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  • Selling War in a Media Age

    The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century

    Series series The Alan B. and Charna Larkin Series on the American Presidency
    George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" banner in 2003 and the misleading linkages of Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 terrorist attacks awoke many Americans to the techniques used by the White House to put the country on a war footing. Yet Bush was simply following in the footsteps of his predecessors, as the essays in this standout volume reveal in illuminating detail.Written in a lively and ... Read more

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  • Winning While Losing

    Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama

    Series series The Alan B. and Charna Larkin Series on the American Presidency
    During the four decades separating the death of Martin Luther King and the election of Barack Obama, the meaning of civil rights became increasingly complex. Civil rights leaders made great strides in breaking down once-impermeable racial barriers, but they also suffered many political setbacks in their attempts to remedy centuries of discrimination. Complicating matters, the conservative turn in ... Read more

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    Peter Lorre vs. Peter Lorre

    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

    Unabridged

    43 min

    Towards the end of his unique career, movie star Peter Lorre found himself at the centre of an unusual legal case. Incorporating verbatim extracts from the court transcripts, Michael Butt's play wonders what was going through Lorre's troubled mind as he fought to protect his name and identity. Features a cast including Stephen Greif as Peter Lorre, Peter Marinker as Lester Salkow, Kerry Shale as ... Read more

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  • A Thousand Days

    John F. Kennedy in the White House

    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best." — TimeArthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President ... Read more

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  • Why the Right Went Wrong

    Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

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  • Poor People's Movements

    Why They Succeed, How They Fail

    Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great ... Read more

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    How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

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  • The Twentieth Century

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