Amerikas historia

Från självständigheten 1776 har USA haft 45 presidenter, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Nixon, Clinton och många fler. Här får vi möta dem alla. Vi får också lära känna ämbetet, hur det utvecklats, presidenternas motton och citat, veta hur många ...

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The Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by Americas beloved and distinguished historian. The life ...

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John H. Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questi...

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“Det känns som om varje ord Martin Gelin har skrivit om USA har lett fram till denna engagerade uppgörelse med den amerikanska rasismens historia och konsekvenser. Folkbildning för vår tid.” Hynek Pallas, Expressen...

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  "Genom dessa politiska ökenlandskap leder Ekman läsaren med säker hand. Stilistiskt är hon saklig och noggrann med detaljer. Hennes blick är skarp, liksom förmågan att hitta de verkliga människorna vars röster förmår nyansera och sätta...

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“Det känns som om varje ord Martin Gelin har skrivit om USA har lett fram till denna engagerade uppgörelse med den amerikanska rasismens historia och konsekvenser. Folkbildning för vår tid.” Hynek Pallas, Expressen...

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UTÖKAD 2024-UTGÅVA "Genom dessa politiska ökenlandskap leder Ekman läsaren med säker hand. Stilistiskt är hon saklig och noggrann med detaljer. Hennes blick är skarp, liksom förmågan att hitta de verkliga människorna vars röster förmår nyanse...

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"Häromveckan kom uppdaterade nyutgåvor av två välkända böcker om länderna som geopolitiken och kulturen just nu roterar kring. Göran Rosenbergs "Friare kan ingen vara" och "Det förlorade landet" är personliga analyser av m...

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After the Flying Saucers Came is a comprehensive account of the stories, the people, and the strange events that went into making the fascination with UFOs and aliens a worldwide phenomenon among believers, skeptics, and the simply curious. It tra...

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Highly decorated Navy SEALs, now successful businessmen, show readers how to lead and win in business and in life with principles learned on the battlefield. In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting, Navy SEAL combat s...

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A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous cas...

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A pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II , set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail . Beloved by ...

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VINNARE: Edgar Award (Bästa true crime) NOMINERAD: CWA Gold Dagger (Bästa fackbok) »David Grann är en mästare. Det här är en bok som bränner i själen.« | The New York Times »En bok utan motstycke, spännande som en deckare.« | Göran Everdahl, Go kv...

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"Age of Betrayal" is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and cam...

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»Författaren tecknar ett personligt, kärleksfullt porträtt av staden han bodde i som barn. Det har blivit ett imponerande stycke nutidshistoria där man får veta massor om verkligheten bakom alla kända namn och händelser som dominerat tidningsrubri...

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Den illustrerade utgåvan av Dee Browns klassiker, med 300 fantastiska bilder i färg, nu i mjukbandsutgåva! Dee Browns Begrav mitt hjärta vid Wounded Knee skildrar USA:s kolonisation av vilda västern under andra halvan av 1800-talet, då apacher, ch...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma&apo...

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Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community rem...

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THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS 'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern __________ Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise,...

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'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's work will survive' Arundhati Roy From one of the worlds most prominent thinkers comes a...

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A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug. Timothy Snyder's New York T...

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First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. Are you ready for the Fourth Turning? <BR>St...

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"Blackshirts & Reds" explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology - terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Mic...

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A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and comba...

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Reissue of a novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly t...

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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of the...

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W. E. B. Du Bois' insightful commentary on Black history, racism, and the struggles of Black Americans following emancipationa masterpiece in the African-American canon "Jonathan Holloway introduces W. E. B. Du Bois' 1903 classic fo...

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** #4 New York Times bestseller ** In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are ...

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