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Great Political Wit
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1999; US$ 15.00Famous for his delectably dry humor, Senator Bob Dole brings us the ultimate bipartisan book: some of his favorite witticisms, hilarious remarks, and wry observations of the great political figures of this century. Bob Dole's political career may not have taken him to the White House, but he did pick up some great stories along the way. In this delightful... more...
The Party Period and Public Policy
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 42.50These essays describe and analyze key developments in American politics and government in an era when political parties commanded mass loyalties and wielded unprecedented power over government affairs. more...
Red Scare
University of Minnesota Press 1955; US$ 72.00Few periods n American history have been so dramatic, so fraught with mystery, or so bristling with fear and hysteria as were the days of the great Red Scare that followed World War I. For sheer excitement, it would be difficult to find a more absorbing t more...
Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 48.99This is the first comprehensive examination of the close relationship between leading groups of British socialists and American progressives in the early twentieth century. Employing new methods of conceptual and institutional analysis, and drawing on extensive original archival research, the book challenges traditional analyses of these movements.... more...
The Red Scare, Politics, and the Federal Communications Commission, 1941-1960
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 83.00Explores how the politics inherent to the Red Scare profoundly affected FCC decisions and policymaking from 1939-1962. more...
The View from Alger's Window
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.00The View from Alger's Window is Tony Hiss's remarkable memoir of the trial and imprisonment of one of the most famous victims of the Cold War witch-hunts: his father. Tony Hiss was seven years old when Whittaker Chambers first accused Alger Hiss of passing secrets to the Russians. For the rest of his childhood, Tony and his family experienced the... more...
McCarthyism and the Red Scare
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 55.00The post-World War II "Red Scare" resulted from domestic strife brought on by the ideological struggle between capitalism and communism. The hysterical witch hunts of the McCarthy era are over half a century behind us. Or are they? There are parallels between McCarthyism and the rhetoric associated with the current polarization in American politics,... more...
The McCarthy Era
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 35.00As the cold war began in the late 1940s, the fear of a Red threat within the United States intensified. Exploiting the public anxieties, Joseph R. McCarthy, a little-known senator from Wisconsin, launched his anti-communist crusade in 1950. Past membership in the Communist Party, friendship with suspected radicals, or buying a leftist newspaper was... more...
On History
Haymarket Books 2011; US$ 16.00In a wide-ranging conversation, filmmaker Oliver Stone and writer Tariq Ali discuss world history from the seventh century to today. more...
Editorial Cartoon Awards 1922-1997
De Gruyter 1999; US$ 154.00The Pulitzer Prize Archive. A History and Anthology of Award-winning Materials in Journalism, Letters and Arts. more...









