USA History

History of America USA 1492-2016

* Adams, Michael:                    American Backlash, pub. 2005.

* Ali, Tariq :                              Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq, pub. 2003.

* Ali, Tariq :                              The Duel: Pakistan On The Path Of American Power, Pub. 2008.

* Alinsky, Saul D. :                    Rules For Radicals, Pub. 1989.

* Anderson, Fred and
Andrew Clayton :                      The Dominion Of War : Empire and Liberty in North America 1500-2000. Pub. 2005.

* Arrington, Leonard J.
and Davis Bitton:                      The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter Day Saints, Pub. 1979.

* Avlon, John :                         Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, Pub. 2010.

* Bacevich, Andrew, J. :          The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.

* Bacevich, Andrew J. :           Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, Pub. 2010.

* Bacevich, Andrew J:             America's War For The Greater Middle East : A Military History , Pub. 2016.

* Bacevich, Andrew J. :           The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War  , Updated edition , Pub. 2013.

* Baldwin, Natylie and
Kermit Heartsong :                  Ukraine : Zbig's Chessboard and How The West Was Checkmated , Pub. 2015.

* Balko, Radley :                     Rise of the Warrior Cop; The Militarization of America's Police Forces, Pub. 2014.

* Baptist, Edward E :               The Half Has Never Been Told : Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism  , Pub. 2014.

* Bass, Gary J. :                       The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide , Pub. 2013.

* Bauman, Robert
 & Rasor, Dina :                Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War , pub. 2007.

* Bawer, Bruce :                      While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, Pub. 2006

* Bergen, Peter L.  :                The longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda Pub. 2011.

* Bianco, Anthony:                 Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville; How The High Cost of Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America , Pub. 2006.

* Blackmon, Douglas A. :       Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From The Civil War to World War II, Pub. 2008.

* Blum, William :                   America's Deadliest Export : Democracy  The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else, Pub. 2014.

* Bronson, Rachel:                 Thicker Than Oil; America's Uneasy partnership With Saudi Arabia, Pub. 2006.

* Bryce, Robert:                     Pipe dreams: Greed, Ego, And The Death of Enron, Pub. 2002.

* Brzezinski, Zbigniew :       Strategic Vision: America And The Crisis of Global Power, Pub. 2012.

* Buchanan, Patrick J. :         State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, Pub. 2006

* Bushman, Richard L.         Mormonism: A very Short Introduction, Pub. 2008.

* Byers, Michael                   War Law : Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict, Pub. 2005.

* Carr, J.Revell                     Seeds Of Discontent : The Deep Roots Of  The American Revolution, 1650-1750, Pub. 2008.

* Carter, Graydon:                  What We’ve Lost: Bush's War on Democracy  And Freedom , Pub. 2004

* Carter, Jimmy :                     Palestine :    Peace not Apartheid , Pub. 2006.

* Catherwood, Christopher :    Christians, Muslims And Islamic Rage : What is Going on and Why It Happened, Pub. 2003.

* Catton, Bruce and
William Catton :                      The Bold And Magnificent : America's Founding Years, 1492- 1815, Pub.  1978.

* Cohan, William D:               Money And Power: How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule The World , Pub. 2011.

* Cohan, William D. :             House of Cards; How Wall Street Gamblers Broke Capitalism, Pub. 2009.

* Cohen, Mark R. :                   Under Crescent And Cross: The Jews In The middle Ages, Pub. 1992.

* Cohn, Norman :                     Cosmos, Chaos And The World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith, 2nd ed. , Pub. 2001.

* Coulter, Ann :                      Godless , Pub. 2006.

* Cramer, Richard Ben:          How Israel lost : the four questions, Pub. 2004.

* Crowe, David M:                A History of the Gypsies Of Eastern Europe and Russia, 2nd ed. Pub. 2007.

* Daniel, Pete :                     The Shadow of Slavery : Peonage in the South, Pub. 1972.

*Delage, Denys :                  Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-1664, Pub. 1993, trans. Jane Brierley.

* Dickason, Olive Patricia : The Myth Of  The Savage And the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas. Pub. 1984.

* Dillon, Richard H.:            North American Indian Wars,  Pub. 1994.

* Dionne Jr. , E.J. :                Why The Right Went Wrong ; Conservatism From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond, Pub. 2016.

* Draper, Theodore :             A Struggle For Power: The American Revolution  , Pub. 1996 .

* Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne :    An Indigenous People's History of The United States , Pub. 2014.

