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“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary...” These words from the beginning of the Declaration of Independence were not the first words or the last to disrupt America. In this issue, we select books from our list that disrupted America—some politically, some socially, and some economically. Applewood’s mission as a publisher to build a pic-ture of America from its primary sources sometimes leads us to publish books that in their day were highly disruptive but today are viewed as part of the fabric of our heritage. Conversely, sometimes we publish books that in their day were accepted eagerly by people of the day but to today's reader, the words are discordant and highly charged. These books bravely go onto our list, but we always wonder whether it is worth it: offending, incorrect, and usually not partic-ularly profitable. We have tried to include both kinds. Here are thirty-five books that shook the world. They are not the only thirty-five. They are the thirty-five we picked when we looked at the thousands of titles we have published.

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A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FOR PROHIBITION DISRUPTS AMERICA“The American Usurper Assumes the Diadem and Purple” (Library of Congress)

April 2011

Words that Disrupted America

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George Washington’s Farewell AddressGEORGE WASHINGTONWhen George Washington retired, he issued, with the edi-torial help of Alexander Hamilton, a warning and message for all who were to follow. He warned of warring political parties and suggested a legacy of a President serving no more than two-terms that lasted until the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but in 1951 was reestablished as Amendment XXII to the U.S. Constitution.

ISBN 978-1-55709-454-4 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 36 pp

The Jefferson BibleThe Life and Morals of Jesus of NazarethExtracted Textually from the GospelsTHOMAS JEFFERSONThomas Jefferson, by cutting and pasting from the gospels, made a new narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus.ISBN 978-1-55709-184-0 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 104 pp

The American Spelling BookNOAH WEBSTERY dew wii kare apout sbeling? Considered to be the second-greatest-selling book of all time in America, this book with a distinctive blue cover that earned the nickname “the blue-backed speller” taught Americans, rightly or wrongly, that spelling counts. This is a facsimile reproduction of the 1824 edition.ISBN 978-1-55709-469-8 • $14.95Hardcover • 5 x 7 • 198 pp

The Book of MormonJOSEPH SMITHThe Book of Mormon is one of the defining publications of the Latter Day Saint movement. The Book of Mormon is not only not only regarded by church followers as scripture, but as a historical record of God’s dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas, written by American prophets from 600 BC to 421 AD. In 1830, the book was published, having been translated by Joseph Smith from the original,

which had been delivered to him engraved on gold plates.ISBN 978-1-14290-1800-5 • $33.95Paperback • 6 x 9 • 576 pp

The American Frugal HousewifeLYDIA MARIA CHILDShunned as an abolitionist later in her career, Lydia Maria Child before her fall achieved fame in America as the authority on children, parenting, nursing, and economy. From 1832 to 1845, this popular book went through 32 edi-tions and became the best-selling domestic book in the early 19th century.ISBN 978-0-918222-98-5 • $9.95

Hardcover • 4½ x 7½ • 144 pp

Daniel Boone: His Own StoryCOLONEL DANIEL BOONE and FRANCIS LISTER HAWKSFirst published in the early 1800s, this true-life account set the record straight on the mythic Daniel Boone and established him as an American hero.ISBN 978-1-55709-426-1 • $14.95Paperback • 8½ x 11 • 128 pp

Mourt’s RelationA Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth

Edited and with an introduction by DWIGHT B. HEATHThis might be considered the first ad campaign to attract disenfranchised and unwary English-speaking people to come and help settle the New World. Originally printed in 1622, it is the first published account of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.

ISBN 978-0-918222-84-8 • $9.95Paperback • 5 x 7½ • 128 pp

A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of WitchcraftREVEREND JOHN HALEThe never-forgotten dark chapters of Puritan New England are recorded here by those who participated. This is an eyewitness account of the Salem Village witchcraft trials, first printed in 1702.ISBN 978-1-55709-182-6 • $12.95

Paperback • 5 x 8 • 176 pp

The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinFranklin’s life of industry and innovation is the model of American achievement in the arts and sciences. Written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790, this is one of the most famous and influential examples of autobiography ever written and is considered, by many, to be the greatest book ever published in America.

ISBN 978-1-55709-079-9 • $14.95Paperback • 6 x 9 • 276 pp

Common Sense THOMAS PAINENothing did more to encourage the Colonials in their fight for independence. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense.ISBN 978-1-55709-458-2 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 76 pp

The Declaration of IndependenceTHOMAS JEFFERSON et al.Disruption in America begins with this document. This little hardcover edition contains America’s statement of indepen-dence, along with illustrations and biographies of the signers.ISBN 978-1-55709-448-3 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 36 pp

The Articles of ConfederationThe first governing constitution of America, The Articles of Confederation were passed by the Continental Congress in 1777 but not ratified by the states until 1781. Although the first organizing document of America, the Articles of Confederation were found wanting by those seeking a stron-ger federal government and was replaced by the Constitution in 1789.

ISBN 978-1-55709-460-5 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 32 pp

The Constitution of the United States of AmericaWith influences from the world around them, the framers forged a framework for a new government in words that would persevere. Today, it is the oldest constitution in the world, though it has been amended twenty-seven times.ISBN 978-1-55709-105-5 • $9.95 In Spanish: ISBN 978-1-55709-459-9

Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 36 pp

Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau      When I converse with the freest of my neighbors, I perceive that, whatever they may say about the magnitude and seriousness of the question, and their regard for the public tranquillity, the long and the short of the matter is, that they cannot spare the protection of the existing government, and they dread the consequences to their property and families of disobedience to it.  For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State.  But, if I deny the authority of the State when it presents its tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard.  This makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.  It will not be worth the while to accumulate property; that would be sure to go again.  You must hire or squat somewhere, and raise but a small crop, and eat that soon.  You must live within yourself, and depend upon yourself always tucked up and ready for a start, and not have many affairs.  A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.  Confucius said:  “If a state is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not governed by the principles of reason, riches and honors are subjects of shame.”  No:  until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life.  It costs me less in every

sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.

…. No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.  There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.  Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freed, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.  They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of taxation and finance, commerce and manufactures and agriculture.  If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress

for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.  For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation.   The authority of government, even such

as I am willing to submit to—for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well—is still an impure one:  to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.  It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.  The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.  Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire.  Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government?  Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?  There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.  I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent

A Sampler of Words that Disrupted America

“Is a democracy, such as we

know it, the last improvement

possible in government?”

cinnamon, tying the cinnamon up in a clean cloth; let the cloves remain in the syrup ever after is cooked. It will take two hours steady boiling to cook. Put into bottles when cool. Dose for an infant of six months, a teaspoonful three times a day till bowels are checked. For a grown person one-half wine glass three times a day. This recipe is an old Southern plantation remedy among colored people.

Loom and SpindleHarriet Robinson      The history of Lowell gives a good illustration of the influence of woman, as an independent class, upon the growth of a town or a community.          As early as 1836, ten years after its incorporation, Lowell began to show what the early mill girls and boys could do towards the material prosperity of a great city. It numbered over 17,000 inhabitants, — an increase of over 15,000 during that time.  

       In 1843 over one-half of the depositors in the Lowell Institution for Savings were mill girls, and over one-third of the whole sum deposited belonged to them, — in round numbers,  $101,992; and the new-made city showed unmistakable signs of becoming, what it was afterwards called, the “Manchester of America.”  But the money of the operatives alone could not have so increased the growth and social importance of a city or a locality. It was

the result, as well, of the successful operation of the early factory system, managed by men who were wise enough to consider the physical, moral, and mental needs of those who were the source of their wealth.  

.....   The education of a child is an all-around process, and he or she owes only a part of it to school or college training. The child to whom neither college nor school is open must find his whole education in his surroundings, and in the life he is forced to lead. As the cotton-factory was the means of the early schooling of so large a number of men and women, who, without the opportunity thus afforded, could not have been mentally so well developed, I love to call it their Alma Mater. For, without this incentive to labor, this chance to earn extra money and to use it in their own way, their influence on the times, and also, to a certain extent, on modern civilization, would certainly have been lost.   I had been to school quite constantly until I was nearly eleven years of age, and then, after going into the mill,

with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow men.  A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which I have also imagined, but not yet anywhere seen. 

