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  • Goldwater v. Carter

    Foreign Policy, China, and the Resurgence of Executive Branch Primacy

    by Joshua E. Kastenberg ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Goldwater v. Carter tells the story of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld President James Earl Carter’s unilateral decision to nullify the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China (Taiwan), thereby enabling the United States to establish relations with the People’s Republic of China. Senator Barry Goldwater and other members of Congress brought a lawsuit against Carter, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas

    Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence

    by Joshua E. Kastenberg ...
    The politics of division and distraction, conservatives’ claims of liberalism’s dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy, a partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the constitutionally mandated balance between the three branches of government: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua E. Kastenberg in this ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Shaping US Military Law

    Governing a Constitutional Military

    by Joshua E. Kastenberg ...
    Since the United States’ entry into World War II, the federal judiciary has taken a prominent role in the shaping of the nation’s military laws. Yet, a majority of the academic legal community studying the relationship between the Court and the military establishment argues otherwise providing the basis for a further argument that the legal construct of the military establishment is ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • A Confederate in Congress

    The Civil War Treason Trial of Benjamin Gwinn Harris

    by Joshua E. Kastenberg ...
    In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border state of Maryland, though the federal criminal courts in the state were functioning. Convicted of aiding and abetting paroled Confederate soldiers, Benjamin Gwinn Harris of Maryland's Fifth Congressional District was imprisoned and barred from holding public ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • In a Time of Total War

    The Federal Judiciary and the National Defense - 1940-1954

    by Joshua E. Kastenberg, Eric Merriam ...
    Series series Justice, International Law and Global Security
    This book is a judicial, military and political history of the period 1941 to 1954. As such, it is also a United States legal history of both World War II and the early Cold War. Civil liberties, mass conscription, expanded military jurisdiction, property rights, labor relations, and war crimes arising from the conflict were all issues to come before the federal judiciary during this period and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Restless Giant

    The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    In Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments. We meet the era's many memorable figures and explore the "culture wars" ... Read more

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  • The Twentieth Century

    A People's History

    by Howard Zinn ...
    “Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history....[His] chapter on Vietnam—bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, massacres, and cover-ups—should be required reading.”—New York Times Book ReviewContaining just the Twentieth Century chapters from Howard Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States, this ... Read more

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  • American Empire

    The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000

    by Joshua Freeman, Eric Foner ...
    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominanceIn this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened by World War II transformed a country once defined by its regional character into a uniform and cohesive ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • George H. W. Bush

    The American Presidents Series: The 41st President, 1989-1993

    by Timothy Naftali ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The judicious statesman who won victories abroad but suffered defeat at home, whose wisdom and demeanor served America well at a critical time.George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as Timothy Naftali argues, no one of his generation was better prepared for the challenges facing the United ... Read more

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  • The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution

    1980-1989

    by Steven F. Hayward ...
    “Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don’t know where to look.”–President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981Hero. It was a word most Americans weren’t using much in 1980. As they waited on gas and unemployment lines, as their enemies abroad grew ever more aggressive, and as one after another their leaders failed them, Americans began to believe the country’s ... Read more

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  • The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order

    1964-1980

    by Steven F. Hayward ...
    The Age of Reagan brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan’s ascent to the White House. Drawing on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had to endure since the decade before the Civil War.Hayward captures an America at war with itself—and ... Read more

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  • The Democrats

    A Critical History

    by Lance Selfa ...
    An assessment of the state of the Democratic Party in the new millennium, the betrayal of progressive ideals, and how real change can happen.The 2006 elections put the Democrats in the majority in both houses of Congress, yet those hoping for change were deeply disappointed. Likewise, the striking victory of Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008 created a wave of optimism, but the promise would ... Read more

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