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1.Washington: The Making of the American Capital by: Fergus Bordewich May 06, 2008
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book about the history of our nation's capital and why it came to be located where it is. Bordewich explains how the location of the capital was closely tied to the importance of slavery in the South. He describes the details of the negotiations in Congress and how ultimately, to the disappointment of Philadelphia and other contestants, a compromise tying the assumption of debts from the Revolution to the location of the capital placed it where it is today. But the location was tenuous from the beginning as George Washington's vision of a grand capital was fraught with all kinds of problems -including the involvement of land speculators - that would keep the capital from maturing for many years to come. Bordewich reveals the role that slave ... Read More

2.Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement by: Fergus M. Bordewich January 10, 2006
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BOUND FOR CANAAN should be required reading for every American! Every American! This is one of the most important books about our history and who we are and where we came from.

3.Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century by: Fergus M. Bordewich April 14, 1997
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Everything was great . the book was like new when i recieved it! very satisified with my order!

4.Cathay: A Journey in Search of Old China by: Fergus M Bordewich August 01, 2001
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Fergus M. Bordewich's CATHAY: A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF OLD CHINA is a travel log that explores a part of China's buried cultural history rich with literature, art, philosophy, and religious tradition that have been referenced in folk tales, Marco Polo, and Confucius. For those familiar with the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, Cathay may have been that place; a land enamored with a myth-like utopia, and images that the west visualized about the orient. Through his trek to China, Bordewich emphasizes the identity and displacement of the people of the Northern part of the region. After coming across a second hand bookstore in lower Manhattan as well as spending time in Beijing as an advisor to the Xinhua News Agency during the 1980s, Bordewich became intrigued with China's past. He came across a book by an American ... Read More

5.No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art by: Fergus Bordewich, Richard Klein, Paul Chaat Smith, Matthew Buckingham, Edie Winograde March 01, 2007
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Fergus M. Bordewich's CATHAY: A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF OLD CHINA is a travel log that explores a part of China's buried cultural history rich with literature, art, philosophy, and religious tradition that have been referenced in folk tales, Marco Polo, and Confucius. For those familiar with the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, Cathay may have been that place; a land enamored with a myth-like utopia, and images that the west visualized about the orient. Through his trek to China, Bordewich emphasizes the identity and displacement of the people of the Northern part of the region. After coming across a second hand bookstore in lower Manhattan as well as spending time in Beijing as an advisor to the Xinhua News Agency during the 1980s, Bordewich became intrigued with China's past. He came across a book by an American ... Read More

6.Bound for Canaan CD: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America from: HarperAudio April 01, 2005
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Fergus M. Bordewich's CATHAY: A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF OLD CHINA is a travel log that explores a part of China's buried cultural history rich with literature, art, philosophy, and religious tradition that have been referenced in folk tales, Marco Polo, and Confucius. For those familiar with the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, Cathay may have been that place; a land enamored with a myth-like utopia, and images that the west visualized about the orient. Through his trek to China, Bordewich emphasizes the identity and displacement of the people of the Northern part of the region. After coming across a second hand bookstore in lower Manhattan as well as spending time in Beijing as an advisor to the Xinhua News Agency during the 1980s, Bordewich became intrigued with China's past. He came across a book by an American ... Read More

7.Peach Blossom Spring by: Fergus M. Bordewich May 01, 1994
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Fergus M. Bordewich's CATHAY: A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF OLD CHINA is a travel log that explores a part of China's buried cultural history rich with literature, art, philosophy, and religious tradition that have been referenced in folk tales, Marco Polo, and Confucius. For those familiar with the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, Cathay may have been that place; a land enamored with a myth-like utopia, and images that the west visualized about the orient. Through his trek to China, Bordewich emphasizes the identity and displacement of the people of the Northern part of the region. After coming across a second hand bookstore in lower Manhattan as well as spending time in Beijing as an advisor to the Xinhua News Agency during the 1980s, Bordewich became intrigued with China's past. He came across a book by an American ... Read More

8.My Mother's Ghost: A Courageous Woman, a Son's Love, and the Power of Memory by: Fergus M. Bordewich February 05, 2002
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This memoir was about a family tragedy, the first-hand experience of the accident in which his mother died instantly. He had witnessed her fall from a horse directly in front of the horse he was riding. He'd felt guilty and, as a boy of fourteen, he believed that he had killed his mother. A son never gets over the loss of his mother at a young age. My brother would have been sixteen when our mother died of cancer. My father was having problems adjusting to the death of his first wife (even though it had been a long and horrible way watch her die), and so he took out his pain on Ralph and Cecil. To escape the daily thrashings and humiliation, Ralph got married the next year at the age of seventeen -- to leave a tormented home situation. In 1990 (42 years later), Ralph was dying from emphesema and liver failure ... Read More

9.Bound for Canaan Underground Railroad by: Fergus M. Bordewich 2005
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This memoir was about a family tragedy, the first-hand experience of the accident in which his mother died instantly. He had witnessed her fall from a horse directly in front of the horse he was riding. He'd felt guilty and, as a boy of fourteen, he believed that he had killed his mother. A son never gets over the loss of his mother at a young age. My brother would have been sixteen when our mother died of cancer. My father was having problems adjusting to the death of his first wife (even though it had been a long and horrible way watch her die), and so he took out his pain on Ralph and Cecil. To escape the daily thrashings and humiliation, Ralph got married the next year at the age of seventeen -- to leave a tormented home situation. In 1990 (42 years later), Ralph was dying from emphesema and liver failure ... Read More

10.Bound for Canaan : The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement by: Fergus M. Bordewich 2005
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This memoir was about a family tragedy, the first-hand experience of the accident in which his mother died instantly. He had witnessed her fall from a horse directly in front of the horse he was riding. He'd felt guilty and, as a boy of fourteen, he believed that he had killed his mother. A son never gets over the loss of his mother at a young age. My brother would have been sixteen when our mother died of cancer. My father was having problems adjusting to the death of his first wife (even though it had been a long and horrible way watch her die), and so he took out his pain on Ralph and Cecil. To escape the daily thrashings and humiliation, Ralph got married the next year at the age of seventeen -- to leave a tormented home situation. In 1990 (42 years later), Ralph was dying from emphesema and liver failure ... Read More

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