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  • The Making of Modern America

    The Nation from 1945 to the Present

    The third edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson’s highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day. While deftly cataloging the sweeping changes and major events in America from “Dewey Defeats Truman” through the election of Donald Trump, this newly updated ... Leer más

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  • When America Liked Ike

    How Moderates Won the 1952 Presidential Election and Reshaped American Politics

    The 2016 election cycle put in sharp relief the rifts that divide, and threaten to destroy, the Republican Party. While some claim these divisions originated in Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” or in Newt Gingrich’s tenure as Minority Whip, Gary Donaldson argues that the conflict has its origins much earlier, at least as far back as the 1952 presidential election. That election pitted the conservative ... Leer más

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  • Liberalism's Last Hurrah

    The Presidential Campaign of 1964

    The 1964 campaign was a turning point in the nation’s politics and one of the rare elections in American history marked by sharp ideological divisions. Differences over race relations, the Vietnam War, and federal power divided the parties, and racial issues dominated the campaign as candidates clashed over the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Racial factions disrupted the Democratic Convention ... Leer más

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  • The Secret Coalition

    Ike, LBJ, and the Search for a Middle Way in the 1950s

    The politics of the 1950s revolved around two primary leaders, one Republican and one Democrat-both moderate, and both willing to compromise to move the nation forward.The Republican leader was President Dwight Eisenhower. His two administrations changed American politics. Ike’s desire to be president of all the people, to run his administration down the middle of the road, to be a modern” ... Leer más

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  • America at War since 1945

    Politics and Diplomacy in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

    Focusing primarily on politics and foreign policy, America at War since 1945 analyzes America's involvement in its several wars since the end of World War II. The main questions asked are: How did the U.S. become involved in these wars? How were the wars conducted? And how did the U.S. get out of these wars?In Korea and Vietnam, the US fought to show the world that it would stand up to the evils ... Leer más

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  • The First Modern Campaign

    Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960

    The presidential campaign that pitted Richard M. Nixon against John F. Kennedy was the most significant political campaign since World War II. With Eisenhower's tenure at an end, American society broke with the culture of the war years. This social shift was reflected in and provoked by new trends in American political life and political campaigning, all of which made 1960 a landmark year in ... Leer más

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  • Truman Defeats Dewey

    Fifty years ago Harry S. Truman pulled off the greatest upset in U.S. political history. With his party split on both the left and the right, and facing a formidable Republican opponent in New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Missourian was thought to have little chance of remaining in the White House.But politics in the postwar years were changing dramatically. Truman and his advisers ... Leer más

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  • Chimpanzee Rights

    The Philosophers’ Brief

    Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.While the courts have agreed that chimpanzees share emotional, behavioural, and cognitive ... Leer más

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  • Television Performance

    This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance theory and criticism to the established field of television studies. Chapters from leading scholars move through a range of examples from different styles and genres, from Game of Thrones to America's Next ... Leer más

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  • A Choice Not an Echo

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    Vol. 1: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960

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