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  • Antiwarriors

    The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds

    by Melvin Small ...
    Series series Vietnam: America in the War Years
    The antiDVietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune_on college campuses, in neighborhoods, and in Washington. Although it did not create enough pressure on decision-makers to end U.S. involvement in the war, the movement's impact was monumental. It served as a major constraint on the government's ability to escalate, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A Companion to Richard M. Nixon

    Edited by Melvin Small ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    This companion offers an overview of Richard M. Nixon’s life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the evolution and current state, of Nixon scholarship.Examines the central arguments and scholarly debates that surround his term in officeExplores Nixon’s legacy and the historical significance of his years as presidentCovers the full range of topics, from his campaigns for Congress ... Read more

    $199.00 USD

  • The Good Fight Continues

    World War II Letters From the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

    Edited by Peter N. Carroll, Michael Nash, Melvin Small ...
    Written with passion and intelligence, the letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in World War II express the raw idealism of anti-fascist soldiers who experienced the war in boot camps, cockpits, and foxholes, but never lost sight of the great global issues at stake.When the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, only one group of American soldiers had already confronted the ... Read more

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  • Restless Giant

    The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    In Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments. We meet the era's many memorable figures and explore the "culture wars" ... Read more

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  • The Shadow Party

    How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party

    by David Horowitz ...
    America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influential and powerful Americans secretly stirring up disunion and disloyalty in the shifting shadows of the Democratic Party.Radical infiltrators have been quietly transforming America's societal, cultural, and political institutions for more than a ... Read more

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  • Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974

    The United States, 1945-1974

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Richard M. Nixon

    The American Presidents Series: The 37th President, 1969-1974

    by Elizabeth Drew ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidencyIn this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M. Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to understanding his presidency. She shows how Nixon was surprisingly indecisive on domestic issues and often ... Read more

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  • American Empire

    The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000

    by Joshua Freeman, Eric Foner ...
    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominanceIn this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened by World War II transformed a country once defined by its regional character into a uniform and cohesive ... Read more

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  • The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order

    1964-1980

    by Steven F. Hayward ...
    The Age of Reagan brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan’s ascent to the White House. Drawing on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had to endure since the decade before the Civil War.Hayward captures an America at war with itself—and ... Read more

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  • The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution

    1980-1989

    by Steven F. Hayward ...
    “Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don’t know where to look.”–President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981Hero. It was a word most Americans weren’t using much in 1980. As they waited on gas and unemployment lines, as their enemies abroad grew ever more aggressive, and as one after another their leaders failed them, Americans began to believe the country’s ... Read more

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  • The Eve of Destruction

    How 1965 Transformed America

    by James T. Patterson ...
    At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been ... Read more

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