Robert O Self: 3 books
All in the Family
The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians...
American Babylon
Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland...
In Search of the Black Panther Party
New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover called “the single greatest threat to the nation’s internal security” has been celebrated and denigrated,...