The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
10 best books like The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Linda Gordon): The Great Santini, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, Plain and Simple: A Journey to the Amish, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940
| Author | Pat Conroy |
| ISBN | 0553268929 |
Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine --- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete...
| Author | George Chauncey |
| ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
| Author | Sue Bender |
| ISBN | 0062501860 |
Charmingly illustrated and refreshingly spare, Plain and Simple speaks to the seeker in each of us.
"I had an obsession with the Amish. Plan and simple. Objectively it made no sense. I, who worked hard at being special, fell in love with a people who valued being ordinary." So begins Sue Bender's...
| Author | Laura Briggs |
| ISBN | 0520232585 |
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation,...
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
| Author | Bethany Moreton |
| ISBN | 0674033221 |
In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America’s devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas...
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
| Author | Matthew Frye Jacobson |
| ISBN | 0674951913 |
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective...
Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
| Author | Hal K. Rothman |
| ISBN | 0700610561 |
The West is popularly perceived as America's last outpost of unfettered opportunity, but twentieth-century corporate tourism has transformed it into America's "land of opportunism." From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns throughout the West have been turned over to outsiders--and not just to those...
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
| Author | William R. Leach |
| ISBN | 0679754113 |
In Land of Desire, William Leach delineates the factors that led to the emergence of the contemporary consumer culture among Americans. He states that beginning in the late nineteenth century, American culture began to evolve (or, more appropriately, regress) into one that increasingly saw the...
Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940
| Author | John M. Findlay |
| ISBN | 0520084357 |
The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes—Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair—John Findlay shows...
Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It
| Author | Alison Isenberg |
| ISBN | 0226385086 |
Downtown America was once the vibrant urban center romanticized in the Petula Clark song—a place where the lights were brighter, where people went to spend their money and forget their worries. But in the second half of the twentieth century, "downtown" became a shadow of its former self, succumbing...
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
| Author | John W. Dower |
| ISBN | 0394751728 |
Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- race...
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
| Author | Katherine M Marino |
| ISBN | 1469649691 |
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable...
