The Age of Independence

Michael J. Rosenfeld

Rosenfeld offers a new theory to account for the startling changes in American family composition in recent years. His argument revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960, experienced by young adults after leaving their parents' homes and before settling down to start their own families. He shows how this stage has reduced parental control over their children's mate selection and has resulted in a rise in interracial and same-sex unions--unions that were more easily averted by previous generations.

Hardcover 2007

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

Matthew Avery Sutton

Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.

Hardcover 2007

All You Need Is Love

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

Traversing four decades and three continents, this story of the Peace Corps and the people and politics behind it is a fascinating look at American idealism at work amid the hard political realities of the second half of the twentieth century.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

America's Geisha Ally

Naoko Shibusawa

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.

Hardcover 2006

American Empire

Andrew J. Bacevich

In a provocative book, Andrew Bacevich reconsiders the assumptions and purposes governing the exercise of American global power. Examining the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton--as well as George W. Bush's first year in office--he demolishes the view that the United States has failed to devise a replacement for containment as a basis for foreign policy.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

American Jewish Ephemera

Compiled by Charles Berlin

Introduction by Oscar Handlin

The ephemera reproduced in this volume consist mainly of broadsides, posters, and leaflets produced in the United States from the late nineteenth century on. They deal with Jewish immigration to America and attitudes toward lands of origin; early efforts to organize American Jewish life through a variety of social structures; anti-Semitism; American Jewish religious affairs; the response of American Jewry to World Wars I and II; the participation of American Jewry in the Zionist movement; the adjustment to American economic and political life; and the flourishing of Yiddish theater.

Paperback 2005

Americans All

Diana Selig

From the 1920s—a decade marked by racism and nativism—through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. Progressive activists encouraged pluralism in homes, schools, and churches across the country.Selig tells the neglected story of the cultural gifts movement, which flourished between the world wars.

Hardcover 2008

Americans First

K. Scott Wong

World War II was a watershed event for many of America's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Utilizing extensive archival research as well as oral histories and letters from over one hundred informants, Wong explores how Chinese Americans carved a newly respected and secure place for themselves in American society during the war years.

Hardcover 2005

Among Empires

Charles S. Maier

This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of empires and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior. Charles S. Maier outlines the essentials of empire throughout history, then explores the exercise of U.S. power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With learning, dispassion, and clarity, Among Empires offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007

As Seen on TV

Karal Ann Marling

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 of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for in the 1950s with a gaze newly trained by TV.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998

The Averaged American

Sarah E. Igo

Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. But remarkably, such data--now woven into our social fabric--became common currency only in the last century. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Sarah Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

Barren in the Promised Land

Elaine T. May

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.

Paperback 1997

Birth of a Salesman

Walter A. Friedman

In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and canvassers to one driven by professional salesmen and executives.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Bitter Fruit

Stephen Schlesinger

Stephen Kinzer

Introduction by John H. Coatsworth

Foreword by Richard A. Nuccio

Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. This book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

Paperback 2005

Black Is a Country

Nikhil Pal Singh

Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Brotherhoods of Color

Eric Arnesen

From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution--the story of African Americans on the railroad. African Americans have been a part of the railroad from its inception, but today they are largely remembered as Pullman porters and track layers. The real history is far richer, a tale of endless struggle, perseverance, and partial victory.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

By Order of the President

Greg Robinson

On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order that allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the numerous histories and memoirs devoted to this shameful event, FDR's contributions have been seen as negligible. Now, using Roosevelt's own writings, his advisors' letters and diaries, and internal government documents, Greg Robinson reveals the president's central role in making and implementing the internment and examines not only what the president did but why.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Chester Bowles

Howard B. Schaffer

Hardcover

Citizens and Citoyens

Mark Hulliung

Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals.

Hardcover 2002

A Class of Their Own

Adam Fairclough

In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. A Class of Their Own is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.

Hardcover 2007

Clinging to Mammy

Micki McElya

Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

Hardcover 2007

The Cold War and the Color Line

Thomas Borstelmann

The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths--Southern Africa and the American South--as the primary sites of white authority's last stand. He reveals America's efforts to contain the racial polarization that threatened to unravel the anticommunist western alliance. In so doing, he recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context, one that is meaningful and relevant for our own era of globalization.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

Cold War at 30,000 Feet

Jeffrey A. Engel

In a gripping story of international power and deception, Engel reveals the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain. As allies, they fought Communism; as rivals, they clashed over which would lead the Cold War fight. In the quest for sovereignty and hegemony, Engel shows that one important key was airpower, which created jobs, forged ties with the developing world, and ensured military superiority, ultimately affecting forever the global balance of power.

Hardcover 2007

The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940

Matthew Pratt Guterl

How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency

Samuel P. Hays

Paperback

The Conservative Ascendancy

Donald T. Critchlow

In this provocative history of the Right in modern America, Critchlow finds a deep dilemma inherent in how conservative Republicans expressed their anti-statist ideology in an age of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities. As the Right moved forward with its political program, partisanship intensified and ideological division widened--both between the parties and across the electorate. This intensified partisanship reflects the vibrancy of a mature democracy, Critchlow argues, and a new level of political engagement despite its disquieting effect on American political debate.

Hardcover 2007

Constructing the Monolith

Marc J. Selverstone

This book not only explains the cold war mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century, but reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.

Hardcover 2009

The Corporate State and the Broker State

Robert F. Burk

The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over the economy. By focusing on one family's contribution to the economic and political debate between the world wars, Burk casts light on the changing fortunes of business and government in twentieth-century America.

Hardcover 1990

A Culture of Credit

Rowena Olegario

In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available.

Hardcover 2006

Deliberate Speed

W. T. Lhamon

By surveying the artistic terrain of the period--examining works by figures as varied as Miles Davis, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Little Richard, Charlie Parker, Jackson Pollock, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein--Lhamon demonstrates how many of the distinctive elements that so many attribute to the revolutionary period of the 1960s had their roots in the fertile soil of the 1950s.

Paperback 2002

Democracy Is in the Streets

James Miller

On June 12, 1962, sixty young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during the turbulent 1960s. From the ideal of "participatory democracy" to the reality of community organizing, from the most publicized radical leaders to less well known theorists and activists, James Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart--and to the streets.

Paperback 1994

Democracy's Prisoner

Ernest Freeberg

In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role in World War I. In this book, Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. In this story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America's most prized ideals.

Hardcover 2008

Designs on the Heart

Karal Ann Marling

In this book, Karal Ann Marling looks at Grandma Moses as a cultural phenomenon of the postwar period and explores the meaning of her subject matter--and her astonishing fame. Between the cultural ephemera, folklore, song, and history embedded in Moses' paintings and the potent advertising shorthand for Americana that her images rapidly became, this book reveals the widespread longing for the memories, comforts, and small victories of a mythic, intimate American past tapped by the phenomenon of Grandma Moses.

Hardcover 2006

Dry Manhattan

Michael A. Lerner

In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

The End of Globalization

Harold James

Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process of globalization seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Enter the New Negroes

Martha Jane Nadell

With the appearance of the urban, modern, diverse "New Negro" in the Harlem Renaissance, writers and critics began a vibrant debate on the nature of African-American identity, community, and history. Nadell offers an illuminating new perspective on the period and the decades immediately following it in a fascinating exploration of the neglected role played by visual images of race in that debate.

Hardcover 2004

Ethnic Modernism

Werner Sollors

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. How did African American, European immigrant, and other minority writers take part in these developments that also transformed the United States, giving it an increasingly multicultural self-awareness? This book attempts to address this question in a series of innovative and engaging close readings of major texts from this period.

Paperback 2008

Exile Within

Thomas James

The experience of the 30,000 Japanese American children torn from their homes and incarcerated in camps left a tangle of social meanings that had not been inspected with the care it deserves until this book was written. Because they were schoolchildren, theirs was an educational history; and James tells it here, fully mindful of the irony of children studying democracy and its ideals while suffering as victims of the most undemocratic of all processes--imprisonment in a relocation camp solely on the basis of their race.

Hardcover 1987

The Fire Spreads

Randall J. Stephens

Pentecostalism came to the South following the post-Civil War holiness revival, a northern-born crusade that emphasized sinlessness and religious empowerment. With the growth of southern Pentecostal denominations and the rise of new, affluent congregants, the movement slipped cautiously into the evangelical mainstream. By the 1980s the once-apolitical faith looked entirely different: while many still watched and waited for spectacular signs of the end, a growing number did so as active political conservatives.

Hardcover 2008

A Fire in Their Hearts

Tony Michels

The Yiddish socialist movement shaped Jewish communities across the United States well into the twentieth century and left an important political legacy that extends to the rise of neoconservatism. A story of hopeful successes and bitter disappointments, A Fire in Their Hearts brings to vivid life this formative period for American Jews and the American left.

Hardcover 2005

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs

Edited by Edgar B. Nixon

Hardcover 1969

Freda Kirchwey

Sara Alpern

Freda Kirchwey was a salient figure in twentieth-century America, a beacon for liberals and activists of her era. A journalist with The Nation from 1918 to 1955--owner, editor, and publisher after 1937--she was an advocate of advanced ideas about sexual freedom and birth control and a tireless foe of fascism. The quintessential new woman, she combined a private and highly visible public life. In this full-scale biography of Kirchwey, Alpern weaves the strands of gender-related issues with larger social explorations.

