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Book Explores History Of The American Rifle
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ANDREA SEABROOK
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
12-21-2008
Book Explores History Of The American Rifle
Host: ANDREA SEABROOK
Time 9:00-10:00 PM
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Ask writer Alexander Rose about the icons of U.S. culture, and he'll tell you there is one innovation that represents the ingenuity, the independence, the pioneering spirit of America - the rifle.
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SEABROOK: Rose is the author of a new history called "American Rifle." He calls it a biography.
Mr. ALEXANDER ROSE (Author, "American Rifle: A Biography): Well, I kind of treat the ...
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; ...friendship, books." It was attributed to J. Thomson. Who is J. Thomson, and where can I find out more about this person? C.B., Chelmsford A. James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish poet and contemporary of literary...
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Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...recent years (see Gerrard). James Sambrook's study of one of the...half of the eighteenth century, James Thomson 1700-1748: A Life (1991), testifies to...eighteenth-century England. Although Thomson and his literary productions are...
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Magazine article from: The Hudson Review
; ...POEM SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON," James Thomson (1700-1748) imagines the apotheosis of the scientist amid...Washington, D.C., I found myself thinking of James Thomson. Although his poetic idiom is antiquated, Thomson...
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Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...elegant sufficiency? was coined by the Scottish poet James Thomson (1700-1748) though it is by no means his great claim to fame. Thomson, and not many people may know this, also wrote...
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Magazine article from: The Antioch Review
; ...American visual and literary arts, Kammen first sketches their European background. Works like The Seasons by James Thomson (1700-1748) "enjoyed considerable popularity in the young republic" but lost favor as the new nation grew less interested...
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Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...years. But even Thomson's best known...later this year, Thomson's works and style...biographer, Professor James Sambrook, who believes Thomson should command...after his death in 1748. Fted by Frederick...on 11 September 1700 in the Borders...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Wallace at Stirling Bridge. 1700: James Thomson, the poet and playwright...artist J M W Turner. Thomson was born in Roxburgh and...Notoriously idle, in later life Thomson received a royal pension...sinecure. He died in 1748 and is buried in Richmond...
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Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...structure with a bust of Thomson and an imposing sculpture...Address to the Shade of Thomson, was read at the...skilled stonemason. James Carter, the project manager, said: "Thomson celebrated the natural...Kelso in September 1700 before the family...where he died in 1748. ...
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