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  • THE CHALLENGE TO NATO
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    THE CHALLENGE TO NATO
    The post-Cold War order established by the United States is at a crossroads: no longer is the liberal order and U.S. hegemonic power a given. The Challenge to NATO is a concise review of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), its relationship with the United States, and its implications for global security. Despite seeing its seventieth anniversary in 2019, NATO faces b...

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  • LOOK
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    LOOK
    ANDREW L. YARROW
    Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different United States in which it existed. The all-but-forgotten magazine had an extraordinary influence on mid-twentieth-century America, not only by telling powerful, thoughtful stories and printing outstanding photographs but also by helpin...

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  • A SECOND RECKONING
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    A SECOND RECKONING
    SCOTT D. SELIGMAN
    2021-22 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Medal Winner 2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in US History sponsored by American Book Fest A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried - through legal shenanigans - by an all-w...

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  • A STATE OF SECRECY
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    A STATE OF SECRECY
    ALISON LEWIS
    Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy. This is the first study of its kind ...

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  • QUAGMIRE
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    QUAGMIRE
    DONALD ANDERSON
    In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices - men and women, military and civilian - and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, and war's aftermath. These personal responses to war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been selected from War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 'to mark the thirtieth anniversary of its inaugural publicati...

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  • DISASTER ON THE SPANISH MAIN
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    DISASTER ON THE SPANISH MAIN
    CRAIG S. CHAPMAN
    Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to seize control of the Spanish West Indies that ended in ghastly failure. Thirty-four years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, a significant force of American soldiers deployed overseas for the first time in histor...

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  • DEATH OF THE SENATE
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    DEATH OF THE SENATE
    BEN NELSON
    Something is rotten in the U.S. Senate, and the disease has been spreading for some time. But Ben Nelson, former U.S. senator from Nebraska, is not going to let the institution destroy itself without a fight. Death of the Senate is a clear-eyed look inside the Senate chamber and a brutally honest account of the current political reality. In his two terms as a Democratic senator...

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  • POWER AND COMPLACENCY
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    POWER AND COMPLACENCY
    PHILLIP T. LOHAUS
    The United States is at a crossroads. Despite a defense budget that dwarfs that of any of the nation's rivals, the marginal return on this investment has decreased dramatically since the end of World War II. Why? Why have America's rivals, despite inferior resources, increasingly set the terms of international competition? How might America's leaders reconsider the application ...

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  • EMPIRE OF TERROR
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    EMPIRE OF TERROR
    MARK D. SILINSKY
    In Empire of Terror Mark D. Silinsky argues that Iran is one of the United States' deadliest enemies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Guards, bring Iran's sway over much of the greater Middle East and pose a growing existential threat to Western security. Providing insights gained from his thirty-eight years as an analyst in the U.S. defense intelligence com...

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  • SPEED
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    SPEED
    BOB GILLILAND / KEITH DUNNAVANT
    On December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviation history. Developed at the super-secret Skunk Works, the SR-71 Blackbird was a technological marvel. In fact, more than a half century later, the Mach 3 - plus titanium wonder, de...

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  • 101 PAT-DOWNS
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    101 PAT-DOWNS
    SHAWNA MALVINI REDDEN
    Two million people fly commercially every day in the United States, and every single passenger must interact with members of airport security. Why do travelers put up with long lines and invasive screenings? Why do Transportation Security Administration officers (TSOs) put up with the disrespect and anger directed at them? Shawna Malvini Redden asked these questions for years&m...

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  • CHANGING THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
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    CHANGING THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
    MARTHA LAGUARDIA-KOTITE
    Changing the Rules of Engagement brings to life the authentic, vivid stories of leadership from inspiring and adventurous women who achieved the extraordinary by serving their country in the U.S. military. These women shattered the glass ceiling and performed extraordinary feats by refusing to take “no” for an answer and learning how to lead in traditionally male-dominated envi...

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  • UNSUNG HERO OF GETTYSBURG
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    UNSUNG HERO OF GETTYSBURG
    EDWARD G. LONGACRE
    Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833–1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point–educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry operations prior to the conflict, his career personified that of the typical cavalry officer in the mid-nineteenth-century American army. Gregg achieved distinction on ...

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  • NEW PRINCIPLES OF WAR
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    NEW PRINCIPLES OF WAR
    MARVIN POKRANT
    Influenced in part by the writings of Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Henri Jomini, and other strategists, most major militaries have adopted principles of war that are widely promulgated. Marvin Pokrant argues that these commonly accepted principles fail to reflect the ideas that led to them. Looking at the fundamental and enduring concepts behind the original principles of war,...

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  • THE SNATCH RACKET
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    THE SNATCH RACKET
    CAROLYN COX
    Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated three thousand ransom kidnappings that occurred in the United States that year. The epidemic hit America during the Great Depression and the last days of Prohibition as criminal gangs turned kidnapping into the highly lucrative “snatch racket.” Wealt...

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  • THE KENNEDYS IN THE WORLD
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    THE KENNEDYS IN THE WORLD
    LAWRENCE J. HAAS
    The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brothers developed a deep understanding of the different peoples, cultures, and ideologies around the world; a keen appreciation for the challenges that such differences created for the United States; and a strong desire to reshape America'...

