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Author: Gerard N. Magliocca
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-06-28
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0300153147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at how William Jennings Bryan's attempts to reach the White House invigorated conservatives across the United States and changed approaches to constitutional law.
Author: Michael Kazin
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2007-03-13
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0385720564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Politician, evangelist, and reformer William Jennings Bryan was the most popular public speaker of his time. In this acclaimed biography—the first major reconsideration of Bryan’s life in forty years–award-winning historian Michael Kazin illuminates his astonishing career and the richly diverse and volatile landscape of religion and politics in which he rose to fame. Kazin vividly re-creates Bryan’s tremendous appeal, showing how he won a passionate following among both rural and urban Americans, who saw in him not only the practical vision of a reform politician but also the righteousness of a pastor. Bryan did more than anyone to transform the Democratic Party from a bulwark of laissez-faire to the citadel of liberalism we identify with Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1896, 1900, and 1908, Bryan was nominated for president, and though he fell short each time, his legacy–a subject of great debate after his death–remains monumental. This nuanced and brilliantly crafted portrait restores Bryan to an esteemed place in American history.
Author: Gerard N. Magliocca
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on key Supreme Court battles during Jackson's tenure--states' rights, the status of Native Americans and slaves, and many others--to demonstrate how the fights between Jacksonian Democrats and Federalists, and later Republicans, is simply the inevitable--and cyclical--shift in constitutional interpretation that happens from one generation to the next.
Author: William Jennings Bryan
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Twain
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Linda K. Kerber
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-09
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0809073846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time. She begins during the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," and ends in the present, when men and women still have different obligations to serve in the armed forces.
Author: Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780393330045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning author Stone has created an in-depth examination of how constitutional rights have fared under the current president, and reveals how the government has suppressed civil liberties in times of war throughout American history.
Author: Terry Golway
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-03-03
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 0871407922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland’s potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammany’s transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms—such as child labor laws, workers’ compensation, and minimum wages— and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammany’s profound contribution. Culminating in FDR’s New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall “changed the role of government—for the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivals” (New York Observer).
Author: Diana Preston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-05-01
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 0802713750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania offers a portrait of early twentieth-century maritime history and the terrible impact of the disaster on the course of World War I.
Author: Benjamin Roth
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2009-07-22
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1586488376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression—one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.
