Capital Mysteries #5: Who Broke Lincoln's Thumb? (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

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It’s party time in Washington, D.C.! The president is planning a celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in honor of the man who sculpted the famous statue of Lincoln. But KC and Marshall notice one small problem—the left thumb has broken off the statue! Has someone stolen Lincoln’s thumb? Can KC and Marshall find it before the celebration begins?

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The Lincoln Memorial (Pull Ahead Books)
Kristin L. Nelson
Manufacturer: Lerner Publications
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Mount Rushmore: The Story Behind the Scenery

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Mount Rushmore: The Story Behind the Scenery
Lincoln Borglum
Manufacturer: KC Publications, Inc.
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ASIN: 0887140742
Release Date: 2006-04-01

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial, located in western South Dakota, set aside in 1925, preserves the sculpted heads of presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Lincoln Memorial Cents: Collection 1959 to 1998 (Official Whitman Coin Folder)

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Want to start a coin collection?
The Most Educational Book

Lincoln Memorial Cents: Collection 1959 to 1998 (Official Whitman Coin Folder)
Whitman Publishing
Manufacturer: Whitman Coin Products
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ASIN: 0307090000

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Want to start a coin collection?.......2005-04-17

I've practically collected coins since I was born. Since pennies don't have much purchasing power anymore (you can't even get a piece of gum for a penny!) and are numerous this is probably the best one to start with.

This one isn't as easy as it looks to complete. You have to find several varities of pennies made in 1982. Also, the "S" mintmark coins from 1968-1974 are a challenge. And the pennies from the early Lincoln Memorial days--the 1959 and early 1960s--aren't as numerous as they used to be. Nevertheless, this will provide one with a nice challenge that will eventually grow to encompass nickels and other denominations.

The Most Educational Book.......2000-12-30

Over the past two years I have purchased about ten Lincoln Penny folders. To fill them we save pennys and sometimes at the bank I will buy rolls of pennys for fifty cents each. My grandchildren and I spend hours searching these coins for the correct dates. They learn to identify numbers, mint marks, and I read to them about President Abraham Lincoln, who is featured on the Lincoln penny. These coin books are gifts that are never thrown away. Sometimes I wonder just how much a Wheat Penny book would be worth if my Grandparents had filled one in for me....

The Lincoln Memorial (Symbols of Freedom)

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The Lincoln Memorial (Symbols of Freedom)
Tristan Boyer Binns
Manufacturer: Heinemann
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The Lincoln Memorial (First Facts)
Terri Degezelle
Manufacturer: Capstone Press
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Historic Monuments: The Lincoln Memorial (Historic Monuments)

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Historic Monuments: The Lincoln Memorial (Historic Monuments)
Julia Hargrove
Manufacturer: Teaching & Learning Co
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ASIN: 157310311X

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Two years after Lincoln's death, Congress created a Lincoln Memorial Association to create a lasting tribute to the 16th President. It took, however, more than 50 years for that tribute to be built.

This book examines not only the rather lengthy story of Lincoln's memorial, but also the man and his presidency. Always first or second on historians' lists of Greatest U.S. Presidents, Lincoln is an admirable study. From his poor, frontier childhood; to becoming the proud and powerful man who led a nation through a terrible war, wrote two of the most famous speeches in U.S. history and the Emancipation Proclamation-there is much to be learned.

The Lincoln Memorial, in addition to being one of the most-recognized U.S. historical monuments, has itself made history. Students will learn about Marian Anderson's famous 1939 performance (after the internationally famous contralto was denied access to Constitution Hall) and about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" keynote speech during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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Beautiful color picture and history book of some of America's oldest federal parklands, monuments and memorials, parkways, historic sites, natural areas in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Includes Lincoln Memorial, The White House, Washington Monument, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, C&O Canal Park, Smithsonian, Arlington Cemetery, World War II Memorial, Jefferson Memorial and much more.

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Sweet Land of Liberty
Deborah Hopkinson
Manufacturer: Peachtree Publishers
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The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians

ASIN: 1561453951

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This inspiring story of little-known civil rights champion Oscar Chapman and his role in Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial reminds readers that one person can truly make a difference.

On Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in front of a crowd of over 75,000 people. The person largely responsible for putting her there was a white man, Oscar Chapman, assistant secretary of the interior under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

When Chapman learned that Marian Anderson was not allowed to sing at Constitution hall because of the color of her skin, he took it upon himself to do the impossible: find Marian Anderson an appropriate venue for a concert and make an important statement about equality and the rights of all Americans. With support from the highest levels of U.S. government, Chapman helped produce a landmark concert that-for at least one evening-bridged the color divide to bring a city and much of the nation together.

