The Cycles of American History
10 best books like The Cycles of American History (Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.): The Debate on the Constitution, Part 1: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: September 1787 to February 1788, Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters, The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Guide to Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem, The Thomas Paine Reader, The Contours of American History, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, The Man Who Kept The Secrets: Richard Helms And The CIA, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
| Author | Bernard Bailyn |
| ISBN | 0940450429 |
In this Library of America volume (and its companion) is captured, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign.
When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia ended its secret proceedings on September...
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| ISBN | 0940450291 |
Note: When first issued, the Library of America edition of Franklin's Writings was collected in one large volume; later, it was published as two separate volumes.
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes,...
| Author | Kevin Phillips |
| ISBN | 0465013708 |
The question at the heart of The Cousins' Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom into a global community with such a hegemonic grip on the world today, while no other European power—Spain, France, Germany, or Russia—did? The answer to...
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
| Author | George C. Herring |
| ISBN | 0195078225 |
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume...
| Author | Stuart Berg Flexner |
| ISBN | 0380762366 |
This catalog of historical disasters, both natural and man-made, has a certain snarky, superficial appeal, which doesn't survive a closer reading. Its putative appeal rests in the implicit invitation to the reader to join in ridiculing various follies perpetrated by the powerful and the pompous...
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | William Appleman Williams |
| ISBN | 0393305619 |
William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with...
| Author | David Brion Davis |
| ISBN | 0195126718 |
David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture...
The Man Who Kept The Secrets: Richard Helms And The CIA
| Author | Thomas Powers |
| ISBN | 0394507770 |
Richard Helms is the quintessential CIA man. For 30 years--from the very inception of the Central Intelligence Agency & before--he occupied pivotal positions in that shadowy world: OSS operator, spymaster, planner, plotter, &, finally, for over 6 years, Agency director. No other was so...
| Author | Richard Slotkin |
| ISBN | 0806132299 |
In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim...
| Author | Kenneth C. Davis |
| ISBN | 1401330436 |
Which president broke the law to prevent enslaved people from being freed? Who said, "When the president does it,that means it's not illegal"? Why does America have a president? From the heated debates among the framers of the Constitution in 1787 over an "elected king," to the creation of the presidency,...
| Author | Geoffrey R. Stone |
| ISBN | 0393327450 |
Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and...
| Author | Jonathan Vankin |
| ISBN | 0760708827 |
Hard to classify this book, as there is as much outright nonfiction as interesting facts. For me, often, the simplest answer in any event is probably the right one, but at the same time I do enjoy reading about unanswered (and often unanswerable) anomalies that often lead to wacko conspiracy theories...
To the Best of My Ability
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 0756607779 |
One of the more insidious ways to fritter away your life on the internet is to play Jeopardy online, competing against random strangers for (relatively) small amounts of money. There are few things more satisfying than starting out your day by shutting out perky cincinnatipatti, even though you immediately...
| Author | Peter Dale Scott |
| ISBN | 0520205197 |
Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective—that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes—Scott examines the deep politics of early...
| Author | Jesse Walker |
| ISBN | 0062135570 |
Jesse Walker’s The United States of Paranoia presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror.
The fear of intrigue and subversion doesn’t exist only on the fringes of society, but has always been part...
| Author | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| ISBN | 0425165108 |
Ambrose's theme, the American way of war, is significant, for war indeed has delineated each era in America's turbulent history and has focused the nation's democratic perspective. Throughout, these essays encompass two large subjects. First, Ambrose is drawn to the experiences of those who have...
| Author | Jim Marrs |
| ISBN | 1934708038 |
Jim Marrs can justifiably be considered the world's leading conspiracy author, with multimillion-copy bestsellers like Alien Agenda, Rule By Secrecy, and the book that Oliver Stone used as a basis for his JFK movie, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, Now Marrs has allied with the Web's most...
| Author | Robert Anton Wilson |
| ISBN | 0062734172 |
Before the X-Files, before alt.conspiracy, there was Robert Anton Wilson and his legendary Illuminatus! Trilogy. Now this avatar of conspiriology, renowned for his razor wit and progressive philosophy, takes you on a fascinating, eclectic ride through what Wilson has termed the "Cultic Twilight"...
A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy
No issue is more hotly debated than how, or even if, a politician's private life affects his public competence. In
A Question of Character
John F. Kennedy's two lives—public and private—are examined to answer this timely question. Respected historian and biographer Thomas C. Reeves reveals...
| Author | Daniel J. Boorstin |
| ISBN | 0394703588 |
A worthy follow-up to volume one of this three volume series on American History, where Boorstin takes us behind the scenes of the typical textbook names and dates during the time from the American Revolution to the Civil War. Organized by topic rather than chronologically, and through the telling...
| Author | H.W. Brands |
| ISBN | 1594202621 |
From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, an incisive chronicle of the events and trends that guided-and sometimes misguided-our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone.
For a brief, bright moment in 1945, America stood at its apex, looking back on victory not only against the Axis powers but against...
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
| Author | Todd Gitlin |
| ISBN | 0553372122 |
Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line" against injustice and war.
Todd...
| Author | Samuel Eliot Morison |
| ISBN | 0195000307 |
A social, cultural, and economic as well as political history of the United States, this single volume unabridged edition of Morison's classic history traces the major strands in America's history all the way from prehistoric humans to the assasination of President Kennedy.
"Prospective...
