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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
CASEY SHERMAN · PublicAffairs Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During an infamous thirteen-day stretch of October... |
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
PATRICK J CHARLES · Prometheus Books Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces... |
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Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Reinier de Graaf · Harvard University Press Pages: 528 Format: Hardcover
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Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect.Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf... |
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Social Media and Politics
Glenn W Richardson · Praeger Pages: 567 Format: Hardcover
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This two-volume set explores the various ways social media are profoundly changing politics in America.* Covers key political and cultural issues in today's discourse -- such as gay marriage, race, gender, "big data," and hyper-surveillance -- from a variety of perspectives... |
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The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right
MAX BOOT · Liveright Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion... |
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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Anonymous. · St Martin'S Press Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic,... |
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
David A Nichols · Simon & Schuster Pages: 385 Format: Hardcover
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Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.Behind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch... |
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Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Flores A Forbes · W W Norton Pages: 208 Format: Print book
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Flores Forbes, a former leader in the Black Panther Party, has been free from prison for twenty-five years. Unfortunately that makes him part of a group of black men without constituency who are all but invisible in society. That is, the "invisible" group of black men in America... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein · Liveright Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William... |
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We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America
Brando Skyhorse · Beacon Press Pages: 224 Format: Paperback
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Fifteen writers reveal their diverse experiences with passing - including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic forms of passing.American history is filled with innumerable examples of "passing." Why do people pass? The reasons are manifold: opportunity, access,... |
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Kenneth Whyte · Knopf Pages: 736 Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, Herbert Hoover--a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune,... |
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The Reckonings: Essays
LACY JOHNSON · Scribner Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side - rooted in her own experience with sexual assault - pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution.In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her "instant... |
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The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches
Adam Fairclough · University Press of Florida Pages: 406 Format: Hardcover
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The chaotic years after the Civil War are often seen as a time of uniquely American idealism--a revolutionary attempt to rebuild the nation that paved the way for the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. But Adam Fairclough rejects this prevailing view, challenging prominent... |
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