* Erlich, Reese :                    Inside Syria : The Backstory of Their Civil War , And What The World Can Expect , Pub. 2016. (with a forward By Noam Chomsky and a new epilogue by the author)

* Farrell, Greg :                     Crash of the Titans : Greed, Hubris, The Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near Collapse of Bank of America , Pub. 2011.

* Featherstone, Liza :            Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle For Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart, Pub. 2005.

* Finkelman, Paul :                Slavery and the Founding Fathers: Race and Liberty In The Age of Jefferson, second edition ,  Pub. 2001.

* Forte, Maximilian :             Slouching Towards Sirte : NATO's War On Libya and Africa, Pub. 2012.

* Frank, Thomas:                  The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, Pub. 2008.

* Frank, Thomas:                  Pity The Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and The Unlikely Come    Back  Of The Right, Pub. 2012.

* Frank, Thomas :                 Listen, Liberal Or Whatever happened To The Party of The People , Pub. 2016.

* Gasparino, Charles:           The Sellout: How Three  Decades of  Wall St. Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed The Global Financial System, Pub. 2009.

* George, Susan :                  Hijacking  America : How The Religious and Secular Right Changed What Americans Think, Pub. 2008.

* George Susan:                   Whose Crisis, Whose future- Towards A Greener, Fairer, Richer World , Pub. 2010.

* Gottlieb, Robert:                America's Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power, Pub. 1984.

* Grandin, Greg :                  Kissinger's Shadow ; The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman , Pub. 2015.

* Green, Steven K.               Inventing A Christian America : The Myth of the Religious Founding, Pub. 2015.  

* Greenwald, Glenn:            With Liberty and justice For Some: How the Law Is used to Destroy Equality and Protect the powerful, Pub. 2011.

* Greenwald, Glenn :            Great American Hypocrites: Toppling The big Myths of Republican Politics, Pub. 2008.

* Greenwald, Glenn :            No Place To Hide : Edward Snowden , The NSA, And the U.S.  Surveillance State , Pub. 2015.

* Grey,Stephen:                     The True Story of The CIA Torture Program, Pub. 2006.

* Gutjahr, Paul C.                  The Book of Mormon: A Biography ,  Pub. 2012.

* Hardy, Grant :                     Understanding The Book of Mormon; A Reader's Guide, Pub. 2010.

* Hari, Johann :                     Chasing The Scream; The First and Last Days of The War On Drugs , Pub. 2015.

* Harris, Sam :                      The End of Faith : Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason , Pub. 2004.

* Hartman , Andrew :            A War For The Soul Of America ; A History of the Culture Wars  , Pub. 2016.

* Hartung, William D. :         Prophets Of War : Lockheed Martin And The Making of the Military-Industrial Complex, Pub. 2012.

* Heath, Joseph:                    Filthy Lucre: Economics For People Who Hate Capitalism, Pub. 2009.

* Hedges, Chris :                   American Fascists,  The Christian Right and The War On America ,Pub. 2007.

* Hedges, Chris :                   Death Of The Liberal Class, Pub. 2010.

* Hedges, Chris :                    Empire of Illusion: The End Of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle , Pub. 2010.

* Henwood, Doug :                My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets The Presidency , Pub. 2016.

* Hersh, Seymour :                Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 TO Abu Ghraib, Pub. 2004.

* Hersh, Seymour :                The Price of Power : Kissinger in the Nixon White House , Pub. 1983.

* Hinton, Elizabeth :              From The War On Poverty To The War On Crime: The Making of  Mass Incarceration in America , Pub. 2016.

* Hiro, Dilip:                         The Longest War: the Iran-Iraq Military Conflict.

* Hitchens, Christopher :       The Trial of Henry Kissinger , Pub. 2012.

* Hitchens , Christopher :      Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, Pub. 2005.

* Hitchens, Christopher :       Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography, Pub. 2007.

* Hodgson, Godfrey:              The Myth Of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.

* Hofstadter, Richard :            Anti-Intellectualism in American Life , Pub. 1963.

* Immerman, Richard H. :      Empire For Liberty; A History of American Imperialism From Benjamin Franklin To Paul Wolfowitz, Pub. 2010.

* Jacoby, Susan :                     The Age of American Unreason, Pub. 2008.

* Jaenen, Cornelius J. :            Friend And Foe: Aspects of French -Amerindian Contact in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Pub. 1973/1976.

* Jenkins, Philip:                     A History of the United States , Pub. 1997.

