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Mordet på John F. Kennedy

AvBengt Liljegren

Häftad, Svenska, 2025

215 kr

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John F. Kennedy fick bara vara USA:s president i 1 037 dagar innan han mördades i Dallas den 22 november 1963, men hans status som politisk ikon och mansideal har bestått. Trots att det gått mer än sextio år betraktar många mordet fortfarande som olöst. Hur historien hade sett ut om Kennedy fått leva och valts till en andra mandatperiod får vi aldrig veta. Däremot går det utifrån det enorma källmaterialet att rekonstruera händelseförloppet kring mordet, liksom mördarens väg till brottsplatsen. Konspirationsteorierna kring mordet är många, somliga mer fantasifulla än andra. Finns där någon substans eller handlar det om fria fantasier?

Historikern Bengt Liljegren ger här en rafflande skildring av John F. Kennedys sista timmar i livet, jakten på mördaren och det efterspel som följde.

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The Avoidable War

The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

AvKevin Rudd

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

301 kr

The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Their militaries play a dangerous game of chicken, corporations steal intellectual property, intelligence satellites peer, and AI technicians plot. The capacity for either country to cross a fatal line grows daily. Kevin Rudd, a former Australian prime minister who has studied, lived in, and worked with China for more than forty years, is one of the very few people who can offer real insight into the mindsets of the leadership whose judgment will determine if a war will be fought. The Avoidable War demystifies the actions of both sides, explaining and translating them for the benefit of the other. Geopolitical disaster is still avoidable, but only if these two giants can find a way to coexist without betraying their core interests through what Rudd calls "managed strategic competition." Should they fail, down that path lies the possibility of a war that could rewrite the future of both countries, and the world.

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Den förgyllda eran : USA 1870-1913 och varför historien rimmar med nutiden

AvLennart Pehrson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

279 kr

Den förgyllda eran - The Gilded Age - är en av de mest dramatiska och motsägelsefulla perioderna i USA:s historia. Mellan 1870 och 1913 förvandlas landet i rasande fart. Järnvägar dras över kontinenten, stål- och oljeimperier byggs upp och landet kliver fram som global stormakt. John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie och J.P. Morgan samlar enorma förmögenheter – samtidigt som miljoner invandrare trängs i städernas slum och klyftorna mellan rik och fattig når historiska nivåer.

Det är en tid av hänsynslös kapitalism, politisk korruption och aggressiv nationalism. Tullar höjs, främlingsfientliga rörelser växer och misstron mot eliterna breder ut sig. Samhället glänser – men bara på ytan.

I Den förgyllda eran skildrar Lennart Pehrson, mångårig USA-korrespondent och Augustnominerad författare, denna dramatiska period i amerikansk historia. Samtidigt visar han varför epoken känns kusligt bekant. När Donald Trump talar om att återupprätta Amerikas "gyllene era" är det just denna tid han syftar på.

Detta är en berättelse om hur USA blev världens rikaste nation – och om de konflikter och motsättningar som fortfarande formar landet.

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1929

The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

AvAndrew Ross Sorkin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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A #1 international bestseller Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 in The Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times One of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2025'One of the best narrative histories I've read' Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,”* comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society todayIn 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world—where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril.*The Atlantic Monthly

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Londres 38 : en berättelse om Augusto Pinochet, Walther Rauff och rättvisan

AvPhilippe Sands

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

249 kr

Den 16 oktober 1998 arresteras Augusto Pinochet oväntat i London. Åklagaren menar att den forne diktatorns immunitet inte gäller. Händelsen blir en världsnyhet. En av de advokater som kontaktas i ärendet är Philippe Sands, som ska komma att representera Human Rights Watch, efter att han avböjt att bistå Pinochet. Det är startskottet för en undersökning som senare leder Sands till adressen Londres 38 i Santiago. Efter Pinochets kupp 1973 var det en ökänd byggnad – den som fördes dit för förhör återvände sällan. Men spåren leder också till nazisten och krigsförbrytaren Walther Rauff, som flydde till Chile och senare erbjöd juntan sina tjänster. På något sätt hänger allt samman i denna personliga detektivberättelse om den vindlande vägen till en möjlig rättvisa för diktaturens offer.

