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“morton keller”

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  • My Times & Life

    A Historian's Progress Through a Contentious Age

    by Morton Keller ...
    Morton Keller recounts his "not extraordinary life played out in quite extraordinary times"—from the Great Depression through World War Two, the cold war, the sixties, and 9/11. A classic American saga of respectable achievement from relatively humble origins, his life through eight-plus decades as a dues-paying member of the middle class resonates beyond the individual to echo the experiences, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's Three Regimes

    A New Political History

    by Morton Keller ...
    Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate as never before the slow steady evolution of American politics, government, and law. The three regimes, which mark longer ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing

    The Obama Administration in Historical Perspective

    by Morton Keller ...
    Taking a critical look at the realities that have shaped the first stage of Barack Obama's presidency, Morton Keller offers a history-focused examination of Obama's developing style of governing, with particular attention to his signature policies of the stimulus, financial, and health care reforms. The author considers this presidency in light of the facts of contemporary political life and the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Harvard Modern

    The Rise of America's University

    by Morton Keller, Phyllis Keller ...
    Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end it was widely regarded as the nation's, and the world's, leading institution of higher education. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Obama's Time

    A History

    by Morton Keller ...
    Barack Obama swept into office in 2008, capitalizing on his fresh and compelling political persona, the appeal of his "Hope and Change" campaign, the pre-election financial crisis, and a wave of popular discontent with his predecessor. The nation's first African-American president stirred unusually high expectations, and his first term saw the passage of a substantial economic stimulus package, a ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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    by David Roediger ...
    Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association C.L.R. James AwardSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical ... Read more

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  • A Renegade History of the United States

    by Thaddeus Russell ...
    In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the taboo and made America the land of the free.In vivid portraits of renegades and their “respectable” ... Read more

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  • Social Justice Fallacies

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    **In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths that underpin the social justice movement“Light on rhetoric, seriously heavy on data, and accessible in style, there is a reason why Sowell has been described as ‘among the most brilliant thinkers in the world today’ by Harvard University’s Steven Pinker and an ‘American sage’ by the Wall Street ... Read more

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  • The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media

    by Brooke Gladstone, Josh Neufeld ...
    "Mind-opening, thought-provoking and incredibly timely… An absolutely spectacular read."—Cory Doctorow, BoingBoingA million listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the complexities of the modern media. Bursting onto the page in vivid comics by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld, this brilliant radio personality guides us through two millennia of media history, debunking the notion ... Read more

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  • Maverick

    A Biography of Thomas Sowell

    by Jason L Riley ...
    A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkersThomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental ... Read more

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  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

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  • College

    What it Was, Is, and Should Be

    by Andrew Delbanco ...
    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

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