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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...
Kingfish
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin?s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his personal police... 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...
Too Close to the Sun
PublicAffairs 2008; US$ 27.95FDR?s grandson describes his strange and wondrous coming-of-age in the Roosevelt White House?and the perils of a public childhood. more...
Teddy Roosevelt
Aladdin 2008; US$ 5.99Focuses on the childhood of the dynamic president, describing how Teddy worked hard to improve his poor health and developed a lifelong interest in nature and the conservation of natural resources. 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 Tormented President
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 119.00Although Calvin Coolidge is widely judged to have been a weak and even an incompetent president, this study concludes that he was a leader disabled by a crippling emotional breakdown. After an impressive early career, Coolidge assumed the presidency upon the death of Warren Harding. His promising political career suffered a major blow, however, with... more...
Brute
Little, Brown and Company 2010; US$ 14.99From the earliest days of his thirty-four-year military career, Victor "Brute" Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps. He went on daring spy missions, was badly wounded, pioneered the use of amphibious vehicles, and masterminded the invasion of Okinawa. In Korea, he was a combat hero and invented... 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...
Rise to Globalism
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 18.00"One of the most lively and provocative interpretive studies of the major events in recent American diplomatic history." - American Historical Review Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush,... more...









