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This Land of Ours

Historic Documents • Flags Page • State Info • Organizations
Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. History Dept.

National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA [opened 4 July 2003]
Knott's Berry Farm replica of Independence Hall in Buena Park, California
Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA

Books on U.S. Politics & Elections Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. History Dept.

	"Booknotes Stories From American History: Leading Historians On The Events That Shaped Our Country" [2001] Edited by Brian Lamb (host of Booknotes on C-SPAN) Penguin 9x6 pb [10/2002] for $18.33 Public Affairs 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2001] out of print/100+ used
	"TIME America: An Illustrated History" [2007] Edited by Kelly Knauer & the editors of Time Magazine Time Magazine hardcover [10/2007] for $19.77 Time Inc.'s official booksite
	"The Smart Aleck's Guide To American History" [YA 2009] by Adam Selzer Delacorte Books for Young Readers 8¾x6 pb [12/2009] for $9.35 Delacorte Books 9½x6½ library hardcover [12/2009] for $15.99

English version Spanish version [est. 2003]

Headlines from September 12, 2001

100 Milestone Documents from U.S. History

'Celebrate America' catalog at Amazon.com
'Great Americans' catalog at Amazon.com

Atomic U.S.A. Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
Books, movies & links about the atomic weapons & energy programs of America, including Los Alamos NM, the Manhattan Project, White Sands/Trinity Test Site,
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japan, South Pacific Testing, the Nevada Test Site, Civil Defense, Nuclear Disasters, and the H-Bomb.
click here

Our  Founding  Fathers  &  Pioneers

'Founding Fathers of the U.S.A.' Page

U.S. Presidents Page
George Washington #1
Thomas Jefferson #3
Abraham Lincoln #16
Theodore Roosevelt #26
Franklin D. Roosevelt #32
Harry S. Truman #33
John F. Kennedy #35
Richard M. Nixon #37
Ronald Reagan #40
Bill Clinton #42
George W. Bush #43
Barack Obama #44

Emperor Trump #45
Spirit of America Bookstore's Emperor Trump's Cabinet
Spirit of America Bookstore's RussiaGate Scandal Page
impeached & deposed loser Donald Trump Page

Joe Biden #46 & VP Kamala Harris

Books on U.S. Politics & Elections Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. History Dept.

Benjamin Franklin [1706-90]
browse books • biography • Electric Franklin

Benjamin Franklin [1706-90] Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Alexander Hamilton [1757-1804] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] Page

Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website

George Washington [1732-99]: browse books

	"The Quotable Founding Fathers: A Treasury of 2,500 Wise & Witty Quotations From The Men & Women Who Created America" [2004] Edited by Buckner F. Melton, Jr. Brassey's 9¼x6.3 hardcover [4/2004] for $35.00
	"A History of The American Revolution" [1969] by John R. Alden Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/89] for $21.00 Random House hardcover [2/69] out of print/used

Statesmen  &  Military  Leaders

Wm. Jennings Bryan [1860-1925]

Ralph Bunche [1904-71]: Nobel Peace Prize 1950

John C. Calhoun [1782-1850]

George Crook [1828-90]

Jefferson Davis [1808-89]

explorer & politician John C. Frιmont [1813-90]
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [1841-1935]
browse books • browse bios & memoirs

Philip Kearny, Jr. [1815-62]
"Kearny's March" [new 2011] by Winston Groom [1943-2020]

Robert M. 'Fighting Bob' La Follette, Sr. [1855-1925]

'Fighting Bob' Festival [Sept 2019 = #18] in Baraboo, Wisconsin

Robert E. Lee [1807-70]: browse books

Gen. Douglas MacArthur [1880-1964]
PBS bio • PBS bio on VHS

Announced 1/2012: Tommy Lee Jones will portray General MacArthur in the upcoming political
thriller “The Emperor”; Matthew Fox will co-star, Peter Webber will direct the script by
David Klass & Vera Blasi • latest info at IMDb

