At once memoir and meditation, Keeping Time records one professional historian's struggle to live in history even as he studies it, writes about it, and teaches it. Exploring the omnipresence of the past in American life today, Carroll weaves into his autobiographical narrative a wealth of provocative observations on the practice of history.
A history of 1970s America. International relations as well as domestic policies are examined, and topics covered range from Nixon's trip to China, the Camp David Accords, and the Iranian capture of the US embassy, to Watergate, the Eagleton affair, and the pardon for draft evaders.
A collective biography of the Americans who volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war that provides the first comprehensive, objective, and deeply researched account of the brigade's experience in Spain and what happened to the survivors when they returned to the United States.
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