 Washington’s Farewell George WashingtonNations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. — But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand : neither seeking nor granting  exclusive favours or preferences ; — consulting the natural course of things ; — diffusing  and diversifying by gentle means the streams  of commerce, but forcing nothing ; — establishing with Powers so disposed — in order  to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our Merchants, and to enable the  Government to support them — conventional rules of intercourse, the best that  present circumstances and mutual opinion  will permit ; but temporary, and liable to be  from time to time abandoned or varied, as  experience and circumstances shall dictate ;  constantly keeping in view^, that ‘tis folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors  from another, — that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character — that by such  acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. — There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. — ‘Tis an allusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. — 

 What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking Mrs. Abby Fisher

Recipe #102Blackberry Syrup For Dysentery in Children Take one quart of berries and mash up fine in a bowl squeezing all the juice from them, then strain the juice through a thin muslin cloth. To this juice add one pound of crushed sugar and put to boil in a porcelain saucepan, adding one ounce of whole clove and one-half ounce of

“In 1843 over one-half of the

depositors in the Lowell Institution for Savings were

mill girls”

I went to some of the evening schools that had been established, and which were always well filled with those who desired to improve their scant education, or to supplement what they had learned in the village school or academy. Here might often be seen a little girl puzzling over her sums in Colburn’s Arithmetic, and at her side another “ girl “ of fifty poring over her lesson in Pierpont’s National Reader. 

  Happiness in Marriage Margaret Sanger ...What were formerly considered exclusively feminine duties seem today to be voluntarily taken on by the husband.  Surely there is no loss in manliness or dignity in sharing the heavier and more disagreeable household tasks.  In my estimation this mutual acceptance of household duties by the husband as well as the wife does more than any other single thing toward the creation of that splendid comradeship and companionship which are the solidest foundations of permanent homes and happy marriages.

 Harriet TubmanSarah Bradford It would be impossible here to give a detailed account of the journeys and labors of this intrepid woman for the redemption of her kindred and friends, during the years that followed. Those years were spent in work, almost by night and day, with the one object of the rescue of her people from slavery. All her wages were laid away with this sole purpose, and as soon as a sufficient amount was secured, she disappeared from her Northern home, and as suddenly and mysteriously she appeared some dark night at the door of one of the cabins on a plantation, where a trembling band of fugitives, forewarned as to time and place, were anxiously awaiting their deliverer. Then she piloted them North, traveling by night, hiding by day, scaling the mountains, fording the rivers, threading the forests, lying concealed as the pursuers passed them. She, carrying the babies, drugged with paregoric, in a basket on her arm.  So she went nineteen times, and so she brought away over three hundred pieces of living and breathing “property,” with God given souls. 

The way was so toilsome over the rugged mountain passes, that often the men who followed her would give out, and foot-sore, and bleeding, they would drop on the ground, groaning that they could not take another step. They would lie there and die, or if strength came back, they would return on their steps, and seek their old

homes again. Then the revolver carried by this bold and daring pioneer, would come out, while pointing it at their heads she would say, “Dead niggers tell no tales ; you go on or die !” And by this heroic treatment she compelled them to drag their weary limbs along on their northward journey. 

But the pursuers were after them. A reward of $40,000 was offered by the slave-holders of the  region from whence so many slaves had been spirited away, for the head of the woman who appeared so mysteriously, and enticed away their property, from under the very eyes of its owners.

The Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln “And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order  and declare that all persons held as Slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and hence forward shall be free; and that the 

Executive Government of the United States, including the Military and Naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the Freedom of said persons.

   “And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be FREE to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. 

American Frugal HousewifeLydia Maria Child Buy merely enough to get along with at first. It is only by experience that you can tell what will be the wants of your family. If you spend all your money, you will find you have purchased many things you do not want, and have no means left to get many things which you do want. If you have enough, and more than enough, to get everything suitable to your situation, do not think you must spend it all, merely because you happen to have it. Begin humbly. As riches increase, it is easy and pleas-ant to increase in hospitality and splendour; but it is always painful and inconvenient to decrease. After all, these things are viewed in their proper light by the truly judicious and respectable. Neatness, tastefulness, and good sense, may be shown in the management of a small household, and the arrangement of a little furniture, as well as upon a larger scale; and these qualities are always praised, and always  treated with respect and attention. The consideration which many purchase by living beyond their income, and of course living upon others, is not

“...she brought away over

three hundred pieces of living and breathing

‘property’ ”

clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for the other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose  a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in

temporarily occupying his property.

