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The First White House Library is the first book to consider the history of books and reading in the Executive Mansion.
In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right&—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists&—about the need to break away from the colonial legacies of the past and to escape from the constraints of the international capitalist system. Even though they disagreed about the desired end state, Argentines of all political stripes could agree on the need for economic independence and national sovereignty, which would be brought about through the efforts of a national bourgeoisie. James Brennan and Marcelo Rougier aim to provide a politic...
This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
This set reprints three famous but now hard-to-obtain works that recount the development of American journalism from its beginnings in the seventeenth century up to 1940. Together these books outline nearly 300 years' worth of changes in production techniques, journalistic practices and distribution methods. Available as a collection, the three titles are also sold separately, either as two-volume sets priced at $250.00/Y [Can. $375.00/Y] or in their component volumes at $125.00/Y [Can. $188.00/Y]: Journalism in the United Statesfrom 1690-1872Frederic Hudson (1873) Two Volume Set: 840pp: 0 415 24142 1 Volume One: 420pp: 0 415 22889 1 Volume Two: 420pp: 0 415 22890 5 The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social InstrumentAlfred McClung Lee (1937) Two Volume Set: 812pp: 0 415 24143 X Volume One: 406pp: 0 415 22891 3 Volume Two: 406pp: 0 415 22892 1 American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States through 250 years, 1690-1940Frank Luther Mott (1941) Two Volume Set: 782pp: 0 415 24144 8 Volume One: 391pp: 0 415 22893 X Volume Two: 0 415 22894 8
Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era and Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies.
What's wrong with America's judicial system? Ted Kubicek, JD, says it's the adversarial approach, where winning is everything, and he points out that systems taking an inquisitorial approach are more likely to come to the truth, and to justice.