Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
By: Christopher Capozzola
3.91
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
By: William E. Leuchtenburg , Daniel J. Boorstin
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and U.S. entry into World War I and closing with the Great Depression… read more
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2. Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq
By: Susan A. Brewer
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, tele… read more
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- united states
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3. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more
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4. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
By: Ellen Schrecker
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The McCarthy era was a bad time for freedom in America. Encompassing far more than the brief career… read more
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5. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
By: Kevin G. Boyle
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in … read more
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6. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
By: David M. Kennedy
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depressi… read more
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7. The Search for Order, 1877-1920
By: David Herbert Donald , Robert H. Wiebe
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the end of Reconstruction, the lives of most Americans were still controlled by the values of th… read more
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8. The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
By: Marc Bloch , Joseph R. Strayer , None
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques… read more
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9. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
By: Richard D. White Jr.
3.80
Format: None pages,
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10. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
By: John Scalzi
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from… read more
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11. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
By: Linda Gordon
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the … read more
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12. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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14. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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15. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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16. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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17. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
By: Lisa McGirr
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more
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18. Fighting the Great War: A Global History
By: Michael S. Neiberg
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. … read more
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19. Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
By: John Scalzi
4.24
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined t… read more
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"It’s war, you jackasses,"-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
"Christ on a Popsicle stick."-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
"What we don't know can't hurt us."-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
"We don’t get to choose our battles."-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
20. The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
By: John Wood Sweet
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its lo… read more
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21. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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22. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
By: John K. Thornton
3.85
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in… read more
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23. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
By: Christopher Capozzola
3.91
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Ame… read more
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- politics
- war
- united states
- read for school
- grad school
- nonfiction
- 20th century
24. The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State
By: Mary Poole
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between … read more
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25. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights
By: Elizabeth Borgwardt
3.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World… read more
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26. Empires at War, 1911-1923
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the … read more
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27. Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict (International Library of Twentieth Century History Book 68)
By: Andrew Tait Jarboe
3.33
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signaled the commencement of what would become the wo… read more
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28. World War I in Africa: The Forgotten Conflict Among the European Powers (International Library of Twentieth Century History)
By: Anne Samson
3.00
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The First World War in German Southern and East Africa was fought in extremely different circumstan… read more
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29. Asia and the Great War: A Shared History
By: Guoqi Xu
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There is no single volume that shines a light on Asia's collective involvement in the First World W… read more
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30. World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
By: Heather E. Streets-Salter
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact al… read more
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31. History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition)
By: Norman J. Wilson
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current tren… read more
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