Archer, Jules

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Battlefield President: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Son of a devout pacifist, Eisenhower enters West Point despite his family and later becomes Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in World War II, and eventually the thirty-fourth president of the United States.

Treason in America

They made a revolution, 1776

Laws that changed America

Examines 169 laws enacted by Congress to provide Americans with greater opportunity or protection in banking, natural resources, the draft, civil rights, labor, business, and many other areas.

Treason in America

The dictators

Describes the nature and prototype of the modern dictator and presents biographical sketches of eighteen twentieth century absolute rulers.

They had a dream

the civil rights struggle, from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
1996
Photographs and text trace the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.

To save the earth

the American environmental movement
1998
Presents a brief history of the environmental movement and accounts of the work of four environmental activists: John Muir, Rachel Carson, David McTaggart, and Dave Foreman.

Special interests

how lobbyists influence legislation
1997
Describes the concept of lobbying, the history of its development, and the efforts of present-day lobbyists to influence state and federal legislators in such areas as tobacco, oil, and firearms.

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