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  • The Strike That Changed New York

    Blacks, Whites and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis

    de Jerald E. Podair ...
    "[This] admirably balanced book will most likely stand as the definitive account of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis for some time . . . engrossing." — New York HistoryWinner of the Allan Nevins Prize awarded by the Society of American HistoriansOn May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wrecked

    The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy

    de Thomas M Nelson, Jerald Podair ...
    Wrecked links the story of America’s most infamous shipwreck to the story of an even larger disaster—the wreck of the American industrial economy. When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, more was lost than the ship and the twenty-nine lives on board. The disaster was a human tragedy as well as an indictment of the American industrial policies that ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • City of Dreams

    Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles

    de Jerald Podair ...
    On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city.When Walter O'Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark next to downtown, he ignited a bitter argument over the future of a rapidly changing city. For the first time, City of Dreams ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Republican Populist

    Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump's America

    de Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte, Jerald Podair ...
    Typically a maligned figure in American political history, former vice president Spiro T. Agnew is often overlooked. Although he is largely remembered for his alliterative speeches, attacks on the media and East Coast intellectuals, and his resignation from office in 1973 in the wake of tax evasion charges, Agnew had a significant impact on the modern Republican Party that is underappreciated. It ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Lincoln’s Unfinished Work

    The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation

    de Richard Carwardine, Joshua Casmir Catalano, Greg Downs, Eric Foner, william haller, J. William Harris, Stephen Kantrowitz, James Loewen, Lawrence McDonnell, Adrienne Petty, Briana Pocratsky, Jerald Podair, Mark Schultz, Randall Stephens, Rhondda Thomas, Gavin Wright ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States has attempted to realize—or subvert—that promise over the past century and a half. The volume is not solely about Lincoln, or the immediate unfinished work of Reconstruction, or the broader unfinished ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Equality

    Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction

    Edición de Orville Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, Jennifer L. Weber ...
    This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson. Complete with a brief interview with the celebrated scholar, this volume reflects the best aspects of McPherson’s work, while casting new light on the struggle that has served as ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States

    Edición de Jerald Podair, Darren Dochuk ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities, perspectives and tensions that contributed to the growth and contested meanings of the United ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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    The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

    de Nancy MacLean ...
    **Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Leer más

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  • Goliath

    The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

    de Matt Stoller ...
    Series series Must-Read American History
    “Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial ... Leer más

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  • Civil Rights

    Rhetoric or Reality

    de Thomas Sowell ...
    It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights ... Leer más

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  • Silent Spring Revolution

    John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

    de Douglas Brinkley ...
    New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of the modern environmental movement during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico ... Leer más

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  • Rising Star

    The Making of Barack Obama

    de David Garrow ...
    New York Times BestsellerRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as A ... Leer más

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