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Free Download The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire, 2nd Edition by Matt Kennard
English | June 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1350422711 | True EPUB | 440 pages | 0.5 MB
While working for the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse’s mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, and a reach much too close to home.

Free Download Shuly Rubin Schwartz, "The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0814740537 | EPUB | pages: 312 | 1.5 mb
2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought

Free Download The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: 059344325X | True EPUB | 272 pages | 5.3 MB
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.

Free Download Thomas C. Holt, "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights"
English | ISBN: 0197525792 | 2021 | 176 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle.

Free Download The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s by Lynn Dumenil
English | January 1, 1995 | ISBN: 0809069784, 0809015668 | True EPUB | 351 pages | 0.5 MB
Lynn Dumenil’s The Modern Temper provides a unique perspective into the American Jazz Age.

Free Download Ethan Mannon, "The Georgic Mode in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Satisfactions of Soil and Sweat"
English | ISBN: 1666944068 | 2024 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Georgic Mode in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Satisfactions of Soil and Sweat explores environmental writing that foregrounds labor. Ethan Mannon argues that Virgil’s Georgics, as well as the georgic mode in general, exerted considerable influence upon some of America’s best-known writers-including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, and Wendell Berry-and that these and others worked to revise the mode to better fit their own contexts. This book also outlines the contemporary value of the georgic literary tradition-two thousand years of writing that begins with the premise that humans must use the world in order to survive and search for a balance between human needs and nature’s productive capacity. In the georgic mode, authors found an adaptable discourse that enabled them to advocate for the protection and responsible use of productive lands, present rural places and people in all of their complexity, explore human relationships with laboring animals, and advertise the sensory pleasures of rooted work.

Free Download Sidney L. Pash, "The Currents of War: A New History of American-Japanese Relations, 1899-1941"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 081314423X | EPUB | pages: 372 | 1.8 mb
From 1899 until the American entry into World War II, U.S. presidents sought to preserve China’s territorial integrity in order to guarantee American businesses access to Chinese markets―a policy famously known as the "open door." Before the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Americans saw Japan as the open door’s champion; but by the end of 1905, Tokyo had replaced St. Petersburg as its greatest threat. For the next thirty-six years, successive U.S. administrations worked to safeguard China and contain Japanese expansion on the mainland.

Free Download Sidney L. Pash, "The Currents of War: A New History of American-Japanese Relations, 1899-1941"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 081314423X | EPUB | pages: 372 | 1.8 mb
From 1899 until the American entry into World War II, U.S. presidents sought to preserve China’s territorial integrity in order to guarantee American businesses access to Chinese markets―a policy famously known as the "open door." Before the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Americans saw Japan as the open door’s champion; but by the end of 1905, Tokyo had replaced St. Petersburg as its greatest threat. For the next thirty-six years, successive U.S. administrations worked to safeguard China and contain Japanese expansion on the mainland.

Free Download The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society by Thomas Larkin
English | February 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0231210671 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 74.41 MB
What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong-based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society. Following the Heard brothers throughout their firm’s rise and decline, The China Firm reveals how nineteenth-century China’s American elite adapted to colonial culture, helped entrench social and racial hierarchies, and exploited the British imperial project for their own profit as they became increasingly invested in its political affairs and commercial networks.

Free Download The Bourbon Drinker’s Companion: A Guide to American Distilleries, with Travel Advice, Folklore, and Tasting Notes by Colin Spoelman
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1419766090 | 296 pages | MOBI | 31 Mb
This insider’s guide to American distilleries, from the author of The Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining, offers colorful lore, regional history, and tasting notes for bourbon, whiskey, and rye.