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Imorgon är jag långt härifrån : ett avskedsbrev till USA

AvMartin Gelin

Pocket, Svenska, 2025

89 kr

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“Martin Gelin förklarar varför det är så lätt att förälska sig i USA, och så svårt att leva där. Det är en fängslande personlig analys och livsresa från ett land där demokratin håller på att vittra sönder”Britt-Marie Mattsson, DN

“En välkomponerad sorgesång över en trasig nation.”Expressen

“Detta är en angelägen granskning av den politiska utvecklingen i USA. Författaren är kunnig och påläst och genom sin eleganta språkbehandling lockar boken till sträckläsning.”BTJ

"Det är avväpnande och nyanserat. Inkännande och nyfiket."Uppsala Nya Tidning“Den är medryckande, bildande och kul.”Göteborgs posten

"Det här är en kort berättelse om ett stort land. Den handlar om varför det är så lätt att förälska sig i USA och så svårt att leva här."

USA är ett land fullt av anständiga människor som gång på gång misslyckas med att skapa ett anständigt samhälle. Det skriver Martin Gelin i sitt avskedsbrev till USA.

Han flyttade till New York i september 2001. Det blev början på en turbulent tid i amerikansk politik, där han rapporterat från varje hörn av USA för svenska och internationella medier i två decennier, en period då han såg landets demokrati långsamt vittra sönder.I fyra hyllade reportageböcker och tusentals artiklar har han skildrat landets politiska utmaningar, samtidigt som han själv blivit allt mer rotad i USA, gift sig med en amerikan, fått barn, köpt bostadsrätt - och blivit amerikansk medborgare.Imorgon är jag långt härifrån är en levande och personlig skildrig över två decennier av bitterljuv kärlek till allt det amerikanska, inte minst New York och hemkvarteret i Brooklyn.

"MARTIN GELIN är fantastisk på miljöbeskrivningar och dessutom är en stilist av rang råder det ingen tvekan om."ETCOm Den vita stormen:"Vilken mörk och underbar bok detta är. Det kommer att bli svårt att hitta en mer påläst, sympatisk och angelägen granskning av det hotade demokratiska projekt som kallas USA."Joseph O'Neill, författare"Magnetisk skildring av rasismen i USA. Svensk facklitteratur har fått en klassiker."Göran Greider, Dagens Nyheter"Folkbilding för vår tid."ExpressenOm tidigare böcker:"Den som på svenska vill orientera sig om dagens oroliga och polariserade USA-politik kan inte ha en bättre ciceron."Dagens Nyheter"Tveklöst den viktigaste bok som har skrivits om internet på svenska."Svenska Dagbladet

Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

AvGene Kranz

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

249 kr

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How to Hide an Empire

A Short History of the Greater United States

AvDaniel Immerwahr

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

192 kr

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A revelatory history of expansion, influence and the making of American power.Historian Daniel Immerwahr exposes a forgotten truth: the United States has always been an empire. From Puerto Rico to Guam, the Philippines to a network of global military bases, How to Hide an Empire uncovers how U.S. territories and influence extend far beyond its 50 states.Blending archival research with witty storytelling, Immerwahr reveals the surprising ways empire has shaped American politics, culture and identity. Eye-opening and deeply relevant, this book forces readers to reconsider what it means to be “American” - and how power really works in the modern world.‘Wry, readable and often astonishing’ New York Times

Covert Regime Change

America's Secret Cold War

AvLindsey A. O'Rourke

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

307 kr

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O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics.― Political Science Quarterly States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d'État, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O'Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O'Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways.

