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by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Army Doctrine Reference Publication (ADRP) 1 augments Chapter 2 of Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 1,
The Army. This ADRP defines and describes the Army Profession and the Army Ethic. It expands the discussion on the Army Profession’s dual character as a military department of the United States...
by Eric Weed
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
On January 20th, 2009, the United States entered a new era in terms of race relations in the country. The hopes of many Americans were not to be fulfilled and many believe race relations are worse now. The reason is the legacy of race is integral to the American nation. The Religion of White Supremacy...
Contesting Castro
The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1995
Today they stand as enemies, but in the 1950s, few countries were as closely intertwined as Cuba and the United States. Thousands of Americans (including Ernest Hemingway and Errol Flynn) lived on the island, and, in the United States, dancehalls swayed to the mambo beat. The strong-arm Batista regime...
by Borja Loma Barrie
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Historical chronicle and physical description of the United States of America, its geographical regions, the states of the Union, the state capitals and the main cities of the country. British colonization, independence, Indian wars, colonization of the west, wolrd wars, high intensity conflicts, cold...
The Three Lives of James Madison
Genius, Partisan, President
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president
“In order to understand America and its Constitution, it is necessary to understand James...
Brokers of Deceit
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
**Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments**
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on...
When the United States Spoke French
Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic’s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished...
The United States and the Global Economy
From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Financial collapse. Global recession. The revival of free-market policies. Massive and increasing inequalities. Housing bubbles and record foreclosures. Severe strain in the European Union. Emergence of China and other major players on the international economic scene. Every day, media outlets bombard...
The Weight of Vengeance
The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In early 1815, Secretary of State James Monroe reviewed the treaty with Britain that would end the War of 1812. The United States Navy was blockaded in port; much of the army had not been paid for nearly a year; the capital had been burned. The treaty offered an unexpected escape from disaster. Yet...
by Michael A. Shea
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In God We Trust: George Washington and the Spiritual Destiny of the United States of America, is a two-part book that documents numerous examples of God’s intercession in George Washington’s life, and in the history of the United States. The first part of the book, George Washington, is a providential...
by Christoph Schiessl
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book follows the story of suspected Nazi war criminals in the United States and analyzes their supposed crimes during World War II, their entry into the United States as war refugees in the 1940s and 1950s, and their prosecution in the 1970s and beyond by the U.S. government, specifically by...
Unintended Consequences
How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the "smartest and most devastating" critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality now commonly accepted.
The Iraq war was intended...
Jefferson's Great Gamble
The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men behind the Louisiana Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
New York Times Bestseller!
Jefferson's Great Gamble tells the incredible story of how four leaders of an upstart nation--Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Livingston--risked the future of their country and their own careers; outwitted Napoleon Bonaparte, the world's most powerful ruler; and secured...
The Caribbean Policy of the Ulysses S. Grant Administration
Foreshadowing an Informal Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
From 1869 to 1877, the United States found itself deeply involved in the Caribbean as Washington sought to replace European influence and colonialism with an informal American empire. The Ulysses S. Grant administration primarily dealt with an uprising in Spanish Cuba known as the Ten Years’ War...