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The JFK Assassination ChokeholdsAuthor: James DiEugenio, Paul Bleau, Matt CrumptonPublisher: Camp Street PressPublished: 11/14/2023Pages: 444Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9798989393527This title is not returnable
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American Insecurity and the Origins of VulnerabilityAn incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy For more than three centuries, Americans have pursued strategies of security that routinely make them feel vulnerable, unsafe, and insecure. American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability...
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Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public BroadcastingDespite uncertain beginnings, public broadcasting emerged as a noncommercial media industry that transformed American culture. Josh Shepperd looks at the people, institutions, and influences behind the media reform movement and clearinghouse the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) in the drive to create what...
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The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean WarThe Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days, but armistice talks occupied more than two of those years, as more than 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war refused to return to Communist China and demanded to go to Nationalist Taiwan, effectively...
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Selma 1965: The Photographs of Spider Martin"Spider Martin, more than any other photographer of our time, has used his camera to document the struggle for civil rights and social change in the State of Alabama. . . . In viewing Spider's collection, one is literally walking through the pages of...
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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging...
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Fred W. McDarrah: New York ScenesDuring his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) covered the city's downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah frequented the bars, caf s, and galleries where writers, artists, and musicians gathered, and...
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Panepiphanal World: James Joyce's EpiphaniesPanepiphanal World is the first in-depth study of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Composed between 1901 and 1904, at the beginning of Joyce's writing career, these texts are often dismissed as juvenilia. Sangam MacDuff argues that the epiphanies are an important...
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Jefferson: Architect of American LibertyFrom an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson,...
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Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the EnvironmentA history of why the environmental problems that American automobile consumers and automakers created proved so hard to fix The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In...
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Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and RollThe 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern vernacular ballads, a canonical group of white American...
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Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SeiuChartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than half the membership while people in minority groups...
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America's Religious Crossroads: Faith and Community in the Emerging MidwestBetween 1790 and 1850, waves of Anglo-Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants flooded the Old Northwest (modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin). They brought with them a mosaic of Christian religious belief. Stephen T. Kissel draws on a wealth of primary sources to...
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Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of EmotionAn exploration of Stoicism's central role in British and American writing of the Romantic period Stoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for...
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of JournalismPulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie...
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W. E. B. Du Bois: An American Intellectual and ActivistW. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African-American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Alexander's traces the development of Du Bois' thought over time. Paying significantly more attention to the many pivotal and previously unexamined...
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Before Modernism: Inventing American LyricHow Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry....
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The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic StoryA stirring new history of the Statue of Liberty, from its creation in France to its renewed significance in the post-9/11 years "If you think you know all there is to know about the Statue of Liberty, you'll be pleasantly surprised."--Sam Roberts, New York...
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From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age AmericaFrom Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that Eve's...
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John Steinbeck, Writer: A BiographyDrawing on John Steinbeck's papers and photographs, and scores of interviews, Jackson J. Benson explores the influences that contributed to Steinbeck's archetypal sense of American culture and his controversial concerns. An in-depth study of the shy, private individual behind many American classics.Author: Jackson J....
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