Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 1997. — 272 p. Абельманн Н., Ли Дж. Голубые мечты Корейцы в США и гражданские волнения в Лос- Анджелесе в 1992 году (на англ. яз.) The book shows how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 255 p. The Supreme Court's intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court's actions. Did the Court's decision violate the rule of law? Did it...
Viking, 2021. — 448 p. An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman's deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued. An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in...
Post Hill Press, 2022. — 208 p. President Biden is the most dangerous president in American history. Many Americans still think of Joe Biden as an average guy who supports the working class. But in reality, he has carried out a destructive agenda against our entire system of freedom. He has fully embraced the Green New Deal agenda, along with woke sexual and racial politics,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 602 p. — (Blackwell Companions to American History). 1945 was a watershed year for American history and foreign policy. The recent victory gained in World War II left America as a one of two super power nations on the world stage. America also found itself as the leader of the free world and in political tension with the Soviet Union. Several actions by...
Verso Books, 2010. — 156 p. Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration's historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators who have since pinned responsibility for that Democratic Party collapse on the "reform" president's lack of firm resolve, Ali's critique located the problem in Obama's notion...
Pluto Press, 2021. — 384 p. A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies programs are taught at more than 1,300 universities worldwide. This book is the first history of how that happened. Black Studies founder and movement veteran Abdul Alkalimat offers a comprehensive...
William Morrow, 2025. — 731 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-343864-4 The authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered provide a revelatory, inside look the Biden, Harris, and Trump camps during the 2024 battle for the White House, arguably the most consequential contest in American history. The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once...
Republic Book Publishers, 2020. — 372 p. An essential part of a journalist's responsibility is to listen, observe, ask good questions, and then listen some more. For too long, too few journalists have taken this responsibility seriously. This has been particularly true in the Trump era. Most political journalists failed to anticipate Donald Trump's rise because they are utterly...
Simon and Schuster, 2008. — 384 p. The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) into the...
Random House, 2020. — 416 p. During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a...
Random House, 2020. — 403 p. — ISBN 978-19848-01364 During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived...
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. — 222 p. Acknowledgments Introduction: Defining characteristics of the Great Society. The tax cut. The Johnson task forces. The 1964 election. From Civil Rights to Race: The 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Moynihan Report. Affirmative action and urban riots. Civil rights moves north. The Civil Rights Act of 1968. The War on...
Routledge, 2013. — 239 p. Harry S. Truman presided over one of the most challenging times in American history the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Thrust into the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office, Truman oversaw the transition to a new, post-war world in which the United States wielded the influence of a superpower. With his humble...
Arlington, Titan Systems Corporation, 2001. — 215 p.
It was accomplished through a grant from, and the support of, the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Domestic Preparedness, under Contract Number GS10F0084K, Order Number 2001F_341.
Отчёт Пожарной службы округа Арлингтон по действиям в связи с террористической атакой 11 сентября 2001 на Пентагон.
Oxford University Press, 2006 - 705 p. ISBN10: 0195136748 ISBN13: 9780195136746 (eng) Here is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the most...
Manchester University Press, 2007. — 224 p. This book considers the policy of the George W. Bush administration towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-sex marriage. It suggests that, although accounts have often emphasised the ties between George W. Bush and the Christian right, the administration's strategy was, at least until early 2005, largely...
Praeger, 2008. - 979 pages. ISBN: 0275994317. Horror. Sadness. Protests. Military action. Conspiracy theories. From personal loss to economic upheaval to a paradigm shift in U.S. foreign relations, few events in the past 100 years have impacted American life so greatly as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This comprehensive two-volume set details every event leading...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 302 p. In this third iteration of the classic work The Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981, 1996), a new generation of scholars make the case that racism often negatively affects Whites themselves, especially during the Trump era. In 1981, Impacts introduced an alternative understanding of racism, arguing that it went beyond white-black and/or...
Metropolitan Books, 2022. — 304 p. American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous. Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of...
Metropolitan Books, 2020. — 256 p. A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a...
Pluto Press, 2013. — 257 p. The term ‘terrorism’ is often applied exclusively to non-state groups or specific ‘rogue states’. Far less attention is given to state terrorism carried out or sponsored by democracies, most notably the United States. History shows that this state terrorism has been responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Weapon of the Strong analyses the...
University Press of Kansas, 2004. — 254 p. Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American history. This is the first major work to relate the economic...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. — 359 p. By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. — 419 p. On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant, foreign relations were fraught, and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans were certain that President Harry S. Truman’s political career was over. “The ballots haven’t been counted,” noted political columnist Fred Othman, “but there...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 290 p. — (The World Since 1980). This provocative book describes the sharp right turn the United States has taken following the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. The treatment details how the policies pursued by the Reagan administration were a break from both the policies pursued by prior administrations and those pursued in...
Grand Central Publishing, 2023. — 490 р. — ISBN 978-1-5387-0570-4. American Breakdown dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine—the strength and security of the American experiment have been weakened by a widening gap between the elites who...
Doubleday, 2022. — 752 p. The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 465 p. Since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, extremist and hate groups have seen a resurgence on the American political landscape. Members of these subgroups within the American population have become concerned that the America that they have always known is fading into oblivion, with a majority of individuals in these groups holding fiercely...
Routledge, 2022. — 295 p. Criminology on Trump is a criminological investigation of the world’s most successful outlaw, Donald J. Trump. Over the course of five decades, Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault, tax evasion, money laundering, non-payment of employees, and the defrauding of tenants, customers, contractors, investors, bankers, and charities. Yet, he has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 182 p. This book explores presidential power through an analysis of the ways that U.S. presidents attempt to manage scandals. While presidents routinely stonewall to block or limit investigations into their alleged transgressions or, in some cases, cooperate with investigators, this book proposes the existence of a third way of responding to...
Flatiron Books, 2023. — 935 р. — ISBN 9781250844200 Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper...
Routledge, 2014. — 264 p. The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history of inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations. Many relished in the inauguration of the country’s first African American president ― an event foreseen by another White House aspirant, Senator Robert Kennedy,...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. — 235 p. The 1980s saw one of the largest social movements in US history, as activists fought to change the Reagan Administrations policy of supporting right-ring terror and oligarchy in Central America. Despite the size and diversity of the movement, however, it remains understudied. Fight and Flight examines the campaigns of three US NGOs,...
Spiegel & Grau, 2010. — 368 p. Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings this kaleidoscopic portrait to life, showing us...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — 272 p. The inspiring, on-the-ground story of the rising grassroots leaders in the abortion rights movement during the pivotal first year after Dobbs. When the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization - overturning the constitutional right to abortion care-the country was thrown into chaos. Abortion providers and their...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 329 p. The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of Vietnam veterans and disgruntled civilians who shared their virulent anti-communism and potent sense of betrayal concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. The...
William Morrow, 2020. — 400 p. For decades, American voters innocently assumed the two major political parties were equally mature and responsible governing entities, ideological differences aside. That belief is due for an overhaul: in recent years, the Republican Party has undergone an astonishing metamorphosis, one so baffling and complete that few have fully reckoned with...
Columbia University Press, 1998. — 248 p. Historians have long held that the Kennedy administration forged the American alliance with Israel as a way of courting political support from American Jews. In contrast, the Eisenhower administration is believed to have considered Israel a political and strategic liability. In this text, Abraham Ben-Zvi challenges these assumptions and...
Routledge, 2022. — 200 p. After the end of America’s longest (20-year) war in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost more than $6 trillion and nearly half a million lives, what does the future hold for America and the American people in the 21st century? In this timely and important book, Berch Berberoglu provides an eye-opening account of the history of the American Empire from its...
Penguin Press, 2019. — 400 p. From one of America's preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump's collision with the American national security establishment, and with the world. It is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience to the White House than Donald J. Trump. The real...
University of Georgia Press, 2020. — 505 p. This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically viewed as an era of neoliberalism, dominated by conservative retrenchment, the intensified programs of privatization and incarceration, dramatic cuts to social welfare, and the undermining...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1989. — 254 p. The portrait of the embattled and unyielding president that emerges is vivid and memorable. By 1968, the United States had committed over 525,000 men to Vietnam and bombed virtually all military targets recommended by the joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet, the United States was no closer to securing its objectives than it had been prior to the...
Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1970. — 261 p. The Rhetoric of Politics The Civil Rights Committee Delivers Its Report Presidential Politics of Civil Rights: 1948 The Congress, the Coalition, and the Federal Executive Presidential Politics of Civil Rights: 1952
Yale University Press, 2020. — 618 p. An insider's view of the U.S. government's response to the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, recounted by the people who made the key decisions In 2008, the world's financial system stood on the brink of disaster. The United States faced an unprecedented crisis when the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off a global panic....
W. W. Norton and Company, 2020. — 496 р. A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families like never before. Their journey to the White House...
Quadrangle Books, 1970. — 336 p. American Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Cold War. The Quest for Peace and Prosperity: International Trade, Communism, and the Marshall Plan. America and the German “Problem,” 1945-1949. The Cold War Comes to Latin America. The Rhetoric of Politics: Foreign Policy, Internal Security, and Domestic Politics in the Truman Era, 1945-1950. The...
Public Affairs, 2010. — 368 p. Hewlett Packard is an American icon, the largest information technology company in the world. The bedrock of Silicon Valley, it employs more than 300,000 people, its market capitalization is in excess of $100 billion and its products are in almost every home in the country where there is a printer or computer. In 2003 the company began a...
Marco Polo, 2022. — 644 p. The Biden Laptop suppression operation by the corporate press, social media oligopoly, and officials associated with the intelligence community was only possible because of the now-verified hoax that Russians hacked the DNC in 2016. The political dividends which that lie paid out were quite considerable: numerous congressional and DOJ investigations...
Routledge, 2003. — 496 p. This title explores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivalence towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exchanges as a political device.
Penguin Publishing Group, 2022. — 352 p. Flipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia from one of the staunchest Republican strongholds to the nation’s most watched battleground state—and ground zero for the disinformation wars certain to plague statewide and national elections in the future. The Atlanta...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 176 p. The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its influence in the Republican Party by any means necessary. Tea Parties captured the party’s...
Feral House, 2017. — 771 р. — ISBN 978-1-62731-058-1 The legendary Mudd Club. You probably couldn’t get in. Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jeff Koons partied with David Byrne and Lydia Lunch. Uptown cognoscenti flirted with the children of the outer boroughs as they brought the Wild Style to the City. The downtown New York scene was more than punk, it was a mad brilliant chaos of...
Texas University Press, 1998. — 207 p. National security strategies are vitally important in international politics because they integrate a nation's broad foreign political goals with the means to achieve those goals, thus helping to shape specific policies. In Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy, Meena Bose...
Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1987. — 305 p. Foreword Introduction and Overview An Economic History of the 1970s Changing Views on the Changing Economy: The Alleged Crisis in Economics Reaganomics 1981-84 Reaganomics 1985-86 Inflation and Recession: Macro Policy in the Reagan Era Budget Policy Structural Tax Policy Do Deficits Matter? The Fairness Issue Long-Term Growth...
Bantam Press, 1999. — 420 с. Язык: Английский В книге описываются события, произошедшие во время операции армии США и сил НАТО в Могадишо в 1993 году. The Assault Black Hawk Down Overrun The Alamo N.S.D.Q. Afterword Sources
University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 254 p. Between 1944 and 1953, a power struggle emerged between New York governor Thomas Dewey and U.S. senator Robert Taft of Ohio that threatened to split the Republican Party. In "The Roots of Modern Conservatism," Michael Bowen reveals how this two-man battle for control of the GOP--and the Republican presidential...
W. W. Norton and Company, 2021. — 480 p. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations,...
Simon & Schuster, 1989. — 1088 p.
In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.
Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin...
University of Akron Press, 2015. — 301 p. The presidential election of 2012 was among the most important in American history, both for the policies that will persist due to its result, as well as the national political transformation it portends. The contest’s outcome was the product of complex and fast-moving societal changes―demographic, technological, and economic―surfacing...
Anchor Books, 2004. — 495 p. When Kathy Boudin was arrested in 1981 after a botched armed robbery and shootout that left a Brinks guard and two policemen dead, she ended a decade living underground as part of the radical Weathermen underground; she would spend the next 22 years in Bedford Hills prison. In Family Circle, Boudin’s former classmate Susan Braudy vividly re-creates...
Harold Breaux, 2020. — 221 p. Illegitimate: Trump’s Election and Failed Presidency explores and analyzes the phenomena that resulted in an unlikely candidate, Donald J. Trump, becoming the forty-fifth president of the United States. Thoroughly researched, this book provides a needed history of what was known about Trump’s negatives before the 2016 election, and how—despite...
Grand Central Publishing, 2024. — 384 p. A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed...
Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, 2018. — 171 pages : illustrations. Here is the story of 19 men from the film industry who were investigated for suspected communist ties during the Cold War, and the 10--known as the Hollywood Ten--who were blacklisted for standing up for their First Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate. Recounts the 1947 government...
Longman Group UK Limited. Published in the United States of America. by Longman Inc., New York. First published 1970. Second edition 1977. Third edition 1988. Fourth impression 1991. ISBN: 0-582-01838-2.
Simon and Schuster, 2017. — 438 p. The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions-- but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. When Rosa Brooks gave her family a tour, her mother gaped at the glossy window displays: "So the heart of American military power is a...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 264 p. Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 367 p. What led a former United States Attorney General to become one of the world's most notorious defenders of the despised? Defending the Public's Enemy examines Clark's enigmatic life and career in a quest to answer this perplexing question. The culmination of ten years of research and interviews, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. explores how Clark...
University Press of Kansas, 2003. — 416 p. Some call him the Great Communicator. Many credit him with ending the Cold War. Others even consider him the greatest president since FDR. Ronald Reagan claimed several distinctions as fortieth president, but he will be most remembered by admirers and critics alike for his lasting conservative legacy. This first comprehensive,...
Trine Day, 2023. — 360 p. A delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the malevolent Nixon administration as it cast a sinister pall over America and slayed it with the lance of truth, thereby saving democracy. But the actual...
Trine Day, 2023. — 360 p. A delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the malevolent Nixon administration as it cast a sinister pall over America and slayed it with the lance of truth, thereby saving democracy. But the actual...
Trine Day, 2023. — 360 p. A delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the malevolent Nixon administration as it cast a sinister pall over America and slayed it with the lance of truth, thereby saving democracy. But the actual...
Trine Day, 2023. — 360 p. A delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the malevolent Nixon administration as it cast a sinister pall over America and slayed it with the lance of truth, thereby saving democracy. But the actual...
Trine Day, 2023. — 360 p. A delusion is a strong belief or conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. The Watergate delusion, embraced by millions, is that swashbuckling Bob Woodward and the left confronted the malevolent Nixon administration as it cast a sinister pall over America and slayed it with the lance of truth, thereby saving democracy. But the actual...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 270 p. In a fast-moving and incisive narrative, Roger Buckley examines America’s close and continuous relationship with the Asia-Pacific region from the end of the Pacific War to the first days of the presidency of George W. Bush. The author traces the responses of the US government to the major crises in the area through the Cold War decades...
Viking, 2023. — 1008 р. — ISBN 9780593489697 Philip Bump, a reporter as adept with a graph as with a paragraph, is popular for his ability to distill vast amounts of data into accessible stories. THE AFTERMATH is a sweeping assessment of how the baby boom created modern America, and where power, wealth, and politics will shift as the boom ends. How much longer than we'd...
Praeger, 2016. — 241 p. Morality is at the heart of political contention in American society. Unfortunately, our polarized belief systems severely inhibit the achievement of bipartisan compromises. A Battlefield of Values: America's Left, Right, and Endangered Center provides a candid but nonjudgmental examination of what people think and believe―and how this informs our...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 304 p. In 1957, America turned its back on its earlier self and jumped headlong into the nation it has become today. From Sputnik and the beginning of the space race to Little Richard and the underappreciated influence of rock n' roll in bringing blacks and whites closer together, to President Eisenhower's Interstate Highway Act, which...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 380 p. Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 255 p. This book examines how scandal allegations have been managed in the contemporary era in the United States and how understandings of the impact of scandal on political credibility have changed over time. It incorporates prominent scandals, at both federal and state level, in which sudden and unexpected revelations created an uncertain political...
University Press of Kansas, 2005. — 248 p. Many have pointed to the Iran hostage crisis, others to galloping inflation. In reality, as Andrew Busch makes clear, Ronald Reagan's defeat of President Jimmy Carter in 1980 was attributable to more than any one issue, no matter how galvanizing. It marked the growing ascendancy of conservative attitudes that had been brewing for two...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. — 192 р. Did Donald Trump create a new blueprint for Republicans, ruin the Grand Old Party, or something in between? And what, if anything, should his role be in the future of the party? In this collection of timely essays, a variety of center-right political scientists and commentators address Donald J. Trump’s past effects and future role in the...
Public Affairs, 2021. — 295 p. A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point. As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist – all things that the firearms industry was built on–Ryan Busse chased a...
Center Street, 2016. — 304 p. Posted directly outside President Clinton's Oval Office, Former Secret Service uniformed officer Gary Byrne reveals what he observed of Hillary Clinton's character and the culture inside the White House while protecting the First Family in CRISIS OF CHARACTER, the most anticipated book of the 2016 election.
University Press of Kansas, 2014. — 464 p. Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to "Contra" guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly selling arms to Iran (our sworn enemy and a state sponsor of terrorism), in exchange...
Ecco, 2020. — 419 p. An illuminating and thought-provoking history of the growth of Hispanic American Republican voters in the past half century and their surprising impact on US politics, updated with new material reflecting on the 2020 election. In the lead-up to every election cycle, pundits predict that Latino Americans will overwhelmingly vote in favor of the Democratic...
Columbia University Press, 1998. — 138 p. Acknowledgements Eisenhower's Predicament Casus Belli in Berlin, 1948 General War Becomes Thermonuclear War, 1948–1952 Eisenhower's Strategy to Evade Nuclear War The Rise and Fall of Massive Retaliation, January 1953–July 1955 Eisenhower Takes Over, July 1955–April 1957 Fallout, April 1957–November 1958 Berlin, November 1958–July 1959...
Pluto Press, 2010. — 272 p. Barack Obama has been called a transformative and transcendental figure, and this book shows just how significant the movement behind him was for the politics of the United States. Horace Campbell examines the networks that made the electoral victory possible and discusses the importance of self-organization and self-emancipation in politics....
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 275 p. Much of the research on institutional change shows how systems shift slowly and incrementally. Yet, in the case of former President Donald Trump, change was rapid and radical. In Institutions Under Siege, leading political sociologist John L. Campbell offers new insights for understanding the legacy of the Trump presidency. The book...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 215 p. This volume of over thirty essays is organised around five primary dimensions of Hillary Clinton's influence: policy, activism, campaigns, women's ambition and impact on parents and their children. Combining personal narrative with scholarly expertise in political science, this volume looks at American politics through the career of Hillary Clinton...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 332 p. The shaping of American foreign policy by partisan politics is the timely theme of this book. The focus is on the Republican Party's response to the Korean War and the Party's rise to power during first "limited war" officially proclaimed by the United States. The book traces the changing character of the Party during the 1940s...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. — 178 p. — ISBN 0816081190. Immediately after the attacks by terrorists on September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York City and on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. , President George W. Bush demanded that the Afghan government arrest and turn over the organizers of the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 civilians, the worst terrorist...
Facts on File, 2009. — 305 p. — (Handbook to Life in America). The period following World War II was marked by great social change as a result of the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, and the youth opposition to the Vietnam War. The threat of nuclear annihilation and the cold war created a widespread sense of fear for many Americans, defining this as one of...
ABC-CLIO, 2007. — 280 p. This fascinating work is a series of explorations of key events in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, each of which speculates on what might have happened if events had unfolded differently. The Reagan Era explores a time that saw the rise of the political conservatism that has dominated U.S. politics in recent years, as well as...
Peter Lang, 2013. — 220 p. Cold War Narratives reveals the power that representations, understood as both cultural production and public discourse, have held in shaping the imaginaries of early Cold War America. By engaging conflicting accounts of the 1950s as either affirmations of a prosperous and confident nation (in TV shows, popular sociology, and advertising) or as...
ABC-CLIO, 2012. — 224 p. The President as Economist: Scoring Economic Performance from Harry Truman to Barack Obama provides eye-opening insights about matters of critical importance for the future of the United States. Author Richard J. Carroll tackles a topic that he has researched and been focused on for more than 20 years, providing impartial assessments and rankings of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 224 p.
According to numerous scholars and pundits, JFK's victory in 1960 symbolized America's evolution from a politically Protestant nation to a pluralistic one. The anti-Catholic prejudice that many blamed for presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith's crushing defeat in 1928 at last seemed to have been overcome. However, if the presidential election...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 225 p. In recognizing the relation between gender, race, and class oppression, American women of the postwar Progressive Party made the claim that peace required not merely the absence of violence, but also the presence of social and political equality. For progressive women, peace was the essential thread that connected the various aspects...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 218 p. Events ranging from sexual abuse at Abu Ghraib to the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” hint that important issues surrounding gender and sexuality remain at the core of political and cultural problems. Nonetheless, intersectional analyses of militarism that account for questions of race, class, and gender remain exceedingly rare.Abuses...
Harper Collins, 2021. — 288 p. In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon’s epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy takes readers inside the life and administration of Richard Nixon. From Richard Nixon’s “You-won’t-have-Nixon-to-kick-around-anymore” 1962...
Charles River Editors Press, 2016. — 115 p. Watergate has since become so synonymous with scandal that “gate” is typically added to the end of words associated with scandals even today, and the Watergate complex still remains well known. In the wake of the seemingly peculiar burglary, gradual media and judicial pursuits of the thread of scandals led from one thing to another...
New York University Press, 2013. — 286 p. During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S. racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In response, incorporating racial and ethnic minorities in order to affirm that America worked to ensure the rights of all and was superior to communist countries became a national imperative. In Citizens of Asian...
University of Minnesota Press, 2008. — 232 p. Since the Korean War—the forgotten war—more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical...
