Andrew Carnegie, a destitute immigrant who became the richest man of his time, helped create "the American mind" by personifying the rags-to-riches story that was the American ideal in the early twentieth century. In this fourth volume of the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, James T. Baker writes a compelling biography that explores how and why Andrew Carnegie continues to exert such a profound influence over the American mind. Like the other volumes in this series, this text includes selections from the subject's contemporaries, scholarly analyses of the subject's life and influence, and comparisons to modern individuals who embody the traits of the subject covered in the text.

Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron as American Hero (Creators of the American Mind)

Biographies & Memoirs

Baker, James T.

Professionals & Academics

Wadsworth Publishing

The second volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, NAT TURNER: CRY FREEDOM IN AMERICA provides both primary and secondary selections that give students specific knowledge of this important individual in American history.

Nat Turner: Cry Freedom in America: Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume I (Creators of the American Mind, Volume 1)

History

Africa

The third volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, this text offers an approach to Lincoln and his place in American history that is as accurate as it is novel. Unlike texts that only serve to reinforce the mythology that has been built around this powerful individual, Baker's text presents him as a flesh-and-blood human being by providing primary documents authored by Lincoln himself. Complemented by works presented by Lincoln scholars who have studied him from a variety of historical perspectives, the book places Lincoln in historical context. From his rise through the ranks of nineteenth-century politicians to his posthumous elevation to a central place in American political mythology, this book explores the complete picture of Lincoln.

Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume III: Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the Myth (Creators of the American Mind, Vol 3)

Leaders & Notable People

The second volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, this collection of primary sources demonstrates the power which individuals of talent, will, and opportunity can exert over the American public. Brief enough to serve as a supplementary reader for courses in American History and Women's History, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: FIRST LADY offers students a collection of documents (with informative introductions) that are grouped logically, making it easy for them to research and write on Eleanor Roosevelt.

Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady: Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume II

Community & Culture

Written by James T. Baker, this primary sourcebook, includes the major documents that illustrate the development of religion in and its impact on United States history. These primary sourcebooks include the major documents that illustrate the development of religion and its impact on U.S. history. Encouraging students to explore the varieties, developments, similarities, and differences of religion in the United States, RELIGION IN AMERICA sheds light on certain religious contradictions in the American personality. Each volume considers the contradictions resulting from two great historical events that shook the Western world just as Europeans began arriving in America: the Reformation and the Enlightenment.

Religion in America, Volume I: Primary Sources in U.S. History Series

Americas

Thomson/Wadsworth

Religion in America, Volume II: Primary Sources in U.S. History Series

Cengage Learning'

Book by Spielvogel, Jackson J., Baker, James T.

Western Civilization, Volume 1 (Study Guide)

Spielvogel, Jackson J.

World

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Profiles the life and career of the writer, and analyzes her works

Ayn Rand (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Twayne Pub

James Baker invites readers to participate in a conversations with his cat Sundae. Using holiday times as the conversation pieces, Sundae is comes through as real as person we know. Quick witted, critical, and a deft judge of human strengths and weaknesses; Sundae provides a barometer in which we can examine ourselves. Cat owners will instantly identify with Sundae's particular wisdom.

Holidays with Sundae

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Green Hills Press

White Dogs is the story of a young woman and the six men who know her in six different ways.  It is the story of how the way men see women affects both men and women.  Master story teller James Baker has created an astounding commentary on the human condition, discovering universal truths in a few grains of sand along the side of a rural road.  Mary Charlotte Lafferty's life is molded by these six men: her father, whose  suicide leaves her to grow up with a brother; her brother whose innocence involves the two in the world's oldest taboo; the boy preacher who falls in love with her and loses his innocence as he learns the truth and strips her of her own innocence; the Mexican who helps her escape her prison and by worshiping her destroys himself; the man who uses his wealth to make claims on her that result in the deaths of two men; and the boy who starts out to kill her and what she means to him and ends up loving her as none of the others did or could do.  This book could just be a sleeping masterpiece.

White Dogs

Women's Fiction

Green Hills Press, Incorporated

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