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  • Struggle for Mastery

    Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908

    by Michael Perman ...
    Around 1900, the southern states embarked on a series of political campaigns aimed at disfranchising large numbers of voters. By 1908, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia had succeeded in depriving virtually all African Americans, and a large number of lower-class whites, of the voting rights they had possessed since ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Craving the Future

    by Michael Perman ...
    Craving the Future provides radically new perspectives and useful tools for anyone seeking to create a better future. Author and Innovation Executive Michael Perman provides insights from extensive research on how to transform our deepest desires into new, bold, innovative realities.His research reveals fascinating new dimensions to the way culture shapes the concept of craving. Specifically, he ... Read more

    $25.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to Redemption

    Southern Politics, 1869-1879

    by Michael Perman ...
    One of the most dramatic episodes in American history was the attempt to establish a two-party political system in the South during Reconstruction. Historians, however, have never systematically analyzed the region’s political process during that era. Michael Perman undertakes this task, arguing that the key to understanding Reconstruction politics can be found in the factions that developed ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Pursuit of Unity

    A Political History of the American South

    by Michael Perman ...
    In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South’s political history. In the 1800s, the region endured almost continuous political crisis — nullification, secession, Reconstruction, the Populist revolt, and disfranchisement. For most of the twentieth century, the region was dominated by a one-party system, the “Solid South,” that ensured both political unity ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Southern Political Tradition

    by Michael Perman ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    In The Southern Political Tradition, the distinguished southern historian Michael Perman explores the region's distinctive political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the South's perception of itself as a minority under attack from the 1820s to the 1960s. Drawing on his extensive research and understanding of southern politics, Perman singles out three features of the area's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work of Civil War history on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery, a pivotal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Whites, Blacks, and Racist Democrats

    The Untold Story of Race and Politics Within the Democratic Party

    by Rev. Wayne Perryman ...
    On March 18, 2008, after the Jeremiah Wright incident, Senator Barack Obama went on national television and delivered what many called one of the most inspiring and thought provoking speeches ever delivered on the issue of race. After the speech, several news organizations reported that it was time for America to engage in discussions on race. Over the years, we have had several discussions on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democracy

    by David A. Moss ...
    Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions. ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • By One Vote

    The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876

    by Michael F. Holt ...
    Series series American Presidential Elections
    With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was an eerie precursor to that of 2000. Rutherford Hayes’s defeat of Samuel Tilden has been dubbed the “fraud of the century”; now one of America’s preeminent political historians digs deeper to unravel its real ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Gold and Freedom

    The Political Economy of Reconstruction

    by Nicolas Barreyre ...
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments. Yet at its core, Reconstruction was a battle for the legacy of the Civil War that would determine the political fate not only of the South but of the nation.In Gold and Freedom, Nicolas Barreyre recovers the story of how economic issues became central to American ... Read more

    $27.49 USD

  • Conservative Heroes

    Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America, from Jefferson to Reagan

    by Garland S Tucker ...
    Conservatism in America, as one early twentieth-century politician said, is "as old as the Republic itself." But what are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement? Author Garland S. Tucker III tells the story in this lively look at fourteen champions of conservative thought—some well known, others hardly remembered at all. Taking readers on an exciting ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American South

    A History, Volume 2, From Reconstruction to the Present, Fifth Edition

    by Christopher Childers, Thomas E. Terrill, William J. Cooper Jr. ...
    In The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of America. Cooper and Terrill show how the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD