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Twilight of the American Century by Andrew J Bacevich
epub |eng | 2018-09-29 | 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: History & Theory January 17,2020 )
Blowback by L T Ryan
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:L T Ryan [Ryan, L T]

Chapter Nineteen Paranoia is contagious. This fact is lost on most people. Not Bear. He knew. He felt it. He became drenched with it. The more Maria mumbled about how ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
Imperfect Union by Steve Inskeep
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Steve Inskeep

* * * OUTSIDE THE SENATE CHAMBER was a different matter. Seward’s speech was reprinted and shared in antislavery circles, where it inspired a prophecy from Frederick Douglass. The former ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
Oppenheimer- Portrait of an Enigma by Jeremy Bernstein
epub |eng | 2010-10-30 | Author:Jeremy Bernstein [Bernstein, Jeremy]

Q. Let me interrupt you for a moment. You have seen the Commission's letter of December 23, 1953, which suspended Dr. Oppenheimer's clearance. A. I have. Q. So far as ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics January 17,2020 )
The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Stephen Kinzer [Kinzer, Stephen]

8 THE SELF-INTOXICATED PRESIDENT Rarely has a head of state anticipated a visit to the United States as eagerly as President Sukarno of Indonesia. American history fascinated him. As a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 16,2020 )
CIA Spymaster: George Kisevalter: The Agency's Top Case Officer Who Handled Penkovsky And Popov by Clarence Ashley III
epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Clarence Ashley III [Ashley, Clarence III]

The second time Penkovsky came to London he didn't have a delegation. He came in July as an assistant supervisor to a Soviet trade exhibition. He did have freedom of ...
( Category: United States January 16,2020 )
The United States of Strange by Eric Grzymkowski
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Eric Grzymkowski

The rarest, and most valuable, piece on display at the Burlingame, California, Museum of Pez Memorabilia is the “Make a Face” Pez dispenser from the 1970s. Fears children could choke ...
( Category: Trivia January 13,2020 )
The Civil War by Geoffrey C. Ward
epub |eng | 1990-01-11 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey]

Richmond. February 11th. Some idea may be formed of the scarcity of food in this city from the fact that, while my youngest daughter was in the kitchen today a ...
( Category: History & Theory January 12,2020 )
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers by Brian Kilmeade
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Brian Kilmeade

ELEVEN Fort Defiance [Fannin] is an ill-fated man. —SAM HOUSTON TO THOMAS J. RUSK, MARCH 23, 1836 On Saturday, March 12, James Fannin, commander of Goliad, received General Sam Houston’s ...
( Category: American Civil War January 12,2020 )
Shade by Souza Pete
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Souza, Pete [Souza, Pete]

( Category: Photojournalism January 11,2020 )
Take Hold of Our History by Harvey J. Kaye;
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Harvey J. Kaye;

11 “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” Demands $15 an Hour Published at Moyers and Company, April 27, 2015 Knowing that “necessitous men are not free men,” President Franklin ...
( Category: Radicalism January 11,2020 )
Betrayal At Bethesda: The Intertwined Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy by J.C. Hawkins
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:J.C. Hawkins [Hawkins, J.C.]

CHAPTER 7 How McCarthy’s Death Influenced JFK’s Fate IN 1953, FBI DIRECTOR J. Edgar Hoover alerted Joe McCarthy some CIA officers had past associations with left-wing organizations that were concerning. ...
( Category: United States January 11,2020 )
The day after Roswell by Philip J. Corso & William J. Birnes
azw3, epub |eng | 1997-07-01 | Author:Philip J. Corso & William J. Birnes

Chapter 11 Project Moon Base “I ENVISION EXPEDITIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSAL TO establish a lunar outpost to be of critical importance to the U.S. Army of the future. This ...
( Category: UFOs January 11,2020 )
The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913 by James R. Arnold
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:James R. Arnold [Arnold, James R.]

Command decisions. Three officers confer: Major Bundy (left), Colonel Duncan (center, dark blouse facing camera), Captain McGlachlin (right, back to camera). For three days Duncan had orchestrated a patient advance ...
( Category: United States January 9,2020 )
Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A. by William H. Schaberg
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:William H. Schaberg [Schaberg, William H.]

* This low opinion of women in A.A. was, unfortunately, not confined to the 1940s nor were the wives of members the only ones who professed it. Female A.A. members ...
( Category: United States January 8,2020 )

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