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Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union
ISBN: 9780231119726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Roger Nash Baldwin's thirty-year tenure as director of the ACLU marked the period when the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights came into being. Spearheaded by Baldwin, volunteer attorneys of the caliber of Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Osmond Frankel, and Edward Ennis transformed the constitutional landscape. Company police forces were dismantled. Antievolutionists were discredited (thanks to the Scopes Trial). Censorship of such works as James Joyce's Ulysses was halted. The Scottsboro Boys and Sacco and Vanzetti were defended. The right of free speech for communists...
Roger Nash Baldwin's thirty-year tenure as director of the ACLU marked the period when the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights came into being....
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395,19 zł |
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Icons of American Popular Culture: From P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez
ISBN: 9780765622990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two individuals who are in some way emblematic of their times, this provides a window on the social, economic, and political history of US democracy from the antebellum period to the present.
Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each revol...
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227,73 zł |
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The Year Without a World Series: Major League Baseball and the Road to the 1994 Players' Strike
ISBN: 9781476692470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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245,32 zł |
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Icons of American Popular Culture: From P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez
ISBN: 9780765622983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Accounts of political debates, economic developments, and military conflicts are all staples of our history, but there is much more to the American story. This appealing book fills in another dimension by tracing the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two remarkable individuals who are in some way emblematic of their times, Icons of American Popular Culture provides an intriguing window on the social, economic, and political history of our democracy from the antebellum period to the present.
Accounts of political debates, economic developments, and military conflicts are all staples of our history, but there is much more to the American st...
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698,90 zł |
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Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe: Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season
ISBN: 9780786411641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919 World Series scandal. This work is both a collective biography of four individuals whose careers in baseball were forever altered in 1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season as a whole. It highlights four legendary personalities--Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the longtime commissioner of Major League Baseball; Babe Ruth, the great pitcher and slugger who changed the game forever; Buck Weaver, the true lone innocent among the Black Sox players who threw...
Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919 World Series scandal....
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185,49 zł |
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The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant
ISBN: 9780814716151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster was arguably more influential in breaking down the color barrier in major league baseball than the venerable Jackie Robinson. Born in 1879, Rube Foster pitched for the legendary black baseball teamsthe Cuban X-Giants and the Philadelphia Giants before becoming player-manager of the Leland Giants and the Chicago American... When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at... |
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108,66 zł |
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The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant
ISBN: 9780814716144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster was arguably more influential in breaking down the color barrier in major league baseball than the venerable Jackie Robinson. Born in 1879, Rube Foster pitched for the legendary black baseball teamsthe Cuban X-Giants and the Philadelphia Giants before becoming player-manager of the Leland Giants and the Chicago American... When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at... |
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383,10 zł |
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture
ISBN: 9781442246065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the counterculture, beginning with an examination of American bohemia, the Lyrical Left of the pre-WWII era, and the hipsters. He delves into the Beats, before analyzing the counterculture that emerged on both the East and West coasts, but soon cropped up in the American heartland as well. Cottrell delivers something of a collective biography, through an...
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United...
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234,33 zł |
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture
ISBN: 9781538111116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll traces its origins, discusses its most important figures, delves into iconic works, relates its ebb and flow, dissects the intersection of culture and politics, highlights millennial and apocalyptic sensibilities, and traces legacies.
As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll traces its origins, discusses its most i...
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163,49 zł |
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Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball--and America
ISBN: 9781597978422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) As the first great Jewish player in the major leagues and the first African American to play major-league baseball during the twentieth century, respectively, Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson are forever linked because of the barriers they encountered, the discrimination they endured, the athletic gifts they exhibited, and especially the courage and dignity they displayed. Both suffered ridicule and abuse as they participated in the national pastime. Nevertheless, each excelled. Greenberg became one of the preeminent sluggers of the 1930s and 1940s who took a break from baseball to serve in...
As the first great Jewish player in the major leagues and the first African American to play major-league baseball during the twentieth century, respe...
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168,93 zł |
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Izzy: A Biography of I. F. Stone
ISBN: 9781978816251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the classic story of the life and times of I. F. “Izzy” Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival materials, and government documents, and Stone’s own writings to tell the tale of one of the most significant journalists, intellectuals, and political mavericks of the twentieth century. The story of I. F. Stone is the tale of the American left over the course of his lifetime, of liberal and radical ideals which carried such weight throughout the twentieth century, and of journalism of the politically committed variety. Now available in a...
This is the classic story of the life and times of I. F. “Izzy” Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival...
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170,85 zł |
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Izzy: A Biography of I. F. Stone
ISBN: 9781978816268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the classic story of the life and times of I. F. “Izzy” Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival materials, and government documents, and Stone’s own writings to tell the tale of one of the most significant journalists, intellectuals, and political mavericks of the twentieth century. The story of I. F. Stone is the tale of the American left over the course of his lifetime, of liberal and radical ideals which carried such weight throughout the twentieth century, and of journalism of the politically committed variety. Now available in a...
This is the classic story of the life and times of I. F. “Izzy” Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival...
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641,95 zł |
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Pilgrim the Commandments: A Course for the Christian Journey
ISBN: 9780898699425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pilgrim is a teaching and discipleship resource that helps inquirers and new Christians explore what it means to travel through life with Christ. A Christian course for the twenty-first century, Pilgrim offers an approach of participation, not persuasion. Following the practice of the ancient disciplines of biblical reflection and prayer with quotes from the Christian tradition throughout the ages, Pilgrim assumes little or no knowledge of the Christian faith. Individuals or small groups on the journey of discipleship in the Episcopal tradition can use...
Pilgrim is a teaching and discipleship resource that helps inquirers and new Christians explore what it means to travel through life with Chr...
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76,03 zł |
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All-American Rebels: The American Left from the Wobblies to Today
ISBN: 9781538199985 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) |
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108,94 zł |
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National Guard Youth ChalleNGe: Program Progress in 2022-2023
ISBN: 9781977412850 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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221,67 zł |
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