Author Deborah Hopkinson tells the inspirational story of Oscar Chapman, including his childhood exposure to racism that led to his lifelong commitment to ending bigotry. An author's note provides additional historical context. Illustrator Leonard Jenkins remarkable illustrations recreate a bygone era and pay tribute to remarkable real-life people and a magical moment in modern history.

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The intimacy between Nin and Miller, first disclosed in Henry and June, is documented further in this impassioned exchange of letters between the two controversial writers. Edited and with an Introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.

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Henry Miller.......2003-05-08

Big fan of these two, but more of a Henry Miller fan personally. The letters bring Henry Miller out of his fiction/novels and bring him into the realm where Nin was in writing her Diaries. Good for that reason, two lovers but volatile ones. Testing sexual boundaries is a touchy thing, after all.

Yes! Ah, ah, yes!.......2003-01-08

Forget Nin's works of fiction, the journals, letters, and life are truly worth experiencing over and over again for their honesty, passion, and viewing the internal turned external for our benefit. Everyone knows of Miller's and Nin's relationhip, through "Henryand June" if anything, but it is through this work that we see them less as romantic figures and more as humans capable of the idiocy, devotion, and prolongation of things we should all end and just don't for whatever reason. This is a great buy if you are a lover a letters. Reading "Fire" is a must, however.

Spying In The House of Love.......2001-11-24

Like many others, I have been fascinated with and frustrated by Anais Nin for many years, since reading the first volume of her expurgated diary in 1977.

This volume of letters enables the reader who has already read other versions of the Nin-Miller story to form additional conclusions about what might actually have happened. Because the letters were sent into the possession of others, they were less subject to the constant revision and reinvention that bedevils all attempts to determine objective facts about the mercurial Nin.

If you are not already an amateur historian of literary trends of the 1930's, fear not. The letters are worth reading as an introduction to Anais Nin and Henry Miller as well, for they depict a real-life romance conducted by two who absolutely relished the game and were highly articulate in dramatically different ways.

The Language of Sexual Liberation.......2000-10-12

Whatever you may think of her writing, Anaïs Nin was definitely a femme fatale. Henry Miller was, he claimed, the "happiest man alive." Together, Nin and Miller created a literary language for sexual fulfillment; she in a diary whose original form still remains unpublished, he in novels banned in both the United States and England until court cases in the early 1960s permitted their publication and turned Miller into something Nin had already achieved: the status of a cult hero.

Nin and Miller met in Paris in 1931. Miller, an aspiring novelist, wanted to meet the banker's pretty wife who had sung the praises of D.H. Lawrence and whose books had been deemed "pornography" outside of France. Neither Nin nor Miller, at that point, had published much. Their mutual interest, as they freely admit, was in sex and in each other and, consequently, they began a long affair.

It was during this affair that both Nin and Miller produced their finest writing--the writings that would eventually become Nin's two diaries and her novel, House of Incest, as well as Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring. Each believed in, and nurtured, the others genius and Miller wrote that Nin's diary would take its place "beside the revelations of St. Augustine, Petronius, Abelard, Proust and others."

Miller, only forty-one, but already somewhat down-and-out, fascinated the twenty-nine year old Nin, whose vague yearnings filled the many pages of the diary she had been keeping since the age of ten. "He's a man who makes life drunk. He is like me," she mused. Nin and Miller, however, were not alike. One of their most essential differences was a difference typical between men and women--Nin censored herself, while the world censored Miller.

Published in 1963, Nin's diary caused a literary sensation. It was begun as a letter to her father, a man who abandoned the family when Nin was only ten, and it remained intensely private. Revised into frequent distortions, the diary was a record of a compulsion to conceal as much as of a quest for feminine fulfillment. A mixture of fact, fantasy and calculated lies, Nin's editor asserts that the diary nevertheless presents a "psychological" truth. Kate Millett hailed Nin as "the mother of us all" and the women's movement immediately embraced her writings. Author Erica Jong said that no woman had told "the story of women's sexuality" more honestly than had Nin.

Despite the praise, if we read between the lines, while still observing Nin's frenetic whirl from bed to bed, we come to realize that she was really never satisfied. Her insatiable appetite aside, Nin was, at heart, a prudish libertine. Her childhood molestation by her father, whom she, herself, seduced as an adult a year after meeting Henry Miller, seems to have contributed greatly to her private inhibitions. Although she flitted from bed to bed she sadly confessed, "I am hellishly lonely." Instead of sex, Nin longed for "what I give Henry: this constant attentiveness."

In the "Black Lace Laboratory," as Miller's apartment was dubbed, Nin and Miller conducted literary and erotic experiments, prompting Nin to write him a thinly disguised warning to herself, "Beware just a little of your hypersexuality!" Toward the end of his life, unable to write about women except as prostitutes, Miller claimed not to know what the sexual revolution was about, saying that he had always loved and honored women. Nin agreed, saying that Miller was a romantic, rather than a rake. At eighty, Miller confessed that far too many people engaged in sex without love.

Basking in the warmth of Nin's caresses, her skilled editing of his work, and the material possessions she lavished upon him, Miller wrote prolifically and with a rare genius. Eventually, his romance with Nin faded (or warmed) into friendship, but the legacy of their literary teamwork remained: In 1974, Nin was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The Los Angeles Times names her Woman of the Year in 1976, the same year Henry Miller received France's Legion d'honneur. The 1990 movie, Henry and June is a chronicle of Miller's affair with Nin, which later became a triangle involving Miller's wife, June.

Nin and Miller have become cultural icons. Nin is the focus of women's study courses as well as being included in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Miller and his work need no comment. Although both Nin and Miller were pioneers of free speech and sexual freedom, and both helped to forge a new literature and a new culture, the ultimate emptiness of their lives, with its attendant lack of depth and meaning point to the futility of their attempt to wrest security and happiness from sexuality alone.

Immerse yourself.......2000-09-25

How much deeper can you get into a person's complexities and simplicities, understand the origin of their joys and frustrations, their motivators and their fears, if not by reading the letters they wrote to one another, and, in this case, one of their best friends and lovers?

This is a powerful door to Anais' heart and soul, and even more powerful than her diaries itself. Because here you get deep into one of the most significant periods of her life, the many years she let her own life and self entwined with Henry Miller's.

Indispensable reading for anyone, even more for those who admire Anais and Miller as ordinary people who loved each other, or as writers ahead of their time, unafraid of other people's opinions.

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getting to know Henry Miller.......2004-05-25

I first purchased Tropic of Cancer prior to this book, but had not as of yet read it when I came across this collection of essays and stories. I enjoyed it so very much. Reading his essays gave me great insight into who Henry Miller was, after reading this book I was able to start Tropic of Cancer with a better understanding of his writing style. It enabled me to better appreciate his writing and understand his significance as a writer. Tropic of Cancer is highly erratic, reading "Wisdom of the Heart" allowed me to understand that this is what Miller would be like and I was ready to embrace him, after coming away from "Wisdom" with a sense of what his philosphies are like. Some of the stories are admittedly trite and the book's entire collection is somewhat ragged, but certain writings really shone, and Miller's philosophies rang loud and clear throughout everything. An excellent read for someone who is curious about Miller the man and not yet ready to embark upon the Tropics.

uh?.......2002-01-23

It wasn't what I expected. I had to throw it away, no one I knew wanted it! I guess I should have read the reviews carefully.

Make sure that you do before you waste any monies!

uh?.......2002-01-23

It wasn't what I expected. I had to throw it away, no one I knew wanted it! I guess I should have read the reviews carefully.

Make sure that you do before you waste any monies!

uh?.......2002-01-23

It wasn't what I expected. I had to throw it away, no one I knew wanted it! I guess I should have read the reviews carefully.

Make sure that you do before you waste any monies!

Henry Miller was not married to Marilyn Monroe.......2001-06-12

Though I have not read all of this book, I can say for certain that Henry Miller was NOT married to Marilyn Monroe!

Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters to Brenda Venus

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A must-read for Henry Miller fans!

Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters to Brenda Venus
Henry Miller , and Brenda Venus
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A must-read for Henry Miller fans!.......1999-09-01

This collection of letters were addressed to Henry's final love, Brenda Venus. Right before I read this book, I read "Letters To Hoki". Picking up "Dear, Dear Brenda", I thought 'Here we go again, with some other chick trying to scam Henry's wallet!". How wrong I was. By the end of the book, I had a tear in my eye & thanked Brenda for the kind, gentle & caring way she assisted Henry through the final days of his life. Brenda made Henry's last days marvelous ones, even though his health was failing. This collection of letters should not be missed by any of Henry Miller's devoted fans, as it will make you much more at ease knowing his state of mind around the time of his final days. Thank you, dear, dear Brenda.

