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[in a Drive-In, in 1955. The theater screen shows a still picture of a group of Native Americans riding horse in a desert] Young Doc: All you have to do is drive the time vehicle directly toward that screen accelerating to 88 miles an hour. Marty McF...

Back to the Future Part III

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

Democracy: An American Novel

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s a clear sign of a racial infiltrator who has not done enough research.

How to Be Black

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus

A blanket could be used as an American flag. It could keep the world warm with its patronizing patriotism and imperialism.  

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Dreams are what keep us growing. they are what keep us alive...io give up is to let our dreams die..........

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Learn how to leave yourself behind, read between the lines, and let your spirit soar...take our Heavenly Father's guiding hand.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and ...

Virginia Postrel

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.

The American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.

The American Storybag

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

A History of the American People

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century