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One Nation Under God
This book is an engaging account of US history from the first European contact with the 'New World' to the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Bruce Kuk...
Historian Bruce Kuklick tells the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the USA, in the context of the intellectual and social changes of t...
Murdering Patrice Lumumba
Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story o...
The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930
From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the ...
Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the develop...
Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976
Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the fee...
1720-2000
Here at last is an American counterpart to Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. The eminent historian Bruce Kuklick tells the fascinating...
The Clash with Russia Over Reparations
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The Career of William Fontaine
At a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was the only black member of the Uni...
From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey
How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes
In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious nav...
A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture
A deeply relevant look at what fascism means to Americans. From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and ...
From Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon
Which American presidents have been good? Which have been bad? Experts on the presidency have never been able to agree on their assessments. Bruce Kuk...
A Library of America Paperback Classic
"A milestone in religious thought. . . . James combines a positive approach to religion with a non-dogmatic and thoroughly empirical approach to the r...
The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic Universe / The Meaning of Truth / Some Problems of Philosophy / Essays
Philosopher and psychologist William James was the best known and most influential American thinker of his time. The five books and nineteen essays co...
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930
Concentrating on the era when American academic philosophy was nearly equated with Harvard, the ideas, lives, and social milieu of Pierce, James, Royc...
Volume One
Originally published in 1987. The dispute between Leonard Woods, an American theologian and well known Calvinist, and Henry Ware, a preacher and theol...