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Oh Florida! : how America's weirdest state influences the rest of the country
Craig Pittman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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Oh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punchline. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these - and, more importantly, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing... |
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Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
Jack Cheevers · NAL; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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WINNER OF THE 2014 SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATUREIn 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence... |
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The FBI's Obscene File : J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau's crusade against smut
Douglas M Charles · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 171
Format: Book |
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What do pop artist Andy Warhol, sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and cinematic comedians Abbott & Costello have in common? They all found a prominent place in the FBI's "Obscene File. " In this startling new study Douglas Charles reveals how, for more than seventy years, FBI officials... |
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
Peter McPhee · Yale University Press
Pages: 488
Format: Print book |
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The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century... |
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein · Doubleday
Pages: 349
Format: Print book |
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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,... |
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The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War
Don Harrison Doyle · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
Pages: 382
Format: Print book |
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"When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered... |
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