Endeavors to present the history of the United States from a balanced perspective, describing both positive and negative events, and illuminating the powerful leaders who steered the country on the path of freedom, revised and updated into a single-volume.
In Last Best Hope, George Packer traces the shocks back to their sources.
Endeavors to present the history of the United States from a balanced perspective, describing both positive and negative events, and illuminating the powerful leaders who steered the country on the path of freedom.
Graebner, Norman A., Cold War Diplomacy, 1945–1960, D. Van Norstrand Company, Inc.: 1962,28. 9. Barone, 206. 10. Graebner, 28. 11. Beschloss, Conquerors, 275. 12. Harris, Whitney R., Tyranny on Trial, Southern Methodist University ...
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A portrait of Abraham Lincoln analyzes the great president's political career, his fierce nationalism, his greater moral purpose that made him oppose slavery, and other facets of his life and times.
Utley, Robert M. and Washburn, Wilcomb E., Indian Wars, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: 1977, p. 227. 55. Utley and Washburn, p. 227. 56. Morison, p. 61. 57. Morison, p. 61. 58. Utley and Washburn, p. 294. 59. Morison, p. 63. 60.
Here in this collection of twenty-eight speeches spanning the Reagan era, readers can find inspiration in Reagan’s “sermons.” From his first speech in the political arena in 1964 to his Last Letter to America, informing Americans of ...
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was then in charge of the occupation of Japan as what some called a “Star-Spangled Mikado [Emperor]. ... William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and William F. (“Bull”) Halsey.
Intended to demonstrate that faith and science are compatible, it dates to 1847, when shortly after his election, Pope Pius IX resurrected a former Roman scientific academy once led by Galileo. Today, about eighty scientists from around ...
If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.