This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents.

A biography of the tumultuous career of one of Louisiana's staunchest segregationist politicians

Product Description: The subject of "change" is foremost in the minds of Americans today. But when it comes to looking at our past, our country'’s pattern of change —and the response initiated by it— can take on added relevance, providing a meaningful context for understanding historical events...read more

Product Description: This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the strong links between the way we form our individual and collective identities and the type of society in which we live. The contributors―who include sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and philosophers―focus on the issue of modern identity both on a conceptual level and in the context of European unification and progressive globalization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Jeansonne, Glen

The majority of American women supported the Allied cause during World War II. and made sacrifices on the home front to benefit the war effort. But U.S. intervention was opposed by a movement led by ultraright women whose professed desire to keep their sons out of combat was mixed with militant Christianity, anticommunism, and anti-Semitism. This book is the first history of the self-styled "mothers' movement," so called because among its component groups were the National Legion of Mothers of America, the Mothers of Sons Forum, and the National Blue Star Mothers.Unlike leftist antiwar movements, the mothers' movement was not pacifist; its members opposed the war on Germany because they regarded Hitler as an ally against the spread of atheistic communism. They also differed from leftist women in their endorsement of patriarchy and nationalism. God, they believed, wanted them to fight the New Deal liberalism that imperiled their values and the internationalists, communists, and Jews, whom they saw as subjugating Christian America.Jeansonne examines the motivations of these women, the political and social impact of their movement, and their collaborations with men of the far right and also with mainstream isolationists such as Charles Lindbergh. Drawing on files kept by the FBI and other confidential documents, this book sheds light on the history of the war era and on women's place within the far right.

Product Description: In the first full-length biography of evangelist Gerald L. K. Smith (1898--1976), Glen Jeansonne traces the tempestuous career of this notorious bigot. A spellbinding speaker and brilliant organizer, Smith founded the reactionary hate sheet The Cross and the Flag as well as the anti-Semitic Christian Nationalist Crusade and ran for president three times...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Jeansonne, Glen

Traces the life of the evangelical preacher and radical politician, discusses his founding of the anti-Semitic Christian Nationalist Crusade, and looks at his affiliation with Huey Long

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