1945-1989

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1945-1989

Adlai Stevenson's lasting legacy

2007
A collection of essays by a number of noted politicians who reflect on the personal and professional life and career of Adlai Stevenson, former governor of Illinois and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Freedom bound

a history of America's civil rights movement
1991
Chronicles the history of the Civil Rights movement from its rise in the 1950s through the 1970s, discussing the protests, legislation, advances, and setbacks experienced by African-Americans in their quest for equality.

America in the world

the historiography of American foreign relations since 1941
1995

Surge to freedom

the end of Communist rule in Eastern Europe
1991

Goldwater

1988

Acheson

the Secretary of State who created the American world
1998
Chronicles the life of former secretary of state, Dean Archeson from his childhood in Middletown, Connecticut, to his political career with Franklin Roosevelt.

Me and Mario Cuomo

conversations in candor
1995

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