Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
Troubled Journey
From Pearl Harbor to Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Hill and Wang first published Troubled Journey: From Pearl Harbor to Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Lyndon Johnson's War
America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Hunt reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped...
The Specter of Communism
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution to the death...
The Organic Machine
The Remaking of the Columbia River
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both...
by Robert Brustein
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
In his collection of essays and reviews, Robert Brustein makes the argument that the American Theatre is enjoying a renaissance that has not been unacknowledged.
Creatures of Accident
The Rise of the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This "vertical" dimension of evolution has been downplayed in both the specialist and popular literature on evolution, in large part because it...
Fortunate Son
The Life of Elvis Presley
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Elvis Presley was celebrity's perfect storm. His sole but substantial contribution was talent, a fact Charles L. Ponce de Leon is careful to demonstrate throughout his wonderfully contextual Fortunate Son. Even as the moments of lucidity necessary to exercise that talent grew rarer and rarer, Elvis...
Murdering McKinley
The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant...
The Long, Bitter Trail
Andrew Jackson and the Indians
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
An account of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830, which relocated Eastern Indians to the Okalahoma Territory over the Trail of Tears, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs which was given control over their lives.
Not All of Us Are Saints
A Doctor's Journey With the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
"A powerful report of the experiences of a physician living and practicing medicine in the inner city ... A deeply disturbing picture of the degradation of ghetto life and a painfully honest account of one man's attempt to do something about it." - Kirkus Reviews
Short Eyes
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award
This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and to create a semblance...
The Genius of Earth Day
How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political...
Americans
A Collision of Histories
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1997
In this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America's different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic seaboard to the battle over our nation's destiny in the aftermath of the Civil War, Countryman reveals...
by Langston Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have shared his readers feelings of loss and dispossession, but he also cheered them on with his wonderful wit and passion for life.