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The Conservative Frontier

Texas and the Origins of the New Right

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2026 Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)2026 Bonney MacDonald Outstanding Book Award Winner, Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A&M University (CSAW)How West Texas business and culture molded the rise of conservatism in the United States.Much of what we understand as modern American political conservatism was born in West Texas, where today it ... Read more

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2026 Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)2026 Bonney MacDonald Outstanding Book Award Winner, Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A&M University (CSAW)How West Texas business and culture molded the rise of conservatism in the United States.Much of what we understand as modern American political conservatism was born in West Texas, where today it
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Before the Storm

Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

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“A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, ... Read more

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“A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960,
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Detroit

A Biography

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At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Read more

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At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city
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Nut Country

Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

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"Taps the fascinating history of a surprisingly understudied place—Dallas . . . to reorient our understanding of America's Republican Right." —Darren Dochuk, author of Anointed with OilOn the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today." That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald ... Read more

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"Taps the fascinating history of a surprisingly understudied place—Dallas . . . to reorient our understanding of America's Republican Right." —Darren Dochuk, author of Anointed with OilOn the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today." That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald
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The Long Deep Grudge

A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland

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"The definitive history of an important but largely forgotten labor organization and its heroic struggles with an icon of industrial capitalism." —Ahmed A. White, author of The Last Great StrikeThis rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that ... Read more

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"The definitive history of an important but largely forgotten labor organization and its heroic struggles with an icon of industrial capitalism." —Ahmed A. White, author of The Last Great StrikeThis rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that
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Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right

What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

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Erica Grieder's Texas is a state that is not only an outlier but an exaggeration of some of America's most striking virtues and flaws. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right is a witty, enlightening inquiry into how Texas works, and why, in the future, the rest of America may look a lot like Texas. ... Read more

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The Lies of the Land

Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn't

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A "piercing, unsentimental" history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis ( The New Yorker).It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who ... Read more

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Colorado

A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

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Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.The fifth ... Read more

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Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.The fifth
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The Fall of Wisconsin

The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

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**National bestseller"Masterful." —Jane Mayer, best-selling author of Dark Money**The Fall of Wisconsin is a deeply reported, searing account of how the state’s progressive tradition was undone and Wisconsin itself turned into a laboratory for national conservatives bent on remaking the country. Neither sentimental nor despairing, the book tells the story of the systematic dismantling of laws ... Read more

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**National bestseller"Masterful." —Jane Mayer, best-selling author of Dark Money**The Fall of Wisconsin is a deeply reported, searing account of how the state’s progressive tradition was undone and Wisconsin itself turned into a laboratory for national conservatives bent on remaking the country. Neither sentimental nor despairing, the book tells the story of the systematic dismantling of laws
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Why the New Deal Matters

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A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today"The New Deal was America's response to the gravest economic and social crisis of the twentieth century. It now serves as a source of inspiration for how we should respond to the gravest crisis of the twenty-first. There's no more fluent and informative a guide to that history than Eric Rauchway, and ... Read more

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Midwest Futures

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"A combination of history, memoir, reportage, and lit-crit that taught me a lot about a region I've reported on. . . . Check it out." ―James Fallows, The AtlanticA Commonweal Notable Book of 2020Finalist, Midwest Independent Book AwardWinner, Independent Publisher Awards Bronze MedalWhat does the future hold for the Midwest? A vast stretch of fertile farmland bordering one of the largest ... Read more

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Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power

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Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians, celebrities, and others joined with Red Power activists to fight for Indian rights. ... Read more

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