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  • Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities

    Edited by Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang, Simon Appleford ...
    Series series Debates in the Digital Humanities
    A resource for planning, reimagining, and participating in the digital transformation of graduate study in the humanitiesHow are the humanities adapting to the rise of digital technologies, and what are some of the tried and tested ways that postsecondary institutions are proving the importance of humanities training at the graduate level? Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and students ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Drawing Liberalism

    Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America

    by Simon Appleford ...
    Drawing Liberalism is the first book-length critical examination of the political and social impact of the political cartoonist Herbert Block—popularly known as Herblock. Working for the Washington Post, Herblock played a central role in shaping, propagandizing, and defending the ideals of postwar liberalism, a normative set of values and assumptions that dominated American politics and culture ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    A Brief History of Anti-Populism

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    A "brilliantly written, eye-opening" look at how elites distort the meaning of populism by the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas? ( The Washington Post).Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know ... Read more

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  • Before the Storm

    Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

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    “A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Secret City

    The Hidden History of Gay Washington

    by James Kirchick ...
    The New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2022Named one of Vanity Fair's “Best Books of 2022”“Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.”**—**George StephanopoulosWashington, D.C., has always b... ... Read more

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  • Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974

    The United States, 1945-1974

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime ... Read more

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  • John F. Kennedy

    The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963

    by Alan Brinkley ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home.John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961—the youngest man ever elected to the office—and he personified what he called ... Read more

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  • White House Ghosts

    Presidents and Their Speechwriters

    by Robert Schlesinger ...
    Veteran Washington reporter Robert Schlesinger opens a fresh and revealing window on the modern presidency from FDR to George W. Bush—examining the crucial and often hidden role of the speechwriter—the men and women who help presidents find the words that define their places in history.Drawing on scores of interviews with White House scribes and on extensive archival research, Schlesinger weaves ... Read more

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  • Reagan's America

    Innocents at Home

    by Garry Wills ...
    New York Times Bestseller: A "remarkable and evenhanded study of Ronald Reagan" from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times).Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating biography of America's fortieth president recounts Ronald Reagan's life—from his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California governorship to ... Read more

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  • Right Out of California

    The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism

    by Kathryn S. Olmsted ...
    "Olmsted finds in Depression-era California the crucible for strong-arm policies against farm workers that bolstered the conservative movement" ( Kirkus Reviews ).At a time when a resurgent immigrant labor movement is making urgent demands on twenty-first-century America—and when a new and virulent strain of right-wing anti-immigrant populism is roiling the political waters— Right Out of ... Read more

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  • One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

    The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

    by Jia Lynn Yang ...
    **Winner of the Zócalo Book PrizeShortlisted for the Arthur Ross Book AwardLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA "powerful and cogent" (Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post) account of the twentieth-century battle for immigration reform that set the stage for today’s roiling debates.**The idea of the United States as a nation of ... Read more

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