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Home Page, Part Three
Singular Americans & Folk Heroes
Spirit of America Bookstore's
American Folklore, Tall Tales, and Legends Page
 | "A Treasury of American Folklore: The Stories, Legends, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads, and Songs of The American People" [1944] Edited by B.A. Botkin, Foreword by Carl Sandburg described as a 'spectacular collection of five hundred stories and one hundred songs' Bantam Books mass pb [11/80] out of print/used Globe Pequot Press hardcover [10/2016] for $26.41 Bonanza Books hardcover [5/83] out of print/used hardcover [1993] out of print/many used Random House Value Publng 9¼x6½ Deluxe Edition hardcover [1/89] out of print/50+ used Random House Value Publng Deluxe Edition hardcover [12/88] out of print/many used Garden City Books 8½x5¾ hardcover [1951] out of print/70+ used Crown Publishers 8¾x6 hardcover [1944] out of print/100+ used |
Red Adair [1915-2004]
Red Adair Company [est. 1959] official website
John Wayne movie "Hellfighters" [1968] /tt0063060/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010411/
Spirit of America Bookstore's
'Johnny Appleseed' Page
Lucky Baldwin [1828-1909]
artist-dancer Marta Becket [b. 1925]
Amargosa Opera House & Hotel |
docufilm [2000]
Spirit of America Bookstore's
writer Lucius Beebe [1902-66] Page
legendary Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch
Bigfoot/Sasquatch Section on the American Folklore Page
meta-sculptor Gutzon Borglum [1867-1941]
PBS Mt. Rushmore special
Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan Section on the American Folklore Page
television chef & author Julia Child [1912-2004]
restaurant tycoon Clifford Clinton [1900-69]
Clifton's Cafeteria
movie "Big Heat" [1953]
Pearl Buck novel [1953]
'Death Valley Scotty'
Walter Edward Scott [1872-1954] entry at Wikipedia
National Park Service: Scotty's Castle Page
Walter Scott Page
Walter Scott Page at Desert U.S.A.
Spirit of America Bookstore's
aviator Amelia Earhart [1897-1937] Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's 'A History of Aviation' Pages
visionary R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1993] Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
internet visionary Josh Harris
Josh Harris entry at Wikipedia
 | "We Live In Public" documentary feature [indep Aug 2009] Ms. Timoner documented internet pioneer & visionary Josh Harris and his life for over a decade, an incredible & tumultuous life story that gives insight into the internet's revolutionary impact on human interaction. (Harris predicts that in the future the individual will disappear as humanity trades privacy for various electronic forms of connection & recognition.) Co-produced, written & directed by Ondi Timoner; featuring Josh Harris and his brother Tom Harris; won Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival IndiePix Films Collector's Edition widescreen color DVD [7/2011] 2 disks for $29.95 IndiePix Films widescreen color DVD [3/2010] for $24.95 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia official movie site |
publisher/hedonist Hugh M. Hefner [1926-2017]
details on Spirit of America's Business Leaders Page
John Henry
John Henry Section on the American Folklore Page
John Luther 'Casey' Jones [1863-1900]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones
"Casey Jones" silent feature [Rayart Pictures Dec 1927]
  | Based on 'the internationally famous song success' by T. Lawrence Seibert & Eddie Newton; Casey's beloved daughter dies in a trainwreck during the opening song sequence; thereafter, Casey and his son, a lowly baggage handler, fight together against a gang of train wreckers. Directed by Charles J. Hunt; written by Arthur Hoerl; starring Ralph Lewis {as Casey Jones}, Kate Price, Al St. John, Jason Robards Sr. {as Casey Jr.), Anne Sheridan & Brooks Benedict
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available full credits at IMDb |
Helen Keller [1880-1968]
Helen Keller Festival
Helen Keller Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
author-publisher-comedian Paul Krassner
aviator Charles A. Lindbergh [1902-74]
