New Books Shelf: Summer 2017
The following list represents titles newly acquired by ALIC.
- 42: inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, published in association with the University of Virginia's Miller Center, 2016. xx, 324 pages.
E 885 A125 2016 - Astride two worlds: technology and the American Civil War. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016. vi, 262 pages.
E 468.9 A88 2016 - Buchenwald: Ausgrenzung und Gewalt, 1937 bis 1945: Begleitband zur Dauerausstellung in der Gedenkstatte Buchenwald. Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2016. 296 pages.
D 805.5 B83 B83 2016 - Covered bridges and the birth of American engineering. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record, 2015. 234 pages.
TG 23 C683 2015 - John F. Kennedy: the winds of change. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]. 3 volumes.
E 841 J585 2016 - Tiergartenstrasse 4: Gedenk- und Informationsort fur die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen "Euthanasie"-Morde. Berlin: Stiftung Denkmal fur die ermordeten Juden Europas 2015. 134 pages.
R 726 T57 2015 - Bartley, Russell H. Eclipse of the assassins: the CIA, imperial politics, and the slaying of Mexican journalist Manuel Buendia. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. xv, 532 pages.
E 183.8 M6 B375 2015 - Bordo, Michael D. Strained relations: US foreign-exchange operations and monetary policy in the twentieth century. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. x, 442 pages.
HG 3903 B67 2015 - Brands, H. W. Reagan: the life. New York: Doubleday, 2015. 805 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates.
E 877 B73 2015 - Brooks, Corey M. Liberty power: antislavery third parties and the transformation of American politics. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. 302 pages.
E 449 B766 2016 - Burnidge, Cara Lea. A peaceful conquest: Woodrow Wilson, religion, and the new world order. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. xi, 219 pages.
E 767.1 B87 2016 - Cha, Victor D. Powerplay: the origins of the American alliance system in Asia. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016. xv, 330 pages.
DS 33.4 U6 C47 2016 - Coates, Benjamin Allen. Legalist empire: international law and American foreign relations in the early twentieth century. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. x, 284 pages.
KF 4581 C63 2016 - Craft, Stephen G. American justice in Taiwan: the 1957 riots and cold war foreign policy. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. xvii, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates.
KF 7642 R49 C73 2016 - Engle, Stephen Douglas. Gathering to save a nation: Lincoln and the Union's war governors. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. 725 pages.
E 459 E54 2016 - Fax, Gene E. With their bare hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon. Osprey Publishing Company, 2017. 495 pages.
D 570.3 79th F38 2017 - Fisher, Louis. Congress: protecting individual rights. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016. xv, 190 pages.
KF 4935 F569 2016 - Gerstle, Gary. Liberty and coercion: the paradox of American government from the founding to the present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xiii, 452 pages.
JK 311 G46 2015 - Goldstein, Joel K. The White House vice presidency: the path to significance, Mondale to Biden. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016. x, 427 pages.
E 176.49 G65 2016 - Greenberg, David. Republic of spin: an inside history of the American presidency. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. xvii, 540 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates.
E 176.1 G824 2016 - Groom, Winston. The aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, [2015] 464 pages.
TL 539 G73 2015 - Jennings, Audra. Out of the horrors of war: disability politics in Word War II America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 288 pages.
HV 1553 J46 2016 - Johnsen, William Thomas. The origins of the grand alliance: Anglo-American military collaboration from the Panay incident to Pearl Harbor. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. xx, 406 pages.
E 183.8 G7 J636 2016 - Kato, Daniel. Liberalizing lynching: building a new racialized state. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. x, 215 pages.
HV 6457 K37 2016 - Kaufman, Zachary D. United States law and policy on transitional justice: principles, politics, and pragmatics. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxv, 331 pages.
KF 9390 K38 2016 - Khalil, Osamah F. America's dream palace: Middle East expertise and the rise of the national security state. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016. x, 426 pages.
DS 61.8 K47 2016 - Leeke, Jim. From the dugouts to the trenches: baseball during the great war. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. xii, 238 pages.
GV 863 A1 L35 2017 - Linn, Brian McAllister. Elvis's army: Cold War GIs and the atomic battlefield. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016. 444 pages.
UA 25 L633 2016 - Locker, Ray. Nixon's gamble: how a president's own secret government destroyed his administration. Guilford, Connecticut: LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. xii, 339 pages.
E 856 L63 2016 - McCullough, David G. The Wright brothers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. 320 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates.
TL 540 W7 M3825 2015 - Miller, Stephen Paul. The New Deal as a triumph of social work: Frances Perkins and the confluence of early twentieth century social work with mid-twentieth century politics and government. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. vii, 162 pages.
E 806 M55 2016 - Milne, David. Worldmaking: the art and science of American diplomacy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 609 pages.
E 744 M566 2015 - Monkman, Betty C. The living White House. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association, [2013]. xi, 225 pages.
F 204 W5 A5 2013 - Morley, Morris H. Reagan and Pinochet: the struggle over U.S. policy toward Chile. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiii, 338 pages.
E 183.8 C4 M67 2015 - Nichols, David Andrew. Engines of diplomacy: Indian trading factories and the negotiation of American empire. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xii, 254 pages.
E 93 N56 2016 - Omenhausser, John Jacob. "I am busy drawing pictures": the Civil War art and letters of Private John Jacob Omenhausser, CSA. Annapolis, Maryland: Friends of the Maryland State Archives, 2014. x, 177 pages.
E 468.7 O55 2014 - Pomeroy, Steven A. An untaken road: strategy, technology, and the hidden history of America's mobile ICBMs. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2016. xiv, 287 pages.
UG 1312 I2 P66 2016 - Ross, Dennis. Doomed to succeed: the U.S.-Israel relationship from Truman to Obama. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. xiv, 474 pages.
E 183.8 I7 R67 2015 - Rubin, Richard. The last of the doughboys: the forgotten generation and their forgotten World War. Boston: Mariner Books, 2014. viii, 518 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates.
D 639 V48 U67 2014 - Selig, Steven M. ANGLICO: not many - but much. Flagstaff, Ariz.: [publisher not identified], 2011. 229 pages.
VF 520 G36 2011 - Skillen, James R. Federal ecosystem management: its rise, fall, and afterlife. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2015. xii, 348 pages.
QH 76.5 W34 S55 2015 - Smith, Bruce L. R. Lincoln Gordon: architect of Cold War foreign policy. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. 500 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates.
E 748 G687 S65 2015 - Snyder, Christina. Great crossings: Indians, settlers, and slaves in the age of Jackson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. xii, 402 pages.
F 459 G73 S68 2017 - Steiker, Carol S. Courting death: the Supreme Court and capital punishment. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. 390 pages.
KF 9227 C2 S74 2016 - Tani, Karen M. States of dependency: welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiii, 427 pages, 8 pages of plates.
KF 3720 T36 2016 - Taylor, William A. Military service and American democracy: from World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2016. xv, 282 pages.
UB 323 T39 2016 - Thompson, John A. A sense of power: the roots of America's global role. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015. xiv, 343 pages.
E 744 T485 2015 - Turk, David S. Forging the star: the official modern history of the United States Marshals Service. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 2016. xv, 540 pages.
HV 8144 M37 T87 2016 - Wahlman, Alec. Storming the city: U.S. military performance in urban warfare from World War II to Vietnam. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 2015. xvi, 368 pages.
U 167.5 S7 W45 2015 - Walker, Samuel. Presidents and civil liberties from Wilson to Obama: a story of poor custodians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxi, 546 pages.
KF 5053 W35 2012 - Wapshott, Nicholas. The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] xvi, 446 pages.
D 753 W27 2015 - Yaqub, Salim. Imperfect strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East relations in the 1970s. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2016. viii, 455 pages.
DS 63.2 U5 Y373 2016