The Americans, Vol. 3: The Democratic Experience

6 best books like The Americans, Vol. 3: The Democratic Experience (Daniel J. Boorstin): The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

Author	David M. Potter
ISBN	0061319295

“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History

“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek

Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...

In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

Author

Stanley Karnow

Uncle Sam’s sugar satrapy stays the same

Well-written, interesting and informative, I first read Karnow’s book 24 years ago. Recently I re-read it as I was thinking about why Filipinos were desperate or naive enough to vote for a thug like Duterte? Wasn’t it similar in a sad sort of way...

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

Author

Steven Hahn

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation,...

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Author	Jack N. Rakove
ISBN	0679781218

From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...

La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag

Author	Józef Czapski
ISBN	8883251520

Settembre 1939. La Polonia è invasa. Come migliaia di polacchi, Joseph Czapski è fatto prigioniero dai russi e rinchiuso nel gulag di Griazowietz. Per vincere la prostrazione e l'angoscia della loro condizione, alcuni prigionieri organizzano incontri dove "ognuno di noi parlava di ciò che meglio...

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Author	Walter Johnson
ISBN	0674005392

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged,...