Choice Outstanding Academic Title On September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever ......
On September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever since, Walker, like many of his fellow ......
In the last decade, rural development emerged as one of the prominent challenges facing the Unite States. Strong support for rural development is now found in both major political parties and at federal, state, and local levels. There is little doubt that the development of rural America will become even more important in the future. Despite ......
American Foreign Policy from FDR to George H. W. Bush
President Woodrow Wilson riding down the Champs-ElysEes in December 1918 to meet with the leaders of the victorious Allies at the Paris peace conference marked a break from a long tradition where US presidents directed foreign policy, and direct engagement with foreign counterparts was not considered a central duty. Not until the arrival of ......
America's Maritime Guardians at War in the Twentieth Century, with Foreword by Admiral Thad Allen, USCG (ret.)
This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States' oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century. The Fighting Coast Guard features three distinct sections: "Beginnings," which ......
The Rise of Electoral Democracy in the Early American Republic
In this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at Congressional elections in pre-Jacksonian America, Jay K. Dow examines the origins of our modern electoral politics. When did the United States become a recognizably modern republic? The traditional understanding is that elections in the Age of Jackson introduced institutionalized political ......
The Korean War and the Roots of America's Ideological Divisions
A deeply researched political history that finds a new origin story to today's deeply entrenched partisanship. Cash reminds us that the "forgotten war" in Korea was also the occasion for the "forgotten debate" between liberals and conservatives. When it comes to the origins of today's sharp partisan divide, most have pointed to the usual ......
Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic
In The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic Brian J. Cook confronts head-on the accumulating derangements in the American constitutional system and how the administrative state has contributed to the problems, how it has been a key force in addressing the troubles, and how it can be reformed to serve ......
The story of the westward expansion of this country does not stop with the hardships encountered by travelers on the Mormon Trail, the discomforts endured by early settlers in sod houses, the bravery of the Pony Express riders, the romantic solitude of the cowboys, or the sufferings of the Indians forced to abandon their homes bleak and alien ......
