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Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States by Blair, Amy L., 1972-

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Henry Ossawa Tanner : modern spirit by Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937

Table of Contents: “…Reproduction troubles : Tanner's "Mothers of the Bible" for the Ladies' Home Journal /…”

The Limbo line. by Canning, Victor

Point of no return. by Marquand, John P. (John Phillips), 1893-1960

Pilgrim's inn. by Goudge, Elizabeth, 1900-1984

The sawdust trail : Billy Sunday in his own words by Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935

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Watching women's liberation, 1970 : feminism's pivotal year on the network news by Dow, Bonnie J.

Table of Contents: “…The movement meets the press: the 1968 Miss America Pageant protest -- The movement makes the news: feature stories on women's liberation in 1970 -- Magazines and the marketing of the movement: the March 1970 Ladies' Home Journal protest -- Fixing the meaning of the movement: ABC's May 1970 "Women's Liberation" documentary -- Making a spectacle of the movement: the August 26, 1970, Women's Strike for Equality -- After 1970: second-wave feminism, mediated popular memory, and Gloria Steinem.…”
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Circulating literacy : writing instruction in American periodicals, 1880-1910 by Brazeau, Alicia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : literacy by subscription -- Literacy identities : defining magazine writers -- Buying and selling literacy : the Ladies' home journal -- Joining the club : clubwomen, magazine readers, and scholars -- Special invitation to write : magazine readers as contributors -- Conclusion : subscribing to a professional writing community.…”
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Everything was better in America : print culture in the Great Depression by Welky, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat" -- Part One: Newspapers -- The Press encounters the New Deal -- Kidnapping America's child -- Olympic feats of Americanism -- The Gumps: America's comic-strip family -- Part Two: Magazines -- How to slant a magazine -- Life, the war, and everything -- Defining womanhood in the Ladies' Home Journal -- Patriot number one, the man of steel -- Part Three: Books -- Mainstreaming the book industry -- Finding security in best sellers -- Ellery Queen restores order -- Gone with the wind, but not forgotten -- Conclusion: "Everything was better in America".…”

Welcome to the monkey house : a collection of short works by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Rough Writing : Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America. by Taubenfeld, Aviva F.

Table of Contents: “…Making American Homesand America Home: TheodoreRoosevelt and Elizabeth Sternin the Pages of the Ladies'Home Journal; 4. "Threatin' Him as a Akel":Finley Peter Dunne's EthnicCritique of "True Americanism"; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.…”
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Everything was better in America : print culture in the Great Depression by Welky, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat" -- Part One: Newspapers -- The Press encounters the New Deal -- Kidnapping America's child -- Olympic feats of Americanism -- The Gumps: America's comic-strip family -- Part Two: Magazines -- How to slant a magazine -- Life, the war, and everything -- Defining womanhood in the Ladies' Home Journal -- Patriot number one, the man of steel -- Part Three: Books -- Mainstreaming the book industry -- Finding security in best sellers -- Ellery Queen restores order -- Gone with the wind, but not forgotten -- Conclusion: "Everything was better in America."…”
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Twenty years at Hull-House : with autobiographical notes by Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

Table of Contents: “…., "The concentration of wealth : its economic justification," The Independent, 1902 -- "An oft-told tale" and "The lamb tags on to the lion," The New York Call, April 25, 1912 and August 11, 1912 -- Jane Addams, "If men were seeking the franchise," Ladies Home Journal, June 1913 -- Edward Alsworth Ross, "Racial consequences of immigration, "The Century Magazine, February 1914 -- Hilda Satt Polacheck, I came a stranger : The story of a Hull-house girl -- An Addams chronology (1860-1935).…”
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Kosti Ruohomaa : the photographer poet by Bonner-Ganter, Deanna

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Food Is Love : Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America. by Parkin, Katherine J.

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Selling Mrs. Consumer : Christine Frederick & the rise of household efficiency by Rutherford, Janice Williams, 1942-

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Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation : Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections. by Vechinski, Matthew James

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