The author takes a sober, critical look at the nation's love affair with therapy, tracing the growth of a psychological awareness in the American collective unconsciousness that permeates every aspect of life.

Draws on tabloid journalism, fiction, movies, and television, in an exploration of the confluence of panics, scares, and genuine threats that created a climate of fear that led to America's conservative turn after the 1960s.

Product Description: Offering a unique approach to studying one of the most eventful eras in American history, this volume looks at a dozen key events of the 1960s and 1970s and considers the possible paths history might have taken if the outcomes had been different...read more

Product Description: From the reviews of Nazi Germany"The best one-volume history of the Third Reich available.It fills a void which has existed for a long time and it will probably become the basic text for generations of students."―Walter Laqueur"An indispensable, compellingly readable political, military and social history of the Third Reich...read more

Product Description: The amazing life story of a man whose passion for morality, equality, and individual human rights put him at odds with much of society in Anderson, SC. This is the story of Michael Deanhardt, and how he evolved to become the voice of dissent in a land of "conservative" values and Bible Belt bias...read more

Presents historical essays on each of the major reform efforts in the United States, including such movements as those dealing with labor, temperance, abolition, women's suffrage, civil rights, gay rights, war protests, and antiglobalization.

Presents historical essays on each of the major reform efforts in the United States, including such movements as those dealing with labor, temperance, abolition, women's suffrage, civil rights, gay rights, war protests, and antiglobalization.

Product Description: Praise for UPTON SINCLAIR and the other American Century""I look forward to all of Kevin Mattson's works of history and I've notbeen disappointed yet. Upton Sinclair is a thoughtful, well-researched, and extremely eloquently told excavation of the history of theAmerican left and, indeed, the American nation, as well as a testamentto the power of one man to influence his times...read more

Robert Harrison's study explores the growing role of the state in modern US society and the changing attitudes of Americans themselves towards it. He examines the development of liberal reform, from progressivism to the New Deal and beyond; and explains how the growth in size of the state led to a questioning by both Republicans and Liberals over state provision. From being the solution government is now widely seen as the problem. This is both a perceptive introduction to contemporary America - exploring some of the key social and economic changes this century - and also a searching examination of the nature and limitations of power. (view table of contents)