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Reagan and Gorbachev
How the Cold War Ended
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan’s principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: He was the point person...
by Richard Pipes
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Richard Pipes's authoritative history of the "violent and disruptive acts" that created the first modern totalitarian regime portrays the crisis at the heart of the tsarist empire. Drawing on archival materials newly released in Russia, he chronicles the upheaval that began as a conservative...
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda
Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
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...
BitterSweet
The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Behind the statistics of migration are the life stories of millions of migrants and their descendants. The movement of people out of China is one of the largest movements of humanity in modern times and large numbers of Chinese emigrated to the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. While many...
Making the American Century
Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership. By century's end, the trajectory of American politics,...
by Klaus P. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production—especially...
by John J. Mearsheimer
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
"A superb book....Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—The National Interest, Barry R. Posen
A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which...
Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In 1958, China’s revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a program designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s grand scheme—like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century—proved a monumental disaster, resulting in the mass destruction...
Peace, They Say
A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
In this book, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of what the subtitle calls the most famous and controversial prize in the world.” The Nobel Peace Prize, like the other Nobel prizes, began in 1901. So we have a neat, sweeping history of the 20th century, and about a decade beyond. The Nobel prize...
Empire's Crossroads
A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer).
Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected...
Sad and Luminous Days
Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous moment in modern history and resulted in a changed worldview for the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba.
In...
A Politician Thinking
The Creative Mind of James Madison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787–1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those...
A Memoir of Injustice
By the Younger Brother of James Earl Ray, Alleged Assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Including previously undisclosed information on one of the most significant and mysterious events in modern American history, this account debunks the myth that James Earl Ray was a racist and documents his actual location on one of the critical days leading up to the assassination of Martin Luther...
In War's Wake
Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims consisted of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, ex-Soviet POWs, ex-forced laborers in the Third Reich,...