Departments: Media/Library

Books about the Progressive Era

February 27, 2008

These books are available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc.

92 Cle HS

Sanderlin, George William. Mark Twain : as others saw him. A portrait of Mark Twain, including an examination of his opinions on a wide variety of topics and a compilation of comments about Twain by people from his time to the present.

92 Cle HS

Twain, Mark. The autobiography of Mark Twain [pseud.]: including chapters now published for the first time, as arr. and edited, with an introd. and notes,.

92 Cle HS

Wood, James Playsted. Spunkwater, spunkwater! : A life of Mark Twain. Chronicles the adventurous life of one of America's greatest humorists as he lived on the gold fields, the river, and the West Coast and as he travelled, lectured, and wrote in his middle and late years.

92 Roo

Fritz, Jean. Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt! Follows the life of the dynamic twenty-sixth president, discussing his conservation work, hunting expeditions, family life, and political career.

92 Roo

Hancock, Sibyl. Theodore Roosevelt. New York : Putnam, c1978.
An easy-to-read biography of the twenty-sixth President of
the United States.

92 Roo

Parks, Edd Winfield. Teddy Roosevelt, all around boy. A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States. It tells of his determination to master problems and to overcome physical handicaps.

92 Roo HS

Grantham, Dewey W. Theodore Roosevelt.

92 Twa HS

Eaton, Jeanette. America's own Mark Twain. Depicts Mark Twain's kinship with his country thereby recreating not only the man, but the America he lived in: Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi River life, Nevada, and San Francisco.

92 Wri HS

Walsh, John Evangelist. One day at Kitty Hawk : the untold story of the Wright brothers and the airplane.

629.13 Fre

Freedman, Russell. The Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane. Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

813.3 Twa HS

Twain, Mark. The Celebrated jumping frog, and other stories.

817 Cle HS

Twain, Mark. Roughing it. Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he joins his brother, a newly appointed federal official in Nevada.

817 Twa HS

Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. An account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and Twain's own experiences as a pilot.

818 Smi HS

Smith, Janet. Mark Twain on man and beast.

973.6 Coi HS

The Life history of the United States. v. 1. Prehistory to 1774: The New World, by R. R. Morris.--v. 2. 1775-1789: The making of a nation, by R. B. Morris.--v. 3. 1789-1829: The growing years, by M. L. Coit.--v. 4. 1829-1849: The sweep westward, by M. L. Coit.--v. 5. 1849-1865: The Union sundered, by T. H. Williams.--v. 6. 1861-1876: The Union restored, by T. H. Williams.--v. 7. 1877-1890: The age of steel and steam, by B. A. Weisberger.--v. 8. 1890-1901: Reaching for empire, by B. A. Weisberger.--v. 9. 1901-1917: The progressive era, by E. R. May.--v. 10. 1917-1932: War, boom and bust, by E. R. May.--v. 11. 1933-1945:New Deal and global war, by W. E. Leuchtenburg.--v. 12. From 1945: The great age of change, by W. E. Leuchtenburg.

973.9 Boa HS

Boardman, Fon Wyman. America and the progressive era, 1900-1917. Political, economic and social survey of America from the turn of the century to the start of World War I.

Fic Twa

Twain, Mark. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. The adventures of a boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town, as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.

Fic Twa

Twain, Mark. The prince and the pauper. : A tale for
young people of all ages. When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life. Includes a brief biography of the author.

Fic Twa HS

Twain, Mark. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.

Fic Twa HS

Twain, Mark. The innocents abroad, or, The new pilgrims' progress : being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land.

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