* Jennings, Francis:                 The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and The Cant of Conquest, Pub. 1975/ 1996

* Jennings, Francis:                  The Creation of America; Through Revolution to Empire, Pub. 2000.

* Johnsen, Gregory D :            The Last Refuge : Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America's War In Arabia , Pub. 2014.

* Johnstone, Diana :                Queen Of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton , Pub. 2015.

* Jordan, Winthrop D.             The White Man's Burden : historical origins of racism in the United States , Pub. 1974.

* Judis, John B. :                      Genesis: Truman, American Jews, And The Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict, Pub. 2014.

* Judt, Tony:                             Ill Fares The Land, Pub. 2010.

* Kabaservice, Geoffrey:          Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of The Republican Party , From Eisenhower To The Tea Party , Pub. 2012.

* Kaplan, Fred :                         Daydream Believers : How A Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, Pub. 2008.

* Kinzer, Stephen and
Schlesinger, Stephen:                Bitter Fruit : The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (1954) , Pub.1982

* Kinzer, Stephen :                    All The Shah’s Men ( USA Engineered Coup 1953 ) , Pub. 2004.

* Knollenberg, Bernhard:         Origin of The American Revolution 1759-1766, Pub. 2006.

* Kruse, Kevin M. :                  One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America , Pub. 2015.

* Lando, Barry:                         Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush , pub. 2007.

* Lewis, Michael:                      The Big Short; Inside The Doomsday Machine , Pub. 2011.

* Lifton, Robert Jay :                Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World Pub. 2003.

* Lipset, Seymour Martin
and Raab, Earl:                          The Politics Of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970, Pub. 1970

* Lofgren, Mike :                      The Party Is Over: How The Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, And the Middle Class Got Shafted, Pub. 2012.

* Lopez, Ian Haney :                 Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked The Middle Class , Pub. 2014.

* Lowenstein, Roger:                The End Of Wall Street, Pub. 2010.

* Mann, Charles C. :                 1491 New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, Pub. 2005.

* Manseau, Peter :                     One Nation Under Gods : A New American History , Pub. 2015.

* Ma'oz, Moshe:                         Assad: The Sphinx of Damascus,  Pub. 1988.  

* Margolis, Eric S.                     American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Resolving The Conflict Between The West And The Muslim World, Pub. 2008.

* McHugo,  John :                     Syria : A Recent History , Pub. 2015.

* McQuaig, Linda:                     All You Can Eat-Greed ,Lust and the New Capitalism, Pub. 2001.

* Menon, Rajan and
Eugene Rumer :                         Conflict In Ukraine : The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order , Pub. 2015.

* Miller, John C. :                     Origins of the American Revolution, Pub. 1943 /1959.

* Milton, Giles:                         Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures And Fate Of The first English Colonists In America, Pub. 2000.

* Moreton, Bethany:                  To Serve God And Wal-Mart; The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, Pub. 2009.

* Morgenson, Gretchen
and Joshua Rosner :                   Reckless Endangerment ; How Outsized Ambition, Greed, And Corruption Created The Worst Financial Crisis of Our Time, Pub. 2012.

* Muhammad, Khalil Gibran :  The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime , And the Making of Modern Urban America , Pub. 2010.

* Murphy, Cullen:                     Are We Rome: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, Pub. 2007.

* Nazemroaya, Mahdi Darius :  The Globalization of NATO, Pub. 2012.

* Newell, Coke                          Latter Days : A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of Mormonism, Pub. 2000.

* Oliphant,Thomas:                  Utter Incompetents : Ego And Ideology In The Age of Bush, pub. 2007.

* Ostling, Henry Richard
 and Joan K. Ostling :                Mormon America-The Power and the Promise, 1999.

* Packard , Jerrold M. :             American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow , Pub. 2002 .

* Paris, Erna :                            The Sun Climbs Slow : Justice in the Age of Imperial America , Pub. 2008.

* Phillips, Kevin :                      Bad Money:  Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, Pub. 2008.

* Phillips, Kevin :                      American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, And The Politics of Deceit in The House of Bush, Pub. 2004.

* Posner, Richard A. :                A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 And The Descent Into Depression, Pub. 2009.

* Posner, Sarah :                        God's Profits : Faith ,Fraud, and the Republican Crusade For Values Voters , Pub. 2008.

* Priest, Dana And
 William Arkin:                          Top Secret America: The Rise of The New American Security State, PUB. 2011.

* Remini, Robert V :                  Joseph Smith (Mormon founder/Prophet) Pub. 2002.

