If I Only Knew Then...: Learning from Our Mistakes
Author: Charles Grodin
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As Charles says, "If you don't get wiser as you get older, then you just get older." The core of this audiobook is about identifying our mistakes, learning from them, and not repeating them. Charles Grodin, a very funny individual who has appeared in movies, television and currently is on WCBS Radio every day, has asked his friends--from Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Shirley MacLaine, Alan Alda, Regis Philbin, Don Hewitt (of 60 Minutes fame), Joe Torre, and others--to share sometimes very revealing memories of the biggest mistake they've made.
Rosie O'Donnell looks back to her college days and her inability to express her love for a close girlfriend. Regis Philbin learned to trust his instincts when an early talk show got cancelled. Irwin Redlener, the Co-founder of The Children's Health Fund, examines a near-mistake--how he almost cancelled a trip to see a grown son who soon after died in a skiing accident. Dr. Nicholas Perricone learns to shift his perspective after witnessing the bravery of a young girl during his internship. Senator Orrin Hatch discusses his mistaken vote against making Martin Luthor King Day a national holiday. And Carol Burnett's hilarious essay explains why meeting Cary Grant turned out to be a big mistake!
This audiobook offers intimate insights into dozens of celebrated figures' lives.
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When actor and TV commentator Grodin (It Would Be So Nice if You Weren't Here) asked Shirley MacLaine about her biggest mistake, she suggested he go ask President Bush about his. Others of the 82 celebrity contributors to this collection who look back at lessons learned the hard way squirmed to evade Grodin's "truth or dare," while many have risen to the challenge with painful memories of nervousness, humiliation, social embarrassments, shame, regret, denial and guilt. Recalling an incident when she was 13, Mary Steenburgen can still "feel my face burn with shame at my own snobbery." After Leonard Nimoy ignored a publisher's warning, fans wrongly interpreted the title of his memoir, I Am Not Spock,to mean he was "rejecting the character and all things connected with Star Trek." Walter Cronkite's "biggest mistake" was retiring too soon. The standout piece is by Pete Hamill, who compresses his entire life into five pages as he reflects on the aftermath of his decision to drop out of high school. (Grodin will donate his royalties to HELP USA, which serves the homeless.) (Nov. 1)
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Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Single-Volume Edition)
Author: Eric Foner
Offering instructors and students a lower-price alternative to the regular editions of our leading textbooks, the Norton Seagulls feature inviting, clear designs that focus student attention on the texts themselves. These compact books are portable, affordable, and authoritative. The Seagull Edition of Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty! An American History contains the complete text of the regular edition. Acclaimed by instructors and students and adopted at hundreds of colleges and universities across the country, Give Me Liberty! provides a fresh and effective approach to the survey. Its single-author narrative gives students a clear, coherent introduction to American history. The theme of American freedom enriches the narrative, integrates the book's coverage of social and political history, and motivates the study of history by alerting students to how much is at stake in having a knowledge of our past. The book is supported by the same full array of print and electronic ancillaries as the regular edition.
