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  • The 2012 Presidential Campaign

    A Communication Perspective

    by Rachel Holloway, Gwen Brown, Henry C. Kenski, Kate M. Kenski, Craig Allen Smith, John C. Tedesco, Scott W. Dunn, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ben Voth, John Allen Hendricks, Joseph M. Valenzano III, Jason A. Edwards ...
    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results of the election, to make sense of the “political bits” of communication that comprise our voting ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Cuba, the United States, and Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930–1975

    by John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco ...
    This book examines the ways in which Cuba's revolutions of 1933 and 1959 became touchstones for border-crossing endeavors of radical politics and cultural experimentation over the mid-twentieth century. It argues that new networks of solidarity building between US and Cuban allies also brought with them perils and pitfalls that could not be separated from the longer history of US empire in Cuba. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism

    by Katie Barnett, Dustin Gann, Derek McGrath, Brenda Boudreau, Laura Beadling, Keith Friedlander, Mary T. Hartson, Michael Litwack, Maureen McKnight, Pamela Hill Nettleton ...
    This collection of essays presents a sampling of film and television texts, interrogating images of U.S. masculinity. Rather than using “postfeminist” as a definition of contemporary feminism, this collection uses the term to designate the period from the late 1980s on—as a point when feminist thought gradually became more mainstream. The movies and TV series examined here have achieved a level of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Operation Pedro Pan

    The Migration of Unaccompanied Children from Castro's Cuba

    by Dr. John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco ...
    At the outset the proposal seemed modest: transfer two hundred unaccompanied Cuban children to Miami to save them from communism. The time apart from their parents would be short, only until Fidel Castro fell from power by the result of U.S. force, Cuban counterrevolutionary tactics, or a combination of both. Families would be reunited in a matter of months. A plan was hatched, and it worked—until ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    An American History

    by Dr. Ada Ferrer ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba.In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Miami

    by Joan Didion ...
    An account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking.In *Miami, New York Times–*bestselling author Joan Didion looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and pastel architecture to explore the murkier waters of a city on the edge.From Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War Against All Puerto Ricans

    Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

    by Nelson A Denis ...
    The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Bad Mexicans

    Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

    by Kelly Lytle Hernández ...
    **Winner of the Bancroft Prize • Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize • Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction • Longlisted for the Cundill History PrizeOne of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 • A Kirkus Reviews Best World History ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • A History of the Cuban Revolution

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate 50 years later.Balances a comprehensive overview of the political and economic events of the revolution with a look at the revolution’s social impactProvides a lively, on-the-ground look at the lives of ordinary peopleFeatures both U.S. and Cuban ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • Without Fidel

    A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington

    by Ann Louise Bardach ...
    From the award-winning reporter and go-to source on Cuban-Miami politics Ann Louise Bardach comes a riveting, eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death and marathon finale, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to eliminate him, and the carefully planned succession and early reign of his brother Raúl.Ann Louise Bardach offers a spellbinding ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Migra!

    A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

    by Kelly Lytle Hernandez ...
    Series Book 29 - American Crossroads
    Political awareness of the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations is rising in the twenty-first century; the American history of its treatment of illegal immigrants represents a massive failure of the promises of the American dream. This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Harvest of Empire

    A History of Latinos in America: Second Revised and Updated Edition

    by Juan Gonzalez ...
    A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States—thoroughly revised and updated.The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular ... Read more

    $8.99 USD