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The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State by Shane Harris
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Shane Harris [Harris, Shane]

CHAPTER 19 THE UNRAVELING On November 14, 2002, Bob Popp sat down at his desk, opened his e-mail in-box, and found a string of panicked messages from friends and colleagues. ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

It is, from Kissinger's own record and recollection, as well as from the record of the subsequent official inquiry, quite easy to demonstrate that he did have advance knowledge of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
The Secret Sentry by Matthew M. Aid
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-02 | Author:Matthew M. Aid

CHAPTER 13 A Mountain out of a Molehill NSA and the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Scandal The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one ...
( Category: Political Science March 26,2014 )
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents: From Wilson to Obama by Steven F. Hayward
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Steven F. Hayward [Hayward, Steven F.]

JFK, Supply-Sider One of the ironies of Kennedy becoming the posthumous liberal hero is that many liberals distrusted him both as a candidate and while he was president, and Kennedy ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Henry Kissinger

CHAPTER TWENTY Negotiating with the Communists: Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower In March 1952, before the Korean War had ended, Stalin made a diplomatic overture to settle the Cold War for ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racism by Loewen James W
epub |eng | 2005-09-29 | Author:Loewen, James W. [Loewen, James W.]

Indeed, they didn’t; Frank knew with which side of the color line he had to identify if he was to remain in Austin.23 Often the one African American in town ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball--And America--Forever by Tim Wendel
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Tim Wendel [Wendel, Tim]

Denny McLain and Mickey Mantle were both fun-loving guys, willing to skirt the rules when possible, so it didn’t come as any surprise when one of the most curious moments ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports March 26,2014 )
Shadow Warrior by Woods Randall B
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Woods, Randall B. [Woods, Randall B.]

14 BIRDS OF PEACE AND BIRDS OF WAR While Colby’s CORDS programs were making progress in South Vietnam, new actors appeared on the American political stage; indeed, a new play ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Rise to Globalism by Douglas G. Brinkley
epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Douglas G. Brinkley

The most important result of Carter’s growing hostility toward and fear of the Soviets was the demise of SALT II. Carter was unwilling to go more than halfway in meeting ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Isabel Wilkerson [Wilkerson, Isabel]

LOS ANGELES, 1954 ROBERT JOSEPH PERSHING FOSTER ALICE BEGAN SETTING UP HOUSE in the walk-up apartment Robert had scrambled to secure for his family after the apartment he wanted mysteriously ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu by Jim McEnery & Bill Sloan
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Jim McEnery & Bill Sloan [McEnery, Jim & Sloan, Bill]

THE CRAB AND COCONUT WARS WHEN WE EMBARKED from Gloucester on May 5, most of us in K/3/5 were pretty sure we were on our way back to Camp Balcombe ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
Flapper by Joshua Zeitz
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-02-06 | Author:Joshua Zeitz [Zeitz, Joshua]

17 WITHOUT IMAGINATION, NO WANTS IN LATE NOVEMBER 1928, with the winter holiday season in high gear, millions of American magazine readers opened the latest edition of The Saturday Evening ...
( Category: History March 26,2014 )
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics March 26,2014 )
1999 by Richard Nixon
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Nixon [Nixon, Richard]

Those who oppose the idea of negotiating with Moscow also oppose summitry between the superpowers. Summits, in their view, not only have the drawbacks of negotiations in general, but they ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )

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