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Destination Casablanca
Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control.
In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch,...
by Robert Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
This sterling collection of original, never-before-published essays on six fascinating contemporary presidents by some of the leading presidential biographers of our time is must reading for anyone interested in American politics, the history of the American presidency, or the lives of the presidents....
Sarah from Alaska
The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Sarah Palin is still the most dynamic yet polarizing Republican in America. In Sarah from Alaska Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe draw on their experiences as embedded reporters on Palin's campaign, exclusive on-scene coverage of Palin's post-election struggles in Alaska, and revealing interviews...
The Sword And The Olive
A Critical History Of The Israeli Defense Force
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic narrative, vivid portraits of soldiers and commanders with illuminating discussions of battle tactics and covert actions, The Sword and the Olive traces the history of the IDF from its beginnings in Palestine to today. The book also goes beyond chronology...
Citizen Canine
Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens?
Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of property. Now, they...
Animal Underworld
Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and exotic creatures. Green and The Center...
Reputation
Portraits in Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Woman at the Washington Zoo, a stunning collection of political portraits from the final dozen years of the twentieth century
The Great Convergence
Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West...
Allies
The U.S., Britain, and Europe in the Aftermath of the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
The Cold War certainties that had seemed so fixed in the 20th Century were overturned by the war in Iraq. Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards were the battlefield victims of a brutally quick war of shock and awe. No less shocked and awed were some of America's former allies: "old" Europe,...
The Moscow Rules
The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold War
Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s,...
The Good Girls Revolt
How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
It was the 1960s--a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by gender and the "Mad Men" office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination.
Lynn Povich was one of the lucky...
JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me
An Idealist's Journey From Capitol Hill To Hollywood Hell
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2002
"JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me is the funny, thoughtful memoir of an accomplished former Congressional staffer who left D.C. for Hollywood and a job with Oliver Stone, hoping to help make politically"
The Unquiet American
Richard Holbrooke in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe, and as ambassador to both Germany...
The Frugal Superpower
America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the seven decades from the U.S. entry into World War II in 1941 to the present, economic constraints rarely limited what the United States did in the world....