Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james wright steely”
Skip side bar filters

  • Parks for Texas

    Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal

    by James Wright Steely ...
    Series series Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
    State parks across Texas offer a world of opportunities for recreation and education. Yet few park visitors or park managers know the remarkable story of how this magnificent state park system came into being during the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival records and examining especially the political context of the New Deal, James Wright Steely here provides the first ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Path to Power

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

    by Robert A. Caro ...
    Series Book 1 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Means of Ascent

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

    by Robert A. Caro ...
    Series Book 2 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Colossus

    Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century

    by Michael Hiltzik ...
    As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel.Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Coyote Warrior

    One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation

    by Paul Van Develder ...
    "A major work of American history. . . . It is our country's story and it is our responsibility to know it." —Award-winning author Rick BassWhen Congress seized the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara homelands at the end of World War II, tribal chairman Martin Cross, the great-grandson of chiefs who fed and sheltered Lewis and Clark through the winter of 1804, waged an epic but losing battle against the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Pacific Northwest

    An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes ...
    Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Fall of Wisconsin

    The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

    by Dan Kaufman ...
    **National bestseller"Masterful." —Jane Mayer, best-selling author of Dark Money**The Fall of Wisconsin is a deeply reported, searing account of how the state’s progressive tradition was undone and Wisconsin itself turned into a laboratory for national conservatives bent on remaking the country. Neither sentimental nor despairing, the book tells the story of the systematic dismantling of laws ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Colorado

    A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

    by Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel ...
    Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.The fifth ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    by Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Silver State, 3rd Edition

    Nevada'S Heritage Reinterpreted

    by James W. Hulse ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada has changed dramatically over the past quarter century, and in this third edition of The Silver State, renowned historian James W. Hulse recounts the major events—historical, political, and social—that have shaped our state. Hulse’s cohesive approach offers students and general readers an accessible account of Nevada’s colorful history. The new edition highlights the social and political ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Killing for Coal

    America’s Deadliest Labor War

    by Thomas G. Andrews ...
    On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Michigan

    A History of Explorers, Entrepreneurs, and Everyday People

    by Roger L. Rosentreter ...
    The history of Michigan is a fascinating story of breathtaking geography enriched by an abundant water supply, of bold fur traders and missionaries who developed settlements that grew into major cities, of ingenious entrepreneurs who established thriving industries, and of celebrated cultural icons like the Motown sound. It is also the story of the exploitation of Native Americans, racial discord ... Read more

    $21.59 USD