Hachette, 2022. — 286 p. Congressman David Cicilline offers his provocative takes on Republicans, Democrats, and the world of politics in the wake of Donald Trump. The rioters were still in the Capitol, shattering the door to the House Chamber and bellowing “Hang Mike Pence,” when David Cicilline, safely locked inside his office, began writing the articles of impeachment that...
Routledge, 2012. — 445 p. Since 1789, when George Washington became the first president of the United States, forty-three men have held the nation's highest office. Four were killed by assassins,and serious attempts were made on the lives of eight others.Add to that list Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X,and it is reasonable to conclude that political prominence in the U.S....
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1955. — 148 p. "Democracy Is the Opportunity to Go on Working" by Patrick Murphy Malin . Freedom of Belief, Speech and Association . Censorship and Pressure Directed Against the Printed Word, the Stage and Screen, and Radio-TV. Freedom of Speech and Meeting. Loyalty and Security: the Changing Tide. Right to a License. Academic Freedom....
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1955. — 148 p. "Democracy Is the Opportunity to Go on Working" by Patrick Murphy Malin . Freedom of Belief, Speech and Association . Censorship and Pressure Directed Against the Printed Word, the Stage and Screen, and Radio-TV. Freedom of Speech and Meeting. Loyalty and Security: the Changing Tide. Right to a License. Academic Freedom....
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. — 18 p. Серия: Vocabulary readers. Number of words: 304 The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage.
Verso, 2021. — 288 p. In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers of Islamists. US Solders are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to act as the righteous arbiters of the rule of law. In What The Spoils of War Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the intentions...
Vintage, 2008. — 575 p. In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous...
Melville House, 2022. — 224 p. The man the New York State Attorney General credited with inspiring her prosecution of Donald Trump — New York Times number one bestselling author Michael Cohen — tells the behind-the-scenes story of what can happen to you — and what really happened to him — when a President who believes himself to be above the law decides to go after his critics....
Penguin Books, 2005. — 738 p.
The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998.
Encounter Books, 2021. — 528 p. The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both family members and hundreds of people close to the...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — p. What were the socioeconomic conditions and factors that produced the instances in which riots erupted in northern U.S. cities in 1964? This book examines the year in American history that brought a new era in race relations to the nation. • Presents a comprehensive analysis of the violence that plagued the United States during a crucial period of race...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 568 p. Both a work of courageous journalistic investigation and a revisionist history of U.S. foreign policy, The Forty Years War details the rise of an insurgent movement, inside and outside the White House, that contributed to Richard Nixon’s resignation —including an eye-opening account of Bob Woodward’s direct ties to the military and to high-level...
Routledge, 2014. — 238 р. On March 7, 1965, a peaceful voting rights demonstration in Selma, Alabama, was met with an unprovoked attack of shocking violence that riveted the attention of the nation. In the days and weeks following "Bloody Sunday," the demonstrators would not be deterred, and thousands of others joined their cause, culminating in the successful march from Selma...
Flatiron Books. — 290 p. In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a...
Broad Books, 2022. — 479 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-327613-0 He received 81 million votes. His party controlled the House and the Senate. He took office with a nearly 60 percent approval rating. His first month saw the economy recovering nicely and the new COVID-19 vaccines being distributed around the country. And, in his words, he had the awesome power to mobilize “truinernashabada...
Diane Pub Co, 2003. — 56 p. ISBN10: 0756723809 ISBN13: 9780756723804 (eng)
Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series.
Chronicles the part played by United States Marine Aviation during the Korean War.
Routledge, 2019. — 177 p. Few scholars have paid close attention to the factors internal to the Republican Party that helped the Right to consolidate its power within the party between the 1960s and the 1980s. Plugging the gap in party literature, The Rise of the Republican Right: From Goldwater to Reagan provides a comprehensive account of the rise of the Republican Right in...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 372 p. Dissecting the populist leadership style of President Donald Trump. Places Trump’s presidential leadership style within a comparatively historical and political development theoretical framework Considers Trump’s use of social media as a form of public politics that represents an adaptation of presidential communication style to new...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 289 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). The 1980s and early 1990s were remarkable for the triumph of conservatism in the United States and its closest allies. The victories of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the United States were complemented by the electoral successes of Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Brian Mulroney in Canada....
ABC-CLIO, 2019. — 254 p. A valuable resource for readers interested in the role of Islam in contemporary U. S. politics and society, this first-of-its kind reference synthesizes Islamic teachings, the example of Prophet Muhammad, and the vision of the Founding Fathers. Islam is the most misunderstood and misrepresented religious tradition in the United States, depicted as an...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 326 p. — ISBN 978- 0- 8122- 5112- 8 This book applies the term Latino in four ways. At a descriptive level, it serves as a broad, shorthand way to label and refer to residents of Latin American descent and Spanish- speaking heritage. Th e heterogeneity of San Francisco’s Latino population demands a blanket term in a study of this size;...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. — 280 p. In 1962, an innovative documentary on a Berlin Wall tunnel escape brought condemnation from both sides of the Iron Curtain during one of the most volatile periods of the Cold War. The Tunnel, produced by NBC’s Reuven Frank, clocked in at ninety minutes and prompted a range of strong reactions. While the television industry...
Feral House, 2025. — 550 р. — ISBN-13: 978-1627311595; 2025 By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and Paul Morrissey directed Trash, was washed up. Over. Kaput. She was living in a squalid Hollywood apartment with her dog and bottles of Chardonnay. A chance meeting with starry-eyed corn-fed Missouri-born...
Washington, D.C.: CSIS, 2020. — 154 p. For much of the last year, the Burke Chair at CSIS has been developing a comprehensive analysis of U.S. strategic competition with China and Russia. Previous versions have been working papers, which focused on developing an overview of military, economic, and civil competition. The analysis is accompanied by two separate chronologies,...
Hachette, 2022. — 400 p. A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry, and paranoia to gain power, book offers readers a brisk, can-you-believe-it journey through the netherworld of far-right irrationality and the Republican Party’s interactions with the darkest forces in America. In a...
Post Hill Press, 2020. — 320 p. The Deep State isn’t finished trying to destroy President Donald Trump—they’ve only just begun. Coup d’Etat blows the lid off the Deep State’s efforts to prevent the Trump presidency, disrupt his agenda, and prevent his re-election. In this book you’ll learn: The truth behind Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel baseless investigation. The identity...
Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — 288 p. If it seems to you that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have weakened America and emboldened our enemies, you’re not alone. But Senator Cotton explains that their failures aren’t just incompetence or bad luck—it’s decline by design. Only the Strong reveals the untold inside story of how progressive ideologues and Democratic politicians...
Crown Forum, 2003. — 368 p. “Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?” In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on every...
Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 329 p. The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post–World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins view parties in the House – especially majority parties – as a species of “legislative...
Stanford University Press, 2018. — 276 p. Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms. But Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall urge engaged citizens to think again. Overseas, our government takes actions in the name of defense that would not be permissible within national borders. Emboldened by the relative...
Stanford University Press, 2021. — 264 p. The U.S. government's prime enemy in the War on Terror is not a shadowy mastermind dispatching suicide bombers. It is the informed American citizen. With Manufacturing Militarism, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall detail how military propaganda has targeted Americans since 9/11. From the darkened cinema to the football field to...
MIT Press, 2022. — 392 p. How the Pentagon became the world's largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it's not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption. The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars....
University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. — 207 p. At the end of World War II, many Americans longed for a return to a more normal way of life after decades of depression and war. In fact, between 1945 and 1963 the idea of "normality" circulated as a keyword in almost every aspect of American culture. But what did this term really mean? What were its parameters? Whom did it...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 220 p. "Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making of politics, viewing its practitioners...
Lume Books, 2021. — 138 p. A celebration of the great man who touched the hearts of millions and changed the perception of nations. Neither a turgid biography, nor a muck-raking exposé of private sins or public misdemeanours, this book celebrates the man who changed the perception of the world and Americans’ perception of themselves and their nation after the drab Eisenhower...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 234 p. Several years ago on a whim, Culleton requested James Joyce's FBI file. Hoover had Joyce under surveillance as a suspected Communist, and the chain of cross-references that Culleton followed from Joyce's file lead her to obscenity trials and, less obviously, to a plot to assassinate Irish labour leader James Larkin. Hoover devoted a great deal of...
Routledge, 2005. — 312 p. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War explores the meaning of anxiety as expressed through the political and cultural language of the early cold war era. Cuordileone shows how the preoccupation with the soft, malleable American character reflected not only anti-Communism but acute anxieties about manhood and sexuality. Reading major...
Regnery Publishing, 2016. — 256 p.
Dinesh D’Souza, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller America: Imagine a World Without Her, has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four yearsor possibly eight yearsof Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. — 297 p. Sex Scandals in American Politics - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Construction and Aftermath of Contemporary Political Sex Scandals edited by Alison Dagnes contains a collection of essays that examine the construction, disgrace, and consequences of political sex scandals from various academic disciplines. As this edited volume so aptly...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. — 297 p. Sex Scandals in American Politics - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Construction and Aftermath of Contemporary Political Sex Scandals edited by Alison Dagnes contains a collection of essays that examine the construction, disgrace, and consequences of political sex scandals from various academic disciplines. As this edited volume so aptly...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. — 297 p. Sex Scandals in American Politics - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Construction and Aftermath of Contemporary Political Sex Scandals edited by Alison Dagnes contains a collection of essays that examine the construction, disgrace, and consequences of political sex scandals from various academic disciplines. As this edited volume so aptly...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. — 297 p. Sex Scandals in American Politics - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Construction and Aftermath of Contemporary Political Sex Scandals edited by Alison Dagnes contains a collection of essays that examine the construction, disgrace, and consequences of political sex scandals from various academic disciplines. As this edited volume so aptly...
Liveright, 2016. — 323 p. The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives, including Karl Rove,...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 320 p. Ronald Reagan's first great victory in the 1966 California governor's race is one of the pivotal stories of American political history, a victory that seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just four years earlier Governor Edmund Pat Brown was celebrated as the Giant Killer for his 1962 victory over Richard...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 288 p. Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in...
Twelve, 2021. — 432 р. The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America. is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack Maple, and a host of hero cops—including the great...
University of Georgia Press, 2019. — 200 р. The Hunt v. Arnold decision of 1959 against the state of Georgia marked a watershed moment in the fight against segregation in higher education. Though the Supreme Court declared school segregation illegal in its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, Georgia was among many southern states that refused to abide by the Court’s...
Hachette, 2020. — 320 p. Journalist Seyward Darby's "masterfully reported and incisive" (Nell Irvin Painter) exposé pulls back the curtain on modern racial and political extremism in America telling the "eye-opening and unforgettable" (Ibram X. Kendi) account of three women immersed in the white nationalist movement. After the election of Donald J. Trump, journalist Seyward...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 275 p. Empire of Defense tells the story of how the United States turned war into defense. When the Truman administration dissolved the Department of War in 1947 and formed the Department of Defense, it marked not the end of conventional war but, Joseph Darda argues, the introduction of new racial criteria for who could wage it––for which...
Scribner, 2018. — 205 p. Argues that FBI Director James Comey's fateful letter to Congress, sent in the crucial days leading up to the presidential election, was the ultimate factor in shifting the election to a Trump victory, revealing how the letter violated long-standing Justice Department policies.
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. — 586 p. The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American...
Autonomedia, 1992. — 210 p. An anarchist theory of the state through a study of two contrasting state formations at opposite ends of the historical continuum, the First Dynasty of China and Reagan/Bush America. Theorizes the state in terms of a tension between two formative tendencies which always co-function in different mixtures, one toward transcendence and the other toward...
University of Missouri Press, 2006. — 295 p. Harry Truman's 'Fair Deal' domestic policy agenda promised to continue Roosevelt's New Deal and, with some modification for postwar realities, to guide America into a new age of peace and prosperity. Agricultural policy was a cornerstone of this program, as it attempted to transform the farm program from the parity price foundation...
Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — 288 p. New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the historically close, complicated, occasionally co-dependent, and at-times uncertain relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Delving far deeper than the simplistic "bromance" narrative that's long held the public eye, The Long Alliance reveals...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 208 p. Historians generally portray the 1950s as a conservative era when anticommunism and the Cold War subverted domestic reform, crushed political dissent, and ended liberal dreams of social democracy. These years, historians tell us, represented a turn to the right, a negation of New Deal liberalism, an end to reform. Jennifer A. Delton...
St. Martin's Press, 2020. — 352 p. In The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution, New York Times bestselling author Chris DeRose reveals the true, never-before-told story of the men who brought their overseas combat experience to wage war against a corrupt political machine in their...
Kopp, 2022. — 280 S. Die Insider-Geschichte des Laptops, der das schmutzigste Geheimnis des US-Präsidenten enthüllt Als der drogensüchtige Hunter Biden im Frühjahr 2019, nur 6 Tage vor der Bekanntgabe der Präsidentschaftskandidatur seines Vaters, seinen mit Wasser vollgesogenen Computer in einer Mac-Reparaturwerkstatt in Delaware zurückließ, wurde dieser zur tickenden Zeitbombe...
University of North Carolina Press, 2013. — 424 p. In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic fascism--rather than...
The Devine Company, 2022. — 855 p. A detailed account of the one term president. A lot happened in the 1,461 days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump. So much so that no one could possibly retain it all without extensive notes. Working off the whirlwind mantra of “flood the zone,” Trump mesmerized fans and critics by his daily gyrations and machinations, aiming to “own the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 274 p. Based on interviews with political decision-makers involved in post-Cold War case studies, this research reassesses the prevalent conclusion in the academic literature, according to which American public opinion has limited influence on military interventions, by including the level of commitment in the study of the decision-making process.
Skyhorse Publishing books, 2022. — 917 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5107-7287-8 JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass contains the two working original screenplays for Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited; both the two-hour version, Through the Looking Glass, and the four-hour version, Destiny Betrayed. These films are the first documentaries to feature the work of the Assassination Records...
Routledge, 2020. — 290 p. In a time of rising inequality and plutocratic government, citizens’ movements are emerging with growing frequency to offer populist challenges to the declining living standards of masses of Americans, and to protest the conditions through which individuals suffer in poor communities across the country. This book looks at the progression of modern...
Routledge, 2017. — 223 p. This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic, Who Rules America?, on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication in 1967--and through its subsequent editions. The chapters, written especially for this book by twelve sociologists and political scientists, provide fresh insights and new findings on many contemporary...
Aldine de Gruyter, 1990. — 315 p. This volume presents a network of social power, indicating that theories inspired by C.Wright Mills are far more accurate views about power in America than those of Mills's opponents. Dr. Domhoff shows how and why coalitions within the power elite have involved themselves in such policy issues as the Social Security Act (1935) and the...
8th Edition. — Routledge, 2021. — 241 p. At this crucial moment in American history, when voting rights could be expanded to include all citizens, or legislatively limited, this significantly updated edition of Who Rules America? shows precisely how the top 1% of the population, who own 43% of all financial wealth, and receive 20% of the nation’s yearly income, dominate...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. — 228 p. The presidential campaign that pitted Richard M. Nixon against John F. Kennedy was the most significant political campaign since World War II. With Eisenhower's tenure at an end, American society broke with the culture of the war years. This social shift was reflected in and provoked by new trends in American political life and...
Routledge, 2007. — 359 p. This primary source reader assembles key documents and firsthand accounts that are emblematic of American life from the end of World War II to the present. Designed to complement a core text for a typical post-1945 U.S. history course, the book offers conciseness and selectivity with balanced coverage of domestic and foreign, societal and cultural...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 432 p. A groundbreaking investigation into the digital underworld, where far-right operatives wage wars against mainstream America, from a masterful trio of experts in media and tech. Memes have long been dismissed as inside jokes with no political importance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Memes are bedrock to the strategy of...
W.W. Norton, 1977. — 512 p. This biography of U.S. President Harry S. Truman takes us from his taking over from F.D.R. to the postwar upheaval (in 1945), from the start of global Cold War to 1948.
University of Missouri Press, 1996. — 455 p. With this second volume, Donovan completes what is now the best available history of the Truman presidency. As in the first volume (Conflict and Crisis), his subjects are people and events that affected the president, as well as Truman himself. With an eye for detail, Donovan recalls forgotten as well as better known men and...
Penguin Press, 2020. — 288 p. Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry...
Viking, 2021. — 528 p. An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic party, seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, successfully regained the White House. The 2020 presidential campaign was a defining moment for America. As Donald Trump and his nativist populism cowed the Republican Party into...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 409 p. — ISBN 9780226714257 Every president faces criticism and caricature. Donald Trump, however, is unique in that he is routinely characterized in ways more suitable for a toddler. What’s more, it is not just Democrats, pundits, or protestors who compare the president to a child; Trump’s staffers, subordinates, and allies on Capitol Hill...
Brookings Institution Press, 2021. — 324 p. — ISBN 9780815738374 Weaponized interdependence (WI) is defined as a condition under which an actor can exploit its position in an embedded network to gain a bargaining advantage over others in a contained system. In their 2019 International Security paper, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman argue that WI challenges long-standing ways...
Twelve, 2021. — 288 p. Based on extensive reporting, a Game of Thrones-like telling of what comes next for the factions and families within the Republican Party as they plot for supremacy in the post-Trump era. With Trump’s four years in the White House now in the rearview, an unprecedented period in American political history is concluded. The transition, however, has set off...
Second edition — Bernan Press, 2024. — 361 p. — ISBN 979-8892050029, ASIN B0CJTZGJMJ. America's Ranking among Nationsprovides a global perspective of the United States in an objective and nonpartisan manner. It is a compendium of graphic displays in full color revealing America's position in the world. In this completely updated second edition, emphasis is placed on comparing...
Routledge, 2014. — 231 p. A classic of American government, Who's Running America? continues to demonstrate how power is concentrated in large institutions no matter who inhabits the White House. The eighth edition of this best-selling text focuses on the Obama administration and the ways in which it is different from but also similar to administrations that have come before....
NYU Press, 2021. — 424 p. Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power. The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 375 p. Despite popular perceptions, presidents rarely succeed in persuading either the public or members of Congress to change their minds and move from opposition to particular policies to support of them. As a result, the White House is not able to alter the political landscape and create opportunities for change. Instead, successful...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 375 p. Despite popular perceptions, presidents rarely succeed in persuading either the public or members of Congress to change their minds and move from opposition to particular policies to support of them. As a result, the White House is not able to alter the political landscape and create opportunities for change. Instead, successful...
McFarland, 2021. — 225 p. In 2003, Major William Edwards and Lt. Col. Robert P. Walters of the 165th Military Intelligence Battalion were given the near-impossible task of improving the U.S. Army's security posture at Abu Ghraib prison under unfathomable conditions. With input from officers who served with them, their candid firsthand accounts of life at the notorious prison...
Post Hill Press, 2021. — 288 p. A month-by-month analysis of President Trump, his administration, and the “MAGA” movement’s impact on America. Original, Unconventional & Inconvenient is an analysis of the Donald J. Trump administration and its impact on America’s culture, both party establishments, and a strong but bitterly divided nation. The Trump years were so full of...
University of Missouri Press, 2012. — 304 p. During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war overshadowed the civil rights...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 314 p. J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover’s FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will forever be associated with the infamous...
Public Affairs, 2007. — 192 p. The Plan offers a bold vision of what America can be. It shows the way for both parties to move beyond the old political arguments and make progress for the American people. And it offers an innovative agenda for America - with ideas that address the nation's most pressing challenges by doing more for Americans and asking Americans to do more for...
Harper Large Print, 2022. — 668 р. — ISBN-13 978-0063-26-6216 In his acclaimed #1 bestseller Dark Towers, David Enrich presented the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality. Now Enrich turns his eye towards the world of “Big Law” and the nearly unchecked influence these firms wield to shield the wealthy and...
University Of North Carolina Press, 1994. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0-80784-462-4. This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume...
NYU Press, 2021. — 368 p. Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges―most of them involving cannabis―and nearly 500,000 Americans are currently incarcerated for drug offenses....
New York: Routledge, 2020. — 189 p. Political humor has been a staple of late-night television for decades. The Trump White House, however, has received significantly greater attention than that of past presidents, such as Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and even Bill Clinton. In response to Trump’s strident politics, late-night comics, including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel,...
Routledge, 2018. — 224 p. This book traces the evolution of White House news management during America’s changing media environment over the past two decades. Comparing and contrasting the communication strategies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, it demonstrates the difficulty that all presidents have in controlling their messages despite a...
Back Bay Books, 2013. — 968 p. Award-winning New York Times Notable Book of the Year, national bestseller, and winner of the D.B. Hardeman prize, it is the definitive biography of the legendary Speaker of the House. To read this book is to revisit many of the greatest moments of late 20th-century American politics: colorful characters, grand triumphs, and bitter ideological...
Lyons Press, 2016. — 352 p. Inga Arvad was the great love of President John F. Kennedy's life, and also Adolf Hitler's special guest at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She was an actress, a foreign correspondent, a popular Washington columnist, an explorer who lived among a tribe of headhunters, one of Hollywood's most influential gossip columnists, and a suspected Nazi spy. The...
Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 464 p. In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most...
Routledge, 2019. — 440 p. This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that update and enhance the last edition’s chapters. It expands the discussion and data on social science...
Pantheon Books, 2011. — 416 p. A riveting and unsettling history of the assault on civil rights and liberties in America—from World War I to the War on Terror—by the acclaimed author of When the Mississippi Ran Backwards. In this ambitious and wide-ranging account, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria to the September 11 attacks and...
University of Minnesota Press, 2008. — 384 p. JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton, both George Bushes—all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. Two years after Mark Fenster first published Conspiracy Theories, the attacks of 9/11 stirred the imaginations of a new generation of believers. Before...
Edinburgh University Press, 2005. — 224 p. Although it is fifty years since the height of the Cold War, recent events have seen a resurgence of surveillance, paranoia and nuclear threats. Cultural critics and politicians are drawing parallels between the threat of Communism in the 1950s and 1960s and the present 'axis of evil'. This book taps into this interest, drawing on work...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 312 p. The Arab-Israeli conflict constituted a serious problem for the American Left in the 1960s: pro-Palestinian activists hailed the Palestinian struggle against Israel as part of a fundamental restructuring of the global imperialist order, while pro-Israeli leftists held a less revolutionary worldview that understood Israel as a paragon of...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2022. — 224 p. A timely, provocative exposé of American political and business leadership’s deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing—at a profound and often hidden cost to U.S. interests. The past few years have seen relations between China and the United States shift, from enthusiastic economic partners, to...
