A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of t...(展开全部)

Drawing from more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Curt Gentry reveals how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost 50 years, Hoover held public power that was virtually unchecked and manipulated every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blac...(展开全部)

This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show tha...(展开全部)

This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. </p> American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It g...(展开全部)

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities’ dependence on municipal debt or how the terms of municipal finance structure racial privileges, entrench spatial neglect, elide democratic input, and distribute wealth and power. In this passionate and deeply researched book, Destin Jenkins shows in vivid ...(展开全部)

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underp...(展开全部)

大卫·R.罗迪格（David R. Roediger） 美国堪萨斯大学基金会杰出教授，曾任美国研究协会主席。大学毕业于伊利诺伊州公立学校，并于西北大学获得博士学位。其近期著作包括《抓住自由：奴隶解放与全民自由》（Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All）、《种族的美国沉浮史：从殖民奴役到奥巴马现象》（How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon）。此外，还和伊丽莎白·D. 埃施（Elizabeth D. Esch）合著《差异的产生：美国历史上的种族和劳工管理》（The Production of Difference: Race and the Manageme...(展开全部)

大卫·R.罗迪格（David R. Roediger） 美国堪萨斯大学基金会杰出教授，曾任美国研究协会主席。大学毕业于伊利诺伊州公立学校，并于西北大学获得博士学位。其近期著作包括《抓住自由：奴隶解放与全民自由》（Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All）、《种族的美国沉浮史：从殖民奴役到奥巴马现象》（How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon）。此外，还和伊丽莎白·D. 埃施（Elizabeth D. Esch）合著《差异的产生：美国历史上的种族和劳工管理》（The Production of Difference: Race and the Manageme...(展开全部)

大卫·R.罗迪格（David R. Roediger） 美国堪萨斯大学基金会杰出教授，曾任美国研究协会主席。大学毕业于伊利诺伊州公立学校，并于西北大学获得博士学位。其近期著作包括《抓住自由：奴隶解放与全民自由》（Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All）、《种族的美国沉浮史：从殖民奴役到奥巴马现象》（How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon）。此外，还和伊丽莎白·D. 埃施（Elizabeth D. Esch）合著《差异的产生：美国历史上的种族和劳工管理》（The Production of Difference: Race and the Manageme...(展开全部)

An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems.