{"title":"History","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"1929-inside-the-greatest-crash-in-wall-street-history-and-how-it-shattered-a-nation-hardcover","title":"1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Ross Sorkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Books Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and more \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eToo Big to Fail\u003c\/i\u003e, \"the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,\"* comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history. 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It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest.\" - Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter)\r\n\r\n“Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies have collapsed elsewhere—not just through violent coups, but more commonly (and insidiously) through a gradual slide into authoritarianism. . . .How Democracies Die is a lucid and essential guide to what can happen here.” - The New York Times\r\n\r\n\"Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.\" - Ezra Klein, Vox\r\n\r\n“Scholarly and readable, alarming and level-headed . . . the greatest of the many merits of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s contribution to what will doubtless be the ballooning discipline of democracy death studies is their rejection of western exceptionalism.” - The Guardian\r\n\r\nDonald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang--in a revolution or military coup--but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.\r\n\r\nAuthor Biography\r\nSTEVEN LEVITSKY and DANIEL ZIBLATT are Professors of Government at Harvard University. Levitsky's research focuses on Latin America and the developing world. He is the author of Competitive Authoritarianism and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. Ziblatt studies Europe from the nineteenth century to the present. He is the author, most recently, of Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. 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In the early nineteenth century, a pregnant woman named Solitude rallied laborers and soldiers to resist Napoleon's efforts to reimpose slavery on Guadeloupe. A few decades later, Frederick Douglass fashioned his own template for self-emancipation. In \u003ci\u003eDaring to Be Free\u003c\/i\u003e, the acclaimed historian Sudhir Hazareesingh recasts the story of slavery's end by showing that the enslaved themselves were at the center of the action--their voices, their resistance, and their extraordinary fight\u003cbr\u003efor freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout, \u003ci\u003eDaring to Be Free\u003c\/i\u003e portrays the struggle for liberation from the perspective of the enslaved and, wherever possible, in their own words. It highlights the power of collective action, stressing the role of maroon communities, conspiracies, insurrections, and spiritual movements, from Haiti and Brazil to Cuba, Mauritius, and the American South. These acts of resistance involved entire communities, with women often at the heart of the story as warriors, organizers, and agents of radical change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmploying written archives and oral history, \u003ci\u003eDaring to Be Free \u003c\/i\u003eshows how the struggle for freedom was shaped less by Western Enlightenment or Christian ideals than by the enslaved's own spiritual, martial, and cultural resources. Emancipation wasn't handed down by benevolent reformers--it was seized, again and again, by those who demanded freedom. This vital, eye-opening history reclaims abolition for those who fought to liberate themselves.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSudhir Hazareesingh \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a fellow and tutor in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. 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