Harvard University Press, 2022. — 640 p. A bold call to reclaim an American tradition that argues the Constitution imposes a duty on government to fight oligarchy and ensure broadly shared wealth. Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the “republican form of government” the...
Threshold Editions, 2020. — 241 p. In this explosive book, New York Times bestselling author and president of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton explains how the Radical Left and the Deep State destroyed the Trump presidency. With his trademark “readable, engaging, persuasive” (The Washington Times) writing, Tom Fitton identifies the major forces posing a continued threat to American...
Threshold Editions, 2014. — 400 p. Judicial Watch, America’s largest non-partisan government watchdog, has investigated the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations. Judicial Watch is the group that helped impeach Bill Clinton and took the Bush White House secrecy all the way up to the Supreme Court. Since the beginning of the Obama administration, this grassroots group has...
University of Michigan Press, 1998. — 280 p. In 1950, the U.S. military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the agenda. At the same time, the official campaign against the influence of radicals in American life reached new heights. Benjamin Fordham suggests that these domestic and foreign...
Lexington Books, 2023. — 173 p. Introduction From Roe to Dobbs From Dobbs Forward Catholics, Biden, and Immigration Pyrrhic Victories Leading and Governing Epilogue Bibliography Index About the Author
Ecco, 2018. — 448 p. In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis. Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 320 p. Playboy was more than a magazine filled with pictures of nude women and advice on how to mix the perfect martini. Indeed, the magazine's vision of sexual liberation, high living, and "the good life" came to define mainstream images of postwar life. In exploring the history of America's most widely read and influential men's magazine,...
University of Georgia Press, 2013. — 207 p. Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South. The SRP, a scientific and industrial complex near Aiken, South Carolina, grew out of a 1950 partnership between the Atomic Energy...
St. Martin's Press, 2020. — 288 p. Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs and culture than ever before. But red and blue states, secular and religious groups, liberal and conservative idealists, and Republican and Democratic representatives all have one thing in common:...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 252 p. This new biography of Joseph R. McCarthy shows how the Wisconsin Senator's campaign against American Communists prized sensation above truth. McCarthy often put aside his hunt for Reds while he pursued his anti-communist critics. He fought foes not just with noisy accusations but with covert gossip. He was gullible enough that...
Harper/Collins, 2020. — 459 р. — ISBN13: 9780062978417. I write in mid-March 2020 under virtual house arrest. A deadly pandemic sweeps the nation and the planet. A fierce global recession is gathering. President Donald J. Trump did not start the pandemic, of course. But at every step of the way, Trump has acted as if guided by one rule: “How can I make this trauma worse?”
Diversion Books, 2021. — 352 p. It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainment, pitted brilliant and ruthless private equity legends against the world's most relentless hedge fund wizards. In the tradition of Barbarians at the Gate and The Big Short comes the riveting,...
Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2010. — 432 p. — ISBN-10: 0803220332; ISBN-13: 978-0803220331. During times of conflict, Americans have worried that enemies within would twist freedom of speech into a weapon of propaganda and use freedom of assembly to unleash violent internal chaos. As a result, the government isolated and confined within federal communities groups that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 235 p. This work contains James K. Galbraith's most influential recent writings on current affairs along with new commentary, and explores both the descent to disaster in Iraq and the ongoing transformation of the American economy under the steerage of Alan Greenspan.
Orell Füssli Verlag, 2020. — 400 p. Viele betrachten die USA als die größte Gefahr für den Weltfrieden. Woran liegt das? Ein Buch über Hintergründe, Motive und Mittel der Weltmacht USA. Nach Ansicht vieler haben die USA den stärksten destabilisierenden Einfluss auf das Weltgeschehen und stellen somit die größte Bedrohung für den Weltfrieden dar (Allensbach 2019). Diese traurige...
Palgrave MacMillan, 1991. — 522 p. — eISBN: 978-1-349-21676-5 What do the South Vietnamese government, the Shah and Ferdinand Marcos have in common? All were allied to the United States; all defied democratic and liberal norms; and all three fell in a blaze, creating problems for the United States. These three cases - and another eighteen more - are the subject of Friendly...
Routledge, 2013. — 252 p. Justin D. Garrison provides an original and groundbreaking analysis of Ronald Reagan’s imagination as it was expressed mainly in his presidential speeches. He argues that the predominant strain of Reagan’s imagination is "chimeric," that is, imbued with a high degree of optimism, romantic dreaminess, naiveté, and illusion. Reagan spoke often about...
Simon & Schuster, 1997. - 608 p.
From a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose government service spanned six presidencies, this is the inside story of the role of America and the agency in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Gates provides descriptions of the atmosphere, culture and politics of the CIA and the National Security...
PublicAffairs, 2022. — 1242 c. — ISBN ISBN 978-1541-757004 For decades, the Republican Party has been known as the party of the rich: arguing for “business-friendly” policies like deregulation and tax cuts. But this incisive political history shows that the current inequality crisis was also enabled by a Democratic Party that catered to the affluent. The result is one of the...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 504 p. The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of the twentieth century, yet the accounts to date have been remarkably unbalanced. Far more attention is given to Kennedy's side than to Nixon's. The imbalance began with the first book on that election,...
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 344 p. In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico's nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points-of-view of the local people, including Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglos. Genay focuses on personal experiences in relation to postwar...
Routledge, 2017. — 224 p. This brief, thought-provoking text evaluates the performance of recent presidents from Johnson to Bush, finding that, overall, each has failed to live up to public expectations. Written by one of the top presidency scholars today, The Presidential Dilemma reflects on the idea that as our country's problems grow, our politicians seem to shrink. Arguing...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. — 433 p. The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism-a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in...
University Press of Kansas, 1991. — 375 p. The presidency of John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate, even as it also continues to inspire heated debates between admirers and detractors of Camelot's fallen king. Now readers can gain a new appreciation of JFK in this thoroughly revised and updated edition of James Giglio's bestselling study, widely acclaimed as the best and most...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. — 370 p. The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of poetry. Yet the prodigious poetic voice of its American participants remains largely unheard; the complex ethical terrain of their experiences underexplored. In A Shadow on Our...
Tenth Edition. — Sage Publications, 2018. — 320 p. With the latest data on income, wealth, earnings, and residential segregation by income,The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, Tenth Edition describes a consistent pattern of growing inequality in the United States since the early 1970s. Focusing on the socioeconomic core of the American class system,...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 257 p. Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship with American exceptionalism, parting ways with how American politicians have long communicated this idea to the American public. Through systematic comparative analyses, this book details the various ways that Trump strategically altered and exploited the discourse of American exceptionalism to elevate...
Hachette, 2021. — 320 p. Now a National Bestseller! Bestselling author Newt Gingrich exposes the anti-American forces that have grown so large and so aggressive in their quest for power. The struggle between the defenders of America as an exceptional nation and the forces of anti-Americanism is reaching a fever pitch. These forces have grown so large, so well-financed, so...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. — 596 p. — ISBN 978-0593-3190-00 The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are...
Monthly Review Press, 2015. — 289 p. In the United States today, the term "terrorism" conjures up images of dangerous, outside threats: religious extremists and suicide bombers in particular. Harder to see but all the more pervasive is the terrorism perpetuated by the United States itself, whether through military force overseas or woven into the very fabric of society at home....
Cornell University Press, 2009. — 414 p. Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a team of rivals who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding relations with the USSR, the Peoples' Republic of China, arms control, and other crucial foreign-policy...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 355 p. An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics. Throughout the twentieth century, “free enterprise” has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters....
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009. - 251p. Part One. The First One Hundred Days: Crafting Foreign Policy in the Kennedy White House. The Over-Cautious Approach. Germany and Cuba. Part Two. Mission to Vienna: The Preparation of the. Commander in Chief and the Impact of a Summit. The Art of Diplomacy. “A very sober two days”. Part Three. “Once more unto the breach”:...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 316 p. With Nixon’s historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America’s most implacable enemy to being a friend and tacit ally. Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the United States, China, and the Soviet Union, but...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 160 p. — ISBN 978-0812-25164-7 The traditional, although not of oficial, motto of the United States is E pluribus unum—From Many, One. Suggested by the French designer Pierre Eugène du Simitière, the phrase seems to be derived from the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero. In his treatise On Duties, Cicero writes that “when men have...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 440 p. “I am nothing, but I may be everything,” John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the “nothing” part of Adams’s formulation accurately captured the importance of the vice presidency, at least as long as the president had a heartbeat. But a job that once was “not worth a bucket of warm...
New York University Press, 2011. — 244 p. With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks's 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what black women activists did prior to 1960. Perhaps this gap is due to the severe repression that radicals of any color in America faced as early as the 1930s, and into the Red Scare of the 1950s....
New York: Verso Books, 2020. — 283 p. Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life “Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and...
Simon and Schuster, 2022. — 320 p. In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills entered six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that would change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors; call police. The subsequent arrests of five men seeking to bug and burgle the Democratic National Committee offices quickly unravels a...
Simon and Schuster, 2022. — 320 p. In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills entered six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that would change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors; call police. The subsequent arrests of five men seeking to bug and burgle the Democratic National Committee offices quickly unravels a...
University Press of Kansas, 1998. — 320 p. In this book, more than a dozen eminent scholars provide a balanced overview of key elements of Carter's presidency, examining the significance of his administration within the context of evolving American policy choices after World War II. They seek not only to understand the troubled Carter presidency but also to identify the changes...
Temple University Press, 2020. — 215 p. Where Black people live has long been an important determinant of their ability to participate in political processes. The Great Migration significantly changed the way Democratic Party elites interacted with Black communities in northern cities, Detroit, New York, and Chicago. Many white Democratic politicians came to believe the growing...
Skyhorse, 2020. — 352 p. Wrecking America is most up-to-date look at Trump's anything-goes "Fascism 2.0" presidency and campaign. It reveals how Trump's daily "twistifications" (a Jefferson coinage) are killing tens of thousands of Americans and millions of American jobs, polluting the air and public debate, selling out his country for personal gain and trying to "Make the...
Ryan Green Publishing, 2020. — 165 p. Charles Whitman Jr was born and raised with his two younger brothers in a nice neighbourhood in the suburbs of Lake Worth, Florida. From the outside, the Whitman’s appeared to be living the American dream but within the household, lay a much darker reality. Charles Whitman Sr made sure his family wanted for nothing and in return, he...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 265 p. Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror. Looking through the lenses of theory, history, law, and policy, the essays in this volume illuminate the ways in which...
Crown Publishers, 2016. — 310 p. The definitive account of how America's War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security. The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the Attorney General with preventing another terrorist attack on the United States. From that day forward, the Bush...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 288 p. In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools were brought to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of today's leading experts on the US security state shows...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2019. — 713 p. — ISBN13: 9781250311757 This book tells an amazing story, and if you hadn’t seen what happened to America over the last four years, you wouldn’t believe it. It even has a happy ending, and that’s none too soon for all of us who’ve had enough fighting, enough division, enough politics. This time the end of politics portends a country united and...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 254 p. When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers would be Illinois governor Adlai E. Stevenson II and...
Second Edition. — University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 392 p. Shortly after George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1989, John Robert Greene's verdict on the 41st president of the United States was that he "brought no discredit to the office" and "Bush was both patient and prudent...mak [ing] few mistakes." In the years since the release of Greene's profile...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 280 p. Both conservative and liberal Baby Boomers have romanticized the 1950s as an age of innocence—of pickup ball games and Howdy Doody, when mom stayed home and the economy boomed. These nostalgic narratives obscure many other histories of postwar childhood, one of which has more in common with the war years and the sixties, when children...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 248 p. Reagan's War Stories examines the relationship between Ronald Reagan, the public and popular culture. From an overview of Reagan's youth and the pulp fiction he consumed, we get a sense of the future president's good/evil outlook. Carrying that over into Reagan's reading and choices as president, Griffin situates narrative at the center of...
Pluto Press, 2018. — 165 p. Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings of abandonment, resentment and rage? Lawrence Grossberg shows that the truth is bigger and more frightening. Locating...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 208 p. This book provides a broad analysis of the legacy of the Obama presidency, representing multiple perspectives across the partisan and disciplinary divides. The chapters in this book are grouped into three major legacy categories: domestic policy, foreign policy, and rhetoric. Domestically, the contributors examine the “Obama coalition” and its...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 216 p. Despite winning control of twenty-four new state governments since 1992, Republicans have failed to enact policies that substantially advance conservative goals. This book offers the first systematic assessment of the geography and consequences of Republican ascendance in the states and yields important lessons for both liberals and...
Skyhorse, 2016. — 296 p. The explosive true story of fraud, embezzlement, and government betrayal. An insider’s view of what takes place behind the closed doors of agencies and drug companies, and the people tasked to protect the health of American children. In 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) carried out a secret mission to bury, skew, and manipulate data in six...
Potomac Books, 2021. — 384 p. The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brothers developed a deep understanding of the different peoples, cultures, and ideologies around the world; a keen appreciation for the challenges that such differences created for the United States; and a...
Praeger, 2008. — 408 p. Eminent jurists, professional legal organizations, and human rights monitors in this country and around the world have declared that President George W. Bush may be prosecuted as a war criminal when he leaves office for his overt and systematic violations of such international law as the Geneva and Hague Conventions and such US law as the War Crimes Act,...
Penguin Press, 2023. — 342 p. — ISBN 9780525560661 The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics. The greatest peril to the country, however, comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves. The question facing us is whether we are prepared to do what is necessary to save...
Penguin, 2022. — 1916 p. From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Few journalists working today have covered Donald...
Hyperion, 2007. — 719 p.
David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter his most...
Ballantine Books, 1994. — 816 p. The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick...
Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 321 p. The presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford encompassed some of the most turbulent and significant years of the 20th century. Nixon was elected near the end of a decade characterized by struggles for civil rights, years of war in Vietnam, and widespread cultural rebellion. Although he promised during his campaign to bring the...
London: Saqi Books, 2002. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0863563821; ISBN13: 978-0863563829 Middle East scholar Halliday (London Sch. of Economics; Islam and the Myth of Confrontation) would disagree with the popular press's depiction of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as a monolith called Islam confronting another monolith called the West. Only the first...
Facts on File, 2006. — 513 p. — (Eyewitness History Series). An essential resource for those interested in learning about this era, The 1970s chronicles a time of change and adjustment for the United States. From the rippling aftereffects of the Vietnam War to the civil unrest between the Arabs and the Israelis in the Middle East, this volume explores a period of great...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 288 р. Modeled on one of the most famous histories of ancient Rome (The Twelve Caesars), Nigel Hamilton's new book, American Caesars, looks afresh at the lives and careers of the twelve leaders of the American empire since World War II, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. President by president, Hamilton relates and examines the...
Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D. C., 1990. — 429 p.
United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-
13. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of...
Routledge, 2021. — 195 p. In this prequel to Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998), his acclaimed book about the post-industrial city as a site of theming, branding and simulated spaces, sociologist John Hannigan travels back in time to the 1950s. Unfairly stereotyped as ‘the tranquillized decade’, America at mid-century hosted an escalating...
America (and the World) on the Brink. — New York: Threshold Editions, 2020. — 326 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9821-4999-4 America is great for a reason. Built on principles of freedom, rugged individualism, and self-sufficiency, no country has ever accumulated more power and wealth, abused it less, or used that power more to advance the human condition. And yet, as America blossomed,...
America (and the World) on the Brink. — New York: Threshold Editions, 2020. — 326 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9821-4999-4 America is great for a reason. Built on principles of freedom, rugged individualism, and self-sufficiency, no country has ever accumulated more power and wealth, abused it less, or used that power more to advance the human condition. And yet, as America blossomed,...
Republic Book Publishers, 2021. — 192 p. Winning the Second Civil War is based on the current threat demonstrated in the 2020 Antifa/BLM Riots and current unrest including the storming of the US Capitol, exacerbated by the deep problems with the 2020 election. The book includes analysis of the history, legality, and consequences of violent protest. It explores what the founders...
Random House, 2002. — 240 p. On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to respond with force. An Autumn of War, which opens with that first essay, will stimulate readers...
PJ Media LLC., 2015. — 114 p. Appeasement defined the global conflicts of the 20th century. Time after time, America and other forces for freedom and democracy withheld their power in efforts to appease the most evil regimes in recent history. Over and over again, the policy of appeasement has ended in disaster. Now, conservative giant Victor Davis Hanson asks: why is appeasement...
Basic Books, 2019. — 400 p. In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become president of the...
Vernon Press, 2021. — 244 p. The essays in "The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution" seek to answer central questions about American democracy, such as: if American democracy is failing, what are the causes of this failure? What are the consequences? And what can be done to fix it? These standalone essays present diverse perspectives on some of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 311 p. This study contributes to the ongoing attempt to trace the lineage of the modern American state. An understanding of the dynamics of state building requires attention to the progressive reform movements that influenced American politics during the early twentieth century and to the congressional decision-making process out of which the...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 278 p. Why did 62 million Americans vote for Donald Trump? Trump and Us offers a fresh perspective on this question, taking seriously the depth and breadth of Trump's support. An expert in political language, Roderick P. Hart turns to Trump's words, voters' remarks, and media commentary for insight. The book offers the first systematic...
State University of New York Press, 2017. — 288 p. Through the lens provided by the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, After Katrina argues that the city of New Orleans emerges as a key site for exploring competing narratives of US decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Deploying an interdisciplinary approach to explore cultural representations...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 152 p. This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York City’s securitized remembrances at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum; Charlottesville’s Confederate monument controversies in the wake...
Yale: Yale University Press, 2000. - 513 p.
The Venona secret US army project of the 1940's was a monumental achievement in this history of American code breaking and one of the America's most closely guarded secrets. This book exposes the greatest domestic counter-espionage operation that has ever been launched against the Soviet Union.
Ivan R. Dee, 1995. — 214 p. Anticommunism was a pervasive force in America during the cold war years, influencing domestic politics, the conduct of foreign policy, the nuclear arms race, and a myriad of social and economic circumstances. In this succinct survey, John E. Haynes traces the origins of American attitudes toward communism in the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of a...
Glyn Haynie, 2018. — 220 p. For American soldiers returning home from the Vietnam War, there were no “Welcome Home” signs, no flowers, and no ticker-tape parades. For these soldiers there were protesters! They were spit on, there was name calling, there was disrespect, and yes, even hatred. The Vietnam War was an unpopular war, but these young men did not ask to go to war. They...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 646 p.
Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II. The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens, and population-resources balances. He...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 325 p. Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party...
Post Hill Press, 2022. — 272 p. A CNN insider reveals what he saw behind the scenes at the cable news giant and the investigation that revealed even more shocking secrets. Cary Poarch started working at CNN in the summer of 2017 as a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter. But on his first location shoot during the Charlottesville riots, he quickly became disillusioned with how the...
Routledge, 2018. — 223 p. The Rise of Contemporary Conservatism in the United States offers students an accessible introduction to the history of modern American conservatism. The author provides a concise but substantial discussion of modern conservatism from its origins in opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal up until the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. The text...
Regnery Publishing, 2021. — 448 p. Stunned by the turbulence of the 2020 election, millions of Americans are asking the forbidden question: what really happened? It was a devastating triple punch. Capping their four-year campaign to destroy the Trump presidency, the media portrayed a Democratic victory as necessary and inevitable. Big Tech, wielding unprecedented powers,...
Basic Books, 2022. — 368 p. A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s. Ronald Reagan has long been lionized for building a conservative coalition sustained by an optimistic vision of American exceptionalism, small government, and free markets. But as historian Nicole Hemmer reveals, the Reagan coalition was...
ABC-CLIO, 2019. — 288 p. Daily Life in 1950s America shows that the era was anything but uneventful. Apart from revolutionary changes during the decade itself, it was in the 1950s that the seeds took root for the social turmoil of the 1960s and the technological world of today. The book's interdisciplinary format looks at the domestic, economic, intellectual, material,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 305 p. In Republic in Peril, David C. Hendrickson advances a powerful critique of American policy since the end of the Cold War. America's outsized military spending and global commitments, he shows, undermine rather than uphold international order. They raise rather than reduce the danger of war, imperiling both American security and domestic...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — 432 p. The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidency. The extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the...
М.: APN (Novosti Press Agency), 1981. — 208 p. Ernst Henry is amember of the Union of Soviet Writers, a veteran commentator on world affairs, winner of the Vorovsky and Tolstoy prizes awarded respectively by the Union of Soviet Journalists and the Union of Soviet Writers for the best writing on current affairs. His books “Hitler over Europe?” and “Hitler against the USSR”...
Basic Books, 2011. — 612 p. An evaluation of the complex relationship between the Kennedy family and the FBI director traces their shared political years through their parallel rises and controversial deaths and considers the roles played by such figures as Joe McCarthy and Martin Luther King.
Lexington Books, 2019. — 254 p. Presidential Power, Rhetoric, and the Terror Wars: The Sovereign Presidency argues that the War on Terror provided an opportunity to fundamentally change the presidency. Alexander Hiland analyzes the documents used to exercise presidential powers, including executive orders, signing statements, and presidential policy directives. Treating these...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 477 p. The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of American society in the twentieth century during the Cold War. In order to expand and differentiate the prevalent postwar narrative about gender relations and cultural structures in the United States, the...
Mariner Books, 2021. — 192 p. A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia—and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places. Fiona Hill grew up in a...
Mariner Books, 2021. — 474 p. — ISBN 978-0-358-57424-8 A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia—and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 280 p. Who governs political parties? Recent insurgent campaigns, such as those of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have thrust this critical question to the center of political debate for casual observers and scholars alike. Yet the dynamics of modern party politics remain poorly understood. Assertions of either elite control or...
Liveright, 2021. — 408 p. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2018. — 288 p. The unbelievable true story of three pilots flying a routine Federal Express flight who must call on their inner courage, strength, and ability to stop a bitter, suicidal hijacker from killing them, and thousands of people below. David Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson had taken off on a regular “out-and-back,” delivering and...
University of Virginia Press, 2020. — 434 p. — ISBN 978-08139-4486-9 Black landscapes matter because they are prophetic. They tell the truth of the struggles and the victories of African Americans in North America. The landscape bears the detritus of diverse origins: from the plantation landscape of slavery, to freedman villages and new towns, to agrarian indentured servitude....
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 224 p. Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry’s political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime, education, medicine, finance, and other social issues. Caley Horan’s remarkable...
Regnery Publishing, 2021. — 256 p. The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America provides the answer. David Horowitz has been the bête noire of the Left for decades on account of his courageous revelations of their aims and tactics, and now he sounds the alarm: the barbarians are already inside the gates. Horowitz lays out how we have ended up in the worst...
Regnery Publishing, 2021. — 236 p. — ISBN: 978-1-68451-054-2 The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America provides the answer. David Horowitz has been the bête noire of the Left for decades on account of his courageous revelations of their aims and tactics, and now he sounds the alarm: the barbarians are already inside the gates. Horowitz lays out how we...
Skyhorse Publishing Company, 2019. — 218 p. This is—for the first time—the full and unedited story behind the sick life and mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein that is being called one of the most significant scandals in American history. He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars and British royalty, the mysterious...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. — 235 p. In the moments before his weekly radio address hit the airwaves in 1984, Ronald Reagan made an off-the-record joke: “I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” As reports of the stunt leaked to the press, many Americans did not find themselves laughing along with the president....
Routledge, 2022. — 170 p. From the clashes between Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s until today, partisan battles over taxing, spending, and public debt have shaped American political development. These battles were formerly constrained by fiscal norms that mandated balanced budgets and low debt. In his Farewell Address, President George Washington counseled the nation...
Twelve, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1538728758. #1 New York Times Bestseller. The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. Russian Roulette is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. It weaves together tales of...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 368 p. — 4 edition. ISBN10: 0199765065. ISBN13: 978-0199765065. Language: English. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, Fourth Edition, is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of 1960s America. Written by two top experts on the era-Maurice Isserman, a scholar of the Left, and Michael...
Harvard University Press, 2005. — 448 p. Four bullet-torn bodies in a drug-ridden South Bronx alley. A college boy shot in the head on the West Side Highway. A wild shootout on the streets of Washington Heights, home of New York City's immigrant Dominican community and hub of the eastern seaboard's drug trade. All seemingly separate acts of violence. But investigators discover...
Ramparts Press, 1970. — 360 p. History and documents of a left-wing radical organisation that existed in the United States from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Donald Trump's presidency offered Americans a dire warning regarding the vulnerabilities in their democracy, but the threat is broader and deeper-and looms still. Before Trump even ran for President, his disdain for the rules, procedures, and norms of American democracy and the US Constitution was well-known and led prominent Republicans...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 384 p. Taking the reader through a long view of American history, What Happened to the Vital Center? offers a novel and important contribution to the ongoing scholarly and popular discussion of how America fell apart and what might be done to end the Cold Civil War that fractures the country and weakens the national resolve. In What Happened to...
The New Press, 2016. — 353 p. A trenchant summation” and analysis of the legal rationales behind the US drone policy of targeted killing of suspected terrorists, including US citizens (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In the long response to 9/11, the US government initiated a deeply controversial policy of “targeted killing”—the extrajudicial execution of suspected terrorists...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. — 224 p. Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years of legal, political, and moral struggle....
Broadside Books, 2019. — 256 p. The president’s enemies cite the number of indictments and guilty pleas wracked up by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his associates as proof of Donald Trump and his campaign’s criminal wrongdoing. Yet as Fox News’ legal analyst and commentator Gregg Jarrett makes clear, Mueller’s probe has produced no evidence and no indictments in support of...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 326 p. How did the protests and support of ordinary American citizens affect their country's participation in the Vietnam War? This engrossing book focuses on four social groups -- students, African Americans, women, and labor -- and investigates the impact of each on American foreign policy during the war. What impact did American society's...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 228 p. An in-depth look at fifty years of conspiracies covered up by the U.S. government, from the JFK assassination to the war against Al-Qaeda. Starting with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Don Jeffries chronicles a wide variety of issues that have plagued our country's history. Whether it is the assassinations of MLK and RFK,...
Wiley Blackwell, 2015. — 695 p. — (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to Ronald Reagan evaluates in unprecedented detail the events, policies, politics, and people of Reagan’s administration. It assesses the scope and influence of his various careers within the context of the times, providing wide-ranging coverage of his administration, and his legacy....
Metropolitan Books, 2005. — 400 p. In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's "lone superpower," then as a "reluctant sheriff," next as the "indispensable nation," and in the wake of 9/11, as a "New Rome." In this important national bestseller, Chalmers Johnson thoroughly explores the new militarism that is transforming...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 380 p. This book challenges the popular and scholarly image of a weak Cold War Congress, in which the unbalanced relationship between the legislative and executive branches culminated in the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam, paving the way for the passage of the War Powers Act in 1973. It evokes a more flexible conception of the...
Simon and Schuster, 2021. — 304 p. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family. While the world watched Donald Trump’s presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking the oath of office,...
Helion and Company, 2011. — 258 p. In Abolishing the Taboo, Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the creation of a new nuclear creed for the United States during the Cold War. The author centers the narrative on Eisenhower, the man, the general, and the president, with specific focus on his intellectual and political...
Basic Books, 2022. — 255 p. In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues, marked the climax of a Third Reconstruction: a new struggle for citizenship and dignity for Black Americans, just as momentous as the movements that arose...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. In popular imagination, environmentalism is often linked to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the political activism of the 1960s and '70s that moved increasing numbers of Americans to insist on a better quality of life-open spaces, clean air and water, beautification campaigns. But these interpretations have obscured the significant...
New York: Headlines, 1956. — 36 p. From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet reveals that Communism's ultimate goal is "Black Supremacy,"a Soviet South," and "then a Soviet America."
Penguin Publishing, 2021. — 224 p. Nobody is in a better position to tell the story of the shocking final chapter of the Trump show than Jonathan Karl. As the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other White House correspondent, Karl told the story of Trump’s rise in the New York Times bestseller Front Row at the Trump Show. Now he tells the story of Trump’s...
Dutton, 2020. — 740 р. — ISBN 9781524745646 We have never seen a president like this...norm-breaking, rule-busting, dangerously reckless to some and an overdue force for change to others. One thing is clear: We are witnessing the reshaping of the presidency. Jonathan Karl brings us into the White House in a powerful book unlike any other on the Trump administration. He’s known...
BookBaby, 2021. — 416 p. As a new president takes office in 2021, America is deeply divided politically and socially, while the economy seems precariously balanced on increasingly shaky legs. Doom and gloom is the predominant sentiment in America. It has become widely accepted within the investment, political, and media sectors that America is on the decline and that China will...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 306 p. U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower first entered into the public eye during World War II as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. In 1952, he was elected as the 34th President of the United States and served two terms. During those terms he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 724 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History). With 30 historiographical essays by established and rising scholars, this Companion is a comprehensive picture of the presidencies and legacies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. - Examines important national and international events during the 1970s, as well as presidential initiatives, crises,...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 448 p. Within eight turbulent months in 1974 Gerald Ford went from the United States House of Representatives, where he was the minority leader, to the White House as the country’s first and only unelected president. His unprecedented rise to power, after Richard Nixon’s equally unprecedented fall, has garnered the lion’s share of scholarly...
Vintage, 2007. — 374 p. The untold story of how the 9/11 Commission overcame partisanship and bureaucracy to produce its acclaimed report. From the beginning, the 9/11 Commission found itself facing obstacles — the Bush administration blocked its existence for months, the first co-chairs resigned right away, the budget was limited, and a polarized Washington was suspicious of...
Doubleday, 2021. — 512 p. The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts...
Encounter Books, 2020. — 240 p. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 didn’t just shock the country, it jolted the Republican Party and forced an overdue reckoning between rank-and-file Republicans and party leadership. Long-held beliefs promoted by the Republican Party establishment were smashed in real time as Republican voters, and millions of Obama voters especially in the...
Harper Perennial, 2007. — 432 p. Based on extraordinary research: a major reassessment of Ronald Reagan's lifelong crusade to dismantle the Soviet Empire–including shocking revelations about the liberal American politician who tried to collude with USSR to counter Reagan's efforts Paul Kengor's God and Ronald Reagan made presidential historian Paul Kengor's name as one of the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 256 p. Donald J. Trump's presidency has delivered a seismic shock to the American political system, its public sphere, and to our political culture worldwide. Written by leading scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as professionals in the field of political journalism, this collection of essays offers a deeper understanding of...
CQ Press, 2018. — 304 p. In this thought-provoking new edition of their highly regarded text, authors Cornelius M. Kerwin and Scott R. Furlong help you grasp the dynamics of today’s American politics by showing you how rulemaking remains an elemental part of our government system. Rulemaking, Fifth Edition, brings concepts to life with the inclusion of new data, a fresh...
Simon and Schuster, 1995. — 328 p. Award-winning journalist Ronald Kessler gets behind the scenes at the White House to reveal the often-scandalous secrets of this all-powerful institution. Kessler documents the hidden lives of the modern presidents: Bill and Hilary Clinton's sham marriage and his pattern of alleged sexual indiscretions; Johnson's legendary infidelities;...
Crown Publishing Group, 2018. — 304 p. The unvarnished and unbiased inside story of President Donald Trump and his White House by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler. Based on exclusive interviews with the president and his staff, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game tells the real story of what Donald Trump is like, who influences him, how he...
Ashgate, 2014. — 235 p. Situating Obama's end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two...
Viking, 2023. — 259 p. Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in recent political history in a riveting, personal account from inside Congress, including the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol and his vote to impeach Donald Trump. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol in attempts to overturn the presidential...
Viking, 2023. — 259 p. Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in recent political history in a riveting, personal account from inside Congress, including the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol and his vote to impeach Donald Trump. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol in attempts to overturn the presidential...
Viking, 2023. — 259 p. Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in recent political history in a riveting, personal account from inside Congress, including the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol and his vote to impeach Donald Trump. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol in attempts to overturn the presidential...
Viking, 2023. — 259 p. Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in recent political history in a riveting, personal account from inside Congress, including the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol and his vote to impeach Donald Trump. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol in attempts to overturn the presidential...
Viking, 2023. — 259 p. Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in recent political history in a riveting, personal account from inside Congress, including the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol and his vote to impeach Donald Trump. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol in attempts to overturn the presidential...
Vintage Books, 1970. — 464+XXiX. History and documentation of the largest left-wing radical organisation in the USA in the 1960s - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. – 296 p.284 p. Journalist and historian Kisseloff presents a timely work in which he shows how the voices of protest of the 1960's has had an enduring effect on the way we live today. He highlights the lives of many important voices of the 60's whose commitment to change should still be listened to. Bernard LaFayette. FreedoFreedom...
Prometheus Books, 2016. — 340 p. In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets for deadly rampages? What can we do to curb the carnage...
Regnery Publishing, 2014. — 320 p. In this highly anticipated follow-up to his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The Amateur, former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Edward Klein delves into the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons. An old-school reporter with incredible insider contacts, Klein reveals just how deep the rivalry between the Obamas...
Sentinel Trade, 2005. — 315 p. The most controversial and hotly debated bestseller of the year read it, and discover the truth for yourself The Truth About Hillary was viciously attacked by the liberal media, because it revealed how the most prominent Democrat in America has lied, bullied, cheated, and manipulated people in her quest to become our first woman president. Who is...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. — 168 p. The early 1980s were a tense time. The nuclear arms race was escalating, Reagan administration officials bragged about winning a nuclear war, and superpower diplomatic relations were at a new low. Nuclear war was a real possibility and antinuclear activism surged. By 1982 the Nuclear Freeze campaign had become the largest peace...
Institute for Policy Studies, 1987. — 308 p. Kornbluh (National Security Archive) recounts the lies, distortions, misstatements, and political, economic, and military actions that have characterized the Reagan administration's policy toward Nicaragua. A noticeable shortcoming is that President Reagan and his secretary of state are hardly present in the telling, and not enough...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 344 p. The people in the United States are experiencing an extreme degree of division, political partisanship, and civic disorder. Destructive fights are waged about matters such as misinformation, voting rights, school curriculum, government spending, and personal privacy. How can these distressing circumstances be overcome? More specifically,...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 428 p. — ISBN10: 0393088669, 13 978-0393088663. Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America. If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the...
Portfolio, 2016. — 252 p. John F. Kennedy was the first president since the 1920s to slash tax rates across-the-board, becoming one of the earliest supply-siders. Sadly, today’s Democrats have ignored JFK’s tax-cut legacy and have opted instead for an anti-growth, tax-hiking redistribution program, undermining America’s economy. One person who followed JFK’s tax-cut growth model...
University of California Press, 2017. — 192 p. On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. Mainstream observers contended that the “riot” brought about the ruin of a once-great city; for...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. — 759 p. This is the first truly comprehensive history of the political explosion that shook America in the 1970s, and whose aftereffects are still being felt in public life today. Drawing on contemporary documents, personal interviews, memoirs, and a vast quantity of new material, Stanley Kutler shows how President Nixon’s obstruction of...
The New Press, 2022. — 192 p. With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what’s at stake for America in 2022 and beyond. Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 317 p. How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday Americans. The National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations―even despite widespread public support for stricter laws and the...
ILR Press, 2017. — 272 p. In the aftermath of the 2010 Citizens United decision, it's become commonplace to note the growing political dominance of a small segment of the economic elite. But what exactly are those members of the elite doing with their newfound influence? The One Percent Solution provides an answer to this question for the first time. Gordon Lafer's book is a...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 361 p. More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the...
McFarland and Company, 2015. — 208 p. The life and achievements of General Omar Nelson Bradley are legendary. During World War II, the five-star general was a key figure in the D-Day invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. But his private life has always lain just outside the reach of the media. Bradley has long been portrayed as a soft-spoken gentleman. This media-driven...
Lexington Books, 2021. — 141 p. How did Ronald Reagan go from calling the Soviet Union an “evil empire” in his first term as president to saying the US had “forged a satisfying new closeness” with the Soviets by the end of his second term? In Reagan’s Soviet Rhetoric: Telling the Soviet Redemption Story, rhetorical scholar Mark LaVoie examines the ways Reagan negotiated his...
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — xiii + 384 p. Studying the Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Then, Freedom Now Lyndon B. Johnson and the Black Freedom Struggle: Exploring Johnson's Civil Rights Policy — The Improbable Emancipator — Mixing Moderation with Militancy Civil Rights and Black Politics: From Boycotts to Ballots — Preserving the Second Reconstruction...
University of Virginia Press, 2013. — 175 p. A riveting collection of thirty-eight narratives by American soldiers serving in Afghanistan, Outside the Wire offers a powerful evocation of everyday life in a war zone. Christine Dumaine Leche―a writing instructor who left her home and family to teach at Bagram Air Base and a forward operating base near the volatile...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 255 р. In Dwight D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex," a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World War II. After the conflict ended, the nation did not abandon its wartime economy but rather...
SUNY Press, 2020. — 264 p. The first history of the US Travel Bureau, which set the precedent for federal involvement in promoting tourism and travel, an activity which continues today. Created in 1937 by Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and given formal status by Congress in 1940, the US Travel Bureau played a seminal role by setting the precedent for federal involvement in...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — 320 p. Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality. How did all this come...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 248 p. In the spring of 1971, the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history unfolded at a site nationally celebrated as the birthplace of freedom and democracy. With peace efforts at a standstill, the New England chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War had organized an event to rouse public support for their cause. Over the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 605 p. — (Blackwell Companions to American History). This companion offers an overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates from his term in office. - Explores the legacy of Johnson and the historical significance of his years as president. - Covers the full range...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009 4 . — xiii + 434 p. Preface Harry Truman First Republican Interlude: Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Second Republican Interlude: Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan Waiting for Franklin D. Twilight Franklin Delano Obama Epilogue Sources Notes Index
Transaction Publishers, 2008. — 187 p. For many, especially those on the political left, the 1950s are the "bad old days." The widely accepted list of what was allegedly wrong with that decade includes the Cold War, McCarthyism, racial segregation, self-satisfied prosperity, and empty materialism. The failings are coupled with ignoring poverty and other social problems,...
Catapult, 2021. — 368 p. The fight for a $15 minimum wage. Nationwide teacher strikes. Bernie Sanders’s political revolution and the rise of AOC. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo. Read how the Occupy movement helped reshape American politics, culture and the groundbreaking movements to follow. On the ten-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Generation Occupy sets the historical...
Crown, 2018. — 320 p. A bracing, revelatory look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world—and a road map for rescuing our own Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of...
Crown, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN 9781524762933. A bracing, revelatory look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world—and a road map for rescuing our own Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying...
ABC-CLIO, 2019. — 311 p. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, The Civil Rights Movement provides a concise overview of the most important social movement of the 20th century and will expand readers' understanding of the fight for racial equality. Ideal for research, this one-stop reference provides a unique introduction to the Civil Rights Movement as it includes its...
Center Street, 2019. — 288 p. The assault on the 45th president began immediately following Donald J. Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election. It was then that Democrats concocted the absurd story of Russian spies and international plots as an excuse for Hillary's humiliating defeat. It was in those early days, too, during the presidential transition, when enemies of...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 312 p. In this volume, attorney Robert M. Lichtman provides a comprehensive history of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in "Communist" cases during the McCarthy era. Lichtman shows the Court's vulnerability to public criticism and attacks by the elected branches during periods of political repression. The book describes every...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 192 p. To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline, as this book does, might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and serious. Yet if we take a longer view, much of the discourse about decline appears exaggerated, hyperbolic, and ahistorical. Why? First, because of the deep underlying strengths of the...
ABC-CLIO, 2016. — 387 p. What are the real differences between the Democrats and the Republicans on major economic issues that influence the character and vitality of the American economy? This volume answers this question in a thorough, nonpartisan, and evenhanded fashion. Both the Democratic and Republican parties proclaim that they have the best interests of the nation and...
Wayne State University Press, 2022. — 448 p. The book begins by tracing the Crockett family history from slavery to George's admission into the University of Michigan Law School. He became one of the most senior Black lawyers in President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal administration. Later, he played a central role fighting discrimination in the United Auto Workers union. In...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 432 p. When General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found the Nixon administration in worse shape than he had imagined. President Richard Nixon, reelected in an overwhelming landslide just six months earlier, had accepted the resignations of his top aides—the chief of staff H. R. Haldeman and the domestic policy chief...
Lyons Press, 2016. — 352 p. After taking the Oath of Office, Richard Nixon announced that 'government will listen. Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in' and signed National Security Decision Memorandum 2. Using years of research and newly released NSC and administration documents, Ray Locker upends conventional wisdom about the Nixon presidency and shows how...
Trine Day, 2010. — 547 p. Fully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II. This extraordinary investigation exposes the secret section of the State Department that began, starting in 1948 and unbeknownst to Congress and the public until recently, to hire...
Routledge, 2006. — 150 p. Although he left office nearly 20 years ago, Ronald Reagan remains a potent symbol for the conservative movement. The Bush administration frequently invokes his legacy as it formulates and promotes its fiscal, domestic, and foreign policies. His name is watchword for campus conservatives who regard him in a way that borders on hero worship....
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 374 p. 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year...
Yale University Press, 2009. - 224 р.
ISBN:0300151233
The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region's transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems from a 1960s-era...
Simon and Schuster, 2020. — 269 p. The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his...
Oakland: California University Press, 2021. — 153 p. An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy and myth-making in every corner of American life. Never-Ending War on Terror is organized around five keywords that have come to define the cultural and political moment:...
Transaction Publishers, 2009. — 235 p. This is Edward Luttwak's third and arguably finest collection of essays. In a challenge to the intellectual backbone of those who write about peace as something one wishes into existence through mediation and good will, Luttwak's view of warfare is bracing: "An unpleasant truth, often overlooked, is that although war is a great evil, it...
Praeger, 2008. — 154 p. Illustrations. Theory and Methods. Foreign Policy, War, and Public Opinion. September 11 and Afghanistan. President Bush’s Road to War in Iraq. The War on Terror in Iraq. Findings and Implications. Epilogue: Surge versus Withdrawal Debate. Notes.
Crown, 2012. — 288 p. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in...
University of Minnesota Press, 2009. — 224 p. In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of "Asian American" to join Asians of many ethnicities in racial solidarity. Drawing on the Black Power and antiwar movements, Asian American radicals argued...
Facts on File, 2003. — 417 p. — (Eyewitness History Series). Whether they voted for Kennedy or not, most Americans were ready for a change in 1960. From politics to the entertainment industry, both the country's leaders and followers sought new directions, heroes, and missions. The postwar era had to come to an end sometime, and the 1960s represented that transition. John F....
Routledge, 2021. — 380 p. A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities offers a social, political, and cultural history of the United States since World War II. Unpacking a period of profound transformation unprecedented in the national experience, this text takes a synthetic approach to the history of the 1940s to the present day. It...
Routledge, 2021. — 380 p. A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities offers a social, political, and cultural history of the United States since World War II. Unpacking a period of profound transformation unprecedented in the national experience, this text takes a synthetic approach to the history of the 1940s to the present day. It...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2018. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-1510740105. The Plot to Destroy Trump exposes the deep state conspiracy to discredit and even depose the legitimately elected President Donald J. Trump with the fabricated Russian dossier, including: - How the unsubstantiated accusations of collusion began with former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the Democratic...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 282 p. As historian and author John W. Malsberger writes in The General and the Politician: Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and American Politics, no two political figures could have taken more different routes to the Presidency than did America’s 34th and 37th Commanders in Chief. Thrown together largely for political convenience by...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 344 p. Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: “There is no other period in the nation’s history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands of the industrial entrepreneur.” The era of William Jefferson Clinton’s ascent to the...
Avid Reader Press, 2022. — 256 p. In this deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that reads like Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized crossed with David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth, a celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds. On a...
Victory Books, 2016. — 320 p. As Barack Obama's presidential failures keep adding up, remembering them all can be a challenge. Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan have compiled everything you need to know about the presidency of Barack Obama (so far) into one book. Now you can easily find all the information that was ignored by the media and that Barack Obama would like you to...
Sage Publications, 2000. — 257 p. Examining the effects of the Internet on American politics, this book reveals its potential as a tool for empowering people to challenge existing power structures. However, the authors show how the American political system tends to normalize political activity, and thus the Internet′s vast subversive potential could be lost, rendering it just...
Rutgers University Press, 2011. — 255 p. Sixty years ago political divisions in the United States ran even deeper than today's name-calling showdowns between the left and right. Back then, to call someone a communist was to threaten that person's career, family, freedom, and, sometimes, life itself. Hysteria about the "red menace" mushroomed as the Soviet Union tightened its...
Hill and Wang, 2011. — 272 p. In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the...
Simon and Schuster, 2022. — 224 p. This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. — 248 p. The rise of the Republican Party from its mid-twentieth-century minority status between 1960 and 1980 had a profound impact on American politics that is still being felt in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The GOP would move to the right in its pursuit of electoral ascendancy, but considerable debate within the party...
University Press of Florida, 2017. — 304 p. When first published in 1976, Godfrey Hodgson’s America in Our Time won immediate recognition as a major interpretive study of the postwar era. Although the term liberal consensus, or its approximation, had received some previous expression, Hodgson was responsible for its entry into the lexicon of American history. Yet what he...
University of Chicago Press, 1989. — 320 p. The freshness of the authors' approaches is salutary. The collection is stimulating and valuable. Did Success Spoil the United States? Dual Representations in Postwar America. A Matter of Taste: Corporate Cultural Hegemony in a Mass-Consumption Society. The Reconstruction of Progress: Charles Beard, Richard Hofstadter, and Postwar...
University of Massachusetts Press, 1978. — 217 p. Liberals, Communists, and the Postwar Popular Front. Liberals and the Cold War: 1947. Defeat for the Popular Front: 1948. The Red Scare and the Politics of the Liberal Center: 1949. A New Liberalism. McCarthy, National Security, and Liberal Paralysis Civil Liberties and Security The Demands of Cultural Freedom The Vital Center...
Dreamscape Media, 2019. — 468 p. The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion. Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan...
Public Affairs, 2009. — 376 p. In the bestselling book that provoked a media sensation, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan takes readers behind the scenes of the presidency of George W. Bush. Scott McClellan was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and remained so during one of the most challenging and...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. — 422 p. Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the...
Routledge, 2014. — 416 p. This unique and inexpensive book provides a demographic and economic history of urban America over the last 65 years. The growth and decline of most northern cities is contrasted with the steady growth of western and southern cities. Various urban government policies are explored, including federal, state, and local policies. There is a chapter...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 232 p. Dad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school. This was family life in the new era of the A-bomb. This was civil defense. In this provocative work of social and political history, Laura McEnaney takes us into the secretive world of...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 432 p. In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James...
Basic Books, 2007. — 336 p. In April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an international scandal. Yet until now, the full story has never been told. Tara McKelvey — the first U.S.journalist to speak with female prisoners from Abu Ghraib — traveled to the Middle East and across the United States to seek out victims and perpetrators. McKelvey tells how soldiers, acting in...
Columbia University Press, 2019 — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-231-19006-0 The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan’s nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics....
Modern Library, 2018. — 160 p. Four experts on the American presidency review the only three impeachment cases from history--against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton--and explore its power and meaning for today. Impeachment is rare, and for good reason. Designed to check tyrants or defend the nation from a commander-in-chief who refuses to do so, the process of...
John Lewis and the Power of Hope. — New York: Random House, 2020. — 399 p. — ISBN: 9781984855039 John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama...
John Lewis and the Power of Hope. — New York: Random House, 2020. — 399 p. — ISBN: 9781984855039 John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama...
Broadway Books, 2019. — 307 p. The official report from the House Intelligence Committee on Donald Trump’s secret pressure campaign against Ukraine, featuring an exclusive introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and biographer Jon Meacham. For only the fourth time in American history, the House of Representatives has conducted an impeachment inquiry into a sitting United...
Kersplebedeb, 1980. — 36 p. This essay was originally written by Ed Mead while imprisoned in Washington State. Ed, a former member of the George Jackson Brigade, explores the political environment in the Northwestern United States during the 1970s, the rationale of those engaged in armed actions against the state and a critique of the tamed left. A must read for anyone studying...
Encounter Books, 2019. — 368 p. Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to lead the world....
University of Michigan Press, 2000. — 400 p. Michael Meeropol argues that the ballooning of the federal budget deficit was not a serious problem in the 1980s, nor were the successful recent efforts to get it under control the basis for the prosperous economy of the mid-1990s. In this controversial book, the author provides a close look at what actually happened to the American...
Seven Stories Press, 2011. — 248 p. The confirmation proceedings for Alberto R. Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, triggered a national debate about the U.S. government's controversial treatment of detainees and its practice of torture. At the heart of the debate is the question: Is the United States undermining democracy, freedom, and human...
Migration Policy Institute, 2018. — 41 p. The United States has a longstanding tradition of providing asylum to those in need, with thousands of persecuted individuals seeking and being granted protection in the country each year. The asylum system has its roots in the Refugee Act of 1980, a pioneering piece of legislation that incorporated into U.S. domestic law the United...
Skill Bites, 2021. — 208 p. As visitors to Washington, D.C., celebrated the glorious spring of the 1972 Cherry Blossom Festival, tensions inside the U. S. Capitol were rising. Across the globe, in the jungles of Vietnam, an unwinnable war was wearing on. The president, despite promises to phase out the war and bring troops home, was ramping up the air warfare. Senators and...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 248 p. How big is the threat posed by American ISIS supporters? How many Americans have joined ISIS and how many want to return to the United States? Compared to participation by Americans in other jihadist groups, the scale of American involvement in jihadist activity today is unprecedented. This book, from one of the leading counter-terror centres, draws...
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. — 348 p. The American Republic was born in revolt against the British crown, and ever since, political extremism has had a long tradition in the United States. To some observers, the continued presence of extremist groups—and the escalation of their activities—portends the fragmentation of the country, while others believe such is...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 344 p. Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. America is a country of everyday crises -- big, long-spanning problems that persist despite their toll on the country's health. And for every case of government inaction on one of these issues, there is a...
Doubleday Books, 2022. — 208 p. In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol. Dana Milbank sees a...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 256 p. On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut country today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who hated Kennedy and everything he stood for,...
New York University Press, 2015. — 328 p. From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where...
UBC Press, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN13 9780774830157. — ISBN10 0774830158. The US security state is everywhere in cultural products: in army-supported news stories, TV shows, and video games; in CIA-influenced blockbusters and comics; and in State Department ads, broadcasts, and websites. Hearts and Mines examines the rise and reach of the US Empire’s culture industry – a nexus...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. — 318 p. The spectacular cyber attack on Sony Pictures and costly hacks of Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, and databases containing sensitive data on millions of U.S. federal workers have shocked the nation. Despite a new urgency for the president, Congress, law enforcement, and corporate America to address the growing threat, the hacks keep...
Crown, 2015. — 162 p. Remember that time Hillary Clinton admitted that she deleted thousands of e-mails from her ultra-secret personal e-mail address while Secretary of State? Thousands of e-mails, she claimed, about her daughter’s wedding? Well, people aren’t buying it: “Hiding the truth” says The New York Post. “Conspiracy or incompetence?” asks Al-Jazeera. “Hillary Clinton...
Lexington Books, 2019. — 328 p. This book attempts to grasp the recent paradigm shift in American politics through the lens of satire. It connects changes in the political and cultural landscape to corresponding shifts in the structure and organization of the media, in order to shed light on the evolution of political satire on late-night television. Satire is situated in its...
Verso, 2007. — 289 p. US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s. Looking to the future, Moody shows how the rise of immigrant labor and its efforts at...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. — 369 p. The Men War and Identity Joining Up Eating Ham for Uncle Sam Crossing Over Worshipping Together Under Fire Liberation and Revelation Coming Home Notes Illustration Credits
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 311 p. In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science...
2nd Ed. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1-493039-82-2. From the mystery of a U.S. Senator's death (was he kept on ice until after the election?) to a haunting of the Governor's mansion, this selection of fourteen stories from Nevada's past explores some of the Silver State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 428 p. Ronald Reagan is one of the most important and arguably most successful presidents in modern American history. He is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity in the wake of the most miserable economic era since the 1930s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and doing much to bring about the late twentieth century shift to the right...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 211 p. This book describes the intense mobilization of American society in the Global War on Terrorism coupled with trends in progress before 9/11. With its focus on maximizing civilian casualties, terrorism has been uniquely able to arouse the popular emotion and make us rethink the use of military force.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 265 p. The first comprehensive study of U.S. policy toward Cuba in the post–Cold War era, Unfinished Business: America and Cuba After the Cold War, 1989–2001, draws on interviews with Bush and Clinton policymakers, congressional participants in the policy debate, and leaders of the antisanctions business community, and makes an important...
Skyhorse, 2019. — 480 p. Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s probe into Russian influence on the 2016 election of Donald Trump—including links between the campaign and Russian interests, obstruction of justice by President Trump, and any other matters that may have arisen in the course of the investigation—has been the focal point of American politics since its inception in...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2014. — 296 p. As far as members of the hugely controversial John Birch Society were concerned, the Cold War revealed in stark clarity the loyalties and disloyalties of numerous important Americans, including Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and Earl Warren. Founded in 1958 as a force for conservative political advocacy, the Society espoused the...
Merrion Press, 2021. — 288 p. Elected in 1960 as the 35th President of the USA, John Fitzgerald Kennedy remains to this day the office’s youngest incumbent and he was its first Roman Catholic. His term in office was short, but arguably no US President has inspired more people around the globe than JFK. Even today, for generations born decades after his death, President...
Holt and Company, 2007. — 202 p. President George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as biographer Naftali argues, no one was better prepared for the challenges facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely encouraged the liberalization of the Soviet system and...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 418 p. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias Terrorists and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance reminded us that, to varying degrees, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is increasingly visible in our day to day life: in neighbor’s or family member’s open...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 418 p. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias Terrorists and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance reminded us that, to varying degrees, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is increasingly visible in our day to day life: in neighbor’s or family member’s open...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 418 p. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias Terrorists and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance reminded us that, to varying degrees, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is increasingly visible in our day to day life: in neighbor’s or family member’s open...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 418 p. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias Terrorists and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance reminded us that, to varying degrees, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is increasingly visible in our day to day life: in neighbor’s or family member’s open...
Hamilton Books, 2021. — 284 p. When well-designed institutions function properly, people thrive. Few institutions have been more ingeniously designed than the U.S. federal government via the Constitution in 1787. This auspicious beginning more than two centuries ago helps explain why the U.S. remains a magnet for opportunity seekers, students, entrepreneurs, dissidents, and...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 277 p. Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation hearings over Clarence Thomas and John Tower....
University Press of Kansas, 2014. — 359 p. To look at the partisan polarization that paralyzes Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race—all pointed to a reordering of...
Regnery Publishing, 2020. — 328 p. — ISBN13: 9781684511334 ‘‘I have the most progressive record of anybody running,” Joe Biden blurted out in a moment of honesty before he entered the 2020 campaign.1 He does, as this book will show. But Biden is also known for his habitual blarney. Just as he is capable of bragging about his leftist record, so he is also capable of duping...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 527 p. Reveals an intense power struggle that plagued the Kennedy Administration before the Vietnam War and contends that the President's advisors conspired to deceive Kennedy and push the United States into combat. Had he lived, would President Kennedy have committed U.S. troops to Vietnam? According to the evidence...
University of Illinois Press, 2017. — 236 p. Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees—as opposed to willing immigrants—profoundly influenced their cultural identity. Phuong Tran...
Simon and Schuster, 2018. — 385 p. In January 1954, Joseph McCarthy was one of the most powerful members of the United States Senate. By the end of that year he had been censured by his colleagues, and his power was shattered. Ike and McCarthy is the dramatic story of how President Dwight Eisenhower worked behind the scenes to make this happen. When Eisenhower took office in...
1953. — 29 p. Basic National Security Policy. An analytical report to the Executive Committee of the National Security Council as to the international state of affairs and policy towards USSR.
Head of Zeus, 2017. — 256 p. The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts. Trump's tweets, by contrast, formed a constant stream of...
Routledge, 2019. — 211 p. The Vietnam War was the central political issue of the 1960s and 1970s. This study by Seth Offenbach explains how the conflict shaped modern conservatism. The war caused disputes between the pro-war anti-communists right and libertarian conservatives who opposed the war. At the same time, Christian evangelicals supported the war and began forming...
IRH Press, 2017. — 200 p. Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election surprised almost all major vote forecasters who predicted Hillary Clinton’s victory. But 10 months earlier, in January 2016, Ryuho Okawa, Global Visionary, a renowned spiritual leader, and international best-selling author, had already foreseen Trump’s victory. This book contains a series of...
Pegasus Books, 2020. — 368 p. An eye-opening cultural history of the political revolution that has destroyed the Republican Party and unleashed an illiberal crusade against the ideals of the Founding Fathers. The story of America is the struggle between our liberal ideal and illiberal resistance. Donald Trump catalyzed a reactionary revolution by tapping into the dark, shadowy...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 320 р. A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous "Deep Throat," the media's role in the scandal, both during and afterwards, including Bob Woodward's Second Man. Arguably the greatest political scandal of twentieth-century America, the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 297 p. On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans' best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). New Afrikan citizens traced boundaries...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 592 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower brings new depth to the historiography of this significant and complex figure, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date depiction of both the man and era. Thoughtfully incorporates new and significant literature on Dwight D. Eisenhower. Thoroughly examines...
Regnery Publishing, 2020. — 437 p. — ISBN13: 9781684511204 At the time, August 5, 2016, seemed like a routine Saturday. I was visiting Washington, D.C., for a meeting of the Trump foreign policy advisory team, as our limited work together had become a bit more frequent in the summer leading up to the election. I was staying for five nights at the Grand Hyatt Washington, located...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 172 p. As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war. In the first history of this network,...
University of Minnesota Press, 2014. — 248 p. Since the 1950s, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, as SooJin Pate does, and what has long been viewed as humanitarian rescue reveals itself as an exercise in expanding American empire during the...
University of Georgia Press, 2019. — 244 p. Lockheed has been one of American’s largest corporations and most important defense contractors from World War II to the present day (since 1995 as part of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company). During the postwar era, its executives enacted complicated business responses to black demands for equality. Based on the papers of a...
Simon and Schuster, 2020. — 288 p. The story of President Richard Nixon and those who fought against him comes to life in this insightful and accessible nonfiction middle grade book from the author of Fly Girls and Fighting for the Forest. The Watergate scandal created one of the greatest constitutional crises in American history. When the House Judiciary Committee approved...
Carroll and Graf, 1998. — 592 p. Here is the myth-shattering expose which reveals the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."Dramatic new evidence confirming the innocence of James Earl Ray and identifying the actual killers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Shocking and controversial revelations from James Earl Ray's attorney. On April 4th, 1968, Dr. Martin...
Yale University Press, 2019. - 687 p. As a female graduate of Yale, I’d always assumed that the story of women’s admission to the college in 1969 was one of triumph — a historic transformation commemorated by Maya Lin’s “Women’s Table” sculpture, prominently situated at the heart of campus. But “Yale Needs Women,” Anne Gardiner Perkins’s lively and engaging account of the...
Scribner, 2008. — 895 p. Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory over Barry...
Ecco, 2022. — 432 p. An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America. We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan,...
Basic Books, 2017. — 368 p. The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of the deep and divisive debates between America's civilian leaders and its military officers. Renowned military expert Mark Perry investigates these internal wars and sheds new light on the US military-the most powerful and influential lobby in Washington. He reveals explosive stories, from the secret...
Crown Publishing, 2022. — 255 p. How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From a Washington reporter for The New York Times comes the definitive story of the mutiny that shattered American politics. Jeremy Peters's epic narrative of the fracture and collapse of the Republican Party chronicles the once-in-a-lifetime self-destruction of a major political party...
Routledge, 2022. — 159 p. With this book, Clarissa Peterson and Emmitt Y. Riley dive into how racial attitudes change and inform political decisions. Peterson and Riley use racial resentment, black blame, and racial identity to investigate the extent to which racial attitudes influence vote choice, evaluations of Black Lives Matter, and attitudes toward public policies. Moving...
Twelve, 2022. — 660 p. — ISBNs: 9781538707975 In BATTLING THE BIG LIE, bestselling author Dan Pfeiffer dissects how the right-wing built a massive, billionaire-funded disinformation machine powerful enough to bend reality and nearly steal the 2020 election. From the perspective of someone who has spent decades on the front lines of politics and media, Pfeiffer lays out how the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 360 p. African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars after Truman's order and their protracted...
Center Street, 2019. — 274 p. Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro outlines a plot against the People of the United States and argues that the conspirators have the means and motive to destroy our democratic republic. Pirro uncovers the elements of this conspiracy, including "fake news" propaganda, law enforcement corruption at the highest levels, and felonious national security...
WND Books, 2004. — 192 p. Hillary's Secret War is the true story of how a group of renegade journalists fought to expose America's darkest scandals through the Internet-and how the most powerful woman in the world tried to stop them.From her own "war room" in the White House, Hillary Clinton commanded a secret police operation dedicated to silencing dissent, muzzling media...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 192 p. We are in the midst of a Dwight Eisenhower revival. Today pundits often look to Eisenhower as a model of how a president can govern across party lines and protect American interests globally without resorting too quickly to the use of force. Yet this mix of nostalgia and frustration with the current polarized state of American politics may...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 488 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-2246-7 Mark Pomerantz was a retired lawyer living a calm suburban life when he accepted an unexpected offer to join the staff of the district attorney of New York County in February 2021 to work on the investigation of former president Donald Trump. The Manhattan DA was interested in Pomerantz because he brought vast experience...
Potomac Books Inc., 2010. — 320 p. The Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy. The reasons for the Cold War’s conclusion, and the timing of its...
Russell Sage Foundation, 2019. — 337 p. Since the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regardless of whether the economy is booming or in recession or whether the federal budget is in surplus or deficit. In Starving the Beast, sociologist Monica Prasad uncovers the origins of the GOP's relentless...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 435 p. This deeply personal book tells the untold story of the significant contributions of technical professionals from the former Soviet Union to the US innovation economy, particularly in the sectors of software, social media, biotechnology, and medicine. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, it channels the voices and stories of more than 150...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 214 p. Carroll Pursell tells the story of the evolution of American technology since World War II. His fascinating and surprising history links pop culture icons with landmarks in technological innovation and shows how postwar politics left their mark on everything from television, automobiles, and genetically engineered crops to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 267 p. This book looks broadly at how the contentious relationships between the media and US President Lyndon B. Johnson affected the national consciousness during the turbulent period of his leadership. Johnson had to deal with a particularly difficult and divisive period in American history and his relationship with the press undoubtedly...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 280 p. As the U.S. experience in Iraq following the 2003 invasion made abundantly clear, failure to properly plan for risks associated with postconflict stabilization and reconstruction can have a devastating impact on the overall success of a military mission. In Waging War, Planning Peace, Aaron Rapport investigates how U.S. presidents and...
Open Road Media, 2013. — 640 p. John “Iwan” Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history’s most complex war crimes trials. But why did it take almost sixty years for the United States to bring him to justice as a Nazi collaborator? The answer lies in the annals of the Cold War, when fear and paranoia drove American politicians and the U.S. military to recruit “useful” Nazi war...
Historical Office Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1984. — 715 p. 17 September 1947 The Unification Act on Trial The Office of the Secretary of Defense The Staff Agencies OSD and the National Security Structure The Challenge of Communism: Greece, Turkey, and Italy Israel and the Arab States The Crisis in China The Spreading Turmoil in Asia The Berlin Crisis The Military...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 295 p. Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Nations or NATO for military interventions in Haiti, the Balkans, and Libya, while making only limited efforts to gain such approval for the 2003 Iraq War? In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia addresses this important question by drawing...
HarperCollins, 2024. — 783 р. —ISBN: 978-0-06-306881-0 Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent...
Hachette Books, 2019. — 255 p. An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf -- on and off the green -- and what it reveals about his character. Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 304 p. In 1981, a Right Wing Republican at long last resided in the White House, presiding over what may prove to be the most fundamental restructuring of American political life since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fortunately, The Republican Right since 1945 now provides us with the necessary historical understanding of conservative...
Routledge, 2001. — 370 p. America has always taken a coherent national identity for granted. In recent decades that assumption has been challenged. Individual and group rights have expanded, eliciting acerbic debate about the legitimacy and limits of claims. National political leaders have preferred to finesse rather engage these controversies. At the same time, large numbers...
With a preface by Fred R. Harris and a new introduction by Tom Wicker. — New York : A Bantam Book, 1968. — 718 p. The horror of Watts was the first shattering revelation ahoiit America’s racial crisis—and a grim prelude to the future. The summer of 1967—in Newark, Detroit, Cleveland and across the nation—revealed the bitter, deep-rooted dissension in our cities, the result of...
Graymalkin Media, 2020. — 304 p. Barbara A. Res worked directly with Donald Trump for eighteen years on some of his biggest projects and had nearly unlimited access to him. Trump selected Res to be in charge of construction of Trump Tower, his greatest success as a developer. In this insider’s look at how the ambitious real estate developer became the most divisive president in...
Arcade, 2019. — 168 p. This Eyewitness Account of the Impeachment Process against Richard Nixon Holds Lessons for Our Own Time. James Reston, Jr., took leave from teaching during the summer of 1973 to witness the Senate Watergate Committee hearings as he worked with his coauthor on what became the first full-length book to advocate for Richard Nixon's impeachment. During the...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 295 p. Once upon a time in Texas, there were liberal activists of various stripes who sought to make the state more tolerant (and more tolerable). David Richards was one of them. In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, he remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and political battles, and the wins and losses that brought...
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. — 320 p. Bad Beginnings to a Big Year “A National Movement to Enforce National Laws” An Idea Becomes a Bill The October Crisis “Let Us Continue” A Battle Is Lost The South Takes Its Stand Breaking the Filibuster A Bill Becomes a Law
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. — 304 p. War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on...
