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“charles dobbs”

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  • Triangles, Symbols, and Constraints

    The United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, 1963-1969

    by Charles Dobbs ...
    In his five-plus years as president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson witnessed dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America. New Soviet leaders were determined to build Soviet power and extend Soviet influence. Mao's revolutionary ideology so dominated China that there were few levers to move Sino-American ... Read more

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    The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

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    In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Dereliction of Duty

    Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security

    by Robert Patterson ...
    Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson exposes the terrifying, behind-the-scenes story of the years when the most irresponsible President in our history had his finger on the nuclear trigger. Dereliction of Duty is the inside story of the damage Bill Clinton did to the U.S. military and how he compromised our national security. From his laughable salutes, to his arrogant, anti-military staffers, the ... Read more

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  • The Right Path

    From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics--and Can Again

    by Joe Scarborough ...
    Joe Scarborough—former Republican congressman and the always insightful host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe—takes a nuanced and surprising look at the unexpected rise and self-inflicted fall of the Republican Party. Dominant in national politics for forty years under the influence of the conservative but pragmatic leadership of Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, the GOP, Scarborough argues, is in a self ... Read more

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  • Presidents' Secrets

    The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power

    by Mary Graham ...
    A "succinct and well-written" look at how presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy—and gain power ( The Wall Street Journal).Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting—the Constitutional Convention—presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations. For the first one hundred and twenty years ... Read more

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  • Lu Xun's Revolution

    by Gloria Davies ...
    Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place. ... Read more

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  • Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

    Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s

    by Shen Zhihua ...
    Translated by Neil Silver ...
    Series series Cold War History
    This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War.This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua’s best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing non-heroic accounts of the Korean War.The author combined information detailed in Soviet-era diplomatic ... Read more

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  • Playing President

    My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton—and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

    by Robert Scheer ...
    **Reflections on, and interviews with, US presidents from Nixon to George W. Bush, from "one of the best reporters of our time" (Joan Didion, New York Times–bestselling author of The White Album).Robert Scheer's interviews with and profiles of US presidents have shaped journalism history. Scheer developed close journalistic relationships with Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill ... Read more

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  • To Serve the President

    Continuity and Innovation in the White House Staff

    by Bradley H. Patterson ...
    Nobody knows more about the duties, the difficulties, and the strategies of staffing and working in the White House than Brad Patterson. In To Serve the President, Patterson combines insider access, decades of Washington experience, and an inimitable style to open a window onto closely guarded Oval Office turf. The fascinating and entertaining result is the most complete look ever at the White ... Read more

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  • The Incense Coast

    Piracy Around the Horn of Africa

    by Brooks Tenney ...
    In the failed East African state of Somalia, piracy has become a dominant factor in the economy. Bordering one of the world's busiest waterwayswith steady traffic coming and going through the Suez CanalSomalia's north shore, once famed as the Incense Coast, provides a dependable parade of suitable victims. Maritime nations have powerful naval contingents in the region; but, lacking legal ... Read more

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  • Mendoza's Historie of the Kingdome of China Vol.1

    by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza ...
    Juan González de Mendoza (circa 1540–1617) was the author of the first Western history of China to publish Chinese characters. Published by him in 1586, "Historia de las cosas más notables, ritos y costumbres del gran reyno de la China" is an account of observations several Spanish travelers in China. An English translation by Robert Parke appeared in 1588 and was reprinted by the Hakluyt Society ... Read more

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  • Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era

    The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China

    by Matthew H. Ciscel, Fengyuan Ji, Ekaterina Levintova, Andrejs Plakans, Marek Skovajsa, Norina Solomon, Magda Stroinska, Cosmina Tanasoiu, Rossen Vassilev, Marius Dragomir ...
    This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting insights into the ways the new, presumably democratically-minded political elites in post ... Read more

    $105.99 USD