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An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems.
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXZFFW9/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01LXZFFW9&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=bbcf87b26b1b476fdc8bd49ca148fa0a Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics], by Kim Phillips-Fein (Metropolitan Books)When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue. In this vivid account, historian Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city.
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071FBJPMV/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B071FBJPMV&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a3a93524e1a57d84961dbf4d0a7a4180 Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America], by Steven J. Ross (Bloomsbury)No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast. Featuring a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Leon Lewis's daring spy network that infiltrated every fascist group in Los Angeles in a time when hate groups had moved from the margins to the mainstream.
[[File:Blood_in_the_water.png|left|thumbnail|200px|[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400078245/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400078245&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=83a2787027be9ca2679eced5f0c49d71 Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy]]]
"Yet another cautionary tale from the Civil War―that the pain of war endures long after the stacking of arms or the signing of an armistice. A fact that those who clamor for U.S. military intervention in every conflict too often forget.” -- Frank Reeves, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393352277/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393352277&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=9a3fb8f64ed4048080bcd5fb45964ca2 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor], by James M. Scott (W.W. Norton & Company)On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations.
<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393354172/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393354172&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=81295514a40b96f1c49585a7daf32ddc The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire]</i> by Karl Jacoby (W.W. Norton & Company, 2017)