Hardcover 1987

Freedom Is Not Enough

Nancy MacLean

In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, MacLean chronicles the cultural and political advances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past fifty years.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't

Scott Saul

In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Freedom on Fire

John Shattuck

As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. This is the story of what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration's human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice. Shattuck criticizes the Bush Administration's approach, which he says undermines human rights at home and around the world and argues that human rights wars are breeding grounds for terrorism.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

From Allies to Enemies

Simei Qing

In a stunningly original work about the impact of cultural perceptions in international relations, Simei Qing,/author> offers a new perspective on relations between the United States and China after World War II. Based on American, Russian, and newly declassified Chinese sources, this book reveals rarely examined assumptions that were entrenched in mainstream policy debates on both sides, and sheds light on the origins and development of U.S.-China confrontations.

Hardcover 2007

From the Outer World

Edited by Oscar Handlin

Edited by Lillian Handlin

Oscar and Lilian Handlin show how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish, and include such authors as Rabindranath Tagore, V. S. Naipaul and Octavio Paz.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Gates of Eden

Morris Dickstein

Now, on the twentieth anniversary of Gates of Eden's original publication, Dickstein has written a new introduction, reassessing the period's achievements and failures, and providing a fresh perspective on the ways that the sixties continue to influence our politics and culture.

Paperback 1997

A Generation of Women

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

Lagemann's concern is education--not in the limited sense of going to college, but education as a lifelong "process of interaction that changes the self." The relationships Lagemann shows between education and individual achievement and between education and social change create a new understanding of feminism and progressivism in the early twentieth century.

Hardcover 1979

Germany and the United States

Hans W. Gatzke

Beginning with Bismarck's forging of a nation with "iron and blood," Gatzke tells of Germany's relentless struggle for domination in Europe and in the West, its defeat in two world wars, its division, East Germany's travail, and West Germany's search for identity as a modern democratic state.

Hardcover 1980

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White

George Hutchinson

By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance--or blamed for corrupting it--George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States. A courageous work that exposes the oversimplifications and misrepresentations of popular readings of the Harlem Renaissance, this book reveals the truly composite nature of American literary culture.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Harry Hopkins

George McJimsey

Hardcover 1987

Henry Kissinger and the American Century

Jeremi Suri

What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.

Hardcover 2007

Highbrow/Lowbrow

Lawrence Levine

In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries have been and how fragile and recent the cultural categories we have learned to accept as natural and eternal are.

Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945

Mira Wilkins

Wilkins, the foremost authority on foreign investment in the United States, continues her magisterial history in a work covering the critical years 1914-1945. Integrating economic, business, technological, legal, and diplomatic history, this comprehensive study is essential to understanding the internationalization of the American economy, as well as broader global trends.

Hardcover 2004

History's Memory

Ellen Fitzpatrick

This reinterpretation of a century of American historical writing challenges the notion that the politics of the recent past alone explains the politics of history. Fitzpatrick offers a wise historical perspective on today's heated debates, and reclaims the long line of historians who tilled the rich and diverse soil of our past.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

How Free Is Free?

Leon F. Litwack

Despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain. From the height of Jim Crow to the early twenty-first century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Although a painful history to confront, Litwack’s book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America.

Hardcover 2009

Hungering for America

Hasia R. Diner

Hungering for America tells the stories of three distinctive groups and their unique culinary dramas. Italian immigrants transformed the food of their upper classes and of sacred days into a generic "Italian" food that inspired community pride and cohesion. Irish immigrants, in contrast, loath to mimic the foodways of the Protestant British elite, diminished food as a marker of ethnicity. And, East European Jews, who venerated food as the vital center around which family and religious practice gathered, found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

In Struggle

Clayborne Carson

With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white repression.

Paperback 1995

In Theory and in Practice

David C. Atkinson

Harvard University inaugurated The Center for International Affairs (CFIA) in 1958 as a new research center devoted to international relations. Atkinson’s history of the Center’s first twenty-five years explores the connection between knowledge and politics, beginning with the Center’s confident first decade and concluding with the second decade, which found the CFIA embroiled in Vietnam-era student protests.

