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An updated third edition of the modern classic that applies cognitive science to the world of politicsâto explain how our unconscious views shape our votes. When Moral Politics was first published, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the...
In "a gritty, first-person account" from an American officer in the Pacific theater battle, "one can hear Shaw's voice as if he were sitting beside you" (Wall Street Journal). On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the...
Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed...
A look at African Americans' contributions to the United States by the iconic leader whose life spanned from the Civil War to the civil rights movement. Â The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard and a cofounder of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois...
A chronicle of the Adams, Quincy and Hancock families and how they helped spark the American Revolution.Everyone recognizes John Hancock's signature at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence but Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores for the first time the...
A GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF THE LAST DAYS OF WORLD WAR II FROM THE FAMOUS FACES WHO WITNESSED IT.âRiveting.â Daily MailâFascinating.â The TimesâBeguiling . . . a good story well told.â BBC History MagazineOn 28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini was dragged from his mistressâs...
David Carter's Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the...
"An important contribution to the literature on contemporary American politics. Both methodologically and substantively, it breaks new ground." âJournal of Sociology & Social Welfare When Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin, the state became the focus of...
Before the robber barons there were Civil War barons--a remarkable yet largely unknown group of men whose contributions won the war and shaped America's future. The Civil War woke a sleeping giant in America, creating unprecedented industrial growth that not only...
This acclaimed, award-winning book is a âsweeping historyâ (The New York Times Book Review) of the code of laws of war for American armies, set forth by Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War. In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation,...