"Confessions of A Raving Unconfined Nut" autobiography [orig 1994, rev 2009]
http://www.PaulKrassner.com
http://www.discord.org/~lippard/realist.html
Spirit of America's 'A History of Aviation' Pages
 | "Voices of History, Volume 2: Arts, Science & Exploration" [2006]
British Library Sound Archive audio CD [1/2006] 2 disks for $41.49 38 tracks on 2 disks, mostly from very early in the XXth Century, including the voices of P.T. Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Alva Edison, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Charles Lindbergh ("Col. Lindbergh's address before the Press Club at Washington D.C."), Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Edwin Peary, Alice Ellen Terry & Leo Tolstoy |
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Mabel Dodge Luhan [1879-1962] Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Charles F. Lummis [1859-1928] Page
Aimee Semple McPherson [1890-1944]
browse books
Wikipedia
feature film written & directed by Richard Rossi [indep 2006]
official movie site credits at IMDb
http://www.amazon.com/Sister-Aimee-Semple-Mcpherson-Story/dp/B0012RLWRU/
Emperor Norton I [1818-80] 
reigned over San Francisco, California from September 1859 until his death
entry at Wikipedia IMDb data is inaccurate
Emperor Norton's Fantastic Time Machine walking tour [est. 2011] in San Francisco, California 
Spirit of America Bookstore's Emperor Norton I [1819-80] Page 
Pecos Bill
Pecos Bill Section on the American Folklore Page
aviator Wiley Post [1898-1935]
Spirit of America's 'A History of Aviation' Pages
Robert Ripley []
"A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not' Ripley" [] by Neal Thompson
Sabato 'Simon' Rodia [1879-1965]
GreatBuildings webpage
entry at Wikipedia
The Watts Towers [built 1921-1954]
GreatBuildings webpage
entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Los Angeles Watts Towers" [1997] by Bud Goldstone & Arloa Paquin Goldstone Getty Trust 10x8 pb [11/97] for $16.47 |
Simon Rodia / Watts Towers at Spirit of America Bookstore
Spirit of America Bookstore's
American humorist Will Rogers [1879-1935] Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's
gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005] Page
radio commentator Walter Winchell [1897-1972]
Spirit of America Bookstore's
architect Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] Page
Selected Singular Entertainers
American showman P.T. Barnum [1810-91] Page
comedy team Bob & Ray
Bob Elliott [1923-2016]: credits at IMDb
Ray Goulding [1922-90]: credits at IMDb
official website
team entry at Wikipedia
"There is a refreshing and beautiful innocence in Bob and Ray's humor. Man is not evil, they seem to say. He is simply too hilariously stupid
to survive. And this I believe. Cheers." — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007], in 1975
"Bob & Ray" radio collection - 376 performances on 3 CDs
http://www.amazon.com/Award-Winning-Film-Bob-Ray/dp/B001D0I8KU/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Ray-Elliott-Goulding/dp/1892091259/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Ray-Elliott-Goulding/dp/1892091267/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Ray-3/dp/1892091275/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bob-Ray-Elliott-Goulding/dp/1892091283/
http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Ray-Tom-Dan-Gillespie/dp/1593930097/
http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Ray-Night-Compact-Discs-2/dp/189209102X/
http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Bob-Ray-CBS-Years/dp/189209133X/
http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Bob-Ray-Early-Years/dp/1892091348/
entertainer Foster Brooks [1912-2001]
Spirit of America Bookstore's
comedian Lenny Bruce [1925-66] Page
entertainer Lord Buckley [1906-60] Page
at Maison d'Κtre Bookstore's Beatnik Coffeehouse
comedian Margaret Cho
recordings
video/DVDs official website
entertainer Prof. Irwin Corey [1914-2017]
"The World's Foremost Authority"
entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. [1925-90]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr.
