Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon's fall from office -- one of the gravest crises in presidential history.

    Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —NewsweekNow in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David Potter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history of antebellum America offers an indispensible analysis of the causes of the war between the states. The Journal of Southern History calls Potter’s incisive account, “modern scholarship’s most comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War,” and the New York Times Book Review hails it as “profound and original…. History in the grand tradition.”

    Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century.This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.

    Includes 5 battle maps.

    This title is organized around several main groupings: first, Practical Matters - quick reference travel information presented in an easy-to-use format; Viewing - information on what see in this land of contrasts, from flora and fauna to folklore, history and food; What to See - alphabetical listings of places to visit, with star ratings, map references and practical information; Features - special sections featuring, for example, winter sports, glaciers, railways and scenic journeys; Where to - detailed listings of the best places to eat, drink, stay, shop and be entertained.

    A narrative of the events, lives, and historical trends that shaped the early years of the War for Independence, emphasizing the development of colonial unity and the actions of the British government.

    This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the "heroic age" of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evaluates contemporary controversies over the ethnohistory of eastern Canada.

    215 rare vintage views — from first daguerreotype made in America (1839) to eve of World War I — capture the charm of yesteryear: panoramas, street scenes, landmarks, President-elect Lincoln's visit, 1876 Centennial Exposition, much more.

    In Munich as Chamberlain abandoned the Czechs, in Vienna during the Anschluss, in Berlin when Germany blitzed Poland...Shirer was there.If ever a journalist was at the right place at the right time, it was Shirer. In this second volume of his memoirs, he provides an eyewitness and intensely personal interpretation of Hitler.Shirer knew Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Hess, Heydrich and Eichmann, and with them often observed Hitler at first hand...close enough, he noted, "to kill him."

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    These searingly vivid eyewitness reports form a continuous narrative of the war on all fronts, in the east and west, on land and sea, in battle and behind the lines in both South and North, from the first guns fired at Fort Sumter to the final stillness at Appomattox. The voices belong to the leaders and the generals, common soldiers and ordinary civilians, all caught up in the tumult and tidal movement of vast events. The result is the Civil War as it really was and what it really meant to America and Americans.

    The effect is a striking view of the Revolution that provides not only a much-needed perspective on the role of minority groups in an era of social upheaval but also presents a panorama of such complexity and vitality that American history itself becomes more meaningful and more exciting than anything we have heretofore imagined.

    Major contributors were under IRS investigation, and Republican lackeys were threatening further trouble if those donors didn't close their checkbooks. O'Neill sensed a conspiracy coming from the Nixon administration, but it wasn't until the scandal broke that he connected the threatened donors with the Watergate burglary. In the boldest move of his career, he did something that would shock the nation: O'Neill decided to impeach the President. To his fellow members of the House of Representatives, this was an ugly idea. But as evidence mounted against Nixon and his cronies, O'Neill led the charge against the President. This blow-by-blow, conviction-by-conviction account is a gripping reminder of how O'Neill and his colleagues brought justice to those who abused their power, and revived America after the greatest political scandal in its history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.

    Examines arts projects run during the 1930s which were funded by the Works Progress Administration.

    Contains Epilogue mentioning Vietnam (1967).

    

    

    

    It was a period when the African-American came of age, with the clearest expression of this transformation visible inthe remarkable outpouring of literature, art, and music. In these years the New Negro was born, as seen in the shift of black leadership from Booker T. Washington to that of W.E.B. Du Bois, from Tuskegee to New York, and for some, even to the African nationalism of Marcus Garvey.In Voices from the Harlem Renaissance, Nathan Irvin Huggins provides more than 120 selections from the political writings and arts of the period, each depicting the meaning of blackness and the nature of African-American art and its relation to social statement. Through these pieces, Hugginsestablishes the context in which the art of Harlem Renaissance occurred. We read the call to action by pre-Renaissance black spokesmen, such as A. Philip Randolph and W.E.B. DuBois who--through magazines such as The Messenger (the only radical Negro magazine), and the NAACP's Crisis--called for aradical transformation of the American economic and social order so as to make a fair world for black men and women. We hear the more flamboyant rhetoric of Marcus Garvey, who rejected the idea of social equality for a completely separate African social order. And we meet Alain Locke, whose workserved to redefine the New Negro in cultural terms, and stands as the cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance.Huggins goes on to offer autobiographical writings, poetry, and stories of such men and women as Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard, Helen Johnson, and Claude McKay--writings that depict the impact of Harlem and New York City on those who lived there, as well as the youthfulness and exuberance of theperiod. The complex question of identity, a very important part of the thought and expression of the Harlem Renaissance, is addressed in work's such as Jean Toomer's Bona and Paul and Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat. And Huggins goes on to attend to the voices of alienation, anger, and rage that appearedin a great deal of the writing to come out of the Harlem Renaissance by poets such as George S. Schuyler and Gwendolyn Bennett. Also included are over twenty illustrations by such artists as Aaron Douglas whose designs illuminated many of the works we associate with the Harlem Renaissance: themagazines Fire and Harlem; Alain Locke's The New Negro; and James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones.The vitality of the Harlem Renaissance served as a generative force for all New York--and the nation. Offering all those interested in the evolution of African-American consciousness and art a link to this glorious time, Voices from the Harlem Renaissance illuminates the African-American strugglefor self-realization.

