My books and booklets.
Build The Wall!: Populism and Nativism in American Life.
The book places the current immigration debate within the context of historical views on populism and nativism and how these views and political movements have changed over time.
Buy on Amazon for $9.95.
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Medicine in America: Are We Healthier Than Before?
How and why medicine has changed with the advent of public and private insurance as well as new technologies for understanding disease and delivering patient care.
Buy on Amazon for $6.60.
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The American Family: Has It Changed?
A readable study about how the 'typical' American family has moved from being a heterosexual relationship of two adult parents with two blood-related children to family structures which are often two homosexual or transexual adults.
Buy on Amazon for $5.95.
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How Informed Should We Be?: Information in the Digital Age.
A brief text which analyzes the phases of human communication from speech to digital technologies and how different technologies define what we use and consider information and facts.
Buy on Amazon for $4.95
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Why Did We Take Them Back?: The Confederate States and the Union.
A lively and easy-to-read study about how the economy and society of today's United States would be different if the Confederate states had remained a separate country after 1865.
Buy on Amazon for $5.95
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Colonialism - Then and Now..
A brief review of modern Western colonialism which resulted in most of Africa, parts of Asia and other locations becoming owned and administered by a small group of Western European countries, of which Great Britain created the largest and most widespread colonial domain in the entire history of humankind.
Buy on Amazon for $5.95
Stand Your Ground: The Way We Are.
A detailed study of how the culture of Stand Your Ground developed in the black community first as a resistance to slavery and then as a resistance to white authority and control.
Buy on Amazon for $3.95
Wilderness in America.
A readable book which explores how the first settlers who came to America confronted wilderness as families and groups began moving away from the coastal zone and how much of the original wilderness zone first disappeared and now is beginning to return.
Buy on Amazon for $5.95
Racism in America: Then and Now.
A detailed look at how racism was used to justify slavery and now is a narrative which justifies the subservient status which black Americans occupy relative to whites. The book examines racism in four contexts: housing, health, education and crime and shows how the contemporary circumstances for blacks in all four areas is confused and misunderstood because of racist beliefs.
Buy on Amazon for $4.95
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What's So Bad About Being Poor?
Rather than assuming that the poor are trapped in poverty, this book suggests that many poor people not only live within their means, but feel neither trapped nor frustrated because they see greater wealth around them which they do not have. The book is also a critique of recent scholarship on inequality by Piketty, Deaton and other researchers, and gives graphic, compelling personal examples of what poverty means to people who are poor. The book also suggests that the current political narrative about the 'wage gap' and the shrinking of the middle class need to be rethought and better understood.
Buy on Amazon for $12.95
Has America Changed?: Race, Family, Education and Politics Since 1960.
A detailed but readable text which combines personal anecdotes with annotated data to explain how American society and popular culture have changed over the author's lifetime. The work looks very closely at race relations, family and gender relationships, education and politics.
Buy on Amazon for $3.95
Willy, Shmilly, Vat's Da Difference? Black Families in the United States.
A readable, fully-annotated text which covers how black families are discussed today and why the discussion ios wrong and needs to be corrected.
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Make America Great Again: Advocacy and Insurrection Under Trump.
A look at how Donald Trump created a national MAGA 'movement' to promote his candidacy and then his Presidency with a look back at civil rights and anti-war advocacy in the 1950's and 1960's which involved the author himself. The book then looks at the reasons for the January 6th riot at The Capitol building and whether this event was an insurrection and a true, political threat.
Buy on Amazon for $9.95
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Community and Communication: The Digital Superhighway in the United States.
A readable analysis of how the internet has changed American society since it became a website-enabled technology in 1995. The text details the internet's impact on health, education, economic activity, politics, race and gender, and also evaluates the positive and negative issues surrounding social media and looks into future applications of quantum computing and AI. The author attempts to place the internet into the whole scope and history opf communication technologies, much in the same way that Marshall McLuhan analyzed the role and scope of television.
Buy on Amazon for $9.95.