Steven: 5874 books
by Steven J Niven
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Affordable, readable, and indispensable, this pocket biography of Barack Obama allows you to put the story of our 44th President right in your back pocket. Written in a clear and concise style, this biography is accessible for anyone interested in a brief yet thorough introduction to Barack Obama. Steven...
Selling the Korean War
Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War , Steven Casey explores how...
In The Company Of Black Men
The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities.
In...
by Steven Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
In 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy Steven Hill addresses the problems plaguing the US political system, outlining his ten-step program to improve American democracy. He proposes specific reforms to give voters more choices at the ballot box, boost voter turnout, reduce Senate 'filibustering'...
Fixing Elections
The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Fixing Elections shows our whole 18th-century Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures. Steven Hill argues our geographic-based, Winner Take All political system is at the root of many of our worst political problems, including poor minority and majority representation,...
Churchill on Leadership
Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Success often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as true in the world of commerce. A wise, witty, and inspiring leader, Churchill ran Great Britain like a...
by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Steven Capsuto
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
WITH MORE THAN 50 VINTAGE PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
From the 1880s to 1920s, more than 2 million Jews immigrated to the United States. Most were fleeing poverty and persecution in Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire. As the U.S. Jewish population swelled from 250,000 to 4 million, they built...
The Age of Evangelicalism
America's Born-Again Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so powerful and pervasive that political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote of "a sense in which we are all...
Separate and Unequal
The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
From a New York Times bestselling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality
In Separate and Unequal, New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National...
Building a Civil Society
Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally...
by Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations...
by Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The Gold Standard for Textbooks on American Foreign Policy
American Foreign Policy Since World War II provides you with an understanding of America’s current challenges by exploring its historical experience as the world’s predominant power since World War II. Through this process of historical...
by Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. DALLAS 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city-and a nation.
In the months and weeks...
Shakedown
The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
As their infatuation with President Obama fades, millions of Americans anxiously ask, Is this the change we were waiting for? The current administration represents change, for sure, Steven Malanga argues - a momentous transformation of the fundamental structure of American politics. A self-interested...