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The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.
The classic adventure "A Land of Our Own" chronicles the struggle of a boy born into a penal colony, forced to fight for the freedom he was denied at birth. In the course of his escape he fights in open battle as a soldier, spies inside enemy castles in disguise, hides in rural villages, and faces starvation alone in the cold wilderness. By the time he has found his freedom, everyone in Fengorian will know his name. "An excellent war-time fantasy epic that explores the human cost of freedom" - Anna Grossman
A Land Like Your Own explores the ways the Bible has reused previous traditions and has subsequently been reused by both Jews and Christians. The ten essays included cover a broad range of topics in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and subsequent traditions, but they all highlight the many ways in which the traditions associated with Israel have impacted communities. A Land Like Your Own will interest anyone involved in biblical studies (students and scholars alike) through its wide-ranging array of topics, highlighting how interconnected the many biblical studies subdisciplines truly are.
A case study in the social history of frontier town building set in the swamps of South Carolina On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and England converged in a planned settlement named Purrysburg. This examination of the first South Carolina township in Governor Robert Johnson's strategic plan to populate and defend the colonial backcountry offers the clearest picture to date of the settlement of the colony's Southern frontier by ethnically diverse and contractually obligated immigrants. Arlin C. Migliazzo contends that the story of Purrysburg Township, founded in 1732 and set in the forbidding environment bounded by the Savannah River and the Coosawhatchie swamps, challenges the notion that white colonists shed their ethnic distinctions to become a monolithic culture. He views Purrysburg as a laboratory in which to observe ethnic phenomena in the colonial and antebellum South. Separated by linguistic, religious, and cultural barriers, the émigrés adapted familiar social processes from their homelands to create a workable sense of community and identity. His work is one of only a handful of examples of what has been deemed the "new social history" methodology as applied to a South Carolina subject. Initially devastated by privation and a high mortality rate, Purrysburg residents also suffered the vicissitudes of an indifferent provincial elite, the encroachment of lowcountry rice planters, Prevost's invasion in 1779, and ultimate destruction of the settlement by Sherman's army. Migliazzo details the community's changing military and economic fortunes, the gradual displacement of its residents to neighboring communities, the role of African Americans in the region, the complex religious life of township settlers, and the quirky contributions of Purry's climatological speculations to the fateful siting of this first township.
A "biography of Golda Meir, the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time"--
INDEX PREFACE THE HUDSON AND ITS HILLS RIP VAN WINKLE CATSKILL GNOMES THE CATSKILL WITCH THE REVENGE OF SHANDAKEN CONDEMNED TO THE NOOSE BIG INDIAN THE BAKER'S DOZEN THE DEVIL'S DANCE-CHAMBER. THE CULPRIT FAY POKEPSIE DUNDERBERG ANTHONY'S NOSE MOODUA CREEK A TRAPPER'S GHASTLY VENGEANCE THE VANDERDECKEN OF TAPPAN ZEE THE GALLOPING HESSIAN STORM SHIP OF THE HUDSON WHY SPUYTEN DUYVIL IS SO NAMED THE RAMAPO SALAMANDER CHIEF CROTON THE RETREAT FROM MAHOPAC NIAGARA THE DEFORMED OF ZOAR HORSEHEADS KAYUTA AND WANETA THE DROP STAR THE PROPHET OF PALMYRA A VILLAIN'S CREMATION THE MONSTER MOSQUITOE THE GREEN PICTURE THE NUNS OF CARTHAGE THE SKULL IN THE WALL THE HAUNTED MILL OLD INDIAN FACE THE DIVISION OF THE SARANACS AN EVENT IN INDIAN PARK THE INDIAN PLUME BIRTH OF THE WATER-LILY ROGERS'S SLIDE THE FALLS AT COHOES FRANCIS WOOLCOTT'S NIGHT-RIDERS POLLY'S LOVER CROSBY, THE PATRIOT SPY THE LOST GRAVE OF PAINE THE RISING OF GOUVERNEUR MORRIS THE ISLE OF MANHATTOES AND NEARBY DOLPH HEYLIGER