Period photographs depict noteworthy buildings, monuments, and other feats of engineering.

The author's boyhood home in Alabama, one of Wright's Usonian houses, is the point of departure for the narrative, which interweaves intriguing details of Ford's interest in setting up a planned community and, later, of the development of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the single most important regional development in the United States. Just as the Roosevelt administration was putting together its plans for TVA, Wright was imagining an American utopia - Broadacre City - where every family would be guaranteed a lush green acre of land.

Throughout the country, and even this region, people view the South through myth and stereotype. It's not surprising. If they turn to newspapers, to television and radio, to popular films and literature, to most history books and folklore, they encounter these distortions. They find insulting portraits of Southerners, whitewashed presentations of southern economics and politics, selective visions of history, misunderstandings of relationships between people, and between people and their land and work. Many trivial qualities are romanticized; other important ones are totally ignored. Blacks are presented only as victims of racism, and labor struggles are completely forgotten. This view is inevitable when people simply treat the South as an aberration of mainstream America, or a remnant of some past culture. We at Southern Exposure look at the South from another perspective. This is our home, we are of it and examine it that we may know more of ourselves and our neighbors. These are the politics and culture that surround us and affect us daily, that we must analyze, praise and attack so our lives can grow and prosper. And this is the ground from which we must view the larger world. By listening to local tobacco farmers discuss the pressures on them to expand or die, we can better understand Earl Butz's plan for US agribusiness. By hearing a bluesman's story, we come to appreciate how a particular culture evolves from material hardship and inspires immense creativity.

Here are 1,150 examples of the in C.I. from the U.S.A., including trademarks, logos and stationery systems.

The Muscle Shoals: First Frontier of these United States in-depth study of a unique place in the wilds of American History. A tumbling stretch of rough water on the Tennessee River first populated by the Cherokee and Chickasaw people, the Muscle Shoals would become a magnet for settlement and trade-as well as the object of schemes and dreams, speculation, plans, and politics.

From 1800 until the Civil War, the White House was the largest residence in the United States. To the nation, it represented--and continues to represent--family values and national tradition. Here is a beautifully illustrated history, filled with lively anecdotes and dazzling photographs of Christmases celebrated by First Families from the Washingtons to the Bushes. 130 photos, 50 in color.

A sourcebook of factual information and references to directories on such subjects as success, sex, stress, drugs, nutrition, money, family problems, high school and college, community service, jobs and careers, runaways, health, religion, legal rights, and voting.