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Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda
by Thomas PowersDescribes covert operations since World War II.
Still Hungry in America
by Robert ColesBefore a child is born he has already lived a life; and when he is born he comes into more than the immediate world of his mother's arms. Not all pregnant women can take food and vitamins for granted, or a gynecologist to tell them they are indeed pregnant or an obstetrician to watch them and care for them and eventually deliver them a healthy son or daughter. For that matter, not all pregnant women can take for granted clean, running water, or a home that is warm in winter and reasonably free of germ-bearing flies and mosquitoes in summer. Nor can some pregnant women forget about rats and cockroaches, or garbage that is ignored by local "authorities," or sewage that is not adequately drained away.These are American women, American mothers, American children.
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by Fareed ZakariaWhat we need to do to maintain true democracy.
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy
by Paul HendricksonThe true story of a racial murder in the South.
Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World
by Jean Bethke ElshtainAnalysis of the demands arising from the terror of 9-11.
The CIA's Secret War in Tibet
by Kenneth Conboy James MorrisonBased on conversations with those involved and surviving documentation.
The Best Lawyer In A One-Lawyer Town
by Dale BumpersAutobiography of the former Arkansas governor and legislator.
The Politics of Upheaval (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. III)
by Arthur M. SchlesingerThe Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR's critics to denounce "that man in the White house." To his left were demagogues -- Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order -- ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933 -- a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936.
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. II)
by Arthur M. SchlesingerThe second volume of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt series details the accomplishments of the first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression, FDR restored national morale and, with his New Deal colleagues, brought innovative if often controversial approaches to recovery and reform.
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement
by Vladimir Ilyich LeninA basic consideration of the conditions and problems in the formation of a vanguard, revolutionary party. Lenin wrote this political pamphlet in 1901, after he had returned to St. Petersburg from three years of Siberian exile for advocating a Marxist revolution against the Tsar, who ruled Russia with an iron hand. In the pamphlet, Lenin argued that only a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries could bring socialism to Russia. He stresses the importance of theory and a revolutionary party guided by that theory. In this, he was at odds with other political groups that advocated a democratic movement toward socialism. He argued against the so-called "Economists," who held that workers were de facto at the forefront of the Marxist movement by virtue of their struggles with their employers over wage issues. In Lenin's view, this amounted to only "trade-union consciousness," which fell far short of the theoretical political consciousness he believed was needed if socialism was to succeed. The pamphlet also calls for a shift of emphasis from local to national work on revolutionary goals, which he would facilitate through communication via an all-Russia political newspaper.
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
by Bill GertzBook about our intelligence failures and waste
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime
by Eliot A. CohenDiscussion of how statesmen and the military should interact.
New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention
by Nicolaus Mills Kira BrunnerThe question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and scholars, including, among others, David Rieff, Peter Maass, Philip Gourevitch, William Shawcross, George Packer, Bill Berkeley and Samantha Power revisit four of the worst instances of state-sponsored killing--Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor--in the last half of the twentieth century in order to reconsider the success and failure of U.S. and U.N. military and humanitarian intervention.Featuring original essays and reporting, The New Killing Fields poses vital questions about the future of peacekeeping in the next century. In addition, theoretical essays by Michael Walzer and Michael Ignatieff frame the issue of intervention in terms of today's post-cold war reality and the future of human rights.
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-1933 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. I)
by Arthur M. SchlesingerThis is Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s account of the period following the first World War, 1919-1933, which saw the rise of big business and its fall into the Great Depression beginning in 1929, followed by the election of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency in 1933.
Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and his Secret Expedition to Lhasa
by Thomas LairdOur secret and not very praiseworthy treatment of Tibet since World War II.
War Without End: The Rise of Islamist Terrorism and the Global Response
by Dilip HiroThis book provides the historical and political context to explain acts of terror, including the September 11th, and the bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam and the West's responses. Providing a brief history of Islam as a religion and as socio-political ideology, Dilip Hiro goes on to outline the Islamist movements that have thrived in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, and their changing relationship with America. It is within this framework that the rising menace of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida network is discussed. The Pentagon's amazingly swift victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan is examined along with implications of the Bush Doctrine, encapsulated in his declaration, 'so long as anybody is terrorizing established governments, there needs to be a war' - a recipe for war without end.
Up from Liberalism
by William F. Buckley Jr.A stinging critique not only of the principles of Liberalism -- or, perhaps better, the "no-principles" of Liberalism -- but of the behavior of some of Liberalism's principal architects.
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military
by Dana PriestCritical of our statesmanship.
Inveighing We Will Go
by William F. Buckley Jr.Another collection of writing from William F. Buckley Jr., discussing such varied issues as the economy, religion, politics, education and communication.
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power
by Max BootThe smaller wars in which the United States has participated, and there are about one hundred eighty of them.
The Chemical Feast: The Ralph Nader Study Group Report on Food Protection and the Food and Drug Administration
by James S. TurnerFor years the Food Group, as the food lobby is known in Washington, has nearly determined the limits of public dialogue and public policy about food quality. This report provides effective understanding of the secrecy-clouded situation.
War On Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know
by William Rivers Pitt Scott RitterIraq and our involvements in the twentieth century.
The Federal Farm Fable
by Paul FindleyThe Federal Farm Fable attempts to analyze America's farm policies in the Sixties and to suggest proposals for remedying our present farm problems in concern for American Agriculture.