''Throughout this scrupulously researched interpretation of The Federalist papers, Carey provides a glimpse of our Republic's original design. He shows us what kind of federal union The Federalist's authors had in mind, and indicates how we have strayed from their intent.'' -- Paul Gottfried, National Review ''The best book yet published on The ......
This edition features a new foreword by Paul Buhle and a new epilogue by the author.''A brilliant work. It deals with this nation's rough-and-ready methods for dealing with ideological nonconformists.''--Justice William O. Douglas, The Washington Post ''Ought to be on the shelf of everyone who is concerned with the history of American civil ......
Demolishes the myth of an unremmitingly hostile relationship between organized labor and theNew Left. A valuable addition to the literature of the 1960s, refreshingly new and different. --Bruce Nelson, authors of Workers on the Waterfront.
In Out of Darkness William Hanchett, a leading Lincoln Scholar, follows Abraham Lincoln from his birth and chronicles his thirst for education, his achievements as a lawyer and congressman, his presidency, and his assassination. Hanchett gives readers a deeper understanding of how Lincoln's self-directed study and clear thinking offset his lack of ......
Provides a rich prism through which to explore the social, economic, and political developmentof black Cincinnati. These studies offer insight into both the dynamics of racism and acommunity's changing responses to it. -- Peter Rachleff, author of Black Labor inRichmond
A movement for ''Americanization'' swept the nation during and after World War I, fueled by wartime hysteria over ''foreign'' ways. Eileen Tamura examines the forms that hysteria took in Hawaii, where the Nisei (children of Japanese immigrants) were targets of widespread discrimination.Tamura analyzes Hawaii's organized effort to force the Nisei ......
Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union
The Inner Civil War is a classic that has influenced historians' views of the Civil War and American intellectual change in the nineteenth century. This edition includes a new preface in which the author demonstrates the continuing relevance of the work and updates its interpretations.
An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives
The Stonemans is an eye-opening slice of Americana---a trip through nearly twenty years of country music history following a single family from their native Blue Ridge Mountains to the slums of Washington, D.C., and the glitter of Nashville. As early as 1924 Ernest V. ''Pop'' Stoneman realized the potential of what is now known as country music, ......
Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where different groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished national stories and to argue about the meaning of ......
