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Interpretive Conventions : The Reader in the Study of American Fiction / by Mailloux, Steven

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Women as Candidates in American Politics / by Carroll, Susan J., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Qualifications, Campaigns, and Electoral Success -- 6. Gender, the Political Opportunity Structure, and Electoral Success -- 7. …”
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Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy / by Engstrom, Erik J.

Table of Contents: “…Gerrymandering and the evolution of American politics -- Districting and the construction of early American democracy -- The origins of single-member districts -- The strategic timing of congressional redistricting -- Stacking the states, stacking the house: the partisan consequences of congressional redistricting -- Electoral competition and critical elections -- A congress of strangers: gerrymandering and legislative turnover -- The partisan impact of malapportionment -- From turbulence to stasis, 1900-1964 -- Gerrymandering and the future of American politics.…”
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Expressive Politics : Issue Strategies of Congressional Challengers / by Boatright, Robert G.

Table of Contents: “…Parallel histories : the incumbency advantage and electoral competition -- The rational candidate and the hopeless cause -- Incumbents and challengers compared -- "It's not like rocket science" : how candidates understand public opinion -- "Like throwing golf balls against the wall" : the candidates talk about issues and ideology -- "You don't know me, but here I am" : candidate perceptions of party strength -- Expressive campaigning in 2000 and beyond -- Conclusions : expressive politics and invisible politics.…”
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First Ladies and the Press : The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age / by Beasley, Maurine Hoffman

Table of Contents: “…Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- Early first ladies and the public sphere -- Jackie Kennedy and the construction of Camelot -- First ladies as political helpmates : Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon -- First ladies and feminism : Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter -- First ladies and image-making : Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton as media polarizer -- Laura Bush as emblem of national caring -- Looking ahead.…”
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Given Up for You : A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief / by White, Erin O.

Table of Contents: “…The dinner party -- Basement chapels -- The long loneliness -- Let a joy keep you -- Ordinary beds -- Wake -- Rules of engagement -- A harmonious match -- Trust -- Grace -- The church on the hill -- Milk dud -- Florida -- Family week -- Eleanor's desk -- Remodel or divorce -- Today I saw God in the face of a kitten -- The memory of hunger -- Easter -- Sisters of wisdom -- Between God and me there is no me -- School days -- A nest on the altar -- Epilogue: Carol.…”
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Coal in our Veins : A Personal Journey / by Thomas, Erin Ann

Table of Contents: “…. -- The Energy Future of America -- A Drop in the Bucket -- Yes to Electric Reliability -- Coda -- In the Bowels of the Earth -- The Last Deep Coal Mine in Wales -- The Winds of Change -- Afterword.…”
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Eva and Otto : Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler / by Pfister, Thomas L., 1948-, Pfister, Peter J., 1948-, Pfister, Katherine D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…New York 1940-41: Urgent Efforts to Rescue ISK Colleagues Including Otto -- Eva's Daunting Task of Obtaining U.S. Visas -- Help from Eleanor Roosevelt and Other Americans -- Three Crucial Meetings on December 27, -- 1940 Correspondence -- Eva's Other Activities before the End of -- Further Pleas to Help Otto and Other Refugees -- Otto's Wait for Visa in Southern France -- Otto's Escape to America -- Eva's Defense of Her Decision to Marry Otto -- Part VI. …”
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Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

Table of Contents: “…Harbin -- Let's do it: the layered life of Cole Porter / Mark Fearnow -- Lorenz Hart: this can't be love / Jeffrey Smart -- Dorothy's friend in Kansas: the gay inflections of William Inge / Albert Wertheim -- "Appealing to the passions": homoerotic desire and nineteenth-century theater criticism / Lisa Merrill -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, lulu belles, and "sexual perversion" in the Harlem renaissance / James Wilson -- The gay man as thinker: Eric Bentley's many closets / Daniel-Raymond Nadon -- The electric fairy: the woman behind the apparition of Loie Fuller / Bud Coleman -- "Not as other boys": Robert Edmond Jones and designs of desire / Jane T. …”
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Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation / by Field, Jonathan Beecher

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“Cap” Cornish, Indiana Pilot : Navigating the Century of Flight / by Ingraham, Ruth Ann

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