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With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt resigned his post as assistant secretary of the navy to recruit the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. The legendary Rough Riders-an unlikely combination of cowboys, frontiersmen, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Ivy League alumni-trained in Texas before shipping off to Cuba. The regiment met their enemy in the tropical summer heat, fighting rain, mud, and malaria as well as the...
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World's classics volume 496
The Library of America volume 147
Classics of World Literature
Signet Classics
The Library of America volume 147
Classics of World Literature
Signet Classics
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English
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An influential study of America's national government, egalitarian ideals, and character offers reflections on the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals and provides insight into the rewards and responsibilities of a democratic government.
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Distributed by Viking Press
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c1982
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1380 p. ; 21 cm.
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This is the most comprehensive volume of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. This is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial failure, that prompted Emerson's famous message to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career". These twelve poems,...
12) Three novels: Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly ; The minister's wooing ; Oldtown folks
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Literary Classics of the United States
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c1982
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1477 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Literary Classics of the United States
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c1982.
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1333 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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"These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of these fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville's own life in the early 1840s"--Jacket.
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Library of America volume 15
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Literary Classics of the United States
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c1983
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1321 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 14
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Literary Classics of the United States
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c1983.
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1246 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
19) Redburn, his first voyage: White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
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Literary Classics of the United States
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c1983
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1437 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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