Product Description: Everyone knew him then: Bruce Barton was a cultural icon. Two-thirds of American history textbooks today cite him to illustrate the 1920s adoration of the business mentality that then dominated American culture. Historians quote from his enormous best-seller, The Man Nobody Knows, in which Barton called Jesus the "founder of modern business" who "picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world...read more

Product Description: This book explores a widely lived yet little remembered facet of America's cultural and political history: the Cold War as experienced at the grassroots level. Here, Fried traces the cresting of modern patriotic observance during World War II and then shows how patriotic and civic activists afterwards labored to recreate a remembered unity and commitment in the tension-filled Cold War era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An account of American history traces anticommunist sentiment from the 1930s to its apex during the reign of Senator McCarthy, examining the period's cast of characters and their influence

Product Description: From the rear cover: Men Against McCarthy explains the Wisconsin Senator's rise and fall in terms of congressional partisan politics and the personal ambitions of the central characters in the drama. In early 1950 McCarthy sought an issue that would propel him to prominence...read more