Books written by David Farber

The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s

In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades.
The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

Hawaii's Midpacifican reported similar sentiments, though with less quantitative precision. Cpl. Jim Ritchie, “Inquiring Reporter,” Midpacifican, November 15, 1943. 6. Barbara Bown, “Social Problems of Hawaii as Revealed Through the ...
The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s

Strober, Gerald S., and Deborah H. Strober. Nixon, an Oral History of His Presidency. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. ... New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. By the Washington Post journalists who broke the Watergate burglary story. ———.
Everybody Ought to Be Rich: The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist

The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist David Farber ... The account of Raskob working as a candy butcher is drawn from a problematic source, the oral history of the well-known Broadway producer, composer, and actor Eddie ...
The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s

While Hoover plotted , and President Kennedy worried about Communist Cuba , and Martin Luther King looked for a breakthrough , James Meredith seized the historical stage . In September 1962 , the twenty - eight - year - old black Air ...
Chicago '68

For Tom Keane and a lot of other white people , any discussion of civil rights automatically brought to mind what they saw as civil rights activists ' incessant claims that the police , as a matter of course , brutalized black people .
Chicago '68

The Mayor's statements are also from Gleason, Daley of Chicago, pp. ... The best treatment of Daley and the civil rights movement in general and the King Chicago Project in particular is in Alan B. Anderson and George W. Pickering, ...
Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam

Colonel Charlie Beckwith and Donald Knox, Delta Force (New York: Har- court Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 128–29. 56. Beckwith and Knox, Delta Force, 226–29. 57. This account of the conversation is provided by Beckwith and Knox, Delta Force, ...
创新者的路径

本书源于克莱顿·克里斯坦森教授的"用户目标达成理论",本书作者斯蒂芬·温克尔曾与克里斯坦森教授共事多年,并亲身参与了克里斯坦森教授主持的"用户目标达成理论"的应用项目. ...
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

Reinarman and Levine, “The Crack Attack,” in Crack in America, Reinarman and Levine (eds.), p. 34. Pegues, Once a Cop, p. 74. Quoted in Tanya Telfair Sharpe, Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women ...
The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s

John Hope Franklin and August Meier (1982); William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1980); Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC andthe BlackAwakening ofthe 1960's ...
Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation

This book's groundbreaking Jobs Roadmap takes you step by step through the innovation process and reveals how to: - Gather valuable customer insights - Turn those insights into new product ideas - Test and iterate until you find original ...
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to ...
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History

The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement.
Beyond Pearl Harbor: A Pacific History

How the entire Asia Pacific region was transformed when Imperial Japan attacked eight major targets on the same day in 1941; Pearl Harbor was only one of them.
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History

The story of modern conservatism through the lives of six leading figures The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers ...
Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation

Packed with similar examples from every industry, this complete innovation guide explains both foundational concepts and a detailed action plan developed by Wunker and his team.
Everybody Ought to Be Rich: The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist

David Farber's Everybody Ought to Be Rich is the first biography of Raskob, a man who shunned the limelight (he was the anti-Trump of his time) but whose impact on free market enterprise can hardly be overstated.
The War on Drugs: A History

At the same time, the collection explores how aggressive anti-drug policies produced a “deviant” form of globalization that offered economically marginalized people an economic life-line as players in a remunerative transnational supply ...
The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

For close to a million soldiers, sailors and marines on their way to participate in World War II, Hawaii was, as the forward base and staging area for all Pacific...