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The first book to sum up the consequences of the cold war for Americans.

The classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series.

A lively survey of Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and how the Great Fair mirrored American values and tastes at the turn of the century. American Ways Series.

Moliere's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning.

For thirteen years, during a time of Democratic cogressional dominance in Washington, Dan Rostenkowski was one of the most influential American legislators of the twentieth century.

In this bountiful selection of his most memorable columns, baseball fans can recapture some of baseball's greatest moments and unforgettable characters.

Noted John F. Kennedy historian O'Brien has distilled the findings of his heavily detailed biography of a few years ago into a compact life that touches on all the important issues and incorporates the findings and judgments of major works since the president's death.

Explores the processes of social change in the late colonial period and early years of the new republic that made a dramatic imprint on the character of American society.

For years, readers have longed for a biography to match Nash's charm, wit, and good nature; now we have it in Douglas Parker's absorbing and delightful life of the poet.

Schaefer has translated three of Schnitzler's greatest novellas-- "Dying", "Flight into Darkness", and "Fraulein Else".

In developed and developing countries around the world, birth and fertility rates have begun to fall at an astonishing rate unprecedented in human history.

Analyzing the struggle by evangelical Protestants for the mind and soul of America in the decades before the Civil War, Johnson lucidly explores the nature of the evangelical message, the conflict of ideas within the movement, and the influence of these forces-both immediate and far-reaching-on American culture. American Ways Series.

The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them.

A masterful account of Lyndon Johnson and America's fall into Vietnam by one of our finest historians, filled with fresh interpretations, deft portraits, and new perspectives.

A reappraisal of American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era, focusing on episodes, personalities, and institutions, and based upon fresh evidence that overturns a great deal of received wisdom.

With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and ...

David Hardin tells the compelling and often moving stories of eleven prominent Civil War figures after the war. Their struggle would be a constant tug back toward a destroyed past, and a confrontation with the reality of being strangers in their own land.

Contrary to widely held views of Ronald Reagan as a reflexive man of action, this book argues that he was drawn to and driven by ideas. It states that Reagan, during his presidency, articulated important new concepts that fundamentally reshaped American foreign policy.

What is the nature and scope of the American empire, and what are its prospects and challenges? In this timely and thought-provoking collection, leading scholars and observers consider the new reality of American power in the world and what consequences it may bring at home and abroad. "First-rate...a most valuable collection."-Walter LaFeber.

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs , John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that promote the unity of a vast nation and a diverse people-because they have been shared and acted upon by generations of Americans.

Shows that the experiences of depression-era children help us understand the course of the 1930s as well as the history of American childhood. This book states that federal policy extended childhood dependence through the teen years while cultural changes reinforced this ideal of modern childhood.

Andrew Schlesinger tells the fascinating story of Harvard College as an American institution. He examines the important actions and decisions of its leadership from Puritan times to the present.

This work shows how, on November 7, 1841, the "Creole" was transporting slaves from Richmond to the auction block at New Orleans. A band of slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew, and forced the ship to sail into Nassau harbour, where the British offered them freedom.

The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. "One can ask for no better guidebook."-M. Thomas Inge.

The causes, consequences, and follies of the sixties revolt.

Faded Mosaic will be an important and controversial milestone in our cultural self-understanding.