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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
725 pages ; cm
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"Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving U.S. policy toward East Asia: a fear that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward free flow of trade, values, and forward defense. By More Than Providence works through these problems from the perspective of history's...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Traces the friendship between all-American girl Jenny and Sarah, the shy daughter of troubled parents, during the height of the Cold War, a bond that is nearly shattered by Jenny's unexpected fame and plane crash death that Sarah learns a decade later might have been a hoax.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
ix, 515 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Examines China's role in the world in recent centuries to demonstrate how its past is shaping its future, explaining how Western influences have reinforced traditional Chinese mores while establishing potential partnerships.
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 19
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As President of the United States, Jack Ryan has faced many challenges, but none have been as personal as this and never has he been this helpless in the face of evil in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor...
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Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
From a celebrated military historian, a powerful account of the most pivotal year of the Vietnam War-the cataclysm that forever changed America.
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"...Washington Rules is Andrew J. Bacevich's challenge to the conventional wisdom that American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, to prepare our forces for military operations in far-flung regions, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. Adopted by administrations on both sides of the political spectrum during the past half century, this Washington consensus on national...
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"Beginning in the 1850s, Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans who made their fortunes in the China opium trade. As they---good Christians all---profitably addicted millions, American missionaries arrived, promising salvation for those who adopted Western ways. From drug dealer Warren Delano to his grandson Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the port of Hong Kong to the towers of Princeton University, from the era of Appomattox to the age...
9) What we say goes: conversations on U.S. power in a changing world : interviews with David Barsamian
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
vii, 223 p. ; 21 cm.
10) 37 days
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 to Britain's declaration of war on Germany 37 days later. This tense and gripping mini-series set amongst the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia-and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places. Fiona Hill grew up in a world of terminal decay. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair...
12) The Collector
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Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
Description
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
The journalist and former U.S. State Department official explores the decline of American diplomacy and traditional statecraft, the abdication of global leadership, and how the work of peacemaking has been taken over by the military-industrial complex.
14) Tiger's claw
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 18
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Description
After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
xx, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"U.S. Senator Tom Cotton exposes the progressive left's decades-long plot to sabotage American power, culminating in a behind-the-scenes look at the dangerous failures of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden— and explains what we must do to recover America's strength. If it seems to you that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have weakened America and emboldened our enemies, you're not alone. But Senator Cotton explains that their failures aren't just...
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 23 cm
Description
"This book will serve as a rallying cry for the American people and a plan of action for our leaders in government and the private sector. Written in a language that every American can understand but still rich in detail and accurate in fact, Trump vs. China will expose the Chinese Communist Party's multi-pronged threat against the United States and what we must do as a country"--Amazon.com.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
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412 p. ; 22 cm.
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"Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military. It accounts for over 46% of total world arms spending. Before World War II it spent almost nothing on defense and hardly anyone paid any income taxes. You can't have big wars without big government. Such big expenditures are now threatening to harm the national economy....
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 651 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Drawing on original research and recently declassified documents, this book exposes the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa's new generation of nationalist leaders.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 484 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Describes how the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel is due to the influence of the Israel lobby, which has a far-reaching impact on America's foreign policy decisions throughout the Middle East.
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