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Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation
Robert Curvin · Rutgers University Press
Pages: 377
Format: Print book
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For decades, leaders in Newark, New Jersey, have claimed their city is about to return to its vibrant past. How accurate is this prediction? Is Newark on the verge of revitalization? Robert Curvin, who was one of New Jersey's outstanding civil rights leaders, examines the city, chronicling... |
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Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation
Cate Malek · McSweeney's; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestine—including a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon... |
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California comeback : how "failed state" became a model for the nation
Narda Zacchino · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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An in-depth look at California's remarkable 21st century turnaround, focusing on the role played by the state government under Jerry Brown. In the most economically important state in the country and the 7th largest economy in the world a political revolution of historic importance... |
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The City in Texas: A History
David G. McComb · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Texans love the idea of wide-open spaces and, before World War II, the majority of the states people did live and work on the land. Between 1940 and 1950, however, the balance shifted from rural to urban, and today 88 percent of Texans live in cities and embrace the amenities of urban culture.... |
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Bush
Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 808
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR
Chris Miller · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking... |
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Brazil's Dance with the Devil
Dave Zirin · Haymarket Books
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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"People think speaking truth to power is easy, but if it was easy everyone would do it. This book does it. . . . It speaks truth to the powers that be, from Brazil to the US to FIFA to the IOC. It hits you like an uppercut that rattles your brain and sets it straight. I cannot recommend... |
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Capital Murder: An investigative reporter's hunt for answers in a collapsing city
Chris Papst · Sunbury Press, Inc.
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
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Every city in America is unique. Each has its own instructive tale of success and failure. What makes Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's story most valuable lies not in its life but in its death - and in the actions of those who killed it. In late 2011, Harrisburg became the first - and only... |
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The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion that Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War
Arthur T. Downey The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion that Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, and the effects of that rebellion on diplomacy, the domestic slave trade, and the definition of slavery itself. Held against their will aboard the Creole - a slave ship on its way from Richmond to New Orleans... |
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City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis
Keith Gessen · n + 1
Format: Print book
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From its first shock waves in 2008, the Great Recession has been reshaping American cities. Detroit collapsed, and the ongoing national rollback in industry has meant the death of factory towns like Greensboro, North Carolina and Reading, Pennsylvania. But the effects of the crash have... |
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The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History
Susan Scott Parrish · Princeton University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and the slow progress of the flood, this was the first environmental disaster to be experienced... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman · Random House
Pages: 937
Format: Print book
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History
John Dickerson · Twelve
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego. Presidential... |
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