Boorstin’s The Americans: A Complex Confident Look
AP arts editor reviews Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Americans: The Colonial Experience. The work blends praise and sharp criticism of American culture, urging an exclusively American vision and arguing for restraint in projecting American ideas abroad.
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Boorstin
America
Dickens
Trollopes
de Tocqueville
Finis to Appomattox by Burke Davis review
The review praises Burke Davis for detailing the Appomattox campaign through intimate views of those involved. It contrasts with Philip van Doren Stern's broad historical approach and highlights Davis diaries and correspondence as rich sources. Davis’s Civil War works, including biographies of Lee Jackson and Stuart, are noted, with this book deemed his best.
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Philip van Doren Stern
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Earl Schenck Miers
Petersburg
Stern
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Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Jeb Stuart
Bob Price
Notable Books and Authors Listed in Reading Guide
A compiled list includes Nabokov’s Lolita and Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak, Dennis’s Around the World with Auntie Mame, and An Anatomy of a Murder travel edition. Other titles span Nonfiction Only in America by Golden, Aku-Aku by Heyerdahl, and Inside Russia Today.
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Auntie
Mame
Dennis
Doctor Zhivago
Pastor
Dak
Thomas Harrow
America
Golden
Boyington
Russia
Gunther
Kerr
South America’s Highest Point Aconcagua Stands Tall
Aconcagua, located between Chile and Argentina, is South America’s highest point at 23 080 feet above sea level. The sea level marks the continent’s lowest point.
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Chile
Argentina
South America
Highest Peak and Deepest Valley in North America
Mount McKinley in Alaska rises to 20 300 feet above sea level as the continent's highest point and Death Valley in California sinks to 276 feet below sea level as the lowest. The figures highlight extreme elevations in North America.
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Mount McKinley
Alaska
Death Valley
Calif
Blues Singers Return To Stage In Quiet Nightclub Era
In a wan nightclub scene Beverly Kelly leads a blues revival with a warm intimate style on a new Audio Fidelity album. Keely Smith backs with the Billy May orchestra on Politely, while Jane Morgan covers a wide range on Great Songs from the Century. Bonnie Baker appears on Oh Johnny as part of a broader female vocal lineup.
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New York
Lohengrin
Beverly Kelly
Pat Moran
Beverly
Keely Smith
Billy May
Capitol
Jane Morgan
Helen Morgan
Kapp
Miss Morgan
Bonnie Baker
Warner Bros
Johnny
Charley
Notable blondes Connie Stevens and Bernadine Read sing duo
Connie Stevens in the Warner Bros album Conchetta and Bernadine Read in Epic's Bernadine showcase vocal talents. The term mug, meaning face, traces to 17th century England when small jars were shaped to resemble human faces.
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England
The Three Edwards by Thomas Costain
The costain narrative covers Edward I II and III, detailing their crusade era rise and fall, Scotland’s battles, the Black Death, and the early Parliament, with emphasis on Edward II’s corruption and death and the later kings’ mixed fortunes.
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Thomas B. Costain
Doubleday
Costain
Scotland
Wallace
Edward II
the Bruce
Edward
Douglas
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