This book explains how public housing projects are not the only housing policy mistakes. Lesser known efforts are just as pernicious, working in concert to undermine sound neighborhoods and perpetuate a dependent underclass.
A former prisoner tells the untold story of the Nazi concentration camp that secretly manufactured V-2 rockets.
Lieberman looks at the cultural meaning of suicide and how it has gone from being seen as subversive to self-destructive.
This work shows how, on November 7, 1841, the "Creole" was transporting slaves from Richmond to the auction block at New Orleans. A band of slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew, and forced the ship to sail into Nassau harbour, where the British offered them freedom.
Carlson views the Lewis and Clark expedition as just one of several schemes to seize Western lands from foreign powers and extend the United States.
Treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragic melodrama.
How the Israelites and their neighbors treated the dead, and why their practices challenged the... Læs mere
In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many of his essays reflect his continuing interest in the conventions of popular culture as well as the ...
The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag’s work, including full discussions of her fiction. “One can ask for no better guidebook.”—M. Thomas Inge.
In this personal account of the intelligence failure in Vietnam, Mr. Allen reveals specifically how American leaders largely excluded intelligence from important policy deliberations until it was too late. “Don’t miss this book!”—John Prados
Drawn from the City Journal, these cogent essays add up to the deepest, most informative appraisal we have of how and why the sexual revolution has failed and how we might begin to reconstruct the relations between the sexes in ways that reconcile freedom with humanity.