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Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War IIIn the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Their ambitions would not stop at the water's edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help peoples everywhere achieve democracy, prosperity, and freedom. Chastened in part by the failures of...
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Reporting World War II Vol. 2 (Loa #78): American Journalism 1944-1946This Library of America volume (along with its companion) evokes an extraordinary period in American history--and in American journalism. Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, John Hersey, A.J. Liebling, Edward R. Murrow, Janet Flanner: in a time when public perceptions were shaped mainly by the written...
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The Hive and the Honey Bee Revisited: An Annotated Update of Langstroth's ClassicMore than 150 years after L.L. Langstroth invented the movable-comb hive and brought beekeeping into the modern age, we can still learn from this historic book. The original book, preserved in its original text and illustrations, is updated and annotated by one of the...
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Life in the Far West: the experiences of a British Officer in America and Mexico During the 1840sThe first of two classic works of the untamed frontier The words of George Frederick Ruxton have come to epitomise the life of the far westerners, the mountain men and trappers who lived often short but thrilling and exotic lives among and fighting against...
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The Spiritual Meaning of the Sixties: The Magic, Myth, and Music of the Decade That Changed the WorldUnveils the spiritual meaning that fueled the artistic, political, and social revolutions of the 1960s - Investigates the spiritual principles that informed everything from the civil rights and anti-war movements, to the hippies' rejection of materialist culture, to the rise of feminism, gay rights,...
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Let Men Be FreeThe assortment of political views held by Baptists was as diverse as any other denomination in the early United States, but they were bound together by a fundamental belief in the inviolability of the individual conscience in matters of faith. In a nation where...
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Jimmy Carter: Elected President with Pocket Change and PeanutsHow does a peanut farmer become Governor of Georgia and President of the United States? Only in America could such a story be true. As a small child, Jimmy Carter set his sights on the United States Naval Academy. After graduation in 1946, he...
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The Log of a Cowboy: a Classic Account of the Days of the Great Trail Herds of the American WestA first hand account of the days of the Great Cattle Trails The term 'cowboy' has become emblematic of all that is evocative of the 'frontier America' of the nineteenth century. Yet the real cowboys were actually a select group whose unglamorous task it...
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Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical BiographyPresented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907-73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a...
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Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35Red Chicago is a social history of American Communism set within the context of Chicago's neighborhoods, industries, and radical traditions. Using local party records, oral histories, union records, party newspapers, and government documents, Randi Storch fills the gap between Leninist principles and the day-to-day...
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Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of ModernityIn the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human...
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Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most...
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The Transcendentalists and Their WorldOne of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book PrizeIn the year of the nation's bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping...
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Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great MigrationGrossman's rich, detailed analysis of black migration to Chicago during World War I and its aftermath brilliantly captures the cultural meaning of the movement.Author: James R. GrossmanPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 02/12/1991Pages: 398Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.28w x 0.98dISBN: 9780226309958About the AuthorGrossman,...
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The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama - Third EditionFred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In The Presidential Difference, he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the presidential qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office, beginning with Franklin D....
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Intelligence and the State: Analysts and Decision MakersIn the eighty years since Pearl Harbor, the United States has developed a professional intelligence community that is far more effective than most people acknowledge--in part because only intelligence failures see the light of day, while successful collection and analysis remain secret for decades....
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Spying Blind: The Cia, the Fbi, and the Origins of 9/11In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. Zegart...
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Colonel RooseveltNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account."--Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post...
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Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's UlyssesIdeal for readers new to Ulysses and written with a depth of knowledge invaluable to scholars, "Ulysses" Unbound is a clear and comprehensive guide to James Joyce's masterpiece from one of the foremost Dublin-based Joyce experts. Terence Killeen discusses the novel's eighteen episodes individually....
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Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites--such...
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