Alan Brinkley Books
The Chicago Handbook for Teachers
By Michael Flamm, Betty Dessants, Cynthia Fleming, Alan Brinkley
"Unlike their counterparts on the secondary or primary school level, many who teach in colleges and universities have extensive training in their various disciplines, but surprisingly little instru...
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New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution
By Nelson W. Polsby, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Alan Brinkley
New Federalist Papers brings together three prominent and highly visible constitutional experts - Alan Brinkley, Nelson W. Polsby, and Kathleen M. Sullivan - to address the threats posed by current...
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The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
When Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Democratic party won a landslide victory in the 1936 elections, the way seemed open for the New Deal to complete the restructuring of American government it had b...
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Voices of Protest
The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catho...
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Liberalism and its discontents
How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since t...
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