The Story of America, 1994 by Garraty

The Story of America, 1994 by Garraty

Who has not had emotional rags over addiction or known someone that has experienced the emotional rags of addiction? If we were to change our thinking to possibly looking at the rags of addiction as a wake up call to something better, could it be easier to start addressing addiction and what we need to do to stop it? The only way to cure a mind altering addiction is to stop. But how? When? Can the emotional rags we have stuffed inside us for years be healed? Is it even possible? The answer always lives within us.

Emotional Rags to Spiritual Riches is a rags to riches story. This is a true story with opportunity, hope, and proven examples from the author, who has stayed sober for 17 years and counting. David Stanley Gregory had many Emotional Rags to heal. He shares what it takes just to become willing. Addiction comes in many life styles and afflicts people from Yale to jail. He shares that we all have an addiction to something. His journey has shown him the opportunity that comes out of addiction, the wake up call, the life that is waiting for us. This is his story, your story, and the story of anyone wanting to be free of addictive compulsive behaviors. Because addiction takes on many faces and affects many lifestyles, it has a message for everyone. If this book is in your hands, there is no mistake: it is there for a reason. Go for it Take your own rags to riches story and find out who you really are by learning to let go of what appears to be you. You will be amazed what is in store for you in the way of life's Spiritual Riches.

Do you know someone that is struggling with serious addictions? Do you know someone that has lost their focus because of addictive compulsive behavior? Nudge them with this book on how to heal. They are the only ones that can do the work to change their thinking and change their lives. This is a book that will help them do it.

Mark C. Carnes

Mark C. Carnes received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his Ph.D in history from Columbia University. He has chaired both the history and American studies departments at Barnard College and Columbia University, where he serves as the Ann Whitney Olin professor of history. He is also the general editor of the American National Biography, whose 27th volume will appear in 2011. Carnes has published numerous books on American social and cultural history, including Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (1989), Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1995), Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (2001) and Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books (2002). Carnes also pioneered the Reacting to the Past pedagogy, which won the Theodore Hesburgh Award as the top outstanding pedagogical innovation in the nation (2004). In Reacting to the Past, college students play elaborate games, set in the past, their roles informed by classic texts. (For more on Reacting, see: www.barnard.edu/reacting.) In 2005 the American Historical Association named Carnes the recipient of the William Gilbert Prize for the best article on teaching history. His Mind Games: Rethinking Higher Education will be published in 2012.

John A. Garraty

John A. Garraty held a Ph.D from Columbia University and an L.H.D. from Michigan State University. He was the Gouverneur Morris professor emeritus of history at Columbia. He was also the author, co-author and editor of scores of books and articles, among them biographies of Silas Wright, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Perkins and Theodore Roosevelt. With Carnes, he co-edited the American National Biography. Garraty also contributed a volume -- The New Commonwealth -- to the New American Nation series and published a pioneering comparative study of the Great Depression.

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ISBN 13	9780030975592
ISBN 10	003097559X
Title	The Story of America, 1994
Author	Garraty
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Henry Holt & Company
Year published	1994-01-01
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