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  • LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination

    by Phillip F. Nelson ...
    LBJ aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning his takeover of the U.S. presidency even before being named the vice presidential nominee in 1960. Lyndon B. Johnson's flawed personality and character traits, formed as a child, grew unchecked for the rest of his life as he suffered severe bouts of manic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?

    The Case Against Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover

    by Phillip F. Nelson ...
    One of the most infamous and devastating assassinations in American history, the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was also one of the most quickly resolved by authorities: James Earl Ray was convicted of the crime less than a year after it occurred. Yet, did they catch the right person? Or was Ray framed by President Lyndon B Johnson and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover?In Who ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Signaling Goodness

    Social Rules and Public Choice

    by Phillip J. Nelson, Kenneth V. Greene ...
    Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
    Political, intellectual, and academic discourse in the United States has been awash in political correctness, which has itself been berated and defended -- yet little understood. As a corrective, Nelson and Greene look at a more general process: adopting political positions to enhance one's reputation for trustworthiness both to others and to oneself.Phillip Nelson and Kenneth Greene are ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Remember the Liberty!

    Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas

    by Ronald G. Kukal, Phillip F. Tourney, Phillip F. Nelson, Ernest A. Gallo ...
    One of the most explosive and hidden secrets in U.S. history – one that has never been previously told, Remember the Liberty explores how a sitting U.S. president collaborated with Israeli leaders in the fomentation of a war between them and their Arab neighbors. A war that would ensure a victory for Israel, and include the acquisition of additional land. This book will finally identify the real ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LBJ: From Mastermind to "The Colossus"

    by Phillip F. Nelson ...
    Phillip F. Nelson’s new book begins where LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination left off. Now president, Johnson begins to push Congress to enact long-dormant legislation that he had previously impeded, always insisting that the timing wasn't right. Nelson argues that the passage of Johnson’s Great Society” legislation was designed to take the focus of the nation off the assassination as ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    by William C. Haponski, Jerry J. Burcham, Dave R. Palmer ...
    A military studies professor and former combatant "rationally dissects the strategies and mindsets on both sides" of this thirty-year conflict ( New York Journal of Books).Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, there have been much discussion of why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The common belief is that the war was lost not on the battlefield but in Washington, DC. The stark facts, ... Read more

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  • Edward I's Conquest of Wales

    by Sean Davies ...
    A study of medieval warfare and a formative event in the history of Britain.Edward I's conquest of Wales has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over a century. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key characters involved in the conquest. That is why Sean Davies's absorbing new study is so timely and ... Read more

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  • So You Think You Know Rock and Roll?

    An In-Depth Q&A Tour of the Revolutionary Decade 1965-1975

    by Peter E. Meltzer ...
    Rolling Stone magazine recently released its list of the 100 greatest albums in rock music history, a period spanning more than fifty years. Nearly 60 percent of those albums were released in the decade from 1965 to 1975-the golden age of classic rock. This book is a wide-ranging portrait of that transformative and remarkable time, from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era to days before disco ... Read more

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  • The Sons of Molly Maguire

    The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

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    An "incisive and original" history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America's first labor wars in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy).A secret society of Irish peasant assassins, the Molly Maguires reemerged in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region, organizing strikes, murdering mine bosses, and fighting the Civil War draft. Their shadowy twelve ... Read more

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  • The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination

    The Definitive Account of the Most Controversial Crime of the Twentieth Century

    by Lamar Waldron ...
    INSIDE THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: This fascinating history draws on never-before-published information to reveal the Mafia conspiracy that led to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.Answering the questions that have haunted Americans for decades: Why and how was JFK murdered?The Hidden History of JFK’s Assassination draws on exclusive interviews with more than two dozen associates of John and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • 1968 in America

    Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation

    by Charles Kaiser ...
    From assassinations to student riots, this is "a splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy" (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval—but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations ... Read more

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  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

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    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Read more

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