<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Historians — United States — Biography."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Historians — United States — Biography."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/skokielibrary/rss/search?query=%22Historians%20%E2%80%94%20United%20States%20%E2%80%94%20Biography.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:47:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Kennan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with Russia. Even as Kennan championed rational realism in foreign policy, his personal and professional lives were marked by turmoil. And though he was widely respected and honored by presidents and the public, he judged his career a failure because he had been dropped as a pilot of US foreign policy. Kennan was a trenchant critic of both communism and capitalism, and a pioneering environmentalist. Living between Russia and the US, he witnessed firsthand Stalin's tightening grip on the Soviet Union, the collapse of Europe during WWII, and the nuclear arms race of the Cold War. An absorbing portrait of an eloquent, insightful, and sometimes blinkered iconoclast whose ideas are still powerfully relevant, Kennan invites us to imagine a world that Kennan fought for but was unable to bring about-one not of confrontations and crises but of dialogue and diplomacy.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3377787</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3377787</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Costigliola, Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3377787133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Life Between Worlds</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798350867039/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Hijacking]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.  On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Was it the passage of so much time, or that her family couldn't endure the full story, or had trauma made her repress such an intense life-and-death experience? A professional historian, Martha wanted to find out.  Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha Hodes sets out to re-create what happened to her, and what it was like for those at home desperately hoping for her return. Thrown together inside a stifling jetliner, the hostages forged friendships, provoked conflicts, and dreamed up distractions. Learning about the lives and causes of their captors-some of them kind, some frightening-the sisters pondered a deadly divide that continues today.  A thrilling tale of fear, denial, and empathy, My Hijacking sheds light on the hostage crisis that shocked the world, as the author comes to a deeper understanding of both what happened in the Jordan desert in 1970 and her own fractured family and childhood sorrows.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3340418</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3340418</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hodes, Martha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3340418133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063321533/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Hijacking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, a noted historian, a passenger on an airliner hijacked by Palestinians in 1970, sets out to understand both what happened in the Jordan desert and her own fractured family and childhood pain.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3257933</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3257933</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hodes, Martha]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3257933133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062699794/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee and Me]]></title><description><![CDATA["The narrator's skill as an educator is evident in this production. Seidule's varied tone and pace keep listeners engaged while he describes historical events in detail." -- Booklist  This program is read by the author. In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed.  Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy-that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and enslavement of Black Americans-and directly challenges the idea of honoring those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed attempt to achieve it. Through the arc of Seidule's own life, as well as the culture that formed him, he seeks a path to understanding why the facts of the Civil War have remained buried beneath layers of myth and even outright lies-and how they embody a cultural gulf that separates millions of Americans to this day. Part history lecture, part meditation on the Civil War and its fallout, and part memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the deeply-held legends and myths of the Confederacy-and provides a surprising interpretation of essential truths that our country still has a difficult time articulating and accepting.      A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press "Perhaps the best attribute of this fine book is the author's honesty. It's difficult to imagine a more timely book than Robert E. Lee and Me. At this pivotal moment, when we are debating some of the most painful aspects of our history, Seidule's unsparing assessment of the Lost Cause provides an indispensable contribution to the discussion." -- Washington Post "In this fine book Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency. I can't think of a better book to enrich and invigorate our national discussion about race and memory and the troubled legacy of Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy." -- New York Times bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton "A beautiful, often searing meditation on race, history, and the American narrative. Evocative and provocative, Robert E. Lee and Me is honest, wry, and utterly engaging." -- Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The British are Coming]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3152078</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3152078</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Seidule, Ty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3152078133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Southerner&apos;s Reckoning With the Myth of the Lost Cause</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250790026/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last American Aristocrat]]></title><description><![CDATA[A revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams-one of America's most prominent writers and intellectuals of his era, who witnessed and contributed to America's dramatic transition from "colonial" to "modern." Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family-after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams-to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted powerful figures, including Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. The Last American Aristocrat details Adams's relationships with his wife (Marian "Clover" Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams's letters-thousands of them-demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower's existence. Presenting intimate and insightful details of a fascinating and unusual American life and a new window on nineteenth century US history, The Last American Aristocrat shows us a more "modern" and "human" Henry Adams than ever before.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3277398</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3277398</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown, David S.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3277398133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781797116839/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last American Aristocrat]]></title><description><![CDATA["Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family--after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams--to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist.  Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted powerful figures, including Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era." -- Dust jacket.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2988426</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2988426</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown, David S.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2988426133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982128234/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee and Me]]></title><description><![CDATA["In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy--and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2988831</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2988831</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Seidule, Ty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2988831133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Southerner&apos;s Reckoning With the Myth of the Lost Cause</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250239266/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schomburg]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2768302</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2768302</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Weatherford, Carole Boston]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2768302133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Man Who Built A Library</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780763680466/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[W ogrodzie bestii]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1932596</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1932596</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[pol]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Larson, Erik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1932596133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>miłość, terror i amerykańska rodzina w Berlinie czasów Hitlera</subtitle><language>pol</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788375084740/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wait Till Next Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin's early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers' leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3312707</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3312707</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Goodwin, Doris Kearns]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3312707133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442342552/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Woman Who Could Not Forget]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1672713</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1672713</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chang, Ying-Ying]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1672713133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781605981727/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Garden of Beasts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1665294</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1665294</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Larson, Erik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1665294133</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler&apos;s Berlin</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780739378144/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Garden of Beasts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1662891</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1662891</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Larson, Erik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1662891133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler&apos;s Berlin</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307408846/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howard Zinn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life and times of a historian, activist, and author. With archival materials and interviews with Zinn and colleagues such as Noam Chomsky, this captures the essence of an extraordinary man who has been a catalyst for progressive change for 60+ years.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1637050</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1637050</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1637050133</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle>You Can&apos;t Be Neutral on A Moving Train</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=720229914314</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissinger]]></title><description><![CDATA[As his parents finished packing the few personal belongings they were permitted to take out of Germany, the bespectacled 15-year-old stood in the corner of the apartment memorizing the details of the scene. He was a bookish and reflective child, with that odd mixture of ego and insecurity that can come from growing up smart yet persecuted. "I'll be back someday," he said to the customs inspector who was surveying the boxes. Years later, he would recall how the official looked at him "with the disdain of age" and said nothing. Henry Kissinger was right: he did come back to his Bavarian birthplace, first as a soldier with the U.S. Army counterintelligence corps, then as a renowned scholar of international relations, and eventually as the dominant statesman of his era. By the time he was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America. In addition, as he conducted foreign policy with the air of a guest of honor at a cocktail party, he became one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists, who in varying ways considered him a Strangelovean power manipulator dangerously devoid of moral principles.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3328890</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3328890</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Isaacson, Walter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3328890133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Biography</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780743286978/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Past Imperfect]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1440676</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1440676</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hoffer, Peter Charles]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1440676133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Facts, Fictions, Fraud-- American History From Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781586482442/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[To America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To America celebrates the men and women who invented the United States and made it exceptional. Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism, its neglect and ill treatment of Native Americans, and its tragic errors. He reflects on some of the early founders - great men such as Washington and Jefferson - who, while progressive thinkers, lived a contradiction as slaveholders. He contemplates the genius of Andrew Jackson's defeat of a vastly superior British force with a ragtag army in the War of 1812. He describes the grueling journey that Lewis and Clark made to open up the country, and the building of the railroad that produced great riches for a few barons. Ambrose explains the misunderstood presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, records the country's assumption of world power under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, and extols the heroic victory of World War II. He explores women's rights and civil rights, immigration, museum and nation-building. Most importantly, Ambrose tells us about writing history, and about what an historian's job is all about. As he says, "The last five letters of the word 'history' tell us that it is an account of the past that is about people and what they did, which is what makes it the most fascinating of subjects." As he reflects upon American history, Ambrose shares his own personal history. To America is an instant classic for those interested in history, patriotism, and the love of writing.