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Two dozen true stories on the taking of trophy whitetail deer.

Are you a liberal, or are you a conservative? In this book, you may laugh or get angry. Either way, you will think about what you are reading and ask yourself, Is this me? or say, I know someone like that. This is a lighthearted look at the political thinking of our day. - John Bushman The intended purpose of this book is primarily entertainment for Red States; however, if it does offend, well, a tiger is a tiger. - Bill Ediger Everywhere you turn, you can find a liberal. This book showcases liberal thinking patterns. With this book in hand, all you have to do is turn on the TV, open the newspaper, visit a school or university and you will find your local liberal on many of these pages. But keep watching, because they are vanishing.

A collection of essays on faith and scholarship written in honor of LDS historian Richard L. Bushman.

In Lilly Sand kids pick lopsicles and eat dot hogs. They toddily-walk, or slide down a canyon hill inside bubbles of boiling dust. One weaves in buttery strides, two-stepping, as his neon soccer ball dances backward. An adopted child, in America where skins are a hodgepodge of hues, wonders how it would be to look like her mother. Children of all ages will enjoy the tongue-tickling, lovely squishy hugs, and honeyed hums on these pages. Marilyn Bushman-Carlton is the award-winning author of three poetry books. She has five children who have blessed her with the sixteen grandchildren who inspired this work. This is her first children's book. Justin T. Carlton holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University. He is the father of three and is one of Marilyn's five children.

The 101st Pennsylvania Volunteer Records consist of a sergeant's roll book belonging to Sgt. Thomas Bushman of Company K. The book contains a list of names and casualties. There is also a letter from David Stewart in 1875 and another list of dead.

The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about. Richard L. Bushman argues that monarchy entailed more than having a king as head of state: it was an elaborate political culture with implications for social organization as well. Massachusetts, moreover, was entirely loyal to the king and thoroughly imbued with that culture. Why then did the colonies become republican in 1776? The change cannot be attributed to a single thinker such as John Locke or to a strain of political thought such as English country party rhetoric. Instead, it was the result of tensions ingrained in the colonial political system that surfaced with the invasion of parliamentary power into colonial affairs after 1763. The underlying weakness of monarchical government in Massachusetts was the absence of monarchical society -- the intricate web of patronage and dependence that existed in England. But the conflict came from the colonists' conception of rulers as an alien class of exploiters whose interest was the plundering of the colonies. In large part, colonial politics was the effort to restrain official avarice. The author explicates the meaning of "interest" in political discourse to show how that conception was central in the thinking of both the popular party and the British ministry. Management of the interest of royal officials was a problem that continually bedeviled both the colonists and the crown. Conflict was perennial because the colonists and the ministry pursued diverging objectives in regulating colonial officialdom. Ultimately the colonists came to see that safety against exploitation by self-interested rulers would be assured only by republican government.

Marilyn Bushman-Carlton notices the differences, inherent or learned, between men and women, even in her own family. Take sports, for example. In "The Girls' Game," she notices how "the fathers think of soccer / as the usual battlefield," while the daughters hear "their mothers' cotton voices" and apologize. "Oh, sorry!" they tell their opponents: "No, you go ahead." She makes an arc from the present back to her own childhood, then forward through marriage and the challenges of parenthood. She explores a woman's choices, the joys and bumps along the way. For instance, she realizes her husband would put his body "between mine and a smoking train," then asks, "Would you, My Sweet, / like Pierre de Châtelard, / write poems for your lady, be cinched / into clothes with collars big as carriage wheels?" She writes of watching, unnoticed, her son dancing in his room, spinning in "erratic ovals." "I watch," she writes, "because I have never been a boy, fourteen, shuffling into a man, / ... I have only been a mother / ... I have been a girl / in love with a boy this age ..." "Love is a delicate chain of moments," the poet writes. Her approach to poetry is the same as toward love, delicate and interconnected. As Kathleen Bryce Niles, past editor of the Comstock Review, writes, Bushman-Carlton is "an astute observer of human beings, particularly those closest to her," and her "poems are both honest and touching."

Bushman discusses the folkloric significance of quote boards in college apartments. Explains the purpose of quote boards and how they are created. Discusses how quote boards serve to unify an apartment and act as a release valve. Describes gender differences, explaining that girls have quote boards much more than boys.