Fifth Sun

A New History of the Aztecs

AvCamilla Townsend

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

237 kr

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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the Roman alphabet and, unbeknownst to the newcomers, they used it to write detailed histories in their own language of Nahuatl. Until recently, these sources remained obscure, only partially translated, and rarely consulted by scholars. For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves. Camilla Townsend presents an accessible and humanized depiction of these native Mexicans, rather than seeing them as the exotic, bloody figures of European stereotypes. The conquest, in this work, is neither an apocalyptic moment, nor an origin story launching Mexicans into existence. The Mexica people had a history of their own long before the Europeans arrived and did not simply capitulate to Spanish culture and colonization. Instead, they realigned their political allegiances, accommodated new obligations, adopted new technologies, and endured. This engaging revisionist history of the Aztecs, told through their own words, explores the experience of a once-powerful people facing the trauma of conquest and finding ways to survive, offering an empathetic interpretation for experts and non-specialists alike.

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Den vita stormen : rasismens historia och USA:s fall

AvMartin Gelin

Pocket, Svenska, 2024

89 kr

“Det känns som om varje ord Martin Gelin har skrivit om USA har lett fram till denna engagerade uppgörelse med den amerikanska rasismens historia och konsekvenser. Folkbildning för vår tid.”Hynek Pallas, Expressen.

"Det här är årets bok."Journalisten

"Det är kunskapsrikt, det är viktigt, det är skakande läsning"Aftonbladet

"Magnetisk skildring av rasismen i USA --- svensk facklitteratur har fått en klassiker"Göran Greider, DN

Redan under inbördeskriget förstod president Abraham Lincoln att USA måste tämja rasismen, eller gå under som nation. 160 år senare är hans farhågor på väg att besannas.När Kapitolium i Washington i januari 2021 stormades av tusentals republikaner, nationalister och högerextremister var det en attack på själva idén om USA som mångfaldens demokrati. Det är nu lättare att föreställa sig slutet på USA än att föreställa sig slutet på nationalismen, skriver Martin Gelin i Den vita stormen.

Han har ägnat två decennier åt att resa i USA och prata med amerikaner om hur rasismen präglar landets politik. I boken färdas vi från Thomas Jeffersons slavgods Monticello till dagens massfängelser i Arizona, möter amerikanska högerextremister på pilgrimsfärd i Budapest och besöker Kalifornien där det gryr en ny vision om ett annat, mer tolerant USA.Det är en berättelse om vad som händer när ett samhälle inte vågar ta itu med sin rasistiska historia."--- en färgstark och mycket beläst översikt över rasismenshistoria i det amerikanska samhället."BTJ

Reconstruction Amendments

The Essential Documents, Volume 1

AvKurt T Lash,Kurt T. Lash

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

2 842 kr

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Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution--together known as the Reconstruction Amendments--abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents the key speeches, debates, and public dialogues that surrounded the adoption of the three amendments, allowing us to more fully experience how they reshaped the nature of American life and freedom.Volume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments and contains materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while Volume 2 covers the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments on the rights of citizenship and enfranchisement. The documents in this collection encompass a sweeping range of primary sources, from congressional debates to court cases, public speeches to newspaper articles. As a whole, the volumes meticulously depict a significant period of legal change even as they illuminate the ways in which people across the land grappled with the process of constitutional reconstruction. Filling a major gap in the literature on the era, The Reconstruction Amendments will be indispensable for readers in politics, history, and law, as well as anyone seeking a better understanding of the post-Civil War basis of American constitutional democracy.

Reconstruction Amendments

The Essential Documents, Volume 2

AvKurt T Lash,Kurt T. Lash

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

2 253 kr

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Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution--together known as the Reconstruction Amendments--abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents the key speeches, debates, and public dialogues that surrounded the adoption of the three amendments, allowing us to more fully experience how they reshaped the nature of American life and freedom.Volume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments along with materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while Volume II covers the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments on the rights of citizenship and enfranchisement. The documents in this collection encompass a sweeping range of primary sources, from congressional talks to court cases, public speeches to newspaper articles. As a whole, the volumes meticulously depict a significant period of legal change even as they illuminate the ways in which people across the land grappled with the process of constitutional reconstruction. Filling a major gap in the literature on the era, The Reconstruction Amendments will be indispensable for readers in politics, history, and law, as well as anyone seeking a better understanding of the post-Civil War basis of American constitutional democracy.

