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J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies

The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War

John Sbardellati

In J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies, John Sbardellati examines Hollywood's key role as a cultural, political, and ideological battleground of the early Cold War, providing a new consideration of Hollywood's history and the post–World War II Red Scare.

"Sbardellati draws upon FBI documents to detail how J. Edgar Hoover, beginning in 1942, directed his agents to undertake a massive, secret review of the Hollywood film industry. . . . Sbardellati's thorough research on Hoover’s early investigations of Hollywood makes this a great choice for readers interested in 20th-century American cultural history."—Library Journal

Wines of Eastern North America

From Prohibition to the Present—A History and Desk Reference

Hudson Cattell

In this history of the grape and wine industry in eastern North America, Hudson Cattell draws on extensive archival research and his more than thirty-five years as a wine journalist.

A Union Forever

The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age

David Sim

David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers tried to convince legislators and statesmen to use the global influence of the United States to achieve Irish independence.

Engineering Philadelphia

The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis

Domenic Vitiello

Asweeping account of enterprise and ingenuity, economic development and urban planning, and the rise and fall of Philadelphia as an industrial metropolis, focusing on the influential Sellers family.

All Good Books Are Catholic Books

Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America

Una M. Cadegan

Una M. Cadegan shows how the Catholic Church’s official position on literary culture developed from World War I to Vatican II in 1965.

Armed with Expertise

The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War

Joy Rohde

Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War–era military-sponsored social research.

The Angola Horror

The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads

Charity Vogel

In a dramatic historical narrative, Charity Vogel tells the gripping, true-to-life story of the 1867 train wreck in Angola, New York, and the characters involved in the tragic accident.

The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere

Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina

William Michael Schmidli

William Michael Schmidli argues that Argentina emerged as the defining test case of Jimmy Carter’s promise to bring human rights to the center of his administration’s foreign policy.

Scrambling for Africa

AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science

Johanna Tayloe Crane

Crane reveals how Africa went from being a continent largely excluded from advancements in HIV medicine to an area of central concern and knowledge production within the increasingly popular field of global health science.

Food Co-ops in America

Communities, Consumption, and Economic Democracy

Anne Meis Knupfer

This book examines the economic and democratic ideals of food cooperatives, showing what the histories of food co-ops tells us about our rights as consumers, how we can practice democracy and community, and how we might do business differently.

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