American Icons: Frank Sinatra celebrates the legendary crooner who defined American music, class, and style for a generations. From his early years during the swing era to his solo career and time with the famous Rat Pack, this book explores the colorful, exciting life of Ol' Blue Eyes.
American Icons: Corvette celebrates the vehicle that defined high-performance. Debuting in the early 1950s as a concept car, the Chevy Corvette became an instant symbol of automotive ingenuity and since then has introduced generations to a lifelong love of American sports cars. This book delves into the Corvette's history and explores its place ......
The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United States
American Hysteria puts readers at the center of the nation's most prominent periods of political extremism, from the Anti-Illuminati movement of the 1790s to McCarthyism in the 1950s to the Anti-Sharia movement of today. Both a deep dive into American history and a riveting narrative account, this is book is as much history lesson as it is drama.
The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United States
The American story of blacklists, scapegoating, conspiracies, and cover-ups that have taken over national politics throughout our history when the mainstream has adopted extremist fear that secret networks-from the Illuminati and Freemasons to Communists and Muslim terrorists-have infiltrated society and threatened destruction from within.
This companion volume to Boddington's highly acclaimed Safari Rifles was first published seventeen years ago, and since then much has changed in North America in regards to hunting rifles, calibers, optics, and ammunition.
Since the release of Rosemary's Baby in 1968, the American horror film has become one of the most diverse, commercially successful, widely discussed, and culturally significant film genres. Drawing on a wide range of critical methods---from close textual readings and structuralist genre criticism to psychoanalytical, feminist, and ideological ......
In direct response to the growing rates of homicide in the United States, Richard Sharum has created a body of work based on the societal implications homicide has on people, both individually and as a group. American Homicide is built in three parts: Families of Victims, Families of Perpetrators, and the lives of Homicide Detectives. Richard ......
Authors Richard M. Hough and Kimberly D. McCorkle employ more than 30 years of academic and practitioner experience to help explain why and how people kill and how society reacts. This brief, yet comprehensive text takes a balanced approach, combining scholarly research and theory with compelling details about recent cases and coverage of current trends.
A concise, information-packed overview of U.S. history from 1900a2001, our 3-panel (6-page) guide covers key events in our nation's history during that time period. The easy-to-follow timeline format is broken out to highlight principal time periods, and is enhanced by callout features and appealing graphics. Its effective capturing of the dynamic ......
