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"Patton's Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the creation of the Patton legend and what it illuminates about American culture and the worship of heroes. Jones traces how the persona of Patton, a brash and brilliant general in the European theater of World War II, transcended the individual man and became a cultural icon and byword for triumphal American might. Patton was a hero lionized and celebrated in his own time. Patton as well as the US Army cultivated his persona during and after the war. His image was used to promote patriotism, commercial goods, and military recruitment. The 1970 Academy Award-winning film starring George C. Scott cemented his iconic image for millions of Americans, further embellishing Patton's persona and introducing him to entirely new generations of young Americans. Patton's Shadow is an intellectually omnivorous tour de force that draws on ideas about heroes from sources as timeless as ancient mythology and as contemporary as Abraham Maslow, Max Weber, and Carl Jung. Jones artfully locates the honored altar that heroes occupy in the human heart and then answers insightful questions about what America's embrace of Patton in particular as a military hero illuminates about the United States, about Patton's generation, and about our own. Jones's engrossing work will fascinate readers interested in American history, military history, and the psychology of heroism"--

"To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke Winslow reveals oligarchy's deep intellectual roots and alarming growth in America. The book provides conceptual tools the lack of which have prevented Americans from recognizing oligarchy at home. Winslow argues that generic labels like "billionaires" for a class of ultra-rich masks the pervasive structures that entrench their power. He introduces instead the concept of democratic oligarchy-an institutional arrangement in which the ultra-rich form a class consciously creating and leveraging state power to accumulate wealth. Like a master class in political ideas, Winslow traces the intellectual lineage of oligarchy in the US. His lively and compulsively readable survey examines key rhetorical sources such as Herbert Spencer, Andrew Carnegie, Friedrich Hayek, Lewis Powell, Milton Friedman, Charles Koch, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and others. Oligarchy in America maps the connective web of oligarchic ideas uniting these disparate figures. By offering a lucid framework through which to view oligarchic ideas ambient in American culture, Winslow makes a vital contribution to readers and scholars of communication and rhetorical studies, public address, economics, and political science"--

An engrossing exploration of conflicting and complex narratives about the American West and its Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, and natural history

"Yvonne Wells's story quilts have been exhibited at such prestigious venues as the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Her art also has traveled from her home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to international shows in Japan, France, and Italy. Reproductions of Wells's quilts have even crossed over into popular culture with a series of Hallmark cards. Yet, her path to art world success has been an unorthodox one. Wells is connected to folk art through the medium of quilting and her passion for storytelling, and she parallels self-taught artists like Lonnie Holley and Thornton Dial in her use of found materials, but she has shaped an expression all her own. Unlike most traditional folk artists, Wells did not make her first quilt until she was nearly 40 years old and did so without the guiding hand of a mentor. After a brief period of stitching her own colorful versions of traditional quilt patterns, in the early 1980s she began creating story quilts with appliquâe figures that explored diverse subjects such as her religious faith, the Civil Rights Movement, children's nursery rhymes, popular musicians of varied genres, and characters from her own imagination. In her innovative body of work, Wells's ingenious artistry as a storyteller injects even more vitality into her already vibrant visual art. The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells is richly illustrated in five thematic galleries featuring more than 100 of Wells's quilts accompanied by narratives about each told in the artist's own words. The galleries are interwoven with three essays by scholar Stacy I. Morgan detailing the defining traits of Wells's unique artistic practice and charting her movement across varied art fields and institutions-folk, African American, Pop, commercial, and contemporary craft. As the first book devoted specifically to the art of Yvonne Wells, The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells affirms what her exhibition history and many accolades already attest: that Wells is a major artist of significance to both folk art and the art world writ large"--

A comprehensive taxonomy of the anuran fauna in Alabama