* Ricks, Thomas E. :                  Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Pub. 2006

* Risen, James :                         Pay Any Price : Greed, Power, And Endless War , Pub. 2015.

* Roberts, Paul William :          A War Against Truth : An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq ,  Pub. 2004

* Rutledge, Joseph Lister:         Century of Conflict : The Struggle Between the French and British in Colonial America, Pub. 1956. (Edited by Thomas B. Costain)

* Sands ,Phillippe :                    Lawless World: The Making and Breaking of Global Rules, Pub. 2006.

* Scahill, Jeremy :                     The Assassination Complex: Inside The Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program (and the staff of Intercept and  Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald) Pub. 2016.

* Scahill, Jeremy :                      Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield , Pub. 2013.

* Schweizer, Peter :                   Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, Pub. 2015.

* Sensini, Paolo :                      Sowing Chaos: Libya In the Wake of Humanitarian Intervention , Pub. 2016 (Translated by Alexander M. Synge )

* Shadid, Anthony :                  Night Draws Near: Iraqis in the Shadow of America’s War , Pub. 2004.

* Shawcross, William:               Sideshow; Kissinger, Nixon And The Destruction of Cambodia, Pub. 1979.

* Smith, Greg :                          Why I left Goldman Sachs, A Wall Street Story, Pub. 2012.

* Stern, Jessica:                         Terror In The Name Of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, Pub. 2003.

* Stewart, Katherine :                The Good News Club : The Christian Right's Stealth Assault On America's Children , Pub. 2012.

* Stiglitz, Joseph, E :                   Freefall: America, Free Markets, And the Sinking of The World Economy, Pub. 2010.

* Streatfeild, Dominic :               Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control Pub. 2007.(history of CIA search for techniques to acquire reliable intel from suspects or to create sleeper double agents CIA sponsored illegal or unethical Experiments )

* Suskind, Ron :                          Confidence Men; Wall Street ,Washington, And The Education of  A President, Pub. 2011.

* Sutton, Matthew Avery :          American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism , Pub. 2014 .

* Taibbi, Matt:                             The Great Derangement : A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion , Pub. 2009.

* Taibbi, Matt :                            Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, And the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History , Pub. 2011.

* Taibbi, Matt :                            The Divide : American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, Pub. 2014.

* Taibbi, Matt :                             Insane Clown President: Dispatches From the 2016 Circus, Pub. 2016.

* Tanguay, Daniel:                       Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography, Pub. 2007.

* Tanner, Stephen  :                     Afghanistan : A military History from Alexander the Great To The War  Against The Taliban, Pub. 2009.

* Taylor, Keeanga - Yamahtta :   From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation  , Pub. 2016.

* Tett, Gillian:                              Fool's Gold:  How The Bold Dream Of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted By Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe , Pub. 2010.

* Turner, Wallace:                       The Mormon Establishment ,Pub. 1966.

* Turse, Nick :                            Tomorrow's Battlefield : US Proxy Wars and Secret Ops In Africa, Pub. 2015.

* Unger, Craig:                          The Fall of the House of Bush : The Untold Story of how a Band of True Believers Seized  the Executive Branch,  Started the Iraq War , and still Imperils America's Future, Pub. 2007.

* Vandewalle, Dirk                    A History of Modern Libya, Pub. 2006.

* Vidal, Gore :                           Dreaming War : Blood For Oil And The Cheney-Bush Junta , Pub. 2002.

* Weisbrot, Robert:                   Freedom Bound ; A History of America's Civil Rights Movement, Pub. 1990.

* Wells, H. G. :                         The Outline of History,The whole Story of Man , Pub. 1920-revised 1971.

* Wills, Garry:                          Head and Heart: American Christianities , Pub. 2007.

* Wilson, Colin:                        Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors, Pub. 2000 .

* Wilson, Jack:                          Barack Obama : This Improbable Quest , Pub. 2008.

* Woodward, Bob :                   Bush At War, Pub. 2002.

* Woodward, Bob:                    State of Denial: Bush at War III , Pub. 2006.

* Wright, Robin :                      Rock The Casbah : Rage and Rebellion Across The Islamic World,
Pub. 2011.                   (An illuminating account by journalist Robin Wright of the Arab Uprisings in 2010-2011 referred to as The Arab Spring which was preceded bu similar non-violent uprisings in 2008 or earlier. The author points out that these uprisings are part of the stirrings of a younger Arab generation who want social and economic justice and who hope to bring about reform without Western interference.)

* Wright, Ronald:                     What Is America -A Short History Of The New World Order, Pub. 2009




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