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The Clinton Charisma: A Legacy of Leadership

The Clinton Charisma: A Legacy of Leadership


Donald Thomas Phillips



Review Praise for Lincoln on Leadership: "Remarkable...a lively and entertaining study that delivers uncommon good s...
Confronting the war machine: draft resistance during the Vietnam War

Confronting the war machine: draft resistance during the Vietnam War


Michael S. Foley



Review Exhaustively researched, thoughtfully argued, and cogently written, Confronting the War Machine is the best schola...
The farm on the North Talbot Road

The farm on the North Talbot Road


Allan G. Bogue



About the Author Allan G. Bogue is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has served p...
Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine (Conversations in Medicine and Society)

Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine (Conversations in Medicine and Society)


Heather Munro Prescott



Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine (Conversations in Medicine and Society)...
I Saw It Coming: Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

I Saw It Coming: Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)


Joy L. Hart, Tracy E. K'Meyer



Review “One of the great achievements of this work, in my opinion, is that the authors asked displaced workers not o...
Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars

Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars


Adam Laats



Review “Recommended.”—CHOICE “Laats has written the definitive history of education and the c...
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)


Leslie Brown, Anne Valk



Review “An indispensible contribution to African American and women’s history. Essential.”—CH...
Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited

Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited


Darioush Bayandor



Review 'The author has tackled a subject of great importance, infused with emotions and obscured by political manipulatio...
Heath, Nixon and the Rebirth of the Special Relationship: Britain, the US and the EC, 1969-74 (Global Conflict and Security Since 1945)

Heath, Nixon and the Rebirth of the Special Relationship: Britain, the US and the EC, 1969-74 (Global Conflict and Security Since 1945)


Niklas H. Rossbach



About the Author NIKLAS H. ROSSBACH holds a PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute. ...
A History of Small Business in America

A History of Small Business in America


Mansel G. Blackford



Review This readable survey goes further than any other work yet written to show the collective importance of small busin...
In his own right: the political odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

In his own right: the political odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy


Joseph A. Palermo



From Publishers Weekly During the last years of his life from his Senate election in 1964 to his murder in 1968 Robert F....
Back door to war: The Roosevelt foreign policy, 1933-1941

Back door to war: The Roosevelt foreign policy, 1933-1941


Charles Callan Tansill



Review “A most carefully written and thoroughly documented study of American foreign relations.... It is a book de...
Rainbow's end: the crash of 1929

Rainbow's end: the crash of 1929


Maury Klein



From Publishers Weekly The first serious account of the Crash of 1929 was Only Yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen, publi...
Shapers of the Great Debate on the Great Society: A Biographical Dictionary (Shapers of the Great American Debates)

Shapers of the Great Debate on the Great Society: A Biographical Dictionary (Shapers of the Great American Debates)


Lawson Bowling



Review "[P]rovides an A-Z bibliographic reference to survey the history of President Lyndon Johnson's vision of the Great S...
Atlantis Lost: The American Experience with De Gaulle, 1958-1969

Atlantis Lost: The American Experience with De Gaulle, 1958-1969


Sebastian Reyn



About the Author  Sebastian Reyn is a senior civil servant at the Dutch Ministry of Defense. ...
Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt, 1996-2007

Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt, 1996-2007


Brian Awehali



About the Author Brian Awehali founded and edited the award-winning political magazine, LiP. A former editor for Britanni...
American Radio in China: International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41 (Palgrave Studies in the History)

American Radio in China: International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41 (Palgrave Studies in the History)


Michael A. Krysko



About the Author MICHAEL A. KRYSKO is Assistant Professor of history at Kansas State University, USA. Prior to ...
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)

Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)


Heather Addison



Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)...
Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930


Robert M. Fogelson



Review "Bourgeois Nightmares is an original and sweeping history of restrictive covenants and the role they played in the...
Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State

Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State


Alfred W. Mccoy, Francisco A. Scarano



Review “The superb essays in this volume admirably provide a broad approach to understanding the centuries-long gr...
Journeys That Opened Up the World: Women, Student Christian Movements, and Social Justice, 1955-1975

Journeys That Opened Up the World: Women, Student Christian Movements, and Social Justice, 1955-1975


Sara Evans



Review In these riveting accounts, unsung heroines of pivotal national and international events reveal the religious root...
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition

Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition


Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas G. Brinkley



Review An excellent survey of U.S foreign policy Library Journal About the Author Stephen E. Ambrose wrote twenty...
The Story Behind the Song: 150 Songs that Chronicle the 20th Century

The Story Behind the Song: 150 Songs that Chronicle the 20th Century


Bruce Nemerov, Mayo R. Taylor, Richard D. Barnet



From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up–Ten chapters, one devoted to each decade, contain brief overviews of major ...
Staging race: black performers in turn of the century America

Staging race: black performers in turn of the century America


Karen Sotiropoulos



Review Karen Sotiropoulos tells the riveting story of a group of black intellectuals who challenged social Darwinism, imp...
Moral Re-Armament: The Reinventions of an American Religious Movement

Moral Re-Armament: The Reinventions of an American Religious Movement


Daniel Sack



Review “Hundreds of thousands of people have been influenced, either directly or indirectly, by Moral Re-Armament&#x...
Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America

Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America


David A. Taylor



Review "Wisely draws on a wide variety of material from the skilled writers ... Taylor's version is important as the plac...
The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 (Harvard Studies in Business History, 43)

The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 (Harvard Studies in Business History, 43)


Mira Wilkins



Review This book is breathtaking in scope and highly original. Mira Wilkins provides the first comprehensive account of f...
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War

Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War


Christopher J. Bright



Review “This pathbreaking book explores a neglected aspect of US nuclear history, as the Eisenhower administration d...
Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson

Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson


Richard Henry



Review “As we continue our quest for the politics of hope—a world without racism, poverty, war—Richard He...
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon

John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon


John Logsdon



From Space policy was not an issue in the 1960 presidential election won by John Kennedy, who until April 1961 exhibited...