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1787: The Grand Conventionby Clinton Lawrence RossiterISBN 0393304043 (0-393-30404-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Alaskaby James A. MichenerISBN 0394551540 (0-394-55154-0)
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Alexander Hamilton: A Biographyby Forrest McDonaldISBN 039330048X (0-393-30048-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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America's Hidden Success: A Reassessment of Public Policy from Kennedy to Reaganby John E. SchwarzISBN 0393304477 (0-393-30447-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975by George HerringISBN 0394345002 (0-394-34500-2)
Softcover, Knopf
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America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Presentby Linda Gordon, Susan Reverby, Rosalyn Fraad BaxandallISBN 0393312623 (0-393-31262-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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American Constitution: It's Origin and Developmentby Herman Belz, Alfred Hinsey Kelly, Winfred HarbisonISBN 0393960560 (0-393-96056-0)
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American History: A Surveyby Richard Nelson CurrentISBN 0394330439 (0-394-33043-9)
Hardcover, Knopf
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The American South : A Historyby Cooper, William J., Jr., Thomas E. TerrillISBN 0394589483 (0-394-58948-3)
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American Violence: A Documentary Historyby Michael Wallace, Richard HofstadterISBN 0394414861 (0-394-41486-1)
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American Violence; A Documentary History,by Richard HofstadterISBN 0394716868 (0-394-71686-8)
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The Americans: Fifty Talks on Our Life and Timesby Alistair CookeISBN 0394503643 (0-394-50364-3)
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Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congressby William L. MillerISBN 0394569229 (0-394-56922-9)
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Ashes to Ashes : America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morrisby Richard KlugerISBN 0394570766 (0-394-57076-6)
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slaveryby Leon F. LitwackISBN 0394500997 (0-394-50099-7)
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Benjamin Franklin: A Biographyby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 0394502221 (0-394-50222-1)
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The Borrowed Years : 1938-1941 America on the Way to Warby Richard M. KetchumISBN 0394560116 (0-394-56011-6)
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By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Ageby Paul BoyerISBN 0394528786 (0-394-52878-6)
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The Chomsky Readerby Noam Chomsky, Jim PeckISBN 0394559568 (0-394-55956-8)
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Citizen Tom Paineby Howard FastISBN 0394624645 (0-394-62464-5)
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The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collectionby William GienappISBN 039397555X (0-393-97555-X)
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Particular attention is paid to social history; coverage of the experience of African Americans, women, and non-elites provides a well-rounded picture of the period. Substantial selections, careful editing, and helpful annotations make this collection an ideal supplement for your course on the Civil War and Reconstruction. [via]More editions of The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection:
Crisis of Empire: Great Britain and the American Colonies, 1754-1783by Ian R. ChristieISBN 0393096505 (0-393-09650-5)
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Death and Rebirth of the Senecaby A. F. WallaceISBN 039471699X (0-394-71699-X)
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Democracy in Americaby Thomas Bender, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Societyby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0393318540 (0-393-31854-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society'Book summary:In this updated version of a modern classic, acclaimed historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. strikes a blow against radical multiculturalism. The rising cult of ethnicity, he argues, threatens a common American identity, imperiling the civic ideals that traditionally have bonded immigrants into a nation. Various chapters criticize bilingual education, Afrocentrism, and the use of history as group therapy for minorities. Schlesinger raised eyebrows when he first published this book in 1992 because of his impeccable liberal credentials as a one-time assistant to President Kennedy and long-standing academic champion of FDR's New Deal. This new version contains all of the original volume's edge, plus a few extras, including an appendix containing "Schlesinger's Syllabus," 13 books "indispensable to an understanding of America." Titles from this eclectic list include The Federalist Papers, Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Mencken's American Language. The Disuniting of America remains an essential book for readers interested in the American character as it enters the 21st century. --John J. Miller [via]
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Ecological Indian: Myth and Historyby Shepard KrechISBN 0393321002 (0-393-32100-2)
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Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indianby Michael Paul RoginISBN 0394482042 (0-394-48204-2)
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First Person Americaby Ann BanksISBN 0393307816 (0-393-30781-6)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Free Women of Petersburgby Suzanne LebsockISBN 0393952649 (0-393-95264-9)
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americansby Alfred A. Moss, John Hope FranklinISBN 0394370139 (0-394-37013-9)
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americansby John Hope FranklinISBN 0394322568 (0-394-32256-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!by Otto L. BettmannISBN 0394709411 (0-394-70941-1)
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A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homelandby John MacK FaragherISBN 0393328279 (0-393-32827-9)
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Centuryby Paul KrugmanISBN 0393326055 (0-393-32605-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century'Book summary:The Great Unraveling is a chronicle of how "the heady optimism of the late 1990s gave way to renewed gloom as a result of "incredibly bad leadership, in the private sector and in the corridors of power." Offering his own take on the trickle-down theory, economist and columnist Paul Krugman lays much of the blame for a slew of problems on the Bush administration, which he views as a "revolutionary power...a movement whose leaders do not accept the legitimacy of our current political system." Declaring them radicals masquerading as moderates, he questions their motives on a range of issues, particularly their tax and Social Security plans, which he argues are "obviously, blatantly based on bogus arithmetic." Though a fine writer, Krugman relies more heavily on numbers than words to examine the current rash of corporate malfeasance, the rise and fall of the stock market bubble, the federal budget and the future of Social Security, and how a huge surplus quickly became a record deficit. He also rails against the news media for displaying a disturbing lack of skepticism and for failing to do even the most basic homework when reporting on business and economic issues. The book is mainly a collection of op-ed pieces Krugman wrote for The New York Times between 2000 and 2003. Overall, this format works well. Krugman writes clearly about complicated issues and offers plenty of evidence and hard facts to support his theories regarding the intersection of business, economics, and politics, making this a detailed, informative, and thought-provoking book. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
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Haven in a Heartless World : The Family Besiegedby Christopher LaschISBN 0393313034 (0-393-31303-4)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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One of the earliest and sharpest cultural commentators to investigate the twentieth-century American family, Christopher Lasch argues in this book that as social science "experts" intrude more and more into our lives, the family's vital role as the moral and social cornerstone of society disintegratesand, left unchecked, so does our political and personal freedom.
Mr. Lasch combines an analytic overview of the psychological and sociological literature on the American family with his own trenchant analysis of where the problem lies. [via]More editions of Haven in a Heartless World : The Family Besieged:
Hawaiiby James A. MichenerISBN 0394427971 (0-394-42797-1)
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A History of the Modern Worldby R. R. PalmerISBN 0394320409 (0-394-32040-9)
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Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952-1972by Gore VidalISBN 0394482107 (0-394-48210-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippinesby Stanley KarnowISBN 0394549759 (0-394-54975-9)
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In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American Historyby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0394467922 (0-394-46792-2)
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The Invisible Manby Ralph EllisonISBN 0394525493 (0-394-52549-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:We rely, in this world, on the visual aspects of humanity as a means of learning who we are. This, Ralph Ellison argues convincingly, is a dangerous habit. A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Searching for a context in which to know himself, he exists in a very peculiar state. "I am an invisible man," he says in his prologue. "When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me." But this is hard-won self-knowledge, earned over the course of many years.
As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: "Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here?" Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that his former headmaster's recommendation letters are, in fact, letters of condemnation.
What ensues is a search for what truth actually is, which proves to be supremely elusive. The narrator becomes a spokesman for a mixed-race band of social activists called "The Brotherhood" and believes he is fighting for equality. Once again, he realizes he's been duped into believing what he thought was the truth, when in fact it is only another variation. Of the Brothers, he eventually discerns: "They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves.... Here I thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either color or men."
Invisible Man is certainly a book about race in America, and sadly enough, few of the problems it chronicles have disappeared even now. But Ellison's first novel transcends such a narrow definition. It's also a book about the human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees. None of us can ever be sure of the truth beyond ourselves, and possibly not even there. The world is a tricky place, and no one knows this better than the invisible man, who leaves us with these chilling, provocative words: "And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" --Melanie Rehak [via]
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It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United Statesby Seymour M. Lipset, Gary Wolfe MarksISBN 0393322548 (0-393-32254-8)
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Kent State: What Happened and Whyby James A. MichenerISBN 0394471997 (0-394-47199-7)
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Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, And Reunion After The Civil Warby Elizabeth D. LeonardISBN 0393326772 (0-393-32677-2)
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Make No Law : The Sullivan Case and the First Amendmentby Anthony LewisISBN 039458774X (0-394-58774-X)
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Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biographyby Jean H. BakerISBN 0393305864 (0-393-30586-4)
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Michigan: A Historyby Bruce CattonISBN 0393301753 (0-393-30175-3)
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Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Moviesby Robert SklarISBN 0394483278 (0-394-48327-8)
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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biographyby Jack HurstISBN 0394551893 (0-394-55189-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography'Book summary:Nathan Bedford Forrest was the only soldier to rise from the rank of private to general during the U.S. Civil War. At once "a soft-spoken gentleman of marked placidity and an overbearing bully of homicidal wrath," Forrest is best remembered for the combination of brilliant military leadership and flamboyant bravery that drove his Confederate cavalry troops from victory to victory on the battlefield. His subordinates feared him (he shot those who turned tail), as did his enemies (he rarely lost a fight). General Sherman once said that Forrest must be "hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the [national] treasury." Detractors point out that Forrest never has been exonerated from the Fort Pillow massacre, in which many Union soldiers, most of them black, were slaughtered after attempting to surrender. Following the war, he went on to found the Ku Klux Klan. Late in life, however, Forrest disavowed racial hatred and called for black political advancement. Author Jack Hurst has written the essential biography of a complex and compelling man who was arguably the Civil War's most remarkable soldier. (Movie trivia: Forrest Gump's mother named her son after this general.) [via]
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Never Done: A History of American Houseworkby Susan StrasserISBN 0394708415 (0-394-70841-5)
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The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual As a Social Typeby Christopher LaschISBN 0393316963 (0-393-31696-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880-1920by Jackson T.J. LearsISBN 0394711165 (0-394-71116-5)
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"It's an understatement to call No Place of Grace a brilliant book. . . . It's the first clear sign I've seen that my generation, after marching through the '60s and jogging through the '70s might be pausing to examine what we've learned, and to teach it."Walter Kendrick, Village Voice
"One can justly make the claim that No Place of Grace restores and reinterprets a crucial part of American history. Lears's method is impeccable."Ann Douglas, The NationMore editions of No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880-1920:
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells Allby Allan GurganusISBN 0394545370 (0-394-54537-0)
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Over There : The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918by Byron FarwellISBN 0393320286 (0-393-32028-6)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Over There : The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918'Book summary:A wonderfully concise history of America's first conflict overseas, Over There successfully balances a great body of scholarship with the need to tell a good story. It starts out in 1914, with the United States unprepared (both physically and politically) to fight, then tells how, in 1917, the country quickly created a combat force that helped break a long stalemate on the Western front of Europe. Farwell, a veteran author of military history, offers important insights into the nature of the Great War: "Strategy was replaced by logistics and battles were fought with strange, unfamiliar weapons of previously unimagined frightfulness," such as tanks, planes, and flame-throwers. Despite these technological advances, other aspects of the war were strikingly primitive. Officers on the front sometimes relied on carrier pigeons to send messages to headquarters, even releasing these poor birds in the middle of intense combat.
Farwell has the good sense to populate his narrative with cameo appearances by familiar figures such as Harry Truman, who fought with an artillery company, and Dwight Eisenhower, who narrowly missed seeing combat and regretted the war's end because, as a West Point-trained trooper, he desperately wanted to fight. Farwell also offers a glossary of soldier slang (to "read a shirt" was to inspect it for lice, for example). An appendix describes the exploits of "rough-cut hillbilly hero" Sergeant York, as well as the famed "Lost Battalion," which was trapped behind enemy lines without food for more than 100 hours, suffered terrible casualties, and refused to surrender. In all, Over There is hard to beat as introduction to the American role in the First World War. --John J. Miller [via]
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Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessonsby Lynn PerilISBN 0393323544 (0-393-32354-4)
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The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration and How It Changed Americaby Nicholas LemannISBN 0394560043 (0-394-56004-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Real Life: Louisville in the Twentiesby Michael LesyISBN 0394498135 (0-394-49813-5)
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000by Paul M. KennedyISBN 0394546741 (0-394-54674-1)
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Rivers of Empire : Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American Westby Donald WorsterISBN 039451680X (0-394-51680-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rivers of Empire : Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West'Book summary:When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospectors, and entrepreneurs who were zealously following Horace Greeley's famous advice to "go west." Yet while the epic chapter in American history opened by these adventurous men and women is filled with stories of frontier hardship, we rarely think of one of their greatest problems--the lack of water resources. And the same difficulty that made life so troublesome for early settlers remains one of the most pressing concerns in the western states of the late-twentieth century.
