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  • Spreading the American Dream

    American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945

    In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign relations evolved from a largely private system to an increasingly public one and how, soon, the American dream became global. ... Leer más

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  • Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

    "Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few ... Leer más

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  • Theodore and Woodrow

    How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom

    The New York Times–bestselling author and Fox News judicial analyst examines the effects of two US presidents on personal freedom."Either the Constitution means what it says, or it doesn't."America's founding fathers saw freedom as a part of our nature to be protected—not to be usurped by the federal government—and so enshrined separation of powers and guarantees of freedom in the Constitution and ... Leer más

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  • The Great Depression And The New Deal: A Very Short Introduction

    de Eric Rauchway ...
    The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described ... Leer más

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  • Poor People's Movements

    Why They Succeed, How They Fail

    Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great ... Leer más

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  • American Empire

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • How Capitalism Saved America

    The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present

    Whether it’s Michael Moore or the New York Times, Hollywood or academia, a growing segment in America is waging a war on capitalism. We hear that greedy plutocrats exploit the American public; that capitalism harms consumers, the working class, and the environment; that the government needs to rein in capitalism; and on and on. Anticapitalist critiques have only grown more fevered in the wake of ... Leer más

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  • The Rich Don't Always Win

    The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970

    de Sam Pizzigati ...
    The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned ... Leer más

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  • Where They Stand

    The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians

    The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries.Merry posits that presidents rise and fall based on performance, as judged by the electorate. Thus, ... Leer más

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  • Prisoners of the American Dream

    Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

    de Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the U.S.?“One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.” —Village VoicePrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist ... Leer más

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  • Clashing Over Commerce

    A History of US Trade Policy

    Series series Markets and Governments in Economic History
    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: "Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths." — EconomistShould the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such ... Leer más

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  • The Second Civil War

    How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

    In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened?In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic, and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling ... Leer más

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