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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
Eliot A Cohen · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen argues that the United States must use military power in support of its foreign policy, but that doing so will be increasingly difficult. The United States must continue to assume primary responsibility for maintaining world order, or risk a chaotic international... |
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Shadow Courts: The Tribunals that Rule Global Trade
Haley Sweetland Edwards · Columbia Global Reports
Pages: 142
Format: Print book
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International trade deals have become vastly complex documents, seeking to govern everything from labor rights to environmental protections. This evolution has drawn alarm from American voters, but their suspicions are often vague.In this book, investigative journalist Haley Sweetland Edwards... |
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Democracy Betrayed: The Rise of the Surveillance Security State
William W. Keller · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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In the aftermath of 9/11, in collusion with booming technological advancements, a new and more authoritarian form of governance is supplanting liberal democracy. The creation of the Security Industrial Complex - an "internal security state-within-the-state" fueled by tech companies,... |
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Scout Tests: And How to Pass Them
Michael O'Mara Books · Michael O'Mara; Centenary Edition edition
Format: Book
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A celebratory centenary edition of the 1914 official manual on Boy Scouts badges, an authentic dangerous book for boys--young and old The Boy Scouts Association has been in existence since 1908, offering boys and young adults more than 100 years of adventure, jamborees,... |
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
Meryl Gordon · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. |
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Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
Alison Flowers · Haymarket Books
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed into the unknown. From the front lines of the wrongful conviction capital of the United... |
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Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
Jeffrey Asher Nesbit · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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"Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billionaire brothers, and the Tea Party movement. It's a major story that for too long has been underreported and poorly understood." -- REP.... |
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Writing the Thames
Christina Hardyment · The Bodleian Library
Pages: 274
Format: Print book
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From Arthur Conan Doyle to Charles Dickens, Colin Dexter to Kenneth Grahame, writers and artists have often taken inspiration from the Thames. Gathering poetry, artwork, and short excerpts from longer prose, Writing the Thames includes chapters on topics that dominate in literary and artistic... |
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After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent
Walter Laqueur · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A master historian takes us deep into the heart of Europes current political and financial crisisWalter Laqueurwas one of the few experts who predicted Europes currentfinancial and political crisis when he wrote The Last Days of Europe six years ago. Now this master historian takes readers... |
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Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt
ALEXANDER ETKIND · University of Pittsburgh Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his former disciples... |
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The Senecans
Peter Stothard · Duckworth Overlook
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Renowned author Peter Stothard's third book of classical memoir skillfully blends history, philosophy, and political intrigue.A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young historian arrives to ask Peter Stothard, Editor of the Time Literary Supplement and former editor of The Time,... |
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The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
BRUCE KATZ · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious... |
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