By Dave McNeely, Jim Henderson

ISBN-10: 0292714548

ISBN-13: 9780292714540

Well known for his fierce devotion to the folk of Texas--as good as his both fierce rages and unpredictable temper--Bob Bullock used to be the main robust political determine in Texas on the finish of the 20th century. First elected to the Texas residence of Representatives in 1956, Bullock held a number of key statewide posts earlier than taking pictures the lieutenant governor's workplace in 1990. even though nominally the state's quantity reputable, Bullock in reality turned Texas's most sensible energy dealer, wielding super effect over the legislative time table and country finances during the Nineties whereas additionally mentoring and helping a destiny president--George W. Bush. during this full of life, but completely researched biography, award-winning reporters Dave McNeely and Jim Henderson craft a well-rounded portrait of Bob Bullock, underscoring either his political adroitness and his own demons. They hint Bullock's upward push via nation govt as Assistant lawyer basic, Secretary of country, country Comptroller, and Lieutenant Governor, exhibiting how he elevated the ability of each workplace he held. The authors highlight Bullock's vast achievements, which integrated hiring an exceptional variety of ladies and minorities, instituting a functionality evaluation to extend the potency of kingdom organisations, restructuring the general public institution investment process, and developing the state's first water conservation and administration plan.

By Darren Staloff

ISBN-10: 0195113527

ISBN-13: 9780195113525

An intensive new interpretation of the political and highbrow heritage of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American considering Class envisions the Bay colony as a 17th century one-party country, the place congregations served as ideological 'cells' and authority used to be limited to an informed elite of ministers and magistrates. From there Staloff bargains a broadened notion of the interstices of political, social, and highbrow authority in Puritan Massachusetts and past, arguing that ideologies, in addition to ideological politics, are produced through self-conscious, and infrequently class-conscious, thinkers.

By Norman G. Rukert

ISBN-10: 0910254249

ISBN-13: 9780910254243

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By Tim McNeese

ISBN-10: 0791093336

ISBN-13: 9780791093337

ISBN-10: 1438101236

ISBN-13: 9781438101231

By Kevin Flynn

ISBN-10: 1611687020

ISBN-13: 9781611687026

By Julia Kathryn Garrett

ISBN-10: 0875651550

ISBN-13: 9780875651552

Citadel worthy: A Frontier Triumph.

By Robert P. Dye

ISBN-10: 0585488401

ISBN-13: 9780585488400

ISBN-10: 0824822897

ISBN-13: 9780824822897

Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941--in the phrases of President Franklin Roosevelt, "a date with the intention to stay in infamy." greater than 350 jap bombers, warring parties, and torpedo planes struck Hawaii in waves, sinking or disabling eighteen ships and destroying greater than 2 hundred plane. with regards to 2,500 American army and civilians died that morning, one other 1,178 have been wounded. The Hawaiian Islands have been pulled into the Pacific conflict and the lives of its voters have been irrevocably replaced. Hawaii Chronicles III: global battle in Hawaii seems on the human and social impression of the battle at the humans of Hawaii from 1938, while hypothesis of a Pacific warfare first surfaced, to the period of post-war prosperity that undefined. Editor Bob Dye has chosen articles that initially seemed within the renowned per 30 days journal Paradise of the Pacific (now often called HONOLULU magazine). An advent describes the heritage of the journal and the colourful characters who released and edited it. Dye then poses the query: How did Hawaii's citizenry focus on the battle? Blackouts, media censorship, gasoline and foodstuff rationing have been imposed. faculties have been commandeered, jobs have been replaced or changed to help the conflict attempt (lei makers have been set to creating camouflage netting). And infantrymen have been all over: stringing barbed twine (along Waikiki Beach!), guarding public structures and looking a person who entered, caring mom and dad once they dated their daughters. Paradise of the Pacific supplied its readers with an informative, perceptive, and sometimes pleasing examine those and different daily reviews of lifestyles in wartime Hawaii.

By Hayden Fry

ISBN-10: 0585046492

ISBN-13: 9780585046495

ISBN-10: 1582610339

ISBN-13: 9781582610337

A "high porch picnic" is a Texas expression for "an excep- tionally reliable time". and through Fry's excellent occupation as one in all university football's most original coaches, that is that will describe his lifestyles. Ranked tenth at the all-time coll- egiate record for department I victories, Fry has effectively mixed his soccer training savvy with a down-home attraction to make him one of many game's such a lot colourful personalities.

By Andrew R. L. Cayton, Stuart D. Hobbs

ISBN-10: 0821416200

ISBN-13: 9780821416204

A forested borderland ruled by means of American Indians in 1780, Ohio was once a panorama of farms and cities inhabited by means of humans from world wide in 1830. the guts of a very good Empire: The Ohio state within the Early Republic chronicles this dramatic and all-encompassing swap. Editors Andrew R.L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs have assembled a centred selection of articles via confirmed and emerging students that handle the conquest of local american citizens, the emergence of a democratic political tradition, the origins of capitalism, the formation of public tradition, the expansion of evangelical Protestantism, the ambiguous prestige of African american citizens, and social existence in a spot that almost all contemporaries observed as at the innovative of human background. certainly, to appreciate what used to be taking place within the Ohio state within the many years after the yankee Revolution is to head some distance towards realizing what was once occurring within the usa and the Atlantic international as an entire. For the guts of a superb Empire, wonderful historians of the yank state in its first many years query traditional knowledge. Downplaying the frontier personality of Ohio, they provide new solutions and open new paths of inquiry via investigations of race, schooling, politics, faith, family members, trade, colonialism, and conquest. because it underscores key issues within the historical past of the United States,The middle of an outstanding Empire pursues matters that experience interested humans for 2 centuries.Andrew R. L. Cayton, special professor of background at Miami college in Oxford, Ohio, is the writer of numerous books, together with Ohio: The background of a humans and, with Fred Anderson, the kingdom of struggle: Liberty and Empire in North the US, 1500-2000 . Stuart D. Hobbs is software director for heritage within the Heartland, a qualified improvement software for heart and highschool academics of background. Hobbs is the writer of the tip of the yank Avant Garde.

By Henry Hill

ISBN-10: 0307556468

ISBN-13: 9780307556462

The Goodfella's advisor to ny is a really facinating advisor to New York's infamous mob haunts. it truly is not like the other consultant e-book, and it additionally provides an exceptional genuine existence New Yorkers view of eating places, bars and vacationer sights to go to.