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“richard pells”

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  • Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

    by Richard Pells ...

    $25.99 USD

  • Not Like Us

    How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II

    by Richard Pells ...
    Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    by Thomas Sowell ...
    The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public ... Read more

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  • Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace

    Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism

    by Mary Brennan ...
    In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She describes the Cold War context in ... Read more

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  • Liberal Fascism

    The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

    by Jonah Goldberg ...
    “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist ... Read more

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  • Science of Coercion

    Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960

    by Christopher Simpson ...
    Series Book 13 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A provocative and eye-opening study of the essential role the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency played in the advancement of communication studies during the Cold War era, now with a new introduction by Robert W. McChesney and a new preface by the authorSince the mid-twentieth century, the great advances in our knowledge about the most effective methods of mass communication and ... Read more

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  • Government in the Future

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural extension . . . of classical liberalism into the era ... Read more

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  • Radicals for Capitalism

    A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

    by Brian Doherty ...
    On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism -- the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat -- has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many books talk about libertarian ideas, none until now has explored the history of this uniquely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Revolt Against the Masses

    How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class

    by Fred Siegel ...
    This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. It shows that what we think of as liberalism-the top-and-bottom coalition we associate with President Obama-began not with Progressivism or the New Deal but rather in the wake of WWI, in disillusionment with American society. In the 1920s, the first thinkers to call themselves liberals adopted the hostility to bourgeois life that ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Black Victims

    The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era

    by Clarence Lusane ...
    Series series Crosscurrents in African American History
    Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in Germany, England, France, the United States, and Africa, and the impact of that legacy on contemporary race relations in Germany, ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    by Emmanouil Kalkanis ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Read more

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  • The Democratic Surround

    Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

    by Fred Turner ...
    A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

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