Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago—an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide ra
The life most famous and influencial CEO of General motors is revealed here, focusing on his tenure betwenn 1923 and 1946 as the leader of the nation's largest auto manufacturer. (Business & Finan
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triump
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American publ
Chronicles the politics, protests, and violence of the sixties that culminated in the bloody confrontation between police and protesters on the Chicago streets during the 1968 Democratic National Conv
As the forward base and staging area for all U.S. military operations in the Pacific during World War II, Hawaii was the "first strange place" for close to a million soldiers, sailors, and marines on
The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the
American historians reveal what larval neocons were up to while everyone else was stoned. The John Birch Society, the Minutemen, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Phyllis Schlafly, and evangelicals and
In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's importan
