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Johnny Appleseed: A Voice in the Wilderness

By: "Jones, William Ellery"

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation Publishers:

Seller ID: 9780877853046

ISBN: 0877853045

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Every autumn all over the country, students and teachers turn to the legend of Johnny Appleseed, an American folk hero popularized by Walt Disney Studios and hundreds of local events. As the republication of the classic anthology, Johnny Appleseed: A Voice in the Wilderness shows, the real man is even more fascinating than his popular persona. Born in Leominster, Massachnusetts, in 1774, John Chapman became famous in mid-western America as a conservationist, horticulturist, hero of the War of 1812, and spiritual visionary. What most Americans do not know about this folk legend is that his inne...
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Charles Kuralt's American Moments

By: "Kuralt, Charles"

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster:

Seller ID: 9780684863443

ISBN: 0684863448

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

"Time" magazine once hailed Charles Kuralt as "the laureate of the common man." and in this final collection. Kuralt once again portrays the people, the places, and the things that define our nation. Culled from his final project, a series of brief television essays in the spirit of his famous "On the Road" reports, "Charles Kuralt's American Moments" introduces a host of American characters and scenes, and imbues them with charm, simplicity, and elegance. From the dedication of the man who handcrafts the president's shoes to the quiet beauty of a covered bridge, they are all symbols of an Am...
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Charles Kuralt's America

By: "Kuralt, Charles"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Anchor:

Seller ID: 9780385485104

ISBN: 0385485107

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Bestselling interview book with ordinary Americans weaves a tapestry of America.
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Sudden & Awful American Epitaths and the Finger of God

By: "Mann, Thomas C. & Greene, Janet"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Stephen Greene Press:

Seller ID: B00MCQHNGY

ISBN: B00MCQHNGY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

The Verse by the Side of the Road : The STory of the Burma-Shave Signs and Jingles

By: "ROWSOME, Frank Jr."

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Stephene Green Press:

Seller ID: B000JJJ0U8

ISBN: B000JJJ0U8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

P.S.

By: "Terkel, Studs"

Price: $8.45

Seller ID: 9781595584236

ISBN: 1595584234

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews. Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian through his landmark books--""The Good War," Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?," and many others. Few people realize, however, that much of Studs's best work was not collected into these thematic volumes and has, in fact, never been published. "P.S." brings together these significant and deeply enjoyable writings for the first time. The pieces in "P.S...
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The New American Cadences Jody Call Handbook - Volume II

By: Sandee S. Johnson (compiler) R0bert W. Morgan (ed.)

Price: $84.95

Publisher: "Greenbrae, CA", Talisman: 1994

Seller ID: 7-5P003

ISBN: 1885969015

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! Faintest sticker shadow on the back cover. ""handbook to Volume I in Talisman Book's All-Military American Cadences series"". 182 pages in seven topical sections."
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