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  • The Politics of Purity

    Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy

    by Clayton Anderson Coppin, Jack C. High ...
    Spearheaded by Harvey Washington Wiley, the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 launched the federal regulation of food and drugs in the United States. Wiley is often lauded as a champion of public interest for bringing about a law that required healthful ingredients and honest labeling. Clayton Coppin and Jack High demonstrate, however, that Wiley was in fact surreptitiously allied with business ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A Century of the Sherman Act

    American Economic Opinion, 1890-1990

    by Jack C. High, Wayne E. Gable ...
    This book celebrates the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by gathering together a century of interpretation and commentary on that piece of legislation. Opinions represented include John Bates Clark, Edward S. Mason, Joe S. Bain, J.K. Galbraith, Joseph A. Schumpeter, G.B. Richardson, Oliver E. Williamson, Robert M. Bork, Elizabeth E. Bailey, Richard H. Fink, Robert D. Tollison, and Henry Carter Adams ... Read more

    $55.89 USD

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    A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

    by Harvey Levenstein ...
    An "entertaining and enlightening" history of the scares, scams, and pseudoscience that have made food a source of anxiety in America ( The Boston Globe).Are eggs the perfect protein, or cholesterol bombs? Is red wine good for my heart, or bad for my liver? Will pesticides and processed foods kill me? In this book, food historian Harvey Levenstein encourages us to take a deep breath, and reveals ... Read more

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  • FDR's Folly

    How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

    by Jim Powell ...
    The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects and propping up thecountry on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • A Square Meal

    A Culinary History of the Great Depression

    by Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe ...
    A James Beard Foundation Book Award–winning study of how the Great Depression changed the way the United States eats."With a dinner plate as their lens, the authors explore one of America's darkest hours." — Wall Street JournalThe idea of America as a place of abundance is enshrined in our culture, from Jefferson's agrarian democracy to the immensity of our supermarkets. The Great Depression, ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Depression

    1921: The Crash That Cured Itself

    by James Grant ...
    James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes” (The Wall Street Journal).In 1920–1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Kelloggs

    The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

    by Howard Markel ...
    ***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***"What's more American than Corn Flakes?" —Bing CrosbyFrom the much admired medical historian (“Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be”—Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addiction (“Absorbing, vivid”—Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page)—the story of America’s empire builders: ... Read more

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  • Citizen Coke

    The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism

    by Bartow J. Elmore ...
    "Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about…the Coca-Cola system—past and present." —Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola CompanyBy examining “the real thing” ingredient by ingredient, this brilliant history shows how Coke used a strategy of outsourcing and leveraged free public resources, market muscle, and lobbying power to build a global empire on the sale of sugary water. Coke became ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Cornered

    The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction

    by Barry C. Lynn ...
    "A manifesto for our times."—Thomas Frank, Wall Street JournalBarry C. Lynn, one of the most original and surprising students of the American economy, paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector ... Read more

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  • The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    by Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter ...
    The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today- ... Read more

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  • Ashes to Ashes (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

    by Richard Kluger ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes—mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product—with such sweep and enlivening detail."A great battleship of a book—formidable, majestic.”—The New York Times Book Review**Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, ... Read more

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  • Eating History

    Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine

    by Andrew Smith ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts-in delicious detail-the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style of American cooking, along with the ingredients that compose it, has never been fixed. With a cast of characters including bold inventors, savvy ... Read more

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