History of the Americas Books

Book SynopsisThe most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey, was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck -- a shocking one thousand at a time -- without light or fresh air, the prisoners were scarcely fed food and water. Disease ran rampant and human waste fouled the air as prisoners suffered mightily at the hands of brutal British and Hessian guards. Throughout the colonies, the mere mention of the ship sparked fear and loathing of British troops. It also sparked a backlash of outrage as newspapers everywhere described the horrors onboard the ghostly ship. This shocking event, much like the better-known Boston Massacre before it, ended up rallying public support for the war. Revealing for the first time hundreds of accounts culled from old newspapers, diaries, and military reports, award-winning historian Robert P. Watson follows the lives and ordeals of the ship''s few survivors to tell the astonishing story of the cursed ship that killed thousands of Americans and yet helped secure victory in the fight for independence.

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Book SynopsisUsing a remarkable cache of scrapbooks kept by Albert Haskell, Jr. through his lifetime, Martin A. Sweeny narrates a fascinating story of unwavering dedication to the public good. As a lawyer, politician, civic organizer, and economic developer, Haskell never turned away from an opportunity to do something beneficial for others. Trade ReviewThe Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr. adds much to our understanding of how the City of Cortland, NY developed in the 20th century​‌. Readers will learn much about this time period and the crucial role Albert Haskell, Jr. played. -- Kate O’Connel, City of Cortland HistorianMartin Sweeney’s biography of Albert Haskell, Jr. brings the past to life through his detailed use of scrapbooks compiled by the subject, correspondences, interviews, and other primary sources. Haskell was an important contributor to his community, and Sweeney gets to the heart of the story and builds a compelling narrative that will keep you engaged. -- Tabitha Scoville, executive director, Cortland County Historical Society,Once again Martin Sweeney has put to great use his creative writing and investigative skills. The culmination of which is this entertaining and interesting biography about my grandfather, Albert Haskell, Jr. Not only is this volume interesting to me from a personal perspective, as I am Albert’s youngest grandchild, but the book captures the story of Central New York’s proud past as well. It has often been relayed to me that Grandpa Haskell deeply cared about the people of Cortland County, and I believe readers will agree that Martin has captured that affinity very well through his storytelling. -- William Sweeney, grandson of Albert Haskell, Jr.Albert Haskell, Jr. was my grandfather. I remember him as a humble and stoic man. As an 11-year-old kid, I never knew the scope of his law career. This biography was a real eye opener for me. It is a story that all readers will enjoy. -- Joseph Haskell, Jr., grandson of Albert Haskell, Jr.The name Albert Haskell, Jr. was known by all in Cortland County for a large part of the 20th century. As a lawyer, elected official, businessman and a public citizen, he always had the interests of his community foremost in his mind. My first employment as an attorney was in the law firm of Haskell, Foley, Meldrim and Shay. I was fortunate to be associated with the Haskell name. Albert Haskell, Jr. lived a fascinating life, and his story will be enjoyed by all. -- Marty Mack, colleague of Albert Haskell, Jr.Table of ContentsList of Figures PrologueAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The Formative YearsChapter 2: The Years of Arts and LettersChapter 3: A Young, Aspiring LawyerChapter 4: The Great Cortland Rotary Hijinks Chapter 5: The New D.A. Goes After Bootleggers with Izzy and Moe Chapter 6: Bathtub Gin, Bootleggers, and the Black Hand Chapter 7: The People vs White Slavers, Faith Healers and a Murderer Chapter 8: Haskell Takes on the Klan Chapter 9: The Tragic Demise of Alton Howe Chapter 10: Tubercular Cattle Scandal Chapter 11: Another Murder Case and RetirementChapter 12: A Continued Career in the LawChapter 13: The Political ArenaChapter 14: The Milk StrikesChapter 15: Civic EngagementChapter 16: Promotion of Economic Expansion in the 1950sChapter 17: “Elder Statesman” of Cortland’s Industrial GrowthChapter 18: A Man of FaithEpilogueChapter NotesSourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisA. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men's Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.Trade ReviewThe story of Truman’s accession to the presidency is worthy of a Hollywood melodrama, and A J Baime’s zippy, well-judged and hugely readable book more than does it justice . . . although there are plenty of good biographies of Truman, few are as entertaining as Baime’s. -- Dominic Sandbrook * SUNDAY TIMES *Intimate and absorbing, A.J. Baime's biography uses new sources to paint Harry Truman as a complex and thoroughly American figure. A sharply-drawn portrait of an era as well as a man. -- STEPHAN TALTY, bestselling author of The Black HandA.J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. Opening the first page of The Accidental President is like pulling up a chair to Truman’s White House desk where we sit engrossed as world events unfold in the most intimate manner, titanic in scale. Baime brings us as close as we are likely to get to this completely surprising, quirky, wily, and transformational president. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid colour. -- DOUG STANTON, bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse SoldiersAn entertaining new history of Truman’s first months in office . . . filled with events that are strikingly proportionate to what the Trump administration has weathered since January. * THE DAILY BEAST *A fast-paced, well-detailed chronology of Truman's transformation from an official with little administrative responsibility into a politically astute and ultimately beloved leader . . . a warmly human portrait of an unlikely president. * KIRKUS REVIEWS *A.J. Baime is a master storyteller, and The Accidental President contains everything a reader could ever want from a work of history: characters that jump off the page, tension that makes your pulse pound, and smooth, smart writing that makes you think. Amazing! -- JONATHAN EIG, bestselling author of Luckiest ManPeople sometimes ask me if I’ve ever considered running for office. My answer is usually, “Sober? No.” All it would take is to recall what my grandfather went through in the first four months of his presidency. No president in history – particularly one who came in without having been briefed by his predecessor – has faced such monumental decisions. A.J. Baime has put a spotlight on those four months, recounting them faithfully and with heart, so that you come away with not only a sense of history, but a sense of the man, Harry Truman, as well. As Grandpa himself said a few years later, “It’s hell to be President of the Greatest Most Powerful Nation on Earth”. -- CLIFFORD TRUMAN DANIEL, Harry S. Truman's grandson.An attractive tale for fans of both presidential and WWII history . . . Baime opens a clear . . . window on a pivotal moment in history. * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *Baime is a master story-teller who appears to have invented a time machine. His carefully crafted narrative transports the reader back in time . . . each sentence is carefully constructed and colourfully packed with details that makes Harry Truman and this period in history come alive. The Accidental President reads more like a captivating novel than non-fiction. -- PRESIDENTIALREVIEW.COM

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Book SynopsisAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and economic crisisIn Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to the present - from 1945 to the 2020s - to reveal how America has reached its current state of political, social and economic crisis. It is on the brink of massive change, change that will disrupt the working of its economy and drastically impact its financial backbone, the middle class.Telling America''s story through 100 charts, Galloway demonstrates how crises such as Jim Crow, World War II, and the Stock Market Crash of 2008, as well as the escalating power of technology, an entrenched white patriarchy, and the socio-economic effects of the pandemic, created today''s perfect storm.Adrift seeks to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway''s unique take on where America is headTrade ReviewScott Galloway is Gordon Gekko with a social conscience. * GQ *Intelligent, thoughtful, sometimes snarky, and often humorous. * Huffpost *

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Book SynopsisFrom the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their owners. The stories presented, which span centuries and legal contexts, demonstrate that these acts of lethal force were carefully pre-meditated. Enslaved women planned how and when their enslavers would die, what weapons and accomplices were necessary, and how to evade capture in the aftermath. Original and compelling, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge presents a window into the lives and philosophies of enslaved women who had their own ideas about justice and how to achieve it.Trade Review'Nikki Taylor presents a compelling narrative not only of Black women's deadly force, but also of their organized and collective resistance. This study complicates the agency of women such as Nelly, Betsy, and Ellen, and dispels the idea that enslaved women were passive and powerless.' Karen Cook Bell, author of Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America'Brooding Over Bloody Revenge is a brilliant tour-de-force. This powerful set of case studies create a prism for illuminating African American women's intellectual arc, their lived experience as enslaved bodies, and their powerful response to slavery's lash and legacy. Nikki Taylor's voice offers remarkably fresh and convincing insights concerning violence, gender, and American slave culture.' Catherine Clinton, author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to FreedomThis book is a powerful, gripping, and violent telling of enslaved women's resistance. It is hard, but necessary scholarship. The past five years have led to an explosion of cutting-edge research that centers black women in nuanced ways. I count Nikki Taylor's new book as part of this welcome wave.' Kellie Carter Jackson, author of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence'Nikki Taylor's framing of murderous actions as part of a larger practice of black feminist justice helps us understand these actions were not just about freedom and resistance. Taylor shows that enslaved women made many attempts to ameliorate their conditions, including coordinating with others, in search of justice.' Kelly A. Ryan, author of Everyday Crimes: Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America'… a cogent reconsideration of long-held assumptions about the gendered experience of American slavery.' Publishers Weekly'A scorching, stunning look at private revolts against bondage.' Washington Independent Review of Books'Spanning from the colonial period through to the early national and antebellum eras, Taylor's extensively researched book not only powerfully depicts the trauma endured by enslaved women, it also details how federal and state governments and judicial systems propped up the institution of slavery and allowed or enacted its overwhelming violence.' Beth Farrell, Library Journal'…an extraordinary, and necessarily gruesome, account of the ways in which enslaved women resisted the violence and oppression they encountered daily. By challenging existing narratives, Taylor sheds new light on the lengths some went to for safety, dignity, revenge and justice.' Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine - Best Books of 2023Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Phillis and Phoebe; 2. Annis, Phillis, and Lucy; 3. Cloe; 4. Rose Butler; 5. Jane Williams; 6. Nelly, Betsy, and Ellen; 7. Lucy; Conclusion.

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Book Synopsis2024Ewell L. Newman Book Award,American Historical Print Collectors Society2024 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research, Texas State Historical Association? 2024 TCU Texas Book Prize, Friends of the TCU Library and the TCU Press A stunning and comprehensive collection of lithographs from 1818 to 1900 Texas. Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth century, from telegraphy to railroads. Among the most important of these, if often forgotten, was the lithograph. Before photography became a dominant medium, lithography—and later, chromolithography—enabled inexpensive reproduction of color illustrations, transforming journalism and marketing and nurturing, for the first time, a global visual culture. One of the great subjects of the lithography boom was an emerging Euro-American colony in the Americas: Texas. The most complete collectioTrade ReviewThis beautifully produced book is an instant classic of Texana, and a must-have for print collectors. The astonishing images gathered here—ranging from documentary maps and portraits to advertisements and book illustrations—let us see how the artists and printers who mastered the new technology of lithography depicted Texas for Texans and promoted the region to the world. With deep research and lucid prose, Ron Tyler shows us how these nineteenth-century printmakers navigated the challenges of their medium, the demands of the market, and their own creative ambitions to picture Texas as it was or, sometimes as they hoped it could be. -- Martha A. Sandweiss, Princeton University, author of Print the Legend: Photography and the American WestAn absolutely wonderful book. The prose is crisp, direct, and a delight to read—all the way down to the footnotes. Beyond contextualizing the world of Texas-related lithographs, Tyler provides a unique vantage for viewing that most iconic of Texas centuries. I thought I knew nineteenth-century Texas well, but I found myself learning something new and fascinating in every chapter because I had not encountered the art of the era in this way. -- Andrew J. Torget, University of North Texas, author of Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850Primed by a distinguished career dedicated to the history and imagery of the American West, Ron Tyler expertly recasts the state’s nineteenth-century history through the visual power and commercial development of lithography. From city views and ship portraits to Mardi Gras invitations and caricatures, these images tell compelling stories that chronicled, fantasized, and drove the dynamic history of Texas under five of its flags. This book will enlighten and delight anyone interested in the history of Texas or print culture. -- Carol Clark, Amherst College, author of Charles Deas and 1840s AmericaTexas Lithographs is a gorgeous testament to Ron Tyler’s long and deep fascination with the subject. The images—whether of people, cities, wildlife, or cartoons—are beautifully reproduced, and, enhanced by Tyler’s thematic chapters, tell the story of nineteenth-century Texas in a striking new way. This is a book to savor. -- Andrew R. Graybill, Southern Methodist University, author of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875–1910While the publication honors Texas’ history, it equally celebrates the art of lithography. From maps and bonds to advertisements and posters, the included works present the diversity of lithography, highlighting the beauty — and importance — of printmaking. * Sightlines *If you’re searching for an exquisite illustrated book on Texas history, Ron Tyler’s Texas Lithographs certainly fits the bill. Here’s the catch: This 518-page book is far more than simply a pretty book to display on a coffee table. Tyler’s book is a hybrid of stunning period images and tightly woven sentences that relate the origin story of Texas in a refreshingly new way. * Wild West Magazine *Table of Contents Introduction: “We Can Read the Pictures” 1. “Really a Kind of Paradise”: Hispanic and Mexican Texas 2. “A More Perfect Fac-simile of Things”: The Republic of Texas 3. “Illustrations of a Cheap Character”: Annexation and War with Mexico 4. “A Perfect Terra Incognita”: Surveys of Texas 5. “Pretty Pictures . . . ‘Candy’ for the Immigrants”: Illustrating the State 6. “The Dark Corner of the Confederacy”: Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas 7. “The Enterprise Was Not Properly Appreciated”: The Growth of Lithography in Texas 8. “The ‘Image Breakers’”: Mending the Reputation 9. “The truth is Texas is what her railroads have made her” Epilogue: “Mistaken . . . for Lithograph Work” Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHistorian Michael Martinez surveys political sex scandals in American history, from the earliest years of the Republic to today, to explore how these events impacted the politics of the day and the legacy they left for future generations of American leaders.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsPrefatory Matter (dedication, epigraph, table of contents)Photograph CaptionsIntroduction and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: “My Real Crime is An Amorous Connection with His Wife”: Alexander Hamilton and Maria ReynoldsChapter 2: “Dreams of Freedom in His Slave’s Embrace”: Thomas Jefferson and Sally HemingsChapter 3: “She is as Chaste as a Virgin”: Andrew Jackson and the Petticoat AffairChapter 4: “You Have Dishonored My House, and You Must Die!”: Daniel Sickles and Philip Barton Key IIChapter 5: “I Never Kissed Miss Tilton, I Never Told a Lie!”: Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth TiltonChapter 6: “Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha!”: Grover Cleveland’s Illegitimate SonChapter 7: “It’s a Good Thing I’m Not a Woman. I Would Always be Pregnant. I Can’t Say No”: Warren G. Harding, Carrie Phillips, and Nan BrittonChapter 8: “She had the WAYS; he had the MEANS”: Wilbur Mills and Fanne FoxeChapter 9: “If Anybody Wants to Put a Tail on Me, Go Ahead. They’ll be Very Bored”: Gary Hart and Donna RiceChapter 10: “This Shadow Life Made a Mockery of My Marriage”: Bob PackwoodChapter 11: “I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with That Woman, Miss Lewinsky”: Bill Clinton and Monica LewinskyChapter 12: “Out of Respect for My Family, and Out of a Specific Request from the Levy family, I Think It’s Best That I Not Get into Those Details”: Gary Condit and Chandra LevyChapter 13: “If Only He’d Hired a Hooker Like a Normal Congressman”: Anthony WeinerChapter 14: “Who Would Have Thought That 90 Seconds with Donald Trump Would Turn into 90 Percent of My Life?”: Donald Trump’s Sex ScandalsAfterwordReferencesAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisFew in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist.As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American Revolution. Returning home a national hero, he helped launch the French Revolution, eventually spending five years locked in dungeon prisons. After his release, Lafayette sparred with Napoleon, joined an underground conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, and became an international symbol of liberty. Finally, as a revered elder statesman, he was instrumental in the overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty in the Revolution of 1830.From enthusiastic youth to world-weary old age, from the pinnacle of glory to the depths of despair, Lafayette never stopped fighting for the rights of all mankind. His remarkable life is the story of where we come from, and an inspiration to defend the ideals he held dear.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed of “prudent” revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts America. Written with flair and drama, The Cause brings together a cast of familiar and forgotten characters who, taken together, challenge the story we have long told ourselves about our origins as a people and a nation.Trade Review"The Cause comes across as a special gift, the book the author most wanted to write to the reader from the great scholar." -- Robert S. Davis - The New York Review of Books"Masterly... [Ellis] deftly foreshadows all the issues that would complicate America’s trajectory and ends with a historical cliffhanger: Would the Republic survive? It did, but only when the Constitution became the embodiment of The Cause....Can America be truly great if we are built on a foundation that includes slavery?... [Ellis] would say that while the Constitution contains that terrible defect, it also contains the cure for democracy’s wrongs — if we choose to use it." -- Richard Stengel - The New York Times Book Review"No one would accuse Joseph J. Ellis of making history dull. He is a masterly story-teller." -- T. H. Breen - The Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisThe myths about Franklin Delano Roosevelt live on. For the left, FDR was a champion of the working class and the oppressed, suffering abuse as a “traitor to his class.” He gave up the lifestyle of the Hudson River gentry to lead his country out of the Depression and to victory against fascism. For many on the right, FDR was out of his depth on economics but provided Americans with the optimism and confidence necessary to prevail during the Depression and gain victory in World War II. Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths exposes the suppressed and distorted facts about FDR’s life and the legends about him (many invented by FDR himself!) promoted by generations of historians. Contrary to myth, FDR was not a reluctant candidate acceding to the desires of the “people,” but a scheming, self-promoting politician faithful to his class and vain about his lineage (as unroyal as in fact it was). He was contemptuous of Americans who refused to be his “subjects.” He was impulsive, frivolous, vindictive, eager for war with Japan, in thrall of Stalin, and welcoming to Communists. The “dictator,” the “country squire in the White House” (as he was often known then), fundamentally changed the country and clung to power unto death. FDR’s influence lives on in crony capitalism, government-dependent populations, racial and class division, and a mammoth administrative state run by a credentialed, America-hating elite. Debunking FDR offers cautionary reminders to the FDR-admiring left—and a growing segment of the right.

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Book SynopsisThe Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The Federalist Papers are notable for their opposition to what later became the United States Bill of Rights. The idea of adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution was originally controversial because the Constitution, as written, did not specifically enumerate or protect the rights of the people, rather it listed the powers of the government and left all that remained to the states and the people. Alexander Hamilton, the author of Federalist No. 84, feared that such an enumeration, once written down explicitly, would later be interpreted as a list of the only rights that people had.The first 77 of The Federalist Papers were published serially in the Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and The Daily Advertiser between October 1787 and April 1788. The original plan was to write a total of 25 essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end they wrote 85 essays in the span of six months. Jay wrote five, Madison wrote 29, and Hamilton wrote the remaining 51.This case laminate collector''s edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket. 

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Book SynopsisBERNICE L. McFADDEN is the bestselling and award-winning author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick Sugar, and eight other novels. She's won the American Book Award, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine and is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the BCALA. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Firstborn Girls is her first memoir.

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Book SynopsisThe Age of Revolution (1776-1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a 'Second Slavery' surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a system of financial credit that leveraged the value of the slaves. By 1860, more than 6 million captives of African descent toiled to produce the cotton, sugar and coffee craved by global consumers. This 'Second Slavery' mimicked capitalist disciplines, intensified slavery's racial character and launched half a century of headlong economic growth.On the eve of the American Civil War, the Slave Power seemed invincible. The slaveholding elite entrenched their 'peculiar institution' in the fabric of the Union only to risk everything on secession. Nobody solicited the slaves' wishes until it became clear that, wherever they could, they were deserting the plantations and joining the Union forces.Abolition radicals destroyed the Second Slavery and victory for the North also spelled defeat for slavery in Cuba and Brazil. But in each of these societies racial oppression was to be reconfigured by 'Black Codes', Jim Crow and toxic doctrines of racial destiny.Slavery leaves an indelible mark on many Atlantic nations. The Reckoning charts the historic impact of slavery and anti-slavery, of black and white activists, of fugitive slaves, feminists, writers, clerics and soldiers. Notwithstanding much unfinished business, the anti-slavery struggle retains its capacity to illuminate and inspire.Trade ReviewTremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best -- Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave ShipBy concluding his decades-long project on New World slavery, and by drawing the attention of British readers to an often-neglected aspect of that history, Blackburn has fittingly capped a lifetime of scholarship. -- Michael Taylor * Literary Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why the ‘Second Slavery’? Patterns of the ‘First Slavery’ Slavery’s Survivors: The American South, Brazil, Cuba Distinctiveness of the Second Slavery Industry, Finance and SlaveryFortifications of the Second SlaveryPart One: Westwards Expansion I Pioneers of the Second Slavery Contested Origins of the United States The US Constitution and Slavery An Abolition Moment? The Northwest Ordinance and Militia Act From the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase Birth of the White Man’s Republic Indian Removal and the German Coast Revolt The Price of Compromise The Missouri Controversy A Choice for Slavery II The Making of the Hispano-Cuban Elite A Cuban Miracle? Cuba as a ‘Society with Slaves’ The British in Havana The Hispano-Cuban Reconquest of Florida The Great Slave Revolt in St Domingue The Plantation Surge Cuba as a Slave Society The Colonial Pact A Model Colony?III Brazil: Independence, Monarchy, Slavery and CitizenshipPatterns of Race and SlaveryMercantilism’s End and a New Slave Trade BoomStirrings of Independence and Anti-slavery The Last Days of Colonial BrazilAdherence to the Emperor Liberty, Pacification and Terror in Bahia Pedro’s Setbacks and Abdication The Regency and the Slave TradeBrazil and Backwardness Romanticism and ‘Natural History’Power Was EverythingBrazil Ends the Slave TradeIV Life and Toil on the Slave PlantationRacial Capitalism and the Chattel PrincipleA Multitude of Tasks‘Vigilance Without Punishment is an Illusion’The Productivity of Gang LabourThe Slaveholder as Colonist and Potentate Natural Economy and the Reproduction of the Slave PopulationV Slaveholder Capitalism, Credit and Westwards ExpansionSlaveholders and Modernity Dimensions of the Plantation BoomSlavery Away from the PlantationsCredit is King?Mechanization and its LimitsThe Special Case of Sugar ProcessingAccounting for SlaveryPlanters Ride the Business CycleSlave Dealers Become Sugar LordsHow Cotton Paid for EmpirePart Two: Why the Slaveowners Lost VI. War, Peace and Slavery, 1815-60Mechanics of the Congress SystemConservative Reaction and Bourgeois AdvanceThe Vienna Congress and the Slave TradeLatin America, Britain and the Monroe Doctrine A Congress of the Americas?The Fate of CubaBrazil, Britain and the Upshot of 1850 The Diplomacy of Bullies Filibustering in Texas and CubaMutations of the PeaceVII. Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the Civil WarAnti-Slavery and the Northern MilieuThe Appeal and the Liberator The American Anti-Slavery Society‘A Shock as of an Earthquake’: Pro-Slavery OverreachesSplits over Women’s Rights The Whig and Liberty parties The Role of Frederick DouglassPolitical Abolitionism, Free Soil and the Wilmot Proviso Militant Anti-slaveryThe Dynamics of the Sectional ConflictThe Fugitive Slave Law and Underground Railroad Bleeding Kansas The Rise of the Republican PartyThe Slave Power and the Dred Scott Decision John Brown’s BodyThe Last Cords of Union BreakThe Meaning of Secession: A Slaveholders’ RevoltVIII. Emancipation and Reconstruction in North AmericaWar for the UnionNovelty of the US Civil WarLincoln Discovers that Patriotism Is Not EnoughThe Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation from Above and BelowThe Defeat of the ConfederacyPresidential Reconstruction and the Radical ChallengeThe Radical Programme: Confiscation and Black SuffrageThe Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in the SouthThe North and Radical ReconstructionBlacks and Whites in the New South A Second Revolution?IX. The Ending of Slavery in CubaCuba and Isabelline Spain Puerto Rican Comparisons Tepid Abolitionism of the Cuban Middle ClassSpain’s Politics of AttractionCrisis of the Isabelline RegimeAbolitionism and the Priorities of Imperialist DiplomacyThe Moret Law The ‘Lottery of Princes’ The Republic of DukesBourbon Restoration and the Triumph of the RentierThe Pact of ZanjónSlavery Ends at LastThe United States Seizes Control X. Brazil: The Last EmancipationSlavery’s Place in the Imperial Order Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ban The War with Paraguay Crabwise Advance of Emancipationism The Rio Branco Law of 1871The Political Economy of FreedomChurch and StateThe Social Profile of Brazilian AbolitionismRepublicanism and PositivismThe Abolitionist Offensive, 1880-4The Final Assault on Slavery Ordered Freedom‘A Tattered and Ridiculous Liberty’Epilogue: Legacies of Slavery and AbolitionAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisEric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages, Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But he was also, of course, attracted by the potential for social revolution in Latin America. After the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba in January 1959, and even more after the defeat of the American attempt to overthrow him at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, ''there was not an intellectual in Europe or the USA'', he wrote, ''who was not under the spell of Latin America, a continent apparently bubbling with the lava of social revolutions''.''The Third World brought the hope of revolution back to the First in the 1960s''. The two great international inspirations were Cuba and Vietnam, ''triumphs not only of revolution, but of Davids against Goliaths, of the weak against theTrade ReviewThroughout, Hobsbawm writes with unrivalled clarity, making his historical arguments and political commentary compelling and urgent even at a distance of decades * Guardian *

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Book Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room.  No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Created under President Kennedy, the Sit Room has been the epicenter of crisis management for presidents for more than six decades. Time and again, the decisions made within the Sit Room complex affect the lives of every person on this planet. Detailing close calls made and disasters narrowly averted, THE SITUATION ROOM will take readers through dramatic turning points in a dozen presidential administrations, including: Incredible minute-by-minute transcripts from the Sit Room after both Presidents Kennedy and Reagan were shot The shocking moment when Henry Kissinger raised the military alert level to DEFCON III while President Nixon was drunk in the White House residence The extraordinary scene when President Carter asked for help from secret government psychics to rescue American hostages in Iran A vivid retelling of the harrowing hours during the 9/11 attack New details from Obama administration officials leading up to the raid on Osama Bin Laden And a first-ever account of January 6th from the staff inside the Sit Room THE SITUATION ROOM is the definitive, past-the-security-clearance look at the room where it happened, and the people—the famous and those you've never heard of—who have made history within its walls.

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Book SynopsisA Time of Youth brings together 89 of the more than 2000 photographs William Gedney took in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood between October, 1966 and January, 1967, documenting the restless and intertwined lives of the disenchanted youth who flocked to what became the epicenter of 1960s counterculture.Trade Review“William Gedney was a great photographer, and the work he made in San Francisco is among his best. It amounts to a kind of visual archaeology whereby the documentary record is unearthed from the psychedelic aesthetic and glow in which it has been preserved. Here is the shuffle and trudge of life, the gray dawn that precedes the cosmic awakening of the Summer of Love. And yet: ‘Bliss was it in that dawn . . .’” -- Geoff Dyer“William Gedney had the great insight to be in San Francisco at the height of the hippie culture of the 1960s. His elegant photographs document their lives and circumstances with sympathy and grace. They are important pictures, made by an artist whose work deserves to be more widely known.” -- Sandra Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art"The impulse to capture the ephemerality of youth and beauty is what gives this collection its melancholy sweetness. It’s also a reflection of Gedney’s own San Francisco story. . . . [H]is critical, empathic gaze helps complete a more human picture of the most tumultuous and most stereotyped moment in San Francisco history." -- Benjamin Schneider * SF Weekly *"A Time of Youth is a love letter–as ardent as it is conflicted . . . full of telling moments. . . ." -- Vince Aletti * Vogue Italia *"The sequence of 89 photographs Gedney presents an unvarnished look at the strangely bitter seeds of hippie life before they blossomed into 'flower power.' Without the benefit of rose-colored glasses or psychedelic acid trips promulgated by Hollywood, we witness a group of radicals who made the choice to 'turn on, tune in, drop out' as writer Timothy Leary would later exhort at the 'Human Be-In.'” -- Miss Rosen * Blind *"A marvelous piece of archival retrieval and reconstruction." -- Richard B. Woodward * Collector Daily *"The overdue arrival of this Gedney book is also a testament to the artist’s faith in the longevity of his work and the degree of sacrifice he undertook to protect it. . . . A Time of Youth offers the first opportunity to see his long-form work close to the way he conceived of it—as a dramatic narrative formed almost entirely by the pictures." -- Rebecca Bengal * Aperture *"A Time of Youth offers another glimpse into Gedney’s work, and a unique window into the counterculture of San Francisco in the late 1960s." -- Brian Arnold * C4 Journal *"William Gedney was a terrific photographer whose documentary work always felt personal–more revelation than reportage. This body of work, made early in his career is, typically, the product of empathy and longing. Anticipating the Summer of Love, it’s not exactly celebratory; more often than not, Gedney’s subjects appear aimless, alone in a crowd. But his queer eye never misses the shaggy-haired beauties and the tender, erotic undercurrent here is Gedney’s signature." -- Vince Aletti * International Center for Photography blog *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Lisa McCarty A Time of Youth (Photographs) Bill Gedney: A Time of Youth / Philip Gefter Afterword / Lisa McCarty Chronology of William Gedney's Work in San Francisco / Lisa McCarty Acknowledgments Appendix: List of Images and Selected Reflections Index

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Book SynopsisIn Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to rape, separated from their kin at slave markets, and subject to laws that enslaved their children upon birth. In this way, they were central to the binding of reproductive labor with kinship, racial hierarchy, and the economics of slavery. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Morgan demonstrates that the development of Western notions of value and race occurred simultaneously. In so doing, she illustrates how racial capitalism denied the enslaved their kinship and affective ties while simultaneously relying on kinship to reproduce and enforce slavery through enslaved female bodies.Trade Review“Jennifer L. Morgan examines the transition to racialized slavery in the early modern Atlantic world with innovative research methods and original analysis. She brilliantly accounts for the emergence of an unholy alliance between a novel proficiency with numbers and the hierarchical classification of human difference, which helped to make kinship into a commodity. This is essential reading for anyone who wonders how Black humanity ceased to matter to some, and why centuries later we must still proclaim the worth of Black lives.” -- Vincent Brown, author of * Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War *“Jennifer L. Morgan makes an original, innovative, and creative intervention in the study of race and gender that establishes the groundwork necessary for revising our knowledge of the systems of trade and the commodification of peoples in the nineteenth century. Reckoning with Slavery is essential reading for anyone in the social sciences and the humanities who wants to understand the formation of the modern world. A major work.” -- Hazel V. Carby, author of * Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands *"Reckoning with Slavery challenges historians who have reckoned with slavery in the numerical sense without reckoning in the intellectual and moral sense with the subjectivity and intellectual work of enslaved people. . . . The threads of this rich and powerful work will generate new scholarship for years to come." -- Diana Paton * Black Perspectives *"There is much about this book that's deeply impressive. The depth and breadth of the research give a solidity to the argument that belies the difficult and fragmentary sources." -- Tim Lockley * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"One of the most illuminating aspects of Morgan’s work is how it invites us to reconsider the data we have about the slave trade. . . . Many of the stories of enslaved women might never be recovered, but Reckoning with Slavery shows how their stories might still be told by reading their silences creatively. The absence of women from the history of slave revolts, for instance, might not necessarily mean that they failed to participate in these uprisings or that they only participated in tiny, quotidian ways. It might also mean that their deeds were erased because women were so foundational to these uprisings that they inspired unease. Such a creative methodology paves the way for new, provocative historical narratives to be written." -- Li Qi Peh * Critical Inquiry *"As Black women lead worldwide movements to affirm the worth of Black lives in the face of white-supremacist violence today, Reckoning with Slavery illuminates some of the roots of this radical tradition of imagining Black futurity and making the world anew against the seemingly all-powerful forces of the state and the market." -- Eduarda Lira Araujo * E3W Review of Books *"Jennifer L. Morgan’s second book is one that will change the way scholars of slavery and the Black Atlantic think about the archives, enslaved women, and Black women’s theoretical and methodological offerings then and now. . . . It should become essential reading for academic audiences, college students, and any organization interested in reparations." -- Deirdre Cooper Owens * Studies in Romanticism *"[Reckoning with Slavery] sets a new bar for historians of the early modern era and of Western modernity. Morgan helps us see capitalism as racial capitalism, the radicalism of the Enlightenment as Black radicalism, and African women as central to both – and now that we see, there is no unseeing." -- Mariana L. R. Dantas * Journal of Early American History *"Morgan’s book will be welcomed by scholars who study the history of slavery and women’s history. She concentrates on women, their bodies, their experiences, their feelings, and their decisions. The book should be required reading in graduate courses on the history of slavery, economic history, the history of the body, and women’s history. Finally, it should be included in historical methodology classes due to its excellent incorporation of theory and its outstanding analysis of primary sources." -- Karol K. Weaver * H-Slavery, H-Net Reviews *"Reckoning with Slavery is a valuable addition to the studies of enslaved women, slavery, slavery and capitalism, and the violence of the archive. It is a wonderful example of the importance of centering the lives and experiences of enslaved women and their own understanding of the connections between kinship, slavery, and capitalism." -- Allison Madar * H-Early-America, H-Net Reviews *"For slavery’s early history, especially the role that gender, kinship, and capitalism played in the rise and perpetuation of human bondage throughout the Atlantic World, this is a book to be reckoned with, one that is sure to be required reading. I predict that it will remain that way for a long time to come." -- Eliga Gould * The Americas *"Through her whole career, Jennifer Morgan has blazed the trail for scholars seeking to understand the foundational dynamics of reproduction in the Atlantic World. In Reckoning with Slavery, she has crafted yet more theoretical considerations by which to comprehend the intersection of gender and capitalism, and this book will undoubtedly stimulate yet more rounds of discussion and debate. It is a text that will reach and impact many scholarly communities: those studying slavery, gender, family, the economy, and relations of power. It will also serve as a critical guide to face the new reality of reproduction in the United States going forward." -- Daniel Livesay * Journal of Family History *"Reckoning with Slavery is, simply put, a brilliant and important work. I am in awe of Morgan’s achievement." -- Carla Gardina Pestana * New West Indian Guide/Niewe West-Indische Gids *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Refusing Demography 1 1. Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1700 29 2. "Unfit Subjects of Trade": Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters 55 3. "To Their Great Commoditie": Numeracy and the Production of African Difference 110 4. Accounting for the "Most Excruciating Torment": Transatlantic Passages 141 5. "The Division of the Captives": Commerce and Kinship in the English Americas 170 6. "Treacherous Rogues": Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt 207 Conclusion. Madness 245 Bibliography 257 Index 283

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Book SynopsisA vital document in the history of the Indigenous peoples of North America

