America's Old Masters

Profiles the four eighteenth-century painters--Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Gilbert Stuart--who earned the earliest international acclaim for American art

Flexner, James Thomas

McGraw=Hill

This book offers an interpretation of the myths that shape television images and reinforce this culture's dominant ideology. It provides histories of all television genres and connects developments within each genre to political, social, and cultural shifts in the larger society. This new Second Edition updates the previous edition's close textual analysis of representative series and serials to mid-1993, reflecting the significant changes that have occurred in both the business of television in the United States and in the larger society's dominant ideology. The Second Edition also reflects significant advances in critical theory related to the study of television that have occurred over the past decade, and it incorporates both the structuralist critical position (dominant in the first edition) and a post-structuralist position which moves away from a determinist textual analysis of ideology to a consideration of possible multiple decodings.

George Washington: The Forge of Experience, 1732-1775

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Little. Brown and Company

Planning: Universal Process is undoubtedly the best book ever written on the art and intellectual discipline that constitutes effective planning, in which every unit of our society, indeed every individual, must continually engage. Each chapter is an amazing and fascinating selection of pertinent items from anthropology, history, economics, and architecture all combined through innovative analytical reasoning that demonstrates the importance of planning in attaining success in human endeavors. Simon Ramo Co-founder, TRW, Inc.
This pioneering work presents planning as a process involved in all human activity. The author demonstrates that the condition and prospects of people depend on it more than any other of their endeavors. The book covers, in clear and plain language, the major considerations to be taken into account in successful planning: its historical roots, development over time, procedural characteristics, context, the various kinds of planning, its different forms under different conditions, its institutionalization, successes and failures, potential contributions.
The book emphasizes that there is a core of knowledge concerning means and methods that is fundamental to effective planning, and should be understood by those concerned with any one of its many applications. To the extent this basic knowledge is shared among planners, it promotes a mutually beneficial interchange of information and techniques. Planning is improved in practice and advanced as an intellectual discipline. This book should be of interest to practitioners in the different types of planning engaged in by civil governments, businesses, and the military services. It is academically important, an excellent text or reference for educational purposes. It is also interesting and stimulating to read.

George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799 - Volume IV (His George Washington, 4)

A portrait of the American lawyer and political leader which provides insights into his energy, intellectual force, tempestuous public life, and troubled personality

The Young Hamilton: A Biography

Little,Brown & Co

Considers the strengths and weaknesses of this civilian general whose hard-won military lessons won the American Revolution

George Washington in the American Revolution (1775-1783)

Little,Brown & Company

This volume tells about considerably more than half George Washington's life, the forty-three years that elapsed from his birth to his acceptance, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, of the command of the Continental Army.

The Double Adventure of John Singleton Copley, First Major Painter of the New World.

This book begins with Washington's return to Mount Vernon, a victorious, but exhausted soldier eagerly seeking the pleasures of a quiet country life. Free of heavy responsibilities, his character expands in genial, often unexpected ways. All too soon, however, the idyll is broken. This promises to be the biography of Washington that will best serve our generation.

George Washington and the New Nation: 1783-1793

History has blinded us to the all-too-human character of George Washington; in doing so, it has blinded us to the true nature of his greatness. We have urgent need to know this man we call the Father of Our Country. And now, at last, James Thomas Flexner has given us the biography that fully meets our need.

The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities.

States Dyckman, American Loyalist

History

Americas

Little,Brown

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America's Old Masters

George Washington: The Forge of Experience, 1732-1775

George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799 - Volume IV (His George Washington, 4)

The Young Hamilton: A Biography

George Washington in the American Revolution (1775-1783)

George Washington: The Forge of Experience, 1732-1775

The Double Adventure of John Singleton Copley, First Major Painter of the New World.

George Washington and the New Nation: 1783-1793

George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799 - Volume IV (His George Washington, 4)

States Dyckman, American Loyalist