Specific Topics in Politics & Government
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Booker

5 The ‘Fantasy Cycle’ and the ‘Swinging Sixties’ For each age is a dream that is dying or one that is coming to birth. A. W. E. O’Shaugnessy (1844–81) In ...
( Category: Politics April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Jonathan Gill

CHAPTER SIXTEEN PONTIFEX MAXIMUS, 1948–49 Aleksandr Korotkov’s idea was to bring Boris to Moscow. The FBI was delighted that one of their agents had worked his way so far inside ...
( Category: Espionage April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Dominic Frisby

From National Health to Rude Health In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. Kevin Alan Lee, author ...
( Category: Economic Conditions April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Takeo Yoshikawa

27 A Special Submarine In the previous chapter, I wrote about the “thunderous explosion” I heard at approximately eight o’clock in the evening. This loud noise, I would later learn, ...
( Category: World War II April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Guillaume Devin

Unweaving the UN Web Through Comparison United Nations websites also represent a discourse produced by the organization about itself. Browsing in real time on the UN portal is conducive to ...
( Category: Diplomacy April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-14 | Author:Bohn, Michael K.

6 CRISIS MANAGEMENT War and Terrorism “The President has been shot!” Those words echoed through the halls of the White House on March 30, 1981. Just ten weeks after Ronald ...
( Category: Military April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Susan Davis

OPENING UP FOLKLORE In the United States, things were moving forward in the academic folklore field: Legman was astounded when Richard Dorson invited him to speak on erotic folk song ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic April 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bram Buscher & Robert Fletcher

RADICAL DIFFERENCES? One crucial point about dealing with ‘radical differences’ is that in doing so, we are taken far beyond (already complex) differences between scientific traditions and disciplines. Perhaps, even ...
( Category: History & Theory April 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-29 | Author:Thomas, Gordon [Thomas, Gordon]

CHAPTER TWELVE Following the departure of Allen Welsh Dulles, a new director, John Alex McCone, was appointed by President John F. Kennedy. Gottlieb persuaded McCone to authorize further substantial payments ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration April 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Bruder & Dale Maharidge

Fast-forward to 2013. The Patriot Act helped pave the way for the NSA to collect Americans’ phone records and emails. Snowden believed it was time, once again, to rein in ...
( Category: Business April 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Coogan, Tim Pat [Coogan, Tim Pat]

9 Fighting the Waves “For forms of government let fools contest.’ Alexander Pope Now the waking nightmare began. Cathleen ni Houlihan, Yeats’ synonym for Ireland, would show herself as an ...
( Category: Europe April 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Carter

* * * A polling official announces each vote, one by one, to assembled citizens, then shows them the marked ballot, as votes are tallied in a Jakarta polling station ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 7,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Unknown

LETTER 17 KEEP IT AND HONOR IT ALWAYS Tom O’Sullivan to his son, Conor 16 September 1996 The Bosnian War began in April 1992, lasted more than three years, and ...
( Category: World War II April 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Ree

We had another six-hour train journey the next day. We were in the dining car when the Germans came in and examined our identity cards, but the officer who took ...
( Category: World War II April 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Brecher, Jeremy; Kelly, Kim; Nelson, Sara

Justice for Janitors In 1984, the Service Employees International Union launched a national campaign to organize janitors and other building service employees. Most janitors were black and immigrant workers who ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Economic Relations April 6,2020 )