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Book SynopsisIn his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and “reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian” (Booklist).At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificent An Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen at Annapolis, and how he nearly lost his life twice serving on submarines and his amazing interview with Admiral Rickover. He describes the profound influence his mother had on him, and how he admired his father even though he didn’t emulate him. He admits that he decided to quit the Navy and later enter politics without consulting his wife, Rosalynn, and how appalled he is in retrospect. In his “warm and detailed memoir” (Los Angeles Times), Carter tells what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world. “Always warm and human…even inspirational” (Buffalo News), A Full Life is a wise and moving look back from this remarkable man. Jimmy Carter has lived one of our great American lives—from rural obscurity to world fame, universal respect, and contentment. A Full Life is an extraordinary read from a “force to be reckoned with” (Christian Science Monitor).Trade Review“A warm and detailed memoir of his youth followed by a clear-eyed assessment of the issues he tackled as president and afterward . . . a sweeping overview of a broad range of issues and frequent credit to his wife Rosalynn . . . Carter puts the long arc of his story together the way he sees it. The book includes his accomplishments as a negotiator and peacemaker in the humblest way — as a man who was at work on a larger project, something he continues to be. A primer for the generations who don't know his work and a personal retelling for those who do, A Full Life may herald the reappraisal he deserves.” * Los Angeles Times *“Carter reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist,and humanitarian.” * Booklist *“A Full Life is understated like the man, always warm and human, and in a few instances, even inspirational.” * Buffalo News *“The former president is yet a force to be reckoned with. . . . The author takes the reader on an engaging personal journey through the later half of the 20th century, as he saw it.” * Christian Science Monitor *“The drawings and poems by the author add even more of a personal touch, though crises in his marriage and his ‘estrangement’ from the Obama presidency offer the most noteworthy revelations. A memoir that reads like an epilogue to a life of accomplishment.” * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Cinematic and deeply engaging. . . . a tour de force of storytelling.” -- Brent Staples * The New York Times Book Review *"Absorbing and even moving . . . Mr. Blight displays his lifelong interest in Douglass on almost every page, and his own voice is active and eloquent throughout the narrative. It is a book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass’s. . . . A brilliant book.” -- John Stauffer * The Wall Street Journal *“The first major biography of Douglass in nearly three decades. . . . Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, whose courage and achievements were unequivocal, but to complicate it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds.” -- Jennifer Szalai * The New York Times *“Extraordinary. . . . Blight has certainly written, in the book’s texture and density and narrative flow—one violent and provocative incident arriving right after another—a great American biography." -- Adam Gopnik * The New Yorker *“A consistently engrossing book that is likely to remain the definitive account of Douglass’s life for many years to come.” -- Eric Foner * The Nation *“A stunning achievement. Blight captures an icon in full humanity. From riveting drama in slavery and Civil War, his Douglass rises into clairvoyant genius on the blinkered centrality of race in our struggle for freedom.” -- Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of America in the King Years“Extraordinary. . . . In Blight’s pages, [Douglass’s] voice again rings out loud and clear, melancholy and triumphant — still prophesying, still agitating, still calling us to action.” -- Adam Goodheart * The Washington Post *“David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass. With extraordinary detail he illuminates the complexities of Douglass’s life and career and paints a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the 19th century. . . . Magisterial.” -- Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. * The Boston Globe *

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Book SynopsisNorman Ohler is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of The Infiltrators and the New York Times bestseller Blitzed, as well as the novels Die Quotenmaschine (the world's first hypertext novel), Mitte and Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as Ponte City) and the historical crime novel Die Gleichung des Lebens. He lives in Berlin.

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Book SynopsisOnce upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality.Public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter: meek suggestions barely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The bears, on the other hand, were increasingly visible. Grafton's freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city, in an effort to get off the grid. And with a large and growing local bear population, conflict became inevitable.A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is both a screwball comedy and the story of a radically American commitment to freedom. Full of colorful characters, puns and jokes, and one large social experiment, it is a quintessentially American story, a bearing of our national soul.

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Book SynopsisFranklin D. Roosevelt is frequently described as one of the greatest presidents in American history, remembered for his leadership during the Great Depression and Second World War. Antony Sutton challenges this received wisdom, presenting a controversial but convincing analysis. Based on an extensive study of original documents, he concludes that: * FDR was an elitist who influenced public policy in order to benefit special interests, including his own. * FDR and his Wall Street colleagues were 'corporate socialists', who believed in making society work for their own benefit. * FDR believed in business but not free market economics. Sutton describes the genesis of 'corporate socialism' - acquiring monopolies by means of political influence - which he characterises as 'making society work for the few'. He traces the historical links of the Delano and Roosevelt families to Wall Street, as well as FDR's own political networks developed during his early career as a financial speculator and bond dealer. The New Deal almost destroyed free enterprise in America, but didn't adversely affect FDR's circle of old friends ensconced in select financial institutions and federal regulatory agencies. Together with their corporate allies, this elite group profited from the decrees and programmes generated by their old pal in the White House, whilst thousands of small businesses suffered and millions were unemployed. Wall Street and FDR is much more than a fascinating historical and political study. Many contemporary parallels can be drawn to Sutton's powerful presentation given the recent banking crises and worldwide governments' bolstering of private institutions via the public purse. This classic study - first published in 1975 as the conclusion of a key trilogy - is reproduced here in its original form. (The other volumes in the series are Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.)Trade Review'Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as 'extreme' or, more often, simply ignored.' - Richard Pipes, Baird Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University (quoted from Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future)Table of ContentsPart I Roosevelts and Delanos The Wall Street lineage of the Roosevelt and Delano families Politics in the Bonding Business FDR as vice president of the Fidelity & Deposit Company (1921-28) FDR: International Speculator Profiteering during the German hyperinflation of the 1920s FDR: Corporate Promoter FDR as a deal maker during the 1920s Part II The Genesis of Corporate Socialism Making society work for the few Prelude to the New Deal The Federal Reserve System and the War Industries Board Roosevelt, Hoover and the Trade Council An attempt to reform the construction industry Wall Street Buys The New Deal Bankers and industrialists back FDR instead of Hoover Part III FDR and The Corporate Socialists The Swope Plan and the N.R.A. FDR, Man on the White Horse The Smedley Butler Affair (1934) The Corporate Socialists at 120 Broadway, New York City Many of the leading players in the club FDR and the Corporate Socialists Willing accomplice of the rich and powerful Appendices Appendix A: The Swope Plan Blueprint for FDR's National Recovery Administration (NRA) Appendix B: Sponsors of Plans Presented for Economic Planning Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In 46 hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's secrets, obsessions and deceptions. Butterfield provides the intimate details of what it was like working and living just feet from the most powerful man in the world as he sought to navigate the obligations to his president and the truth of Nixon's obsessions and deceptions.The Last of the President's Men could not be more timely and relevant as the public in America and around the world quest

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Book SynopsisThe Incas built one of the largest empires of the ancient world. The sheer scale makes their achievement truly remarkable. At its zenith it extended northwards from the Inca capital Cusco along the Andes to embrace parts of modern Peru and Ecuador, and southwards into Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Uniquely, the authors look in detail at Cusco and at the four parts of the empire, following the vast road system to explore not just famous sites such as Machu Picchu, but all the major regional settlements. This vivid portrait shows how the Incas ruled some peoples directly but allowed others to maintain their traditional leaders with little interference. The concluding chapter is devoted to the end of the empire: the arrival of the Spaniards, the assassination of the Inca ruler Atawallpa, and the final years of the rebellious, neo-Inca state in the tropical forest of Vilcabamba.Trade Review'A lively, deeply informed and highly readable account of the last great empire of pre-Columbian South America' - Gary Urton, Harvard University'I know of no other book in English that provides such a good region by region description of the Inca empire ... Both a useful review of the main Inca sites and a new perspective on the structure of the empire' - Bill Sillar, Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonTable of Contents1. The Birth and Growth of Tawantinsuyu • 2. The Principles of Inca Statecraft: Feared Warriors, Generous Rulers • 3. The Wealth of the Empire: Land, Labour and the Worth of Goods • 4. Religion and Ideology: the Sun, the Moon, the Oracles, the Ancestors • 5. Technology and the Arts: Architects, Weavers, Smiths and Potters • 6. Cusco: Capital of the Realm • 7. Chinchaysuyu: Land of the Setting Sun and the Sacred Shell • 8. Antisuyu: The Road to Machu Picchu and Beyond • 9. Qollasuyu and Kuntisuyu: Herds, Metals and Mountains of Sacrifice • 10. The Fall: Bearded Men from across the Sea • Epilogue

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book AwardAn examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in the conflict. In this book, acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the United States’s role as the purported impartial broker in this failed peace process. Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate how the United States’ involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he investigates is the “Reagan Plan” of 1982, when Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan administration’s proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords more impartially. The second moment covers the period after the Madrid Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which negotiations between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the United States until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo accords. Finally, Khalidi takes on President Barack Obama’s retreat from plans to insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank. Through in-depth research into and keen analysis of these three moments, as well as his own firsthand experience as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 pre–Oslo negotiations in Washington, DC, Khalidi reveals how the United States and Israel have actively colluded to prevent a Palestinian state and resolve the situation in Israel’s favor. Brokers of Deceit bares the truth about why peace in the Middle East has been impossible to achieve: for decades, US policymakers have masqueraded as unbiased agents working to bring the two sides together, when, in fact, they have been the agents of continuing injustice, effectively preventing the difficult but essential steps needed to achieve peace in the region.

