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The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century
Nation Books 2012; US$ 19.99A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women?s suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted? because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the... more...
15 Stars
Free Press 2007; US$ 30.00In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to three five-star generals as its greatest heroes. George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur personified victory, from the Pentagon to Normandy to the Far East. Counterparts and on occasion competitors, they had leapfrogged each other, sometimes stonewalled each other, even... more...
The A to Z from the Great War to the Great Depression
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99The A to Z from the Great War to the Great Depression covers this important period in American history with a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on everything from automobiles, chemicals, and electrical goods, to mass entertainment and the rise of Hollywood, radio, and sport. more...
The Advancement of Liberty
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00This book is a counterpoint to the prevailing view that the United States is an imperialist nation that has violently pursued power in the world to advance its own narrow interests. more...
Aircraft Carriers at War
Naval Institute Press 2011; US$ 36.95Adm. James Holloway describes this book as a contemporary perspective of the events, decisions, and outcomes in the history of the Cold War Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet confrontation that shaped today s U.S. Navy and its principal ships-of-the-line, the large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Without question, the admiral is exceptionally... more...
Alanson B. Houghton
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2004; US$ 37.95Alanson B. Houghton?American industrialist, politician, and diplomat?was the world's most influential diplomat during the "New Era" of the 1920s. Houghton, who served as ambassador to both Germany (1922?1925) and Great Britain (1925?1929), offers a unique window into the formation and implementation of American foreign policy. This fascinating new... more...
Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 19.99Draws together the details of Alger Hiss, an innocent victim of McCarthyism from his upper middle-class childhood in Baltimore and his brilliant success at Harvard to his later career as a self-made martyr to McCarthyism - to paint a fascinating portrait of a man whose life was devoted to perpetuating a lie. more...
America Transformed
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00An examination of the period 1941 2001 during which time the character of American life changed rapidly, culminating in the shattering of the Liberal Democratic coalition. Revolutions in the areas of affluence, foreign policy, the military, business systems, racial relations, gender roles, sexual behavior and attitudes are discussed. more...
America and the Cold War, 1941-1991: A Realist Interpretation
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 125.00Three distinguished diplomatic historians offer an assessment of the Cold War in the realist tradition that focuses on balancing the objectives of foreign policy with the means of accomplishing them. more...