Gen. George Patton [1885-1945]

Gen. John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing [1860-1948]

Daniel Webster [1782-1852]

Sen. Paul Wellstone [1944-2002]
Wellstone Action! website

	"The Conscience of A Liberal: Reclaiming The Compassionate Agenda" [2001] by Senator Paul Wellstone Univ MN Press 8½x5½ pb [10/2002] for $12.21 Random House 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] out of print/used
	"Paul Wellstone: The Life of A Passionate Progressive" [2005] by Bill Lofy Univ MI Press 8x5 pb [8/2005] for $13.57
	"Politics the Wellstone Way: How To Elect Progressive Candidates & Win On Issues" [2005] by Bill Lofy Univ MN Press 11x8½ pb [9/2005] for $13.57

Honorary  Americans

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965] Page

Winston Churchill Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Joseph Conrad [1857-1924] Page

Thor Heyerdahl [1914-2002]
browse books • T.H. Award • Kon-Tiki Museum

Spirit of America Bookstore's
escape artist Harry Houdini [1874-1926] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Frida Kahlo [1907-54] Art Page

composer Gustav Mahler [1860-1911]
browse music • 1975 Ken Russell movie: on VHS | on DVD

Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82] Pages
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore

Ayn Rand Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website

Ayn Rand Film Festival at Magic Lantern
"Atlas Shrugged" [1957 novel] by Ayn Rand

composer Arnold Schoenberg [1874-1951]
browse books • A.S. Center in Austria • A.S. at Musica Classica

Scots-Canadian Robert W. Service [1874-1958]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]
browse books • browse audio • browse DVDs • credits at IMDb [since 1915]

George Bernard Shaw Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website

"George Bernard Shaw On Film" DVD Box Set [2010] Eclipse DVD [2/2010] 3 disks for $39.95 contains 3 feature films: "Major Barbara" [1941] produced & directed by Gabriel Pascal, starring Wendy Hiller, Robert Morley, Rex Harrison, Robert Newton & Deborah Kerr; "Caesar and Cleopatra" [1945] co-produced by Gabriel Pascal & J. Arthur Rank, directed by Gabriel Pascal, starring Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger & Flora Robson; and "Androcles and The Lion" [R.K.O. Radio Pictures 1952] directed by Chester Erskine, starring Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Elsa Lanchester & Woody Strode {as The Lion}

visionary architect Paolo Soleri [1919-2013] of Arizona
browse books • Wikipedia

  Arcosanti official site in Cordes Junction, Arizona
Cosanti in Paradise Valley, Arizona

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94] Page

inventor Nikola Tesla [1856-1943] Pages
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore

Spirit of America Bookstore's
author Leonard Wibberley [1915-83] Page

"America's  Business  Is  Business"

Spirit of America Bookstore's
U.S. Business Leaders & Corporations Pages
Page One: U.S. Business Leaders & Crooks, A to Z • links
Page Two A: Major U.S. Companies, A to H
Page Two B: Major U.S. Companies, I to Z
Page Three: U.S. Business - Books & Magazines

Spirit of America Bookstore's Corporations & Brands Page

Amazon, Inc.    •    Apple, Inc.    •    Walt Disney Pictures    •    Facebook, Inc.    •    Google, Inc.    •    McDonald's, Inc    •

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer    •    Microsoft, Inc.    •    Monsanto Company, Inc.    •    Starbucks, Inc.    •    20th Century-Fox    •

Wal-Mart, Inc.    •    Warner Bros. Pictures

Spirit of America Bookstore's
capitalist Warren Buffett Page

Dr. W. Edwards Deming [1900-93] Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore

Walt Disney [1901-66] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Spirit of America Bookstore's
inventor Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Howard R. Hughes [1905-76] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
American Railroads Pages

Spirit of America Bookstore's Railroad Equipment Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's Geared Steam Locomotives
Spirit of America Bookstore's Private Railcars U.S.A. Page
America's Shortline Railroads Page
G.E. Nordell's Travel U.S.A. / Railroad Museums Page

Railroad Pioneers, 1802-1840 Page
railroad tycoon David H. Moffat [1839-1911] Page
railroad tycoon George Pullman [1831-97] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's Penn Central Railroad [1968-76] Page

Arizona Travel / Railroads Page
California Travel / Railroads Page
Colorado Travel / Railroads Pages
Nevada Travel / Railroads Page
New Mexico Travel / Railroads Page
Texas Travel / Railroads Page
Utah Travel / Railroads Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
automaker Preston Tucker [1903-56] Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
industrialist George Westinghouse, Jr. [1846-1914] Page

A  Few  Bad  Guys

Spirit of America's WaterGate Conspiracy/Scandal Page
Washington Post chronology of the WaterGate Cover-Up
Spirit of America's Timeline of The TreasonGate Cover-Up

proto-fascist Ezra Taft Benson [1899-1994]
entry at Wikipedia

Douglas Coe and The Fellowship
officially called The International Foundation, sometimes The Family of Friends
Doug Coe entry at Wikipedia
The Fellowship [est. 1935] entry at Wikipedia
article by Peter J. Boyer in New Yorker Magazine, September 2010

	"The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism At The Heart of American Power" [2008] by Jeff Sharlet Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [6/2009] for $10.87 Harper 9x6 hardcover [5/2008] for $17.13 book entry at Wikipedia
	"C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat To American Democracy" [2010] by Jeff Sharlet Little, Brown 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2010] for $16.19

Spirit of America Bookstore's
John Dillinger [1903-34] Page

L. Ron Hubbard [1911-86] and the Scientology pseudo-religion [est. 1953]

The John Birch Society [est. 1958]
entry at Wikipedia

The Ku Klux Klan or K.K.K. [est. 1865]
Founded 24 December 1865 as a private club in Pulaski, Tennessee by several veterans of the Army of the Confedracy.
K.K.K. entry at Wikipedia
watch the "Ku Klux Klan 2014: White Murders" documentary [44:23] from History Channel

Founded by oil baron Fred C. Koch [1900-67]; recently run by sons Charles Koch & David Koch [1940-2019]
who are fascist political demagogues with way too much money for America's good

"Koch Industries is the poster child of a company run amok."
— Charles Lewis, Center For Public Integrity
company official website • company entry at Wikipedia

Spirit of America Bookstore's Koch Brothers Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Sen. Joseph McCarthy [1908-57] Page

Hollywood Blacklist Pages
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

The Nation of Islam

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Organized Crime Page

Gangster Film Festival
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

Spirit of America Bookstore's
atomic spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Page

anti-Communist flake W. Cleon Skousen [1913-2006]
official W. Cleon Skousen website
W. Cleon Skousen at the Working Minds / Worry / Communism Page

neo-conservative Leo Strauss [1899-1973]
Leo Strauss entry at Wikipedia

"Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography" [2005] by Daniel Tanguay, translated by Christopher Nadon Yale Univ Press 8½x5¾ 1st English edition hardcover [4/2007] for $19.80

Spirit of America Bookstore's
real estate tycoon Donald J. Trump Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
Emperor Trump Page

Spirit of America Bookstore's
impeached & deposed loser Donald Trump Page

. . . and still more of these guys on
Working Minds Philosophy's Barbarians & Fascists Pages

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Spirit of America Bookstore's American Authors Pages
Anthologies & Literary History  •  Early American Authors
Latter XXth Century Authors  •  XXIst Century Authors  •  New Mexico Authors Page
Ethnic-American Authors Page  •  Authors of Britain Pages  •  Authors of France Page
American Poets Pages including The Beats
Spirit of America Bookstore's American Short Stories Pages

Please also visit our
Companion  Bookstore  Websites

BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore & Beatnik Coffeehouse
'Readers of the Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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