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The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature|40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole but emotionally destroyed, his youthful idealism shattered.A decade later, having reported first-hand the very final hours of the war, Caputo sat down to write ‘simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them’. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest war memoirs of all time.____________________‘A singular and marvellous work – a soldier’s-eye account that tells us, as no other book that I can think of has done, what it was actually like to be fighting in this hellish jungle’ The New York Times‘Unparalleled in its honesty, unapologetic in its candour and singular in its insights into the minds and hearts of men in combat, this book is as powerful to read today as the day it was published in 1977. Caputo has more than earned his place beside Sassoon, Owen, Vonnegut, and Heller’ Kevin Powers‘To call this the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it. A Rumour of War is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to insist that readers asks themselves the questions: How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? A terrifying book, it will make the strongest among us weep’ Los Angeles Times Book Review‘Caputo’s troubled, searching meditations on the love and the hate of war, on fear and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men are amongst the most eloquent I have read in modern literature’ New York Review of Books‘Superb. At times it is hard to remember that this is not a novel’ New Statesman

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Book SynopsisAn enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the AmericasTrade Review"[A] magisterial comparative history of empire of the Americas. . . . [A] richly textured comparative history. . . . [A] meticulously researched and elegantly executed synthesis. . . . Mr. Elliott’s achievement is to identify with brilliant clarity the similarities and differences between British and Spanish America while embroidering his analysis with memorable details."—Niall Ferguson, Wall Street Journal"[A] monumental analysis of two New World empires . . . Elliott . . . uses the story of each colonisation to illuminate the other. He challenges our prejudices about the Spanish conquest and the patriotic myths that have grown up around the English one. There is nothing black and white about this book. . . . Elliott's writing . . . moves with a gentle rhythm of a sea swell to carry the reader along."—Christian Tyler, Financial Times Magazine"A handsome and fascinating study of the two colonisations, so different in their scope, duration and outcome. The contrasts in administration, treatment of the natives and economic viability are intriguing."—Christian Tyler, Financial Times Magazine"My favorite recent book of American history is, perhaps surprisingly, by an English scholar of the history of Spain. A model of comparative history, Empires succeeds in placing the formative years of the area that became the United States in a consistently illuminating hemispheric perspective."—Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review"Our current debate about immigration isn't only about clamping down on the U.S.-Mexican border. It's also about what it means to be an American after 9/11 and about how the nation is revamping the concept of citizenship. And it's an opportunity to reassess yet again, the relationship between the United States and its neighbors to the south, a chance to reflect on the role of Hispanic culture in the English-speaking world. For those eager to understand the historical context behind these issues, I know of no more comprehensive, readable source than J.H. Elliott's Empires of the Atlantic World. . . . A feast of insights."—Ilan Stavans, Washington Post Book World"In a masterful account, Oxford don Elliott explores the simultaneous development of Spanish and English colonies in the so-called New World. . . . Elliott’s synthesis represents some of the finest fruits of the study of the Atlantic World."—Publishers Weekly"Elliott's mastery of Spanish materials is especially impressive and allows him to show how Spanish America 'was large enough to provide the setting for a variety of holy experiments'. . . . It is refreshing to read, towards the end of this brilliant, compelling book, that in the British colonies 'a distinctively, American identity' was not so much the cause of revolution as the result."—Tom D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor"Elliott . . . has long been universally acknowledged as the world's foremost expert on the early modern Spanish monarchy. . . . He has shown his mastery of the techniques of comparative history. . . . Elliott's searching and open-minded scrutiny of the facts overturns most conventional thinking. . . . Empires of the Atlantic World has long been a subject in search of an author, and Elliott has long been the author destined to fulfill the role."—Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Literary Review"The two stories have almost always been told in isolation: here, each affords fascinating new perspectives on the other. . . . [A] scholarly achievement and an exciting new departure."—Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman". . . how stimulating comparative history can be, especially when carried out with the meticulous care and breathtaking expertise that are on display on virtually every page of this handsome book. . . . This appraisal can barely begin to do justice to the formidable scholarship and the wealth of suggestions and insights contained in this magnificent book. Merely to have written a synthesis of either of the two empires would have been a brave undertaking and an impressive tour de force. But to have produced such a detailed and illuminating comparative synthesis of both, with hardly a dull paragraph despite its dispassionate – perhaps at times too dispassionate – scholarship, is a mighty triumph. Seldom can comparative history have been done so thoroughly, and presented with such flair, authority and aplomb."—Fernando Cervantes, Times Literary Supplement"Elliott’s book is an important new synthesis . . . [and] not just a scholarly tome. It is also an outstanding example of historical writing that manages to combine serious, rigorous historical scholarship with an approachable style and grand narrative that commends it to the general reader. . . . Elliott writes well and captures the sweep of history . . . [with] a practical, pragmatic bent. . . . It is a very fine book."—Michael Savage, Culture Wars"As with all Elliott's books, the architecture and the scope are breathtaking. Empires of the Atlantic World covers almost every imaginable aspect of the imperial experience, from politics and economics to art and law, religion and literature, science and technology: all encompassed within a single narrative which takes us from discovery in 1492 to the eve of final independence of the Spanish-American colonies in 1830."—Anthony Pagden, London Review of Books"[It] is a quite masterly work of comparative history by a great historian which combines in a single thesis two complex societies and sheds fresh light on each."—Michael Howard, Times Literary Supplement"Elliott writes wonderfully readable history and in Empires he offers a rattling good tale describing European expansion to the New World that will captivate readers for years to come."—Simon Middleton, BBC History Magazine"Elliott’s clearly-written book serves as an excellent general history of the Americas for the period 1492 to 1850. It is one of the few studies to compare the two spheres of the British and Spanish Americas."—British Bulletin of PublicationsSelected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 by Choice MagazineSelected as a 2007 "Outstanding" book by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesShortlisted for the 2006 Hessel-Tiltman History Prize, awarded by the English PEN ClubWinner of the 2007 Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history"Others have offered comparisons between the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds, but none have been as fully nuanced or fully realized as this. A masterpiece by one of the English-speaking world’s most accomplished historians."—David Weber, author of Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment"Elliott’s close study of the empire the English founded in North America and the one that the Spanish built to the south has given him remarkable insights and perspectives. The result is to give new dimensions to the usable past of both Americas."—Edmund S. Morgan, author of Benjamin Franklin

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of efforts to vaccinate children from contagious disease in US schools. As protests over vaccine mandates increase in the twenty-first century, many people have raised concerns about a growing opposition to school vaccination requirements. What triggered anti-vaccine activism in the past, and why does it continue today? Americans have struggled with questions like this since the passage of the first school vaccination laws in 1827. In Vaccine Wars, Kim Tolley lays out the first comprehensive history of the nearly two-hundred-year struggle to protect schoolchildren from infectious diseases. Drawing from extensive archival sourcesincluding state and federal reports, court records, congressional hearings, oral interviews, correspondence, journals, school textbooks, and newspapersTolley analyzes resistance to vaccines in the context of evolving views about immunization among doctors, families, anti-vaccination groups, and school authorities. The resulting Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures, and ChartsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Long Fight against Smallpox: From Support to Complacency and Opposition1. The Rise of School Vaccination Laws 2. The National Anti-vaccination Societies and the Schools 3. Taking Schools to Court: The Legal Battles 4. Schools against Vaccination Mandates: A Case StudyPart II. A Sea Change: From Persuasion to Compulsion in the Quest for Herd Immunity5. Schools and the Campaign against Polio6. Schools in the Age of Eradication7. Vaccine Hesitancy and the Rise of Personal Belief Exemptions8. The Twenty-First-Century Effort to Preserve Immunity in SchoolsConclusionAppendix. Selected Court Cases and Rulings Cited in the Text, 1830-2021NotesArchival and Digitized SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisCorporate Coup looks at the attempted overthrow of the elected government of Venezuela, an intervention which, despite open backing by the United States, failed spectacularly. In January of 2019, the Trump Administration recognized a little-known opposition lawmaker named Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela. While Washington’s history of coups in Latin America is well-documented, this step was unprecedented: Never before had the United States offered legal recognition to a new government before an actual change in leadership had taken place. Within months it became clear that the attempt at regime change had fallen flat: all Venezuelan territory, government ministries, and the country’s military remained under the control of President Nicolás Maduro. While US officials, notably Trump’s Venezuela Envoy Elliott Abrams, boasted that roughly 54 countries had followed Washington’s lead in recognizing

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Book SynopsisA Times History Book of the Year 2022From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.Max Hastings's graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro's Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev's Russia and Kennedy's America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned.Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieTrade Review PRAISE FOR ABYSS: ‘Grabs from the get-go… as if this were the very best fiction’ Daily Mail ‘A brilliant, beautifully constructed and thrilling reassessment of the most perilous moment in history’ Daily Telegraph ‘Frightening but hopelessly addictive’ The Times ‘Magisterial… chilling’Daily Express ‘Brilliantly told… compelling… Hastings has cleverly woven the story together from all sides describing them in dramatic, almost hour by hour detail… this is a scary book. Hastings sees little evidence that today’s leaders understand each other any better than they did in 1962’ Sunday Times ‘Deeply researched, incisively intelligent and compulsively readable. Abyss is as tight and smart account as any account and will earn pride of place even on a shelf already packed with books about the crisis’ TLS ‘A gripping retelling of those weeks of brinkmanship, reckless gambles, gung-ho generals and a thuggish USSR leader bullying a ‘weak president’’ Sun ‘Superb… reads like a thriller as the gripping drama of the Cold War power politics plays out behind closed doors in Washington, Moscow and Havana’ Daily Mail ‘Hastings lays bare, with chilling clarity, the ease with which political theatre and bluster could well have escalated into a scenario of mutually assured destruction’ Observer