    

    The primary focus is the world of the American Indian, ranging from the Caddos in the east to the Hopis in the west, and including the histories of the Pueblo, Apache, Navajo, Ute, and Wichita peoples. Within this region, from Texas to New Mexico, the Comanches played a key, formative role, and no less compelling is the story of the Hispanic frontier peoples who weathered the precarious, often arduous process of evolving coexistence with the Indians on the northern frontier of New Spain. First published in 1975, this second edition includes a new preface and afterword by Elizabeth A. H. John, in which she discusses current research issues and the status of the Indian peoples of the Southwest.

    You hold strong faith in Jesus Christ and his gospel.What do you do when you see your country’s actions running counter to the teaching of that faith?How can you justify your country’s idolatry of power and condone the use of violence in light of Jesus Christ’s example of loving servanthood?How do you feel when fellow Christians say your political stand—on war, foreign policy, social concerns both domestic and world-wide—makes them doubt the sincerity of your faith?Is it really possible to follow a career in politics and be faithfully committed to Christ as the same time?In Between a Rock and a Hard Place Senator Mark Hatfield shares his deepest feelings on these questions and others equally crucial. He describes vividly some of the agonies and frustrations of his career. The decision (as Governor of Oregon in 1958) whether to commute or carry out a death sentence of a condemned criminal. The truth—and often, absurdity—of who has influence and power over our nation’s policies. The dangers and evils of a civil religion which sees America as “God’s chosen nation.” The reaction to his 1973 National Prayer Breakfast remarks calling the Vietnam War “a sin.” The disillusionment with “all the pompous pretension, the dehumanizing relationships, the prestige-seeking social life, and the seeming impotence, frustration and emptiness of political endeavor.”Impelled to find direction for his life, Senator Hatfield combed Old and New Testaments as well as early church history for what they had to say of the Christian’s relation to the state: the priorities of allegiance, “just” wars, civil disobedience, hunger and poverty, environmental stewardship.What he found in that study took him from dilemma to decision. “My entire concept of leadership and power underwent a drastic revision,” says Senator Hatfield. “Radical allegiance to Jesus Christ transforms one’s entire perspective on political reality. Priorities become totally changed; a whole new understanding of what is truly important bursts forth. There is an uncompromised identification with the needs of the poor and the oppressed. One is placed in fundamental opposition to structures of injustice and forms of national idolatry. Further, there is a commitment to the power of love as the only means to the end.“Our call is to faithfulness, not to efficacy; it is servanthood rather than power. We know that the most decisive action that we can take to shape history is to follow the way of Christ, to give ourselves to the building of the Body, and to pour out ourselves as he did in love.”

    Here she gives an insider detailed account of Garvey, Garveyism and this nascent period of Black Nationalism. Like all great dreamers and planners, Marcus Garvey dreamed and planned ahead of his time and his peoples' ability to understand the significance of his life's work. A set of circumstances, mostly created by the world colonial powers, crushed this dreamer, but not his dreams. Due to the persistence and years of sacrifice of Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey, widow of Marcus Garvey, a large body of work by and about this great nationalist leader has been preserved and can be made available to a new generation of black people who have the power to turn his dreams into realities. From the introduction by John Henrik Clarke

    independence. Readers will discover Edward Hector, the brave wagoner of Brandywine; artilleryman and slave Austin Dabney; William Lee, the aide and closest companion of George Washington throughout the war; and many others.      Includes a bibliography, a foreword by Senator Edward W. Brooke, and an index.

    Explanatory essays on Native Americans, the first American revolution, the Civil War, the rise of industrial capitalism, and the first wave of the fight for women's rights.

    From 1765-1775 the Colonists engaged in a Constitutional Debate to determine their Biblical basis for the American Revolution. The "Introduction" includes some of Verna Hall's finest writing on American Christianity.Biographies, Scriptural references, and Index of Leading Ideas included.

    A major reinterpretation of the nature and uses of power and its institutions in the twentieth century, with a new epilogue

    Hunger and homelessness were no strangers to him. He spent his first night in New York in a municipal flophouse but when he died he was a Communist member of the New York City Council mourned by hundreds of thousands who came to know him in the tumultuous '30s and '40s. There may be no laws bearing his name, but many of the demands for which Pete fought, be it unemployment insurance, social security or the prohibition of racist advertisements, have today become commonplace realities. It can fairly be said that Pete's career illustrates the old saw that yesterday's soapbox speech often becomes today's solid statute.

