A fascinating book about different things you can find typically in Maine, how they came about, what is unique and quirky about Maine. The book is illustrated with many photos in black and white and has little fun quizzes or games at the end of some of the chapters. It is in fact written like a game with three "rounds", but it doesn't have to be used as a game.

So You Think You Know Maine

History

Rolde, Neil

Americas

Tilbury House Pub

Sir William Pepperrell of Colonial New England

Europe

Historian, writer, and former legislator, Rolde gives us the complete history of Maine politics and beyond. From the Stone Age to the New Age, Maine: A Narrative History honors, ballyhoos, investigates, and studies the people and politics that built and continue to influence life in the State of Maine. Filled with intriguing facts, photographs, maps, and memorabilia, this one-volume narrative is an excellent reference guide and an entertaining read.

Maine: A Narrative History

The Baxters of Maine: Downeast Visionaries

This is a double biography of two men—father and son—who left a vivid imprint on the State of Maine. James Phinney Baxter, the father, was six times mayor of Portland, creator of its modern park system, and one of Maine's foremost historians. His wealth, which he made in the canning business, was left to Percival, the youngest of his six sons, who achieved immortality by using it to buy Maine's highest and most beautiful mountain, Katahdin, and 200,000 surrounding acres. As a legislator and governor, Percival had tried to persuade the government to preserve this gem of the north, and when he failed, he did it himself, leaving it to the people of Maine as a magnificent state park. This is a fascinating look at Maine in an era stretching from before the Civil War to the end of the 1960s.

In 1876, the same year that saw the birth of Percival Proctor Baxter, who would make it his lifes work to save Katahdin for the people of Maine, three young brothers, George T., James W., and Joseph Sewall, all of Old Town, and their friend and distant cousin, Edwin Ned Hunt, set off on a North Woods adventure. With a light boat, a tent, two blankets apiece, a rifle, pistol, fishing apparatus, fifty pounds of flour, twenty pounds of salt pork, and a sufficent quantity of sugar, tea, cornmeal, molasses, salt, pepper, beans, and cheese, they traveled by train to the railhead at Abbot Village, by wagon to Moosehead Lake, and then began to row and paddle and sail and portage their way towards Katahdin, across lakes, down streams, through rapids, and over the carrys. George Sewalls lively account is illustrated with pencil sketches that capture both humorous moments and the beauty of the wilderness. While their route saw some signs of logging, the area they traveled was largely untouched. From the top of Katahdin, down for three thousand feet beside us fell away the land, and then forest-covered plains extended league on league...on the west, south, and north, half a dozen clearings were all that took away from the forest wildness of the landscape.

To Katahdin: The 1876 Adventures of Four Young Men and a Boat

Sports & Outdoors

Sewall, George T.

Caverly, Jr., Irvin C. "Buzz"

Hiking & Camping

More than half of Maine has never been settled―millions of acres of quasi-wilderness. Add to this the thousands of farms that have grown back to woods since the Civil War, and you have the most forested state, by percentage, in the United States. But the “uninterrupted forest” that Henry David Thoreau first saw in the 1840s was never exactly that. Loggers had cut it severely, European settlers had gnawed into it, and, much earlier, native people had left their mark. This book takes you deep into the past to understand the present, allowing you to hear the stories of the people and events that have shaped the woods and made them what they are today. B&amp;W Maps

The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands

Tilbury House

The story of Maine’s Native people, with many generous voices sharing their stories, hopes, and fears. The headlines have been full of controversy over casinos, racinos, land claims settlements, and sovereign rights for Native Americans in Maine―and it’s likely that we’ll be talking about these complex issues for some time yet. A capable historian with an enjoyable narrative style, Neil Rolde puts these controversies in context by telling the larger story of Maine Indians since earliest times. There are many generous voices in this book, sharing their stories and hopes and fears. It’s a privilege to listen to them and broaden our understanding of the issues faced by Native Americans in Maine. B&amp;W photographs

Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians

It was called "the dirtiest campaign in American history."
In 1884 Republican James G. Blaine came within 1,047 votes of becoming the President of the United States. This was the margin by which he lost New York State--and thus the election--to Grover Cleveland in what has been called the dirtiest campaign in American history. Yet his career--arguably the most sensational of any American politician of the so-called Gilded Age--did not end there. He was twice U.S. secretary of state, credited with having started our country on the path to acting like a world power, a powerful speaker of the house in Congress, and a United States senator from his adopted State of Maine. He was also, in the eyes of his opponents, "The Continental Liar From the State of Maine" or "Slippery Jim"--a sort of amiable "Tricky Dick Nixon," as he's been later called. He was hated by certain members of his own party, yet loved by millions of others, including some of his enemies in the Democratic Party. The press called him The Magnetic Man, due to his charisma. 
This is the fascinating biography of a man who dominated the American political stage, starting just before the Civil War and continuing until the twentieth century. B&amp;W photographs and drawings

Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

This political thriller full of intrigue begins with two gunshots.…The Honorable Jonathan Jackson, an ex-state legislator and former gubernatorial assistant, is trying to puzzle out and understand one of those mind-boggling tragedies that occur from time to time in the course of U.S. public life an assassination.  In this case, the victim was the man he worked for, Governor Richard N. Ellery. The anguish of this tragedy is compounded by the identity of the killer Jonathan Jackson s boyhood friend, a would-be Hollywood actor hung up on the dream of American success. The climactic action is set against the backdrop of a National Governors Conference in Los Angeles, a panorama of America s governing elite where governors and staff members, the media and entertainers have gathered for a final evening featuring an address by the president of the United States. This is also simultaneously the scene of the budding love story between Jackson and the lovely TV news anchor who would become his wife.Here, in the guise of a novel, is a view of our political system from within from municipalities to counties to a state and its ties to Washington, D.C. Whether it s walking Main Street to get the votes or debating gun control issues in a crowded auditorium, the real side of politics and government in O. Murray Carr springs to life in an engrossing tale that dramatically mirrors the way our country works.

O. Murray Carr: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Tilbury House Distr

America's health-care system is a national disgrace.Ours is the only industrialized country in the world without a system of care that covers all its people. Sixty-one other nations have devised systems that work, delivering far better care at less cost, and boasting better health statistics overall for their populations. All current attempts to fix our system have delivered only a confusing array of rules and paperwork to patients and doctors alike. As the population grays, as the power of the unions decline and workers' rights continue to erode, as AIDS takes its toll among us, the issues of medical costs and health-care delivery take on increasing urgency.Author Neil Rolde takes on the powerful medical, pharmaceutical, and insurance establishments that perpetuate a no-win situation upon the American public. His lucid logic cuts through the morass of what may be the most confusing public policy issue that the nation has ever faced. He demonstrates how the present system, which operates under the grip of the profit motive and free-market ideology, can never give adequate health care to those who need it.Your Money or Your Health debunks the myths opponents use to discredit a system of national health care - that it would provide second-class service and bankrupt us in the process. A national system could save money, and not, as its detractors claim, cost more. Rolde's model is based loosely on Canada's comprehensive and effective national healthcare programs.This is a book that must be read by policymakers, politicians, and especially the general public that is being sold out every opportunity by the rich institutions to which it is forced to entrust its care. In the current jumble of political rhetoric, Your Money or Your Health is voice of sanity that everyone should read. It could make us all a little bit more sane.

Your Money or Your Health: America's Cruel, Bureaucratic, and Horrendously Expensive Health Care System : How It Got That Way and What to Do About I

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Paragon_House

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