false 159448 0 0 273541 0060524316 9780060524319 18 <![CDATA[Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173322404m/273541.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173322404s/273541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273541.Bound_for_Canaan_The_Epic_Story_of_the_Underground_Railroad_America_s_First_Civil_Rights_Movement 4.11 63 With a historian's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for story, Fergus M. Bordewich has written a grand epic of American history -- focusing on the sixty years leading up to the Civil War, which brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But its beginnings can be traced to a clandestine alliance of both black and white abolitionists and slaves, who joined forces to lead tens of thousands of enslaved Americans to freedom in a movement that occupies a legendary place in the nation's imagination, but about which little has been known until now.

]]> 159448 3.83 144 51 2005 857025 0385420366 9780385420365 8 <![CDATA[Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178937104m/857025.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178937104s/857025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857025.Killing_the_White_Man_s_Indian_Reinventing_Native_Americans_at_the_End_of_the_Twentieth_Century 3.71 31 Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual government extermination of the "savage redmen," Americans today have recast Native Americans into another, equally stereotyped role, that of eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism, yet whose spiritual ties with the natural world form our last, best hope of salvaging our natural environment and ennobling our souls.

The truth, however, is neither as grim , nor as blindly idealistic, as many would expect. The fact is that a virtual revolution is underway in Indian Country, an upheaval of epic proportions. For the first time in generations, Indians are shaping their own destinies, largely beyond the control of whites, reinventing Indian education and justice, exploiting the principle of tribal sovereignty in ways that empower tribal governments far beyond most American's imaginations. While new found power has enriched tribal life and prospects, and has made Native Americans fuller participants in the American dream, it has brought tribal governments into direct conflict with local economics and the federal government.

Based on three years of research on the Native American reservations, and written without a hidden conservative bias or politically correct agenda, Killing the White Man's Indian takes on Native American politics and policies today in all their contradictory--and controversial-guises."]]> 159448 3.83 144 51 1996 3050131 0060842385 9780060842383 15 <![CDATA[Washington: The Making of the American Capital]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3050131.Washington_The_Making_of_the_American_Capital 3.57 28 Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a district that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and a target of unbridled land speculation—our nation's capital? In Washington, acclaimed and award-winning author Fergus M. Bordewich turns his eye to the backroom deal making and shifting alliances between our Founding Fathers and in doing so pulls back the curtain on the lives of slaves who actually built the city. The answers revealed in this eye-opening book are not only surprising and exciting but also illuminate a story of unexpected triumph over a multitude of political and financial obstacles, including fraudulent real estate speculation, overextended financiers, and management more apt for a "banana republic" than an emerging world power.

In this page-turning work that reveals the hidden and somewhat unsavory side of the nation's beginnings, Bordewich, once again, brings his novelist's sensibility to a little-known chapter in American history.

]]> 159448 3.83 144 51 2008 1032345 0060524308 9780060524302 5 <![CDATA[Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180374485m/1032345.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180374485s/1032345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1032345.Bound_for_Canaan_The_Underground_Railroad_and_the_War_for_the_Soul_of_America 3.60 10 The civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a fierce clash of values that was nothing less than a war for the country's soul. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal law.

BOUND FOR CANAAN tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; bold Quakers like Isaac Hopper and Levi Coffin, who risked their lives to build the Underground Railroad; and the inimitable Harriet Tubman. Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, BOUND FOR CANAAN shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to this country's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.

]]> 159448 3.83 144 51 2005 1142749 0385491301 9780385491303 1 <![CDATA[My Mother's Ghost: A Courageous Woman, a Son's Love, and the Power of Memory]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181368552m/1142749.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181368552s/1142749.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1142749.My_Mother_s_Ghost_A_Courageous_Woman_a_Son_s_Love_and_the_Power_of_Memory 3.00 4 One morning when Fergus was fourteen, he and his mother went riding, which they did often. It was the last time he saw her alive. Attempting to jump from her runaway horse, LaVerne fell under the hooves of her son’s mount and was killed. Fergus was left with the belief that he was responsible. More than thirty years later and after a lifetime of guilt and self-punishment, the son returned to his mother’s life. My Mother’s Ghost is the story of a brilliant woman cut down in her prime and of a haunted man who confronted the source of his pain, uncovered startling truths, and reclaimed his own life along with that of his mother.]]> 159448 3.83 144 51 2000 1142753 0595195202 9780595195206 0 <![CDATA[Cathay: A Journey in Search of Old China]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181368553m/1142753.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181368553s/1142753.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1142753.Cathay_A_Journey_in_Search_of_Old_China 4.00 2 “Mr. Bordewich, by searching so assiduously, so affectionately, and so understandingly for legacies of the Chinese past, may paradoxically be giving us some foretastes of a China yet to be.”
—Jan Morris

]]> 159448 3.83 144 51 1991 5418057 1400157447 9781400157440 0 <![CDATA[Washington: The Making of the American Capital]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5418057.Washington_The_Making_of_the_American_Capital 4.00 1 159448 3.83 144 51 154324 3.52 97 21 2008 6459426 140010744X 9781400107445 0 <![CDATA[Washington: The Making of the American Capital]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6459426-washington 3.00 1 159448 3.83 144 51 154324 3.52 97 21 2008 6356088 1607512319 9781607512318 1 <![CDATA[Washington: The Making of the American Capital]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6356088-washington 2.00 1 159448 3.83 144 51 2008 6139939 073945854X 9780739458549 0 <![CDATA[Bound for Canaan Underground Railroad]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6139939.Bound_for_Canaan_Underground_Railroad 0.0 0 159448 3.83 144 51 2005