Morgan, Robert
Summary: Often obscured by myth and folklore, Daniel Boone is as fascinating a character as any other American son. Here, Robert Morgan chronicles the life life of the frontier legend.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BOONE, DANIEL MORMorgan, Robert
Summary: This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary--an American icon for more than two hundred years. Born...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 MORMorgan, Robert
Summary: "Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of this gifted, complicated author. Focusing on Poe's personal relationships, Morgan chronicles how several women influenced his life and art....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B POE MORMorgan, Robert
Summary: Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MORMorgan, Robert.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert J.
Summary: "The author's lifelong interest in hymns led him to discover the richness of the stories behind many of the best-loved hymns. Many of the stories also reflect the impact hymns have had on ordinary people as they read, heard, and sang the great hymns of faith." -- cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 264.23 MORSummary: Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURSummary: Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015