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  • The Beatles

    The BBC Archives

    by Kevin Howlett ...
    A carefully curated collection of the surviving transcripts of the Beatles' appearances on BBC Radio and Television from 1962 to 1970, featuring commentary from author and Beatles expert Kevin Howlett and rare photographs and memorabilia from the BBC.The year 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of The Beatles' first album, Please, Please Me. To celebrate this event with material ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ekirch Festschrift

    Ekirch Festschrift: Essays in Honor of a Historian of Ideas in American History is a collection of writings by former students, colleagues, and teachers.This work recognizes the scholarly achievement of Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr., who for many years taught American history at both American University and the State University of New York at Albany. A pacifist during World War II, who served in Civilian ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

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    12 Lessons from American History

    "The twelve lessons in On Fascism draw from American history and brilliantly complement those of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny." —Laurence TribeThe United States of Lyncherdom, as Mark Twain labeled America. Lincoln versus Douglas. The Chinese Exclusion Act. The Trail of Tears. The internment of Japanese-Americans. The Palmer Raids. McCarthyism. The Surveillance State. At turning points throughout ... Read more

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  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics

    This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger ... Read more

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  • Scorpions

    The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A group biography of the relationship between FDR and four of his Supreme Court justices, written by legal scholar Noah Feldman.A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to ... Read more

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  • One Nation Under Guns

    How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

    This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.“At once eye-opening and enraging, One Nation Under Guns is that rare book that can help change ... Read more

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  • Who Owns History?

    Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

    by Eric Foner ...
    The author of The Story of American Freedom reflects on the importance of history in contemporary society through a series of essays." Who Owns History? introduces readers to one of the country's finest historians, Eric Foner, writing about issues more critical to American public life today than ever before." —Joyce Appleby, UCLA"History," wrote James B... ... Read more

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  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    “Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions.”—David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from FearRedefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and ... Read more

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  • The Cycles of American History

    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian discusses "the Cold War, political parties, the presidency, and many broader philosophical issues [with] incisive wit" ( Library Journal).A celebrated historian, speechwriter, and adviser to President Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. draws on decades of astute observation to construct a dialectic of American politics, or as Time magazine called it, a "recurring ... Read more

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  • The Indispensable Right

    Free Speech in an Age of Rage

    A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment ... Read more

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  • Passionate Declarations

    Essays on War and Justice

    by Howard Zinn ...
    “A shotgun blast of revisionism that aims to shatter all the comfortable myths of American political discourse.” — Los Angeles TimesFrom the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at American political ideology.Howard Zinn brings to Passionate Declarations the same astringent style and provocative point ... Read more

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  • Land of Hope

    An Invitation to the Great American Story

    A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call homeHigh School and College Age StudentsThe Original Land of Hope Narrative in E-book EditionWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to ... Read more

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