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  • San Francisco Reds

    Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958

    by Robert W. Cherny ...
    Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s CP from its founding through 1958.Cherny draws on FBI files, the records of the CP at the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Short History of San Francisco

    by Robert W. Cherny ...
    When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a “compound for cattle”—hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanish California. Today San Francisco is a bustling metropolis with picturesque neighborhoods, dramatic engineering feats such as the Golden Gate Bridge, and innovative tech companies. How did we get here? To ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Coit Tower Murals

    New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco

    by Robert W. Cherny ...
    Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most of them in buon fresco, Nearly all of them drew upon the palette and style of Diego Rivera. The project boosted the careers of Victor Arnautoff, Lucien Labaudt, Bernard Zakheim, and others, but ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Harry Bridges

    Labor Radical, Labor Legend

    by Robert W. Cherny ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association)The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the ... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Righteous Cause

    The Life of William Jennings Bryan

    by Robert W. Cherny ...
    Three times the Democratic Party’s nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908) and secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the post–Civil War economic growth.In A Righteous Cause: The Life of Williams Jennings Bryan, Robert W. Cherny presents Bryan’s key role in the Democratic Party’s transformation from the conservatism of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art

    by Robert W. Cherny ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times. Delving into sources on Russian émigrés and San Francisco's arts ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Passage of Power

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV

    by Robert A. Caro ...
    Series Book 4 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyBook Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • An Unfinished Life

    John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963

    by Robert Dallek ...
    Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had he survived.Robert Dallek succeeds as no other ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • A Short History of the United States

    From the Arrival of Native American Tribes to the Obama Presidency

    by Robert V. Remini ...
    In A Short History of the United States, National Book Award winner Robert V. Remini offers a much-needed, concise history of our country. This accessible and lively volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions, including the arrival and migration of Native Americans, the founding of a republic under the ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Means of Ascent

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson II

    by Robert A. Caro ...
    Series Book 2 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Presidents

    Every Question Answered

    by Carter Smith ...
    From George Washington to Donald Trump, an entertaining and educational overview of the chief executives of the United States.The highest office of our country has been a challenging one to occupy, from the days of a newly founded nation to the global power seat it has become. Presidents: Every Question Answered reviews our leaders' time in office and how their distinct characteristics became ... Read more

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  • Bearing the Cross

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    by David J. Garrow ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King's evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, to inspirational leader of America's civil rights movement. Based on extensive research and more than seven ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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