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Making Roots: A Nation Captivated
Matthew F Delmont · University of California Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book |
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When Alex Haley's book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery... |
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Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP
Joshua D Farrington · University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages: 311
Format: Print book |
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Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight." As Joshua Farrington recounts in his comprehensive history, Lee was one of many black Republican... |
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade
The New Yorker Magazine · Random House; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Including contributions by W. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop John Cheever Janet Flanner John Hersey Langston Hughes Shirley Jackson A. J. Liebling William Maxwell Carson McCullers Joseph Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Ogden Nash John OHara George Orwell V. S. Pritchett Lillian Ross... |
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Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
Ray Raphael · New Press, The; Tenth Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Paperback |
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First published ten years ago, award-winning historian Ray Raphael's Founding Myths has since established itself as a landmark of historical myth-busting. With Raphael's trademark wit and flair, Founding Myths exposed the errors and inventions in America's most cherished tales,... |
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Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition
Allen Scott · Indiana University Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Book |
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Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner
Pages: 592
Format: Print book |
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future:... |
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Unhappy Union: How the euro crisis – and Europe – can be fixed
Anton La Guardia · The Economist
Format: Hardcover |
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The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the half-built currency brought the European Union close to breaking point after decades of post-war integration.Deep fault-lines have opened up between... |
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Kai Hinton · Harvard University Press
Pages: 449
Format: Print book |
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In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem... |
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The Middle Ages
Johannes Fried · Belknap Press, 2015.
Pages: 632
Format: Print book |
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Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a "middle" period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes Fried describes... |
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Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
Adina Hoffman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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Equal parts biographical puzzle, architectural meditation, and probing detective story, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem offers a prismatic view into one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities. Panoramic yet intimate, this portrait of three architects who helped... |
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Atlas of the Eastern Front: 1941-45
Robert Kirchubel · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 271
Format: Print book |
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The Eastern Front of World War II was a nightmarish episode of human history, on a scale the like of which the world had never seen, and most likely never will see again. This expansive collection of maps offers a visual guide to the theater that decided the fate of the war, spanning the thousands... |
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Stealing cars : technology & society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
John Alfred Heitmann · Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Pages: 216
Format: Print book |
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"As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find. A car was its own getaway vehicle, and cars looked much alike. Model styles and colors eventually changed, and so did the means of making a stolen car disappear. Though changing license... |
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