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Center for the Study of the Great Ideas Archived 2021-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Mortimer Adler web pages with extensive discussion of the Great Books; A collection of works from Great Books of the Western World as eBooks at Standard Ebooks; Greater Books – a site documenting lists of "great books," classics, canons, including the Great ...
John Earl Rudder (October 4, 1924 – July 9, 2006 [4]) became the first black Marine officer commissioned in the regular United States Marine Corps, in 1948 [5] (though Frederick C. Branch became an officer in the Marine Corps Reserve in 1946). He was born in Paducah, Kentucky.
The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in autumn 2012, and on the History Channel UK in fall 2013.
Opinion: Making America 'great again' requires returning to the values of the 'Greatest Generation.' How we the people can Make America Great Again: by learning from our 'Greatest Generation' Skip ...
In his review of the book in The Wall Street Journal, Brendan Miniter called a Patriot's History a "fluent account of America from the discovery of the Continent up to the present day", [8] and wrote that the book serves to "remind us what a few good individuals can do in just a few short centuries." [9]
For 129 years, New Brunswick has served as the headquarters of J&J, America’s seventh most valuable public company. With consumer products from Band-Aids to baby powder, Neutrogena to Rogaine, Listerine to Visine, Aveeno to Tylenol and Sudafed to Splenda, Johnson & Johnson is the biggest and, according to multiple surveys , most admired ...
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (ISBN 978-0-07-036240-6) is a book written in 1944 by Wolfgang Langewiesche, describing how airplanes fly and how they should be flown by pilots. It has become a standard reference text for aviators. [ 1 ]
Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea, 304 pages (Basic Books: 2019) ISBN 978-1-5416-9913-7; John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, 324 pages (Basic Books: 2018) ISBN 978-0-465-09622-0; Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, 376 pages (Basic Books: 2014) ISBN 978-0-465-03294-5