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  • A RAID ON THE RED SEA
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    A RAID ON THE RED SEA
    AMOS GILBOA
    A Raid on the Red Sea is the thrilling, real-life tale of illegal gun-running in the Middle East. In this firsthand account, Amos Gilboa gives the harrowing details of the secret close-working relations between Israeli and American intelligence in the seizure of the Karine A ship, the most successful Israeli intelligence operation since the legendary Entebbe hostage rescue. At ...

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  • SPYMASTER'S PRISM
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    SPYMASTER'S PRISM
    JACK DEVINE
    In Spymaster’s Prism 'the legendary former spymaster Jack Devine details the unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies as it works against our national security. Devine tells this story through the unique perspective of a seasoned CIA professional who served more than three decades, some at the highest levels of the agency. He uses his gimlet-eyed view t...

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  • EMERGENCY WAR PLAN
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    EMERGENCY WAR PLAN
    SEAN M. MALONEY
    Emergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War. Previous examinations of nuclear strategy during this time have, for the most part, categorized American efforts as “massive retaliation” and “mutually assured destruction,” blunt instruments to be casually dismissed in favor of more flexible approaches or s...

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  • CALL ME COMMANDER
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    CALL ME COMMANDER
    JEFF TESTERMAN / DANIEL M. FREED
    When Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as his home and the epicenter of his sixty-thousand-member charity, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association. But something was ...

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  • THE GLOBAL SPREAD OF ISLAMISM AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR TERRORISM
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    THE GLOBAL SPREAD OF ISLAMISM AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR TERRORISM
    MICHAEL FREEMAN / KATHERINE ELLENA / AMINA KATOR-MUBAREZ
    Terrorism motivated by Islamist religious ideology has been on the rise for the last forty years. Why? The three prior waves of terrorism - anarchist, nationalist, and Marxist - arose generally from a combination of geopolitical events and local grievances. This “fourth wave” of terrorism, however, has risen out of a different set of conditions. Existing analyses of terrorism o...

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  • GIFTED GREEK
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    GIFTED GREEK
    MONTEAGLE STEARNS
    Gifted Greek is a reflection on twentieth-century Greek history and politics, as well as a character study of its first socialist prime minister, Andreas Papandreou. Monteagle Stearns witnessed the transformation of Papandreou from an affable American economist to a stormy, anti-American Greek, over Stearns' three diplomatic assignments to Athens, the last as a U.S. ambassador....

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  • THE GREAT KOSHER MEAT WAR OF 1902
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    THE GREAT KOSHER MEAT WAR OF 1902
    SCOTT D. SELIGMAN
    2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner 2020-21 Reader Views Literary Awards Gold Medal Winner ' 2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category 2020 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in American Jewish Studies 2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist ' In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly...

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  • WHO INVENTED OSCAR WILDE?
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    WHO INVENTED OSCAR WILDE?
    DAVID NEWHOFF
    In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric New York photographer named Napoleon Sarony. Few would guess that one of those photographs would become the subject of the Supreme Court case that challenged copyright protection for all photography—a constitutional question that...

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  • ALL SOULS DAY
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    ALL SOULS DAY
    JOSEPH M. PEREIRA / JOHN L. WILSON
    The U.S. Army attacked three villages near the German-Belgium border, surprising the Germans who surrendered with little resistance. The German army regrouped and counterattacked. A brief but horrific battle ensued, and as the enemy pressed forward, the Americans retreated in haste, leaving behind their wounded and their dead. Discussion of this week-long conflict that began on...

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  • WHY NATION-BUILDING MATTERS
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    WHY NATION-BUILDING MATTERS
    KEITH W. MINES
    No one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can produce crises from migration to economic collapse to terrorism. ...

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  • WHY GLOBALIZATION WORKS FOR AMERICA
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    WHY GLOBALIZATION WORKS FOR AMERICA
    EDWARD GOLDBERG
    Blue-collar job loss, immigration, trade deficits - Americans blame globalization for a host of problems. Indeed, even in a political system split by fundamental divisions, populists and progressives alike belong to a chorus that decries globalization's effects on our politics, way of life, and interactions with the world. Yet the United States is the biggest beneficiary of the...

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  • DECONSTRUCTING DR. STRANGELOVE
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    DECONSTRUCTING DR. STRANGELOVE
    SEAN M. MALONEY
    King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film's historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean M. Maloney uses Dr. Stra...

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  • ON DISTANT SERVICE
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    ON DISTANT SERVICE
    SUSAN M. STEIN
    On July 18, 1924, a mob in Tehran killed U.S. foreign service officer Robert Whitney Imbrie. His violent death, the first political murder in the history of the service, outraged the American people. Though Imbrie's loss briefly made him a cause célèbre, subsequent events quickly obscured his extraordinary life and career. Susan M. Stein tells the story of a figure steeped in a...

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  • AN UNLADYLIKE PROFESSION
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    AN UNLADYLIKE PROFESSION
    CHRIS DUBBS
    When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from stepping into the breach, defying gender norms and official restrictions to establish roles for themselves—and to write new kinds of narratives about women and war. Chris Dubbs tells the fascinating stories of Edith Wharton, Nellie B...

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