Indigenous War Painting of the Plains Volume 283

An Illustrated History

AvArni Brownstone

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

665 kr

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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art—narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived in by the men whose war exploits they portrayed, and were made to be “read” by the public at large. Executed in a pictorial narrative style and documenting actual events, these paintings blend visual art and history.Indigenous War Painting of the Plains is the first comprehensive look at this important North American art form, covering the full corpus of war paintings from fourteen tribes across the plains.Two impediments have previously made such a book impractical: photography alone falls short of rendering war paintings for the printed page, and only about half of the surviving works have reliable documentation on their cultural origins. Arni Brownstone surmounts these difficulties by producing precise electronic redrawings and by using well-documented paintings to inform poorly documented examples, bolstered by a careful examination of collection histories. Featuring some 300 photographs and electronic redrawings, the book focuses on 83 paintings organized into four chapters covering the paintings of tribes associated with a specific geographical sphere of artistic influence. Four appendixes feature paintings combined with “translations” by Indigenous collaborators who had intimate knowledge of the depicted events.Offering vivid access to the key works of war painting preserved in 37 museums throughout North America and Europe, Indigenous War Painting of the Plains illuminates distinctions between painting styles of different tribes, reveals how they influenced one another and changed over time, and conveys a deep understanding of how war painting developed in relation to profound social changes in Plains Indian cultures.

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Empire of the Summer Moon

Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

AvS.C. Gwynne

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

165 kr

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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped by Comanches in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend. S. C. Gwynne's account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.

Tuesdays With Morrie

An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

AvMitch Albom

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

142 kr

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THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia AhernTHE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A special 20th anniversary edition of the inspirational memoir that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on life, loss and grief - featuring a new afterword by the authorDon't miss Mitch Albom's new novel, Twice, out now - a beautiful and heartbreaking exploration of lost loves and second chances__________Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.Don't miss Mitch's uplifting new novel THE LITTLE LIAR, available to pre-order now.__________WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE'You cannot put the book down until you reach the end . . . Too good to be missed. It is really an all-time hit''One of the most beautiful books I've read in a long, long time . . . It will always be one of my favourite books''This book moved me immensely and its teachings will stay with me''A simple yet moving account of love and loss - but also hope for something better''A book I will read and re-read'

International Jew

AvAnonymous

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

362 kr

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On Decoloniality

Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

AvWalter D. Mignolo,Catherine E. Walsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

309 kr

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In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and analytic dynamism of decolonial ways of living and thinking, as well as the creative force of resistance and re-existence. This book speaks to the urgency of these times, encourages delinkings from the colonial matrix of power and its "universals" of Western modernity and global capitalism, and engages with arguments and struggles for dignity and life against death, destruction, and civilizational despair.

Imorgon är jag långt härifrån : ett avskedsbrev till USA

AvMartin Gelin

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

255 kr

“En välkomponerad sorgesång över en trasig nation.”Expressen

“Detta är en angelägen granskning av den politiska utvecklingen i USA. Författaren är kunnig och påläst och genom sin eleganta språkbehandling lockar boken till sträckläsning.”BTJ

"Det är avväpnande och nyanserat. Inkännande och nyfiket."Uppsala Nya Tidning“Den är medryckande, bildande och kul.”Göteborgs posten

"Det här är en kort berättelse om ett stort land. Den handlar om varför det är så lätt att förälska sig i USA och så svårt att leva här."

USA är ett land fullt av anständiga människor som gång på gång misslyckas med att skapa ett anständigt samhälle. Det skriver Martin Gelin i sitt avskedsbrev till USA.

Gettysburg : svenskarna som stred i amerikanska inbördeskriget

AvNiclas Sennerteg

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

269 kr

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"Gettysburg – en respektfull och initierad skildring av svenskarna som deltog i det amerikanska inbördeskriget."Uppsala Nya tidning"Niclas Sennertegs Gettysburg är en fascinerande skildring av de svenskar som stred i amerikanska inbördeskriget, en kon!ikt som ännu i dag formar USA."Fokus

"Sennerteg har i sin ögonvitttnesbaserade framställning av slaget och dess förhistoria valt ett grepp som på ett sällsynt lyckat sätt lyfter fram skeendet ur ett nytt perspektiv."Borås Tidning

"Författaren har en eminent förmåga att väva samman kunskapsmängden till en läsvärd helhet.Helhetsbetyg 5 av 5"BTJAmerikanska inbördeskriget 1861–1865 ekar fortfarande i dagens USA som blir alltmer söndrat och polariserat. Oron för politiskt våld har börjat växa när landet återigen står vid ett vägval som gäller vilket slags nation det ska vara.

I den här boken får vi följa inbördeskrigets orsaker och upptrappning, dess kända och okända aktörer, fram till kulmen under tre heta julidagar 1863 då allt och alla strålade samman vid Gettysburg i vad som blev krigets största och blodigaste slag.

Då liksom nu hamnade landets nytillkomna immigranter i blickpunkten för den politiska retoriken. Inbördeskriget var nämligen inte bara en amerikansk konflikt. Det var också immigranternas. Hundratusentals av soldaterna var födda i något annat land, däribland i Sverige. Åtskilliga svenska immigranter deltog följaktligen i Gettysburg, där de ibland också ställdes mot varandra i striden. I denna bok ges de särskild uppmärksamhet tack vare Niclas Sennertegs storartade forskningsinsats i svenska och amerikanska källor.

"Noggrann, närgången och nervig."Göteborgs-Posten

"Niclas Sennerteg har lagt ned en omponerade forskarmöda på att spåra upp svenskarna som deltog i det amerikanska inbördeskriget."Dagens Nyheter

"Sennerteg väver skickligt ihop dessa två komponenter. "ETC

We the People

A History of the US Constitution

AvJill Lepore

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

244 kr

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY 2026ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION 2025THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA THE ECONOMIST, HISTORY TODAY, NEW YORK TIMES, NEW YORKER AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAROn the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a troubling new era.The US Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world - and one of the most difficult to amend. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been proposed since 1789, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified. Tellingly, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without amendment, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential power.Leading Harvard historian Jill Lepore captures the stories of generations of ordinary people who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend their nation. Recounting the history of America through centuries of efforts to realize the promise of the Constitution, we witness how nearly all those bids have failed.We the People is the sweeping account of a struggle, arguing that the Constitution was never intended to be preserved, but was expected to be gradually altered. At a time when the risk of political violence is all too real, it hints at the prospects for a better, amended America.

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God Forgives, Brothers Don't

The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood

AvJasper Craven

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

330 kr

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In the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s Tribe and Chris Hedges’s classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education in the United States, and how it formed and fuels increasingly volatile strains of American masculinity.“Send us your boy and we will return to you a man.” Since the dawn of America, the military has articulated some version of this pledge, solidly staking its claim on the monumental work of building the American man. When investigative reporter Jasper Craven first dug into Valley Forge Military Academy five years ago, he uncovered an acrid strain of masculinity that was raw, violent, fiercely hierarchical, and quickly mutating out of control. Initially, he had assumed that military education was a dying, outmoded brand. But as he looked deeper, he found a sprawling, well-funded network featuring dozens of military schools, like Valley Forge and West Point, plus thousands of ROTC programs in public colleges and high schools that allowed the Pentagon to wield outsized power on education. In an unflinching narrative, Craven explores how the military has come to define American masculinity and how it often fosters its most toxic traits. Beginning with the American Revolution, Craven shows how the birth of our nation required a new masculine ideal, crafted in the image of George Washington. During the brutality of the Civil War, Craven traces the parallel violence in military hazing culture and the deeply prejudicial culture at places like West Point, which reared Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and other famed Confederates. The first and second World Wars escalated the need for battle-ready youth, and briefly resulted in a relatively noble male archetype, while the Cold War precipitated backlash, resentment, and trauma. This era also marked the beginning of the Christian right’s growing interest in military schools as upholding a patriarchal and fatalistic version of manhood. Vietnam and the antiwar movement fueled the rise of the “troubled teen” and the lying, lawless “operator,” embodied by graduates such as William Westmoreland and Oliver North. As he chronicles the forever wars, Craven brings us up to today, where the military has further burrowed into civilian education. Meanwhile, policies like “don’t ask, don’t tell” and a campaign of Islamophobia, misogyny, and homophobia have crafted a new manhood that is defined by its ability to both diminish and dehumanize “the other” while also being self-destructive. Its exemplars include such military school graduates as Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth. Part sweeping military history, part gripping journalistic investigation, God Forgives, Brothers Don’t lifts the veil on the harmful world of military schools and provides essential context and nuance to the ongoing debate on American masculinity.

