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  • Containment Culture

    American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age

    Series series New Americanists
    Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968

    by Kevin Boyle ...
    A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996""Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading."—Victor G. Reuther"One of the many virtues of Kevin Boyle's brilliant and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • To Sleep with the Angels

    The Story of a Fire

    The story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. An absorbing account...a tale of terror. —New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Torment of Secrecy

    The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies

    by Edward Shils ...
    Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • As Seen on TV

    The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s

    America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked--and how we looked--mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Spectacle of History

    Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings

    Edited by Michael E. Lynch, David Bogen ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    How is history produced? How do individuals write—or rewrite—their parts while engaged in the production of history? Michael Lynch and David Bogen take the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions. These hearings, held in 1987 by the Joint House-Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaragua Opposition, provided the nation with a media ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Generation of Vipers

    by Philip Wylie ...
    Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers - ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the American character and malaise. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Supreme Court Reborn

    The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt

    For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life. Social Security, to take one example, is now seen as every American's birthright. But to validate this revolutionary legislation, Franklin Roosevelt had to fight a ferocious battle against the opposition of the Supreme Court--which was entrenched in laissez faire orthodoxy. After many lost battles, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Wit and Wisdom of John F. Kennedy

    An A-to-Z Compendium of Quotations

    Edited by Alex Ayres ...
    Though he did not live long enough to write his memoirs, John Fitzgerald Kennedy left behind a legacy of wit and wisdom that still informs the lives and hopes of the American people today. Known for his courage and charisma, he embodied the youthful, optimistic spirit of the mid-20th century American. Yet, he could also be irreverent. When questioned as to how he became a hero in World War II, he ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • American Women in a World at War

    Contemporary Accounts from World War II

    This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders

    On August 1 1966 Charles Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower and committed what was then the largest simultaneous mass murder in American history. He gunned down forty-five people inside and around the Tower before he was killed by two Austin police officers. In addition to promoting the rise of S.W.A.T. teams to respond to future crises the murders spawned debates over issues which ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Hoosier Holiday

    “Theodore Dreiser, road warrior . . . Dreiser’s account of his homecoming will touch a familiar and responsive chord in anyone who has undertaken one.” —The Washington Post Book WorldBy 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over twenty years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with the idea of driving from New York ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Time for War

    The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975

    Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt our culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning Going After Cacciato to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir In Retrospect, Americans are drawn again and again to ponder our long, tragic involvement in Southeast Asia. Now eminent historian Robert D. Schulzinger has combed the newly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • "A New Kind of War"

    America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece

    by Howard Jones ...
    America's experience in Greece has often been cited as a model by those later policymakers in Washington who regard the involvement as a "victory" for American foreign policy. Indeed, President Johnson and others referred to Greece as the model for America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during the mid-1960's. Greece became the battlefield for a new kind of war--one that included the use of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Ranking the Wishes

    by Carl Dennis ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    In his seventh book, Carl Dennis explores the ways in which our wishes - those in our power to fulfill at any moment and those that have no chance of ever being realized - define who we are. While some of the poems view wishing as a failure to do justice to the world we have, others regard it as a recognition that no present, however rich, can satisfy the imagination, and suggest that one of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stepping Left

    Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928–1942

    by Ellen Graff ...
    Stepping Left simultaneously unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York City in the 1930s. Ellen Graff explores the relationship between the modern dance movement and leftist political activism in this period, describing the moment in American dance history when the revolutionary fervor of "dancing modern" was joined with the revolutionary vision ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Making Men Moral

    Social Engineering During the Great War

    Series Book 8 - The American Social Experience
    On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on in the hope of meeting them again in the blessed Country of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Pigskin

    The Early Years of Pro Football

    If the National Football League is now a mammoth billion-dollar enterprise, it was certainly born into more humble circumstances. Indeed, it began in 1920 in an automobile showroom in Canton, Ohio, when a car dealer called together some owners of teams, mostly in the Midwest, to form a league. Unlike the lavish boardrooms in which NFL owners meet today, on this occasion the owners sat on the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • A Very Different Age

    Americans of the Progressive Era

    The early twentieth century was a time of technological revolution in the United States. New inventions and corporations were transforming the economic landscape, bringing a stunning array of consumer goods, millions of additional jobs, and ever more wealth. Steven J. Diner draws on the rich scholarship of recent social history to show how these changes affected Americans of all backgrounds and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Glory for Sale: Fans Dollars and the New NFL

    by Jon Morgan ...
    In 1995 Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell lured by the promise of a new stadium shocked football fans with his decision to move to Baltimore. Now one of the few journalists to cover the business of sports the Baltimore Sun's Jon Morgan chronicles the move explains why more are to come-and why it matters. In Glory For Sale Morgan offers an in-depth view of the game's money side. He helps to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Missiles in Cuba

    Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis

    by Mark J. White ...
    Series series American Ways
    For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date scholarship as well as Mr. White's own findings in National Security Archive materials, Kennedy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Waging Peace

    How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy

    Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was left to Eisenhower to develop the first coherent and sustainable strategy for addressing the issues unique to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Opposite Poles

    Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990

    Opposite Poles presents a fascinating and complex portrait of ethnic life in America. The focus is Chicago Polonia, the largest Polish community outside of Warsaw. During the 1980s a new cohort of Polish immigrants from communist Poland, including many refugees from the Solidarity movement, joined the Polish American ethnics already settled in Chicago. The two groups shared an ancestral homeland, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • William Randolph Hearst

    The Early Years, 1863-1910

    by Ben Procter ...
    William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day. Now, in William Randolph Hearst, Ben Procter gives us the most authoritative account of Hearst's extraordinary career in newspapers and politics. Born to great wealth--his father was a partial ... Read more

    $58.99 USD