Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to military bases to inspire U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and their families to record their wartime experiences. Encouraged by such authors as Tom Clancy, Tobias Wolff, and Marilyn Nelson, American military personnel and their loved ones wrote candidly about what they saw, heard, and felt while in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as on the home front. These unflinching eyewitness accounts, private journals, short stories, and letters offer an...
Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to mili...
Rich treasury of verse form the 19th and 20th centuries, selected for popularity and literacy quality, includes Poe's "The Raven" Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," as well as poems by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables. Includes 13 selections form the Common Core States Initiative.
Rich treasury of verse form the 19th and 20th centuries, selected for popularity and literacy quality, includes Poe's "The Raven" Whitman's "I Hear Am...
Andrew Carroll spent three years traveling throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during American wars. Behind the Lines is the result of that extraordinary trip and represents the first book of its kind: a dramatic, intimate, and revealing look at warfare as seen through the personal correspondence of US and foreign troops and civilians who have experienced major conflicts firsthand. From handwritten missives penned during the American Revolution to e-mails from Afghanistan and Iraq, Behind the...
Andrew Carroll spent three years traveling throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters e...
Robert Torricelli Andrew Carroll Doris Kearns Goodwin
This bestselling collection of American oratory is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: a record of twentieth-century America captured in the words that inspired and infuriated, electrified and galvanized its people. Decade by decade, generation to generation, history unfolds in the famous and infamous expressions of Americans from all walks of life: poets and politicians, artists and astronauts, soldiers and sports legends, preachers and pacifists, humorists and hell-raisers. In Our Own Words bears witness to the forces that swept our nation -- two World Wars,...
This bestselling collection of American oratory is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: a record of twentieth-century America captured in the...
