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  • Lincoln's First Crisis

    Fort Sumter and the Betrayal of the President

    by William Bruce Johnson ...
    Lincoln’s First Crisis concerns five of the most consequential months in American history: December 1860 through April 1861. When Abraham Lincoln swore his oath as president, the United States was disintegrating. Seven states had seceded, and as many as eight seemed poised to join them, depending upon how the new president handled the secession crisis and its flashpoint: Fort Sumter in South ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Pacific Campaign in World War II

    From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal

    by William Bruce Johnson ...
    Series series Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
    This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific.Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese sources, this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific.Detailing the background to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor it ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Miracles and Sacrilege

    Robert Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood

    by William Bruce Johnson ...
    Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini’s film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Court ultimately chose to abandon its own longstanding determination that film comprised a mere ‘business’ ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

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  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay

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    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts SelectionA timely reissue of acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter’s authoritative and unforgettable essay. First published in 1964 and no less relevant half a century later, The Paranoid Style in American Politics scrutinizes the conditions that gave rise to the extreme right of the 1950s and the 1960s, and presages the ascendancy of the Tea Party movement and, now, Donald Trump ... Read more

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  • Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

    by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...
    From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs. Ulrich explains how that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Speaker's Book of Quotations, Completely Revised and Updated

    by Henry O. Dormann ...
    FROM THE WORLDS OF BUSINESS, POLITICS, HISTORY, LITERATURE, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MORE . . ."Think how much happier women would be if, instead of endlessly fretting about what the males in their lives are thinking, they could relax, secure in the knowledge that the correct answer is: very little."--DAVE BARRY"I'd tell you what I really thought about the national media, but as my good friend Dana ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Irish Americans

    A History

    by Jay P. Dolan ...
    Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In THE IRISH AMERICANS, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

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  • Making History

    The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

    by Richard Cohen ...
    A “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history—from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns—and how their biases influence our understanding about the past.There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” ... Read more

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  • History as Mystery

    by Michael Parenti ...
    In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he demonstrates how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. Pursuing themes ranging from antiquity to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parish Boundaries

    The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North

    by John T. McGreevy ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    A "remarkable" study of white Catholics and African Americans—and the dynamics between them in New York, Chicago, Boston, and other cities ( The New York Times Book Review).Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century ... Read more

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  • Oxymoronica

    Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths

    by Mardy Grothe ...

    $13.49 USD

  • The New Anti-Catholicism

    The Last Acceptable Prejudice

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic can haunt a speaker for years, writes Jenkins, but it is still possible to make hostile and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD