Linda Gordon
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxiii, 536 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dorothea Lange’s photographs define how we remember the Depression generation; now an evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy. We all know Dorothea Lange’s iconic photos—the “Migrant Mother” holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines—but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Lange’s journey from polio-ridden child...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W.Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations : 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this "second Klan" largely flourished above the Mason-Dixon Line ― its army of four-to-six-million members spanning the continent from New Jersey to Oregon, its ideology of intolerance shaping the course of mainstream national politics throughout the twentieth century....
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xv, 219 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the reticence of boys: what it signifies and how to decipher the meanings behind the silence. The book emphasizes the importance of staying connected to children as they grow into adolescence.