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by Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with more than 50 photos.
Pearl Harbor will long stand out in men’s minds as an example of the results of basic unpreparedness of a peace loving nation, of highly efficient treacherous surprise attack and of the resulting unification of America into a single tidal wave of purpose to...
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches
From George Washington to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice President because he received...
The Pox of Liberty
How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth—behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others. Some fault the absence of universal health care...
Your United States
Impressions of a First Visit
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Your United States: Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett."’
Enoch Arnold Bennett (always known as Arnold Bennett) was one of the most remarkable literary figures of his time, a product of the English...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
For 78 days, from March to June 1999, the United States and its NATO allies engaged in a major military operation to bring an end to Serbian atrocities in Kosovo. At a turning point in NATO's long and successful history, Operation Allied Force was an overwhelming success. This report, which is forwarded...
by Pearson Nurse
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In the event of effacing the American Dream that has motivated both American born and immigrants for more than two hundred years, the author offers answers to mind-boggling questions why this is happening. The policy of unhealthy diet, irresponsible debts, and overmedicating Americans, promoted by...
by John C. Spurlock
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
When did the sexual revolution happen? Most Americans would probably say the 1960s. In reality, young couples were changing the rules of public and private life for decades before. By the early years of the twentieth century, teenagers were increasingly free of adult supervision, and taking control...
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican
Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Beginning about 1900 the expanded international role of
the United States brought increased attention to the cultures of other
peoples and a growth of interest in Latin America. The Enormous Vogue of
Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United
States and Mexico from...
Blinded by Doctrine
Lessons Learned from the Luftwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This paper will conduct an analysis of the failure of the Luftwaffe (1939-45) and identify practices for the United States Air Force to avoid. The analysis will address lack of vision and institutional inflexibility in crafting airpower doctrine, as well as explore the ensuing systemic mismatch of...
All-Weather Fighters
The Second Team of the United States Air Force for Much of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
Mr. Greer outlines the not well-known aircraft and activities of the United States Air Force's all-weather fighters during the first part of the Cold War. He covers the organization, development and decline of the all-weather force in response to the Soviet Union's long-range strategic bomber force...
by Charles A. McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
"Who is James K. Polk?" was a rallying cry of the Whigs during the campaign of 1844. Polk answered that question adequately by winning the election against his Whig opponent, Henry Clay. Today the question might be recast—respectfully, not derisively—"Who was James K. Polk?"...
Turkish Immigrants in the Mainstream of American Life
Theories of International Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This book focuses on the sociological dynamics of two of the most important Turkish immigration waves to the United States. It describes the wave of early Turkish immigration during the early 19th century and the most recent from the late 20th century. Although a few historians have studied the topic...
by Andrew Wender Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world.
In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of...
Killing Detente
The Right Attacks the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1998
Killing Detente tells the story of a major episode of intelligence intervention in politics in the mid-1970s that led to the derailing of detente between the Soviet Union and the United States and to the resurgence of the Cold War in the following decade. Although the basic outlines of the story are...