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| | 1. |  | The American Journey, Student Edition
from Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Price: $95.32
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My son uses it in 8th grade, and being a historian myself I checked the book out. The foreign policy part would have needed an editor with background knowledge. Especially galling was p. 754 in which the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union gets dispatched in 3 (!) sentences, (while Hitler gets... more info
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| | 2. |  | The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
from Back Bay Books
Price: $11.19
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Writing instructors looking for a story that illustrates the "show, don't tell" principle will be pleased with Pancake. For example, there's a line in "Trilobites" in which the story's narrator recalls seeing the shadow of an airplane pass over the mountains in which he lives and thinking, for a... more info
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| | 6. |  | Elbow Room
from Fawcett
Price: $7.99
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As Americans we are raised to feel the need for a little space all around us. It is certainly a cultural thing. We are always asking for a little "elbow room" whether it is just to breathe in a crowded room, or to take some time out to think far away from everyone else. James Alan McPherson's... more info
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| | 9. |  | Crabcakes: A Memoir
from Free Press
Price: $13.00
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I read Crabcakes almost right when it came out, because Jim McPherson is a writer I greatly admire, and because he was my teacher and friend at U of Iowa while I was there.I used Crabcakes as a text in my Sophomore English class at U of I, and generally people had a negative reaction. It was... more info
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