Examines the jailing of Martin Luther King, jr., the end of segregation, and the growing rifts in the civil rights movement that led to calls for a more violent reaction to racism

An updated account of the author's observations on the twentieth century, based on A People's History of the United States, includes coverage of the Gulf War, the post-Cold War "peace dividend," the welfare debate, the Clinton presidency, and the War on Terrorism. Original.

Offering a panoramic view of history and a description of firsthand diplomatic encounters, the former Secretary of State describes his ideas about diplomacy and power balances, showing how national negotiating styles influence outcomes

Documents the incidents surrounding a German diplomat's bid for international power that led to America's entry into World War I

Assembling over 30 primary documents including proposals, memorandums, decrypted messages, and imperial conferences, this work invites students to view the diplomatic exchanges from both American and Japanese perspectives to determine how and why the US and Japan went to war.

Draws on period newspaper accounts, eyewitness testimony, archival footage, and weather forecasters to provide an in-depth account of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which left a trail of death and destruction across seven states and obliterated entire communities and families. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

"Impressively detailed. . . . An authoritative and epic overview." -- Publishers Weekly

Drawing on period documents and interviews with survivors and their descendants, the author of Hurricane offers a definitive account of the 1921 race riot that destroyed the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving hundreds of black residents dead, and describes the battle for belated justice and reparations to the victims. Reprint.

From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearst's Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture. Now, in these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, he looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past. Here are presidents--Lyndon Johnson feuding with Robert F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon in his grasping, spectral exile. Here are would-be presidents--Eugene V. Debs and Barry Goldwater, "gentlemen fallen among brutes," and Hearst himself. Here too are those who set their sights on something besides the presidency: Martin Luther King, Joe DiMaggio, and the disputatious memoirists of The New Yorker's glory days. Undeluded by the roar of what he calls "our national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney," Russell Baker reflects on the strange fascination that these larger-than-life characters have held for the American imagination. With an elegiac yet shrewd sense of their accomplishments both enduring and ephemeral, he traces the impressions they left on twentieth-century America--and on him.

A diplomatic history of United States-Cuban relations focuses on the 1950s and early 1960s.