Messengers of the Right

Nicole Hemmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporar... Lees meer

Before Harlem

Marcy S Sacks

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In the years between 1880 and 1915, New York City and its environs underwent a tremendous demographic transformation with the arrival of millions of E... Lees meer

The Battle for Welfare Rights

Felicia Kornbluh

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The Battle for Welfare Rights chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves. It tells the fascinating stor... Lees meer

Far-Right Vanguard

John S Huntington

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, and its influence on Republican Party politics Donald Trump shocked the nation in... Lees meer

Tax and Spend

Molly C Michelmore

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they rec... Lees meer

This Is My Jail

Melanie Newport

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States... Lees meer

Equality on Trial

Katherine Turk

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal attributes as sex, race, a... Lees meer

Intellectuals Incorporated

Robert Vanderlan

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Publishing tycoon Henry Luce famously championed many conservative causes, and his views as a capitalist and cold warrior were reflected in his glossy... Lees meer

Her Neighbor's Wife

Lauren Jae Gutterman

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters i... Lees meer

The Employee

Jean-Christian Vinel

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• A political, legal, intellectual, and social history of employment in America In the present age of temp work, telecommuting, and outsourcing, million... Lees meer

Set the World on Fire

Keisha N Blain

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to W... Lees meer

In the Heat of the Summer

Michael W Flamm

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the hi... Lees meer

Mapping Decline

Colin Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, ... Lees meer

In the Crossfire

John P Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• As media reports declare crisis after crisis in public education, Americans find themselves hotly debating educational inequalities that seem to viola... Lees meer

Homeless

Ella Howard

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did prev... Lees meer

Illusions of Progress

Brent Cebul

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Today, the word "neoliberal" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoli... Lees meer

The Closet and the Cul-De-Sac

Clayton Howard

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a ral... Lees meer

Messengers of the Right

Nicole Hemmer

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporar... Lees meer

The 4-H Harvest

Gabriel N Rosenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• 4-H, the iconic rural youth program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has enrolled more than 70 million Americans over the last century. As t... Lees meer

Queer Clout

Timothy Stewart-Winter

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who... Lees meer

The Silver Women

Joan Flores-Villalobos

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project'... Lees meer

Set the World on Fire

Keisha N Blain

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to W... Lees meer

The Right and Labor in America

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• The legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction... Lees meer

Governing Bodies

Rachel Louise Moran

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda t... Lees meer