United States - Civilization
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important bo… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0812978900
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was
$8.95 Add to cartThis book is about once-upon-a-time in America. — Eric Sloane. Writer and artist Eric Sloane had an abiding love for America and worked throughout a long and productive life to capture the American s… [more below]
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0486444112
- Language: English
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American Breakdown: Why We No Longer Trust Our Leaders and Institutions and How We Can Rebuild Confidence
$30.00 Read moreFrom the former editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, a must-read account of how America suffers from a “trust deficit” that has weakened its cornerstone institutions and divided our society.
A- Author: Baker, Gerard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1538705702
- Language: English
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What Does It Mean to Be American?
$17.99 Read moreAn engaging picture book for children that celebrates what it means to be American!
What does it mean to be American? Does it mean you like apple pie or fireworks? Not exactly.
This patriotic picture bo
- Series: What Does It Mean to Be…? #0
- Author: Diorio, Rana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1492683809
- Language: English
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A powerful collection of the influential columnist’s most important works–featuring rare speeches, a major essay about today’s populist movements and the future of global … [more below]
- Author: Krauthammer, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 198482550X
- Language: English
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The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
$18.99 Add to cartJesse 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 a
- Author: Walker, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0062135562
- Language: English
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Who Are These People Anyway?
$19.95 Add to cartIn the rich tradition of oral storytelling, Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation reminds us of an ancient treaty. It promises that the Haudenosaunee people and non-Indige
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Powless, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081561070X
- Language: English
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the- Author: Hofstadter, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 12 1966
- ISBN10: 0394703170
- Language: English
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The Cause of Hitler’s Germany
$29.00 Add to cart“A truly revolutionary idea… Clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned.”–Ayn Rand
Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial “truth,” the public good, doing one’s- Author: Peikoff, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0142181471
- Language: English
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American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the “fireside chats” of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate Am… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Avila, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0190200588
- Language: English
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Letter to the Americans
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, … [more below]
- Author: Cocteau, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231593
- Language: English
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No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
$22.00 Add to cartUrsula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”
On cultural perceptions of fantasy- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1328661598
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America
$18.99 Add to cartThrow out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don’t believe anything you hear from the government. The Ri
- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0061245593
- Language: English
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
$40.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER – A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the … [more below]
- Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593501713
- Language: English
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A Nefarious Plot
$16.00 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture!
Who has co-opted the American Dream? The Right? The Left? It may not be who you think it is. Republican vs. Democrat The Haves vs. the Have Nots Left vs. Right Us- Author: Deace, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1682611523
- Language: English
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
$22.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0399589821
- Language: English
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The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All–But There Is a Solution
$29.99 Add to cartA “galvanizing” (The Wall Street Journal) deep dive into cancel culture and its dangers to all Americans from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.
Cancel culture is a new phenomeno- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668019140
- Language: English
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
$38.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER – A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the … [more below]
- Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230574
- Language: English
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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand for
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States–winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presi- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1501174193
- Language: English
