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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous... |
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
George Friedman · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years) , with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines "flashpoints," unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout... |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt · Random House
Pages: 592
Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Matthew Karp · Harvard University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation's triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main... |
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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work... |
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17 Carnations
Andrew Morton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 370
Format: Print book
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"Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the Duke's... |
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The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine – A Tale of Two Narratives
Padraig O'Malley · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A thoughtful autopsy of the failed two-state paradigm . . . Evenhanded, diplomatic, mutually respectful and enormously useful." - Kirkus, starred reviewDisputes over settlements, the right of return, the rise of Hamas, recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and other intractable... |
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The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
Thomas J Christensen · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 387
Format: Print book
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"A standout . . . a balanced, informative, and highly intelligent guide to dealing with China." -- Fareed ZakariaMany see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen... |
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A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols
TIM MARSHALL · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, "one of the best books on geopolitics you could imagine," (The Evening Standard) , explains flags and their symbols - how their power is used... |
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Substitute : going to school with a thousand children.
Nicholson Baker · Penguin Books
Pages: 736
Format: Print book
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In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. He awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to one of several nearby schools; when he got there, he did his best... |
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
William Easterly · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first... |
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The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage
John Hughes-Wilson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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A ground-breaking history of intelligence -- from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age -- that lifts the veil of secrecy from this clandestine world. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Secret State skillfully examines the potential pitfalls of the traditional... |
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