For nearly a decade Ralph Bunche, United Nations Under-Secretary, was the most celebrated contemporary African American, both domestically and internationally, but today he is virtually forgotten. This biography sets out to recapture the essence of his service to America and the world.
Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts, was despised for being ardently loyal to the Crown in the days leading up to the American Revolution. This biography traces his decline from respected member of Boston's governing class to leading object of America's revolutionary hostility.
The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Theodore Laidley
Lieutenant Theodore Laidley, whose army career spanned forty years until his retirement as a colonel in 1882, was a young officer during the Mexican War. Like so many of his fellow soldiers he wrote long letters home describing new and unusual sights and events. Laidley landed at Veracruz on the Mexican coast in March 1847, and assisted in the ......
Kennedy scholars and younger historians go beyond the Camelot and counter-Camelot stereotypes of JFK, drawing on recently declassified documents. They examine key issues of the Kennedy administration, including Vietnam, the Cuban missile crisis, the space race, trade policy, and Kennedy's extramari
Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
A biography of Savitri Devi (1905-1982), the unusual woman who believed Hitler was an avatar and attempted to combine Hinduism and anti-Semitism. The author discusses Devi's denial of the Holocaust, her appeal to neo-Nazis, and the relationship of her beliefs to animal rights, social Darwinism, and
Patrick Pearse, an important Irish journalist, educator, and artist, came to play the pivotal role in the Easter Rising of 1916. Here Sean Farrell Moran examines Pearse within the context of contemporary Irish politics and culture to explain how this unlikely revolutionary became the spokesman of the violent forces within the nationalist movement.
Careful not to endow the Revolutionary generation with mythical proportions of virtue, the author shows how Arnold suffered because of his lack of political savvy in dealing with those who attacked his honor and reputation. He traces Arnold's life from his difficult childhood through his grueling w
Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics
Offering a critical analysis of Louis Farrakhan's ascent to national influence, the author argues that the minister's rise to prominence is a function of race and reaction in contemporary America. He probes the origins and significance of Farrakhan in American politics.
The Guide to the Presidency is an extensive study of the most important office of the U.S. political system. Its two volumes describe the history, workings and people involved in this office from Washington to Clinton. The thirty-seven chapters of the Guide , arranged into seven distinct subject areas (ranging from the origins of the office to the ......
