Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised economic stability but have delivered chaos. Their speculation has left the global economy more vulnerable to a financial collapse than any time since 1929.
Two leading financial journalists dissect this financial elite, tracing their origins to a secretive gathering of free-market economists in 1947, and propose a series of far-reaching reforms that can save us from a new depression.

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Philip Katcher - The Army of Northern Virginia, Le e's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (200 3).jpg

The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was one of the greatest fighting formations in history: a combination of an outstanding commander and an excellent fighting force. This book offers an in-depth study of why this formation was so successful against Northern armies, which often had a greater wealth of resources and manpower and some very able leaders. Almost always outnumbered, Lee's forces were able to record a number of notable victories by giving free rein to subordinates and utilizing the fighting qualities of the army's units to the full. But more than anything else, The Army of Northern Virginia looks closely at the human dimension of Lee's army: the quality and individuality of its generals and their ability to interpret their superior's orders; the fighting spirit of the average "Johnny Reb"; and, above all, the leadership of Robert E. Lee himself, who became one of the 19th century's greatest generals. Also includes color and black and white maps.

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Lepn Jackson - The Business of Letters, Authorial Economies in Antebellum America (2008).jpg

Traditionally, scholars of authorship in antebellum America have approached their subject through the lens of professionalization, exploring the ways in which writing moved away from amateurism and into the capitalist marketplace. The Business of Letters breaks new ground by challenging the dominant professionalization model, with its vision of a single literary marketplace. Leon Jackson shows how antebellum authors participated in a variety of different economies including patronage, charity, gift exchange, and competition—each of which had its own rules and reciprocities, its own ethics and exchange rituals, and sometimes even its own currencies. Examining a variety of canonical and non-canonical authors, including women, slaves, and artisans, and drawing on theoretical approaches from anthropology, sociology, social history, and literary criticism, Jackson reveals authors to have been social agents whose acts of authorial exchange involved them in dense webs of community. The decisive transformation of the antebellum period, he concludes, was not from amateurism to professionalism, but, rather, from socially embedded exchange to impersonally conducted business.

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Bob Edwards - Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Br oadcast Journalism (2004).jpg

"Get it, read it, and pass it on."--Bill Moyers "Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings by today's news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood celebrities, but interviewed them for his entertainment programs; they had no place on his news programs. My book is focused on this life in journalism. I offer it in the hope that more people in and out of the news business will get to know Ed Murrow. Perhaps in time the descent from Murrow's principles can be reversed."--Bob Edwards

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The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought-provoking essays on an author of enduring preeminence in the American canon. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives, and include timely reflections by major critics on the hotly debated dynamics of race and slavery perceptible throughout his writing. The volume includes a chronology of Twain's life and a list of suggestions for further reading.

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Jerald Podair - Bayard Rustin, American Dreamer (2 008).jpg

Bayard Rustin was a unique 20th-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, Rustin made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, peace, and gay rights movements in the United States, despite being viewed as an outsider by fellow activists. Author Jerold Podair also includes excerpts from Rustin's writings, speeches, letters, and statements, allowing the reader to gain firsthand interaction with one of the most important civil rights leadersA and one of the most important radical leadersA in 20th-century American history.

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John Agnew - The Marshall Plan Today, Model and Me taphor (2004).jpg

This book goes beyond diplomatic history to place the Marshall Plan in the context of both the political economy of late 20th century Europe and the impact of American models of business and government that came with the Plan.

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David C. King - Civil War and Reconstruction (2003 ).jpg

A rare first-hand glimpse of the Civil War through the words of those who were there
This exciting new addition to the American Heritage American Voices series offers young readers insights into the culture and ideas of the Civil War era through a variety of primary sources. The book includes major historical documents, such as the Gettysburg Address, as well as more personalized accounts of the war and of the popular culture of the times found in diaries, advertisements, and magazine and newspaper articles. Throughout, the readings are supplemented by introductions, period illustrations, sidebar information, and vocabularies. David C. King (Hillsdale, NY) is the author of Wiley's American Kids in History series of U.S. history activity books as well as Colonies and Revolution and Westward Expansion in the American Heritage American Voices series. American Heritage is the premier American history magazine and is well known for its reference books.

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Carl Benn - The War of 1812 (2003).jpg

The bloody war of 1812 saw British, American, and First Nations forces clash in a conflict that would forever alter North America. This book explains the background to the war and covers the three years of fighting on land and sea, including the battles of Lake Erie and Lake Champlain.

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Tom Quirk, Gary Scharnhorst - American History thr ough Literature, 1870–1920 (2006).jpg

This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides a unique overview of the period following the Civil War through the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of World War I. The set features more than 250 survey entries. Subjects include: political topics (Reform, Women's Suffrage); ideas in context (Scientific Materialism, Darwinism); values (Assimilation, Success); society (Labor, Mass Marketing); genres (Science Fiction, War Writing); popular entertainment (Baseball, Boxing); publishing (Scribner's Magazine); works of literature and nonfiction ("Billy Budd," "The Theory of the Leisure Class"); and much more. The analysis of a wide range of classics in American literature, viewed as cultural and historical documents, cultivates critical skills in reading texts from various perspectives, including aesthetic, biographical, social, historical, racial and gendered. Along with its companion title on the period covering 1820 to 1870, this set provides a comprehensive overview of a key century in American historical and literary studies.

Tom Quirk is the author of articles on American literature and culture and variety of American authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, E.A. Robinson, Ring Lardner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others. He is also the author, editor, or co-editor of several books and monographs, including: Melville's Confidence Man (Missouri, 1982), Romanticism: Critical Essays in American Literature (Garland, 1986), Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens and Writing the American Classics (both North Carolina, 1990), Coming to Grips with "Huckleberry Finn" (Missouri, 1993), Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches by Mark Twain (Penguin, 1994), American Realism and the Canon: A Collection of Essays (Delaware, 1994), Biographies of Books: The Backgrounds, Genesis, and Composition of Notable American Writings (Missouri, 1996), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne, 1997), The Portable American Realism Reader (Viking/Penguin, 1997), Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce (Penguin, 2000), Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (Missouri, 2001), The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (Penguin, 2002), and The Portable Mark Twain (Penguin/Putnam 2004). He is the volume editor for Alexander's Bridge in the Willa Cather Scholarly Editions Project (Nebaska, 2007). He is editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Volume: Huckleberry Finn (Bruccoli, Clark, and Layman, 2008), and he is the co-editor of American History through Literature 3 vols. (Scribners, 2006). He recently completed a book with the title Mark Twain and Human Nature (Missouri, 2007). He is coeditor of A Research Guide to American Literature, 1865-1914 (Facts on File, 2010). In 2009 he received The John S. Tuckey Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Mark Twain Scholarship and to the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies.

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Faith in America - Shelley M. Buxbaum, Sara E. Kar esh - Jewish Faith in America (2003).jpg

AMERICA BEGINS A NEW MILLENNIUM AS ONE OF THE MOST RELIGIOUSLY
diverse nations of all time. Nowhere else in the world do so many people—offered a
choice free from government influence—identify with such a wide range of religious
and spiritual communities. Nowhere else has the human search for meaning been
so varied. In America today, there are communities and centers for worship repre-
senting all of the world’s religions.
The American landscape is dotted with churches, temples, synagogues, and
mosques. Zen Buddhist zendos sit next to Pentecostal tabernacles. Hasidic Jews walk
the streets with Hindu swamis. Most amazing of all, relatively little conflict has oc-
curred among religions in America. This fact, combined with a high level of tolerance
of one another’s beliefs and practices, has let America produce people of goodwill
ready to try to resolve any tensions that might emerge.
The Faith in America series celebrates America’s diverse religious heritage.
People of faith and ideals who longed for a better world have created a unique society
where freedom of religious expression is a keynote of culture. The freedom that Amer-
ica offers to people of faith means that not only have ancient religions found a home
here, but that newer ways of expressing spirituality have also taken root. From huge
churches in large cities to small spiritual communities in towns and villages, faith in
America has never been stronger. The paths that different religions have taken through
American history is just one of the stories readers will find in this series.

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Faith in America - Michael Garrett, J.T. Garrett - Native American Faith in America (2003).jpg

Few populations around the world have been as deeply affected by outside cultures as Native Americans. The wide variety of people who lived in America prior to Western migration possessed an equally wide variety of faith practices and beliefs. This book is about how those beliefs began, how they changed due to the influence of outside forces, and how Native Americans today are working to preserve their faiths. Tied deeply to the land and to nature, Native American faiths share some common traits. Native American Faith in America explores these basic beliefs, the "coming of the long knives," and the impact of Western expansion, along with the ways that Native Americans and their faiths were deeply changed by this new civilization on their land. As the years have passed, many Native American ways have come into the general culture, influencing everything from fashion and music to medicine and sports. The dominant American culture continues to affect the social lives of Native Americans, both on reservations and elsewhere, while the sacred sites of some tribes have been the source of great controversy. In the political world, Native Americans have been very active, and most of this political work, from the American Indian Movement to today's reservation casinos, is based in faith and belief. Finally, the book focuses on how Native Americans young and old are working to ensure that their faiths and beliefs do not die out as some of their languages and customs have.

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Faith in America - Michael Burgan - Buddhist Faith in America (2003).jpg

In America today, for the first time in world history, every major form of Buddhism is practiced in one nation. Buddhist Faith in America describes how this ancient faith has been as deeply affected by America as America has been affected by it. Buddhism is one of the world's oldest and most widely-practiced faiths, but in America it has a relatively short history. However, in that short time, the faith has influenced Americans from all walks of life - from celebrities and sports stars to ordinary people, many Americans have embraced the philosophy behind Buddhism. This book explores how Asian Immigrants have brought Buddhism to America and enjoyed the freedom to practice their beliefs without constraints. It describes the basic tenets of the three major schools of Buddhism; the relationship between various Buddhist immigrant communities and American Buddhists; the emergence of the socially engaged Buddhist; and Buddhism's influence on American culture and society.

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Faith in America - J. Gordon Melton - Protestant F aith in America (2003).jpg

America is often thought of as a Protestant nation and slightly more than half of the population currently profess their membership in a church rooted in the original Protestant movement of the 16th century. Protestants established their churches in the American colonies early on, their descendents fought in the American Revolution, and they took the lead in conquering the continent and civilizing the frontier. Their culture dominated the land through the 19th century and it continues to wield a vast influence on the direction of American life even today. This volume focuses on those churches that trace their history to the Reformation within the Roman Catholic Church, including the Lutheran, Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregational, and Episcopal churches. More specifically, it explores the Protestant faith and addresses the impact these churches and their members have had on American culture and society. It discusses the leading role of Protestants in the founding of many of the country's most prestigious institutions of higher learning, including Harvard, Yale, Rutgers, and Princeton. It also looks at the significant positions Protestants maintain in business, politics, and intellectual society. Protestant Faith in America offers an objective look at this group that has contributed much in developing a strong America.

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Faith in America - Chester Gillis - Catholic Faith in America (2003).jpg

Grade 6 Up-While this is a concise and sometimes fascinating introduction, the information isn't always accurate. Gillis presents Catholic views on culture, social issues, and politics; a brief biographical list of important Catholic Americans; a look at beliefs and practices; and a short history of the church in America. The book concludes with a glance at what the future holds for the church, including a discussion of the recent scandals. The tone is reportorial and avoids making judgments, the information is presented in a clear and easy to follow manner, and the black-and-white photos are well chosen for effect. Unfortunately, the author refers twice to a monk as "a type of priest" who lives in a monastery. However, many monks are not priests. Being one does not necessitate the other. And he makes odd sweeping statements like: "Because of fears that the church might object, The Ten Commandments is the last movie with a religious theme that some older Catholics have seen." What is that supposed to mean? How many older Catholics is "some"? And how many were interviewed to arrive at such a vague conclusion? There is also a problem with the index. Supposedly, information on Dorothy Day can be found on pages 94-95, but those pages show an uncaptioned picture of a woman serving soup to what appear to be a couple of men in cassocks and the text includes information about John Carroll. Wait for something better on this topic to come along.

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