Discovering America – serie
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Conspiracy Theory in America
Häftad, 2014
192 kr
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Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service-and possibly even senior …
All-American Boy
Av Larzer Ziff
Inbunden, 2012
265 kr
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From his celebrated appearance, hatchet in hand, in Parson Mason Locke Weems’s Life of Washington to Booth Tarkington’s Penrod, the all-American boy was an iconic figure in American literature for well over a century. Sometimes he was a “good boy,” whose dutiful behavior was intended as a model for …
Pure Solar World
Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
Häftad, 2023
294 kr
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Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his …
Greenback Planet
How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization As We Know It
Av H. W. Brands
Inbunden, 2011
295 kr
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The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely-even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially catastrophic cost of the dollar's hegemony. But …
Founding Finance
How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
Häftad, 2014
209 kr
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Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both …
Family Jewels
The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power
Av John Prados
Häftad, 2014
385 kr
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In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over many years shocked …
Becoming Belafonte
Black Artist, Public Radical
Häftad, 2016
289 kr
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A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential players on …
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream
Av Josh Ozersky
Häftad, 2012
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263 kr
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From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars’ worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person-Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside cafÉ in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders …
Mechanical Horse
How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
Häftad, 2018
209 kr
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With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The …
American Christianity
The Continuing Revolution
Av Stephen Cox
Inbunden, 2014
301 kr
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Christianity takes an astonishing variety of forms in America, from churches that cherish traditional modes of worship to evangelical churches and fellowships, Pentecostal churches, social-action churches, megachurches, and apocalyptic churches-congregations ministering to believers of diverse …
Being Miss America
Behind the Rhinestone Curtain
Av Kate Shindle
Inbunden, 2014
304 kr
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For nearly a hundred years, young women have competed for the title of Miss America-although what it means to wear the crown and be our “ideal” has changed dramatically over time. The Miss America Pageant began as a bathing beauty contest in 1920s Atlantic City, New Jersey, sponsored by businessmen …
Killer on the Road
Violence and the American Interstate
Häftad, 2014
281 kr
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Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them-the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the …
