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Twilight of the American Century by Andrew J. Bacevich
epub |eng | 2018-09-28 | Author:Andrew J. Bacevich

When the “New Isolationism” Was New Most of this, of course, qualifies as overheated malarkey. As a characterization of US policy at any time in memory, isolationism is a fiction. ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 24,2019 )
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Norman Stone [Stone, Norman]

chapter six | FANATICISM AND HATE, MUDDLE AND DELAY preceding page: US Navy Dauntless dive-bombers during the Battle of Midway, June 1942 (Bettmann/Corbis) The eventual end of the Third Reich ...
( Category: Military January 23,2019 )
Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lamar Waldron

Chapter Thirty-six 453 All of this information had a three-part implication for CIA Cuban operations in 1967. First, the CIA was trying to downgrade its violent operatives to a less ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 23,2019 )
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Barbara Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Barbara]

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE WORST GANG TWENTY-THREE years had passed since Seneca Falls and the first glimmering of woman’s rights. To celebrate that anniversary, the National Woman Suffrage Association scheduled a ...
( Category: Women's Studies January 23,2019 )
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath by John Toland
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:John Toland [Toland, John]

* * * 1This important document was buried among exhibits on pages 2882–883 of Vol. 18, Joint Committee Hearings. See Notes. Chapter Eleven * * * SAFFORD AT BAY FEBRUARY ...
( Category: Military January 23,2019 )
The American Crisis by Thomas Paine
epub, pdf |eng | 1776-01-23 | Author:Thomas Paine [Paine, Thomas]

In short, the contention about the dividend might have distracted the nation; for nothing is more common than to agree in the conquest and quarrel for the prize; therefore it ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 23,2019 )
The Articles of Confederation by Benjamin Franklin
epub, pdf |eng | 1781-01-23 | Author:Benjamin Franklin [Franklin, Benjamin ]

Article XIX The Council of State shall consist of one Delegate from each C[o]lony, to be named annually by the Delegates of each Colony, and where they cannot agree, by ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 23,2019 )
Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia
epub |eng | 2019-01-21 | Author:Helen Zia

As the Communist armies made their way south toward Shanghai in 1949, boats large and small were overloaded with people and cargo on the Huangpu River along the Bund, trying ...
( Category: Americas January 23,2019 )
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
epub |eng | 2019-01-21 | Author:David Treuer

Relocation Solutions for the “Indian problem” seem only to have generated more problems for the government, not to mention for Indian people themselves. When termination became the face of federal ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 22,2019 )
Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History by Tony Perrottet
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Tony Perrottet

* * * • • • WHETHER INSPIRED BY Papa or not, as 1957 wore on, the guerrillas’ strategies continued to be refined. In November, Almeida was put in charge ...
( Category: World January 22,2019 )
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Faimly, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough [McCullough, David]

But the letter is so plainly Theodore’s idea of humor—tall-tale humor out of the Wild West—that it suggests there was no “problem” as yet. That he would treat a subject ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2019 )
The victors - Eisenhower and his boys by Stephen E. Ambrose
mobi, epub |nld | 2013-05-12 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

12 Breakout and Pursuit FROM THE HIGH COMMAND down to the lowliest private, the Americans in Normandy applied everything they had learned to the mounting of Operation Cobra, including a ...
( Category: Military January 22,2019 )
Dirty Tricks by Shane O'Sullivan
epub |eng | 2018-01-21 | Author:Shane O'Sullivan

In late November or early December, James McCord sent Lee Pennington a memorandum on Jack Anderson and Pennington gave it to his case officer, Louis Vasaly, of the Security Research ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 22,2019 )
Burned by Edward Humes
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Edward Humes

* * * • • • Bob Lowe remained furious with the defense attorney for undermining him as a witness. He fervently believed Parks should have been exonerated. He thought ...
( Category: Americas January 21,2019 )
Families in Crisis in the Old South by Loren Schweninger
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Loren Schweninger

AN ESSAY ON SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY Several factors recommend antebellum equity, or chancery, court records as a remarkable source for understanding divorce, slavery, and the law in the Old South. ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 20,2019 )

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