The Nevada Test Site As Ground Zero of 1950s American Culture
Cultural scholar John Wills takes readers on a cultural tour of Doom Town, USA, designed to be the model 1950s American city and destroyed by an atomic bomb on live television to educate Americans on the need to prepare for possible nuclear war-but also to sell new products in the emerging postwar economic boom. In March 1953 and May 1955, ......
Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974-1994
What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s? In many political histories, the McGovern defeat of 1972 announced the party's decline-and the conservative movement's ascent. What the conventional narrative neglects, Patrick Andelic submits, is the role of Congress in the party's, and the nation's, political fortunes. In Donkey Work, ......
Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1949
Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the best soldiers this country has produced," Frank Ross McCoy was, throughout his distinguished career, much more than just a good soldier. As friend and confidant to such leaders as Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood, and Henry Stimson, he disproves the standard view of the military before 1940 as having no ......
Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century
"Navajo Latter-day Saints are DineI doIoI GaIamalii," writes Farina King, in this deeply personal collective biography. "We are DinE who decided to walk a Latter-day Saint pathway, although not always consistently or without reappraising that decision."DineI doIoI GaIamalii is a history of twentieth-century Navajos, including author Farina King ......
Nineteenth-century psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James is rarely considered a political theorist. Renowned as the author of The Principles of Psychology and The Varieties of Religious Experience, James is often viewed as a radical individualist with no interest in politics; yet he was a critic of imperialism and absolutism and an ......
The Development of US Strategic Military Intelligence Up to the Cold War
The untold history of how strategic military intelligence organizations responded and adapted to the pressures and influence of the US military, government, and public to define themselves and their mission.From 1882 to 1947-the year the CIA was established-strategic military intelligence organizations struggled to define their missions. The ......
Winner: Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication AwardWinner: APSA Presidents and Executive Politics Legacy Award Andrew Jackson spoke to Americans in ways that reflected the concerns of a young nation. Grover Cleveland helped citizens redefine themselves after the havoc of the Civil War era. FDR confronted widespread hardship with hope and ......
For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that the German army's emerging woes were rooted as ......
Winner: Fletcher Pratt AwardSteven Woodworth's previous book, the critically acclaimed Jefferson Davis and His Generals, won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt Award and was a main selection of the History Book Club. In that book he showed how the failures of Davis and his military leaders in the west paved the way for Confederate defeat. In Davis ......
