North Carolina Books

I read this book with joy and insight. It is very well written and demonstrates in which way poetry and philosophy (around 1900) is struggling to establish an immediate, unalienated contact between the human being and a surrounding world that lost "looks" and "words."

I was in this show back in 1975, and have been looking for a copy for a long time. The book is wonderfully researched and there are many facts that most people would not know if they didn't read this book.

Over the years, there have been several revisions of the script and most of the revisions are contained in this book. It is fascinating how attitudes have changed over the years and how the script has changed to accommodate current ethnic beliefs.

I give this book full marks for the research and full script that is included.

I was interested in the music and so I tried to read the lyrics. It's a very challenging test of your Latin skills. Very deep and profound. A priest friend of mine really liked it, too.

This is even better than Mackesy's WAR FOR AMERICA. It should be used as a reference for all students of the British side of the war.

Until the publication of this book there was little recognition of North Carolina's outstanding contribution to the Loyalist cause during the Revolution. This is somewhat surprising since North Carolina probably had a greater number of Loyalists in proportion to its population than did any other colony. DeMond's groundbreaking work in this area of Revolutionary studies brings together all the available source material and identifies great numbers of these heretofore little known Loyalists. To the genealogist the Appendices in the back of the book will doubtless hold the greatest interest, for herein are found (1) lists of soldiers and civilians who supported the Crown throughout the Revolution; (2) lists of Loyalists who suffered land confiscation; (3) lists of Loyalists who made application to Great Britain for compensation for loss of office or property; and (4) lists of North Carolina Loyalists who received pensions from Great Britain. This definitive work leaves little to speculation concerning the history or genealogy of Loyalists in North Carolina.

Ludwig Erhard is not exactly a household name, either in the world of economics or politics. But this great man was economics minister, and eventually the chancellor of West Germany from after the war until 1966.

His faults mainly lie in the areas of not being a man of detail and his intense dislike of the political 'beast'.

His strengths all focus around his unswerving comittment to free market economics as the prescription for the creation of national wealth and freedom.

This books tells a fascinating story about a fascinating man who was possessed by noble ideas and ideals, and who achieved much.

This book made me antisocial for a couple of days. A great buy!

Few people are ever masters of their craft straight from the get go. "The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings 1917-1920" is a compilation of the early writings of acclaimed author Thomas Wolfe. Even the best practitioners of the craft of writing bumbled many an attempt in their young age; these early works are a good sign of what's to come and an optimistic view for young writers to keep trying even if told they're not very good now. Highly recommended for community library literary collections.

This book was required reading for my first Women Studies course in college on the history of the female race. It was a truly eye-opening book at the time (1982) - and continues to be a great resource. Gerda Lerner is an admired figure in the American women's movement. She did the public a tremendous service in producing this book. Recommended for any library.

This is a compelling exploration of the efforts made by US government field agents in the last quarter of the 19th century to "domesticate" Native Americans: to teach them how to live and work Euro-American style, in nuclear rather than extended families, in square houses rather than round teepees, and within patriarchal gender relations and divisions of labor. The really interesting thing is that these field agents were very often women, for whom the value of "women's work"--its economic as well as its moral value--occasionally became destabilized even as they insisted upon native adoption of it for its "civilizing" influence. Simonsen gets at all of this (and more) by examining an array of evidence: popular domestic literature of the time, photographs taken by ethnologists and amateurs alike, and model homes run by graduates of such Indian schools as Virginia's Hampton Institute. A terrific, must-read for anyone interested in the history of domesticity, of labor relations among American whites and natives, and of western settlement.

James Schleifer's book gives one a wonderful insight into the mind of one of the great social scientists writing about America and Democracy. From reading the book I deduced that De Tocqueville is a social scientist before Marx! He compares European culture and government with the fledgling culture and democracy he observes in America. He is very much impressed with what he sees taking place in America in the 1830's and hopes it will spread to Europe. He at first believed that America's prosperity was simply due to geography and their distance from powerful neighbors, he abandons this idea after his visit to America. He comes to realize that the West is not being peopled "by new European immigrants to America, but by Americans who he believes have no adversity to taking risks". De Tocqueville comes to see that Americans are the most broadly educated and politically advanced people in the world and one of the reasons for the success of our form of government. He also foretells America's industrial preeminence and strength through the unfettered spread of ideas and human industry.

De Tocqueville also saw the insidious damage that the institution of slavery was causing the country and predicted some 30 years before the Civil War that slavery would probable cause the states to fragment from the union. He also the emergence of stronger states rights over the power of the federal government. He held fast to his belief that the greatest danger to democracy was the trend toward the concentration of power by the federal government. He predicted wrongly that the union would probably break up into 2 or 3 countries because of regional interests and differences. This idea is the only one about America that he gets wrong. Despite some of his misgivings, De Tocqueville, saw that democracy is an "inescapable development" of the modern world. The arguments in the "Federalist Papers" were greater than most people realized. He saw a social revolution coming that continues throughout the world today.

Schleifer in his book ably shows how De Tocqueville realizes at the very beginning of the "industrial revolution" how industry, centralization and democracy strengthened each other and moved forward together. Schleifer's book convinces me that not only is De Tocqueville still the preeminent observer of America but is also the father of social science. As a retired Army officer and student of political philosophy, I find this book is a must read for anyone interested in American history, political philosophy or the social sciences.