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Grandin, GregGrandin, Greg
Summary: Grandin documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.362 GRAGrandin, Greg
Summary: The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 307.76 GRAGrandin, Greg
Summary: Documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 GRAGrandin, Greg
Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall. Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GRAGrandin, Greg
Summary: Grandin offers a new perspective on America's most controversial diplomat and his continuing influence, arguing that Kissinger's militarized version of American exceptionalism has led to never-ending wars abroad and political polarization at home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015