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AMERICAN HISTORY

FORTHCOMING NEW The Post-Heroic
Presidency
The Dawn Broke Americans Remember

Hot and Somber Their Civil War Leveraged Leadership
in an Age of Limits
U.S. Race Riots of 1964 BARBARA A. GANNON
Second Edition
ANN V. COLLINS MICHAEL A.GENOVESE
AND TODD L. BELT

July 2017, 170pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
January 2018, 192pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Print: 978-0-275-98572-1
Print: 978-1-4408-3724-1 $37.00, £29.00, €34.00 June 2016, 302pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
$46.00, £36.00, €42.00 eBook: 978-0-313-04900-2 Print: 978-1-4408-3704-3
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“ Barbara Gannon has provided
What were the socioeconomic a tremendously wide-ranging
conditions and factors that produced and insightful roadmap for the “ Anyone interested in the
the instances in which riots erupted in complicated terrain of Civil War exercise of presidential power
northern U.S. cities in 1964? This book remembrance. ” in the international arena
examines the year in American history —Nina Silber, Professor of History & will benefit from reading this
book.
that brought a new era in race relations American Studies, Boston University, ”
to the nation. March 2, 2017 —James P. Pfiffner, University
FEATURES This book provides readers with an Professor, School of Policy, Government
& International Affairs,
overview of how Americans have
• Presents a comprehensive analysis of George Mason University,
the violence that plagued the United commemorated and remembered the February 8, 2016
States during a crucial period of race Civil War.
relations—information that cannot be FEATURES This book examines how presidents
found in a single source in the existing from Nixon to Obama have faced the
literature on racial violence • Provides readers with a broad challenges of global leadership in a
overview of an extremely popular
• Offers in-depth case studies of topic in Civil War history in an easy- dramatically changing world—one
specific riots that erupted in 1964 to-read, narrative form with more limited resources and an
• Explains why riots occurred where • Summarizes the most recent increasing number of threatening
they did in the United States scholarship on the subject into one challengers.
• Explores the 1964 riots within volume
the context of the broader social, • Provides both in-depth critical MICHAEL A. GENOVESE, PhD, holds
economic, and political issues of the analyses and clear summaries of the the Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies,
1960s key themes is professor of political science, and is
director of the Institute for Leadership
Studies and president of the World
ANN V. COLLINS, PhD, is associate BARBARA A. GANNON is associate Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount
professor of political science at professor of history, University of University.
McKendree University, Lebanon, IL. Central Florida (UCF). She is the author TODD L. BELT, PhD, is professor of
of The Won Cause: Black and White political science at the University of
Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Hawai‘i at Hilo.
Republic.
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