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Astory of courage--in space, at NASA, and at the homes of thoseinvolved" (Houston Chronicle), Apollo 13 recounts America"sfifth mission to... "A highly relevant and much-needed historical study . . . One of the best books on the period to have been written." --"The Economist"To the...
Whether you lived through the '60s and '70s or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the "Hippie Dictionary" entertains as... When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the...
In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts. By nearly every measure, American power was no longer unrivalled.... One of the most influental political science works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of "Essence of Decision" is a...
The celebration of an era, this ultimate, beautiful, illuminating, and "really groovy" look at the 1960's counterculture is rich in... Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"--at last published nearly fifty years after its completion--offers a revisionist reexamination of World War...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fitzgerald shows how Ronald Reagan, was able to initiate S.D.I., the Star Wars missile defense program.... In The Fiery Cross, Wyn Craig Wade traces the history of the Klan from its beginnings after the Civil War as a social club in Pulaski,...
A resissue of the gripping and bestselling account of the perilous showdown between the United States and Soviet Union in 1962. Includes a... A Cuban refugee raised in Miami, Maria Cristina Garcia presents a comprehensive and revealing account of the unprecedented Cuban migration...
After World War II the United States faced two preeminent challenges: how to administer its responsibilities abroad as the world's strongest... The most significant conquest of the 20th century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois...
Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the... Argues that JFK 's Alliance for Progress failed because of his determination to fight the Cold War throughout Latin America and the...
By illuminating the close ties between the U.S. government and right-wing dictatorships between 1921 and 1965, David Schmitz challenges the... As this text reveals, while transracial adoption is a practice traditionally considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional,...
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