Mcgovern: 99 books
by Martin McGovern
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Martin McGovern’s Bad Fame muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as in “The Circle of Late Afternoon” which asks, “Isn’t there an art to giving myself away slowly like wheat opening to the sun?”;...
Terry:
My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Raw and riveting . . . A compassionate reminder that every alcoholic was once somebody’s baby.”—USA Today
Just before Christmas 1994 Terry McGovern was found frozen to death in a snowbank in Madison, Wisconsin, where she had stumbled out of a bar and fallen...
The Essential America
Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Liberalism is the oldest and most enduring American tradition, a philosophy and way of life we inherited from the Founding Fathers. This is the central idea of The Essential America by George McGovern, America's best-known (and most consistent) liberal.
Referring us to our moral and spiritual foundations,...
Anatomy of a Lynching
The Killing of Claude Neal
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
"A sensitive and forthright analysis of one of the most gruesome episodes in Florida history... McGovern has produced a richly detailed case study that should enhance our general understanding of mob violence and vigilantism." -- Florida Historical Quarterly
"[McGovern] has succeeded in writing more...
Sold American
Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers...
All American
Football, Faith, and Fighting for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Captain Robert McGovern epitomizes all that is right and good in America. One of nine children growing up in a New Jersey family, he made local headlines as a high school football phenom before becoming a star linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the New England Patriots....
by George McGovern
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
A call to arms by the former presidential candidate that combines personal anecdotes and cultural critiques to remind liberals of their ideological compass and restore confidence.
George McGovern has been a leading figure of the Democratic Party for more than fifty years. From this true liberal...
A Socialist Peace?
Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war. Yet the country has narrowly avoided conflict again and again. In A Socialist Peace?,...
Unmasking the State
Making Guinea Modern
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed “fetishes.” The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urgent it even preceded the building of a national...
Abraham Lincoln
The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound...
by Cammie McGovern
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Critically acclaimed author Cammie McGovern presents a heartwarming and humorous middle grade novel about the remarkable bond that forms between an aspiring service dog and an autistic boy in need of a friend. “Joyful, inspiring, and completely winning, Chester and Gus is unforgettable,” proclaimed...
Long-Term Stewardship and the Nuclear Weapons Complex
The Challenge Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Decades of U.S. nuclear weapons production have exacted a heavy environmental toll. The Department of Energy estimates that cleaning up waste and contamination resulting from production activities will cost over $150 billion. Yet even once that money is spent, these sites will need long-term attention...
by Patrick E. McGovern
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year about Food
A Forbes Best Booze Book of the Year
Interweaving archaeology and science, Patrick E. McGovern tells the enthralling story of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and the cultures that created them. Humans invented heady...
by James McGovern
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The voluminous records of the Pierce and Poor families weave a story that runs from the late eighteenth century until World War I. The extent and qual-ity of their source materials, and their positions as representative middle-class to upper-middle-class New England families, make these subjects of...