Paperback 2008

The Inman Diary

Arthur C. Inman

Edited by Daniel Aaron

Hardcover

The Iraq War

Williamson Murray

Robert H. Scales

In this unprecedented account of the intensive air and ground operations in Iraq, two of America's most distinguished military historians bring clarity and depth to the first major war of the new millennium. Reaching beyond the blaring headlines, embedded videophone reports, and daily Centcom briefings, Williamson Murray and Robert Scales analyze events in light of past military experiences, present battleground realities, and future expectations.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Irresistible Empire

Victoria de Grazia

The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939

Daniel Soyer

How did the vast number of Jewish immigrants from different regions of Eastern Europe form their American ethnic identity? In his answer to this question, Daniel Soyer examines how Jewish immigrant hometown associations (landsmanshaftn) transformed old-world communal ties into vehicles for integration into American society.

Hardcover 1997

Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy

Anders Stephanson

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1992

Killing for Coal

Thomas G. Andrews

This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.

Hardcover 2008

LBJ

Randall B. Woods

A distinguished historian of twentieth-century America, Woods offers a wholesale reappraisal and sweeping, authoritative account of the life of one of the most fascinating and complex U.S. presidents.

Paperback 2007

The Last Revolutionaries

Catherine Epstein

Drawing on previously inaccessible sources as well as extensive personal interviews, Catherine Epstein offers an unparalleled portrait of the most enduring and influential generation of Central European communists. In the service of their party, these communists experienced solidarity and betrayal, power and persecution, sacrifice and reward, triumph and defeat. At once sordid and poignant, theirs is the story of European communism--from the heroic excitement of its youth, to the bureaucratic authoritarianism of its middle age, to the sorry debacle of its death.

Hardcover 2003

Letter to the World

Susan Ware

Susan Ware deftly chronicles the professional and private lives of seven notable American women of our century. She shows how the creation or re-creation of their personae was an essential element in their success, whether they craved fame or chose a different lifestyle. All seven women chose to live exceptional and unconventional lives, offering other women examples of the ability to live beyond the limits imposed by society or family, to dream and strive, to be independent and fulfilled.

Paperback 2000

Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism

David Ciepley

This book argues that, more than any other factor, it was the encounter with totalitarianism that dissolved the ideals of American progressivism and crystallized the ideals of postwar liberalism. In politics, the ideal of governance by a strong, independent executive was rejected--along with notions of "central planning," "social control," and state imposition of "values"--and a politics of contending interest groups was embraced.

Hardcover 2007

Losing Time

Otis Graham

What should the United States have done when the nation saw its industries rapidly becoming globally uncompetitive? What reforms do we need now? Graham proposes an explicit if minimalist approach by the federal government that would pull together and reform our de facto industrial policies in order to equip the United States with the institutional capacity to formulate industrial interventions guided by continuous learning, strategic vision, and bipartisan participation by both labor and management.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Risa L. Goluboff

Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American civil rights law long dominated by Brown v. Board of Education. Since 1954, generations have viewed civil rights as a matter of breaking down formal legal barriers to integration, especially in public education. By uncovering the challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, when civil rights were legally, conceptually, and constitutionally up for grabs, Goluboff shows how Brown only partially fulfilled the lost promise of civil rights.

Hardcover 2007

Lyndon Johnson and Europe

Thomas Alan Schwartz

In the first comprehensive study of Johnson's policy toward Europe--the most important theater of the Cold War--Schwartz shows a president who guided the United States with a policy that balanced the solidarity of the Western alliance with the need to stabilize the Cold War and reduce the nuclear danger. Impressively researched and engagingly written, Lyndon Johnson and Europe shows a fascinating new side to this giant of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that Johnson's diplomacy toward Europe deserves recognition as one of the most important achievements of his presidency.

Hardcover 2003

The Making of the New Deal

Edited by Katie Louchheim

Frank Freidel

With historical notes by Jonathan Dembo

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

Making the American Self

Daniel W. Howe

What does it mean to be an American, and how have individual Americans consciously endeavored to create their own identity? Daniel Howe demonstrates how Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Dorothea Dix and Frederick Douglass, among others, shared a common model of human psychology, in which base passions must be mastered by reason in the service of virtue.

Hardcover 1997

Man and Nature

George Marsh

Edited by David Lowenthal

Hardcover 1965 / Paperback

The Mighty Wurlitzer

Hugh Wilford

Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the 1960s.

Hardcover 2008

Miles to Go

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan offers a wide-ranging meditation on the nation's social strategies for the last sixty years, as well as a vision for the years to come.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997

The Minority Rights Revolution

John D. Skrentny

In the wake of the black civil rights movement, other disadvantaged groups of Americans began to make headway--Latinos, women, Asian Americans, and the disabled found themselves the beneficiaries of new laws and policies--and by the early 1970s a minority rights revolution was well underway. In the first book to take a broad perspective on this wide-ranging and far-reaching phenomenon, Skrentny exposes the connections between the diverse actions and circumstances that contributed to this revolution--and that forever changed the face of American politics.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings

Bartlett Jere Whiting

Hardcover

The National Labs

Peter J. Westwick

The national laboratories have occupied a central place in the landscape of American science for more than fifty years. Deeply researched and lucidly written, The National Labs is the first book to trace the confluence of diverse interests that created and sustained this extensive enterprise. Westwick takes us from the origins of the labs in the Manhattan Project to their role in building the hydrogen bomb, nuclear power reactors, and high-energy accelerators, to their subsequent entry into such fields as computers, meteorology, space science, molecular biology, environmental science, and alternative energy sources.

Hardcover 2003

A New Deal for the World

Elizabeth Borgwardt

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of "war and peace aims." In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic Charter redefined human rights and America's vision for the world.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

The New Nuns

Amy L. Koehlinger

In the 1960s, a number of Catholic women in the United States abandoned traditional apostolic works to experiment with new and often unprecedented forms of service among non-Catholics. Koehlinger explores the phenomenon of the "new nun" through close examination of one of its most visible forms--the experience of white sisters working in African-American communities. In this book, Koehlinger captures the confusion and frustration, as well as the exuberance and delight, that they experienced in their new Christian mission.

Hardcover 2007

Nexus

Jonathan Reed Winkler

In an illuminating study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history, Winkler shows how U.S. officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global communications. In this absorbing history, Winkler sheds light on the early stages of the global infrastructure that helped launch the United States as the predominant power of the century.

Hardcover 2008

Nixon's Civil Rights

Dean J. Kotlowski

In a groundbreaking new book, Kotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. Kotlowski examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, affirmative action, and minority businesses as well as Native American and women's rights. He details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric and who constantly weighed political expediency and principles in crafting civil rights policy.

Hardcover 2002

No Coward Soldiers

Waldo E. Martin

In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twentieth-century civil rights and black power eras in American history, Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In the transformative postwar period, the intersection between culture and politics became increasingly central to the African-American fight for equality. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold's exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.

Hardcover 2005

Normalization of U.S.-China Relations

Edited by William C. Kirby

Edited by Robert S. Ross

Edited by Gong Li

Contributions by Robert Accinelli

Contributions by Jaw-Ling Joanne Chang

Contributions by Li Danhui

Contributions by Rosemary Foot

Contributions by Li Jie

Contributions by Vitaly Kozyrev

Contributions by Wang Zhongchun

Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states affected by that relationship. The eight chapters in this volume offer the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007

Northern Passage

John Hagan

More than 50,000 American men and women migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War. John Hagan, himself a member of the exodus, searched declassified government files, consulted previously unopened resistance organization archives and contemporary oral histories, and interviewed American war resisters settled in Toronto to learn how they made the momentous decision.

Hardcover 2001

Old World, New Horizons

Edward Heath

The effort to achieve greater European unity has absorbed the interests and energies of a number of Europeans and Americans since the end of World War II. Edward Heath, who led Britain's earliest attempt to join the European Economic Community, first made this comprehensive statement of the philosophy and purpose behind the movement for European unity in a series of lectures he gave at Harvard University in March 1967. Mr. Heath has updated the lectures in his introduction, although his lucid and intelligent analysis remains extremely far-sighted even in the context of subsequent political changes and events.

Hardcover 1970

On the Law of Nations

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As the era of totalitarianism recedes, the time is at hand to ask by what rules we expect to conduct ourselves, Senator Moynihan writes in this pellucid, and often ironic, examination of international law. Our founding fathers had a firm grasp on the importance and centrality of such law; later presidents affirmed it and tried to establish international institutions based on such high principles; but we lost our way in the fog of the cold war.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations

Robert David Johnson

This intensively researched volume covers a previously neglected aspect of American history: the foreign policy perspective of the peace progressives, a bloc of dissenters in the U.S. Senate, between 1913 and 1935.

Hardcover 1995

Peaceful Revolution

Maxwell Bloomfield

Although they claim to revere it, few Americans understand the Constitution's workings. Its real importance for the average citizen is as an enduring reminder of the moral vision that shaped the nation's founding. Maxwell Bloomfield looks at the broader appeal that constitutional idealism has always made to the American imagination through publications and films. He draws upon such neglected sources to illustrate the way in which media coverage contributes to major constitutional change.

Hardcover 2000

Playing with God

William J. Baker

Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.

Hardcover 2007

Power and Culture

Akira Iriye

Paperback

Powerful and Brutal Weapons

Stephen P. Randolph

As America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Randolph returns to an earlier conflict that severely tested our civilian and military leaders. In 1972, America sought to withdraw from Vietnam with its credibility intact, with President Nixon and National Security Advisor Kissinger hoping that gains on the battlefield would strengthen their position at the negotiating table. Randolph's intimate chronicle of the commander-in-chief gains us unprecedented access to how these strategic assessments were made and played out.

Hardcover 2007

Private Lives/Public Consequences

William H. Chafe

A political leader's decisions can determine the fate of a nation, but what determines how and why that leader makes certain choices? William H. Chafe, a distinguished historian of twentieth century America, examines eight of the most significant political leaders of the modern era in order to explore the relationship between their personal patterns of behavior and their political decision-making process. The result is a fascinating look at how personal lives and political fortunes have intersected to shape America over the past fifty years.

Hardcover 2005

Province of Reason

Sam Bass Warner

This book is about some of the largest events of the twentieth century, but it sees those sweeping changes through the eyes of fourteen particular Bostonians, in an ambitious attempt to understand the disorienting experiences of recent history. These lives span the years from 1850 to 1980, a time when Boston, like all American cities, was being rebuilt according to the continually changing specifications of science, engineering, mass wealth, and big corporations.

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Race Mixing

Renee C. Romano

Marriage between blacks and whites is a longstanding and deeply ingrained taboo in American culture. On the eve of World War II, mixed-race marriage was illegal in most states. Yet, sixty years later, black-white marriage is no longer illegal or a divisive political issue, and the number of such couples and their mixed-race children has risen dramatically. Renee Romano explains how and why such marriages have gained acceptance, and what this tells us about race relations in contemporary America. The history of interracial marriage helps us understand the extent to which America has overcome its racist past, and how much further we must go to achieve meaningful racial equality.

Hardcover 2003

Re-examining the Cold War

Edited by Robert S. Ross

Edited by Changbin Jiang

Contributions by Robert Accinelli

Contributions by Rosemary Foot

Contributions by Steven M. Goldstein

Contributions by Li Gong

Contributions by Qingguo Jia

Contributions by William C. Kirby

Contributions by Jie Li

Contributions by Ronald W. Pruessen

Contributions by Michael Schaller

Contributions by Robert D. Schulzinger

Contributions by Baijia Zhang

The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other's policy-making motivations.

Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002

Red-Hot and Righteous

Diane Winston

In this study of American religion, urban life, and commercial culture, Diane Winston shows how a (self-styled "red-hot") militant Protestant mission established a beachhead in the modern city. When The Salvation Army, a British evangelical movement, landed in New York in 1880, local citizens called its eye-catching advertisements "vulgar" and dubbed its brass bands, female preachers, and overheated services "sensationalist." Yet a little more than a century later, this ragtag missionary movement had evolved into the nation's largest charitable fund-raiser. Winston illustrates how the Army borrowed the forms and idioms of popular entertainments, commercial emporiums, and master marketers to deliver its message.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

Regulating a New Economy

Morton Keller

Morton Keller, a leading scholar of twentieth-century American history, describes the complex interplay between rapid economic change and regulatory policy. In its portrait of the response of American politics and law to a changing economy, this book provides a fresh understanding of emerging public policy for a modern nation.

Hardcover

Regulating a New Society

Morton Keller

A leading scholar of twentieth-century American history looks again at the beginning of the century, this time giving us a remarkable portrait of the emergence of modern society and its distinctive transformations and social problems. Keller integrates political, legal, and governmental history, now providing the first comprehensive study of the ideas and interests that shaped early twentieth-century American social policy.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998

The Republican Roosevelt, Second Edition

John Morton Blum

Paperback

Rightward Bound

Edited by Bruce J. Schulman

Edited by Julian E. Zelizer

Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties and Reagan’s Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed era when the forces of a conservative counter-revolution cohered. A critical decade in American history, Rightward Bound illuminates the seeds of both the successes and the failures of the conservative revolution.

Paperback 2008 / Hardcover 2008

The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America

Eric P. Kaufmann

As the 2000 census resoundingly demonstrated, the Anglo-Protestant ethnic core of the United States has all but dissolved. This demographic shift has spawned a "culture war" within white America. While liberals seek to diversify society toward a cosmopolitan endpoint, some conservatives strive to maintain an American ethno-national identity. Kaufmann traces the roots of this culture war from the rise of WASP America to its fall in the 1960s, when social institutions finally began to reflect the nation's ethnic composition.

Hardcover 2004

The Road from Isolation

Donald J. Friedman

Hardcover 1968

The Road to Dallas

David Kaiser

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. In this unvarnished story, Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the U.S. government’s campaign against organized crime, which began in the late 1950s and accelerated dramatically under Robert Kennedy; and the furtive quest of two administrations to eliminate Fidel Castro. This book brings to light the complete, frequently shocking, story of the JFK assassination and its aftermath.

