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  • Lowell Irish

    by David D. McKean ...
    Series series American Heritage
    Irish immigrants streamed into the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, fleeing poverty and later the Great Hunger. Irish families established a neighborhood called the Acre, and some rose to roles as successful business owners who shaped the history of their new home. Hugh Cummiskey emigrated from Northern Ireland to become a powerful work gang leader and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Flag Was Still There

    A History of the American Experiment in Five Anniversaries

    by David McKean, M. Todd Bennett ...
    **A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America’s birth.“Brilliantly written and illuminating.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution**America is the rare country that was founded on an idea, and it was a truly radical idea for its time: the belief that the people of a country ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Watching Darkness Fall

    FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler

    by David McKean ...
    A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentionsAs German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Great Decision

    Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court

    by Cliff Sloan, David McKean ...
    In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jefferson was a bitterly contested tie, and the government neared collapse. The Supreme Court had no clear purpose or power -- no one had even thought to build it a courtroom in the new capital city. When Adams sought to prolong his policies in defiance of the electorate by packing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Partners of First Resort

    America, Europe, and the Future of the West

    by David McKean, Bart M. Szewczyk ...
    Fostering a transatlantic renaissance to salvage the Western allianceIs the Western alliance, which brought together the United States and Europe after World War II, in an inevitable state of decline, and if so, can anything be done to repair it? There seems little doubt that fragmentation of the Western alliance was under way even before Donald Trump's unorthodox policy making broadened the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Suspected of Independence

    The Life of Thomas McKean, America's First Power Broker

    by David McKean ...
    The last signatory to the Declaration of Independence was one of the earliest to sign up for the Revolution: Thomas McKean lived a radical, boisterous, politically intriguing life and was one of the most influential and enduring of America's Founding Fathers.Present at almost all of the signature moments on the road to American nationhood, from the first Continental Congress onward, Thomas McKean ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Strategy: Fast Track to Success

    by David McKean ...
    Series series Fast Track
    GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT IN STRATEGY. FAST.To move up the business ladder, you will need to get involved in creating strategy and gain experience in the more common strategic techniques. More importantly, you need to focus on the really valuable activities – good networking, crisp planning and effective implementation. Fast Track to Success: Strategy will teach you the key skills you need to excel ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Watching Darkness Fall

    FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler

    by David McKean ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the US Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau.As German forces closed in on the French capital, Bullitt wrote the president, "In case I should get blown up ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Agrarian Environments

    Resources, Representations, and Rule in India

    Edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Agrawal ...
    Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change. The contributors claim that attempts to explain environmental conflicts in terms of the local versus the global, indigenous versus outsiders, women versus men, or the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD