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The Encyclopedia of New York City
Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on...
Drunks
Reveals the history of our struggle with alcoholism and the emergence of a search for sobriety that is as old as our nation. In Drunks, Christopher Finan introduces us to a colorful cast of characters who were integral in America’s moral journey to understanding alcoholism. There's the remarkable Iroquois leader named Handsome Lake, a drunk who stopped drinking and dedicated his life to helping his people achieve sobriety. In the early nineteenth century, the idealistic and energetic “Washingtonians,” a group of reformed alcoholics, led the first national movement to save men like themselves. After the Civil War, doctors began to recognize that chronic drunkenness is an illness, and Dr...
Freedom of Speech
An essential look at how, throughout American history, the powerless have exercised their 1st Amendment right to free speech, informing how we can defend democracy today. "Great storytelling about the history and importance of the 1st Amendment, from someone who has spent his life defending—and using—it." — Mary Beth Tinker From the beginning of American history, free speech has been crucial for the pursuit of justice and expansion of democracy. Yet today, we are seeing growing attempts to roll back free speech protections in America: cultural warriors are banning books from library shelves at a level not seen in decades, and elected officials are attacking free speech principles to un...
The Patriot Act
Takes the reader behind the Patriot Act to show the drama that led to the bill being passed and the effect it had in the development of our country.
Frank and Al
The inspiring story of an unlikely political partnership that transformed the Democratic Party and led to the New Deal In Frank and Al, Terry Golway portrays the dramatic untold story of two political giants, Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt, who formed an unlikely alliance in the early 20th century that transformed the Democratic Party. Smith, a proud son of the Tammany Hall political machine, and Roosevelt, a country squire, bridged the chasm between the party's urban machines and its populists and patricians. Dominating politics in New York for a quarter-century, Smith and FDR ran against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932, setting off one of the great feuds in A...
The Constitution and 9/11
"The Constitution and 9/11 provides a comprehensive, striking, and disturbing analysis of executive misuse of power that is made all the more compelling by placing it in a rich and fascinating historical contest. No better book is available for placing post-9/11 government actions in the matrix of history and explaining how executive power has degraded the Constitution and citizen rights."--William G. Weaver--Back cover.
Teaching History
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Men Who Believe in Feminism
Goldrick-Jones (academic writing and women's studies, U. of Winnipeg) explores the motives and tells the stories of anti-sexist men's groups in North America, Britain, and Australia from the early 1970s through the end of the 1990s. They share a common goal of inviting men to support feminist principles and do feminist work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
The Nation
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New York History
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