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Author : Ann Sloan Devlin
Release : 2010-05-31
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 355/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What Americans Build and Why by : Ann Sloan Devlin
Download or read book What Americans Build and Why written by Ann Sloan Devlin. This book was released on 2010-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines five areas of Americans' built environment and looks at the relationships of size and scale to the way Americans live their lives.
Author : Yuval Levin
Release : 2020-01-21
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 289/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Time to Build by : Yuval Levin
Download or read book A Time to Build written by Yuval Levin. This book was released on 2020-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutions Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for too many Americans, alienation can descend into despair, weakening families and communities and even driving an explosion of opioid abuse. Left and right alike have responded with populist anger at our institutions, and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cleaning house, draining swamps. But, as Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription, rooted in a defective diagnosis. The social crisis we confront is defined not by an oppressive presence but by a debilitating absence of the forces that unite us and militate against alienation. As Levin argues, now is not a time to tear down, but rather to build and rebuild by committing ourselves to the institutions around us. From the military to churches, from families to schools, these institutions provide the forms and structures we need to be free. By taking concrete steps to help them be more trustworthy, we can renew the ties that bind Americans to one another.
Author : Steven Conn
Release : 2003-06-23
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Building the Nation by : Steven Conn
Download or read book Building the Nation written by Steven Conn. This book was released on 2003-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. "Building the Nation" is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."--"Preservation"
Author : Linda E. Smeins
Release : 1999
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 639/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Building an American Identity by : Linda E. Smeins
Download or read book Building an American Identity written by Linda E. Smeins. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities.
Author : Ryan Dearinger
Release : 2015-10-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 378/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Filth of Progress by : Ryan Dearinger
Download or read book The Filth of Progress written by Ryan Dearinger. This book was released on 2015-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.
