... James Kirke Paulding , The Lion of the West , ( Stanford , CA : Stanford University Press , 1954 ) , 27 . xviii " the Empire for Liberty " Writings of Thomas Jefferson , vol . 12 , ed . Andrew A. Lipscomb ( Washington , DC : Thomas ...

... PAULDING , JAMES KIRKE ( 1778-1860 ) , in his day a successful politician ... university of Berlin ( 1842-46 ) , where he acquired a lifelong predilection ... in- author worthy to continue his own Geschichte von tellectual ...

This definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage. "This is a magnificent book. Childrsquo;s character emerges as a model for what a woman can be.

I was inclined to dismiss all of this as tall tales Virginians love to spin out; but when I looked into these yarns I found proof that they were true. . . .” —Donna M. Lucey on Archie and Amélie

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 of approximately 50 copies of the collection still exist.

Tompkins brings these insights to bear in considering film classics such as Red River and Lonely Are the Brave, and novels such as Louis L'Amour's Last of the Breed and Owen Wister's The Virginian.

" In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman.

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself.