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Hardcover:
9781479806652 | New York Univ Pr, April 24, 2015, cover price $39.95
Paperback:
9780394890395, titled "Getting Ready for Numbers/Early Preschool" | Random House Childrens Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $1.95 | also contains Getting Ready for Numbers/Early Preschool
Paperback:
9781452226316 | 2 edition (Cq Pr, October 1, 2013), cover price $41.00
9781933116600 | Cq Pr, December 15, 2005, cover price $37.00
A vital, engaging, and sometimes troubling story of modern Americaâs struggle to live up to its ideals. In this ambitious and wide-ranging history, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria through the September 11 attacks and Arizonaâs current anti-immigration movement. What we see is a striking pattern of elected officials and private citizens alike using the American peopleâs fears and prejudices to isolate minorities (ethnic, racial, political, religious, or sexual), silence dissent, and stem the growth of civil rights and liberties.  Whether itâs the postâWorld War I persecution of radicals; the Depression-era deportations of Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans; the World War II internment of 112,000 ethnic Japanese along with thousands of German and Italian aliens; the Cold War campaigns against Communists, gays, and civil-rights activists; or the Vietnam-era COINTELPRO operations, we see how economic, military, and political crises have been used to curtail the rights of supposedly subversive minorities.  Much of the story can be laid at the feet of J. Edgar Hoover, but Feldman goes deeper to show how these tendencies have been part of a continuous vein that runs through American life. Rather than treating this history as a series of discrete moments, Feldman considers the entire programmatic sweep on a scale no one has yet approached. In doing so, he gives us a potent reminder of how, even in America, democracy and civil liberties are never guaranteed.
Hardcover:
9780375425349 | Pantheon Books, August 23, 2011, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A vital, engaging, and sometimes troubling story of modern Americaâs struggle to live up to its ideals.
Paperback:
9780307388230 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, November 13, 2012), cover price $17.00
Hardcover:
9781416571063, titled "A Renegade History of the United States" | Free Pr, September 28, 2010, cover price $27.00
Paperback:
9781416576136, titled "A Renegade History of the United States" | Free Pr, July 5, 2011, cover price $17.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781400118519, titled "A Renegade History of the United States" | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 28, 2010), cover price $34.99
9781400168514, titled "A Renegade History of the United States" | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 28, 2010), cover price $24.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781400148516 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 28, 2010), cover price $83.99
Paperback:
9780394890395 | Random House Childrens Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $1.95 | also contains Dissent: The History of an American Idea
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