US History — Markus Wiener Publishers

Subject: US History

The Bork Hearings: Highlights From the Most Controversial Judicial Confirmation Battle in U.S. History
	Shaffer, Ralph E., editor Subject: U.S. History	The Bork hearings marked the beginning of a trend toward ideological evaluation of Supreme Court judicial nominees. These were the first and last hearings to feature such extensive discussion of legal and constitutional issues, as presidents quickly discovered that a … More Information

The Chosen People
	Nyburg, Sidney Lauer Subject: U.S. History, World Literature	This book is the fictionalization of a true class conflict in Baltimore’s textile industry at the turn of the century. The strike around which the story is centered involved religious leaders, Christian social workers, and the local gentry. … More Information

The Cold War in Europe: Era of a Divided Continent
	Maier, Charles S., editor Subject: Europe, World History	Now that the Cold War is over, this book is especially timely: it analyzes and summarizes the events that ushered in an epoch of history nearly fifty years ago, and provides an analysis of the forces that were suppressed or … More Information

The Hidden Dimensions of Annual Reports: Sixty Years of Social Conflict at General Motors
	Neimark, Marilyn K. Subject: Accounting, U.S. History	Do annual reports ensure corporate accountability? Will they meet the information needs of the 21st century? No, according to Professor Marilyn Neimark. Annual reports are permeated by conflicts of interest on the part of the managements that prepare them and … More Information

The Impact of Intervention: The Dominican Republic during the U.S. Occupation of 1916-1924
	Calder, Bruce Subject: Caribbean History, Dominican History, US Foreign Policy	First U.S. paperback edition, spring 2006. Reprint of the 1984 edition with a new, extensive introduction by the author. “A comprehensive and tolerant study, devoid of jargon….Calder, a historian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, fairly describes the mixed … More Information

The Irony of Desegregation Law 1955–1995: Essays and Documents
	Whitman, Mark, editor Subject: U.S. History	This volume continues the story begun in the author’s earlier work, Removing a Badge of Slavery. It seeks to provide an interpretive history of the major developments in school desegregation law beginning with Brown II. It suggests we may be … More Information

The Price of Blood: History of Repression and Rebellion in Haiti Under Dr. François Duvalier, 1957–1962
	Diederich, Bernard Subject: Caribbean	This is the terrifying history of how Dr. François “Papa Doc” Duvalier used terrorism to reach power, and how he institutionalized terrorism as a weapon of the State. The book reports in detail the stories of the many unsuccessful attempts … More Information

The Travels of William Wells Brown
	Brown, William Wells (edited by Paul Jefferson) Subject: Slavery, American History	This is the remarkable story of two trips by a fugitive slave. One is the dramatic and poignant journey of a humiliated slave up the Mississippi to the North, into freedom. The second is a glorious voyage to Europe of … More Information

The Turning Point: The Autobiography of Klaus Mann
	Mann, Klaus (introduction by Shelley Frisch) Subject: Europe, World Literature	Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes the life of intellectuals in Europe before the Nazi seizure of power, then moves on to depict the restless existence of the often bohemian … More Information

Toward Pearl Harbor: The Diplomatic Exchange Between Japan Japan and the United States, 1889-1941
	Shaffer, Ralph editor Subject: Japan, US History	On oil boycott was the crucial factor in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was organized by the U.S. against Japan, which feared economic strangulation, and attacked Pearl Harbor as the culmination of a period of political, economic, and … More Information