Hardcover 2008

The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub

Edited by Randy Roberts

This book is a collection of original essays about the people and places that live in the minds and memories of Bostonians and all Americans. From the Boston of the young Bambino and even younger Francis Ouimet to the glories and agonies of 1986 and the struggles to keep the Patriots in town, each chapter focuses on the games and the athletes, but also on which sports have defined Boston and Bostonians. Pursuing the legend and the lore, these essays celebrate the players, the games, and the arenas that are at the heart of the city.

Hardcover 2005

Roots Too

Matthew Frye Jacobson

In the 1970s, white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Satchmo Blows Up the World

Penny M. Von Eschen

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Von Eschen captures the fascinating interplay between the efforts of the State Department and the progressive agendas of the artists themselves, as all struggled to redefine a more inclusive and integrated American nation on the world stage.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

Screening History

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington, D.C., boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics.

Paperback / Hardcover

Second Home

Timothy A. Hacsi

As orphan asylums ceased to exist in the late twentieth century, interest in them dwindled as well. Yet, from the Civil War to the Great Depression, America's dependent children received more aid from orphan asylums than from any other means. The ideologies and institutions behind this aid are the subject of Timothy Hacsi's book.

Hardcover 1998

The Selma of the North

Patrick D. Jones

Jones tells a powerful and dramatic story that is important for its insights into civil rights history: the debate over nonviolence and armed self-defense, the meaning of Black Power, the relationship between local and national movements, and the dynamic between southern and northern activism.

Hardcover 2009

Sexual Reckonings

Susan K. Cahn

This is the engaging tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during its most explosive decades. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts, with the modern awareness of female sexuality clashing mightily against the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South.

Hardcover 2007

Shifting the Color Line

Robert C. Lieberman

Shifting the Color Line explores the historical and political roots of racial conflict in American welfare policy, beginning with the New Deal. Robert Lieberman demonstrates how racial distinctions were built into the very structure of the American welfare state.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

The Sixties Unplugged

Gerard J. DeGroot

This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness. In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade, DeGroot reminds us that the “Ballad of the Green Beret” outsold “Give Peace a Chance,” that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom, that revolution was always a pipe dream, and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek.

Hardcover 2008

Slaves on Screen

Natalie Zemon Davis

The written word and what the eye can see are brought together in this fascinating foray into the depiction of resistance to slavery through the modern medium of film. Davis, whose book The Return of Martin Guerre was written while she served as consultant to the French film of the same name, now tackles the large issue of how the moving picture industry has portrayed slaves in five major motion pictures spanning four generations.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Socializing Security

David A. Moss

Socializing Security examines the early movement for worker-security legislation in the United States. The author focuses on a group of academic economists who became leading proponents of social insurance and protective labor legislation during the first decades of the twentieth century and founded the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL).

Hardcover 1995

Staging Race

Karen Sotiropoulos

Drawing extensively on black newspapers and commentary of the period, Karen Sotiropoulos shows how black performers and composers participated in a politically charged debate about the role of the expressive arts in the struggle for equality. Despite the racial violence, disenfranchisement, and the segregation of virtually all public space, they used America's new businesses of popular entertainment as vehicles for their own creativity and as spheres for political engagement.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Strait Talk

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and peace. Tucker traces the thorny relationship between the United States and Taiwan as both watch China’s power grow.

Hardcover 2009

Struggles for Justice

Alan Dawley

In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, prizewinning historian Alan Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise to power. Probing the dynamics of social change, he explores tensions between industrial workers and corporate capitalists, Victorian moralists and New Women, native Protestants and Catholic immigrants. Thoughtful analysis and sparkling narrative combine to make this book a major challenge to earlier interpretations of the period.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience

John Lewis Gaddis

September 11, 2001, Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. We've been there before, and have responded each time by dramatically expanding our security responsibilities. How successful our current strategies will be in the face of twenty-first-century challenges is the question that now confronts us. This provocative book is one of the first attempts by a major scholar of international relations to provide an answer.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Swing Changes

David W. Stowe

Bands were playing, people were dancing, the music business was booming. It was the big-band era, and swing was giving a new shape and sound to American culture. Swing Changes looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions and tensions within swing--over race, politics, its own cultural status, the role of women--mirrored those played out in the larger society. Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature, and films, Swing Changes offers a vibrant picture of American society at a pivotal time, and a new perspective on music as a cultural force.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998

Take Heart

Oglesby Paul

Dr. Paul Dudley White was the premier heart specialist of this century. He was recognized as an outstanding bedside doctor, a great teacher, and a widely respected investigator. By his optimism, his pioneer message encouraging physical activity, and his emphasis on avoiding unnecessary invalidism, he changed the outlook of thousands of patients with heart disease and changed it for the better.

