Discover Southwest USA with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to the region before you've even packed your case - drive through the stunning landscapes, taking in the Grand Canyon, the Rocky Mountains and the red s…
The Southwest USA is a state of unmissable national parks, cities and sights. Whether you want to unleash your inner cowboy on the ranches, take in the truly spectacular sight of the Grand Canyon or test your luck in Las Vegas, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you expe…
Few Sunbelt cities burned brighter or contributed more to the conservative movement than Phoenix. In 1910, eleven thousand people called Phoenix home; now, over four million reside in this metropolitan region. In Sunbelt Capitalism, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer tells the story of the…
In the 1930s, Barry Goldwater and other members of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce feared the influence of New Deal planners, small businessmen, and Arizona trade unionists. While Phoenix's business elite detested liberal policies, they were not hostile to government action per …
Historian Elizabeth Tandy Shermer examines how Barry Goldwater and elite Phoenix businessmen used policy and federal funds to fashion a postwar "business climate," setting off an interstate competition for investment that transformed American politics.
"In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home t…
Gabby Wolf leaves her boyfriend and comfortable life in Phoenix for a dream job in New York City. Planting roots in Phoenix vs. playing the field in Manhattan. She wishes she didn't have to decide, that she could have it all. She never expects her wish to come true.