Ivan R Dee imprint: 116 books
The Betrayal of Liberalism
How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1999
Just fifty years ago the literary critic Lionel Trilling spoke of liberalism as “not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition” in American society. At the turn of the twentieth century this is clearly no longer the case, when conservative ideas have succeeded in many areas of...
by Heather MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities. This is the message of Heather Mac Donald's new book, in which she brings her special brand of tough and honest journalism to the current war against the police....
The Torment of Secrecy
The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of...
Mao
A Reinterpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
In recent years historians and political observers have vilified Mao Tse-tung and placed him in a class with tyrants like Hitler and Stalin. But, as Lee Feigon points out in his startling revision of Mao, the Chinese leader has been tainted by the actions and policies of the same Soviet-style Communist...
Victorian Minds
A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms. Gertrude Himmelfarb's distinguished...
Not With a Bang But a Whimper
The Politics and Culture of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life....
by August Strindberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic young woman and her valet. Ms. Stockenstrom's new translation retains the rhythm and emotional feel of the original while making the prose more playable for today's audiences.
1968
The Election That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they...
by Athan Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups. Historian Athan Theoharis charges that Hoover was an "indirect blackmailer,"...
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...
Missiles in Cuba
Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date...
Rostenkowski
The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2000
For thirteen years, during a time of Democratic congressional dominance in Washington, Dan Rostenkowski became one of the most influential American legislators of the twentieth century. As chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, the representative from Illinois influenced the nation's...
by John Ernest
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War. He examines fraternal organizations, churches, conventions, mutual aid benefit and literary...
Popular Justice
A History of Lynching in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment performed by "ordinary" people. He confronts racially fragmented historical memory and legacies of popular justice to help the reader make better...