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Why we fought: forging American obligations in World War II
Born again bodies: flesh and spirit in American Christianity
In: California studies in food and culture 12
The fall of the house of Roosevelt: brokers of ideas and power from FDR to LBJ
In: Columbia studies in contemporary American history
In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle
German and Japanese business in the boom years: transforming American management and technology models
In: Routledge international studies in business history 10
Unmaking Goliath: community control in the face of global capital
Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heightened capital mobility in order to retain autonomy and further social justice.
Party games: getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics
Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the story and admires much of the political carnival, but adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, election-rigging, news suppression, and violence.
Remapping Asian American history
In: Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series
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