THE KNELL AT THE WEDDING ROISTERING DIRCK VAN DARA THE PARTY FROM GIBBET ISLAND MISS BRITTON'S POKER THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES THE SPRINGS OF BLOOD AND WATER THE CRUMBLING SILVER THE CORTELYOU ELOPEMENT VAN WEMPEL'S GOOSE THE WEARY WATCHER THE RIVAL FIDDLERS WYANDANK MARK OF THE SPIRIT HAND THE FIRST LIBERAL CHURCH ON AND NEAR THE DELAWARE THE PHANTOM DRAGOON DELAWARE WATER GAP THE PHANTOM DRUMMER THE MISSING SOLDIER OF VALLEY FORGE THE LAST SHOT AT GERMANTOWN A BLOW IN THE DARK THE TORY'S CONVERSION LORD PERCY'S DREAM SAVED BY THE BIBLE PARRICIDE OF THE WISSAHICKON THE BLACKSMITH AT BRANDYWINE FATHER AND SON THE ENVY OF MANITOU THE LAST REVEL IN PRINTZ HALL THE TWO RINGS FLAME SCALPS OF THE CHARTIERS THE CONSECRATION OF WASHINGTON TALES OF PURITAN LAND EVANGALINE THE SNORING OF SWUNKSUS THE LEWISTON HERMIT THE DEAD SHIP OF HARPSWELL THE SCHOOLMASTER HAD NOT REACHED ORRINGTON. JACK WELCH'S DEATH LIGHT THE LADY URSULA FATHER MOODY'S BLACK VEIL THE HOME OF THUNDER THE PARTRIDGE WITCH THE MARRIAGE OF MOUNT KATAHDIN THE MOOSE OF MOUNT KINEO THE OWL TREE A CHESTNUT LOG THE WATCHER ON WHITE ISLAND CHOCORUA PASSACONAWAY'S RIDE TO HEAVEN THE BALL GAME BY THE SACO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS THE VISION ON MOUNT ADAMS THE GREAT CARBUNCLE SKINNER'S CAVE YET THEY CALL IT LOVER'S LEAP SALEM AND OTHER WITCHCRAFT THE GLOUCESTER LEAGUERS SATAN AND HIS BURIAL-PLACE PETER RUGG, THE MISSING MAN THE LOSS OF WEETAMOO THE FATAL FORGET-ME-NOT THE OLD MILL AT SOMERVILLE EDWARD RANDOLPH'S PORTRAIT LADY ELEANORE'S MANTLE HOWE'S MASQUERADE OLD ESTHER DUDLEY THE LOSS OF JACOB HURD THE HOBOMAK BERKSHIRE TORIES THE REVENGE OF JOSIAH BREEZE THE MAY-POLE OF MERRYMOUNT THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER THE GRAY CHAMPION THE FOREST SMITHY WAHCONAH FALLS KNOCKING AT THE TOMB THE WHITE DEER OF ONOTA WIZARD'S GLEN BALANCED ROCK SHONKEEK-MOONKEEK THE SALEM ALCHEMIST ELIZA WHARTON SALE OF THE SOUTHWICKS THE COURTSHIP OF MYLES STANDISH MOTHER CREWE AUNT RACHEL'S CURSE NIX'S MATE THE WILD MAN OF CAPE COD NEWBURY'S OLD ELM SAMUEL SEWALL'S PROPHECY THE SHRIEKING WOMAN AGNES SURRIAGE SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE HEARTBREAK HILL HARRY MAIN: THE TREASURE AND THE CATS THE WESSAGUSCUS HANGING THE UNKNOWN CHAMPION GOODY COLE GENERAL MOULTON AND THE DEVIL THE SKELETON IN ARMOR MARTHA'S VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET LOVE AND TREASON THE HEADLESS SKELETON OF SWAMPTOWN THE CROW AND CAT OF HOPKINSHILL THE OLD STONE MILL ORIGIN OF A NAME MICAH ROOD APPLES A DINNER AND ITS CONSEQUENCES THE NEW HAVEN STORM SHIP THE WINDAM FROGS THE LAMB OF SACRIFICE MOODUS NOISES HADDAM ENCHANTMENTS BLOCK ISLAND AND THE PALATINE THE BUCCANEER ROBERT LOCKWOOD'S FATE LOVE AND RUM LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH THE SWIM AT INDIAN HEAD THE MOANING SISTERS A RIDE FOR A BRIDE SPOOKS OF THE HIAWASSEE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP THE BARGE OF DEFEAT NATURAL BRIDGE THE SILENCE BROKEN SIREN OF THE FRENCH BROAD THE HUNTER OF CALAWASSEE REVENGE OF THE ACCABEE TOCCOA FALLS TWO LIVES FOR ONE A GHOSTLY AVENGER THE WRAITH RINGER OF ATLANTA THE SWALLOWING EARTHQUAKE LAST STAND OF THE BILOXI THE SACRED FIRE OF NACHEZ PASS CHRISTIAN THE UNDER LAND THE CENRAL STATES AND THE GREAT LAKES AN AVERTED PERIL THE OBSTINACY OF SAINT CLAIR THE HUNDREDTH SKULL THE CRIME OF BLACK SWAMP THE HOUSE ACCURSED MICHEL DE COUCY'S TROUBLES WALLEN'S RIDGE THE SKY WALKER OF HURON THE COFFIN OF SNAKES MACKINACK LAKE SUPERIOR WATER GODS THE WITCH OF PICTURED ROCKS THE ORIGIN OF WHITE-FISH THE SPIRIT OF CLOUDY THE SUN FIRE AT SAULT SAINTE MARIE THE SNAKE GOD OF BELLE ISLE WERE-WOLVES OF DETROIT THE ESCAPE OF FRANCOIS NAVARRE THE OLD LODGER THE NAIN ROUGE TWO REVENGES HIAWATHA THE INDIAN MESSIAH THE VISION OF RESCUE DEVIL'S LAKE THE KEUSCA ELOPEMENT PIPESTONE THE VIRGINS' FEAST FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY FLYING SHADOW AND TRACK MAKER SAVED BY A LIGHTNING-STROKE THE KILLING OF CLOUDY SKY PROVIDENCE HOLE THE SCARE CURE TWELFTH NIGHT AT CAHOKIA THE SPELL OF CREVE CIUR LAKE HOW THE CRIME WAS REVEALED BANSHEE OF THE BAD LANDS STANDING ROCK