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Custer's Last Stand Demystified

The Story of an Epic Defeat

AvBill Rini,Phil Guarnieri

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

618 kr

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Fourth Turning

What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

AvWilliam Strauss,Neil Howe

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

189 kr

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Friare kan ingen vara : på spaning efter den amerikanska idén

AvGöran Rosenberg

Storpocket, Svenska, 2024

164 kr

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"Häromveckan kom uppdaterade nyutgåvor av två välkända böcker om länderna som geopolitiken och kulturen just nu roterar kring. Göran Rosenbergs ”Friare kan ingen vara” och ”Det förlorade landet” är personliga analyser av modernitetens två stora, idéburna nationsprojekt: USA och Israel, som just nu tycks rasa ihop framför våra ögon. De hör också på rent estetiska grunder till den svenska sakprosans mest betydelsefulla verk." -Viktor Malm, Expressen

"Vad har hänt med Amerika?" är en fråga som många ställer sig idag. "Vilka idéer är det som driver Amerika?" var den fråga som Göran Rosenberg ställde sig i sin bok Friare kan ingen vara, som när den första gången utkom i början av 1990-talet väckte stor uppmärksamhet. "Nittiotalets viktigaste bok", skrev en svensk kritiker. "The best book about America written by a European in recent years", skrev en amerikansk kritiker. Friare kan ingen vara är en kombination av reportage och idéhistoria, berättelse och reflektion; en bok som ger perspektiv på Amerikas agerande i världen och på hemmaplan, som sätter in rasismen, isolationismen och antikommunismen i ett spännande historiskt perspektiv.

När Friare kan ingen vara nu ges ut igen är det i en uppdaterad och utvidgad upplaga där Göran Rosenberg dels följer upp några av berättelserna och händelserna i boken och dels i ett nyskrivet kapitel följer den amerikanska idéns dramatiska metamorfoser i den turbulenta epoken efter den 11 september 2001.

The Path to Power

The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

AvRobert A. Caro

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

307 kr

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Washington DC : makten, historien, kulturen

AvMaria Bouroncle,Karin Henriksson

Häftad, Svenska, 2025

252 kr

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"Med sin personliga och engagerande berättarstil skapar författarna såväl läslust som reslust." Christer Olsson/BTJ

På vilken bänkrad satt Abraham Lincoln när han blev skjuten? Vad äter republikaner helst till middag? Var kan man besöka ett museum för spioneri?

Washington DC – Makten, historien, kulturen är en underhållande, insatt och fängslande bok om en annan sida av USA. I Washington DC fattas besluten som påverkar hela världen: Vita huset, Kapitolium och Högsta domstolen står som symboler för USA:s politiska makt. Men staden är så mycket mer än ett maktcentrum. Det är en grön, promenadvänlig stad där historia, kultur och vardagsliv möts.

Läs om allt från George Washingtons vision och slavarnas byggnadsarbete till dagens mångkulturella stad, präglad av medborgarrättsrörelser, aktivism och sociala spänningar. Följ presidentfamiljernas vanor, skandalerna som skakat Vita huset, men också människor i kvarteren bortom maktens kulisser – i Georgetown, Anacostia eller Adams Morgan.

Författarna, själva bosatta i staden, går in på djupet såväl när det gäller allt från stadens fascinerande historia till krogliv, shopping och politik. Och åtskilligt mer därtill.

Maria Bouroncle flyttade till Washington 2002 och arbetade under många år med bistånd på en internationell organisation. Hon publicerade sin första bok 2018 och arbetar idag som författare, föreläsare och skrivlärare på bland annat University of Michigan. Maria bor i Georgetown och tycker det bästa med DC är våren; när magnoliorna blommar, syrsorna spelar och invånarna är ännu vänligare än vanligt.

Karin Henriksson anlände till Washington i slutet av 1980-talet och ångrar inte ett ögonblick att hon blev kvar i supermaktens huvudstad med allt som bjuds. Hon har rapporterat i en lång rad svenska medier och har skrivit flera böcker om amerikansk politik. Hennes favoritmånad är oktober, med sol, klar luft och intensiva höstfärger i Rock Creek Park nedanför hennes skrivbord i stadsdelen Cleveland Park.

American Labyrinth

Intellectual History for Complicated Times

AvRaymond Haberski,Andrew Hartman

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

437 kr

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American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too.â•ChoiceIntellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions.This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics of widespread interest. Raymond Haberski Jr. and Andrew Hartman asked a group of nimble, sharp scholars to respond to a simple question: How might the resources of intellectual history help shed light on contemporary issues with historical resonance? The answers-all rigorous, original, and challenging-are as eclectic in approach and temperament as the authors are different in their interests and methods. Taken together, the essays of American Labyrinth illustrate how intellectual historians, operating in many different registers at once and ranging from the theoretical to the political, can provide telling insights for understanding a public sphere fraught with conflict.In order to understand why people are ready to fight over cultural symbols and political positions we must have insight into how ideas organize, enliven, and define our lives. Ultimately, as Haberski and Hartman show in this volume, the best route through our contemporary American labyrinth is the path that traces our practical and lived ideas.

Double Plays and Double Crosses

The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920

AvDon Zminda

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

452 kr

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"[An] essential study of a previously unexplored chapter of the game’s history. An important addition to baseball collections...." Library Journal, Starred ReviewThe gripping story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history—the Black Sox scandal—continued for nearly a year following the fixed World Series of 1919 until the truth began to emerge.The Black Sox scandal has fascinated sports fans for over one hundred years. But while the focus has traditionally been on the fixed 1919 World Series, the reality is that it continued well into the following season—and members of the Chicago White Sox very likely continued to fix games. The result was a year of suspicion, intrigue, and continued betrayal.In Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920, Don Zminda tells the story of an unforgettable team and an unforgettable year in baseball and American history. Zminda reveals in captivating detail how the Black Sox scandal unfolded in 1920, the level of involvement in game-fixing by notable players like Shoeless Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver, and the complicity of White Sox management in covering up details of the scandal. In addition, Zminda provides an in-depth investigation of games during the 1920 season that were likely fixed and the discovery during the year of other game-fixing scandals that rocked baseball. Throughout 1920, the White Sox continued to play—and usually win—despite mistrust among teammates. Double Plays and Double Crosses tells for the first time what happened during this season, when suspicion was rampant and the team was divided between “clean” players and those suspected of fixing the 1919 World Series.

Gales of November

The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

AvJohn U. Bacon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

322 kr

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For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no ship represented the apex of the American Century better than the 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald—the biggest, best, and most profitable ship on the Lakes.But on November 10, 1975, as the “storm of the century” threw 100 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot waves on Lake Superior, the Mighty Fitz found itself at the worst possible place, at the worst possible time. When she sank, she took all 29 men onboard down with her, leaving the tragedy shrouded in mystery for a half century.In The Gales of November, award-winning journalist John U. Bacon presents the definitive account of the disaster, drawing on more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost. Bacon explores the vital role Great Lakes shipping played in America’s economic boom, the uncommon lives the sailors led, the sinking’s most likely causes, and the heartbreaking aftermath for those left behind—"the wives, the sons, and the daughters,” as Gordon Lightfoot sang in his unforgettable ballad.Focused on those directly affected by the tragedy, The Gales of November is both an emotional tribute to the lives lost and a propulsive, page-turning narrative history of America’s most-mourned maritime disaster.