Key to Uncle Tom’s CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe When the public sentiment of Europe speaks in tones of indignation of the system of American slavery, the common reply has been, “Look at your own lower classes?’’  The apologists of slavery have pointed England to her own poor. They have spoken of the heathenish ignorance, the vice, the darkness, of her crowded cities, — nay, even of her agricultural districts.

  Now, in the first place, a country where the population is not crowded, where the resources of the soil are more

than sufficient for the inhabitants, — a country of recent origin, not burdened with the worn-out institutions and clumsy lumber of past ages,  — ought not to be satisfied to do only as well as countries which have to struggle against all these evils.

   It is a poor defence for America to say to older countries, “We are no worse than you are.” She ought to be infinitely better.

   But it will appear that the institution of slavery has produced not only heathenish, degraded, miserable slaves, but it produces a class of white people who are, by universal admission, more heathenish, degraded, and miserable. The institution of slavery has accomplished the double feat, in America, not only of degrading and brutalizing her black working classes, but of producing, notwithstanding a fertile soil and abundant room, a poor white population as degraded and brutal as ever existed in any of the most crowded districts of Europe. 

worth the trouble it costs. The glare there is about this false and wicked parade is deceptive; it does not in fact procure a man valuable friends, or extensive influence. More than that, it is wrong — morally wrong, so far as the individual is concerned ; and injurious beyond calculation to the interests of our country. To what are the increasing beggary and discouraged exertions of the present period owing?  A multitude of causes have no doubt tended to increase the evil; but the root of the whole matter is the extravagance of all classes of people. We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence? We never shall be free from embarrassment until we cease to be ashamed of industry and economy.

The Autobiography ofBenjamin Franklin Benjamin FranklinIn reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.  Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself;  you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.       

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.  The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

EtiquetteEmily Post Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Rule of etiquette the first –which hundreds of others merely paraphrase or explain or elaborate – is:

Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.

Never take more than your share – whether of the road in driving a car, or of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

People who picnic along the public highway leaving a

“The best public measures are

seldom adopted from previous

wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”

The Constitution of the Confederate StatesTHE CONFEDERATE STATESHaving seceded from the United States, the Confederate States adopted this new constitution on March 11, 1861.ISBN 978-1-55709-178-9 • $9.95 Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 36 pp

Harriet TubmanThe Moses of Her PeopleSARAH BRADFORDOne of America’s most important women, Harriet Tubman was a former slave who led a heroic struggle more bravely and more successfully than any other to liberate African-Americans from slavery.ISBN 978-1-55709-217-5 • $12.95Paperback • 6 x 9 • 156 pp

The Emancipation ProclamationABRAHAM LINCOLNThe proclamation that ended slavery in America. A hard-cover copy of the draft, preliminary, and final versions of the Emancipation Proclamation.ISBN 978-1-55709-470-4 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 28 pp

What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern CookingABBY FISHEROriginally published in 1881, this is the oldest known African-American cookbook published in America. Mrs. Fisher, a former slave, made her way from Mobile to San Francisco to found a pickle business and publish this book.

978-1-55709-403-2 • $9.95 Paperback • 5 x 8 • 96 pp

Sailing Alone Around the WorldJOSHUA SLOCUMIn 1895, Captain Joshua Slocum became the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone. He described the experience as one that was “like reading a book, and one that was more and more interesting as I turned the pages.”ISBN 978-1-55709-917-4 • $19.95

Paperback • 6 x 9 • 316 pp

Loom and SpindleHARRIET ROBINSONA first person account of life as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in this 1898 work. When mill girls returned to their rural family homes, she says, “Instead of being looked down upon as ‘factory girls,’ they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them.”

