Walter: 4352 books

Book cover of Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, Alex Danchev
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011

Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer “history at its best, meaning, at its most useful.” —Howard Zinn From the launch of the “Shock and Awe” invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished”...
Book cover of Congress and Its Members
by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Mr. Eric Schickler
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017

The gold standard for Congress courses for over 30 years Congress and Its Members, Sixteenth Edition, by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, and Eric Schickler, offers readers current, comprehensive coverage of Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension...
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Special Providence

American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

by Walter Russell Mead
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012

From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America’s dealings—from its earliest days—with the rest of the world. It is Walter Russell Mead’s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of...
Book cover of The Gospel of Jesus Christ
by Walter Kasper
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Contains writings from three different stages of Cardinal Walter Kasper’s theological journey. They seek to open up the gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that is intelligible to today’s readers. The works are: “An Introduction to the Faith,” “Surpassing All Knowledge,” and an original essay on evangelization, “New Evangelization as a Theological, Pastoral, and Spiritual Challenge.”
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The Path to a Modern South

Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression

by Walter L. Buenger
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

Federal New Deal programs of the 1930s and World War II are often credited for transforming the South, including Texas, from a poverty-stricken region mired in Confederate mythology into a more modern and economically prosperous part of the United States. By contrast, this history of Northeast Texas,...
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Power, Terror, Peace, and War

America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

by Walter Russell Mead
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

International affairs expert and award-winning author of Special Providence Walter Russell Mead here offers a remarkably clear-eyed account of American foreign policy and the challenges it faces post—September 11.Starting with what America represents to the world community, Mead argues that throughout...
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Jesus and Nonviolence

A Third Way

by Walter Wink
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003

More than ever, Walter Wink believes, the Christian tradition of nonviolence is needed as an alternative to the dominant and death-dealing "powers" of our consumerist culture and fractured world. In this small book Wink offers a precis of his whole thinking about this issue, including the...
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Folding the Red Into the Black

Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century

by Walter Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

Walter Mosley is one of America's bestselling novelists, known for his critically acclaimed series of mysteries featuring private investigator Easy Rawlins. His writing is hard-hitting, often limned with a political subtext-aimed at a broad audience. When Mosley was working on a doctorate in...
Book cover of Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation
by Walter Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

In his late teens and early twenties, Walter Mosley was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Drawing from this intimate knowledge of addiction and recovery, Mosley explores the deviances of contemporary America and describes a society in thrall to its own consumption. Although Americans live in the...
Book cover of Ohio: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)
by Walter Havighurst
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1976

Historically, Ohio seems to have had everything--great physical beauty; rich resources of coal, oil, gas, and fertile soil; a central location with easy means of transportation by land and water; inventive and dynamic people; and the kind of national political influence that wealth and a large population...
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Harvest of a Decade

Disraelia and Other Essays

by Walter Laqueur
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

This is a selection of essays written during the first decade of the twenty-first century, by a figure widely acknowledged as the conscience of European liberalism. In Walter Laqueur's lifetime, there have been more acutely dangerous situations, such as the coming of a world war or the seemingly unstoppable...
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Special Providence

American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

by Walter Russell Mead
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

"God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America."--Otto von Bismarck America's response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted many of the country's longstanding goals on the world stage: to protect liberty at home, to secure America's economic interests,...
Book cover of Habits of Empire
by Walter Nugent
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008

Since its founding, the United States' declared principles of liberty and democracy have often clashed with aggressive policies of imperial expansion. In this sweeping narrative history, acclaimed scholar Walter Nugent explores this fundamental American contradiction by recounting the story of American...
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Putinism

Russia and Its Future with the West

by Walter Laqueur
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

There is no question that tensions between Russia and American are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions. Much of the...
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