Books written by David Farber

  • Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam

    The book paints a portrait of the 1970s in the United States as an era of failed expectations in a nation plagued by uncertainty and anxiety.

  • The Sixties: From Memory to History

    This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history.

  • The War on Drugs: A History

    "Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," leading scholars examine how drug war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, deviant globalization, regulatory disasters, and a ...

  • The War on Drugs: A History

    "Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," leading scholars examine how drug war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, deviant globalization, regulatory disasters, and a ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Fifties Chronicle

    The latest in the Legacy Publishing chronicle series is an irresistible journey through the affluent and anxiety ridden decade of the 1950's.