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  • March! The Fight for Civil Rights in a Land of Fear

    In 1929, the white citizens of Nacogdoches, Texas drove their African-American neighbors into a ghetto at the edge of town. The aftereffects of this event haunted the community for more than four decades. As the civil rights movement swept the country, Nacogdoches remained largely untouched. The first major challenge to segregation in Nacogdoches came in 1968 when students from Stephen F. Austin ... Leer más

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    The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

    de David Remnick ...
    National BestsellerIn this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation’s first African American president.Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, Remnick explores the elite ... Leer más

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  • Supreme Inequality

    The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

    de Adam Cohen ...
    **“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century...Cohen’s book is a closing statement in the case against an institution tasked with protecting the vulnerable, which has emboldened the rich and powerful instead.” —Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, SlateA revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the ... Leer más

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  • Texas Tough

    The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history ... Leer más

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  • Freedom Riders

    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond ... Leer más

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  • Gunfight

    The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America

    de Adam Winkler ...
    A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural ... Leer más

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  • Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right

    What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

    de Erica Grieder ...
    Erica Grieder's Texas is a state that is not only an outlier but an exaggeration of some of America's most striking virtues and flaws. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right is a witty, enlightening inquiry into how Texas works, and why, in the future, the rest of America may look a lot like Texas. ... Leer más

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  • Nut Country

    Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

    "Taps the fascinating history of a surprisingly understudied place—Dallas . . . to reorient our understanding of America's Republican Right." —Darren Dochuk, author of Anointed with OilOn the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today." That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of Wisconsin

    The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

    de Dan Kaufman ...
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  • Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power

    Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians, celebrities, and others joined with Red Power activists to fight for Indian rights. ... Leer más

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  • Supreme Discomfort

    The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas

    “[An] impeccably researched and probing biography . . . invaluable for any understanding of the court’s most controversial figure.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA sweeping, compelling portrait of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and “an unflinching look at success and race in America” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), from two Washington Post journalistsThere is no more powerful, detested, ... Leer más

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  • Nevada

    A History of the Silver State

    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada: A History of the Silver State has been named a CHOICE Outstanding Title.Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State’s past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to diversify the economy.Of the ... Leer más

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