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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.

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Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the American Dream

By Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles County's Korean population stood at about 186,000-the largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia.

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The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

By Karen M. Inouye

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U. S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.

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Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America

By Kristine C. Harper

Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with interest by all, regardless of political or scientific persuasion.