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  • Takeover

    How the Left's Quest for Social Justice Corrupted Liberalism

    by Donald Critchlow, W.J. Rorabaugh ...
    "How did liberals get to be the way they are today?"That's the question many Americans are asking as they witness the efforts of the most left-wing president in American history. At last, historians Donald T. Critchlow and W. J. Rorabaugh supply the answer.As the authors show, it is a mistake to see the Obama administration's agenda as a single man's vision. Equally flawed, they reveal, is the now ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Alcoholic Republic

    An American Tradition

    by W.J. Rorabaugh ...
    Between 1790 and 1840, Americans drank more alcoholic beverages per capita—gallons and gallons per person per year—than at any other time in our history. Here is a delightful history of America's first fifty intemperate years. ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Alcoholic Republic : An American Tradition

    by W.J. Rorabaugh ...

    $17.09 USD

  • American Hippies

    by W. J. Rorabaugh ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    In the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement's beliefs and practices, including psychedelic drugs, casual sex, and rock music, as well as the phenomena of spiritual seeking, hostility to politics, and communes. W. J. Rorabaugh ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Prohibition

    A Very Short Introduction

    by W. J. Rorabaugh ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Prohibition

    A Concise History

    by W. J. Rorabaugh ...
    Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Real Making of the President

    Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election

    by W. J. Rorabaugh ...
    Series series American Presidential Elections
    When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory—whether as an underdog’s heroic triumph or a liberal crusader’s overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this famous election to explain the nuts-and-bolts operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White’s flawed classic, The Making of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Prohibition

    A Very Short Introduction

    by W. J. Rorabaugh ...
    Narrated by Phil Thron ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 21 min

    Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    "Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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  • Liberty's First Crisis

    Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech

    by Charles Slack ...
    "Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history." — Kirkus Reviews , starred reviewIn 1798, with the United States in crisis, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of Congress passed an extreme piece of legislation that made criticism of the government and its leaders a crime ... Read more

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  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Wilma King ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Read more

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  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

    by Alfred F. Young ...
    George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD