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The Utes Must Go!
Fulcrum Publishing 2004; US$ 25.00Tracing three centuries of Ute Indian history, "The Utes Must Go!" chronicles the policies and incidents that led to the involuntary removal of the Ute Indians from Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Historian Peter Decker unveils new critical information on figures such as U.S. Army Maj. Thomas Thornburgh, Interior Secretary Carl Schurz, famed... more...
The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of the Plains Indian Wars
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 45.00The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of the Plains Indian Wars takes readers back to the late 19th century to show how newspaper reporting impacted attitudes toward the conflict between the United States and Native Americans.||Emphasizing primary sources and eyewitness accounts, the book focuses on eight watershed events between 1862 and 1891Ñthe... more...
Defending the West
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 77.00Covers the wartime correspondence between President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill and includes more than a decade of subsequent personal and official correspondence between the two. more...
Wounded Knee
Basic Books 2010; US$ 17.99An acclaimed historian uncovers the story behind the massacre at Wounded Knee, demonstrating how party politics in Washington, D.C. made the South Dakota catastrophe inevitable more...
The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.95The riveting story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers, a compelling conflict that unfolded in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857. When appointed Washington?s first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, an ambitious military man turned politician, had one goal: to persuade (peacefully if possible)... more...
Eisenhower 1956
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 16.00A gripping tale of international intrigue and betray-al, Eisenhower 1956 is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis climaxed in a tumultuous nine-day period fraught with peril just prior to the 1956 presidential election, with Great Britain, France,... more...
The Truman Presidency
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 50.00Written by leading authorities in the fields of the contemporary social, political, and diplomatic history of the United States, the essays in this volume provide a wide-ranging overview of the intentions, achievements, and failures of the Truman administration. Divided into sections on domestic politics and issues, and foreign policy and national... more...
Domestic Policy and Ideology
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 30.00In this study Dr McKay examines the interaction between presidential policy preferences and the political environment. more...
The Political Legacies of Barry Goldwater and George McGovern
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book is about redemption for people on the right and left of the political spectrum who can be proud of two politicians, Senator's Barry Goldwater and George McGovern, who demonstrated that defeat can be accepted with decency and honor. more...
FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 18.99Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt?s health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR?s reelection was... more...









