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The Hero's Farewell
What Happens When CEOs Retire
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1991
How a business replaces its chief executive often determines that firm's future. If a business does not effectively manage the transfer of power, utter turmoil can result, with profound implications not only for the CEO, but also for the other employees, the shareholders, and the community at large....
The Marketplace of Revolution
How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...
"Myne Owne Ground"
Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed...
A History of US: An Age of Extremes
1880-1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. For the captains of industry men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention...
Presidential Campaigns
From George Washington to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
Were presidential campaigns always as bitter as they have been in recent years? Or is the current style of campaigning a new political development? In this revised and updated edition of Presidential Campaigns the answers to these questions are clear: the race for the presidency, although at times...
Lady Bird Johnson
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into...
Terror, Security, and Money:Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security
Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses--which have risen by more than a trillion dollars, not including war costs--the common query has been, "Are we safer?" This, however, is the wrong question. Of course we are "safer"--the posting of a single...
Politics at Work
How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's...
The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris...
Wrap Contracts
Foundations and Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
When you visit a website, check your email, or download music, you enter into a contract that you probably don't know exists. "Wrap contracts" - shrinkwrap, clickwrap and browsewrap agreements - are non-traditional contracts that look nothing like legal documents. Contrary to what courts...
Endangered Dreams
The Great Depression in California
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1996
California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than...
by W.J. Rorabaugh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Southern Honor
Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing...
India At War
The Subcontinent and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughout the world. It was a time of social relocation, reorienting ideas of patriotism and geographical attachment, and forcing the movement of people across oceans...