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  • Voices of Protest

    Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • John F. Kennedy

    The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at homeJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961—the youngest man ever elected to the office—and he personified what he called ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    "No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more difficult times. Roosevelt thrived in crisis. It brought out his greatness, and his guile. It triggered his almost uncanny ability to communicate ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    "No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more difficult times. Roosevelt thrived in crisis. It brought out his greatness, and his guile. It triggered his almost uncanny ability to communicate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The End Of Reform

    New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society. The End of Reform shows how the liberalism of the early New Deal—which set out to repair and, if ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • The Publisher

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    "No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more difficult times. Roosevelt thrived in crisis. It brought out his greatness, and his guile. It triggered his almost uncanny ability to communicate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition

    A Practical Guide to the College Classroom

    by Alan Brinkley, Esam E. El-Fakahany, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Charles B. Forcey, Jr., Mathew L. Ouellett, Eric Rothschild ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Academic Life
    Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself. The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition, is an extraordinarily helpful guide for anyone facing the daunting challenge of putting together a course and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Politics at the Turn of the Century

    by Seyla Benhabib, Harvey C. Mansfield, Atul Kohli, Pratap B. Mehta, Tianjian Shi, T J. Pempel, Charles H. Fairbanks Jr., Michael Zuckert, Todd Gitlin, Alan Wolfe, Alan Brinkley, James Ceaser, Delba Winthrop, Paul Pierson, RICHARD A. EPSTEIN, Claus Offe, John Dunn, Andrew J. Nathan, Vladimir Tismaneanu ...
    With the end of the Cold War, the death of Communism, and the decline of Socialism, what are the primary issues, ideologies, and parties that now structure politics? Melzer, Zinman, and Weinberger have compiled essays from prominent experts to examine the politics of the past to help plot the political future.The first half of the volume addresses “Identity Politics” and “Big Government” and their ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Publisher

    Henry Luce and His American Century

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 21 min

    As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Henry Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit Hadden conceived the idea of Time: a "news-magazine" that ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • An Unfinished Life

    John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963

    by Robert Dallek ...
    Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had he survived.Robert Dallek succeeds as no other ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    “Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions.”—David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from FearRedefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and ... Read more

    $15.09 USD