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The Great Exception
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and...
by Michael Moran
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
A leading forecaster of economic and political trends takes a sharp look at the decline of American influence in the world, and how it can prepare for the new reality.
The age of American global dominance is ending. Today, a host of forces are converging to challenge its cherished notion of...
A Most Imperfect Union
A Contrarian History of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Enough with the dead white men! The true story of the United States lies with its most overlooked and marginalized peoples-the workers, immigrants, housewives, and slaves who built America from the ground up, and who made this country what it is today. In A Most Imperfect Union, cultural critic Ilan...
by George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation is the name of a list best known as a school writing exercise of George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America. Most of the rules have been traced to a French etiquette manual, dating from the...
by Edward Cary
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
For any readers who have visited Union Square in New York, maybe you have seen a bronze statue standing among the trees of the park. It represents a tall young man, in the close-fitting uniform of an American General of the Revolution. He is erect and with his right hand he clasps a sword against...
The Korean War and The Vietnam War
People, Politics, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In the 1950s and 1960s and on into the 1970s, the United States was involved in two wars fought far from home—one in aid of South Korea against the neighboring Communist North Korea, and a second waged through the jungles of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Both of these military engagements were a...
Anything for a Vote
Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
A History of Mud-Slinging, Character Assassination, And Other Election Strategies—Revised and Updated for 2012!
Today’s political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative campaigning. But history reveals that smear campaigns are as American as apple pie....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important work by the Army recognizes and highlights the contributions of African Americans to the military history of the United States. This is accomplished by providing a historic context on the African American...
Executing the Rosenbergs
Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century." Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper...
The Cold War
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet...
1983
Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983--the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon
The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one--more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the United...
Empire of the Summer Moon
Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
This stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West was a major New York Times bestseller.
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account...
United States Army in WWII - Europe - Cross-Channel Attack
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 4 charts, 31 maps and 62 illustrations]
Cross-Channel Attack has been planned and written as the introduction to the history of those campaigns in 1944 and 1945 which led to the destruction of the German armies in the west. It provides necessary background for the study of all the campaigns...
Health Care for Some
Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing...