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The Modern Ku Klux Klan
Henry P. Fry
Paperback - $54.95
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was originally founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Georgia. Following a wane in membership and interest the Klan experienced a 20th century rebirth in 1915. Kleagle Henry Fry (the author) introduced the KKK to Tennessee while recruitin ...
The Great Disruption : Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
Francis Fukuyama
Paperback - $40.95
In this provocative bestseller, Fukuyama examines the profound societal transformations of the last few decades and asserts that they have contributed to the breakdown of communities, the rise of violent crime, and the decline of morality. 24 graphs ...
Upside Down : A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
Eduardo H. Galeano
Paperback - $24.95
Galeano, author of the "Memory of Fire" trilogy, combines a novelist's intensity, a poet's lyricism, a journalist's fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian in "Upside Down", an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious expose o ...
Commemorations : The Politics of National Identity
John R. Gillis
Paperback - $73.95
Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose ...
The Importance of Being Lazy : In Praise of Play, Leisure, and Vacations
Al Gini
Paperback - $38.95
The great American fantasy is about leisure: wooded getaways, Caribbean cruises, white-water rafting, thelights of Las Vegas. Yet one in four Americans does not take a vacation at all. We know how to work hard but not how to play.
What we really ...
Fun and Games in Twentieth-Century America : A Historical Guide to Leisure
Ralph G. Giordano
Hardcover - $124.95
Throughout the 20th century, America underwent rapid change, from horses and buggies, through two world wars, and finally to the arrival of the Internet. But Americans have always needed time for relaxation and recreation. This book describes how pol ...
Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans : Studies in Their Interactions
Jonathan A. Goldstein
Paperback - $61.95
Caviar with Champagne : Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin's Russia
Jukka Gronow
Paperback - $74.95
""Life has become more joyous, comrades."--Josef Stalin, 1936
Stalin's Russia is best known for its political repression, forced collectivization and general poverty. Caviar with Champagne presents an altogether different aspect of Stalin's rule ...