The American Journey


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Building a New American State


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Examines the reconstruction of institutional power relationships that had to be negotiated among the courts, the parties, the President, the Congress, and the states in order to accommodate the expansion of national administrative capacities around the turn of the twentieth century.




How TV Changed America's Mind


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Tells the story of how television worked to change the minds of Americans in the categories of confrontation, politics, war, heroes and villains, and eye-openers, from the 1950s through the 1990s.




Understanding Media


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When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.




Simply Heavenly


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THE STORY: The New York Journal-American, called SIMPLY HEAVENLY ...a treat. This story by Langston Hughes, based on his novels about Jesse B. Semple, a Joe Doakes Harlemite, seems...to capture the color and the humor and poetry of these neighbors-to-




Historical Atlas of the United States


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Maps trace the development of the United States, showing environmental, political, social, and economic change