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  • The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden

    A First Historical Assessment

    by Kathryn Cramer Brownell, María Cristina García, Joel K. Goldstein, Michael Kazin, Daniel C. Kurtzer, Joyce Mao, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Timothy Naftali, Ekaterina Pravilova, Noah Rosenblum, Paul Sabin, Timothy Stewart-Winter, Sean H. Vanatta, John Witt, Mary Ziegler ...
    Leading historians offer the first look at Biden’s four years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Joseph R. Biden presents a first draft of history by providing insights into how this one-term president fits within the broader historical forces shaping the United States in the twenty-first century. Acclaimed political historian Julian Zelizer brings together some of today’s leading scholars to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • We Own the Future

    Democratic Socialism—American Style

    Edited by Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier, Michael Kazin ...
    A stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for "socialism, American style"It's a strange day when a New York Times conservative columnist is forced to admit that the left is winning, but as David Brooks wrote recently, "the American left is on the cusp of a great victory." Among Americans under thirty, 43 percent had a favorable view of socialism, while only 32 percent had a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What It Took to Win

    A History of the Democratic Party

    by Michael Kazin ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceOne of Kirkus Reviews' ten best US history books of 2022A leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for "moral capitalism," from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden.One of Kirkus Reviews' 40 most anticipated books of 2022One of Vulture's "49 books we can't wait to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Godly Hero

    The Life of William Jennings Bryan

    by Michael Kazin ...
    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.Politician, evangelist, and reformer William Jennings Bryan was the most popular public speaker of his time. In this acclaimed biography—the first major reconsideration of Bryan’s life in forty years–award-winning historian Michael Kazin illuminates his astonishing career and the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • American Dreamers

    How the Left Changed a Nation

    by Michael Kazin ...
    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVEThe definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky.While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Populist Persuasion

    An American History

    by Michael Kazin ...
    In The Populist Persuasion**, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run through our civic life, filling it with discord and meaning from the birth of the United States until the present day.**Kazin argues persuasively that the power of populism lies in its adaptable nature. Across the ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Great Strikes of 1877

    by David O. Stowell, Joshua Brown, Steven J Hoffman, Michael Kazin, David Miller, Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    A spectacular example of collective protest, the Great Strike of 1877--actually a sequence of related actions--was America's first national strike and the first major strike against the railroad industry. In some places, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses, creating one of the nation's first general strikes. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers, the Great Strikes of 1877 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Barons of Labor

    The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era

    by Michael Kazin ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    From the depression of the 1890s through World War I, construction tradesman held an important place in San Francisco's economic, political, and social life. Michael Kazin's award-winning study delves into how the city’s Building Trades Council (BTC) created, accumulated, used, and lost their power. He traces the rise of the BTC into a force that helped govern San Francisco, controlled its ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Defining the Age

    Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

    by Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...
    The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Defining the Age

    Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

    by Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...
    The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. (Two volume set)

    Edited by Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, Adam Rothman ...
    A comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of U.S. political historyAn essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped American politics from the founding to today. Broad in scope, the book addresses both the traditional topics of political history—such as eras, institutions, political parties, ... Read more

    $302.39 USD

  • The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History

    Edited by Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, Adam Rothman ...
    An essential guide to U.S. politics, from the founding to todayWith 150 accessible articles written by more than 130 leading experts, this essential reference provides authoritative introductions to some of the most important and talked-about topics in American history and politics, from the founding to today. Abridged from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History, this ... Read more

    $25.19 USD