Cowboy Confederates
The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.
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Love Song to the UAW
In 1937 autoworkers boldly grasped the means of production, gained recognition from General Motors, and proceeded to build the kind of institutional power that transformed history. It’s an incredibly seductive story. Perhaps too seductive.
Out of Control: Reagan, Labor, and the Fate of the Nation 
Alan Greenspan described the 1981 destruction of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization as “perhaps most important” of all of Reagan’s domestic undertakings. The defeat of PATCO during the first summer of the Reagan administration “gave weight to the legal …
Fandom, Faith, and Bruce Springsteen
Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans by Daniel Cavicchi Oxford University Press, 1998, 256 pp., $19.95 It Ain’t No Sin to Be Glad You’re Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen by Eric Alterman Little, Brown, 1999, 282 …
