[Read by Nick Sullivan] From the Duck Dynasty star and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a rollicking popular history of fishing in America American Fisherman traces the impact fishing has had in shaping America's history, and reveals the influential role it has played in defining our lives. Willie Robertson persuasively argues that America became what it is today in no small part because of the anglers that call it home. From harvesting New England cod to fly fishing for Yellowstone trout to raising Pacific Northwest salmon, the fishing industry has long played an essential role in the establishment of many of the nation's earliest ports, most notably along the East Coast. Robertson explores how fishing has informed our culture, in literature, movies, and television, from classics like The Old Man and the Sea, A River Runs through It, and Moby Dick to The Perfect Storm, In the Heart of the Sea, and The Deadliest Catch, to popular local television fishing programs from coast to coast. Robertson also analyzes the economics of this $50 billion annual business which supports a host of industries, including tourism and manufacturing, as well as conservation. Told in Robertson's charming down-home voice, American Fisherman is a spirited and unique look at America and its people.

The American Fisherman: How Our Nation's Anglers Founded, Fed, Financed, and Forever Shaped the U.S.A.

History

Robertson, Willie

Doyle, Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow William

Americas

Harpercollins

A moment-by-moment account of the sinking of PT-109 shares detailed perspectives into the future president's heroic contributions, offering insights into his leadership over a small band of survivors while awaiting rescue.

PT 109 Lib/E: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Over the last forty years a once-dominant interpretation of the French revolution has fallen to pieces. Elaborated by generations of distinguished left-wing French historians, this classic version was gradually undermined by the piecemeal criticisms of English-speaking scholars. Many of their doubts, and the controversies which they provoked, appeared in articles scattered over a wide range of learned journals and conference proceedings. This collection brings together the more important contributions of one of the leading British participants in these debates. Some of the essays explore the motivations and achievements of the old monarchy's aristocratic opponents. Others probe the development of venality of offices, one of the old regime's most distinctive institutions. A wide range of revolutionary reforms, their motivations and results, are also examined, and some of the achievements of a generation of revisionism in this field are reviewed. An introduction sets them in the context of the debates to which they contributed, and demonstrates their continued relevance to our understanding of eighteenth-century France.

Officers, Nobles and Revolutionaries: Essays On Eighteenth-Century France

Europe

Continnuum-3PL

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