Potomac Books: 562 books
Imperial Designs
War, Humiliation & the Making of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Since the age of Alexander the Great, waves of foreign armies have invaded the Middle East and South Asia to plunder their vast treasures. In Imperial Designs, Deepak Tripathi offers a powerful and unique analysis of how this volatile region has endured the manipulation and humiliation of war, especially...
by William Howard Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Diamond-encrusted, alligator-skin handbags. Eighteen-course feasts. Yachts the length of city blocks. In the twenty-first century, many point to such conspicuous consumption as reflecting the moral failings of a rampant capitalism that sacrifices community values on an altar of greed. Television shows...
by William Nester
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
As William Nester asserts in The Age of Jackson, it takes quite a leader to personify an age. A political titan for thirty-three years (1815-1848), Andrew Jackson possessed character, beliefs, and acts that dominated American politics. Although Jackson returned to his Tennessee plantation in March...
Coaching Winning Model United Nations Teams
A Teacher's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
By some counts, Model United Nations (MUN) has become the single most popular extracurricular academic activity among high school students. More than two million high school and college students have assumed the roles of ambassador from real United Nations member countries, participated in spirited...
Righting the Balance
How You Can Help Protect America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
When Daniel Serwer is asked what he does, he often replies, ôI make peace. I put it in cans and ship it abroad.ö That pursuit of peace took him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, and many places in between during SerwerÆs forty years in public service. His experiences at the sharp end of...
by Douglas F. Garthoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
President Harry Truman created the job of director of central intelligence (DCI) in 1946 so that he and other senior administration officials could turn to one person for foreign intelligence briefings. The DCI was the head of the Central Intelligence Group until 1947, when he became the director of...
War, Welfare & Democracy
Rethinking America's Quest for the End of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
American foreign policy since World War II has actively sought to reshape both domestic and international orders to hasten the coming of the end of history in a peaceful democratic utopia. While the end of the Cold War heightened optimism that this goal was near, policymakers still face dramatic challenges....
Warfare Welfare
The Not-So-Hidden Costs of America's Permanent War Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This edited volume reveals how a permanent war economy has made the United States unable to spread democracy abroad and has worsened domestic problems. The editors draw from classical readings in political theory, from primary documents (including key court decisions), and from social science research...
American Technology Policy
Evolving Strategic Interests after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. policymakers have faced the challenge of addressing the technological requirements of both economic competitiveness and national security. Promoting the technological objectives of competitiveness and security poses a daunting task, as these objectives can differ...
Blinking Red
Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish AmericaÆs new enemiesùstateless international terrorists. In the midst of the 2004 presidential...
Errors and Fouls
Inside Baseball's Ninety-Nie Most Popular Myths
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Handrinos examines the underlying issues that affect all fans: modern game tactics, playoff formats, and baseball economies. The author's contrarian analysis and witty writing makes Errors and Fouls essential reading for anyone wanting to know how today's baseball world really works.
Sand in the Gears
How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape. It is also clear from the dormant...
by John H. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
The Antarctic is the last vast terrestrial frontier. Just over a century ago, no one had ever seen the South Pole. Today odd machines and adventure skiers from many nations converge there every summer, arriving from numerous starting points on the Antarctic coast and returning some other way. But not...
Stories from Langley
A Glimpse inside the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National...