ISBN 978-1-4290-4524-7 • $15.95Paperback • 6 x 9 • 228 pp

Hospital SketchesLOUISA MAY ALCOTTThis is Alcott’s account of her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War in a Washington, D.C. hospital.ISBN 978-0-918222-78-7 • $7.95Paperback • 5 x 8 • 100 pp

A Discourse upon the Duties of a PhysicianSAMUEL BARDThis classic essay on the responsibilities of a doctor was first published in New York in 1769.ISBN 978-1-55709-446-9 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 32 pp

The Path of the LawOLIVER WENDELL HOLMESThe single most important essay about law ever written. This essay defines the responsibilities of the legal profession from one of law’s greatest practitioners.ISBN 978-1-55709-174-1 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 32 pp

On the Art of TeachingHORACE MANNIn 1840, Mann wrote this message that has lived on as a timeless and inspiring appeal to teachers.ISBN 978-1-55709-129-1 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 32 pp

McGuffey’s First Eclectic ReaderWILLIAM McGUFFEYThe McGuffey Readers are among the best known school-books in the history of American education, having sold more than 120 million copies since the time of their first publication in 1836.ISBN 978-1-55709-102-7 • $7.95Paperback • 5 x 7 • 96 pp

Civil DisobedienceHENRY DAVID THOREAUOriginally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government, Thoreau’s classic essay on resistance to unjust laws and acts of government is a timeless American-grown call for action to achieve social justice.ISBN 978-1-55709-417-9 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 36 pp

The Prairie TravelerRANDOLPH B. MARCYThe guide used by pioneers! Written by Captain Marcy at the request of the War Department after the Donner party met its fate, it is filled with helpful information that was essential for safe travel west before the era of the railroad. ISBN 978-0-918222-89-3 • $12.95 Paperback • 4¾ x 7 1/8 • 288 pp

Wife No. 19Or, the Story of a Life in BondageANN YOUNGNothing has disturbed American family values like polyg-amy. Ann Eliza Young, claiming to be Brigham Young’s 19th wife, published her sensational insider’s expose of polygamy in 1876.ISBN 978-1-4290-2066-4 • $29.95Paperback • 6 x 9 • 627 pp

A Key to Uncle Tom’s CabinHARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhen first published, Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought with its huge success questions about the basis of truth of the novel. Mrs. Stowe gathered her research materials and published them in this now rare book that documented the facts using primary sources.ISBN 978-1-55709-493-3 • $19.95Paperback • 7½ x 9¾ • 264 pp

How Girls Can Help Their CountryW. J. HOXIEOriginally published in 1913, this is a facsimile of the first American Girl Scout Handbook.ISBN 978-1-55709-522-0 • $9.95Paperback • 4½ x 6¾ • 160 pp

The Strenuous LifeTHEODORE ROOSEVELTTeddy Roosevelt lived a full and accomplished life and shared many of his beliefs in this book, in which he tells how to live life to its most productive and fullest.ISBN 978-1-55709-142-0 • $9.95Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 32 pp

EtiquetteEMILY POSTIt’s hard to think of etiquette as disruptive, but, ironi-cally, when Emily Post’s 1922 best seller first appeared, people quickly adopted the author’s ground-breaking philosophy of etiquette as fixed and unchanging.ISBN 978-1-55709-991-4 • $29.95Hardcover • 6 x 9 • 627 pp

Happiness in MarriageMARGARET SANGERMargaret Sanger, mother of the birth control movement in the U.S., wrote this marriage manual in 1926 offering practical and intimate advice.ISBN 978-1-55709-204-5 • $12.95Paperback • 4¾ x 7 • 240 pp

A Message to GarciaELBERT HUBBARDThe little essay that made the railroads run on time. Elbert Hubbard wrote this in one hour after supper. Its management advice is both timeless and provocative. In the 111 years since it was first written, more than 40 million copies have been distributed and it is still used by many corporations as inspi-ration to get more productivity from its employees.

ISBN 978-1-55709-200-7 • $9.95 In Spanish: ISBN 978-1-55709-451-3Hardcover • 4¼ x 6¾ • 28 pp

Blues: An AnthologyW. C. HANDYThis collection of great blues songs, by the Father of Blues, was originally published in 1926. It includes historical notes, tunes and arrangements, notes for each song, a bibli-ography, and a chart of guitar chords.ISBN 978-1-55709-521-3 • $14.95Paperback • 8½ x 11 • 196 pp

Hunting, Fishing and CampingL. L. BEANBy opening up his shop for business 24 hours a day, Bean start-ed a revolution in retailing and enabled Americans to expect to get what they wanted whenever they wanted it. This guide to hunting, fishing, and camping was originally published in 1942 by Bean, himself, because publishers, in their wisdom, had turned him down.

ISBN 978-1-55709-521-3 • $14.95Hardback • 8½ x 11 • 196 pp

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