 | A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.90 |
 | The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives) by Thomas J. Sugrue
Buy new: $23.76 / Used from: $15.72 One of the great history books of our era, tells the story of how the New Deal Consensus was undone by the politics of race and how the politics of race led to the ghettoization of American cities.
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 | Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.80 The other side of the Sugrue. The rise of suburbia and the white flight that helped to create the urban crisis.
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 | Public Opinion by Walter Lippman
Buy new: $15.82 / Used from: $11.00 Lippman's great book about the necessary and proper rise of a managerial superclass of technocrats to manage our industrial economy and our industrial state. Also coins the phrase, "manufacturing consent" to describe the new relationship between the state, business, the media, and the public.
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 | The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.99 The necessary anecdote for Lippman's theory.
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 | Public & Its Problems by John Dewey
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $4.30 Dewey's answer to the technocrat utopia dreamed of by Lippman. The answer isn't technocrats (think MacNamara or Rumsfeld) but a vital and progressive public.
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 | Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World) by John Dittmer
Buy new: $16.88 / Used from: $9.47 |
 | Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power by Timothy B. Tyson
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $5.58 |
 | The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.25 |
 | The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.75 |
 | The New Industrial State (The James Madison Library in American Politics) by John Kenneth Galbraith
Buy new: $15.79 / Used from: $3.46 |
 | The Fifties by David Halberstam
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.25 |
 | The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941-1947 by John Lewis Gaddis
Buy used from: $0.14 |
 | The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism by Stephen G. Rabe
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $7.36 |
 | Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage by Philip Taubman
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $4.00 |
 | Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May
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 | The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.48 |
 | Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left by Sara Evans
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.36 |
 | Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.99 |
 | Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom by William H. Chafe
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1.81 |
 | Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
Buy used from: $4.32 |
 | Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Genna Rae McNeil
Buy new: $27.50 / Used from: $16.02 |
 | The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World by James Burnham
Buy new: $33.56 / Used from: $40.86 The former Trotsky-ite meditates on the evolution of the management class.
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 | Suicide of the West: The Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism by James Burnham
Buy used from: $12.00 |
 | Southern Politics in State and Nation by V. O. Key
Buy new: $20.71 / Used from: $9.99 One of the great political books ever written, Key describes the growing influence of the South and its realignment on not just race but business development (thank god for the air conditioner).
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 | Truman by David McCullough
Buy new: $15.84 / Used from: $2.69 |
 | Eisenhower: Soldier and President (The Renowned One-Volume Life) by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.85 |
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