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Details the alleged crimes, their legal aftermath, and their immediate and enduring social significance as evidenced in media portrayals and other forms of popular culture.

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This book is a creative synthesis of the published scholarly research on the contemporary American right wing from the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to the election of Ronald Reagan as President. Unlike most other syntheses, it directly engages that research by critically analyzing the major explanations emerging from it. Emphasizing neither the

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Grounded in extensive historical research, this eye-opening survey reveals the long-undervalued role secret societies have played in American history.

Americans are fascinated by secret societies and have devoured exaggerated claims for their influence.

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Presses an understanding of the roles of women in public life and offers a history of urban America. This book also offers evidence that women established a broad and durable solidarity that spanned differences of race, class, and political experience.

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One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivialism and American Romanticism.

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The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically where the first left off.

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Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2008.

Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, Selling Your Fathers Bones is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is Continental USA.

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The first biography of Nathan "Shanks" Evans, an important Confederate general, based upon a large cache of newly discovered and previously unpublished sources

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Takes a biographical approach to history, following the premise that people make history in the circumstances in which they find themselves. This work examines the lives of the individual's involved in a debate through major and minor biographies.

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Debates over such issues as westward expansion, the Second Bank of the United States, Indian policies, and slavery are discussed from opposing viewpoints.

Americans of the Jacksonian era upheld traditions and values of their forefathers, while also embracing the unlimited opportunity of the future.

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Provides a fresh look at the rhetoric behind the westward movement of the American frontier.

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With the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848, the United States seemed poised to fulfill the manifest destiny that was on the lips of journalists and politicians.

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In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson announced his vision of the Great Society, a plan to use the power of the national government to create a better society.

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Offers an account of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America. This book analyses the tragic destruction of that revolution. It states that in no other Central American country was US intervention so decisive and so ruinous, and shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single 'convenient villain'.

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"In 1864 Abraham Lincoln had privately predicted his defeat in the impending election, but ten days later Atlanta fell, assuring his victory. General Jacob D. Cox (1828--1900) played a key role in the U"

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"Often hailed as a stroke of military genius, General William T. Sherman's decision to divide his command and his subsequent, infamous march through the interior of Georgia to the Atlantic coast inaugu"

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This bibliographic volume covers the first 60 years of United States military history, from 1783 to 1846. The entire range of military affairs from international diplomacy and ideological considerations to influential presidents, secretaries and military and naval personalities is considered.

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This book analyzes the pivotal battle of Shiloh in 1862, the bloodiest fought by Americans up to that time, in which Albert Sidney Johnston's desperate effort to reverse Confederate fortunes in the heartland fell just short of decisive victory.

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Huckabee--former presidential candidate, governor, pastor, and bestselling author--returns with this inspirational collection in which he shares 12 true and heartwarming stories from his past that help recall the real meaning of Christmas.

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