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Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845
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Product Description: Shining new light on early American prison literature—from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature—Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the history of early American literacy instruction, and the transformation of crime writing in the “long” eighteenth century...read more
By Jodi Schorb
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9780813562674 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 30, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Shining new light on early American prison literature—from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature—Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the history of early American literacy instruction, and the transformation of crime writing in the “long” eighteenth century.

Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch
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Product Description: Wife of one president and mother of another, Barbara Bush was an outspoken first lady who looked more like her constituents than did her predecessors. A White House resident for only four years, she nevertheless became and remains one of the most admired women in the world...read more
By Myra G. Gutin
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9780700615834 | Univ Pr of Kansas, May 30, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Wife of one president and mother of another, Barbara Bush was an outspoken first lady who looked more like her constituents than did her predecessors.

Reading Against Democracy: The Broken Promises of Reading Instruction
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By Patrick Shannon
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9780325009766 | Heinemann, February 13, 2007, cover price $36.88

Struggle to Continue: Progressive Reading Instruction in the United States
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By Patrick Shannon
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9780435085346 | Heinemann, September 13, 1990, cover price $35.00

Education of the African American Adult: An Historical Overview
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Product Description: Education has been highly valued in the African American community. Despite the fact that adult education in particular looms large in the history of African American education, little mention is made of it in most standard histories of American or adult education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Leo McGee (editor) and Harvey G. Neufeldt
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9780313259722 | Praeger Pub Text, July 24, 1990, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Education has been highly valued in the African American community.

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