Cecelia Tichi is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is author or editor of eleven books, including Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000, and was awarded the 2009 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association.
22 Ebooks by Cecelia Tichi
Cecelia Tichi: Civic Passions
A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that Ame …
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€19.99
Cecelia Tichi: Exposés and Excess
From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth c …
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€29.99
Cecelia Tichi: Jack London, Enhanced Ebook
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. …
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€43.65
Cecelia Tichi: Shifting Gears
Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many for …
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€29.99
Cecelia Tichi: What Would Mrs. Astor Do?
A richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class—and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States’ population doubled, accom …
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€24.99
Cecelia Tichi: Electronic Hearth
We all talk about the "tube" or "box, " as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an envir …
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€15.29
Cecelia Tichi: Civic Passions
A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that Ame …
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€65.49
Tichi Cecelia Tichi & Ph.D. Wendy Martin Ph.D.: Gilded Age and Progressive Era
This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students.This book helps students to better understand key pieces in literature f …
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€66.28
Cecelia Tichi: Jack London
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. …
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€67.42
Cecelia Tichi: Gilded Age Cocktails
A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of Cocktails The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the a …
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€19.99
Cecelia Tichi: Jazz Age Cocktails
How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go “underground” “Roaring Twenties” America boasted famous firsts: wome …
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€19.99
Cecelia Tichi: Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park
In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val De Vere learns a third young woman’s strangled body has been found nearby in New York’s Central Park. The victim could be someone like …
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€4.99
Cecelia Tichi: A Gilded Death
A formal dinner in palatial, Gilded Age Newport stuns Val De Vere when her closest friend whispers a terrifying rumor. The friend’s ultra-rich auntie’s fatal heart attack at Mrs. Astor’s annual …
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€4.99
Cecelia Tichi: A Fatal Gilded High Note
New York’s ‘Diamond Horseshoe’ balcony in the Metropolitan Opera House glittered with ladies’ jewels in January 1899, and Society seated in private boxes heard Mozart’s murder victim sing his song of …
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€4.99
Wendy Martin & Cecelia Tichi: Best of Times, Worst of Times
Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as "The New Gilded Age, " a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world …
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€33.35
Cecelia Tichi: A Deadly Gilded Free Fall
Toxic medicine, a fanatic Chicago detective, and a fatal plunge down a steep staircase embroil Val and Roddy De Vere in a dangerous quest for facts in 1899. Roddy’s fledgling business teeters as …
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€4.49
Cecelia Tichi: Midcentury Cocktails
A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineering America at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wings and wheels along t …
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€19.99
Cecelia Tichi: A Gilded Drowning Pool
As a girl in the West, Valentine Mackle dodged quicksand along the rivers of the mining camps, but as Mrs. Roderick W. De Vere of New York’s Fifth Avenue, Val is sucked into Society’s own quicksand i …
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€4.49
Cecelia Tichi: Death in a Gilded Frame
Newport Summer 1899-yachts, balls, and famed artists eager to paint portraits of Society’s ‘Queens.’ Western silver heiress Val Mackle De Vere (Mrs. Roderick W.) agrees to ‘sit’ for a portrait for he …
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€5.49
Cecelia Tichi: Embodiment of a Nation
From Harriet Beecher Stowe”s image of the Mississippi”s ‘bosom’ to Henry David Thoreau”s Cape Cod as ‘the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts, ‘ the U.S. environment has been recurrently represe …
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€104.70
Cecelia Tichi: Reading Country Music
With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it’s also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has …
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€40.96