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3031490</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3031490</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ambrose, Stephen E.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3031490133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Personal Reflections of An Historian</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780743549271/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[To America]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1387304</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1387304</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ambrose, Stephen E.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1387304133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Personal Reflections of An Historian</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780743202756/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wait Till Next Year]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1118028</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1118028</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Goodwin, Doris Kearns]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1118028133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780684824895/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Education of Henry Adams]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1247911</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1247911</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adams, Henry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1247911133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Autobiography</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780679602071/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A People's History of American Empire]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U.S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1555685</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1555685</guid><category><![CDATA[GRAPHIC_NOVEL]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zinn, Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1555685133</comments><format>GRAPHIC_NOVEL</format><subtitle>A Graphic Adaptation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780805077797/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Matter of Death and Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret  Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife, esteemed feminist author Marilyn Yalom, was diagnosed with cancer. In A Matter of Death and Life, Marilyn and Irv share how they took on profound new struggles: Marilyn to die a good death, Irv to live on without her.  In alternating accounts of their last months together and Irv's first months alone, they offer us a rare window into facing mortality and coping with the loss of one's beloved. The Yaloms had numerous blessings-a loving family, a Palo Alto home under a magnificent valley oak, a large circle of friends, avid readers around the world, and a long, fulfilling marriage-but they faced death as we all do. With the wisdom of those who have thought deeply, and the familiar warmth of teenage sweethearts who've grown up together, they investigate universal questions of intimacy, love, and grief.  Informed by two lifetimes of experience, A Matter of Death and Life is an openhearted offering to anyone seeking support, solace, and a meaningful life.  "It will inspire you and perhaps move you to look differently at your life-it did that for me."  "An unforgettable and achingly beautiful story of enduring love. I will be thinking about this for years to come."  "The book has countless pieces of wisdom for anyone confronting death…The Yaloms' distinct [view points] are complements to each other and gifts to readers. A profound love story with lessons for how to live as well as how to die."  "Exquisite, candid, and vulnerable. Every person would benefit from multiple readings of this intelligently relatable book."  "The Yaloms co-write the story of their emotional and moral caregiving for each other…It is a book that transforms the reader."]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3090243</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3090243</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yalom, Irvin D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3090243133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781665074889/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starstruck]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites listeners to pull up a chair as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, from fifty-plus years of interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and the 1930s and '40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan letters to admired performers led to unexpected correspondences, then to interviews and the publication of his own fan magazine. Maltin's career as a freelance writer and New York Times bestselling author, as well as his thirty-year run on Entertainment Tonight, gave him access to Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Shirley Temple, and Jimmy Stewart, among hundreds of other Golden Age stars, his interviews cutting through the Hollywood veneer and revealing the human behind each legend. Starstruck also offers a fascinating glimpse inside the Disney empire, and Maltin's tenure teaching USC's popular film course reveals insights into moviemaking along with access to past, current, and future stars of film, such as George Lucas, Kevin Feige, Quentin Tarantino, and Guillermo del Toro.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3128924</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3128924</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maltin, Leonard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3128924133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>My Unlikely Road to Hollywood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781666523003/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Matter of Death and Life]]></title><description><![CDATA["A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confronts the loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the importance of relationships-friendship, family, and romantic-as we all age"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2994009</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2994009</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yalom, Irvin D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2994009133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781503613768/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starstruck]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50+ years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. 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Starstruck also offers a fascinating glimpse inside the Disney empire, and Maltin's tenure teaching USC's popular film course reveals insights into moviemaking along with access to past, current, and future stars of film, such as George Lucas, Kevin Feige, Quentin Tarantino, and Guillermo del Toro.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3093856</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3093856</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maltin, Leonard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3093856133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>My Unlikely Road to Hollywood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781735273815/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>