![What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems]() |
Evoking unforgettable images, the bestselling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Leaf and the Cloud is now published in paperback. A Boston Globe bestseller and Book Sense 76 Pick.
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This facsimile edition of a Battle-Pieces includes 72 poems on almost every major campaign, battle, and event; Melville's own detailed historical notes and his supplementary essay on Reconstruction; and a new introduction by Lee Rust Brown, who teaches English at the University of Utah and is the author of The Emerson Museum.
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From a mosiac of materials-newspaper dispatches, letters, notebooks, published and unpublished works-as well as 36 of Whitman's great war poems, Lowenfels has created a thrilling and unique document on the Civil War.
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Now in paperback: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National BookAward comes the bestselling book-length poem, selected for the Best AmericanPoetry annual in both 1999 and 2000.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) lived an extraordinary life distinguished by a stunning array of accomplishments: war hero, 26th President, reformer, historian, conservationist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, author, and explorer. But it was the navy that most fascinated him throughout his long and varied career, and it was in The Naval War of 1812 (published in 1882 when he was only 23) that he first declared his interest. Praised for its scholarship, assurance, and originality, this classic naval history offers stirring and comprehensive accounts of the war's dramatic naval battles, and of the American and English commanders who fought on the vast North American lakes and on the ocean for control of the continent. The book proved instrumental in securing Roosevelt's appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897, and decisively influenced the U.S. Navy's transformation from a skeletal isolationist force into a formidable international sea power that made U.S expansionism not only possible but in
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Although skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in determining ultimate military victory. Entranced by the power and precision of armaments, man has continuously invented faster, more accurate, and more devastating weapons, from the javelin, stone axe, sword, and the arrow to the cannon, musket, rifle, tank, super-fortress, and missile. In this study of the influence of armaments on history, J. F. C. Fuller shows how the inventive genius of man can potentially obliterate his sense of moral values and destroy civilization.Divided into armament epochs -- Ages of Valour, Chivalry, Gunpowder, Steam, Oil, and Atomic Energy -- Armament and History examines the most influential military innovations of each period as well as the key leaders (including Alexander, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, and Napoleon) who skillfully employed these weapons. Although the author acknowledges that war cannot be eliminated entirely, he urges m
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This informal narrative of Waller's life and music-a moving memoir of a musical genius and an outstanding human being-wa
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![Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan]() |
A unique book for anyone who has ever wondered how movies really get made, by America's most brilliant independent filmmaker. Sayles gives an illuminating book about the choices that lie at the heart of every movie.
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