Free Press, 2006. — 238 p. James Risen has broken story after story on the abuses of power of the Bush administration.From warrantless wiretapping to secret financial data mining to the CIA's rogue operations, he has shown again and again that the executive branch has dangerously overreached, repudiated checks and balances on its power, and maintained secrecy even with its allies...
Chicago Review Press Incorporated, 2015. — 961 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61374-965-4 Walk among a stand of quaking aspen trees on a sunny, breezy day, and you will experience a sublime, surpassing sensation. The trees are alive with activity, silvery leaves glinting, twisting and trembling, whistling a soft melody, sounding like a voice of the beyond. What you may not know is that all...
ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 370 p. Providing a timely and much-needed investigation of how U.S. law enforcement carries out its public safety and crime fighting mandates, this book is an invaluable resource for students, educators, and concerned citizens. Does America face an epidemic of police officers abusing their powers and disregarding constitutional rights, especially in...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 312 p. As increasingly contentious politics in the United States raise concerns over the "politicization" of traditionally non-partisan institutions, many have turned their attention to how the American military has been--and will be--affected by this trend. Since a low point following the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military has...
Fordham University Press, 2020. — 305 p. We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white terrorism, and white fascist statecraft proliferated. Thinking across a variety of archival, testimonial, visual, and activist texts―from...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 182 p. Migration, borders, cybersecurity, natural disasters, and terrorism: Homeland security is constantly in the news. Despite ongoing attention, these problems seem to be getting bigger even as the political discussion grows more overheated and misleading. Ben Rohrbaugh, a former border security director at the White House’s National...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 304 p. List of Charts and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction The Cold War Mic, 1950–1991 Defining the Complex Civil-Military Relations State and Industry Among Government Agencies The Scientific-Technical Community Society and Technology International Arms Trade Since the Cold War, 1991–2020 New World Order War on Terror A...
Red Globe Press, 2003. — 350 p. This clearly-written book provides an historical analysis of postwar economic development in the United States, helping the reader to understand the nation's current economic position. Samuel Rosenberg investigates three postwar phases: the creation of an institutional framework setting the stage for prosperity in the U.S. after World War II; the...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 368 p. The co-creator of the Washington Post’s “Made by History” blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump. America’s long road to the Trump presidency began on August 1, 1988, when, desperate for content to save AM radio, top media executives...
Regnery Publishing, 2019. — 311 p. It’s like something out of a spy novel: In the heat of the 2016 election, an unvetted Pakistani national with a proclivity for blackmail gained access to the computer files of one in five Democrats in the House of Representatives. He and his family lifted data off the House network, stole the identity of an intelligence specialist, and sent...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 320 p. While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense. The 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act created permanent military positions for women with the promise of equal pay....
Public Affairs, 2022. — 224 p. It could have been so much worse: a deeply reported, insider story of how a handful of Washington officials staged a daring resistance to an unprecedented presidency and prevented chaos overwhelming the government and the nation. Each federal employee takes an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies...
Routledge, 2022. — 344 p. This book was first published in 1951 as The General and the President after President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean War -a memorably explosive incident in American political history. But its significance extends far beyond a dramatic episode in the nation's past. This literate and ironic work continues...
Rare Bird Books, 2020. — 264 p. In April of 2018, Giorgi Rtskhiladze answered the door of his Connecticut home to find two FBI agents bearing a subpoena waiting for him. Their questions: What was his interaction with Donald Trump, Trump family and the Trump Organization? What did he know about Michael Cohen’s business dealings? Why was he the person who Cohen had a text...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. — 305 p. The Cold War forced scientists to reconcile their values of internationalism and objectivity with the increasingly militaristic uses of scientific knowledge. For decades, antinuclear scientists pursued nuclear disarmament in a variety of ways, from grassroots activism to transnational diplomacy and government science advising....
Regnery Publishing, 2020. — 246 p. — ISBN13: 9781684510979 Millions of Americans are rallying around our polarizing president. Trump voters from 2016 are itching to cast their ballots again. If you have any doubt of that, just look at his massive rallies and record primary vote tallies. And while few have ever doubted the loyalty of Trump’s base, the president has also won over...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 275 p. Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 432 p. The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump explores the myriad ways in which candidate, and then president, Trump exemplifies a nontraditional version of US politics. As a candidate he eschewed the norms of campaign procedure, and, in the worst cases, human decency, in favor of a rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners approach that...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. — 355 p. The lingering aftereffects of the Vietnam War resonate to this day throughout American society: in foreign policy, in attitudes about the military and war generally, and in the contemporary lives of members of the so-called baby boom generation who came of age during the 1960s and early 1970s. While the best-known personal...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 295 p. As it became increasingly apparent that Donald Trump might actually become the Republican party's 2016 presidential nominee, alarmed conservatives coalesced behind a simple, uncompromising slogan: Never Trump. Although the movement initially included a large number of Republican office-holders, its white-hot core was always comprised of...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. — 212 p. When Dwight Eisenhower ran for president he was so confident that he could organize the Executive Office more effectively than his predecessor that he made it an issue in the campaign of 1952. When he entered office he found that Congress had given him just two months to reorganize the Council of Economic Advisers or see it dissolved....
Potomac Books, 2011. — 240 p. Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United States’s image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with a false impression that foreigners’ views of America are normally negative and impervious to change. In fact they are complex, emotional, frequently internally contradictory, and often change...
Little, Brown and Company, 2015. — 785 p. Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of change from George W. Bush's "global war on terror". Yet from indefinite detention and drone strikes to surveillance and military tribunals, Obama ended up continuing - and in some cases expanding - many policies he inherited. What happened? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage looks inside the Obama...
SUNY Press, 2015. — 362 p. Sean Savage’s masterful account of the early political career of John F. Kennedy takes a commanding place in the multitude of Kennedy biographies. With his focus on Kennedy as a US Senator and his complex relationship with President Eisenhower and major figures in his own party, Savage illuminates the ambition and shrewdness of this rising star of...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. — 352 p. In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war and explores the war’s impact on the burgeoning conservative political movement of the 1960s and early...
Hoover Institution Press, 2016. — 361 p. A diverse group of contributors offer different perspectives on whether or not the different experiences of our military and the broader society amounts to a "gap"—and if the American public is losing connection to its military. They analyze extensive polling information to identify those gaps between civilian and military attitudes on...
Iowa State University Press, 1971. — 268 p. Prelude to War: Marshaling the Nation’s Resources. Wartime Administrator: The Board of Economic Warfare. 3. Idealism, Ideology, and Ideas for the Postwar World. Goodwill Ambassador to Latin America: The Triumph of Popular Diplomacy. Ideological Conflict and Administrative Confusion: The Wallace-Jones Clash. Philosopher without...
Syracuse University Press, 1960. — 378 p. New Currents Forming. The Fight for Peace. The Wallace-Taylor Team. “The Fight for Peace”— Spring Campaign. Building a New Party. The People Must Have a Choice. Costliest Campaign. The Same Old Merry-Go-Round. The Fight For Peace”— Fall Campaign. Stand Up and Be Counted. Communist Bogey. More Than a Single Campaign. Road to...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 272 p. Building on David Schmitz’s earlier work, Thank God They’re on Our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. During the 1920s, American leaders developed a policy of supporting authoritarian regimes because they were seen as stable, anticommunist, and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 273 p. — ISBN13: 9781350115538 When Donald Trump announced his ambition to run for president in 2015—starting what would be an unprecedented campaign—he had already firmly established himself as a media personality known to the American public (and beyond). First and foremost, people had come to know him as a businessman who heavily promoted the...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 615 p. The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students. The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for...
Twelve, 2021. — 320 p. Coming off of the 2020 election, this book tells the Biden Family story in full, from the secrets lurking in the deep recesses of Joe's family tree to his son Hunter's foreign deal-making spree—and the Trump gang's ham-handed efforts to exploit it. On November 3, Americans did not just elect Joe Biden: They got a package deal. The tight-knit Biden...
Facts on File, 2006. — 513 p. — (Eyewitness History Series). A comprehensive resource for those interested in learning about this era, The 1990s chronicles the first decade since the end of World War II to be dominated by a single superpower—the United States—instead of by a cold war rivalry between heavily armed, ideologically antithetical nuclear powers. From the...
Harper Paperbacks, 2019. — 275 p. Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption—and winning—for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In Extortion, he uncovered how politicians use mafia-like tactics to enrich themselves. And in Clinton Cash, he revealed the Clintons’ massive money machine and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 348 p. This book provides an in-depth history of three US-based communal societies that operated in the late 1960s and 1970s―Soul City, Stelle and Twin Oaks―with an emphasis on their financing, marketing, and entrepreneurship processes. These communities reflect the diversity of people who were dissatisfied with the direction in which American...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 354 p. Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden "deep state" that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing America's increasing militarization, restrictions on...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 640 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to John F. Kennedy presents a comprehensive collection of historiographical essays addressing the life and administration of the nation’s 35th president. - Features original contributions from leading Kennedy scholars. - Reassesses Kennedy, his administration, and the era of the New...
Syracuse University Press, 2015. — 282 p. This book is a survey treatment of the 1990s. The trajectory of the narrative follows from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This book seeks to give a voice to historically marginalized communities, while providing an overview of the 1990s. The analysis includes examinations of: the end...
Simon and Schuster, 2020. — 256 p. Politics have always intruded on Supreme Court appointments. But although the Framers would recognize the way justices are nominated and confirmed today, something is different. Why have appointments to the high court become one of the most explosive features of our system of government? As Ilya Shapiro makes clear in Supreme Disorder, this...
Harper Collins, 2008. — 465 p. A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful They are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new...
Hanover Square Press, 2022. — 304 p. Bestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice in America. While the world may know the major names of the Civil Rights movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes fighting the good...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 848 p. The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration’s lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America’s true role in the conflict. The WikiLeaks of its day (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American...
Macmillan, 2015. — 380 p. From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciting exploration of what the Times deemed "the greatest story of the century": how Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into "the most dangerous man in America," and risked everything to expose the government's deceit. On June 13, 1971,...
Penguin Group, 2008. — 352 p. Draws on insider information and previously unpublished documents to contend that Ted Kennedy and his allies prolonged the Watergate scandal in order to undermine the Republican Party and establish Kennedy's presidential candidacy. It didn’t take long for Kennedy Democrats to smell blood in the water after the Watergate break-in – and to take steps...
Bombardier Books, 2021. — 384 p. Geoff Shepard’s shocking exposé of corrupt collusion between prosecutors, judges, and congressional staff to void Nixon’s 1972 landslide reelection. Their success changed the course of American history. Geoff Shepard had a ringside seat to the unfolding Watergate debacle. As the youngest lawyer on Richard Nixon’s staff, he personally transcribed...
Regnery Publishing, 2015. — 354 p. Research has uncovered shocking violations of ethical and legal standards by the "good guys"--including Judge John Sirica, Archibald Cox, and Leon Jaworski. Documents that the Watergate Special Prosecution Force was an avenging army drawn from the ranks of Nixon's most partisan foes. They had the good fortune to work with judges who shared...
Steerforth Press, 2018. — 401 p. President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert "Bobby" Cutler shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than previously understood. A lifelong Republican, Cutler also served three Democratic presidents. The life of any party, he was a tight-lipped loyalist who worked behind the scenes to get things done. While Cutler's...
Harper, 2019. — 528 p. The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges. Today, a battle rages in our country. Many Americans are attracted to socialism and economic redistribution while opponents of those ideas argue for...
Crown, 1991. — 277 p. Describes how the Reagan-Bush campaign made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the 1980 Presidential election. Piercing the shadowy netherworld of international espionage, Sick has written one of the most controversial and disturbing accounts of political intrigue to appear in recent years. In 1980, William...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 352 p. A gripping, in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election that explains Donald Trump's historic victory. Donald Trump's election victory stunned the world. How did he pull it off? Was it his appeal to alienated voters in the battleground states? Was it Hillary Clinton and the scandals associated with her long career in politics?...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 272 p. On August 6, 1974, a bomb exploded at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three people and injuring thirty-five others. It was the first time an airport had been bombed anywhere in the world. A few days later, police recovered a cassette tape containing a chilling message: "This first bomb was marked with the letter A, which stands for...
Rutgers University Press, 2017. — 287 p. In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the...
Open Road Media, 2014.— 398 p. — (Forbidden Bookshelf). A searing account of a dark “chapter in U.S. Cold War history...to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies” (Library Journal). Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 286 p. Providing a fresh reevaluation of a specific era in popular music, this book contextualizes the era in terms of both radio history and cultural analysis. Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats", which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. This formatting revolution took place...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN: 125022389X, 978-1250223890 The first honest insider’s account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump’s side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President’s inner circle as a...
Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 740 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-2969-9 We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer argues convincingly: There are no such things as accidents. The vast majority of mishaps are not random but predictable and preventable. Singer uncovers just how...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 296 p. — (Oxford Student Companions to American History). The half-century since the end of World War II has been crucial in defining America's image of itself and role in the world. A thorough survey of an era dominated by the cold war on the international front and conflicting social forces at home, this authoritative reference volume details...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 848 p. The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration’s lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America’s true role in the conflict. The WikiLeaks of its day (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American...
Center Street, 2020. — 248 p. From the phony Russia collusion narrative to the coordinated riots laying waste to US cities, it's the same ongoing operation orchestrated by the left and targeting not just President Trump but hundreds of millions of Americans who revere their country and what it stands for. For the first time, crusading investigative journalist Lee Smith reveals...
Center Street, 2019. — 348 p. Investigative journalist Lee Smith uses his unprecedented access to Congressman Devin Nunes, former head of the House Intelligence Committee, to expose the deep state operation against the president -- and the American people. Investigative journalist Lee Smith's The Plot Against the President tells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 236 p. Terence Smith’s memoir recounts his extraordinary journalistic career with The New York Times, CBS News and PBS, covering everything from the inner workings of the White House to fours wars and stories drawn from the daily lives of people in 44 countries. He also provides a first-hand account of the evolution of journalism from...
Diversion Books, 2019. — 272 p. Fox News did not start America's culture war––but they did have the manipulative and destructive genius to exploit it for billions of dollars. For the first time, a Fox News veteran exposes and diagrams the toxic strategies and tactics within the Fox News playbook that liberal and progressive candidates will be fighting against in 2020 and...
Destiny Books, 2019. — 288 p. An in-depth history of Rosicrucianism, its key members, and their roles in the formation and settling of America. • Explores Sir Francis Bacon and Dr. John Dee’s deep influence on England’s colonization of America as well as the Rosicrucian influence on the Founding Fathers and on cities such as Philadelphia and Williamsburg • Explains how Bacon...
Destiny Books, 2003. — 320 p. An expose of the dark and critical role secret societies play within the ruling families in America and their influence on American democracy, current events, and world history. • Reveals the enormous influence secret societies still have on contemporary American life. • Shows how the secret Masonic cells that smuggled in the democratic ideals...
W.W. Norton Company, 1959. — 324 p. Professor John W. Spanier examines the central issue of this crisis--the grave challenge to the traditional concept of civilian supremacy, resting in the President of the United States, over the military, that was posed by MacArthur's stand. He makes it clear that this controversy was not unique, that it stemmed not only from MacArthur's...
Humanix Books, 2021. — 256 p. The Biden-Harris progressive agenda presents a radical change to the American economy, values, national security, and freedom. From the former Trump White House press secretary and New York Times bestselling author of THE BRIEFING and LEADING AMERICA comes a stark warning: Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, America is lurching towards economic...
Feral House, 2013. — 200 p. Heidi Rikan was an ex-stripper, working for the mob in Washington D.C. White House Call Girl tells how a call girl operation she was running at the time led to the Watergate break-in, which brought down Tricky Dick Nixon himself. Though it’s a fully sourced political non-fiction, it reads like a detective novel, full of prostitutes, mobsters,...
Girl Friday Books, 2022. — 288 р. The heroes at the Pentagon were extraordinary civilians and soldiers who made decisions to sacrifice their own safety to render aid to complete strangers. Twenty years later, these stories serve as a reminder of what it truly means to be American. Meticulously researched and told with respect and reverence, this book sheds light on the...
University of North Carolina Press, 1998. — 428 p. The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in contemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses the steel industry-long considered fundamental to the U.S. economy-to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War II. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, she argues that it was...
Stanford University Press, 2003. — 495 p. The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in human history. Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Library, here presents a comprehensive narrative account of the secret ExComm meetings, making the inside story of the missile crisis completely...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 288 p. Stolen valor occurs when a person lies about receiving military decorations that he or she has in fact never earned. It has become a major societal problem that has been discussed numerous times in the news; according to the New York Times, the Department of Veterans Affairs paid disability benefits to more than six hundred people falsely...
Skyhorse, 2019 — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-1510749368 For the first time in paperback, New York Times best-selling author Roger Stone’s insider tell-all about the presidential campaign that shocked the world. This consummate political strategist continues to be front page news and has updated the book to respond to Robert Mueller’s charges. Two years ago, Roger Stone, a New York Times...
Skyhorse, 2019. — 470 p. For the first time in paperback, New York Times best-selling author Roger Stone’s insider tell-all about the presidential campaign that shocked the world. This consummate political strategist continues to be front page news and has updated the book to respond to Robert Mueller’s charges. Two years ago, Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author,...
Routledge, 2015. — 288 p. As Obama nears the middle of his first-term as president Paul Street assesses his performance against the expectations of his supporters. While mainstream journalists have noted discrepancies between Obama's original vision and reality, Paul Street uniquely measures Obama's record against the expectations of the truly progressive agenda many of his...
Routledge, 2022. — 316 p. This book examines the Trump phenomenon and presidency as fascist. Fascism here connotes not generically "bad" politics or a consolidated political-economic regime (Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany) but a set of political, movement, and ideological traits understood within the context of the neoliberal-capitalist era. While Trump’s election defeat...
Melville House, 2022. — 258 p. The Marauders is a blistering book, a hard-ass stare into the voracious mouth of the US-Mexico border. Patrick Strickland has done a fine piece of reporting from places we don’t dare to tread. This real-life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes. The Marauders...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 360 p. For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic struggles that surrounded the passage and initial implementation of the law....
Texas University Press, 2006. — 152 p. Millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, watched in horror as the Challenger shuttle capsule exploded on live television on January 28, 1986. Coupled with that awful image in Americans’ memory is the face of President Ronald Reagan addressing the public hours later with words that spoke to the nation’s...
Penguin Books, 2001. — 656 p. Anthony Summers' biography of Richard Nixon reveals a troubled figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews and five years of research, Summers reveals a man driven by an addiction to intrigue and power, whose subversion of democracy during Watergate was the culmination of years of cynical...
Broadside Books, 2017. — 448 p. In this unique insider account, John H. Sununu pays tribute to his former boss—an intelligent, thoughtful, modest leader—and his overlooked accomplishments. Though George H. W. Bush is remembered for orchestrating one of the largest and most successful military campaigns in history—the Gulf War—Sununu argues that conventional wisdom misses many...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 245 p. We have long saved--and curated--objects from wars to commemorate the war experience. These objects appear at national museums and memorials and are often mentioned in war novels and memoirs. Through them we institutionalize narratives and memories of national identity, as well as international power and purpose. While people interpret...
Free Press, 2007. — 496 p. From acclaimed journalist David Talbot comes a groundbreaking narrative account of one of the most tumultuous periods in our history: the Kennedy Administration and its dramatic aftermath. Though countless books have been written about the Kennedy men and their brief, tumultuous time in the White House, few have offered as many explosive revelations as...
New York : International Publishers, 1981. — 215 p. The so-called Indian problem, examined from colonial times to the present, is shown as an economic, political and social phenomenon created by the special oppressed status of Native Americans. This status, marked by racism, dispossession and economic exploitation, is documented as a product of U.S. capitalist relations....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. — 304 р. In Hijacking History, Liane Tanguay unravels the ideology behind an American enterprise unprecedented in scope, ambition, and brazen claim to global supremacy: the War on Terror. She argues that the fears, anxieties, and even the hopes encoded in American popular culture account for the public's passive acceptance of the Bush...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 428 p. Who bears responsibility for the poor, and who may exercise the power that comes with that responsibility? Amid the Great Depression, American reformers answered this question in new ways, with profound effects on long-standing practices of governance and entrenched understandings of citizenship. States of Dependency traces New Deal...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 250 p. In November 2020, The New York Times asked fifteen on its columnists to 'explain what the past four years have cost America.' Not one of the columnists focused on President Trump's racism. This book seeks to redress this imbalance and bring Black Americans' role in our economy to the forefront. While all humans were created equal,...
Potomac Books, 2021. — 464 p. When Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity, the U.S. Navy Veterans...
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1957. — 22 p. — (85th Congress, 1st session Committee print). Interim Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. June 13, 1957. Foreword by...
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1957. — 22 p. — (85th Congress, 1st session Committee print). Interim Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. June 13, 1957. Foreword by...
E.M. Coleman Enterprises, 1979. — 424 p. A large compilation of documents, many only recently declassified, on the internal and external security activities of the Truman Administration. The evidence confirms that covert intervention abroad and violation of civil rights at home in the name of national security were commonplace.
Sisyphus Press, 2008. — 198 p. Could September 11's Flight 93 be the key to unraveling the entire 9-11 mystery? In Phantom Flight 93 - the first and only book to emerge from the 9-11 truth movement on this subject - you will discover how this event in Shanksville could very well be the smoking gun which exposes the government's falsehoods once and for all. Starting with...
Routledge, 2022. — 187 p. The Nixon Presidency is a concise and accessible survey of domestic policy, foreign affairs, and politics during the thirty-seventh president's time in office. Richard Nixon was the most polarizing president of the twentieth century and one who continues to fascinate observers of American political life. Admirers saw him as the personification of the...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2015. — 320 p. The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Seismic shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the world. At the center of it all was Bill Clinton, the talented, charismatic, and flawed Baby Boomer president and his controversial, polarizing,...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 258 p. In Anatomy of Failure, Harlan Ullman asserts that presidents and administrations have consistently failed to use sound strategic thinking and lacked sufficient understanding of the circumstances prior to deciding whether or not to employ force. He analyses the records of presidents from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama and Donald Trump in...
Greenwood, 2018. — 1051 p. The Black Power Movement encompassed a variety of ideological responses, including revolutionary nationalism, cultural nationalism, Black capitalism, Black feminism, and Pan-Africanism. An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the...
