Politics & Government
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Piers Brendon

XVI FRANCO’S VICTORY THE governments in London, Paris and Washington saw the defence of Madrid in a very different light, and they were determined not to become embroiled in war ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Ben Shapiro

MACGYVER (1985–1992): A MOD SQUAD OF ONE With the spectacular failure of the movie MacGruber, it’s sometimes difficult to remember that its source material, MacGyver, was a highly successful series ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-21 | Author:Mark Bowden [Bowden, Mark]

A New and Mutually Beneficial Relationship With a secret process in place to secure the hostages’ release, the Carter White House subtly changed its tone. There was no more talk ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ted Widmer & Caroline Kennedy [Widmer, Ted & Kennedy, Caroline]

MEETING WITH MILITARY ADVISORS, OCTOBER 16, 1962 This meeting, the first in response to the crisis, begins with a brief conversation between a four-year-old Caroline Kennedy and her father, as ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]

A PTS maintenance officer, Captain George Short, drove up in a station wagon with Colonel Morris, whom he’d seen staggering at the top of the hill. Colonel Morris wanted to ...
( Category: Military Policy March 26,2014 )
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 )
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 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust [Faust, Drew Gilpin]

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1952-01-01 | Author:Shelby Foote [Foote, Shelby]

"Where will I find the 1st Minnesota Battery?" "Never heard of them." That was always the answer. Once I saw a man huddled in a poncho, leaning back against the ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:C. Brian Kelly

Gettysburg Facts, Stats WHERE MORE THAN THIRTEEN HUNDRED MEMORIALS AND COMMEMORATIVE markers now stand in one central area, the Union fielded 246 infantry regiments for the famous Battle of Gettysburg, ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Glenn Frankel [Frankel, Glenn]

13. The Novel (Pacific Palisades, California, 1953) Supper is over and a bloodred sun is setting outside the ranch house. Henry Edwards is taking a last look around the extended ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )