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  • Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger

    School Segregation in Rochester, New York

    by Justin Murphy ...
    In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger**, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy argues that Rochester's educational disparities stem from historical and ongoing racial segregation.** Education reform alone cannot resolve racial inequity; cities such as Rochester must first dismantle segregation.Through interviews and documents, Murphy shows how discriminatory policies and personal prejudice ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • A Consumers' Republic

    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Read more

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  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

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  • Until I Am Free

    Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

    **National Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist · 53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography“[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Blain’s book functions simultaneously as a much needed history lesson and an indispensable guide for modern activists.”—New York Times Book Review**Explores the Black activist’s ideas and political ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • White Flight

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

    A Social History Of Welfare In America

    With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to end welfare as we know it.”In the Shadow of the Poorhouse examines the origins of social welfare, both public and private, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Uprising

    How Scott Walker Betrayed Wisconsin and Inspired a New Politics of Protest

    by John Nichols ...
    On February 11, 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced he would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees and teachers. In response, people rose up in mass protest, and Wisconsin became a reference point for a renewal of labor militancy and radical politics. These protests elicited extensive national media coverage, and drew more attention from the general public than any ... Read more

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  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Saving America's Cities

    Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

    "An incisive treatment of the entire urban-planning world in America in the last half of the 20th century" —Alan Ehrenhalt, The New York TimesIn twenty-first century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Many Minds, One Heart

    SNCC's Dream for a New America

    How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time. She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD