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Access to History for the IB diploma
Hodder Education 2012; US$ 30.38This series has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made it for the History IB Diploma. more...
The Life of Herbert Hoover
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 60.00This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents. more...
Coolidge
Regnery Publishing 2012; US$ 19.95From Publishers Weekly In this inflated revisionist biography, Sobel seeks to overturn the image of Calvin Coolidge as a taciturn, do-nothing president. He portrays his subject as an embodiment of the ethos of a vanished America, a pragmatic politician who espoused a philosophy of a passive executive branch. Although Coolidge took no actions to... more...
The Role of Radio in the American Presidential Election of 1924
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 139.95This study investigates how. for the first time the new medium of radio impacted upon a presidential campaign. Prior to 1924 candidates were known to the public by their photographs and by the printed versions of their major speeches published in the press. Beginning in 1924, however, party standard-bearers were recognized by their voices. more...
Happy Days Are Here Again
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99Political conventions in years past were more than pep rallies for preselected candidates -- they were suspenseful, no-holds-barred battles for the nomination. In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man who would become one of America's most beloved presidents, was far from a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination at the party's convention in Chicago.... more...
New World Coming
Scribner 2010; US$ 30.00"To an astonishing extent, the 1920s resemble our own era, at the turn of the twenty-first century; in many ways that decade was a precursor of modern excesses....Much of what we consider contemporary actually began in the Twenties." -- from the Introduction The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination:... more...
Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 119.99The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II relates the events of this crucial period in U.S. history through a chronology, an introductory essay, over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations. more...
The Harding Affair
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 12.99The never-before-told story of President Harding's secret affair with pro-German advocate Carrie Phillips, based on their never-before-published love letters. more...
The Harding Affair
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 18.99Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could have foreseen that their... more...
Jazz Age
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 119.00This volume in ABC-CLIOs social history series, People and Perspectives, looks at one of the most vibrant eras in U.S. history, a decade when American life was utterly transformed, often veering from freewheeling to fearful, from liberated to repressed.||What did it mean to live through the Jazz Age? To answer this and other important questions,... more...









