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McCarthyism
The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s Red Scare
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In this succinct text, Jonathan Michaels examines the rise of anti-communist sentiment in the postwar United States, exploring the factors that facilitated McCarthyism and assessing the long-term effects on US politics and culture. McCarthyism:The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s...
We the People
The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different from...
Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Obama's presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. Through interviews with black intellectuals, leaders and activists BBC journalist Griffith connects the dots with past civil rights and black power...
When Washington Burned
An Illustrated History of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
To commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, this book tells the complete story of the great conflict between a young United States of America and imperial Great Britain. From the roots of the conflict, through a profile of the two armies, to descriptions of the great battles and events of...
United States Army in WWII - the Mediterranean - Salerno to Cassino
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 16 maps and 94 illustrations]
The focus of the American and British war effort in 1943 was on the ancient lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea where in May victory came at last in Tunisia and where in July Allied armies began a five-week campaign to conquer Sicily. The invasion of Italy...
The American Miracle
Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
LUCKY... OR BLESSED?
The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: At moments of crisis, when the odds against success seem overwhelming and disaster looks imminent, fate intervenes to provide deliverance and progress. Historians may categorize these incidents as happy accidents,...
Young Patriots
The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and the Revolution That Created the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
"Cerami spins a good historical tale." --Kirkus Reviews
Seven years after the revolution, America was in crisis. The government didn't work, but the citizens didn't care--or were in a state of rebellion. Then two unknown men, Hamilton and Madison (unknown especially compared to the...
Like No Other Time
The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider’s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation’s history.
The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the...
The 9/11 Report
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
With Reporting and Analysis by the New York Times
What happened on 9/11 and how? Have we learned any lessons? Are we safer now?
The questions every American wants answered.
Since September 11, 2001, Americans have wondered how the tragic events of that day could have occurred....
by Robert Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their...
America in the World
A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it partner with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? Americans have been grappling with questions like these throughout the nation's history, and especially...
The Sorrows of Empire
Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From the author of the prophetic national bestseller Blowback, a startling look at militarism, American style, and its consequences abroad and at home
In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's "lone superpower," then as a "reluctant...
Maximalist
America in the World from Truman to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a startling and provocative assessment of America’s global dominance. Maximalist puts the history of our foreign policy in an unexpected new light, while drawing fresh, compelling lessons for the present and future.
When...
From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama
African American Political Success, 1966-2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American to run for a public office or to face the complexities of race in a political campaign. For over a century,...