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  • San Francisco Reds

    Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • A Short History of San Francisco

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Coit Tower Murals

    New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Harry Bridges

    Labor Radical, Labor Legend

    de 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 ... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • A Righteous Cause

    The Life of William Jennings Bryan

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Fallingwater Rising

    Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House

    de Franklin Toker ...
    Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Passage of Power

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV

    de Robert A. Caro ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    de Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • An Unfinished Life

    John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.49 USD

  • Rogues' Gallery

    The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    de Michael Gross ...
    “Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD