"Barry Seal flew cocaine and weapons worth billions of dollars into and out of America in the 1980s. After he became a government informant, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel offered a million for him alive and half a million dead. But his real trouble began after he threatened to expose the dirty dealings of George HW Bush. American Made rips the roof off Bush and Clinton's complicity in cocaine trafficking in Mena, Arkansas."--Back cover.
Music project units also performed the heavily Eurocentric works of Americans George Chadwick and Edward MacDowell, as well as the Broadway-style music of Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, and Irving Berlin, sometimes to such an extent ...
American Made: Men Who Shaped the American Economy
A former chairman of America's most successful steel company challenges myths about the decline of the nation's industry to trace the endurance of manufacturing throughout the recession and identify the vulnerabilities of green jobs and ...
John Pearson wasa capable gunsmith Colt invited to make prototypes ofrepeating firearms. When Dr.Coult went onthe road tokeep the enterprise afloat, heleft Walker in charge andnagged him from afar with detailed queries and orders.
... in Middletown in the 1920s and found that only about one-fifth of the town's adults were typically there (358); Caplow et al., ... 143; Ronsvalle and Ronsvalle, “An End?” and Amerson and Stephenson, “Decline or Transformation”).
Joseph S. Nye, The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone (New York, 2003), p. ... Robert J. McMahon, “Introduction: The Challenge of the Third World,” in Empire and Revolution: The United States ...
An overview of the state of manufacturing in America, both past and present, and how this sector and the jobs it creates in essential to the American economy In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is ...
Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big ...
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, February 3, 1812, in The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, ed. Lester J. Cappon (1959; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United States” (New York Journal of Books), from the former ...