Hardcover 1986

Teaching Sex

Jeffrey P. Moran

Teaching Sex travels back over the past century to trace the emergence of the "sexual adolescent" in America and the evolution of the schools' efforts to teach sex to this captive pupil. Jeffrey Moran takes us on a fascinating ride through America's sexual mores. We see how the political and moral anxieties of each era found their way into sex education curricula, reflecting the priorities of the elders more than the concerns of the young.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Temptations of a Superpower

Ronald Steel

One of our most eloquent and incisive foreign policy analysts offers a devastating critique of a high-stakes game of foreign policy played by rules that no longer apply, and then proposes a more realistic--and pragmatic--view of the world and our place in it.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

To the Golden Cities

Deborah Dash Moore

In this book, the vibrant Jewish culture of Los Angeles and Miami comes to life through Moore's skillful weaving of individual voices, dreams, and accomplishments.

Paperback 1996

Unequal Freedom

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Up from History

Robert J. Norrell

This compelling biography reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Booker T. Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. Norrell details the positive power of Washington’s vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination.

Hardcover 2009

Visible Cities

Leonard Blussé

The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. In a valuable transnational perspective, Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities—Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia.

Hardcover 2008

The War Council

Andrew Preston

By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council, Andrew Preston demonstrates that policymakers escalated the conflict in Vietnam in the face of internal opposition, external pressures, and a continually failing strategy. The War Council is an illuminating and compelling story with two inseparable themes: the acquisition and consolidation of power; and how that power is exercised.

Hardcover 2006

The Warrior and the Priest

John Milton Cooper

The colossal figures who shaped the politics of industrial America emerge in full scale in this engrossing comparative biography. In both the depth and sophistication of intellect that they brought to politics and in the titanic conflict they waged with each other, Roosevelt and Wilson were, like Hamilton and Jefferson before them, the political architects for an entire century.

Paperback

When We Were Good

Robert S. Cantwell

When We Were Good traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the late fifties and sixties. In his capacious analysis of the ideologies, traditions, and personalities that created an extraordinary moment in American popular culture, Cantwell explores the idea of folk at the deepest level. Taking up some of the more obdurate problems in cultural studies--racial identity, art and politics, regional allegiances, class differences--he shows how the folk revival was a search for authentic democracy, with compelling lessons for our own time.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997

While China Faced West

James C. Thomson

Hardcover 1969 / Paperback

Who Owns the Sky?

Stuart Banner

A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner’s book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law.

Hardcover 2008

Women at War with America

D'Ann Campbell

Hardcover 1984

Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940

Winifred D. Wandersee

Hardcover 1981

Woodrow Wilson and the American Myth in Italy

Daniela Rossini

Translated by Antony Shugaar

In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s image as leader of the free world and the image of America as dispenser of democracy spread throughout Italy, filling an ideological void. American popularity, though, did not ensure mutual understanding. Rossini sets the Italian-American political confrontation within the full context of the two countries’ cultural perceptions of each other, different war experiences, and ideas about participatory democracy and peace.

Hardcover 2008

The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me

Jonathan Rieder

Taking us deep into King’s backstage discussions with colleagues, his preaching to black congregations, his exhortations in mass meetings, and his crossover addresses to whites, Rieder tells a powerful story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of one of America’s greatest moral and political leaders.

Hardcover 2008

The Work of Democracy

Ben Keppel

By carefully tracing the public lives of Ralph Bunche, Kenneth Clark, and Lorraine Hansberry, Keppel illuminates how the mainstream media selectively appropriated the most challenging themes and goals of the struggle for racial equality so that difficult questions about the relationship between racism and American democracy could be softened, if not entirely evaded.

Hardcover

The Worlds of Herman Kahn

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi

Herman Kahn was the only nuclear strategist in America who might have made a living as a standup comedian. In telling his story, Ghamari-Tabrizi captures an era that is still very much with us--a time whose innocence, gruesome nuclear humor, and outrageous but deadly serious visions of annihilation have their echoes in the "known unknowns and unknown unknowns" that guide policymakers in our own embattled world.

Hardcover 2005

Yankee No!

Alan McPherson

Alan McPherson sheds much-needed light on the controversial and pressing problem of anti-U.S. sentiment in the world. Examining the roots of anti-Americanism in Latin America, McPherson focuses on three major crises: the Cuban Revolution, the 1964 Panama riots, and U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. Deftly combining cultural and political analysis, he demonstrates the shifting and complex nature of anti-Americanism in each country and the love-hate ambivalence of most Latin Americans toward the United States.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

Zechariah Chafee, Jr

Donald L. Smith

Hardcover 1986