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<title><![CDATA[KCLS American History titles]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New American History titles added to the KCLS collection]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The secret plot to make Ted Kennedy president : inside the real Watergate conspiracy / Geoff Shepard.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Shepard, Geoffrey Carroll, 1944-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0810971224]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[A time it was : Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties / photographs and text by Bill Eppridge ; essay by Pete Hamill ; foreword by John Ellard Frook ; edited by Adrienne Aurichio.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Eppridge, Bill.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1931859426]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[In praise of barbarians : essays against empire / Mike Davis.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Mike Davis attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers such contemporary idols as Mel Gibson and Howard Dean, debates with Tom Frank about "what's the matter with America," unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system, visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the U.S.-Mexico border, predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina, commemorates the anarchist avengers of the 1890s, remembers "Private Ivan" who defeated fascism, recalls the "teenybopper riots" on Sunset Strip, and looks at the future of global capitalism from the top of Hubbert's Peak."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080805]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Davis, Mike, 1946-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1594201706]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The liberal hour : Washington and the politics of change in the 1960s / G. Calvin Mackenzie & Robert Weisbrot.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["For a brief period in the 1960s, more progressive legislation was passed in Congress than in almost any other era in American history. Demands that had lingered for decades on the political agenda finally entered the realm of possibility. Reform has seldom come with such speed, such sweep, and such consequence. What drove this political sea change? In The Liberal Hour, Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot argue that the primary force behind it was not the counterculture, but those in the traditional seats of power." "Ultimately, Mackenzie and Weisbrot maintain, liberal politicians in the 1960s expected too much of government, and promised too much to the American people. Overwhelmed by rising costs, a fractured populace, and an endless war, the liberal hour passed as quickly as it began, but it left in its wake a vastly altered American landscape. This book reveals how Washington, so often portrayed as a target of reform in the 1960s, was in fact the era's most effective engine of change."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080806]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Mackenzie, G. Calvin.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1932714030]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Benedict Arnold's Army : the 1775 American invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War / Arthur S. Lefkowitz.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080807]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Lefkowitz, Arthur S.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=031604041X]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Goodnight Bush : an unauthorized parody / by Erich Origen & Gan Golan.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080808]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Origen, Erich.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307406628]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Why we hate us : American discontent in the new millennium / Dick Meyer.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In Why We Hate Us, Meyer absolutely nails America's early-twenty-first-century mood disorder. He points out the most widespread carriers of the why-we-hate-us germs, including the belligerence of partisan politics that perverts our democracy, the decline of once common manners, the vulgarity of Hollywood entertainment, the superficiality and untrustworthiness of the news media, the cult of celebrity, and the disappearance of authentic neighborhoods and voluntary organizations (the kind that have actual meetings where one can hobnob instead of just clicking in an online contribution).  Meyer argues that when the social, spiritual, and political turmoil that followed the sixties collided with the technological and media revolution at the turn of the century, something inside us hit overload. American culture no longer reflects our own values. As a result, we are now morally and existentially tired, disoriented, anchorless, and defensive. The author reveals why we feel this way and also offers a thoughtful and uplifting prescription for breaking out of our current morass and learning how to hate us less.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080809]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Meyer, Dick.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0742559726]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Vindicating Lincoln : defending the politics of our greatest president / Thomas L. Krannawitter.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Krannawitter, Thomas L., 1969-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0071493891]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[George Washington's secret navy : how the American revolution went to sea / James L. Nelson.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080812]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Nelson, James L.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0972022910]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Cowgirl sass and savvy / [Julie Carter].]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Reflections on ranch life in the American West, from the author's weekly newspaper colum]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080814]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Carter, Julie.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595581081]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Bitterly divided : the South's inner Civil War / David Williams.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080814]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Williams, David, 1959-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0805086544]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The shipwreck that saved Jamestown : the Sea Venture castaways and the fate of America / Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Floundering from two years of warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers, the Virginia Company was about to collapse. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm.... The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda--a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.--From publisher descriptio]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080815]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Glover, Lorri, 1967-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1402212283]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Hurricane of independence : the untold story of the deadly storm at the deciding moment of the American Revolution / Tony Williams.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080816]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Williams, Tony, 1970-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0060598670]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Southern storm : Sherman's march to the sea / Noah Andre Trudeau.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Award-winning Civil War historian Trudeau has written a fascinating new history of Sherman's legendary and devastating march through Georgia. Told through diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers, this work paints a vivid picture of an event that changed the course of Americ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Trudeau, Noah Andre, 1949-]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0465002919]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The leaders we deserved (and a few we didn't) : rethinking the presidential rating game / Alvin S. Felzenberg.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Rating the presidents is a perennial pastime in America: historians and pundits have periodically ranked our leaders along a scale ranging from "Great," and "Near-Great," down to "Failure." But as Alvin S. Felzenberg points out, these ratings have many problems. Despite reams of new historical information,the rankings never seem to change very much: for instance, the same six leaders, Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, and the two Roosevelts, always emerge on top. There's a strong bias toward a certain kind of president - those who tended to increase executive power - unless, of course, a president used that power in ways the evaluators didn't approve of. In any case, the idea of rating performance in such a complex job on a simple linear scale is slightly absurd." "The Leaders we Deserved (and a Few we Didn't) offers a more reliable way of assessing presidential performance. It ranks presidents against several criteria - character, vision, competence, foreign policy, economic policy; human rights, and legacy. The result is a surprisingly fresh look at how the presidents stack up against each other, with some of the standard "greats" coming off far worse in some ways than their supposedly mediocre colleagues."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[20080821]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Felzenberg, Alvin S.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0807831883]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[Lincoln and the decision for war : the northern response to secession / Russell McClintock.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080826]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[McClintock, Russell.]]></author>
</item><item><link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=1595583416]]></link>
<title><![CDATA[The trial of Donald Rumsfeld : a prosecution by book / Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[20080828]]></pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[Ratner, Michael, 1943-]]></author>
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