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Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite? Or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt? In Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt, author James Duffy tackles these questions head-on, by examining the conflicting personalities, aspirations, and actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles A. Lindbergh. Painting a politically incorrect portrait of both men, Duffy shows how...
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This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. It is an account of where those weapons came from, how the technology surprisingly and covertly spread, and who is likely to acquire those weapons next and most importantly why. The authors' examination of post Cold War national and geopolitical issues regarding nuclear proliferation and the effects of Chinese...
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America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from the era of Nixon through Reagan to the...
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In this infamous work, Sorel fiercely advocates for violent revolution as the only means of effecting lasting social change. He details such factors as the role of violence and force in revolutionary movements; the use of insurrection and general strikes; and mythmaking as a key in spurring on and sustaining revolutions. A major influence on Benito Mussolini, the book is still considered controversial and provocative more than 100 years after its...
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Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America
While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the decades that followed. Pop culture exploded in upheaval with the rise...
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The Overlord Effect is a historically based leadership review that combines the accounts of Veterans of the Normandy Campaign of World War II and presents a conversation about their experiences with the leadership theories that have become part of today"s conversation on the subject in the military, academics, and business. The Normandy Invasion was one of the most complex and successful military campaigns in history. The preparation for this event...
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Si tuviésemos que resumir en una frase el contenido del libro, diríamos que es la narración de la transformación profunda de la cotidianidad sociolaboral del siglo xx. En él se analiza, a través de la actividad laboral y de las relaciones sociales de producción, el paso de la supeditación del jornalero agrícola a la ansiada independencia del trabajador industrial.
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Get the Summary of Ida Cook's The Bravest Voices in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Bravest Voices" is the memoir of Ida Cook, chronicling her life alongside her sister Louise, from their middle-class upbringing in England to their deep involvement in opera and their heroic efforts to save Jews from Nazi Germany. The narrative begins with Cook's early life, her family's love for music, and the sisters' shared...
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Han pasado casi cuarenta años desde la muerte del dictador Francisco Franco y la Transición a la democracia sigue llena de tabúes y oscuridad. Una cierta forma de historia angélica sobre vuela este periodo: unos dirigentes abnegados, un rey consecuente, unas instituciones preñadas de patriotismo, una ciudadanía responsable... de no ser porque algún oficial temerario tuvo algo más que tentaciones golpistas, nos encontraríamos con la paradoja...
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Esta Historia del siglo XX ofrece un panorama razonado de los procesos que conducen al presente y ayudan a entenderlo. María Dolores Béjar se propone captar los hilos entrecruzados del espacio mundial en el que los países centrales se vinculan con una periferia de múltiples singularidades.
Su punto de partida es "la era del imperialismo", a fines del siglo XIX: la expansión de las metrópolis, el reparto colonial de Asia, África y Oceanía y...
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This is the true story about the author's grandmother's experience aboard the RMS Titanic that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. It tells the story of Bertha Mulvihill Noon's family, her star-crossed voyage, and her miraculous escape into Lifeboat 15. The Epilogue cites the triumphs and tragedies of her life in Providence, Rhode Island, as a survivor of the ship's sinking.
Bertha was en route back to the U.S. after visiting family in her native Ireland....
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A Full Life by Jimmy Carter | Summary & Analysis Preview: As he was turning 90, Jimmy Carter decided it was a good time to write a book about his life. He has written previous books about specific times or events, from life on his childhood farm to his four years as president. This latest memoir spans his youth, his naval career, his years as an agricultural businessman, as a local and national politician, and, finally, his later life as a peace activist...
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The Eyes of Orion is a highly personal account of the day-to-day experiences of five platoon leaders who served in the same tank battalion in the 24th Infantry Division during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. While professional soldiers and historians will undoubtedly glean much from this narrative, the heart of the account concerns the experiences of the five young lieutenants as they prepared for and served in combat-from their deployment...
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Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda represents the most recent and most extensive research on Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), one of the 'press lords' who influenced British politics and policy during the First World War. Thompson's is the only study to deal with Northcliffe and the inseparable quality of his public and political career from his journalism. Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda addresses a wide range of topics-the Great...
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Ideal for history buffs and students, author H. G. Wells's insightful study of the origins and ramifications of the first World War is divided into three main sections-The War in Italy, The Western War, and How People Think About the War, each with a number of historically-stimulating subsections.
18) Touch the Throne
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MISTER CAINBRIDGE WAS a West Indian merchant who owned a small grocery store in Harlem. From early morning to late evening he sat in front of his store next to the vegetables, on a wooden milk crate with a faded pillow on top that served as a cushion. There, six days a week, beneath the heavy brown canvas awning, cranked down over the store window, he sat, representing an approachable throne of earthly grace, where a familiar face was trusted to buy...
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Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. His many books include Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors, and Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975....
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La cultura de la vivienda en propiedad se consolidó en la población española durante las dos primeras décadas del franquismo. Las políticas de vivienda franquistas reflejaban los prejuicios patriarcales sobre la familia y la mujer del nacionalcatolicismo, y la creencia falangista en el poder moderador de la propiedad sobre el radicalismo social. El régimen de Franco utilizó la vivienda de protección oficial como elemento central de su propaganda...
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