Russell D Buhite: 3 books
The Continental League
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Long before there was Moneyball, a group of investors led by baseball legend Branch Rickey proposed a new economic model for baseball. Based on an innovative approach to evaluating and developing talent, the Continental League was the last serious attempt to form a third Major League. The league’s...
Douglas MacArthur
Statecraft and Stagecraft in America's East Asian Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Buhite offers a trenchant evaluation of Douglas MacArthur's career in east Asia and his role in some of the most important military and diplomatic issues of the twentieth century. Concise and highly readable, this biography considers diplomatic fact in light of psychological insight, and asks us to...
Decisions at Yalta
An Appraisal of Summit Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
A study of the effectiveness of summitry as a means of diplomacy. Using the example of the 1945 Yalta conference between Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, the author argues that heads of state make ineffective negotiators.