Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1967)

Kenneth M. Stampp.
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1967.

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (2004)


Francis Wheen.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions.
London: Fourth Estate, 2004.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2004.

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The book was initially published in the USA with the title Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense [Google Books] but the later USA paperback edition reverted to the UK title How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World.

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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Wheen, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2010)

Francis Wheen.
Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia.
London: Fourth Estate / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009, 2010.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2010.

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Sunday, August 04, 2013

Ferguson, et al., editors, The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010)

Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela and Daniel J. Sargent, editors.
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010.

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