“The Godfather Doctrine” lays out an argument for a strategy for American foreign policy by analyzing the situation following the attempted assassination of Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.”
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The current lively debate over health care reform has been punctuated by charges from right-wingers that implementing President Obama’s plan would be to install socialism in our country.
The current lively debate over health care reform has been punctuated by charges from rightwingers that implementing President Obama’s plan would be to install socialism in our country.
Confronted from childhood with the insight that education “would forever unfit him to be a slave,” Frederick Douglass lived his life defined by the search to escape slavery, as both personal burden and as cultural and political pathology in American life.
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Today, about 57 years after T. Harry Williams published his landmark study of Civil War command and strategy, “Lincoln and His Generals” (1952), the U.S. Navy gets similar recognition for what it accomplished during the Civil War.
Dolphins are more mysterious than you might have imagined.
In “White-Washed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority,” John Tehranian tries to untangle the vexed questions surrounding the designation of people from the Middle East in the racial hierarchy of the United States.
The ubiquitous pink ribbon is intended to symbolize support for finding the cure for breast cancer. The pink ribbon gracing the cover of “After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors” hints at a different meaning.
Every school kid in America knows that superheroes are different: Superman is a supernatural creature from another planet. By contrast, Batman is a mortal man who achieved his prowess through hard training, preparation and high-tech gadgets.
In the time after the failed Munich Beer Hall putsch, his short-lived imprisonment, and the writing and publication of Mein Kampf, but before his appointment as chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler was summoned as a prosecution witness by lawyer Hans Litten in the trial of four storm troopers.
Most Americans have long pictured Arab leaders as military dictators like Saddam Hussein or religious fanatics like Osama Bin Laden. This image, useful to advocates of a U.S. foreign policy hostile to Arab interests, will be challenged by this book by an experienced and perspicacious Jordanian diplomat.
The past year has seen heightened public awareness of energy issues. The oil price increases to almost $150 per barrel were painful for everyone. Though oil is now selling for about one-third of its peak price, these low prices are quite possibly the eye of the storm, and oil costs may shoot up again when economic recovery begins.
Biography is a mongrel genre, a messy pursuit. It’s a mixture of scholarship and invention, exposition and narration, fact and imagination. Biographers emerge from many fields: from history and literature, obviously, but also from art, sociology, finance, entertainment, sports, science, architecture, diplomacy, medicine, business and law.
It was 1968, my junior year of high school. I sat in my friend Alan’s bedroom and listened, wide-eyed, to his new FM receiver.
When you’re a true fan of a television series, what you do — endlessly viewing and reviewing every episode, tracking down every reference and allusion the show makes, and finally, trying to explain coherently why it all means so much more than mere entertainment — sounds suspiciously like what scholars do.
This book marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and traces in meticulous detail the efforts of 10 U.S. presidents, from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush, to undermine the Revolution and get rid of its leader, Fidel Castro.
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