Get ready to break on through to the other side as critically-acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in history--the 1960s.

Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory housing policies even into the 1960s, long after civil rights legislation. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of...

The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all- night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events-the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the huge Ku Klux Klan march down Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue-and it produced a dizzying array of writers, musicians, and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald...

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This is because the neighborhood of Villa Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club Atlético Atlanta, has served as an avenue of integration into Argentine culture. Through the lens of this neighborhood institution, Raanan Rein offers an absorbing social history of...

Who is this guy and why are people listening? Forget Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity-Glenn Beck is the Right's new media darling and the unofficial leader of the conservative grassroots. Lampooned by the Left and Lionized by the far Right, his bluster-and-tears brand of political commentary has commandeered attention on both sides of the aisle. Glenn Beck has emerged over the last decade as a unique and bizarre conservative icon for...

The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing on many previously overlooked sources, Bak offers a fresh...

El republicanismo blasquista valenciano fue, sin duda una de las mejores demostraciones de esta cultura política que, en la Valencia de cambio de siglo logró de movilizar -y no nada más movilizar sino también culturizar- amplios sectores populares en un bloque social donde estaban presentes desde las clases trabajadoras a la pequeña burguesía. Un movimiento, por primera vez, de masas, las masas del nuevo siglo XX, articuladas alrededor de un...

Dieses Buch schildert das Leben in den düsteren Ecken und anrüchigen Etablissements Berlins um 1900. Selbst als Arbeiterkind im Wedding aufgewachsen, begegnet Ostwald den sozial Gestrandeten auf Augenhöhe und möchte Einblick in ihr Leben und ihren Alltag geben. Dabei geht es ihm vor allem darum, ein lebendiges und authentisches Bild zu zeichnen, das dokumentiert, nicht wertet. "Dunkle Winkel" erschien erstmals als Band 1 der 1904 in Angriff genommenen...

Viele Hitlerjungen haben freiwillig im Volkssturm, in der Wehrmacht oder in der Waffen SS gedient.Von falschen Idealen irregeleitet, fanatisiert, abenteuerlustig und zum Kampf erzogen, glaubten sie 1945 doch noch das Großdeutsche Reich vor den Feinden retten zu können.Sie wurden von den braunen Machthabern verführt und schändlich missbraucht. Diese Jungen waren kaum dem Kindesalter entwachsen, als sie sich zum Dienst mit der Waffe und zum Fronteinsatz...

Este volumen recoge el testimonio de algunos protagonistas de la cultura mexicana, europea y española sobre la Guerra Civil y el exilio republicano español. Se incluyen entrevistas de los mexicanos Octavio Paz, Juan de la Cabada, José Chávez Morado y Fernando Gamboa, que asistieron al Congreso de Valencia de 1937, y de los reporteros europeos de la Guerra Civil Kati Horna y Walter Reuter. Esta historia se amplía con el testimonio de artistas...