Michael Martinez: 28 books
The Safety of the Kingdom
Government Responses to Subversive Threats
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The horrendous events of September 11, 2001, heightened awareness of terrorism unlike all but a handful of major catastrophes in American history. Like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, 9/11 is a date forever enshrined...
by J. Michael Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry
Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity
"Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New...
Political Assassinations and Attempts in US History
The Lasting Effects of Gun Violence Against American Political Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The long, dark history of political violence in the United States.
Violence has been employed to achieve political objectives throughout history. Taking the life of a perceived enemy is as old as mankind. Antiquity is filled with examples of political murders, such as when Julius Caesar was felled...
Coming for to Carry Me Home
Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans...
A Long Dark Night
Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was...
by J. Michael Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Many constitutional protections that Americans take for granted today—the right to exclude illegally obtained evidence, the right to government-financed counsel, and the right to remain silent, among others—were not part of the original Bill of Rights, but were the result of criminal trials and...
Heredities
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology through...
Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan
Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In some places, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric hijinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan...
MJ-12: Shadows
A MAJESTIC-12 Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A team of superhuman spies navigate dangerous global espionage in the sequel to the paranormal historical thriller MJ-12: Inception.
It’s 1949, and the Cold War is heating up across the world. For the United States, the key to winning might be Variants—once ordinary US citizens, now imbued...
Terrorist Attacks on American Soil
From the Civil War Era to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Understanding the context of terrorism requires a trek through history, in this case the history of terrorist activity in the United States since the Civil War. Because the topic is large and complex, Terrorists Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War to the Present does not claim to be an exhaustive...
Environmental Sustainability and American Public Administration
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators...
by Michael Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Mars is supposed to be dead…
a fact Lt. Shaila Jain of the Joint Space Command is beginning to doubt in a bad way.
Freak quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory...
Future Bright
A Transforming Vision of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two....
by Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A New York Times bestseller
**“Pedro the book is as smart, as funny, and as diva-esque as Pedro the pitcher . . . Buy the book. Read the book. Celebrate a golden era in Boston baseball.” — Boston Globe
“There is little the eight-time All-Star holds back about any subject as he...
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