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  • Law and Order

    Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s

    by Michael Flamm ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
    Law and Order offers a valuable new study of the political and social history of the 1960s. It presents a sophisticated account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of liberals, and transformed the landscape of American politics. Ultimately, the legacy of law and order was a political world in which the grand ambitions ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition

    A Practical Guide to the College Classroom

    by Alan Brinkley, Esam E. El-Fakahany, Betty Dessants, Michael Flamm, Charles B. Forcey, Jr., Mathew L. Ouellett, Eric Rothschild ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Academic Life
    Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself. The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition, is an extraordinarily helpful guide for anyone facing the daunting challenge of putting together a course and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • In the Heat of the Summer

    The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime

    by Michael W. Flamm ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Central Harlem degenerated into violent protests. During the next week, thousands of rioters looted stores from Brooklyn to Rochester and pelted police ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • In the Heat of the Summer

    The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime

    by Michael W. Flamm ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Central Harlem degenerated into violent protests. During the next week, thousands of rioters looted stores from Brooklyn to Rochester and pelted police ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Passage of Power

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV

    by Robert A. Caro ...
    Series Book 4 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyBook Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bag Man

    The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

    by Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon’s White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come—with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow’s Peabody Award–nominated podcast“Both a thriller and a history book, Bag Man is a triumph of storytelling.”—Preet Bharara, New York Times bestselling author of Doing Justice<... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

    by Beverly Gage ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine and a New York Times ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Nixonland

    The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

    by Rick Perlstein ...
    “Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” —Jon Meacham“Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know—American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 1964 and 1972—into ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • King: A Life

    by Jonathan Eig ...
    WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYFeatured on Amazon's Al Woolworth's Top 10 Books of the Past 25 YearsA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and TimeA New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama’s favorite books ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Mugged

    Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

    by Ann Coulter ...
    “This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.”For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement—which they were mostly absent from at the time. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept pretending America was being run by the Klan and that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Richard Nixon

    The Life

    by John A. Farrell ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the ... Read more

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  • The Invisible Bridge

    The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

    by Rick Perlstein ...
    The New York Times bestselling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s is “a Rosetta stone for reading America and its politics today” (Frank Rich, The New York Times Book Review).In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until televised Watergate ... Read more

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