The president of the United States is a highly visible public figure, a bearer of immense responsibility, and the subject of intense scrutiny. He is accountable for war, economic depression, domestic strife, national security, partisan politics, and overseas conflict. Presidents, Second Edition closely examines the hopes and disappointments, the ...
Rich with photographs from the National Baseball Hall of Fame's matchless archive, this elegant volume is the story of baseball, told with words and pictures and covering all the glory and scandal of the nation's favorite game.
The traditional veneration for political lunacy and splendid inanities that make Britain unique are celebrated here by former MP Neil Hamilton. This is a look at some of Britain's most eccentric politicians from the 4th Earl Russell who told the Lords that Jimmy Carter and Mr Brezhnev were the same person and called for the police and the army to ...
An illuminating look at the last three centuries of visionary figures in American business. -- Fully comprehensive, including biographies of 413 industrialists, investors, inventors, entertainment moguls, and communications pioneers -- Cites works for further reading and includes a list of leaders organized by their field of business.
This scholarly work investigates 350 years of history through the eyes of the uncompromising, covering the major events and personalities in the history of dissent in the United States. Arranged in nine chronological chapters, the work starts with the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and ends with the anti-World Trade Organization protests in ...
A vital resource for those interested in learning about this era, "The 1970s" chronicles a time of change and adjustment for the United States. From the rippling aftereffects of the Vietnam War to the civil unrest between the Arabs and the Israelis in the Middle East, this volume explores a period of great uncertainty for the United States and the ...
American Social Leaders and Activists features more than 250 entries on important American activists and social leaders from Colonial times to the present. This A-to-Z biographical dictionary is composed of entries of men and women who have been at the forefront of social reform and, to a lesser extent, those who have directed reactionary ...
This volume provides readers with a historical overview of prominent militias and other extremist groups and offers extensive insights into their nature and ideology.
A new edition of this book which looks into the politics of higher education based on Hamilton's personal experience with suppression of academic speech and obstacles to the pursuit of academic quality.
In The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America, author Neil A. Hamilton systematically illuminates the social, cultural, and political revolution with entries covering groups such as the hippies, Diggers, Yippies, and Weathermen; individuals including Abbie Hoffman, Andy Warhol, Russell Means, and Stokely Carmichael; and events ...
American culture was radically transformed in the post-World War II years. A booming economy -- and birthrate -- gave rise to a new culture. This colorful historical atlas is the first to take a decade-by-decade look at the "Baby Boom" generation -- from the Cold War, civil rights and Vietnam -- to television and Watergate. Beginning with the ...
The years between the first world war and the great stock market crash marked the arrival of the United States of America as a world military, business, scientific, and cultural leader. Americans from all stripes and in all fields achieved great notoriety. Babe Ruth, Margaret Sanger, Duke Ellington, Alfred Stieglitz, Aimee Semple McPherson, ...
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