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Conversations with Great Teachers
In the spirit of Studs Terkel's Working, Bill Smoot interviews master teachers in fields ranging from K--12 and higher education to the arts, trades and professions, sports, and politics. The result suggests a dinner party where the most fascinating teachers in America discuss their various styles as well as what makes their work meaningful to them. What is it that passes between the best teachers and their students to make learning happen? What are the keys to teaching the joys of literature, shooting a basketball, alligator wrestling, or how to survive one's first year in the U.S. Congress? Smoot's insightful questions elicit thought-provoking reflections about teaching as a calling and its aims, frustrations, and satisfactions.
Love
LOVE: A STORY is laced with philosophic musings on the nature of love, life, and story telling. The dominant theme is that life is a story, and that living is story telling. The last part suggest that the book that Michael, the main character, begins to write is the book the reader is reading, and the reader is left to wonder whether the action is in fact "real" or just "a story."
The Courage Place
Taken from the files of the National Archives is the evidence of a conspiracy to murder anybody who stands in the way of the Ku Klux Klan. Witnesses against Klansmen have short life spans and so do jurors who dare to find them guilty. Even though police, courts, and newspapers are firmly on the side of the Klan, James M. Walker, a white man, gamely tries to stop their killing of boys and girls and their parents in 1874 in central Kentucky. Real U. S. Secret Service spy, Roy Bauer, investigates the Klan at the request of the U. S. Attorney General. In the process he watches them murder Walker, a man whom he admires. The outcome of the murder is that federal troops clash with the Kentucky militia and almost spark another edition of the War Between the States. In the process of investigation Roy meets Sheba, the pretty and mysterious young woman who seems to be wherever Roy is. During the investigation, Roy, a German-American, learns about himself, his new country, and about Sheba. And he gets a graduate course in revenge.
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Peddling Protectionism
The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with--and sometimes blamed for--the onset of the Great Depression, the collapse of world trade, and the global spread of protectionism in the 1930s. Even today, the ghosts of congressmen Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley haunt anyone arguing for higher trade barriers; almost single-handedly, they made protectionism an insult rather than a compliment. In Peddling Protectionism, Douglas Irwin provides the first comprehensive history of the causes and effects of this notorious measure, explaining why it largely deserves its reputation ...
Empowering the West
Westerners were at the forefront of the debate over electric power development even before the construction of large, federally owned dams in the 1930s. At the heart of this debate was a conflict between public power advocates and the private utility industry over control of the environment, a struggle that was played out in the political arena. In this book, Jay Brigham describes that rivalry in the West in the years before the New Deal. Focusing on the conservative city of Los Angeles and its liberal counterpart Seattle - as well as on several small towns in the Midwest - Brigham shows how fierce battles broke out as private and public systems competed for customers and how, despite the differences between these two cities, public power ultimately triumphed in each.
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