Eric Burns, Author . Public Affairs $27.50 (384p) ISBN 978-1-58648-334-0
Considering the many noble accomplishments of early American culture, Burns observes, the levels of vulgarity and partisanship in colonial newspapers should strike modern readers as shocking. Given the ideological jousting taking place on talk radio
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Eric Burns, Author . Temple Univ. $29 (270p) ISBN 978-1-59213-480-9
For the ancient Mayans, Burns says, smoking was prayer, but when Rodrigo de Xerez, a crewmate of Columbus, returned to Spain, the Inquisitors saw what they assumed was the devil's fire spiraling from his nose and mouth—they confiscated de...
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Eric Burns, Author Prometheus Books $29 (207p) ISBN 978-1-57392-004-9
``People don't read much anymore,'' laments former TV newsman Burns (Broadcast Blues) in this modest but wide-ranging set of musings on reading and writing. A self-described amateur in the best sense, Burns earnestly surveys the foundation of the...
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Eric Burns, Author Temple University Press $45 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59213-214-0
Burns, a self-described""non-academic historian"" and host of Fox News Watch, takes readers on a romp with boozers and teetotalers in this high-spirited history of alcohol in America. Prohibition comes and goes throughout his narrative but tippling,"
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Eric Burns, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (241p) ISBN 978-0-06-019032-3
Emmy Award winner Burns came to think of himself as superior to his medium and left television after two decades. He started his career working for local stations in West Virginia and Minnesota. Named a correspondent for NBC News, he stayed for...
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Eric Burns, Author Arcade Publishing $25 (239p) ISBN 978-1-55970-858-6
Historian and Fox News TV host Burns (Infamous Scribblers) opens his second study of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Henry with a study of ancient Rome and perhaps the founding fathers' greatest influence, the orator, essayist, "
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Eric Burns. Pegasus, $27.95 (358p) ISBN 978-1-60598-772-9
Burns (Invasion of the Mind Snatchers) takes readers on a thorough tour of the upheavals and events of the year when “the Roaring Twenties first began to roar.” More than a “preview of a decade,” 1920 was “a preview of the entire century and even...
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Eric Burns. Pegasus, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-60598-951-8
Piercing the larger-than-life Teddy Roosevelt myth, Burns (1920), a former correspondent for NBC News and Today, explores the personal side of the energetic, rambunctious war hero and politician and his doting relationship with his youngest child,...
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Eric Burns. Pegasus, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68177-328-5
In his second biography about the Roosevelt family, Burns (A Golden Lad) focuses on the beautiful yet tragic relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt, her father and the charming younger brother of Theodore Roosevelt....
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Eric Burns. Rowman & Littlefield, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5381-3995-0
Journalist Burns (The Politics of Fame) delivers a richly detailed yet disorganized account of the year 1957 in American history. Among many topics, people, and events, Burns relates the laying of 41,000 miles of new roadway under President...
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