books by Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

books by Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

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Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

Theodore Dalrymple

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007

The veneer of civilization
This book is a collection of 26 essays published by Dr Dalrymple since 1996. While the essays cover a range of different topics, the unifying theme is culture or, more broadly, civilization. One of my favourite essays, `When Islam breaks down', was named by ...

The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire

Andrew J. Bacevich

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003

Debating the American Empire
The debate on the American Empire takes place on several levels simultaneously: on one axis is the question of whether America is an empire, and if so, what kind of empire is it? It is obviously different from past empires because it is hardly territorial; but it still ...

Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers

Filip Muller

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1999

Riviting
Nobody should be critical of the writing "style" of this book. The man who wrote it doesn't claim to be a professional writer. He relates his own eyewitness accounts of the most horrific scenes, worse than any fiction imaginable. The book details the planned and ...

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great ...

David E. Kyvig

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004

Informative
I wanted a book that give accurate information about life during the 1920's and 1930's. This book definitely does that, but I felt like I was back in history class in high school. I found myself skimming over a lot of it because there was so much detailed information. ...

The Best of Ogden Nash

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007

A definitive Nash anthology
Over five hundred verses gathered from a wide collection of Nash's poems results in this, a definitive Nash anthology suitable not just for college-level poetry libraries, but for general-interest lending collections. While published works comprise the bulk of this ...

But Didn't We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870

Peter Morris

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

Tons on new information
Simply put, I have over 70 baseball books and Peter Morris's one of the best! You want to know how baseball started? Why Americans played the game? Why and how baseball changed? How it became a pro game? This is the book. Go get it.

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

Theodore Dalrymple

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003

`You know funny people.'
Dr Dalrymple's essays draw on his experience as a psychiatrist treating patients in a busy general hospital in a British slum and in a prison. The public policy issues he raises are not unique to Britain, nor are the characteristics of the underclass he portrays so ...

Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline

Theodore Dalrymple

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

"Britishness" Lost
Theodore Dalrymple's newest book, a collection of essays chiefly written for the magazine "City Journal," documents beneath the author's trademark wit and irony the sad decadence of contemporary Britain and the resultant loss of "Britishness," a once grand tradition of ...

The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms

Stephen P. Halbrook

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

The depth and detail added to source material quotes makes this a fine pick
THE FOUNDERS' SECOND AMENDMENT: ORIGINS OF THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS considers the history of the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms in early America from 1768 to 1826, offering up the first book-length account of these origins based on the Founders' own ...

Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series)

Gene Smiley

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003

new look at country's worst crisis
Based on new theories, Smiley has re-examined and re-assessed the forces that led to and prolonged the Great Depression. In clear non-technical prose, he shows what happened and why. This short book (163 pages plus sources and index) is divided into five chapters. ...

The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's

Heather Mac Donald, Victor Davis Hanson, ...

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007

The Illegal Immigration Crisis is Almost Out of Control
In the introduction of this well argued collection of essays, Myron Magnet points out how the illegal immigrant advocates engage in an Orwellian misuse of language. They describe themselves as "pro-immigration" and not defenders of law breaking. The Late Milton ...

The Pitch That Killed

Mike Sowell

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004

Outstanding Documentation of Baseball History
To this day, Ray Chapman remains the only player to have died as a result of injuries sustained on a baseball field. While the intentions of pitcher Carl Mays may be open to debate, Mays threw the pitch which fractured Chapman's skull and ultimately caused his death. ...

The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940

Anthony J. Badger

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2002

Outstanding Book on the Great Depression and the New Deal
Anthony Badger is a most distinguished professor of history at Cambridge in England. Few people better understand the Great Depression in America and the New Deal than Badger. This is a work of the highest caliber. The book should actually be titled "The Great ...

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

Isaiah Berlin

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1993

Tolstoy's views on history elucidated
Sir Isaiah Berlin has written a critical acclaim of the historic views of famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy as expressed in one of his masterpieces "War and Piece". In 'The Hedgehog and The Fox' (1953), Dr. Berlin compares and contracts the monist and pluralist ...

Remembrances of the Angels: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective on the Fire No One Can Forget
John Kuenster

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

On a terrible day in December 1958, one of the deadliest fires in American history took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago. The tragedy shocked the nation, tore apart a community with grief and ange