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Product Description: Old Havana: Spirit of the Living City artistically captures the architecture, people, and daily life of La Habana Vieja (Old Havana) through the lenses of two visionary photographers and colleagues, one American and the other Cuban...read more
By Magda Resik Aguirre (contributor), Chip Cooper (photographer), Nestor Marti (photographer), Robert F. Olin (foreword by) and Eusebio Leal Spengler (foreword by)
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9780817317621 | Bilingual edition (Univ of Alabama Pr, March 5, 2012), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Old Havana: Spirit of the Living City artistically captures the architecture, people, and daily life of La Habana Vieja (Old Havana) through the lenses of two visionary photographers and colleagues, one American and the other Cuban.

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Product Description: A vivid and penetrating history, personal and social, of growing up in post-1945 America   A pervasive feeling at the end of World War II, notes Philip D. Beidler, was that Americans had “inherited the earth” and could look forward to a kind of golden age, the “Good Life after the Good War...read more
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9780817316846 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 9, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A vivid and penetrating history, personal and social, of growing up in post-1945 America   A pervasive feeling at the end of World War II, notes Philip D.

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By Philip D. Beidler (foreword by) and Nicole L. Willey (collaborator)
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9780773452046 | Edwin Mellen Pr, January 30, 2008, cover price $119.95

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Product Description: Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that war. Each passing year, he says, dulls our sense of immediacy about Vietnam's costs, opening wider the temptation to make it something more necessary, neatly contained, and justifiable than it should ever become...read more
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9780820325897 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A Vietnam veteran and scholar draws on personal memories of his time in Vietnam, bringing the war back in chapters on vocabulary, music, literature, and film, and examining how the immediacy of Vietnam's costs is dealt with in an evasive way by America.

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9780820330013 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Philip D.

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Product Description: As a writer, Philip D. Beidler has often drawn on his combat experience in Vietnam and his deep engagement with American popular culture. His essays tap these sources in powerful, truth-telling ways. In American Wars, American Peace, another voice emerges, distinct yet also tied to Beidler's wartime memories and his love of literature, film, and music...read more
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9780820329697 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: As a writer, Philip D.

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Product Description: American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam is a perceptive and evocative book that is both a comprehensive discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literature and literary consciousness considered in relation to the larger process of cultural myth-making...read more
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9780820330242 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam is a perceptive and evocative book that is both a comprehensive discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literature and literary consciousness considered in relation to the larger process of cultural myth-making.

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Product Description: Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, Medieval to Modern comprises a set of lively, diverse, and original investigations into contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic during the early modern period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Philip D. Beidler (editor) and Gary Taylor (editor)
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9780312295967 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2005, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This study comprises a set of lively, diverse, and original investigations into contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic during the early modern period.

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9780312295974 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, Medieval to Modern comprises a set of lively, diverse, and original investigations into contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic during the early modern period.

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Product Description: This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels.  Early 19th-century Alabama was a society still in the making...read more
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9780817309855 | Univ of Alabama Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $34.95

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9780817357306 | Univ of Alabama Pr, May 28, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels.

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Product Description: The glow of 1945 persists as a kind of beacon for American society, symbolic of an era when good and evil were easily defined. This image is at the center of Philip D. Beidler's entertaining look at the way World War II reshaped American popular culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780820320014 | Univ of Georgia Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The glow of 1945 persists as a kind of beacon for American society, symbolic of an era when good and evil were easily defined.

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By Philip D. Beidler (editor)
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9780817308674 | Univ of Alabama Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $44.00

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9780817309046 | Univ of Alabama Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $25.50

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Product Description: More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually profiled in this lively survey of the literature of the 1960s. A look at the books behind the decade's youth movements, Scriptures for a Generation recalls the era as one of unprecedented literacy and belief in the power of books to change society...read more
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9780820316413, titled "Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s" | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually profiled in this lively survey of the literature of the 1960s.

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9780820317878, titled "Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s" | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually profiled in this lively survey of the literature of the 1960s.
9780820316420 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: More than fifty writers, from Timothy Leary and Malcolm X to Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson, are individually profiled in this lively survey of the literature of the 1960s.

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Product Description: With his first book, American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam, Philip Beidler offered a pioneering study of the novels, plays, poetry, and "literature of witness" that sprang from the United States involvement in the Vietnam War...read more
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9780820312644 | Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: With his first book, American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam, Philip Beidler offered a pioneering study of the novels, plays, poetry, and "literature of witness" that sprang from the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

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9780817303136 | Univ of Alabama Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $29.50

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9780817303143, titled "The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie: An Anthology of Alabama Writers" | Univ of Alabama Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $22.95

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