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Product Description: With the New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s was a landmark decade in African American political and cultural history, characterized by an upsurge in racial awareness and artistic creativity. In Spectres of 1919 Barbara Foley traces the origins of this revolutionary era to the turbulent year 1919, identifying the events and trends in American society that spurred the black community to action and examining the forms that action took as it evolved...read more
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9780252028465 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: With the New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s was a landmark decade in African American political and cultural history, characterized by an upsurge in racial awareness and artistic creativity.

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9780252075858 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, June 18, 2008), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: With the New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s was a landmark decade in African American political and cultural history, characterized by an upsurge in racial awareness and artistic creativity.

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Product Description: How, in a relatively short time, did America veer so far to the right as to become incomprehensible to Europe, as it would no doubt be to Richard Nixon? And why is it likely to remain so no matter who occupies the Oval Office? Like latter-day de Tocquevilles, English journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge explain this new America, and the conservative movement that shaped it, with a freshness and clarity that elude most native observers...read more
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9781594200205 | Penguin Pr, May 24, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Evaluates the conservative movement that has swept America in recent years, contending that conservatives have waged deliberate campaigns against liberal advances, in an analysis that offers insight into right-wing politics.

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9780143035398 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Evaluates the conservative movement that has swept America in recent years, contending that conservatives have waged deliberate campaigns against liberal advances, in an analysis that offers insight into right-wing politics.

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9781435292987 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: How, in a relatively short time, did America veer so far to the right as to become incomprehensible to Europe, as it would no doubt be to Richard Nixon?

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Product Description: An anti-tourist guide that debunks San Diego's sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike. For fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart. But America's eighth-largest city has a dark side...read more
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9781565848320 | New Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A history of class and power in San Diego, an anti-tourist guide that debunks the sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike.

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9781565849808 | New Pr, May 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An anti-tourist guide that debunks San Diego's sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike.

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Product Description: How did American conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s? What political strategies originating during the decade enabled the modern conservative movement to flourish? And how did mainstream and extremist conservatives, frequently at odds over tactics and ideology, each play a role in reshaping the Republican Party? In the 1960s conservatives did nothing less than engineer their own revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195134735 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 16, 2001, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: How did American conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s?

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9780195157260 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 15, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: How did American conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s?

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Product Description: In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780691059037 | Princeton Univ Dept of Art &, January 1, 2001, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: A groundbreaking study of American conservatism revisits the early and mid-1960s to trace the roots of the conservative revival that eventually changed the American political landscape.

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9780691096117 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 21, 2002, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times.

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Product Description: A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been cited, among other factors, as possible explanations for this puzzling aspect of American exceptionalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780807825365 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left.

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9780807848470 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left.

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Product Description: How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, a distinguished historian offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism, where it came from, where it has gone, and why...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674530171 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 15, 1998, cover price $46.50 | About this edition: Discusses the impact of Franklin Roosevelt, Robert Penn Warren, T.

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9780674001855 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 14, 2000, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast?

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Product Description: The 1960s represented a defining turning point in the politics and cultures of western societies. The emergence of a mass culture, the explosion of pop and new art forms, the rise of "new-left" social movements in the wake of "1968," and the first signs of a more global politics brought into question long-held assumptions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Geoff Andrews (editor)
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9780312220358 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1999, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: The 1960s represented a defining turning point in the politics and cultures of western societies.
9780333741474, titled "New Left, New Right, and Beyond: Taking the Sixties Seriously" | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: The 1960s represented a defining turning-point in the politics and cultures of western societies.

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Product Description: This comprehensive, richly detailed history and political analysis of the German Left since 1945 focuses on the emergence of the Greens as the most influential anti-establishment party in Europe and possibly in the industrial, capitalist world, and shows how this process has fundamentally changed politics in the Federal Republic, transformed the style and output of one of the most important and traditional Lefts in Europe, and provided the most prominent and potent expression of "postmodern" politics in the advanced capitalist states...read more
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9780195210538 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive, richly detailed history and political analysis of the German Left since 1945 focuses on the emergence of the Greens as the most influential anti-establishment party in Europe and possibly in the industrial, capitalist world, and shows how this process has fundamentally changed politics in the Federal Republic, transformed the style and output of one of the most important and traditional Lefts in Europe, and provided the most prominent and potent expression of "postmodern" politics in the advanced capitalist states.

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Product Description: How has the Left reacted to the ideas of the New Right? Barry Hindess critically examines the ideas of both. This is essential reading for anyone interested in developing serious alternatives to the ideas of the Right. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of sociology, and politics...read more
By Barry Hindess (editor)
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9780415033848 | Routledge, July 1, 1990, cover price $54.50 | About this edition: How has the Left reacted to the ideas of the New Right?

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9780415033855 | Routledge, July 1, 1990, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: How has the Left reacted to the ideas of the New Right?

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Product Description: "The Imagination of the New Left" brings to life the social movements and events of the 1960s that made it a period of world-historical importance: the Prague Spring; the student movements in Mexico, Japan, Sri Lanka, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Spain; the Test Offensive in Vietnam and guerilla movements in Latin America; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the assassination of Martin Luther King; the near-revolution in France of May 1968; and the May 1970 student strike in the United States...read more
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9780896082281, titled "Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968" | South End Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "The Imagination of the New Left" brings to life the social movements and events of the 1960s that made it a period of world-historical importance: the Prague Spring; the student movements in Mexico, Japan, Sri Lanka, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Spain; the Test Offensive in Vietnam and guerilla movements in Latin America; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the assassination of Martin Luther King; the near-revolution in France of May 1968; and the May 1970 student strike in the United States.

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9780896082274 | South End Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: "The Imagination of the New Left" brings to life the social movements and events of the 1960s that made it a period of world-historical importance: the Prague Spring; the student movements in Mexico, Japan, Sri Lanka, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Spain; the Test Offensive in Vietnam and guerilla movements in Latin America; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the assassination of Martin Luther King; the near-revolution in France of May 1968; and the May 1970 student strike in the United States.

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