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Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War explores the meaning of anxiety as expressed through the political and cultural language of the early cold war era. Cuordileone shows how the preoccupation with the soft, malleable American character reflected not only anti-Communism but acute anxieties about manhood and sexuality. Reading major... more...
Political Wit
Summersdale 2012; US$ 9.99Luckily, politicians are sometimes as good at raising a laugh as they are raising taxes "A politician is a person who approaches every subject with an open mouth." ?Adlai Stevenson "A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate." ?Eric Idle "The game of politics is to make you afraid so that you... more...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents
Regnery Publishing 2012; US$ 19.95What Makes A President Great? Academics, journalists, and popular historians agree. Our greatest presidents are the ones who confronted a national crisis and mobilized the entire nation to face it. That?s the conventional wisdom. The chief executives who are celebrated in textbooks and placed in the top echelon of presidents in surveys of experts... 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...
Thinking In Time
Free Press 2011; US$ 19.99A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Thinking In Time
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Thinking In Time
Free Press 2011; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. 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...
What's Fair on the Air?
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 27.50The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and ’60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridation, federal income tax, Social Security, or JFK, as well as hosannas praising Barry Goldwater... 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...









