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True patriotism is built on a bedrock of understandingwho we are as individuals and as a nation, how our ideals and our democracy have evolved, and what it really means to be an American.

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Calling all Dapper Dans and Oomph Girls take a ride through the American lexicon at its most...

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Few areas of human endeavor have produced more-or more colorful-terms than has the military. Soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen have over centuries come up with words, phrases, and acronyms to express everything from raw emotion to complex technology. This book embodies a American attitude and enduringly American grace under pressure.

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The Gilded Age is the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the era of rapid economic growth in the United States between the 1870s and about 1900. This book looks at how this period presaged our own time. Photographs, political cartoons, engravings and other ephemera help bring this fascinating period into focus.