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  • The War on Drugs

    A History

    by David Farber ...
    Essays offering a revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" in the United States.Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges—most of them involving cannabis—and nearly 500,000 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Jobs to Be Done

    A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation

    by Stephen Wunker, Jessica Wattman, David Farber ...
    In a challenging economy filled with multiple competitors, no one can afford to stagnate. Yet, innovation is notoriously difficult. How do you pinpoint the winning ideas that customers will love?Sifting through purchasing data for clues about what might sell or haphazardly brainstorming ideas are typical strategies. However, innovation expert Stephen Wunker offers the effective Jobs method: ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Great Dreams

    America in the 1960s

    by David Farber ...
    Series series American Century
    In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature, explores Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the entertainment business, the drug ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taken Hostage

    The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam

    by David Farber ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds of recently declassified government documents, historian David Farber takes the first in-depth ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Crack

    Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

    by David Farber ...
    A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. Based on interviews, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • America in the Seventies

    Edited by Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Series series CultureAmerica
    Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American historyThis is the first major work to relate the economic decline and cultural despair of the Seventies to the creative ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Beyond Pearl Harbor

    A Pacific History

    Edited by Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Everybody Ought to Be Rich

    The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist

    by David Farber ...
    Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions for DuPont and General Motors, and helped ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism

    A Short History

    by David Farber ...
    The story of modern conservatism through the lives of six leading figuresThe Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement. David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Sixties

    From Memory to History

    Edited by David Farber ...
    This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

    by David Farber, Beth Bailey ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The First Strange Place

    The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

    by Beth Bailey, David Farber ...
    Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic of this initial encounter than Hawaii, the target of the first ... Read more

    $16.99 USD