Reading for Liberalism : The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West [1 ed.] 9780803245594, 9780803240193

California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism 9780812206241

Historian Jonathan Bell chronicles the dramatic story of postwar liberalism in California—moving from early grassroots o

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West Of 98 : Living and Writing the New American West [1 ed.] 9780292735859, 9780292723436

What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possib

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The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960 0807830364, 9780807830369

Founded by radicals in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union experienced several key changes in its formative years.

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West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West 9780292735859

What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possib

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The Promise of the West : Young Pioneers on the Overland Trails [1 ed.] 9781493017270, 9781493017263

Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid

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The plains across : the overland emigrants and the trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 1841481577

The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60 is a book on overland travel across the

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The Strange Death of American Liberalism 9780300127744

In this provocative book, H. W. Brands confronts the vital question of why an ever-increasing number of Americans do not

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Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas 9781477320938

Language has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States. In Texas, as elsewhere in the Southwest, ethn

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The God That Failed: Liberalism and the Destruction of the West

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Suicide of the West - An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism [1st Hardcover Edition]

James Burnham’s 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offer

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