History: US

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Locke, Jefferson, and the Justices:
Foundations and Failures of the US Government
“This book is about American politics and law; it is also about the roots of the Contract with America. . . . A logical place to find the intent of the Founders is in Locke, [and] Stephens makes a contribution by highlighting this.

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Loss of Innocence
America's Scandals in the Post-War Years
Matthews examines the fabric of American society during a tumultuous period marked by shocking revelations and disillusionment, as a series of scandals in the late 1950s challenged the American belief in the integrity of its institutions.

Melvin E. Matthews Jr. $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Memoirs of a Cold Warrior: The Struggle for Nuclear Parity
A defense analyst who served on the frontlines of the struggle for military parity, the author was intensely engaged in the efforts of the US technical, military, and diplomatic communities to assess, counter, and of course to seek to outperform the…

Lee Carpenter Price range: $19.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Mobilization Day
Americans Debate Militarism 1914-1924
Unlimited military spending is presented as America’s only option when the world is depicted as full of threats. Yet 100 years ago, that notion was the subject of heated debates.

Roger Possner Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Modern America and Ancient Rome
An Essay in Historical Comparison and Analogy
Mounting social inequality, the increased political polarization, and the republic’s transformation into an empire of consumption— these are just a few of the similarities between modern America and ancient Rome. In this politico-philosophical discussion Dr.

Simon Kiessling de Courcy Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Never Trust A Local: Inside The Nixon White House
The huge crowds for Obama and the disappointing turn-outs for other candidates, the agony and excitement of the 2004 Presidential campaign between Bush and Kerry echo the mad frenzy of earlier, “low-tech” campaigns.

Charles Stuart Price range: $21.95 through $27.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
No Greater Threat
America After September 11 and the Rise of a National Security State
No Greater Threat: America After September 11, and the Rise of a National Security State examines the prospect that America (with the Congress and the Executive Branch in the lead) may be transforming itself into a national security culture.

C. William Michaels Price range: $33.00 through $49.00 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Norman Thomas: The Great Dissenter
Norman Thomas, for over fifty years a relentless advocate for justice and equality for all Americans, was convinced that socialism was the sole path to economic and political justice.

Raymond F. Gregory Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Of Herds and Hermits: America’s Lone Wolves and Submissive Sheep
The American Intellectual as Loner and Outcast
America is a country of characters, many of them larger than life, many of them shrinking from life, and many tenaciously asserting their individuality even as they succumb to the weight of life.

Terry Reed Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Panic in the Senate
The Fight Over the Second Bank of the United States and the American Presidency
Just as many people today question the role of the Fed, Andrew Jackson opposed the central bank of the United States, vehemently arguing that the Bank gave privilege and unfair advantage to the elite few at the expense of the public.

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Perils of Empire
The Roman Republic and the American Republic
Social and political problems in contemporary American issues are often compared to the problems that led to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Monte L. Pearson Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Pirates & Patriots,
Tales of the Delaware Coast
Libraries, archives, and museums reveal clues to the colorful characters lining the history of Delaware, from its earliest colonial days to the invention of the “beach resort” and the founding of the nation’s “Summer Capital” to World War II and the present.

Michael Morgan Price range: $21.95 through $27.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Power and Policy: America’s First Steps to Superpower 1889-1922
Through its military policy and foreign policy, America attained superpower status in a remarkably short period of time. Nations survive based on their ability to provide internal order and external defense.

Lawrence R. Lenz Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Prophets without Honor
A Requiem for Moral Patriotism
“Radical priests” laid it on the line, challenging government, corporations and the Church. Some were jailed; some were killed. Personal accounts tell why they had to do it – and why governments and the Church fought so hard to stop them.

Michael Palecek Price range: $23.95 through $30.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Race to the Frontier
White Flight and Westward Expansion
Why did so many thousands of settlers pull up stakes and undertake the arduous journey to the frontier in 18th and 19th-century America?

John V. H. Dippel Price range: $22.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Red States Blue States, and the Coming Sharecropper Society
Conservative economic policy has created what investor Warren Buffett has called a “Sharecropper Society,” a quasi-vassal state indebted to foreign interests. This is the result of a conservative Red State culture.

Stephen D. Cummings Price range: $24.95 through $35.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page