Product Description: More than three decades after the final withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia, the legacy of the Vietnam War continues to influence political, military, and cultural discourse. Journalists, politicians, scholars, pundits, and others have used the conflict to analyze each of America's subsequent military engagements...read more

Product Description: Forging A Fateful Alliance is an important study of the Vietnam War and American higher education-- revealing how secret and semi-secret institutional involvement in that conflict led to public disclosures that undermined the integrity of academe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An in-depth analysis of the impact of public utility privatization on ordinary consumers. This text traces the history of energy and water privatization and documents the community and consumer sectors' various attempts to influence the structure of privatization and regulation...read more

Biography of Jesse James which examines his exploits in light of nineteenth-century society and politics.

Profiles the daring and determined efforts that earned Houdini recognition as a master magician and escape artist