Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, An immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1880, the anonymously penned Democracy prompted widespread speculation ... [... more]
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National Security - PB
 Riiiiggghhhtttt.: Riiiiiggghhht. This book is a fine example how people can twist something using texual and intertexual analysis into something to fit their own agendas. I find, in the selection I read, that there is poor use of visual evidence. The [... more]
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The Year of Decision 1846
Manifest Destiny in Politics and in Western Development: In 1846-7, the United States finished much of its geographical expansion. The dispute with Great Britain was ended covering the northwestern parts of the contiguous continental United States, and [... more]
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
From Amazon.com: In our increasingly visual culture, a growing amount of what we learn about history comes from the movies. This unusual and cornucopian book draws on the knowledge of 60 experts who examine the historical accuracy of a splendid array of [... more]
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Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series
Extremely solid, but limited by the subject matter: This is the fourth installment of an exciting new series in which major presidential scholars provide brief, critical biographies of all the American presidents. Arthur Schlesinger, who among many other [... more]
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Warren G. Harding 1921 1923: The American Presidents
Read the book: Do the reviewers who write for Publishers Weekly actually read the books they review? Or is it just that their liberal bias won't allow them to give serious consideration to any book by or about a "conservative" Republican. [... more]
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The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the ...
A fine and very readable scholarly work: I first encountered the writings of Professor Fuchs in a graduate seminar on Asian American history. I found him to be both highly readable and balanced in his commentary. This book traces the history of racial [... more]
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Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam
From Amazon.com: John Kennedy's presidency has taken a beating in the historical literature of the past few years, in what Lawrence Freedman wryly calls "the drive to replace history as celebration by history as indictment." Kennedy's [... more]
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The American Axis: Henry Ford Charles Lindbergh and the ...
An Important Book: Every so often you read a book that you want everybody you know to read as soon as possible. This is the one. America's most eminent historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., endorsed this book so it is obviously historically sound. But it is [... more]
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Everett Carter
Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, A Hazard of New Fortunes William Dean Howells Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Everett Carter insightfully renders the ... [... more]
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The Columbia Guide to the Cold War
From Amazon.com: "War that is very strong and very hot ends with either death or peace, whereas cold war neither brings peace nor gives honor to the one who makes it." So wrote a 14-century Spanish tactician, who might just as well have been [... more]
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Huey Long
T. Harry Williams is a Great American for writing this.: I read somewhere that this book won the Pultizer Prize. If so, it bolsters for me the image of that award. Professor Williams must have been a great man to have written a book like this, as it gets [... more]
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