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A sweeping overview of four men whose careers largely defined the American experience in the 20th century. . . . O’Connell narrates with a lively style, with plenty of lighter moments balancing the rigors of the subjects’ military careers. . . . the book is serious and worthy of the subjects.” — Kirkus Reviews "A de­li­cious blend of in­sight, wit and his­tory, “Team Amer­ica” is a punch-packed in­tro­duc­tion to four great mil­i­tary minds and the zeit­geist that pro­duced them." — Wall Street Journal "Call it destiny or luck, America was fortunate to have extraordinary military leaders and “soldier-statesmen” during World War II and the Cold War that followed. They were not perfect human beings, by any means, but they possessed a genius for war and, most of the time, for keeping the peace. Robert O'Connell has written a rollicking, insightful story of some particularly American heroes." — Evan Thomas, author of Ike’s Bluff “O’Connell delivers an entertaining group biography. . . . he incisively analyzes these commanders’ strengths and weaknesses and their essential roles in transforming the U.S. Army. Military history buffs will be enthralled.” — Publishers Weekly “Insightful and informative. . . . ‘Team America’ combines compelling biographies of our heroes as they reach the heights of military, then civilian, leadership during five pivotal decades. O’Connell also explains why industrial warfare grew into a juggernaut, and how they managed to control it to achieve an uncertain peace that still holds.” — Associated Press "Team America profiles the lives of four extraordinary military leaders on and off the battlefield. Author Robert L. O’Connell has constructed a wonderful quadrilateral perspective of Patton, Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Marshall along with their long-lasting impact in the world of combat and leadership. All four men walked divergent paths off the field but shared common ground in their loyalty to the country. Brilliant work." — Seattle Book Review “[O’Connell] writes clearly and concisely. . . . He has a feel for the important detail and for how the personal, political, and strategic work together. . . . [He] has provided a service in laying out in full these men’s great contributions.” — American Spectator “Melding rock-solid research with lively analysis of their larger-than-life personas, O’Connell makes a convincing case for why the foursome —whom he dubs “Team America” — is, and continues to be, history’s most influential cabal of military leaders.” — HistoryNet “An outstanding group biography… Well written and well organized. O’Connell’s study of these four American military giants should take its place among the best works on the role of the U.S. Army in World War II.” — New Criterion

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Book SynopsisA haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs'' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.