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Rivers of Empire represents a radically new vision of the American West and its historical significance. Showing how ecological change is inextricably intertwined with social evolution, and reevaluating the old mythic and celebratory approach to the development of the West, Worster offers the most probing, critical analysis of the region to date. He shows how the vast region encompassing our western states, while founded essentially as colonies, have since become the true seat of the American "Empire." How this imperial West rose out of desert, how it altered the course of nature there, and what it has meant for Thoreau's (and our own) mythic search for freedom and the American Dream, are the central themes of this eloquent and thought-provoking story--a story that begins and ends with water. [via]More editions of Rivers of Empire : Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West:
Robert E. Lee: A Biographyby Emory M. ThomasISBN 0393316319 (0-393-31631-9)
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Rockdale: The Growth Of An American Village In The Early Industrial Revolutionby Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0394421205 (0-394-42120-5)
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Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholdersby James OakesISBN 0393317056 (0-393-31705-6)
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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. The Civil War was not an inevitable conflict between civilizations on different paths but the crack-up of a single system, the result of people and events. [via]More editions of Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders:
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Second American Revolution and Other Essaysby Gore VidalISBN 0394713796 (0-394-71379-6)
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Simple Justice : The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equalityby Richard KlugerISBN 0394472896 (0-394-47289-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simple Justice : The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality'Book summary:No decision by the Supreme Court of the United States has had a more profound effect on the conscience of the American people than its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, on May 17, 1954. Stunning in its unanimity and moral clarity, the ruling transformed race relations in the United States by holding that the legally enforced separation of its black and white children in schoolsand, by extension, of the races in all other public settingswas no longer tolerable. The Courts opinion climaxed a twenty-year struggle by a band of courageous African American plaintiffs and their resolute attorneys who labeled segregation for what it was, a caste system that betrayed U.S. ideals of human equality. Within months of the Justices verdict, the civil-rights movement was under way.
Simple Justice, rich in personal drama and deft in connecting the complex social issues at stake, is the definitive account of the legal battle that after three centuries at last awarded black Americans equal protection under the law by finding the old separate but equal doctrine to be a contradiction. The forced separation of black schoolchildren solely because of their race, the nations highest court declared, generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Pulitzer Prizewinner Richard Kluger explores the epochal Brown ruling from its legal and cultural roots, dwelling as well on the lives of those who led the long, bitter, and often disillusioning fight. Here is a sweeping narrative that treats the law not as some lofty abstraction but as an imperfect, and at times vexing, daily presence in a racially divided nation. We meet the men, women, and youngsters who overcame their fears and disadvantages to defy the mean spirit of Jim Crow. They were inspired by a remarkable group of black lawyers who practically invented civil-rights law by patiently assembling, in the courtroom and in the face of constant intimidation, a case so compelling that in the end it could not be denied.
Kluger brilliantly searches out and reveals how the Brown decision was shapedbehind closed doorsby the clash of principles and personalities within the Supreme Court over the three years the Justices considered the monumental case. The outcome reflected, above all, the unflinching will of Chief Justice Earl Warren, new to the Court but old in the ways of politics, who unified his robed brethren behind a simple but immensely powerful message to the nation.
For this revised edition of Simple Justice, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Courts ruling, the author has added a final chapter that weighs the far-reaching impact of the case on American society over the past half century and finds that while true racial harmony and equality continue to elude the United States, there is more reason for hopeful celebration than dark despair. This is a vitally important work of American history. [via]More editions of Simple Justice : The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality:
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Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919by Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0393305880 (0-393-30588-0)
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Sword of San Jacinto : A Life of Sam Houstonby Marshall De BruhlISBN 0394576233 (0-394-57623-3)
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Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Pastby William Cronon, George Miles, Jay GitlinISBN 0393310639 (0-393-31063-9)
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The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne An Archaeological and Historical Odysseyby Ivor Noel HumeISBN 0394564464 (0-394-56446-4)
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, Brooks Atkinson, Townsend ScudderISBN 0394604210 (0-394-60421-0)
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Walden and Resistance to Civil Governmentby Henry David Thoreau, Owen Thomas, William RossiISBN 0393959058 (0-393-95905-8)
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Walt Whitman's America : A Cultural Biographyby David S. ReynoldsISBN 0394580230 (0-394-58023-0)
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Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixonby Stanley KutlerISBN 0393308278 (0-393-30827-8)
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What I Saw at the Revolution : A Political Life in the Reagan Eraby Peggy NoonanISBN 0394564952 (0-394-56495-2)
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What It Takes: The Way to the White Houseby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0394562607 (0-394-56260-7)
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Women and the American Experienceby Nancy WolochISBN 0394535154 (0-394-53515-4)
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Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-Class and Social Historyby Herbert George GutmanISBN 0394496949 (0-394-49694-9)
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World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United Statesby Paul L. MurphyISBN 0393950123 (0-393-95012-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil Warby Elizabeth D. LeonardISBN 0393313727 (0-393-31372-7)
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