Henry Miller and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

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Henry Miller and James Laughlin: Selected Letters
Henry Miller , and James Laughlin
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Letters by Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Manufacturer: Freundlich Books
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Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie, 1943-1972

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Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie, 1943-1972
Henry Miller , and Wallace Fowlie
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Letters from Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller

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Miller Is A Pathetic Old Man
Amazing Collections Of Letters!

Letters from Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller
Joyce Howard
Manufacturer: iUniverse
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ASIN: 0595002005

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Henry Miller described himself as a confused, negligent, reckless, lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man...filled with wisdom and nonsense.

These letters, penned by the controversial author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring, represent Henry Miller's sexual and moral summing-up. They chart the infatuation, marriage and eventual disillusionment of Miller with his fifth wife Hoki Tokuda, a talented Japanese musician almost fifty years his junior. In its almost dangerous candor and its melancholy recognition of love's failure to sustain happiness, this volume deserves to be viewed as the culminating statement of Miller's interior life.

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Miller Is A Pathetic Old Man.......2001-07-25

This collection of letters makes Henry Miller look like a pathetic old geezer. Miller, who if you read multiple biographic works on him, never was much of a "real person", but some kind of morphic creature who would become fascinated with something for a while & his entire existence would be geared towards that thing. Sometimes it was UFOs, sometimes the idea of what he thought China was....seemingly anything and everything, just so long as Miller could run away & hide from being an actual individual. During the part of his life covering these letters, he was in his "Japanese phase". Hoki Miller was an attractive woman who was a cheesy lounge singer & wannabe actress working at a Los Angeles Japanese resteraunt. Miller fell in love with some image he concocted & Hoki saw him for the patsy he was. All this woman did was tease & lead on Miller, and like a fool, he went right along. She never gave him the sexual play he so longed for, but he bought her a new white Jaguar that she quickly smashed up. Miller kept tossing money at her, and even went to Japan with her to try to use his fame there to promote Hoki The Hack's failing acting career. The letters in this collection are no literary masterpieces, and would only be of intrest to hardcore Miller fans or maybe somebody looking for a laugh at a rich & famous old man's expense. If you're not really interested in Miller's personal life, I'd suggest spending your money on something else.

Amazing Collections Of Letters!.......1999-09-21

This is a great collection of letters that will give great insight to Henry Miller's fans. The letters follow this tumultuous relationship & show Henry Miller at his most childish and pathetic. Hoki was a scam artist extraordinaire & Henry went along for the ride, while paying for the car, the insurance, gas, food along the way, etc. This is a must read for any Henry Miller fan. Others will find it kind of pointlessly pitiful.

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Letters to Emil
Henry Miller
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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ASIN: 0811211703

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Miller, Letters to Emil. The collected correspondance of H. Miller and Emil Schnellock.

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Horoscope
Leon-Paul Fargue , Elie Faure , and William Saroyan
Manufacturer: Turtle Point Press
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ASIN: 1885983182

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essays, w/duotone photos by Rudy Burckhardt

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Henry Miller, Happy Rock
Brassai
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226071391

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"In a world like this one, it's difficult to devote oneself to art body and soul. To get published, to get exhibited, to get produced often requires ten or twenty years of patient, intense labor. I spent half my life at it! And how do you survive during all that time? Beg? Live off other people until you're successful? What a dog's life! I know something about that! You're always recognized too late. And today, it's no longer enough to have talent, originality, to write a good or beautiful book. One must be inspired! Not only touch the public but create one's own public. Otherwise, you're headed straight for suicide."

That's Henry Miller's advice for young aspiring artists, as remembered by his very good friend Brassaï in this lively book. One of two that Brassaï wrote about the man who called himself a "happy rock," this volume covers their lives and friendship from the 1950s to 1973. Over the course of a number of warm, intimate conversations, Brassaï and Miller revisit their careers; discuss art, literature, Paris, Greece, Japan, World War II, and more; and consider the lives and works of many others in their circle, including Lawrence Durrell, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí, Georges Simenon, André Malraux, Hans Reichel, Paul Klee, and Amedeo Modigliani. Throughout Miller's zest for life shines through, as do his love of art and his passionate intensity for just about everything he does, from discussing a movie or play he'd just seen to reminiscing about a decades-long love.

Brassaï's Henry Miller, Happy Rock presents a vivid portrait of two close friends who thoroughly enjoy each other's company—and just happen to be world—famous artists too.

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