    Reissued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII, this is an important historical work by Ben Gradus, the producer of the television series.

    Army battles three powerful Indian tribes-the Comanches, Kiowas, and Southern Cheyennes-in the Texas Panhandle.

    With wit, clarity, and dramatic effect, Samuel B. Griffith II vivifies the characters and incidents of the period on both sides of the Atlantic, drawing from  personal diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, and detailed battle maps to create a unique alternative to standard histories of the period. This enduring and exceptionally readable resource, first published in 1976 under the title In Defense of the Public Liberty: Britain, America, and the Struggle for Independence from 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781, was honored with the Sons of Liberty Award for the best book on the American Revolution.

    On the night of December 15, 1811, drunk and enraged over the breaking of a pitcher, Lilburne bound his seventeen-year-old slave, George, and, in front of the assembled household’s other slaves, cut off his head. The brothers were indicted for murder, released on bail, and attempted suicide.Boynton Merrill Jr. explores the tragic combination of circumstances and social forces that culminated in this ghastly event: the lawlessness of the frontier settlements, the dehumanizing effects of chattel slavery, and the Lewis family’s history of mental instability and their ever-declining fortunes.

    This second edition offers a revised and greatly expanded look at this unique community on the Mississippi Delta---a fearsome place, difficult enough for buildiing houses, lunacy for wharves and skyscrapers.-

    

    The meeting signaled the beginning of Imperial Germany's astonishing state and naval policies toward the United States--a volatile relationship shaken from the first by misunderstanding, later poisoned by jealousy, and twice culminating in total war.Indeed, almost from its outset in the Pacific, German-American rivalry generated such antagonism that the Kaiser's strategists had prepared detailed contingency plans for the invasion of the United States as early as the turn of the century.In Politics of Frustration, Holger H, Herwig, whose recent discovery of the invasion plan made front-page headlines in the New York Times and around the world, reveals the formation of this plan--and others like it--as part of his searching examination of three periods in German-American naval relations: the er of colonial competition from 1889 to 1905; the German-American conflict during World War I, 1917-1918; and the National Socialist period to 1941, ending in Hitler's declaration of war against the United States. Throughout his fully documented narrative, Herwig shows how German naval strategy was based on exaggerated notions of American incompetence, compounded by an alarming lack of information concerning U.S. industrial and military potential, and distorted further under the Third Reich by crude racial and economic arguments. From the rise of the "Father" of the Imperial German Navy, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, through the career of the commander in chief of Hitler's Kriegsmarine, Admiral Ernst Raeder, the image of the United States that prevailed was a Germany's ultimate world rival and chief co-conspirator with England in preventing German expansion outside Europe.How this image affected German strategy and objectives through the years is brilliantly explored in Politics of Frustration. Judiciously balancing economic and sociopolitical factors, historical circumstances, and incisive characterizations of the participants, Herwig's account addresses itself to a succession of important questions. Why did Germany and the United States enter the naval race at almost identical moments in 1890? What were Germany's intentions in the Western hemisphere? Why did the Reich opt for unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917, knowing full well that such a policy would put her squarely on a collision course with America? Why did U.S. naval officers--led by Admiral George Dewey--regard Germany as their most probable enemy? And finally, what prompted Hitler in December 1941 to repeat what he considered had been one of the cardinal errors of the First World War: conflict with the United States?In the author's answers to these questions, and in his dramatic treatment of his subject--from the German admiralty's barely thwarted "Armageddon" at sea in late 1918 that would have pitted the Kaiser's fleet against the British and U.S. navies to Hitler's dreamed destruction of America through long-range bomber attacks from the Azores--Politics of Frustration combines exciting reading with a fine achievement in historical writing.

    s/t: A Documentary Sourcebook of Constitutions, Declarations, Addresses, Resolutions, and Toasts

    During this period of the Bicentennial celebration of the Revolution, the author has endeavored to rescue from oblivion the names of these soldiers who were pioneer settlers in an area which was at the time part of the American frontier.As the names of veterans were uncovered, in addition to data on their service in the Revolutionary War, data were collected on their personal lives before and after the Revolution. County records, pension records, local histories, contemporary newspaper accounts, and records from historical and genealogical publications were among the sources used to compile the data on the individual veterans.The names of 192 men who apparently aided the cause of American independence and who settled in Maury County, Tennessee, were uncovered. Biographical sketches of all the men studied are included in this work.(from inside of the dust jacket)

    Presidents — United States — Biography.

    LCCN 76-547.

    Book by Schuker, Stephen A.