Table of Contents:
| List of Maps, Tables, and Figures | xvii | |
| About the Author | xix | |
| Preface | xxi | |
| Part 1 | American Colonies to 1763 | |
| 1. | A New World | 4 |
| The Expansion of Europe | 7 | |
| Peoples of the Americas | 12 | |
| The Spanish Empire | 15 | |
| The First North Americans | 23 | |
| England and the New World | 30 | |
| The Freeborn Englishman | 35 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance (1680) | 40 | |
| 2. | American Beginnings, 1607-1650 | 44 |
| The Coming of the English | 47 | |
| Settling the Chesapeake | 51 | |
| Origins of American Slavery | 57 | |
| The New England Way | 62 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (July 3, 1645) | 64 | |
| New Englanders Divided | 69 | |
| The New England Economy | 73 | |
| 3. | Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650-1750 | 78 |
| Empires in Conflict | 81 | |
| The Expansion of England's Empire | 87 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England's Present Interests Discovered (1675) | 93 | |
| Colonies in Crisis | 94 | |
| The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society | 101 | |
| Social Classes in the Colonies | 110 | |
| 4. | Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763 | 118 |
| Slavery and the Empire | 121 | |
| Slave Culture and Slave Resistance | 130 | |
| An Empire of Freedom | 133 | |
| The Public Sphere | 138 | |
| The Great Awakening | 145 | |
| Imperial Rivalries | 148 | |
| Battle for the Continent | 151 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763) | 156 | |
| Part 2 | A New Nation, 1763-1840 | |
| 5. | The American Revolution, 1763-1783 | 166 |
| The Crisis Begins | 169 | |
| The Road to Revolution | 176 | |
| The Coming of Independence | 180 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) | 185 | |
| Securing Independence | 189 | |
| 6. | The Revolution Within | 200 |
| Democratizing Freedom | 203 | |
| Toward Religious Liberty | 207 | |
| Defining Economic Freedom | 212 | |
| The Limits of Liberty | 215 | |
| Slavery and the Revolution | 220 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1773 and 1777) | 224 | |
| Daughters of Liberty | 228 | |
| 7. | Founding a Nation, 1783-1789 | 234 |
| America under the Articles of Confederation | 237 | |
| A New Constitution | 246 | |
| The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights | 253 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist no. 51, and Anti-Federalist Essay Signed "Brutus" (1787) | 254 | |
| We the People | 261 | |
| 8. | Securing the Republic, 1790-1815 | 270 |
| Politics in an Age of Passion | 272 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794) | 281 | |
| The Adams Presidency | 283 | |
| Jefferson in Power | 290 | |
| The "Second War of Independence" | 298 | |
| 9. | The Market Revolution | 306 |
| A New Economy | 309 | |
| Market Society | 319 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at Factory Life," Lowell Offering (1845) | 328 | |
| The Free Individual | 330 | |
| The Limits of Prosperity | 335 | |
| 10. | Democracy in America, 1815-1840 | 344 |
| The Triumph of Democracy | 346 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" (1829) | 348 | |
| Nationalism and Its Discontents | 353 | |
| Nation, Section, and Party | 358 | |
| The Age of Jackson | 363 | |
| The Bank War and After | 373 | |
| Part 3 | Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840-1877 | |
| 11. | The Peculiar Institution | 386 |
| The Old South | 389 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (1837) | 398 | |
| Life under Slavery | 400 | |
| Slave Culture | 409 | |
| Resistance to Slavery | 414 | |
| 12. | An Age of Reform, 1820-1840 | 422 |
| The Reform Impulse | 424 | |
| The Crusade against Slavery | 434 | |
| Black and White Abolitionism | 441 | |
| The Origins of Feminism | 445 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimke, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837) | 448 | |
| 13. | A House Divided, 1840-1861 | 456 |
| Fruits of Manifest Destiny | 458 | |
| A Dose of Arsenic | 470 | |
| The Rise of the Republican Party | 477 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1858) | 484 | |
| The Emergence of Lincoln | 487 | |
| The Impending Crisis | 495 | |
| 14. | A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865 | 502 |
| The First Modern War | 504 | |
| The Coming of Emancipation | 514 | |
| The Second American Revolution | 524 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864) | 525 | |
| The Confederate Nation | 532 | |
| Turning Points | 536 | |
| Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War | 539 | |
| 15. | "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | 548 |
| The Meaning of Freedom | 551 | |
| Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865) | 558 | |
| The Making of Radical Reconstruction | 562 | |
| Radical Reconstruction in the South | 572 | |
| The Overthrow of Reconstruction | 577 | |
| Appendix | ||
| Documents | ||
| The Declaration of Independence (1776) | 2 | |
| The Constitution of the United States (1787) | 4 | |
| From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796) | 14 | |
| The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) | 18 | |
| From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852) | 20 | |
| The Gettysburg Address (1863) | 23 | |
| Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865) | 24 | |
| The Populist Platform of 1892 | 25 | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933) | 28 | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963) | 30 | |
| Tables | ||
| Presidential Elections | 32 | |
| Admission of States | 40 | |
| Population of the United States | 41 | |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | ||
| Workforce | 42 | |
| Immigration, by Origin | 42 | |
| Glossary | 43 | |
| Credits | 63 | |
| Index | 67 |
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