http://www.sammydavis-jr.com/
Sammy Davis on BBC-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hguNG5rXf5g [16:13]
1975 celebrity roast at las vegas MGM Grand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9wQxU_iIg [50:51]
entertainer W.C. Fields [1880-1946] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
entertainer Stan Freberg [1926-2015]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Freberg
author-actor Spalding Gray [1941-2004]
radio commentator Paul Harvey [1918-2009]
official website wikipedia
radio entertainer Garrison Keillor
TV comedian Ernie Kovacs [1919-62]
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
 | "The Best of Ernie Kovacs" [1977 P.B.S. series] White Star b&w DVD [11/2000] 2 disks for $17.99 |
entertainer Oscar Levant [1906-72]
entertainer Ted Lewis [1892-1971]
iconic pin-up model Bettie/Betty Page [1923-2008]
performer Mae West [1893-1980]
Modern American Activists & Movements
A.F.L.-C.I.O. U.S. Labor History Timeline
National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN
Spirit of America Bookstore's
American Labor Movements Pages
Saul D. Alinsky [1909-72]
browse books Wikipedia entry
 |
"Reveille For Radicals" [1946 classic; revised 1969] by Saul D. Alinsky Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [8/2010] for $9.97 Vintage Books 8¼x5¼ pb [10/89] for $13.60 Vintage Books mass pb [1969] out of print/used Univ Chicago Press 9x6½ hardcover [1946] out of print/used |
 |
"Rules For Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer For Realistic Radicals" [1971 classic] by Saul D. Alinsky Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [6/2010] for $8.02 Vintage 8x5 pb [10/89] for $8.44 Random House hardcover [5/71] out of print/used |
Susan B. Anthony [1820-1906]
Erin Brockovich
browse books
videos/DVDs
Spirit of America Bookstore's
labor leader Cesar E. Chavez [1927-93] Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's
labor leader Eugene V. Debs [1855-1926] Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's
whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Page
feminist Betty Friedan [1921-2006]
"The Feminine Mystique" [1963] "The Second Stage" [1980] Wikipedia
"Betty Friedan and The Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War
& Modern Feminism" [] by Daniel Horowitz
Spirit of America Bookstore's
labor leader Samuel Gompers [1850-1924] Page
progressive activist Jim Hightower
browse books & audio
official website
labor leader Joe Hill [1879-1915] & the I.W.W.
labor leader Dolores Huerta & the United Farm Workers Union
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [1929-68]
browse books
The King Center
papers at Stanford
listing at IMDb
Time Magazine's Martin Luther King Jr. archive pages
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Sen. Robert M. 'Fighting Bob' La Follette [1855-1925] Page
gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
consumer activist Ralph Nader
browse books 'The Nader Page' weekly column
more info at Working Minds Philosophy's Progressivism Page
Occupy Movement [est. 9/2011]
live coverage at Global Revolution - The whole world is watching
'Occupy Movement' entry at Wikipedia
'Occupy Movement' Page at Working Minds Philosophy / Action website
civil rights activist Rosa Parks [1913-2005]
browse books museum
R.&R.P. Institute
CBS-TV bio
A. Philip Randolph [1889-1979]
journalist John Reed [1887-1920]
"TDTSTW" book
movie credits
"Reds" [1981 film]: video IMDb
Luis J. Rodriguez
browse books
official site
Tia Chucha's
L.R.N.A.
