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    A Gilded Redwood Coffin

    Cecelia Tichi

    Western silver heiress Val DeVere expects nothing but joy at an elegant Newport picnic in 1899, only to be abruptly summoned to New York by a close friend's urgent and…

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    Death in a Gilded Frame

    Cecelia Tichi

    Newport Summer 1899-yachts, balls, and famed artists eager to paint portraits of Society's "Queens."

    Western silver heiress Val Mackle DeVere (Mrs. Roderick W.) agrees to "sit" for a portrait for…

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    Jack London: A Writer’s Fight for a Better America

    Cecelia Tichi

    Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of…

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    Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 19 / 2

    Cecelia Tichi

    From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages-one in the early 1900s, another in…

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    Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America

    Cecelia Tichi

    Offers a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. A major consequence of this technology was its effect on the arts, in particular the literary arts. Three…

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    Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Golden Age

    Cecelia Tichi

    A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of Cocktails

    The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention-they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights…

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    Midcentury Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Atomic Age

    Cecelia Tichi

    Midcentury America was on the move when powerful autos sped along the new interstate highways while suburbs sprouted, and a baby-booming middle class enjoyed TV favorites, passenger jet travel, atomic…

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    What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

    Cecelia Tichi

    Cecilia Tichi invites us on a beautifully illustrated tour of the Gilded Age, transporting readers to New York at its most fashionable. A colorful tapestry of fun facts and true…

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    Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)

    Cecelia Tichi

    Examines leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, this book explores…

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    A Gilded Drowning Pool

    Cecelia Tichi

    As a girl in the West, Valentine Mackle dodged quicksand along the rivers of the mining camps, but as Mrs. Roderick W. DeVere of New York's Fifth Avenue, Val is…

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    Jazz Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Roaring Twenties

    Cecelia Tichi

    How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go underground

    Roaring Twenties America boasted famous firsts…

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    Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars

    Expanded edition of special SAQ issue on country music. Six new articles will be added by Jocelyn Neal on the structure of country, Cristine Kreyling on Music Row in Nashville…

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    Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places

    Cecelia Tichi

    From Harriet Beecher Stowe’s image of the Mississippi’s bosom to Thoreau’s Cape Cod as the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts, the American environment has been represented in terms of…

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    Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars

    Expanded edition of special SAQ issue on country music. Six new articles will be added by Jocelyn Neal on the structure of country, Cristine Kreyling on Music Row in Nashville…

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    A Fatal Gilded High Note

    Cecelia Tichi

    New York’s Diamond Horseshoe balcony in the Metropolitan Opera House glittered with ladies’ jewels in January 1899, and Society seated in private boxes heard Mozart’s murder victim sing his song…

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    A Deadly Gilded Free Fall

    Cecelia Tichi

    Toxic medicine, a fanatic Chicago detective, and a fatal plunge down a steep staircase embroil Val and Roddy DeVere in a dangerous quest for facts in 1899. Roddy’s fledgling business…

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    A Gilded Death

    Cecelia Tichi

    A formal dinner in palatial, Gilded Age Newport stuns Val DeVere when her closest friend whispers a terrifying rumor. The friend’s ultra-rich auntie’s fatal heart attack at Mrs. Astor’s annual…

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    Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park

    Cecelia Tichi

    In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val DeVere learns a third young woman's strangled body has been found nearby in New York's Central Park. The victim…

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    Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age

    A collection of short stories depicting and analyzing key issues in America’s New Guilded Age

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    Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age

    A collection of short stories depicting and analyzing key issues in America’s New Gilded Age

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    Looking Backward: 2000-1887

    Edward Bellamy

    Examines the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and makes a plea for social reform and moral renewal. This novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it…

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    What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World

    Collectively urging scholars and educators to pay attention to the material conditions out of which literature arises, this book inaugurates a critical realism in American literary studies. It provides a…

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    Electronic Hearth: Creating an American Television Culture

    Cecelia Tichi (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, Vanderbilt University)

    Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is an environment–a pervasive screen-world that saturates almost every aspect of modern life. In Electronic Hearth, she looks at how that environment evolved, and how…

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    The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Historical Exploration of Literature

    Wendy Martin, Ph.D.,Cecelia Tichi

    This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students.

    This book helps students to better understand key pieces in…

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