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This is the first truly comprehensive history of the political explosion that shook America in the 1970s and whose aftereffects are still being felt in public life today. Drawing on contemporary documents, personal interviews, memoirs, and a vast quantity of new material, Stanley Kutler shows how President Nixon's obstruction of justice from the WH...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-12-11T08:30:49.000ZAbraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, but he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. In fact, Lincoln’s record on the Constitution and civil liberties has fueled more than a century of debate—from charges that he singled out Democrats for harrassment to his depiction as an absolute dictator. Mark E. Neely, Jr...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-11-03T00:29:52.000ZA chilling inside story of America’s racist underground—the most heinous domestic terror group in our nation’s history.Two courageous investigative journalists deliver an insider’s account of the “silent brotherhood”— the most dangerous radical-right hate group to surface since the Ku Klux Klan. They claim to be patriots, as American as apple pie, ...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-10-07T06:39:42.000ZWhat some of the people have been forced to endure in Colorado City is little different from living in a third world country. TEN-YEAR-OLD Benjamin Bistline moved with his parents to Short Creek (Colorado City), Arizona, in 1945 to join with a group of excommunicated Mormons who believed in honoring the law of polygamy as revealed by the Prophet Jo...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-06-12T23:44:31.000ZDuring the Revolutionary era, American political theory underwent a fundamental transformation that carried the nation out of a basically classical and medieval world of political discussion into a milieu that was recognizably modern. This classic work is a study of that transformation. Gordon Wood describes in rich detail the evolution of politica...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-06-03T16:14:52.000Z“A stunning job of reporting.”—New York TimesOn the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over Ruby Ridge in northern Idaho. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of Federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. And ever since the standoff ended, Ruby Ridge has been recognized ...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-05-12T21:24:53.000Z
Apostles Of Discord
A Study Of Organized Bigotry And Disruption On The Fringes Of Protestantism
Mark Pitcavage
2022-03-16T21:41:08.000Z
Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914–1947
Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City (Central European Studies)
Known as Lemberg in German and Lwów in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for much of the twentieth century. This book tells the compelling story of how its inhabitants (Roman Catholic Poles, Greek Catholic Ukrainians, and Jews) reacted to the sweeping political changes during and ...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-03-11T01:52:24.000ZAmericans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Sovie...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-03-11T01:52:23.000ZRomania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Grant T. Harward shows that, of an estimated 300,000 Jews who perished in Romania and Romanian-occupied Ukraine, more than 64,000 were, in fact, killed by Romanian soldiers. Moreover, the Romanian Army condu...
Mark Pitcavage
2022-03-11T01:52:07.000ZRevolutionary Iran by Michael Axworthy
Washington's Revolution by Robert Middlekauff
Washington by Ron Chernow
Rabble Rousers by Clive Webb
Sketches from a Secret War by Timothy Snyder
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Gerald L. K. Smith by Glen Jeansonne
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Women of the Far Right by Glen Jeansonne
Abraham Lincoln by John Torrey Morse