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Book SynopsisAn African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to the present.Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the Black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only--or even always the dominant--civil rights strategy. At times, African Americans also fought for separate, Black controlled schools dedicated to racial uplift and community empowerment.An African American Dilemma offers a social history of these debates within northern Black communities from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on sources including the Black press, school board records, social science studies, the papers of civil rights activists, and court cases, it reveals that northern Black communities, urban and suburban, vacillated between a preference for either school integration or separation during specific eras. Yet, there was never a consensus. It also highlights the chorus of dissent, debate, and counter-narratives that pushed families to consider a fuller range of educational reforms.A sweeping historical analysis that covers the entire history of public education in the North, this work complicates our understanding of school integration by highlighting the diverse perspectives of Black students, parents, teachers, and community leaders all committed to improving public education. It finds that Black school integrationists and separatists have worked together in a dynamic tension that fueled effective strategies for educational reform and the Black civil rights movement, a discussion that continues to be highly charged in present-day schooling choices.Trade ReviewAn essential account of the complex and often troubling history of America's implementation of meaningful school integration strategies.... Particularly impressive is Burkholder's use of a broad...body of evidence....Here we see the activists who confronted established power firsthand. The many parental discussions, confrontations, frustrations, and disappointments give this book a very human face.... Burkholder does not shy from confronting the numerous obstacles still in the way of the ultimate goal of nondiscriminatory quality educational integration reform. The author also addresses new reform models that achieve less-than-perfect integration ends in the face of daunting geographical, social, and economic demographics. * Theodore W. Eversole, Journal of American History *A much-needed comprehensive history of the North that covers the 1840s to the present, adding important periodization to this history.... This study is timely, extensive, and a major contribution to the history of African American education....Zoë Burkholder should be commended for writing such a superb book. An African American Dilemma has strong use of social science and legal research...Painstakingly researched, Burkholder seems to have left few stones unturned....She manages the varying viewpoints of white conservatives, moderates, and liberals as well as Black nationalists, integrationists, moderates, civil rights leaders, and Black power advocates. Burkholder also simplifies a complex history with excellent writing, representative vignettes, and amplified voices of scholars, leaders, teachers, parents, and students. * Dionne Danns, History of Education Quarterly *From the first page...Zoë Burkholder challenges readers' assumptions about segregated Black schools in the United States.... Burkholder offers stories about critics, advocates, successes, and failures of both ideas, encouraging the reader to understand that different contexts and schooling experiences might lead people to different conclusions about what is the best to achieve quality education for Black children....I recommend An African American Dilemma to any reader who wants to nuance their understanding of the history of debates around integration beyond the most common narratives about the civil rights movement in the South. Burkholder writes with a pleasant narrative voice, peppering the chapters with strong imagery and diverse characters that make this book easy to read. * Alyssa Napier, Harvard Educational Review *A very important history of the United States with schools-and ideas about schooling and democracy-at its center.... Burkholder analyzes more than one hundred and eighty years of debates about education with deep understanding and remarkable clarity of expression....I am...deeply impressed by Burkholder's argument that, in the end the fractious debate and determined activism over time have actually resulted in a stronger understanding of what education is, and the factors which facilitate its creation, transmission and retention.... All of us owe a debt not only to Zoë Burkholder for her excellent book, but to the educational activists who stayed with it-and have often succeeded. * Ben Keppel, Journal of Social History *In this sweeping history, Professor Burkholder synthesises many local studies to give a national view of the struggles surrounding integration versus separation among Black educational activists.... Through this exhaustively researched and beautifully written book we learn that public schools have been 'spectacular and important sites of northern civil rights activism'...and that white communities consistently opposed Black educational equality, in the northern as well as the southern United States. Burkholder shows definitively that integration was not the only goal for African American educational activists and concludes that education reform must draw on notions of both integration and separate, Black-controlled schools. In taking this position...this book offers both lessons and caveats for those looking towards the future. * Christine Woyshner, History of Education *With stunning precision, Zoë Burkholder portrays the long struggle of African Americans for equal education in the northern states—from their fight against systemic racial disparities in the 1840s to the racial disparities in public schools in the twenty-first century. Her impressive research reveals equality to mean far more than the Janus-faced goal of integrated schools versus separate, black-controlled schools. Burkholder situates the promise and pitfalls of each within the complex and changing contexts of specific urban school systems, judicial decisions, as well as ideological and policy debates at various critical moments. Her brilliant insights into public education's unfolding, yet still unresolved dilemma for African Americans make this book an especially cogent read for our present time. * Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University *A much needed, sweeping new history of the high-stakes, fiercely fought debates that have informed African American attempts to dismantle unequal and segregated schools. Burkholder brings our understanding of the many, disparate attempts to attain educational justice—across time and in a vast range of locales in the North—into a coherent narrative. Black leaders and parents fought relentlessly against educational injustice and amongst themselves over the question of whether Black controlled 'separate' or desegregated schools were the answer to endemic racism in education. Often they tacked between two, creatively responding to ever shifting political winds. An African American Dilemma keeps the urgent question of education itself and the lived experience of those who were too often denied it at its center. An impressive achievement. * Rachel Devlin, author of A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women who Desegregated America's Schools *In her important new book Zoë Burkholder follows the fierce debates over school segregation that have long cut through northern African-American communities. She takes us into Boston's antebellum battles over its Common Schools, Philadelphia's early twentieth century descent into segregation, New Rochelle's transformation into 'The Little Rock of the North,' the bitter clash between Newark's nascent Black political class and its largely-white teachers' union, and Hartford's extensive efforts to lure white suburbanites back to its schools. An African-American Dilemma is a thorough, thoughtful history of one of the American dilemma's most enduring issues. * Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age *Burkholder has made a riveting contribution to the literature on Black education, civil rights and Jim Crow's geography. It offers a deep assessment of past reform efforts while also contextualising today's ongoing racial landscapes of public education. In doing so, Burkholder challenges triumphalist narratives of the civil rights movement and illustrates the need for interrogating and rethinking markers of the movement's beginning and its end. * Francis V. Gourrier, Jr., English Historical Review *A masterful study of school integration and Civil Rights in the North which breaks new ground on a very challenging topic in American life and culture...Burkholder's work...offer[s] a very unique argument that does something rare in scholarship on school desegregation, which is to discuss it as a dilemma between the presumed ideals of larger societal integration, and the somewhat lesser known ideal of racial separation...One begins to understand by reading this incredibly well-researched study, the true nature of some of the many major barriers to school desegregation in the North...The author carries that forward into the 1990s and early 2000s...offering a model for school districts...still sorely in need of paradigms for successful examples of school integration. * Zebulon Vance Miletsky, History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Caste Abolished: Integration for Freedom, 1840-1900 Chapter Two: The Education that Is Their Due: Separation for Racial Uplift, 1900-1940 Chapter Three: A Powerful Weapon: Integration for Equality, 1940-1965 Chapter Four: Conflict in the Community: Separation for Black Power, 1966-1974 Chapter Five: An Armageddon of Righteousness: Integration for Justice, 1974-present Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAll-Black institutions and local community groups have been at the forefront of the freedom struggle since the beginning.Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the Civil War, told by one of our mostdistinguished historians of modern America, William H. Chafe. He argues that, despite the wishes and arguments of many whites to the contrary, the struggle for freedom has been carried out primarily by Black Americans, with only occasional assistance from whites. Chafe highlights the role of all-black institutions--especially the churches, lodges, local gangs, neighborhood women''s groups, and the Black college clubs that gathered at local pool halls--that talked up the issues, examined different courses of action, and then put their lives on the line to make change happen.The book draws heavily on the tremendous oral history archives at Duke that Chafe founded and nurtured, much of which is previously unpublished. The the archives are now a collection of moTrade ReviewBill Chafe's Lifting the Chains tells the powerful story of men, women, and children who wrote themselves into history, battled the contradictions of slavery and freedom, strove to end the hurts of racism, and in the process made the nation better. A fitting addition to a long and distinguished career. * Earl Lewis, Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy, University of Michigan *Written by one of the nation's most distinguished scholars, Lifting the Chains is a vivid, highly readable yet also well researched survey of African American history in the post-slavery era. * Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King Jr., Centennial Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University *The distinguished historian William Chafe has offered another gem to the growing body of knowledge on Black-led freedom campaigns, and the importance of Black leadership in establishing liberatory institutions. By making unrelenting demands on an often unresponsive government, and by building and creating independent projects, Black historical actors have been in the forefront of the fight to make 'freedom' real and tangible for all. Lifting the Chains eloquently reminds us of these important truths, and their relevance to contemporary struggles for Black freedom. * Barbara Ransby, John D. MacArthur University Chair and Distinguished Professor of Black Studies and History, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement and Making All Black Lives Matter *Table of ContentsChapter One: Present at the Creation: 1863-1877 Chapter Two: The Twilight Years, 1877-1898 Chapter Three: Family, Church and Community Chapter Four: Education and Work Chapter Five: Politics and Resistance: From 1900 to World War I Chapter Six: World War I Chapter Seven: The 1920s and 30s Chapter Eight: The Persistence of Struggle, the Beginning of Hope: African-Americans and World War II Chapter Nine: Postwar Protest Chapter Ten: A New Language of Protest, a New Generation of Activists Chapter Eleven: Winning the Right to Vote, Coming Apart in the Process Chapter Twelve: Triumph and Division Chapter Thirteen: The Struggle Continues Chapter Fourteen: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHe pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply disappearing. Since November 1971, D.B. Cooperno one knows his real name or identityhas become a figure of enduring fascination and obsession. The FBI pursued him for over forty years, before closing the case and leaving it unsolved.Unsolved, perhaps, but much admired. D.B. Cooper''s exploit over the skies of the American Northwest has inspired books, films, and endless speculation. What''s less known is that it inspired imitators. None were more daring than the hijacker of American Airlines Flight 119. After commandeering the flight from St. Louis with a machine gun and collecting $502,500 in ransom, he parachuted out over Indiana. Unlike Cooper, he was tracked down.In The Hijacking of American Flight 119, John Wigger explores the wave of hijackings that swept over commercial flight betweenTrade ReviewSkillfully researched and written with beguiling flair, The Hijacking of American Flight 119 is an essential guide to the madcap era in which criminals, dreamers, and desperate souls made routine flying a perilous affair. * Brendan I. Koerner, Author of The Skies Belong To Us and Now the Hell Will Start *Historian and master storyteller John Wigger offers a thrill ride into an astonishing cultural phenomenon, an era when misguided souls hijacked commercial airliners for ransom, then jumped out with the cash-and only the vaguest idea how to work a parachute. * Peter Houlahan, Author of Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History *As a Boeing 727 captain I've always been fascinated by the story of D.B. Cooper and those who tried to copy him. John Wigger digs deep into one, bringing into full view the stranger-than-fiction story of American Airlines flight 119, based on the testimony of those directly involved in the hijacking, lovingly and painstakingly recapturing the events that still influence the aviation industry today. I promise: this book will make you more tolerant of those intrusive TSA pat downs. * Captain Erika Armstrong, Author of A Chick in the Cockpit *Propulsive and insightful, this is a thorough portrait of a striking episode in American history. * Publishers Weekly *Inherently compelling. * The Wall Street Journal *Wigger's hugely entertaining book travels a previously unexplored byway of aviation history and is probably best read on dry land, just to be absolutely sure. * Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail *Table of ContentsPrologue Part 1: The Heist Chapter 1: The Hijacking Chapter 2: Sharon Wetherley Chapter 3: David Spellman Chapter 4: The Friendly Skies Chapter 5: Heinrick von George Chapter 6: The Money Chapter 7: Mohawk Airlines Flight 452 Chapter 8: The Pilots Chapter 9: The Parachutes Chapter 10: D.B. Cooper Chapter 11: Tom Parker Chapter 12: Richard McCoy Chapter 13: The Switch Chapter 14: David Hanley Chapter 15: Cadillac Impact Chapter 16: The Boeing 727 Chapter 17: Snipers Chapter 18: Chase Planes Chapter 19: A Short History of Parachuting Chapter 20: Wheels Up Chapter 21: The Jump Part 2: The Chase Chapter 22: The Call Chapter 23: Dead or Alive Chapter 24: Peru, Indiana Chapter 25: Nowhere Man Chapter 26: The Sketch Chapter 27: Survivors Chapter 28: The Money, the Guns, and the Pants Chapter 29: Show Me the Money Chapter 30: Tell Me Your Name Chapter 31: The Parachute Chapter 32: The Tip Chapter 33: A Life of Crime Chapter 34: The Plan Chapter 35: A Ride Home Chapter 36: The Informant Chapter 37: Fingerprints Chapter 38: The Arrest Chapter 39: Evidence Chapter 40: Fallout Chapter 41: Hijacker's Heaven Part 3: Connecting Flights Chapter 42: How It Began Chapter 43: Take Me to Cuba Chapter 44: Anywhere but Here Chapter 45: Hijack House Chapter 46: Security Chapter 47: Ransoms Chapter 48: A Means of Escape Chapter 49: The Trial Chapter 50: Prison Break Chapter 51: Finding D.B. Cooper Chapter 52: Arrivals Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisA timely look into how abstract art in South America aimed to envision a better society Trade Review“Sullivan’s close reading, contextual sensitivity and sidestepping of grand simplifying narratives make this book an extremely valuable addition to the growing literature on art from regions outside the classic mainstream.”—Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Art Newspaper“Beautifully constructed and convincingly argued, this book fills an important gap in published literature and will have a great impact on how scholars and students study Latin American modernism.”—Harper Montgomery, author of The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America“Radical Form is original and certainly very intelligent. It makes an important contribution to the field of Latin American art history.”—Abigail McEwen, author of Revolutionary Horizons: Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleWinner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. Trade ReviewWall Street Journal "Abolitionists were contemptuous of such self-serving nonsense, but they too tended to see slavery as an economically inefficient, and morally reprehensible, hangover from the premodern past... In The Half Has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist takes passionate issue with such assumptions. He asserts that slavery was neither inherently inefficient nor a counterpoint to capitalism. Rather, he says, it was woven inextricably into the transnational fabric of early 19th-century capitalism... Baptist writes with verve and a good eye for the dramatic." New York Times Book Review "Baptist's work is a valuable addition to the growing literature on slavery and American development... Baptist has a knack for explaining complex financial matters in lucid prose... The Half Has Never Been Told's underlying argument is persuasive." Vikas Bajaj, New York Times "New books like Empire of Cotton and The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist offer gripping and more nuanced stories of economic history." Los Angeles Times "The overwhelming power of the stories that Baptist recounts, and the plantation-level statistics he's compiled, give his book the power of truth and revelation." Daily Beast "Thoughtful, unsettling... Baptist turns the long-accepted argument that slavery was economically inefficient on its head, and argues that it was an integral part of America's economic rise." Nation "Wonderful... Baptist provides meticulous, extensive, and comprehensive evidence that capitalism and the wealth it created was absolutely dependent on the forced labor of Africans and African-Americans, downplaying culturalist arguments for Western prosperity." Providence Journal Best Books of 2014 "Baptist's exhaustively researched, elegantly written and provocatively argued book details the connection between the growth of the institution of human bondage and economic innovations from 1783--1861." Guardian Australia Best Books of 2014 "A compelling case for recognizing slavery as fundamental to the rise of the United States." Seattle Times "[Baptist] presents a detailed case, showing how the American economy benefited from profits gained by forced labor and financial instruments that enabled investors to profit from slavery." Huffington Post Black Voices blog "Quite a gripping read. Baptist weaves deftly between analysis of economic data and narrative prose to paint a picture of American slavery that is pretty different from what you may have learned in high school Social Studies class." Salon "Baptist's real achievement is to ground these financial abstractions in the lives of ordinary people. In vivid passages, he describes the sights, smells and suffering of slavery. He writes about individual families torn apart by global markets. Above all, Baptist sets out to show how America's rise to power is inextricable from the suffering of black slaves." Washington Independent Review of Books "Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told is an achievement of the first order... With Baptist's meticulous research and comprehensive, chronological approach, the other half of the story has now been told, and told very well." Mashable "Baptist has a fleet, persuasive take on the materialist underpinnings of the 'peculiar institution.'"Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Heart, 1937 1. Feet 1783-1810 2. Heads 1791-1815 3. Right Hand 1815-1819 4. Left Hand 1805-1861 5. Tongues 1819-1824 6. Breath 1824-1835 7. Seed 1829-1837 8. Blood 1836-1844 9. Backs 1839-1850 10. Arms 1850-1861 11. Afterword: The Corpse 1861-1937 Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Index

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