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We grow up--so simple, it just seems to happen--and yet there are endless variations in the way we do it. What part does culture play in the process? How much do politics and economics have to do with it? As the nation has matured, have the ways people grow up changed too? This book traces the many paths to adulthood that Americans have pursued over time. Spanning more than two centuries of intense transformation in the lives of individuals and the life of a nation, Conflicting Paths is an innovative history of growing up in America.

Harvey J. Graff, a distinguished social...

Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government’s definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. But one perspective has been missing up to this point—a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it.

Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning journalist and bestselling historian Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was...

Zwanzig Jahre danach verewigt dieses Buch die folgenreichsten Stunden unserer jüngsten Geschichte. Und auf einmal diese Stille ist das herzzerreißende Logbuch eines historischen Tages und ein monumentales Zeugnis von Hoffnung und Menschlichkeit in der Dunkelheit.

Kein Tag hat sich stärker ins kollektive Gedächtnis gebrannt. Die Bilder, die Geschichten, die Konsequenzen. Doch die Worte derer, die den 11. September tatsächlich erlebt haben, fehlten zwanzig Jahre lang. Garrett M. Graff hat diese Worte gefunden, er hat alle Dokumente, alle Interviews...

In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian Harvey J. Graff continues his critical revisions of many commonly held ideas about literacy. The book speaks to central concerns about the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations.

Drawing on other aspects of his research, Graff places the chapters that follow in the context of current thinking and major concerns about literacy, and the development of both historical and interdisciplinary...

"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." --Michael B. Katz

"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." --Journal of Economic History

..". ambitious and stimulating... required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists." --Histoire Sociale

"Clearly an important book... marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." --History of Education Quarterly

"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces."...