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|  | War Without End by Robert Shogan
America's culture war--which pits traditionalists, unrelenting defenders of the social orthodoxy, against modernists, agitators for social change--has simmered and seethed since the birth of the nation. But in the turbulent decade of the 1960s, the culture war erupted in the political arena, where it thunders on today. War Without End examines how the evolution of cultural issues as political tools has rocked the balance of political power in America, from the period of the fractious 1968 presidential campaign to the contest for the White House and for the Congress in 2000. Through an expansive coverage of events--from Vietnam, Nixon, discrimination, abortion, economic imbalance, and morality in political behavior-- Washington journalist Robert Shogan provides an objective and informed look at how Americans feel about themselves and their country in the first decade of the new millennium while the culture war rages on. AUTHOR: Robert Shogan
PUBLISHER: Westview Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | One World Divisible by David Reynolds
This masterful history of the world in our time captures the ground-level drama of events and the larger contours of change in a period of global transformation....David Reynolds`s brilliant history captures both themes and grounds them vividly in the people and events of the pasts fifty years. Kennedy and Khruschchev, Mao and Mobutu, Rachel Carson, Indira Gandhi, and Elvis all come to life in his pages. Reynolds writes with authority on politics and war, on cars, chips, and genes. His narrative is truly global in scope. AUTHOR: David Reynolds
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Early American Indian Cooking by Mary Gunderson
Description not available.Discusses the everyday life, cooking methods, common foods, and hardships and celebrations of American Indians before 1500. AUTHOR: Mary Gunderson
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Strange News by Edward Herrmann, Erik Larson
Full of dramatic survivor stories and vivid storm descriptions, this fast-paced historical analysis chronicles the events surrounding the devastating 1900 Galveston hurricane, and asserts that the city's Weather Bureau--and its head meteorologist Isaac Cline--grossly underestimated Galveston's vulnerability to storms. AUTHOR: Edward Herrmann, Erik Larson
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: History
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 | A New Generation Draws the Line by Noam Chomsky
1999 saw two major international crises which, looked at side-by-side with characteristic acuity by Noam Chomsky, starkly illuminate the strategies of the Western powers in the new century. In East Timor the warnings of further escalation in an unfolding humanitarian disaster could not have been more apparent. As Chomsky points out, the West did not need to do very much to prevent this - a firm word with Jakarta would probably have sufficed. But East Timor is of little strategic interest to the US and its allies, and so they did nothing. Thousands were killed, hundreds of thousands were forced to flee their homes. Precise figures are difficult to establish because little has been done by the West to uncover exactly what happened. In this respect, the situation in Kosovo is very different from East Timor. In Yugoslavia, at the cessation of NATO bombing, hundreds of forensic experts were brought in to substantiate claims made by the State Department and the British Home Office concerning the thousands who had reportedly been massacred at the hands of the Serbs. In fact numbers of this scale have not been corroborated. Furthermore, it is widely accepted that the atrocities that did occur took place in the wake of the NATO bombing, and were its consequence not its cause. Humanitarianism was not the moving force behind military intervention in Yugoslavia; here, as in East Timor, strategic concerns were dominant and the fate of civilian populations incidental. AUTHOR: Noam Chomsky
PUBLISHER: Verso
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Black Sheep Squadron by Bruce Gamble
Description not available.Recounts the story of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 and its exploits in the South Pacific. AUTHOR: Bruce Gamble
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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