American Icon

American Icon
Author: Bryce G. Hoffman
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012
Genre: Automobile industry and trade
ISBN: 0307886050

A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the near collapse of the Ford Motor Company, which in 2008 was close to bankruptcy, and CEO Alan Mulally's hard-fought effort and bold plan--including his decision not to take federal bailout money--to bring Ford back from the brink.

Icons of American Popular Culture

Icons of American Popular Culture
Author: Robert C. Cottrell
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009-09-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 076562835X

Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two individuals who are in some way emblematic of their times, this provides a window on the social, economic, and political history of US democracy from the antebellum period to the present.

What a Character!

What a Character!
Author: Warren Dotz
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

From Mr. Clean to Mr. Bubble, from the wholesome Quaker Oats Man to the mischievous Trix Rabbit, advertising characters are as much a part of twentieth-century Amercia as the familiar products they symbolize. Illustrated with vivid, full-color photographs, and accompanied by a fascinating text, this fanciful volume offers an entertaining look at the history and design of these pop culture icons, with their timeless appeal for consumers of all ages.

Yosemite

Yosemite
Author: Amy Scott
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2006-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520249224

This edited work offers a different view of Yosemite's visual history by presenting 200 works of art together with essays that explore the intersections between art and nature. Integrating the work of Native people, this work provides an inclusive view of the artists who helped create an icon of the American wilderness.

Dan Winters's America

Dan Winters's America
Author: Courtney A. McNeil
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

Published by the Telfair Museums of Savannah, Georgia, to coincide with a major exhibition, Dan Winters’s America is the first museum survey of the career of this talented artist. Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photographs for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Rolling Stone. Best known for his iconic celebrity portraits, Winters has photographed public figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama, Hollywood celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Helen Mirren, and artistic luminaries from Jeff Koons to William Christenberry. His style of portraiture is instantly recognizable, characterized by impeccable lighting, muted backgrounds, and the contemplative postures of his sitters. Winters’s lifelong fascination with science, technology, and human ingenuity finds similar expression in significant groups of photographs: close-up studies of honeybees and of airplanes and a magnificent series devoted to the last three launches of NASA’s space shuttles. These photographs reveal an aspect of Winters’s career that is less familiar than his commercial work but equally compelling. In addition to the popular icons, Dan Winters’s America includes expressions of his personal vision. This lyrical body of work shows the same keen eye for lighting and composition, but with a decidedly more intimate ambiance: photographs of his wife and son, spare cityscapes, and elegant collages.

African American Icons of Sport

African American Icons of Sport
Author: Matthew Whitaker
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2008-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This volume offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives. It explores the history and lives of complex, multi-layered personages and groups. Also examined is the extent to which modern mass media and popular culture have contributed greatly to the rise, and sometimes fall, of these powerful symbols of athletic, individual, and group excellence.

L.L. Bean

L.L. Bean
Author: Leon A. Gorman
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781578511839

Looks at the history of the successful mail-order company, the challenges it faces, and its evolution since its start in 1912.

Inventing a Nation

Inventing a Nation
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300127928

This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men

Icons of Democracy

Icons of Democracy
Author: Bruce Miroff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN:

In a blend of history, biography, political science, and political theory, he offers examples of the finest democratic leadership as well as cautionary tales of prominent leaders whose styles were essentially aristocratic."--BOOK JACKET.