THE SALT WITCH ALONG THE ROCKY RANGE OVER THE DIVIDE THE PHANTOM TRAIN OF MARSHALL PASS THE RIVER OF LOST SOULS RIDERS OF THE DESERT THE DIVISION OF TWO TRIBES BESIEGED BY STARVATION A YELLOWSTONE TRAGEDY THE BROAD HOUSE THE DEATH WALTZ THE FLOOD AT SANTA FE GODDESS OF SALT THE COMING OF THE NAVAJOS THE ARK ON SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS THE PALE FACED LIGHTNING THE WEIRD SENTINEL AT SQUAW PEAK SACRIFICE OF THE TOLTECS TA-VWOTS CONQUERS THE SUN THE COMANCHE RIDER HORNED TOAD AND GIANTS THE SPIDER TOWER THE LOST TRAIL A BATTLE IN THE AIR ON THE PACIFIC COAST THE VOYAGER OF WHULGE TAMANOUS OF TACOMA THE DEVIL AND THE DALLES CASCADES OF THE COLUMBIA THE DEATH OF UMATILLA HUNGER VALLEY THE WRATH OF MANITOU THE SPOOK OF MISERY HILL THE QUEEN OF DEATH VALLEY BRIDAL VEIL FALL THE GOVERNOR'S RIGHT EYE THE PRISONER IN AMERICAN SHAFT AS TO BURIED RICHES KIDD'S TREASURE OTHER BURIED WEALTH STORIED WATERS, CLIFFS AND MOUNTAINS MONSTERS AND SEA-SERPENTS STONE-THROWING DEVILS STORIED SPRINGS LOVERS' LEAPS GOD ON THE MOUNTAINS
Juan P. Valdez was born May 25, 1938 in Canjilon, New Mexico, the second of Amarante and Philomena Valdez' seven children. Juan's father took him out of school after the third grade to help with the raising of crops and tending of livestock necessary to support the family. After having been continuously denied grazing permits by the U. S. Forest Service it was necessary for Juan to sneak his family's cattle on and off the forest pastures on a daily basis. While in his mid-twenties Juan met Reies Lopez Tijerina, a charismatic former preacher who was traveling from village to village in Northern New Mexico speaking out about how the United States had stolen hundreds of thousands of acres of grant lands that were supposed to have been protected by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Juan was the first of eight members of Tijerina's Alianza to enter the Rio Arriba County courthouse on June 5, 1967 in a failed attempt to arrest the local district attorney, Alfonso Sanchez. Ironically, the judge in the courthouse that day was J. M. Scarborough, the father of Mike Scarborough who would wind up assisting Juan in the telling of his family history. Trespassers On Our Own Land is the history of the Valdez family from the time Spain granted Juan Bautista Valdez, Juan's great, great, great-grandfather an interest in a land grant located around the present village of Canones, New Mexico. Mike Scarborough grew up in Espanola, sixty miles south of where Juan grew up. After having spent eight years in the United States Air Force, Mike returned to New Mexico, attended college and law school, and practiced law in the area for twenty-five years. Some years ago he was asked by his good friend, Juan Valdez, to help write Juan's family history. Mike recently completed a five year study of Juan's family history and the period during the late 1800s and early 1900s when the United States government chose to claim ownership of million of acres of then existing land grants and to deny the settlers who had lived on them for over eighty years their legitimate right to use the land. Trespassers on Our Own Land is the result of his research."
This is the fascinating story of a family's homestead days in New River and about the general development of the community. Hardships and heartaches mingled with simple pleasures in this once isolated country to fulfill the dream of land of their own. Pauline Essary Grimes wrote this book, which she published in November 1987 and dedicated to her parents Rowena and Bill Essary in honor of their 60th wedding anniversary. This re-print of the original edition makes the lively general community history of New River available to every interested reader.
Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he writes in the preface, “Like millions of Americans, I’m demanding a new vision, a qualitatively different direction, for this country. One for the shared well-being of everyone. One with beauty, healing, poetry, imagination, and truth.” The pieces in From Our Land to Our Land capture that same fantastic energy and wisdom and will spark conversation and inspiration.