00 Amazon Price: $15.46 Used Price: $9.66 
The Genealogy and Family History Collection is a unique set of materials that describes the histories and narratives of particular American families. The Collection brings to life pre-1923 books that contain information such as birth, death, marriage, property and migration records of specific families. Many of these families followed interesting migration and movement patterns from Western Europe and beyond to the United States well over 200 years ago. Included in these volumes is information such as last wills and testaments, period photographs of towns, buildings and landscapes, portraits of family members, and descriptions of business interactions. Encompassing such comprehensive and personal information, this collection will appeal to genealogists, family history researchers, as well as descendants and casual historians.Author: William Clinton Armstrong Paperback: 544 pages Company: BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) (2009-03-31) ISBN: 1103732706 List Price: $40.75 Amazon Price: $27.24 Used Price: $40.33 
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.Paperback: 554 pages Company: Nabu Press (2011-08-31) ISBN: 1179053478 List Price: $42.75 Amazon Price: $23.80
THE LUNDY FAMILY.The Lundy lineage, so far as known, begins with three names, which represent three successive generations—father, son, and grandson. First. The father was Sylvester Lundy of Axminster, County of Devon, England; our only known ancestor in the Lundy line who lived and died in the Old World. Second. The son was Richard Lundy the First, born in England, a resident^of Axminster, an emigrator to the New World in 1676, a settler in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the Founder of the Lundy Family in America. He was an Elder in the Religious Society of Friends. Third. The grandson was Richard Lundy the Second,, the first American-born Lundy. He was born in the County of Bucks, Pennsylvania, in 1692; and died in the County of Warren, New Jersey, in 1772. He was an Elder in the Religious Society of Friends, and was active at the organization of three new Meetings, or Churches, in the wilderness—the Buckingham, the Plumstead, and the Hardwick. From this Richard the Second have sprung numerous Lundy households, which are now widely scattered throughout the United States and Canada. We will now speak more fully concerning each of these three men. SYLVESTER LUNDY. Very brief, indeed, is the account that has come down to us concerning this man who leads the list of our Lundy forefathers. We know his name and the town he lived in and that he begot a son Richard. These items, so meager and barely sufficient for the inscription on a tombstone, comprise the whole record; there is nothing else known about him. No definite answer can be given to the many queries which naturally arise concerning his rank, occupation and religious belief, his wife, and his other children, if others there were, and his parentage and remote ancestry. SYLVESTER LUNDY. But our authority for what little we do know is excellent; and a great satisfaction it is to have the history of the Lundy Family open, not with some vague tantalizing tradition, but with matter of early historical record. Our authority is an official entry which was made about 1685 in a book kept by a public officer in pursuance of a colonial law. The entry begins thus: "Richard Lundy, of Axminster, in the County of Devon, son of Sylvester Lundy, of the said town in old England . . ." These words, as it will appear when we describe more fully the document from which they are quoted, were undoubtedly taken down by the Register of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from the lips of Richard himself. We have now told all that is known about Sylvester Lundy and have given our authority; and yet although we have a long genealogical story to tell, we cannot pass on at once, but feel that we must pause and muse in reverent spirit as by the side of an ancient grave newly-found wherein rests one of whom we would fain learn more. Here, too, seems to be the appropriate place in our narrative to introduce a short account of Axminster, "the said town in old England," the trans-atlantic home of our ancestor Sylvester Lundy. What and where is Axminster, and why was it so named? Devon is one of the southern counties of England, and Axminster is one of the southern towns of Devon. It is a small market-town with less than three thousand inhabitants, on the river Axe, three miles from the English Channel. It is much too small to be on the map in a common geography; on a map of larger scale, it will be found on the southern coast-line of England a little west of the Isle of Wight. How came the place to have that name? The word minster has the same origin as the word monastery, and means a church, a place of worship, and hence Axminster means the church on the river Axe. More than a thousand years ago King Aethelstan of England defeated the heathen Danes, who had invaded his realm, in a great battle on the banks of the river Axe; and in his gratitude he erected a church on the field of his victory and called it Axminster. Gradually a village grew up around the church, and the name Axminster was then ... Author: William Clinton Armstrong Kindle Edition: 554 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2012-03-27) (2012-03-27) List Price: Amazon Price: 
" An all-new collection of amazing ghost stories from the author of the bestselling Ghosts across Kentucky. Kentucky has a rich legacy of ghostly visitations. Lynwood Montell has harvested dozens of tales of haunted houses and family ghosts from all over the Bluegrass state. Many of the stories were collected from elders by young people and are recounted exactly as they were gathered. Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky includes chilling tales such as that of the Tan Man of Pike County, who trudges invisibly through a house accompanied by the smell of roses, and the famed Gray Lady of Liberty Hall in Frankfort, a houseguest who never left. Montell tells the story of a stormy night, shortly before Henry Clay's death, when the ghost of the statesman's old friend Daniel Boone calls upon him, and then recounts the more modern story of the ghouls that haunt the rehearsal house of the band The Kentucky Headhunters. Included are accounts of haunted libraries, mansions, bedrooms, log cabins, bathrooms, college campuses, apartments, furniture, hotels, and distilleries, as well as reports of eerie visitations from ghostly grandmothers, husbands, daughters, uncles, cousins, babies, slaves, Civil War soldiers, dogs, sheep, and even wildcats. Almost all of Kentucky's 120 counties are represented. Though the book emphasizes the stories themselves, Montell offers an introduction discussing how local history, local character, and local flavor are communicated across the generations in these colorful stories. William Lynwood Montell, emeritus professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University, is the author of several books, including Ghosts across Kentucky, Killings, Kentucky Ghosts, Singing the Glory Down, Kentucky Folk Architecture, and Tales from Kentucky Lawyers. He lives in Oakland, Kentucky. Author: William Lynwood Montell Hardcover: 312 pages Company: The University Press of Kentucky (2001-09-21) (2001-09-21) ISBN: 0813122279 List Price: $27.50 Amazon Price: $14.99 Used Price: $8.11 
Revised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether yo're just not sure). Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decade's worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral care insights into this one practical resource. Your past may hurt, and your family's patterns may have left emotional scars, but your future has not been laid in stone yet. There is hope for healing, there are lessons to learn, and there are paths toward family health. Using clinical, biblical and practical examples to help you uncover the patterns your family has lived in, this book might lead you toward the family u-turn you've been looking for. Author: Dave Carder M.A., Earl R. Henslin, John S. Townsend, William Henry Cloud, Dave M. Carder Paperback: 240 pages Company: Moody Publishers (2011-03-24) (2011-03-24) ISBN: 0802477445 List Price: $14.99 Amazon Price: $4.98 Used Price: $5.99
Author: Ann Graham GainesLibrary Binding: 48 pages Company: Child's World (2008-08-01) ISBN: 160253070X List Price: $32.79 Amazon Price: $28.79 Used Price: $21.45
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In America's Right Turn historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. Berman demonstrates the key roles played by conservative populism and the conservative backlash to the rights revolution in the collapse of Democratic hegemony. But most importantly, he shows how conservative politics became allied with conservative economics—an alliance forged with singular success during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In this new edition, Berman discusses the initial failure of the Clinton administration to establish a viable political alternative to the GOP. Berman also shows how Clinton won reelection in l996 by moving steadily to the center, even to the extent of co-opting the Republican agenda, while defending a number of key Democratic programs. Author: William C. Berman Paperback: 240 pages Company: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1998-04-14) ISBN: 0801858720 List Price: $22.95 Amazon Price: $11.98 Used Price: $0.88 |
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