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Rogue Elephant - How Republicans Went From The Party Of Business To The Party Of Chaos

by Paul Heideman

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 Unmoored from its traditional constituency, Big Business, the Republican party has become more deranged and less predictable. This is not likely to change anytime soon.
101 Amazing Facts About The Usa

by Jack Goldstein

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 Runtime: 40 minutesHow much do you know about the United States of America? Whether you have lived there all your life, or have simply thought about visiting one day, listen to Charles King talk you through over one hundred facts about the world superpower. From information about the country's economy, cities and landmarks to things you never knew about presidents and other famous Americans, this is a fantastic audiobook from which you'll learn plenty of new and interesting information.
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Democracy And The Age Of Andrew Jackson

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>Democracy and the Age of Andrew Jackson explores one of the most energetic, controversial, and transformative periods in early American history. From the Missouri Compromise and the expansion of voting rights for white men to Andrew Jackson's rise, the Bank War, the Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal, the Trail of Tears, and the reform movements inspired by the Second Great Awakening, this book reveals how American democracy grew more powerful while remaining deeply unequal.</div><div></div><div>The book examines the promise and contradiction of Jacksonian America: a nation that celebrated popular politics, mass participation, and the 'common man,' while excluding women, Black Americans, Native peoples, and enslaved communities from the full meaning of liberty. Moreover, this seventh volume brings readers into an era of fierce political conflict, moral reform, westward expansion, and national crisis—an age that reshaped the United States and foreshadowed the deeper sectional struggles that would eventually lead to the Civil War.</div>
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The Constitution And The Early Republic

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>The Constitution and the Early Republic delivers a sweeping, deeply granular narrative of the volatile decade that transformed a fractured alliance of thirteen colonies into a cohesive, continent-spanning superpower. Moving far beyond idealized mythology, this volume exposes the raw geopolitical friction, economic desperation, and backroom political trade-offs that defined the birth of American governance.</div><div></div><div>The story opens with the catastrophic collapse of the Articles of Confederation, a system paralyzed by interstate trade wars, national bankruptcy, and the terrifying populist eruption of Shays' Rebellion. Driven by existential dread, a brilliant fraternity of nationalist statesmen assembled in Philadelphia in 1787. Behind locked doors, they executed an institutional coup—discarding their mandate to amend the existing framework and instead forging a radical blueprint for a centralized state.</div><div></div><div>The narrative tracks the high-stakes compromises that saved the Convention but scarred the nation's DNA: the parliamentary battle over large versus small state representation (The Great Compromise), the cold mathematical calculus that codified human bondage (The Three-Fifths Clause), and the ferocious paper war between Federalists and Anti-Federalists that forced the creation of the Bill of Rights.</div><div></div><div>This fifth volume explores the foundational presidencies of George Washington and John Adams. Readers witness the improvised creation of the executive branch, the brilliant financial mechanics of Alexander Hamilton's economic system, and the global geopolitical shockwaves of the French Revolution. The book concludes with the paradoxical rise of the First Party System—a bitter, ideological civil war between Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans that institutionalized political dissent and created the resilient, majoritarian two-party engine that still drives American democracy today.</div>
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The Young Republic

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>The Young Republic: Expansion, Conflict, and the Age of Jefferson explores the decisive years in which the United States moved from fragile independence toward continental ambition. Beginning with John Adams and the crisis with France, the book follows the young nation through partisan conflict, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the dramatic election of 1800, and Thomas Jefferson's transformative Louisiana Purchase. It then traces the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Native resistance under Tecumseh, the causes and major turning points of the War of 1812, and the rise of a new national confidence after the Battle of New Orleans. The volume concludes with the Monroe Doctrine, showing how the United States began to see itself not merely as a former colony, but as an emerging power with a defining role in the Western Hemisphere.</div>
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The Road To Revolution

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>The Road to Revolution charts the tumultuous decade where devotion to the British Crown dissolved into an irreversible current of rebellion. Moving far beyond simplistic myths, this volume delivers a granular, deeply immersive historical narrative that unmasks the fiscal, ideological, and human fractures that shattered the British Atlantic world.</div><div></div><div>The journey begins in the ash-heaps of the French and Indian War and the deceptive peace of the Treaty of Paris of 1763. Readers are thrust into the volatile western frontier, where the arbitrary Proclamation Line ignited a bitter cross-class alliance between elite land speculators and radical backcountry pioneers. From the structural shockwaves of the Stamp Act to the predatory execution of the Townshend Duties, the narrative exposes the systemic rise of an extra-legal resistance network—forged by the Sons and Daughters of Liberty—that turned daily consumption into a battlefield for constitutional sovereignty.</div><div></div><div>Witness the ambient fury of an occupied city detonating on the frozen cobblestones of the Boston Massacre, and experience the clinical, ritualistic defiance of the Boston Tea Party. As the ideological gridlock hardens under the iron fist of the Intolerable Acts, the focus shifts to the historic chambers of the First Continental Congress, where twelve disparate provinces welded themselves into a unified continental front. Culminating in the explosive, dawn collisions at Lexington and Concord, this volume captures the precise psychological and political watershed moment when a provincial populace crossed its military Rubicon, forever altering the course of global history.</div>
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The Thirteen Colonies

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>The Thirteen Colonies traces the dramatic, often brutal, story of how a scattering of fragile English outposts along the Atlantic coast evolved into a complex and dynamic American society. Moving beyond simplistic myths, this volume immerses the reader in the formative century of British America—from the desperate survival of Jamestown and the Pilgrims' quest for religious freedom to the Puritan vision of a \"city upon a hill\" and the tragic consequences of religious dissent in Salem. It explores the rich, often overlooked Dutch origins of New York, the explosive growth of the southern plantation economy built on tobacco and rice, and the human catastrophe of the Atlantic slave trade. The book does not shy away from the violence that accompanied colonization, dedicating chapters to devastating conflicts like King Philip's War and the stark realities of colonial warfare. It examines the unique character of each colonial region—New England, the Middle Colonies, and the South—while highlighting the shared institutions of self-government, law, and religious diversity that gradually forged a common identity. Concluding with the emergence of the thirteen colonies as a prosperous and increasingly assertive society, this volume sets the stage for the revolutionary crisis to come. </div>
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Gangster Warlords - Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, And The New Politics Of Latin America

by Ioan Grillo

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 Bloomsbury presents Gangster Warlords by Ioan Grillo, read by James Cameron Stewart In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a crystal meth maker is venerated as a saint while imposing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns and humans. Who are these new masters of death? What personal qualities and life experiences have made them into such bloodthirsty leaders of men? What do they represent and stand for? What has happened in the Americas to allow them to grow and flourish? Author of the critically acclaimed El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001, and gained access to every level of the cartel chain-of-command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. Moving between militia-controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers, Grillo provides a new and disturbing understanding of a war that has spiralled out of control - one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now. Gangster Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean.
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Native America Before The United States

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>History did not begin in 1492.</div><div></div><div>Long before European sails broke the Atlantic horizon, North America was not a silent, untamed wilderness—it was a bustling, deeply humanized continent of vibrant empires, sophisticated democracies, advanced engineering, and continent-spanning trade networks.</div><div></div><div>Native America Before the United States deconstructs centuries of historical myths to reveal the true bedrock of the American experience. Travel across millennia to witness the high-stakes evolution of a continent: from the Ice Age pioneers navigating the Kelp Highway to the monumental earthen metropolis of Cahokia, which once rivaled the populations of London and Paris. Discover the constitutional brilliance of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the hydraulic engineering miracles of the desert Southwest, and the highly synchronized ecological mastery of the Great Plains and Pacific Coast nations.</div><div></div><div>When horizons collide, this volume shifts its lens to the volatile dawn of the Atlantic World. Moving past oversimplified myths of exploration, it delivers a clear-eyed anatomy of contact—tracing the quiet devastation of the Columbian Exchange, the fierce military defense of the Calusa and Apalachee, the strategic geopolitical chess match between Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy, and the historic anti-colonial triumph of the Pueblo Revolt.</div><div></div><div>Informed by cutting-edge archaeology and enriched by living Indigenous oral traditions, this book restores dignity, agency, and intellectual genius to the first stewards of the land. It is an indispensable epic of resilience, adaptation, and sovereignty for any reader who wants to understand the true, deep roots of American history.</div>
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Rosa Parks

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>Rosa Parks is a powerful and deeply human biography that explores the extraordinary life of one of the most influential figures in American history. Far more than the woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Rosa Parks emerges in these pages as a lifelong activist, strategist, mentor, and symbol of dignity in the face of injustice.</div><div></div><div>From her childhood in the segregated South to her pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement, this book traces the experiences that shaped her character and prepared her for the moment that changed America. Readers will discover the lesser-known aspects of her life, including her early activism, her work with the NAACP, her fight for voting rights, her years in Detroit, and her dedication to educating future generations.</div><div></div><div>This volume examines Rosa Parks' courage, leadership, private life, habits, personal struggles, achievements, and enduring influence. It also explores the complexities of her public image, separating historical reality from popular myths while revealing the remarkable woman behind the global icon.</div>
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>Dwight D. Eisenhower is a compelling and human portrait of one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. This book follows Eisenhower's extraordinary journey from his humble beginnings in Kansas to his rise as the Supreme Allied Commander who led the liberation of Europe during World War II, and later as the 34th President of the United States.</div><div></div><div>Through a balanced and engaging narrative, readers will discover the strategist behind D-Day, the statesman who navigated the dangerous years of the Cold War, and the man behind the public image of \"Ike.\" The book explores his greatest achievements, including the defeat of Nazi Germany, the creation of the Interstate Highway System, the strengthening of NATO, and his efforts to maintain peace in a nuclear age.</div><div></div><div>At the same time, it examines the more complex aspects of his legacy, including his cautious approach to civil rights, the challenges of McCarthyism, covert Cold War operations, and the difficult moral choices that accompanied global leadership. Rich in historical detail and human insight, this biography reveals Eisenhower not only as a military hero and president but also as a husband, father, friend, and deeply disciplined individual whose decisions helped shape the modern world.</div>
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The Democracy We Must Keep - Seven Founders, Nine Documents, And The Ideas That Shaped America

by David O. Stewart

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 "A great scholar of the American past, David O. Stewart has brilliantly mined what has come before to guide us in our own, all-too-urgent American present. An important and timely volume." ~ Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The American Struggle What did America's founders say about democracy—and can we remain true to their vision for America? Two hundred fifty years ago, passionate men attempted to create something the world had never seen before: a nation built not on kings or armies, but on ideas where the people ruled. In The Democracy We Must Keep, historian David O. Stewart takes readers inside the nine key documents that shaped the formation of the United States—from Patrick Henry's thunderous cry for liberty to the carefully crafted design of a government chosen by the people, with limits on all officials holding power under the Constitution. Through the words of seven visionary founders—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and others—Stewart shows how a fragile experiment in self-government took shape. These men were not saints. They argued passionately. They worried that the new nation might fall apart. Yet together, they forged the principles that must still define American democracy. - That power must be limited. - That leaders must answer to the people. - That individual rights must be protected by law. As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, The Democracy We Must Keep urges readers to rediscover core ideas that built the nation—and to consider what it will take to protect them. Accessible, engaging, and timely, this book is for anyone who wants to understand how American democracy started, and why it still matters. NOTE: This recording contains the complete narrative text. Appendix documents are available in the print and ebook editions. "The American experiment was built through action based upon the ideas preserved in our founding documents. In this compelling call to engage with our past to secure our future, David Stewart shows that democracy is not a spectator sport, but a responsibility each generation must uphold." ~ Colleen Shogan, 11th Archivist of the United States, CEO of In Pursuit "In The Democracy We Must Keep, noted historian David O. Stewart provides an inspiring antidote to America's current dangers of one-man rule and unprincipled government. Alarmed citizens can do no better than read Stewart's compact account of how America's flame of liberty was kindled, and how we must restore it." ~ James McGrath Morris is a New York Times best-selling biographer and author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power "The cause of America is...the cause of all mankind," the pamphleteer Tom Paine wrote in 1776. Grappling with very human sins and flaws, Americans have led the cause of freedom from Valley Forge to Omaha Beach, and promoted human rights from Seneca Falls to Selma. But now a deviant strain of oppression stalks America: What better moment for David O. Stewart, jurist and historian, to bring us The Democracy We Must Keep, a crisp and eloquent reminder of our better selves. "Only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger," John F. Kennedy said. "I do not shrink from this responsibility, I welcome it." So does Stewart, and in his books we find the energy, the faith and the devotion that Kennedy called for. The trumpet summons us again and Stewart, to our good fortune, is a virtuoso. ~ John A. Farrell, Author of Richard Nixon: The Life, Pulitzer Prize finalist
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Theodore Roosevelt

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>Theodore Roosevelt: The Strenuous Life of an American Giant tells the story of one of the most energetic, influential, and controversial figures in American history. Born a fragile child who struggled with severe asthma, Roosevelt transformed himself through discipline, ambition, grief, adventure, and relentless willpower.</div><div></div><p><div></div><div></div></p><div>From Harvard and the Dakota Badlands to the Rough Riders, the New York governorship, the White House, and the world stage, this book explores Roosevelt's life, deeds, triumphs, and contradictions. It presents the reformer who challenged corruption and corporate power, the conservationist who protected America's natural treasures, the president who reshaped executive leadership, and the imperial strategist behind Big Stick diplomacy.</div>
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Ulysses S. Grant

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>Ulysses S. Grant was far more than the general who won the Civil War or the president whose administration was shadowed by scandal. He was a quiet boy from Ohio, a reluctant West Point cadet, a brave officer in Mexico, a failed farmer and businessman, a devoted husband, a relentless Union commander, and a president who fought to protect Reconstruction and Black civil rights in one of America's most difficult eras.</div>
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Harriet Tubman

by Santiago Machain

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 <p><div></div><div></div></p><div>Harriet Tubman tells the powerful story of one of the most courageous figures in American history. Born into slavery as Araminta Ross, Tubman endured violence, family separation, poverty, and a life-changing head injury, yet she transformed suffering into purpose. After escaping bondage, she returned again and again through the Underground Railroad to guide others toward freedom, earning the name 'Moses' for her fearless leadership.</div>
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Susan B. Anthony

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>Susan B. Anthony is a powerful biography of one of the most influential figures in the American fight for women's rights. From her Quaker childhood and early years as a teacher to her work in temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage, this book explores the life of a woman who refused to accept silence as destiny.</div><div></div><div>This seventh book follows Anthony's public battles, her partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, her arrest for voting in 1872, and her lifelong campaign to win political recognition for women. At the same time, it presents a mature portrait of her legacy, including her courage, sacrifices, contradictions, racial controversies, strategic compromises, and lasting impact on American democracy.</div>
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Frederick Douglass

by Santiago Machain

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 <p><div></div><div></div></p><div>Born into slavery and denied even the certainty of his own birthday, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the most powerful voices of the 19th century. Through courage, literacy, escape, oratory, journalism, political action, and moral defiance, he challenged slavery, confronted presidents, defended Black citizenship, supported women's rights, and forced the United States to face the contradiction between its ideals of freedom and the reality of human bondage.</div>
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Andrew Jackson

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>Andrew Jackson is a gripping exploration of one of the most controversial and influential figures in American history. From his violent frontier childhood and rise as a war hero to his explosive presidency and the dark legacy of Indian removal and slavery, this book traces the life of a man who helped shape the United States while leaving deep scars on its story. This fifth book reveals Andrew Jackson as more than a symbol: a fiercely loyal husband, a relentless political fighter, a defender of the Union, and a leader whose strength, ambition, and brutality still provoke debate today. This is not a flat portrait of a hero or a villain, but a vivid biography of a man whose light and dark sides remain impossible to separate.</div>
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Alexander Hamilton

by Santiago Machain

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 <div>Alexander Hamilton is an exploration of one of the most fascinating figures of the American founding. From his uncertain beginnings in the Caribbean to his rise as a revolutionary thinker, military officer, constitutional advocate, and financial architect of the United States, this book follows Hamilton through the triumphs, conflicts, passions, and tragedies that shaped his life. It examines not only his public achievements, but also his personal struggles, rivalries, scandals, family losses, and the fatal code of honor that helped bring about his death. This biography reveals both the light and dark sides of a man whose ideas still echo through modern America.</div>
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The Searchers - The Making Of An American Legend

by Glenn Frankel

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 Bloomsbury presents The Searchers by Glenn Frankel, read by John McLain New York Times Bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by: Parade The Guardian Kirkus Library Journal The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the New York Times calls "A vivid, revelatory account of John Ford's 1956 masterpiece." In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and in the 1950s to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, The Searchers, "The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest... and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!" directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.
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The Irish Americans - A History

by Jay P. Dolan

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 Bloomsbury presents The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan read by Jay O'Connell. Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In The Irish Americans, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research and much other recent scholarship to weave an insightful, colorful narrative. He follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine that brought millions of starving immigrants; the trials of ethnic prejudice and "No Irish Need Apply;" the rise of Irish political power and the heyday of Tammany politics; to the election of John F. Kennedy as president, a moment of triumph when an Irish American ascended to the highest office in the land. Dolan evokes the ghastly ships crowded with men and women fleeing the potato blight; the vibrant life of Catholic parishes in cities like New York and Chicago; the world of machine politics, where ward bosses often held court in the local saloon. Rich in colorful detail, balanced in judgment, and the most comprehensive work of its kind yet published, The Irish Americans is a lasting achievement by a master historian that will become a must-have volume for any American with an interest in the Irish-American heritage.
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The Biggest Lie - The Prehistory Of American Fascism, 1818-1915

by Joseph Kelly

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 An eye-opening work of narrative history tracing the roots of American fascism back to the Antebellum South. "Kelly tells this story with vivid immediacy." —ADAM HOCHSCHILD "A sweeping and much needed work of history." —GREG GRANDIN When American fascists suddenly goosestepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and radical new European import. It was not. It didn't come from abroad. Nor was it new or radical. The seed of American fascism was planted by elite southern planters who insisted that slavery need not be addressed in the Constitution because it would soon die out on its own. In The Biggest Lie, Joseph Kelly chronicles fascism's deep roots in the antebellum South; its codification under Jim Crow; and, then, after the Spanish American War, its ascendency in the form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism, proposing that the nation belongs to a master-race—the original lie of American fascism. In this dark hour of American history, Kelly's gripping story reminds us that the monied elite have always exceled at deploying disinformation to bias and inflame the masses, and that there have always been courageous patriots helping us to fight our way out of darkness toward the light.
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Declaration - The Story Of American Independence

by Robert P. Watson

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 Bloomsbury presents Declaration: The Story of American Independence by Robert P. Watson, read by Jason Keller Declaration uncovers the lesser-known stories, surprising twists, and forgotten voices behind the most iconic document in U.S. history. Robert P. Watson delves into the complex and often misunderstood origins of the Declaration, revealing how a series of missteps by the British Crown, shifting colonial sentiments, and a convergence of enlightened thinkers led to a revolutionary moment that changed the course of history. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources—including letters, diaries, newspapers, and diplomatic communiqués—Watson reconstructs the debates, drafts, and drama that surrounded the Declaration's creation. Complete with a unique look into the influence of women, enslaved individuals, and indigenous peoples, Declaration brings to light the diverse cast of characters and perspectives that shaped the American experiment. It explores the document's philosophical roots, its political impact, and the enduring struggle to realize its lofty promises of liberty and equality.
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The Making And Breaking Of The American Constitution - A Thousand-Year History

by Mark Peterson

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 This audiobook narrated by Mark Peterson offers a provocative new history of America's constitution—and issues an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined The American Revolution occurred at a time when Britain's constitutional order failed to adapt to the extraordinary growth of its colonies. The framers designed an American constitution to succeed where Britain's had faltered, planning for continuous population and territorial expansion that would eventually cross the continent. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, it was already ill-suited for an increasingly urban, industrialized society, and the transformations of the twentieth century have pushed it to a breaking point. This book charts the history and aims of the American constitution from its origins in an agrarian past to the grave crisis we face today. Mark Peterson traces the American constitutional tradition to the control of land in medieval England, showing how the founders incorporated the aspirations of Magna Carta with the administrative principles of the Domesday Book, a meticulous survey and valuation of landed property commissioned by William the Conqueror. This framework encouraged the growth of democratic self-government in a young nation. It also institutionalized the colonization of territory and the expulsion of Indigenous peoples, establishing a legal blueprint for transforming tribal lands into revenue-yielding real estate for settlers. Peterson's riveting narrative paints an arresting picture of a dynamic republic whose frame of government has changed enormously to meet the challenges of the modern age but whose written constitution has changed very little. Marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution reveals how this widening disconnect threatens the very existence of our democracy. It calls for a constitution that sustains the ideals developed over the past thousand years while meeting the challenges of the future.
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