Scribner, 2012. — 320 p. The epic 2012 presidential contest between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney represents the stunning comeback of GOP boss Karl Rove, the brilliant political operator whose scorched-earth partisanship infamously earned him the moniker "Bush's Brain" and provoked some observers to label him as dangerous to American democracy....
Penguin Publishing Group, 2022. — 368 p. Nearly sixty years after his death, JFK still holds an outsize place in the American imagination. While Baby Boomers remember his dazzling presence as president, millennials more likely know him from advertisements for Omega watches or Ray Ban sunglasses. Yet his years in office were marked by more than his style and elegance. His...
Oxford University Press, 2009. - 294 p. This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration. In the context of growing fear over Japan's increasing economic strength, revisionists argued that Japan represented a distinctive form of...
Editions L'Harmattan, 2016. — 158 p. This work is based on the systematically use of computer-assisted co-occurrence of key words analysis of English-language media reports. With almost 20 entries per day or over 6,000 press reports per year, we not only characterize, for each year of Obama's first term, the overall structure to world media representation of major topics of...
Fordham University Press, 2012. — 256 p. The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 283 p. The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport, the base was a little-known launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Dey Street Books, 2022. — 686 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-305863-7. Opening with the moment when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were finally declared the winners of the 2020 race—the long, drawn-out journey towards who would next inhabit the White House, and the resulting and disputed defeat of Donald Trump, Electable is a sweeping look at a lingering question from that Presidential race....
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 392 p. Spanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted—and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day. Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police...
Counterpoint LLC, 2012. — 808 p. While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon’s motive. Why was President Nixon willing to risk his re-election with so many repeated burglaries at the Watergate—and other...
Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. — 319 p. — (Social Movements, Protest and Contention). Stefaan Walgrave and Dieter Rucht. February 15, 2003: The World Says No to War. Joris Verhulst. Political Opportunity Structures and Progressive Movement Sectors. Michelle Beyeler and Dieter Rucht. Politics, Public Opinion, and the Media: The Issues and Context behind the...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 332 p. On September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever since, Walker, like many...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 232 p. On September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever since, Walker, like many...
New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 320 p. — ISBN 9781538151976. Robert H. Watrel, J. Clark Archer, Fiona M. Davidson, Erin H. Fouberg, John Heppen, Kimberly Johnson Maier, Kenneth C. Martis, Richard Morrill, Fred M. Shelley, Ryan Weichelt. The 2020 presidential election was one of the most historic, contested, and contentious in American history. Joe Biden was...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 304 p. An eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans. For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, contentious topics in American politics. And for decades, urgent calls for its policy reform have gone mostly unanswered. As the discord...
Routledge, 2022. — 225 p. This book is among the first serious looks at the first 18 months of the Biden administration and its many challenges. From a tortured transition to a raging pandemic, a fragile economy, and the threat of international insecurity, Joe Biden entered office at a time even more fraught than that he faced as a new vice president. Confronting a nation...
UK Edition. 2019. — 448 p. — ISBN: 1785905562. After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here, finally, is a history of the Trump White House, with the President and his staff talking openly and on the record. In President Trump, Doug Wead offers a sweeping, eloquent history of President Donald J. Trump's first years in the White House, covering everything from...
Grand Central Publishing, 1990. — 264 p. Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the "Black Budget"--a 36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda of top-secret weapons and wars. The origin, growth and uses of the Pentagon's secret treasury are detailed here--Weiner examines the Stealth bomber, the...
Random House Publishing, 2008. — 304 p. This is the book that cracks the code of the Bush presidency. Unstintingly yet compassionately, and with no political ax to grind, Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg methodically and objectively examines the family and circle of advisers who played crucial parts in George W. Bush’s historic downfall. In this revealing and defining...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2016. — 224 р. A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman’s first full year in office. In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant start of America Triumphant, in world politics and...
Counterpoint, 2018. — 304 p. Published in time for the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Killing King uncovers previously unknown FBI files and sources, as well as new forensics to convincingly make the case that King was assassinated by a long-simmering conspiracy orchestrated by the racial terrorists who were responsible for the Mississippi...
Counterpoint, 2015. — 272 p. The conventional narrative concerning religious terrorism inside the United States says that the first salvo occurred in 1993, with the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. This narrative has motivated more than a decade of wars, and re-prioritized America’s domestic security and law enforcement agenda. But the conventional...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 243 p. — ISBN: 9781108483544, 1108483542, 9781108728829, 1108728820. The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Because no populist leader had occupied the White House in 150 years, there were many questions about what to expect. Marshalling...
Scribner, 2023. — 684 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-0645-4 In January of 2021, the Biden administration inherited the most daunting array of challenges since FDR’s presidency: a lethal pandemic, a plummeting economy, an unresolved twenty-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the Capitol that polarized the country. Waves of crises followed, including the fallout from a divisive...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 240 p. A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify black Americans in their support of the Democratic party. Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats—a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically...
Westview Press, 1997. — 448 p. In Still Seeing Red, John Kenneth White explores how the Cold War molded the internal politics of the United States. In a powerful narrative backed by a rich treasure trove of polling data, White takes the reader through the Cold War years, describing its effect in redrawing the electoral map as we came to know it after World War II. The primary...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 288 p. The presidency of Bill Clinton has an intrinsic historical significance: a marker of generational change, as he was the first "baby boomer" to reach the White House; the first president whose personal life received no less attention than his policies; and the first elected Democrat President to win re-election since Franklin Roosevelt. This book...
Select Books, 2015. — 352 p. Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Our towns and cities have become battlefields, and we the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield America:...
Simon and Schuster, 2021. — 368 p. The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq,...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2021. — 432 p. A provocative, revelatory history of the epic rise—and unnecessary fall—of the U.S. automotive industry, uncovering the vivid story of innovation, politics, and business that led to a sudden, seismic shift in American priorities that is still felt today, from the acclaimed author of Hoover. In the 1950s, America enjoyed massive growth...
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012. — viii, 376 p. : ill., maps. Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War II....
Routledge, 2009. — 325 p. The Vietnam War was one of the most heavily documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Although the events themselves recede further into history every year, the political and cultural changes the war brought about continue to resonate, even as a new generation of Americans grapples with its own divisive conflict. America and the Vietnam War:...
Manchester University Press, 1995. — 274 p. This study of the New York Intellectuals uses original sources to reconstruct their history during the period of their greatest influence, the 1940s and 1950s. It takes as its major theme the contradiction between the Intellectuals' avant-garde principles and the institutional locations they had come to occupy. Amongst those known...
Routledge, 2006. — 260 p. This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. By moving beyond state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and cultures, it presents a radical new approach to the study of...
New York University Press, 2021. — 235 p. Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century. Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fifty years ago, describes how people might share in a sacred sense of their nation. While hotly debated, the idea continues to enjoy wide application among academics and...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2022. — 495 p. Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson’s landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents who fought to defend themselves, and the truth of their children’s fate against the frenzied distortions of...
Open Road Media, 2017. — 720 p. Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America’s fortieth president recounts Ronald Reagan’s life—from his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California governorship to his role as commander in chief—and examines the powerful myths surrounding him, many of which he created himself....
Cornell University Press, 1992. — 247 p. The eight-year Reagan presidency not only initiated the largest peacetime military buildup in American history, but also altered traditional partisan alignments and revised the policy agenda of the welfare state. In his insightful book, Daniel Wirls clarifies the relationship between defense policy and domestic policy during this period...
Henry Holt and Co., 2018. — 336 p. With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time The first nine months of Donald Trump’s term were stormy, outrageous―and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of...
Henry Holt and Co., 2018. — 336 p. With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump’s term were stormy, outrageous―and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of...
Encounter Books, 2021. — 255 p. Anger now dominates American politics. It wasn’t always so. “Happy Days Are Here Again” was FDR’s campaign song in 1932. By contrast, candidate Kamala Harris’s 2020 campaign song was Mary J. Blige’s “Work That” (“Let ‘em get mad / They gonna hate anyway”). Both the left and right now summon anger as the main way to motivate their supporters....
Facts on File, 2006. — 529 p. — (Eyewitness History Series). An essential resource for those interested in learning about this era, The 1980s chronicles a decade of global transition. From the collapse of Jimmy Carter’s idealistic view of the United States as the world’s peacekeeper in 1980 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, this volume explores a period filled with political...
University of Georgia Press, 2017. — 397 p. Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures...
Koehler Books, 2016. — 359 p. The story of America's longest war is complicated and difficult to convey, unless you were there. Dennis Woods was there. By following his stories in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can sense the enormity of his combat experiences. Originally written for his daughter, Black Flag Journals is taken from the author's nine battle book journals. It covers his...
New York: Basic Books, 2016. — 481 p. The Paradox of Reform “I Am a Roosevelt New Dealer”: Liberalism Ascendant Funding the Great Society and the War on Poverty The Second Reconstruction The Mandate: The Election of 1964 Liberal Nationalism Versus the American Creed: The Great Society from Schoolroom to Hospital March to Freedom: Selma and the Voting Rights Act Cultures of...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 334 p. This volume of essays is intended to demonstrate how opposition to the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergent political traditions. Indeed, for many of the figures discussed, dissent was a decidedly conservative act; they felt that the war...
Project Brazen, 2022. — 108 p. It's the most shocking, unknown tale of our era: A defense contractor who bribed U.S. Navy officers with cash, prostitutes and luxury items in return for multi-million dollar deals. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With exclusive access to Leonard Glenn Francis himself, Fat Leonard reveals the true story of the misogynistic men at the heart...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 375 p. For many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking the Heartland, Robert Wuthnow sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hardships as the Great Depression and the movement of...
Regnery Publishing, 2020. — 551 p. In early December 2019, a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi why she was rushing to pass articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. “One of the biggest criticisms of the process has been the speed at which the House Democrats are moving,” the reporter noted. “The speed?” Pelosi replied, with a touch of indignation. “It’s...
Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1986. — 275 p. Rhetoric and Public Policy: The Force of Symbolic Choice Inception: The War Is Declared Rhetorical Crisis: The Transformation of the Military Objective Rhetorical Crisis: The Transformation of the Enemy Rhetorical Crisis: The Transformation of Weapons and Tactics Consummation: The Stalemated War The Impasse of the...
Viking, 2018. — 405 p. The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare and Head Start. LBJ's towering political skills and his...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. — 1546 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-34013-6 Published for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this new edition of the authorized report is limited to the Commission’s riveting account―which was a finalist for the National Book Award―of the attack and its background, examining both the attackers and the U.S. government, the emergency response, and the immediate...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 489 p. Leading historians provide perspective on Trump’s four turbulent years in the White House The Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation’s most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed political historian Julian Zelizer brings together many of today’s top scholars to...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 489 p. Leading historians provide perspective on Trump’s four turbulent years in the White House. The Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation’s most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed political historian Julian Zelizer brings together many of today’s top scholars to...
Greenwood Press, 2004. — 208 p. Haitians have had a presence in this country since its founding, but the largest group of immigrants came to the United States in the 1990s, fleeing political unrest and economic misery. Haiti and its and so-called boat people have been in the headlines for decades, and this reference firmly puts reasons for legal and illegal immigration into...
Lexington Books, 2011. — 430 p. This book tells the story of how America's national leadership failed the nation and produced the greatest foreign policy disaster in American history to that time. It is foremost, however, the story of a great man who tried to halt his nation's drift into what became an American tragedy. It is also a story that has never before been told. As the...
Harvard University Press, 2008. — 313 p. Introduction: Aboard the USS Thomas. American Dilemmas. The American Method. The American Curriculum. Schooling for All? American Critiques. The Protective Garb of the “Job”. Going Global, or Going It Alone? Ambivalent Imperialists. Epilogue: American Teachers in a Global Age. Notes.
All Points Books, 2019. — 336 p. A comprehensive analysis of Donald Trump's legal history reveals his temperament, methods, character, and morality. Unlike all previous presidents who held distinguished positions in government or the military prior to entering office, Donald Trump's political worldview was molded in the courtroom. He sees law not as a system of rules to be...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 137 с.
Монография исследует проблему создания и деятельности Совета национальной безопасности. В работе выявлена роль СНБ в формировании внешнеполитического курса США в период 1947—1960 гг., вскрыты причины и процесс реорганизации СНБ, предпринятой в конце 50—х годов, отмечены определенные тенденции в развитии государственного аппарата, которые проявляются и...
М.: Наука, 1977. - 137 с.
Монография исследует проблему создания и деятельности Совета национальной безопасности. В работе выявлена роль СНБ в формировании внешнеполитического курса США в период 1947—1960 гг., вскрыты причины и процесс реорганизации СНБ, предпринятой в конце 50-х годов, отмечены определенные тенденции в развитии государственного аппарата, которые проявляются и...
Л.: Лениздат, 1971. — 432 с. В 1970 году исполнилось двадцать пять лет со дня великой победы над германским фашизмом и двадцать пять лет со времени Нюрнбергского процесса над нацистскими военными преступниками. В 1970 году каждый житель Вашингтона, набрав по телефону номер 528-43-61, мог услышать следующие записанные на пленку слова: «Говорит штаб-квартира американской...
Л.: Лениздат, 1971. — 432 с. В 1970 году исполнилось двадцать пять лет со дня великой победы над германским фашизмом и двадцать пять лет со времени Нюрнбергского процесса над нацистскими военными преступниками. В 1970 году каждый житель Вашингтона, набрав по телефону номер 528-43-61, мог услышать следующие записанные на пленку слова: «Говорит штаб-квартира американской...
М.: Политиздат, 1985. – 367 с.
В справочнике раскрывается агрессивная сущность современной внешней политики империализма. Рассматриваются различные аспекты активизировавшейся деятельности военных блоков и планы создания новых замкнутых военно-политических группировок. Рассказывается об имеющихся в распоряжении США крупных военных базах и других военных объектах, расположенных...
М.: Мысль, 1972. — 460 с. — (Экономика и политика современного капитализма). В книге рассматриваются современные тенденции экономического, социального и политического развития США. Большое внимание уделено анализу производительных сил под воздействием научно-технической революции. Дан анализ послевоенного циклического развития, современного валютно-финансового кризиса, всей...
М.: Мысль, 1972. — 460 с. — (Экономика и политика современного капитализма). В книге рассматриваются современные тенденции экономического, социального и политического развития США. Большое внимание уделено анализу производительных сил под воздействием научно-технической революции. Дан анализ послевоенного циклического развития, современного валютно-финансового кризиса, всей...
М.: Политиздат, 1982. — 112 с. Журналист-международник Асеевский рассказывает о Центральном разведывательном управлении США, обслуживающем интересы американского империализма. Для деятельности ЦРУ характерны диверсии, организация государственных переворотов, глобальный шпионаж. Главное внимание автором уделено тому, как ЦРУ организует акции международного терроризма.
М.: Кучково поле, 2024. — 240 с. Книга Расса Белланта продолжает серию «Реальная политика: эмиграция и Запад», начатую с истории использования Западом украинской и латышской эмиграции как инструмента против Советского Союза и России. Новая книга раскрывает работу Республиканской партии и крайне правых милитаристских кругов США с эмигрантами и коллаборационистами для...
М.: Международные отношения, 1983. — 154 с. На основе обширного фактического материала в книге анализируется подрывная деятельность американского империализма в развивающемся мире. Автор показывает действия империалистических разведслужб, в первую очередь ЦРУ, направленные на свержение прогрессивных режимов и ослабление национально-освободительных движений в Африке, Азии и...
М.: Воениздат, 1975. — 193 с. В книге на обширном фактическом материале показано, как Пентагон и военно-промышленные корпорации используют науку, достижения научно-технической революции в милитаристских целях, для создания новейших систем оружия. В ней рассказывается о принципах организации научно-исследовательской деятельности и методах управления ею в рамках вооруженных сил...
М.: Московский рабочий, 1987. — 128 с. — (Библиотечка пропагандиста и политинформатора). Военно-промышленный комплекс США — прямое порождение империализма. Анализируя все его стороны — политическую, экономическую и военную,— авторы брошюры показывают, какой реальной силой и властью обладает он ныне в США, как влияет на формирование внутренней и внешней политики страны. ВПК...
Монография. — М.: Инфра-М, 2013. — 318 с. — (Научная мысль). В монографии рассматриваются проблемы формирования, развития и современного положения среднего класса в послевоенных США. Основная часть монографии посвящена исследованию представлений о среднем классе, взглядов американцев на себя и общество, анализу их материального положения, политики правящих администраций в...
М.: Советская Россия, 1985. — 112 с. Писатель Г.Васильев рассказывает о встречах с многими американскими автомобилестроителями - представителями фирм, профсоюзными активистами, с рабочими на автосборочных заводах, на бирже труда... В проблемах Детройта, как под увеличительным стеклом, видны обострившиеся экономические и социальные болезни "американского образа жизни".
М.: Политиздат, 1974. — 345 с. В книге показаны изменения в социальной и экономической жизни США в шестидесятые и начале семидесятых годов, ознаменовавшихся глубоким общественно-политическим и финансово-экономическим кризисом. В ней рассказывается, что нового внесли эти изменения в расстановку классовых и политических сил США, как они сказались на экономическом положении...
Пенза: Радуга, 1997. - 44 с.
Описание: В книге собраны воспоминания американских пилотов о событиях в небе Кореи. Кратко изложена американская версия хронологии и итогов Корейской войны. Дополнена большим количеством фотографий.
Доп. информация: В книге использованы материалы, опубликованные в западных изданиях, в основном - в книге "Аллея МиГов", вышедшей в США в 1978 году....
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 153 с.
Предлагаемая в сокращенном переводе вниманию советских читателей книга "Труд и капитал в США" не есть дельное монографическое исследование положения рабочего класса в США. Книга представляет собой сборник фактических материалов, характеризующих положение и борьбу американского пролетариата в период 1945 — 1946 гг. Она...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 153 с.
Предлагаемая в сокращенном переводе вниманию советских читателей книга "Труд и капитал в США" не есть дельное монографическое исследование положения рабочего класса в США. Книга представляет собой сборник фактических материалов, характеризующих положение и борьбу американского пролетариата в период 1945 — 1946 гг. Она...
М.: Наука, 1973. - 349 с.
Монография посвящена политике правящих кругов США в отношении негритянского населения в послевоенный период. Автор анализирует роль негритянского вопроса во внутриполитической жизни США, в предвыборных кампаниях, рассматривает положение негритянского населения, основные этапы освободительной борьбы негритянского народа, программу и деятельность ведущих...
М.: Политиздат, 1970. — 110 с.
Эта книга знакомит читателя с современным ультраправым движением в США. Автор, историк и журналист-международник, рассказывает о наиболее крупных ультраправых организациях, их целях и тактике, о тех влиятельных кругах, которые взращивают неофашизм.
М.: Иностранная литература, 1957. - 193 с.
Настоящая книга представляет собой сборник писем генерального секретаря Коммунистической партии США Юджина Денниса, написанных им в 1950—1955 гг. в тюрьме, где он находился по приговору американского суда за свою политическую деятельность, и изданных его женой. В письмах Деннис дает анализ политических событий того времени.
М.: Иностранная литература, 1957. - 193 с.
Настоящая книга представляет собой сборник писем генерального секретаря Коммунистической партии США Юджина Денниса, написанных им в 1950—1955 гг. в тюрьме, где он находился по приговору американского суда за свою политическую деятельность, и изданных его женой. В письмах Деннис дает анализ политических событий того времени.
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1952. - 208 с.
Коммунистической партии Соединенных Штатов Юджина Денниса, написанные или произнесенные им в 1947—1951 годах, а также его письма из американской тюрьмы. Большая часть включенных в сборник работ Денниса взята из его книги «Идеи, которых не упрятать за решетку», выпущенной в Нью-Йорке в 1950 г. издательством «Интернэйшнл...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1952. - 208 с.
Описание: Настоящий сборник содержит избранные статьи и речи генерального секретаря Коммунистической партии Соединенных Штатов Юджина Денниса, написанные или произнесенные им в 1947—1951 годах, а также его письма из американской тюрьмы. Большая часть включенных в сборник работ Денниса взята из его книги «Идеи, которых не...
Москва: МГИМО, 1963. — 168 с. На основе многочисленных фактов автор показывает возникновение в США движения ультра, раскрывает социальную базу, показывает характер и особенности нынешнего движения правых в сравнении с другими разновидностями фашизма. Автор в популярной форме описывает политическую, экономическую и внешнеполитическую программу ультраправого движения («Общество...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 412 с. В книге проанализированы новые тенденции в государственном управлении США в условиях кризиса государственно-монополистического регулирования в 70-х годах; рассмотрена современная практика организации крупномасштабных национальных, региональных, отраслевых программ в гражданской и военной сферах; дан анализ сущности мероприятий буржуазного государства,...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 412 с. В книге проанализированы новые тенденции в государственном управлении США в условиях кризиса государственно-монополистического регулирования в 70-х годах; рассмотрена современная практика организации крупномасштабных национальных, региональных, отраслевых программ в гражданской и военной сферах; дан анализ сущности мероприятий буржуазного государства,...
М.: Международные отношения, 1982. — 291 с. В книге раскрываются подробности возникновения, развития и провала одного из крупнейших в современной истории заговоров, нацеленного на подрыв арабского национально-освободительного движения и создания выгодного для американского империализма соотношения сил на Ближнем Востоке.
М.: Прогресс, 1977. — 289 с.
Читатель не найдет в книге исчерпывающего хронологического освещения всех основных событий послевоенной истории США. В ней затрагиваются лишь некоторые проблемы социально-политической истории страны. Автор пишет о целях и результатах участия США во второй мировой войне, об агрессивной внешней политике американского империализма в послевоенный период в...
М.: Прогресс, 1977. - 289 с.
Читатель не найдет в книге исчерпывающего хронологического освещения всех основных событий послевоенной истории США. В ней затрагиваются лишь некоторые проблемы социально-политической истории страны. Автор пишет о целях и результатах участия США во второй мировой войне, об агрессивной внешней политике американского империализма в послевоенный период...
Сокращ. пер. с англ. — М.: Прогресс, 1977. — 289 с. Читатель не найдет в книге исчерпывающего хронологического освещения всех основных событий послевоенной истории США. В ней затрагиваются лишь некоторые проблемы социально-политической истории страны. Автор пишет о целях и результатах участия США во второй мировой войне, об агрессивной внешней политике американского...
Учеб. пособие. – Ижевск: Изд-во«Удмуртский университет», 2013. – 239 с. Именно в 1990-е гг. американские консерваторы смогли перехватить инициативу у либералов в социальной сфере и сформулировать свою собственную социально-политическую стратегию. Учебное пособие состоит из трех разделов. В первом рассматриваются причины, ход реализации и результаты реформы системы велфэра в США...
Ижевск: Удмуртский университет, 2013. — 95 с. Учебное пособие состоит из двух разделов. В первом анализируются причины «консервативной волны» в США, непростой процесс формирования современного американского консервативного движения. Особое внимание уделяется такому явлению как «фьюджинизм». Рассматриваются причины обновления идейно-политического багажа консерваторов....
М.: Института международных отношений, 1960. — 430 с «Язык дан дипломату для того, чтобы лучше скрывать свои мысли»,— это старое изречение весьма подходит к деятельности буржуазных политических лидеров США. Многочисленные публичные выступления, с которыми они выступают сами, то, что о них пишет и говорит печать и радио, ни в какой степени не дает представления о подлинном...
М.: Института международных отношений, 1960. — 430 с. «Язык дан дипломату для того, чтобы лучше скрывать свои мысли»,— это старое изречение весьма подходит к деятельности буржуазных политических лидеров США. Многочисленные публичные выступления, с которыми они выступают сами, то, что о них пишет и говорит печать и радио, ни в какой степени не дает представления о подлинном...
Издательство иностранной литературы, 1960. — 341 c. Автор настоящей книги, прогрессивный американский писатель-публицист Альберт Кан, хорошо известен советскому читателю. Его новая книга "Заметки о национальном скандале" посвящена эпохе маккартизма в истории Соединенных Штатов, ярким выражением которой служит система платных осведомителей и профессиональных...
М.: Международные отношения, 1984. — 80 с. Рассматривая основные направления американской политологии фашизма, автор анализирует легенды и мифы, бытующие в историографии США, призванные принизить роль СССР в разгроме гитлеровской Герма нии, очернить политику Рузвельта и его якобы «роковое решение» об участии в антигитлеровской коалиции. В книге вскрываются причины особенно...
Москва: Международные отношения, 1984. — 80 с. Рассматривая основные направления американской политологии фашизма, автор анализирует легенды и мифы, бытующие в историографии США, призванные принизить роль СССР в разгроме гитлеровской Германии, очернить политику Рузвельта и его якобы «роковое решение» об участии в антигитлеровской коалиции. В книге вскрываются причины особенно...
М.: Наука, 1991. — 145 с. — ISBN: 5-02-008154-Х. В монографии рассматриваются основные особенности эволюции общественно-политического сознания рабочего класса США в послевоенный период (50-80-е годы). Анализируется влияние экономической и социальной политики государства на сознание масс рабочих. Основное внимание уделяется изменениям в тред-юнионистском политическом сознании....
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1983. — 253 с. В книге доктора исторических наук на оригинальном фактическом материале показана широкая панорама сегодняшней жизни США, их облик «изнутри» и в изменяющемся мире. В центре внимания автора — неизлечимые «язвы» американского общества — безработица, инфляция, разгул преступности, моральная деградация, засилье реакционных сил, а также агрессивная...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1983. — 253 с. В книге доктора исторических наук на оригинальном фактическом материале показана широкая панорама сегодняшней жизни США, их облик «изнутри» и в изменяющемся мире. В центре внимания автора — неизлечимые «язвы» американского общества — безработица, инфляция, разгул преступности, моральная деградация, засилье реакционных сил, а также агрессивная...
Монография. — Витебск: Витебский государственный университет им. П.П. Машерова (ВГУ), 2023. — 388 с. — ISBN 978-985-30-0010-8. Монография посвящена истории США 2009–2016 гг., когда в стране находились у власти две администрации Б. Обамы. Много внимания уделено политической биографии 44-го президента США, внутренней и внешней политике этой ведущей мировой державы. Рассчитана на...
Монография. — Москва: ИНИОН, 2020. — 642 с. — ISBN 978-5-248-00968-8. Монография, подготовленная коллективом ИНИОН РАН с привлечением американистов из других ведущих институтов и вузов, посвящена комплексному анализу причин избрания Дональда Трампа президентом США и специфике внутренней и внешней политики его администрации. Главы книги объединены в семь частей: «Победа Трампа...
М.: Воениздат, 1970. — 368 с. В книге раскрывается история возникновения и развитие идеологии американского империализма после второй мировой войны. На основе обширного фактического материала показывается процесс милитаризации экономики и духовной жизни США, реакционность и агрессивность их внутренней и внешней политики. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Введение....
М.: Воениздат, 1970. — 368 с. В книге раскрывается история возникновения и развитие идеологии американского империализма после второй мировой войны. На основе обширного фактического материала показывается процесс милитаризации экономики и духовной жизни США, реакционность и агрессивность их внутренней и внешней политики. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Введение....
М.: Юридическая литература, 1985. — 160 с. Эта книга — сборник очерков, написанных на основе документального материала, о тех, кто во время Великой Отечественной войны совершил тягчайшие преступления против советского народа и, избежав справедливого возмездия, нашел пристанище за океаном. Власти США, укрывая этих преступников, препятствуя преданию их суду, нарушают...
М.: Юридическая литература, 1985. — 160 с. Эта книга — сборник очерков, написанных на основе документального материала, о тех, кто во время Великой Отечественной войны совершил тягчайшие преступления против советского народа и, избежав справедливого возмездия, нашел пристанище за океаном. Власти США, укрывая этих преступников, препятствуя преданию их суду, нарушают...
Сокращенный перевод с английского под редакцией и с предисловием капитана 1 ранга В. М. Кулакова. — М.: Воениздат, 1966. — 270 с. В книге рассматривается эволюция американской политики ядерного устрашения за период с 1953 по 1963 год и оцениваются перспективы ее дальнейшего изменения под влиянием современной обстановки в мире и борьбы политических сил внутри США Автор...
Пер. с анг. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1955. — 288 с. Одним из немаловажных орудий в пропагандистском арсенале агрессивных кругов США и других капиталистических стран является лжетеория о том, что милитаризация ведет к процветанию экономики, росту занятости, повышению реальной заработной платы и т.п. Эта «теория», корни которой лежат в кейнсианских взглядах,...
Москва: М.: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР, 1960. — 164 с. Собранный в книге обширный фактический и документальный материал весьма наглядно освещает все стороны деятельности пресловутого Центрального разведывательного управления США — этого крупнейшего органа империалистической разведки, разоблачает преступные, бандитские методы, с помощью которых шпионы,...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1948. - 222 с. Характеризуя современную политику США и Англии, Сталин говорил, что "политика нынешних руководителей США и Англии есть политика агрессии, политика развязывания новой войны". Изданная Государственным издательством иностранной литературы в русском переводе книга Дж. Мариона содержит блестящее подтверждение этих выводов И.В. Сталина....
М.: Иностранная литература, 1954. - 255 с. Из вступительной статьи: Предлагаемая вниманию читателя новая книга Мариона, вышедшая в свет в Нью-Йорке в июне 1953 года, посвящена американской печати. Джордж Марион пишет, что эта книга - только первый том задуманного им большого произведения «Ближайшее столетие», в котором должны быть отражены волнующие события нашей эпохи -...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1954. - 255 с. Из вступительной статьи: Предлагаемая вниманию читателя новая книга Мариона, вышедшая в свет в Нью-Йорке в июне 1953 года, посвящена американской печати. Джордж Марион пишет, что эта книга - только первый том задуманного им большого произведения «Ближайшее столетие», в котором должны быть отражены волнующие события нашей эпохи -...
М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1950. - 188 с.
В 1947 в США начались гонения на коммунистов. Хотя и с трудом, удалось засудить основных лидеров компартии по обвинению в заговоре; на восемнадцати процессах 1949-57 гг. было осуждено более 150 руководителей партии. Книга Дж. Мариона посвящена процессу одиннадцати руководителей коммунистической партии США.
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Москва: Госполитиздат, 1956. — 240 с., 1 отд. л. карт. : ил. Содержание Предисловие Путешествие по Соединенным Штатам Америки и Канаде Приглашение газеты «Де-Мойн реджистер» Сельскохозяйственное производство в США Двенадцать дней в штате Айова У земледельцев и скотоводов Небраски, Техаса, Южной Дакоты и Миннесоты Мичиган — Иллинойс — Калифорния Поездка в Канаду Из американского...
Москва: Госполитиздат, 1956. — 240 с., 1 отд. л. карт. : ил. Содержание Предисловие Путешествие по Соединенным Штатам Америки и Канаде Приглашение газеты «Де-Мойн реджистер» Сельскохозяйственное производство в США Двенадцать дней в штате Айова У земледельцев и скотоводов Небраски, Техаса, Южной Дакоты и Миннесоты Мичиган — Иллинойс — Калифорния Поездка в Канаду Из американского...
Составление, перевод с английского, статьи к разделам, примечания А. В. Кортунова, И. Е. Малашенко, А. И. Никитина, А. В. Панкина. — М.: Прогресс, 1984. — 312 с. В сборнике материалов американских авторов — политиков, общественных деятелей, ученых и публицистов — раскрываются причины и следствия поворота вправо в политике Вашингтона на рубеже 80-х годов, критически разбираются...
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М.: Соцэкгиз, 1959. — 48 с. Подлинное лицо современного капитализма. Растущая угроза для всей нашей экономики. Хроническая безработица—национальное бедствие США. Напрасные поиски работы. Наша большая трагедия. Беспочвенность разговоров о «процветании». В конфликте с техникой. Невозвратимые утраты. «Дать Америке работу». Железнодорожники находятся в отчаянной положении. Тяжелый...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1959. — 48 с. Подлинное лицо современного капитализма. Растущая угроза для всей нашей экономики. Хроническая безработица—национальное бедствие США. Напрасные поиски работы. Наша большая трагедия. Беспочвенность разговоров о «процветании». В конфликте с техникой. Невозвратимые утраты. «Дать Америке работу». Железнодорожники находятся в отчаянной положении. Тяжелый...
Сокращ. Пер. с анг., Общ. ред. и послес. С.Н. Вишневского. — М.: Прогресс, 1973. — 273 с. Известные американские эксперты по изучению бизнеса, используя богатый фактический материал, раскрывают в этой книге механизм государственно-монополистического капитализма США. В работе убедительно показан антигуманный, эксплуататорский характер большого бизнеса США, влияние последнего на...
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М.: Мысль, 1974. — 199 с. В книге дается анализ закономерностей развития негритянского движения, прослеживается механизм формирования и эволюция его организационных и идеологических принципов. Основное внимание уделяется деятельности М. Л. Кинга, Малкольма X, организации «черных мусульман», анализу идеологии партии «Черные пантеры», содержания лозунга «черной власти». Автор...
М.: Изд. «Международные отношения», 1972. — 249 с.
В книге кандидата юридических наук Ю. Я. Михеева последовательно прослеживаются основные направления американской политики во Вьетнаме, Лаосе и Камбодже, формы и методы деятельности американцев в этих странах после второй мировой войны. На основе обширных фактов автор вскрывает незаконный, противоречащий общепризнанным нормам и...
М.: Мысль, 1970. — 214 с.
В книге исследуются особенности современного американского рабочего движения, показаны новые тенденции прогрессивного развития профсоюзного движения, рост активности масс, знаменующие выход профдвижения США из состояния застоя, наблюдавшегося в 50-е годы.
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М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1987. — 66 с. В книге раскрываются истоки и развитие крупнейшего политического скандала в Соединенных Штатах Америки в период президентства Рейгана. На основе разнообразных источников, включая материалы комиссии Тауэра по расследованию «ирангейта», автор ярко освещает детали тайной сделки о продаже американского оружия Ирану и...
М.: Изд-во Московского ун-та, 1984. - 292 с.
В предлагаемой книге раскрывается ряд малоизвестных широкому кругу читателей страниц деятельности республиканской партии США в 50—60-е годы XX в. В книге показаны тесные узы партии с высшими эшелонами американской финансовой олигархии, рассмотрены скрытые внутренние пружины политического механизма США и методы, с помощью которых...
М.: МГУ, 1988. — 288 с. В предлагаемой книге раскрывается ряд малоизвестных широкому кругу читателей страниц деятельности республиканской партии США в 50-е — 60-е годы XX в. В книге показаны тесные узы партии с высшими эшелонами американской финансовой олигархии, рассмотрены скрытые внутренние пружины политического механизма США и методы, с помощью которых республиканцам -...
М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1988. — 288 с. — ISBN 6—211—00037—4. В предлагаемой книге, являющейся продолжением монографии сОт Эйзенхауэра к Никсону. Из истории республиканской партии США» (Изд-во МГУ, 1984), раскрывается ряд малоизвестных широкому кругу читателей страниц деятельности республиканской партии США начиная с 1968 г. Особое внимание уделяется раскрытию...
Москва: МГУ, 1988. — 288 с. В предлагаемой книге раскрывается ряд малоизвестных широкому кругу читателей страниц деятельности республиканской партии США в 50-е — 60-е годы XX в. В книге показаны тесные узы партии с высшими эшелонами американской финансовой олигархии, рассмотрены скрытые внутренние пружины политического механизма США и методы, с помощью которых республиканцам -...
М.: Политиздат, 1971. — 160 с. В книге доктора исторических наук Нитобурга Э. Л. рассказывается о том, как возникли и что собой представляют черные гетто Америки. Читатель узнает о чудовищной эксплуатации, о расовой дискриминации и сегрегации, которой подвергается негритянское население США, о его борьбе за равные права в экономической, политической и культурной жизни страны, о...
М.: Политиздат, 1986. - 400 с.
Это книга о внешней политике США, сложном и малоизвестном механизме ее формирования, о закулисных силах, определяющих характер и направленность курса Вашингтона на международной арене, о причинах его зигзагов. Дается глубокий анализ внешнеполитической деятельности четырех последних администраций США.
Книга рассчитана на научных работников, а...
М.: Мысль, 1985. - 285 с.
Книга о взаимоотношениях Белого дома и Центрального разведывательного управления США. На основе обширного материала анализируется взаимодействие империалистической разведки и буржуазной верхушки, показываются коварные методы ЦРУ, превращение его в опаснейшее орудие борьбы мирового империализма против социализма, социального прогресса и мира.
М.: Прогресс, 1985. — 314 с.
Книга-репортаж в публицистической форме рассказывает о предвыборной борьбе и президентских выборах 1984 года в США. Приводятся отрывки из предвыборных программ буржуазных партий, из выступлений кандидатов на пост президента США и их теледебатов. В статьях известных общественных деятелей США, прогрессивных публицистов и социологов вскрывается...
М.: Прогресс, 1985. — 314 с.
Книга-репортаж в публицистической форме рассказывает о предвыборной борьбе и президентских выборах 1984 года в США. Приводятся отрывки из предвыборных программ буржуазных партий, из выступлений кандидатов на пост президента США и их теледебатов. В статьях известных общественных деятелей США, прогрессивных публицистов и социологов вскрывается...
М.: Прогресс. 1984. — 268 с.
Эта книга — о современном правом экстремизме в США, о лидерах и организациях крайне правого толка, их взглядах, целях, программах, социальной базе, о стратегии и тактике их борьбы за власть. Читатель сможет взглянуть на американский правый экстремизм глазами самих американцев.
М.: Прогресс. 1984. — 268 с.
Эта книга — о современном правом экстремизме в США, о лидерах и организациях крайне правого толка, их взглядах, целях, программах, социальной базе, о стратегии и тактике их борьбы за власть. Читатель сможет взглянуть на американский правый экстремизм глазами самих американцев.
М.: Наука, 1983. — 247 с. В монографии исследуются механизм взаимодействия американских профсоюзов с политической властью в условиях современного ГМК (60—70-е годы), социально-политические цели тред-юнионов, их активность в законодательной сфере, выявляется возросшая роль профсоюзов США в государственном регулировании социально-экономической сферы, а также их соглашательской...
Самиздат, 2014. — 489 с. Рассказ о том, как американские спецслужбы использовали нацистских военных преступников в тайной войне и пропаганде против СССР, антиколониальных революционеров и прогрессивных движений во всем мире, которые, как утверждалось, были советскими пешками. В данное издание включено новое, ранее запрещенное введение автора на основе рассекреченных документов...
М.: Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив, Кучково поле, 2013. — 416 с. (Реальная политика). Книга британской журналистки и режиссера-документалиста Фрэнсис Стонор Сондерс впервые представляет шокирующие свидетельства манипуляций ЦРУ в сфере культурной политики в годы холодной войны. На основе скрупулезно собранной архивной информации автор описывает...
М.: Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив, Кучково поле, 2013. — 418 с. — (Реальная политика). — ISBN 978-5-9950-0323-6. Книга британской журналистки и режиссера-документалиста Фрэнсис Стонор Сондерс впервые представляет шокирующие свидетельства манипуляций ЦРУ в сфере культурной политики в годы холодной войны. На основе скрупулезно собранной архивной информации...
М.: Кучково поле, 2013. ─ 422 с. ─ (Реальная политика). ─ ISBN: 978-5-9950-0323-6. Книга британской журналистки и режиссёра-документалиста Фрэнсис Стонор Сондерс впервые представляет шокирующие свидетельства манипуляций ЦРУ в сфере культурной политики в годы холодной войны. На основе скрупулёзно собранной архивной информации автор описывает деятельность ЦРУ по финансированию и...
Перевод с английского А. Беркова. Вступ. ст. В. Бережкова. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 82 с. Вступительная статья. Предисловие автора. План создания «патриотической организации». Патриот за 550 долларов в неделю. Ребята «делают деньги». Как создать частную политическую организацию. Одурачивание бывших участников войны. Толстосумы раскошеливаются....
Перевод с английского А. Беркова. Вступ. ст. В. Бережкова. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 82 с. Вступительная статья. Предисловие автора. План создания «патриотической организации». Патриот за 550 долларов в неделю. Ребята «делают деньги». Как создать частную политическую организацию. Одурачивание бывших участников войны. Толстосумы раскошеливаются....
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«Доктрина Трумэна».
План Маршалла.
Политика Д. Эйзенхауэра.
«Новые рубежи» Джона Кеннеди.
Президент Л. Джонсон.
Движение за гражданские права чернокожих в США.
Мартин Лютер Кинг.
Президент Р. Никсон. Уотергейтский скандал.
Политика президентов Д. Форда и Дж. Картера.
«Рейганомика»....
М.: Весь мир, 1918. — 264 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7777-0752-9. Дестабилизация политической системы, дезорганизация управления, потеря внутренних и внешних ориентиров, противостояние президента и Конгресса – это характеристики нынешних реалий американской внутриполитической жизни, свидетельствующие о нарастании кризисных тенденций в политической системе США. Приход к власти нового...
Сокращенный перевод с английского. — М.: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР, 1965. — 304 с. На обширном фактическом материале авторы — американские журналисты показывают, как разведывательные органы США, осуществляя внешнеполитические установки американского империализма, приобрели огромное влияние в политике и во внутренней жизни Соединенных Штатов. Шантаж и...
Сокращенный перевод с английского. — М.: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР, 1965. — 305 с. На обширном фактическом материале авторы — американские журналисты показывают, как разведывательные органы США, осуществляя внешнеполитические установки американского империализма, приобрели огромное влияние в политике и во внутренней жизни Соединенных Штатов. Шантаж и...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2024. — 388 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-6141-3. Американские журналисты Дэвид Уайз и Томас Росс на обширном фактическом материале раскрывают подробности операций и деятельности невидимого правительства — Центрального разведывательного управления США периода холодной войны. Авторы отмечают, что ЦРУ включает также множество других подразделений и агентств и отдельных...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2024. — 388 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-6141-3. Американские журналисты Дэвид Уайз и Томас Росс на обширном фактическом материале раскрывают подробности операций и деятельности невидимого правительства — Центрального разведывательного управления США периода холодной войны. Авторы отмечают, что ЦРУ включает также множество других подразделений и агентств и отдельных...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2024. — 388 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-6141-3. Американские журналисты Дэвид Уайз и Томас Росс на обширном фактическом материале раскрывают подробности операций и деятельности невидимого правительства — Центрального разведывательного управления США периода холодной войны. Авторы отмечают, что ЦРУ включает также множество других подразделений и агентств и отдельных...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 296 с.
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Книга рассказывает о политическом развитии Америки в 70-е годы в период пребывания на посту президента республиканцев Р. Никсона, Дж. Форда, демократа Дж. Картера. Отдельная глава посвящена приходу к власти Р. Рейгана. В монографии рассматриваются политические, социальные и экономические проблемы 70-х годов, использованы документы,...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1949. — 174 с. Введение. США — страна монополий, страна загнивающего капитализма. Крах легенды о послевоенном «процветании» экономики США, начало нового экономического кризиса. Усиление эксплоатации и рост обнищания рабочего класса и трудящихся фермеров. Монополистический капитал США — поджигатель новой мировой войны. Монополии взращивают фашизм в США....
М.: Госполитиздат, 1949. — 174 с. Введение. США — страна монополий, страна загнивающего капитализма. Крах легенды о послевоенном «процветании» экономики США, начало нового экономического кризиса. Усиление эксплоатации и рост обнищания рабочего класса и трудящихся фермеров. Монополистический капитал США — поджигатель новой мировой войны. Монополии взращивают фашизм в США....
М.: Международные отношения, 1974. — 240 с. Книга посвящена роли американской бюрократии и государственного аппарата, занимающего ключевое положение в практической разработке и осуществлении внешней и внутренней политики США. Автор показывает, что углубляющийся процесс сращивания государственного аппарата с монополиями приводит к тому, что правящие монополистические круги...
Саратов: издательство Саратовского университета, 1997. - 191 с. Данная монография посвящена изучению проблемы генезиса политики США в регионе Третьего мира после Второй Мировой войны. Программа "пункта-4" являлась важнейшим элементом не только этого направления американской внешней политики, но и всего процесса формирования послевоенного мирового порядка. Предназначена для тех,...
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