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John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 (The American Presidents)
John F. Kennedy

The American Presidents


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"Pulitzer Prize winner Brinkley adds his bit to the American Presidents series, edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger and Sean Wilentz, with this focused biography of John F. Kennedy. Especially valuable if you are collecting the series or have students needing something concise." —Library Journal
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Red Cloud at Dawn



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“Gordin zeros in on the crucial years from Hiroshima to the first flash of ‘Joe 1’ in 1949, the first Russian bomb and the ninth nuclear explosion. Using a spectacular variety of sources from Soviet and American sources, Gordin gives us a book that must be read to understand how we came to the sprawling nuclear proliferation in which we now live.”—Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
The Shadows of Youth



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“Lewis takes on this tumultuous journey in a fact-based account of the movement’s moral and political dilemmas . . . His view of the student movement working in the shadow of the iconic Martin Luther King is both insightful and alarming . . . The extent of Lewis’s research makes this an excellent tool and especially fertile ground for screenwriters, politicians, and anyone interested in this polarizing period of history.” —Sheli Ellsworth, San Francisco Book Review
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning



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"Entertaining and illuminating . . . Mahler marshals his evidence well . . . By using the Yankees as a central metaphor for the city's fortunes, Mahler is able to draw a nuanced portrait of this wild year."—Jon Meacham, The New York Times Book Review (cover review)
The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan
The Other Eighties



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"In arguing for a 1980s that not only didn’t uniformly embrace the superficial conformity of the Reagan years but actively laid groundwork for today’s progressive movements, Martin does valuable work."—Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe
 
"Bradford Martin’s fascinating and extensively researched book will take you on a revelatory trip to the other side of Reagan’s 1980s."—Judith E. Smith, Professor of American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision
Runaway Dream



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“Masur, as his title suggests, has ‘an affinity for the American themes that permeate [Springsteen’s] work,’ and his book is essentially an extended cultural essay about those.”—Chicago Tribune
'What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?': Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise,' and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
'What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?'



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"Exactly what political history ought to be—incisive, fast-paced and fun to read."—Matt Bai, The New York Times Book Review
The Beats: A Graphic History
The Beats



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“This revelatory and exhilarating and funny book not only tells us of the Beat generation, but of a time when we as individuals felt truly free. It is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history only far more entertaining.”—Studs Terkel
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Texas Tough



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“Texas Tough is a raw, compelling assessment of racial disparity and southern culture as they have determined the massive over-incarceration of African Americans. If you want to understand how politics, not crime control, governs today’s prison population, read this book. Anyone concerned with justice and fairness should place this on their must-read list.”—Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and author of When Law Fails
Lyndon B. Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 36th President, 1963-1969 (The American Presidents)
Lyndon B. Johnson

The American Presidents


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The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam War Few...
All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
All in the Family



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“Mr. Self, a professor of history at Brown University, has heroically researched the history of the culture wars from the early 1960s to the present. He offers a provocative analysis that accounts for today’s alliance between small-government and social conservatives, on the one hand, and welfare-state and social liberals, on the other.”—Kay Hymowitz, The Wall Street Journal
The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
The Yugo



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“[A] rollicking chronicle of the rise and fall of the homely little hatchback that couldn’t . . . [Jason Vuic] weaves a tale about crazy socialist factories, just-as-crazy Western financial practices, geopolitics in the days of the Cold War and an American public yearning for affordable cars—all combined with the ‘cutting edge Serbo-Croatian technology,’ as the Yugo was referred to in the spoof movie version of ‘Dragnet’ . . . Mr. Vuic is as hard on the Western capitalism that fleetingly embraced the car as he is on the socialist system that produced it.”—Dick Teresi, The Wall Street Journal
The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency
The Secret Sentry



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Peering from space via satellite, tapping phones and networks, monitoring cell phone frequencies around the globe, the NSA watches friends, enemies, and terror...
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
The Long Gray Line



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"A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the...
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project)
The Limits of Power

American Empire Project


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“This compact, meaty volume ought to be on the reading list of every candidate for national office in November's elections. In an age of cant and baloney, Andrew Bacevich offers a bracing slap of reality. The Limits of Power is gracefully written and easy to read . . . chockablock with provocative ideas and stern judgments. Bacevich's brand of intellectual assuredness is rare in today's public debates. Many of our talking heads and commentators are cocksure, of course, but few combine confidence with knowledge and deep thought the way Bacevich does here. His big argument is elegant and powerful.”—The Washington Post
The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea
The Coldest War



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America's "forgotten war" lasted just thirty-seven months, yet 54,246 Americans died in that time -- nearly as many as died in ten years in Vietnam. On the...
Gerald R. Ford: The American Presidents Series: The 38th President, 1974-1977 (The American Presidents)
Gerald R. Ford

The American Presidents


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"Although Brinkley calls the pardon and its 'healing' effect on America Ford's most enduring legacy, he deftly describes other achievements. These including ending the divisive Vietnam War while doing his best to aid South Vietnam's refugees; helping to forge the 1975 Helsinki Accords that led the Soviet Union to acknowledge basic human rights and opened the way for its collapse, and fiscal policies that cut inflation in half and, according to Brinkley, boosted the U.S. economy out of its lowest trough since the Great Depression."—Jack Nelson, Los Angeles Times
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
Red Moon Rising



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“In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even...
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
A Short History of Rudeness



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The perceived breakdown of civility has in recent years become a national obsession, and our modern climate of boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette...
A Rumor of War:
A Rumor of War


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The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
Stonewall



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Riveting . . . not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night."—The Boston Globe
Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal
Bill and Hillary



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In Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal, the distinguished historian William H. Chafe boldly argues that the trajectory of the Clintons’ political...
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop



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"The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Chang brings to it. Robert Moses unleashes the destructive juggernaut of the Cross-Bronx Expressway; landlords set fire to worthless tenements; police stand by and do nothing; and, against a backdrop of gang warfare, peacemaking d.j.s lay down the heavy beats and spidery loops around which a rapping, dancing, graffiti-painting culture grows. This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written. Chang is blind to no one's greed or viciousness, but he retains an idealistic view of a music that speaks the truth about the alternately stultifying and horrifying urban landscapes that the parents who hate hip-hop have made."—The New Yorker
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project)
Hegemony or Survival

American Empire Project


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"Reading Chomsky today is sobering and instructive . . . He is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet."...

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