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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

By Otto Friedrich

A dazzling social and cultural history of Hollywood's golden age in the decade from World War II to the Korean War In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B.

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Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Cent

By Steven Cassedy

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks-physical, social, and political-which bound them together in ways never previously imagined.

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Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism

By Gary Cross

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Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism

By Gary Cross

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The Diplomats, 1939-1979

By Gordon A. Craig, Francis L. Loewenheim

This volume offers a unique perspective on a turbulent and dangerous age by focusing on the activities and accomplishments of its diplomats. Its twenty-three interconnected essays discuss the politics of ambassadors, foreign ministers, and heads of state from Acheson and Adenauer to Sadat and Gromyko, as well as the special problems of the professionals in the foreign offices and the role of the media in modern diplomacy.

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Follow Your Conscience: The Catholic Church and the Spirit of the Sixties

By Peter Cajka

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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

By Charles King

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Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation

By Christopher M. Elias

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Hollywood's Artists: The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship

By Virginia Wright Wexman

Today, the director is considered the leading artistic force behind a film. The production of a Hollywood movie requires the labor of many people, from screenwriters and editors to cinematographers and boom operators, but the director as author of the film overshadows them all.

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The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism

By Jennifer Delton

The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyist Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers--NAM--helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century.