agency page
novel "Music of The Mill"
Paul Robeson [1898-1976]
Bayard Rustin [1912-87]
browse books
PBS docu website
papers at Univ NC
AFL-CIO tribute
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Sacco & Vanzetti Page
Karen Silkwood [1945-74]
browse books
videos/DVDs
Malcolm X [1925-65]
browse books videos/DVDs
movie credits
Univ Toledo site
American Scientists, Inventors & Thinkers
Spirit of America Bookstore's 'Inventors of America' Pages
The Black Inventor Online Museum
Museum of Black Inventors
Lemelson-M.I.T 'Invention Dimension' site
National Inventors Hall of Fame [est. 1973] based in Ohio & Virginia
Inventors at About [dot] com
'The Tech' museum of innovation: Inspiring the Innovator in Everyone
Spirit of America Bookstore's 'A History of Aviation' Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's 'A History of N.A.S.A. & Spaceflight' Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's 'The Computer' Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's Robots & Cyborgs Pages
Spirit of America Bookstore's Science Fiction Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's Science Fiction Anthologies & Collections Page
Science Fiction Film Festival Page at Magic Lantern
Spirit of America Bookstore's Fantasy Fiction Page
Spirit of America Bookstore's
eco-activist Rachel Carson [1907-64] Page
physicist Albert Einstein [1879-1955] Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
Albert Einstein Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82] Page
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures [1983] Edited by Joel Porte Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [11/83] for $23.10 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations [1994] Edited by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019] & Paul Kane Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/94] for $25.55 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays & Poems [1996] Edited by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019] & Paul Kane Library of America College Editions pb [5/96] for $15.95 |
Werner Erhard Page
at Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment website
physicist Richard P. Feynman [1918-88] Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer [1902-83]
books Papers at Stanford
Eric Hoffer Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
The Eric Hoffer Awards [renamed 2007]
theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
Alfred C. Kinsey [1894-1956]
browse books Kinsey Institute [est. 1947] 2004 movie
visionary Jaron Lanier of Berkeley, California
IMDb listing
official website
Wikipedia
text of article "One-Half of A Manifesto" in Wired Magazine (Dec 2000)
listed on Time Magazine 100 for 2010
 | "You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto" [2010] by Jaron Lanier "Encapsulation is what allows for the possibility of testing and feedback that enables a quest for excellence. To be constantly diffused in a global mush is to embrace mundanity." — Jaron Lanier Knopf 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/2010] for $14.97 |
sociologist C. Wright Mills [1916-62] Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
Spirit of America Bookstore's
pioneer conservationist John Muir [1838-1914] Page
author philosopher revolutionary G.E. Nordell
main/personal website
The 'Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment' website
Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment / Solutions
'WMail' Working Minds Philosophy ezine [2000-2007]
Dateline Chamesa weblog [est. 2005]
index of 100+ essays from the WMail ezine & Dateline Chamesa blog
Meaning and Purpose website
Reason-Based Taxation website
Warrior Mind website
'Rick Walker, Private Investigator' mystery novels website
"Hollywood Tales: An Entertainment" booksite
G.E. Nordell Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
Spirit of America Bookstore's
Trancendentalist Henry David Thoreau [1817-62] Page
Henry David Thoreau Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
 | Henry David Thoreau: "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers", "Walden, or Life In The Woods", "The Maine Woods", "Cape Cod" [1985] Edited by Robert F. Sayre Library of America 8x5½ hardcover [9/85] for $23.10 includes books "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers" [1849], "Walden, or Life In The Woods" [1854], "The Maine Woods" [1864] and "Cape Cod" [1865] Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems [2001] Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [4/2001] for $23.10 Thoreau: "Walden", "Maine Woods", Essays & Poems [2007] Edited by Robert F. Sayre & Elizabeth Hall Witherell Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [6/2007] for $17.95 |
economist Thorstein B. Veblen [1857-1929] Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
This section kept growing, and so the inventors were split from here to their own distinct pages in Fall 2014.
Inventors of America Pages
on Page 1: top of page short history general links general books inventors, A-Z Afro-American inventors
on Page 2: top of page teams & other inventions Kindle Editions other media
Individual inventors that already have their own page/s include:
Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
Benjamin Franklin [1706-90]
Philo T. Farnsworth [1906-71]
visionary R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1993] at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
rocketeer Dr. Robert H. Goddard [1882-1945]
Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
photography pioneer Eadweard Muybridge [1830-1904] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
visionary Nikola Tesla [1856-1943] at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
automaker Preston Tucker [1903-56]
The Wright Brothers
here on the Spirit of America Bookstore Homepage, Part 3
top of page Singular Americans & Folk Heroes Singular Entertainers Activists & Movements Scientists, Inventors & Thinkers
see also Nostalgic Americana Pages America's Fine Arts Pages America's Music Pages American Cinema
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
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