{"title":"Zachary Karabell","description":"Zachary Karabell was educated at Columbia; Oxford, where he received a degree in Modern Middle Eastern Studies; and Havard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Dartmouth. He is the author of several books, including The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election, which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland prize. His essays and reviews have appeared in various publications, such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and Newsweek. He lives in New York City.","products":[{"product_id":"parting-the-desert-the-creation-of-the-suez-canal-paperback","title":"Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project through fifteen years of financial challenges, technical obstacles, and political intrigues. He convinced ordinary French citizens to invest their money, and he won the backing of Napoleon III and of Egypt's prince Muhammad Said. But the triumph was far from perfect: the construction relied heavily on forced labor and technical and diplomatic obstacles constantly threatened completion. The inauguration in 1869 captured the imagination of the world. The Suez Canal was heralded as a symbol of progress that would unite nations, but its legacy is mixed. Parting the Desert is both a transporting narrative and a meditation on the origins of the modern Middle East.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world. \u003cbr\u003eThe dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project through fifteen years of financial challenges, technical obstacles, and political intrigues. He convinced ordinary French citizens to invest their money, and he won the backing of Napoleon III and of Egypt's prince Muhammad Said. But the triumph was far from perfect: the construction relied heavily on forced labor and technical and diplomatic obstacles constantly threatened completion. The inauguration in 1869 captured the imagination of the world. The Suez Canal was heralded as a symbol of progress that would unite nations, but its legacy is mixed. Parting the Desert is both a transporting narrative and a meditation on the origins of the modern Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365899010271,"sku":"9780375708121","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/n31Qhnsst-9780375708121.webp?v=1789073664"},{"product_id":"the-last-campaign-how-harry-truman-won-the-1948-election-paperback","title":"The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Last Campaign\u003c\/b\u003e, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore (\"Dewey Defeats Truman,\" the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish what the candidates stood for. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1948, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHarry Truman, the feisty working-class Democratic incumbent was one of the most unpopular presidents the country had ever known. His Republican rival, the aloof Thomas Dewey, was widely thought to be a shoe-in. These two major party candidates were flanked on the far left by the Progressive Henry Wallace, and on the far right by white supremacist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. \u003cb\u003eThe Last Campaign\u003c\/b\u003e exposes the fascinating story behind Truman's legendary victory and turns a probing eye toward a by-gone era of political earnestness, when, for \"the last time in this century, an entire spectrum of ideologies was represented,\" a time before television fundamentally altered the political landscape.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore (\"Dewey Defeats Truman,\" the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish what the candidates stood for. \u003cbr\u003eIn 1948,\" Harry Truman, the feisty working-class Democratic incumbent was one of the most unpopular presidents the country had ever known. His Republican rival, the aloof Thomas Dewey, was widely thought to be a shoe-in. These two major party candidates were flanked on the far left by the Progressive Henry Wallace, and on the far right by white supremacist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. The Last Campaign exposes the fascinating story behind Truman's legendary victory and turns a probing eye toward a by-gone era of political earnestness, when, for \"the last time in this century, an entire spectrum of ideologies was represented,\" a time before television fundamentally altered the political landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368777875679,"sku":"9780375700774","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QaeGImGtm39780375700774.webp?v=1789132403"},{"product_id":"chester-alan-arthur-hardcover","title":"Chester Alan Arthur - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtured him\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChester Alan Arthur never dreamed that one day he would be president of the United States. A successful lawyer, Arthur had been forced out as the head of the Custom House of the Port of New York in 1877 in a power struggle between the two wings of the Republican Party. He became such a celebrity that he was nominated for vice president in 1880-despite his never having run for office before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElected alongside James A. Garfield, Arthur found his life transformed just four months into his term, when an assassin shot and killed Garfield, catapulting Arthur into the presidency. The assassin was a deranged man who thought he deserved a federal job through the increasingly corrupt \"spoils system.\" To the surprise of many, Arthur, a longtime beneficiary of that system, saw that the time had come for reform. His opportunity came in the winter of 1882-83, when he pushed through the Pendleton Act, which created a professional civil service and set America on a course toward greater reforms in the decades to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChester Arthur may be largely forgotten today, but Zachary Karabell eloquently shows how this unexpected president-of whom so little was expected-rose to the occasion when fate placed him in the White House. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"By exploring the Gilded Age's parallels with our own divisive political scene, Karabell does an excellent job of cementing the volume's relevance for contemporary readers. \" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433722151135,"sku":"9780805069518","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QIrRfSHJER9780805069518.webp?v=1790017082"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/zachary-karabell.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}