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From El Dorado to Lost Horizons
(April 2019)
Traditionalist Films in the Hollywood Renaissance, 1967-1972
Ken Windrum - Author
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Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.
The era known as the Hollywood Renaissance is celebrated as a time when revolutionary movies broke all the rules of the previous “classical” era as part of the ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Yet many films during this era did not overtly smash the system but provided more tr...(Read More) |
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The Politics of Paradigms
(April 2019)
Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War “Struggle for Men’s Minds”
George A. Reisch - Author
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Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
The Politics of Paradigms shows that America’s most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn’s political interests, his relationship ...(Read More) |
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Forest and Crag
(March 2019)
A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Laura Waterman - Author
Guy Waterman - Author
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Battling Editor
(January 2019)
The Albany Years
Harry Rosenfeld - Author
William Kennedy - Foreword by
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Recounts the transformation of two daily newspapers in the face of economic downturns and sweeping technological change.
In 1978, Harry Rosenfeld left the Washington Post, where he oversaw the paper’s standard-setting coverage of Watergate, to take charge of two daily papers under co-ownership in Albany, New York: the morning Times Union and the evening Knickerbocker News. It was a particularly challeng...(Read More) |
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Facing toward the Dawn
(January 2019)
The Italian Anarchists of New London
Richard Lenzi - Author
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Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.
In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vibrant anarchist movement that existed in New London’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood for seventy years. Comprised of immigrants fro...(Read More) |
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One America?
(December 2018)
Presidential Appeals to Racial Resentment from LBJ to Trump
Nathan Angelo - Author
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Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archetypal white, Middle-American swing voter.
Despite major advancements in civil rights in the United States since the 1960s, racial inequality continues to persist in American society. While it may appear that presidents do not address the topic of race, it lurks in the background of presidenti...(Read More) |
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The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority
(December 2018)
Michael A. Dichio - Author
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Traces the US Supreme Court’s effect on federal government growth from the founding era forward.
This book explores the US Supreme Court’s impact on the constitutional development of the federal government from the founding era forward. The author’s research is based on an original database of several hundred landmark decisions compiled from constitutional law casebooks and treatises published between 182...(Read More) |
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Get Things Moving!
(October 2018)
FDR, Wayne Coy, and the Office for Emergency Management, 1941-1943
Mordecai Lee - Author
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Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management’s Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.
Shortly after Hitler’s armies invaded Western Europe in May of 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt activated a new agency within the Executive Office of the President called the Office for Emergency Management (OEM). The OEM went on to house many prewar and wartime agen...(Read More) |
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Welcome to Fear City
(October 2018)
Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination
Nathan Holmes - Author
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Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.
The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with...(Read More) |
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The New Welfare Consensus
(August 2018)
Ideological, Political, and Social Origins
Darren Barany - Author
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Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.
Families on welfare in the United States are the target of much public indignation from not only the general public but also political figures and the very workers whose job it is to help the poor. The question is, What explains this animus and, more specifically, the failure of the United States to prioritize a sufficient social wage fo...(Read More) |
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