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Moving from strategy to battle scene to analysis, this first English translation of volume six of Carl von Clausewitz's collected works nimbly conveys the character of Clausewitz's writing in all its registers: the brisk, often powerful description of events as they unfolded and the critical reflections on strategic theory and its implications.

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Chronicles the secret psychological warfare programs America developed at the height of the Cold War. This book also shows that Eisenhower waged his propaganda war not just abroad, but also at home. It also focuses on major campaigns such as Atoms for Peace, People-to-People, and cultural exchange programs.

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The most deeply researched history of the World War II Soviet evacuations.

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Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose, and as is often the case the matter made its way into the legal arena. Rutgers v. Waddington was such a case. Through this little-known but remarkable dispute, Peter Charles Hoffer recounts a tale of political and constitutional intrigue.

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Where did the ""Era of Divided Government"" come from? What sustains split partisan control of American national government year after year? The author takes an in-depth look at some of the big questions connected with modern American politics.

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Long before Hopis won trophy cups or received acclaim in American newspapers, Hopi clan runners competed against each other on and below their mesas–and when they won footraces, they received rain. Hopi Runners provides a window into this venerable tradition at a time of great consequence for Hopi culture.

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We know plenty about the Patriots' cause in the American Revolution. But what about the one-third of the population who opposed independence? Their position is largely missing from our understanding of Revolution-era American political thought. With God against the Revolution, Gregg L. Frazer seeks to close this gap.

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The ghostly presence stands in for numerous other ""voices"" in a range of American films. In this synthesis of film and politics, Ray Pratt aims to show how such movies are deeply rooted in post-war American culture and continue to exert an enormous influence on the national imagination.

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Much that has been written about the Tet Offensive has been misleading. Edwin Moïse shows that the Communist campaign shocked the American public not because the American media exaggerated its success, but because it was a bigger campaign - larger in scale, much longer in duration, and resulting in more American casualties - than most authors have acknowledged.

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Featuring the artwork of nationally acclaimed fish illustrator Joseph Tomelleri, this greatly-expanded second edition bridges the gap between technical studies and popular field guides in a volume that is indispensable for anglers and naturalists alike. Revealing the answers to many fishy questions, this book is a lavishly illustrated compendium of fish facts and lore.

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Drawing on empirical social science and normative political philosophy, Michael Rabinder James integrates questions of justice and stability through a model of deliberative democracy in the plural polity.

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Nathan Bedford Forrest was a renowned cavalryman who fought during the American Civil War. This book presents an analysis of his life, from childhood in Mississippi, to wealth from the slave trade, his role as founder and Grand Wizard of the first Ku Klux Klan, and his death.

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This is the first English-language military history of what the People's Republic of China called the “War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea”. Based on a vast array of recently available Chinese sources, it provides a revealing new look at the far-reaching influence of Mao Zedong's political and military thought on China's conduct of the war.

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Offers a look at how Jimmy Carter alienated his own supporters, why Ted Kennedy ran against him, what the Kennedy campaign has to say about America in the 1970s, and whether or not the 1980 election really was a turning point in electoral history.

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Excavating the reality behind the myth, this work delves into the exploits and ego that defined Wild Bill Hickok, a notorious character of the Wild West, and shows how the man was overtaken by his own legend.

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In a polarized time of partisan fervor, the US Supreme Court's routine work of judicial review is increasingly viewed through a political lens, decried by one side or the other as judicial overreach, or ""legislating from the bench"". But is this really the case? Keith Whittington asks in this volume, a first-of-its-kind history of judicial review.

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Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley was America's first case to allege ""clergy malpractice,"" one that challenged the freedom of religious leaders to counsel their parishioners. The case is as much a story of modern America as it is an account of courtroom proceedings.

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Underscoring an emerging revisionist view of the American Expeditionary Forces, David Trask argues that the performances of the AEF and General John J. Pershing were much more flawed than conventional accounts have suggested. This can best be seen, he shows, by analysing coalition warfare at the level of grand tactics.

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An analysis of Eisenhower's presidency, focusing not on whether he was an active or passive president, but on how his decisions shaped American life in the 1950s and beyond. The authors explore the significance of Eisenhower's policies on a range of issues, from civil rights to atomic testing.

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Chronicles the efforts of a historic joint House-Senate inquiry to get to the bottom of our intelligence failures on 9/11 in 2001. This study provides a grim reminder of the challenges that remain in the war on terror.

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The press leak in 1971 of a secret government document about the Vietnam War set off a chain of events that culminated in one of the most important First Amendment decisions in American legal history. This book re-examines what happened, why it mattered, and why it still has relevance today.

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This study provides an appraisal of Germany's air forces from the post-World War I era through the early stages of World War II. The author demolishes several myths surrounding the Luftwaffe, including the belief that they had no ideas beyond the support of ground forces.

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Celebrates hip-hop and confronts the cult of authenticity that defines its essential character. Deftly balancing an insider's love of the culture with a scholar's detached critique, the author traces hip-hop's rise as a cultural juggernaut and challenges widely held notions that hip-hop is socially dangerous - to black youth in particular.

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Barber B. Conable, Jr - perhaps the most respected member of Congress of his era - kept a frank, insightful, revealing journal available now for the first time. The journal is an honest, searching, sometimes humorous, occasionally cutting, and always fascinating look inside Congress.

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Tells the stories of past and present academics who have ventured beyond the academy. Richard Davis frames his own story of political activism in Utah within the context of the need for political scientists to step away from the cloistered affairs of academia toward more public and political engagement.

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Successful logistics cannot guarantee victory, but poor logistics portends defeat. In Feeding Victory, Jobie Turner asks how technical innovation has affected this connection over time and whether advances in technology have altered both the critical relationship between logistics and warfare and, ultimately, geopolitical dynamics.

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This recollection of the Civil War documents the armies on the move and incorporates biographical sketches and stories of bravery.

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The US president is the sole legal head of the executive branch. Despite this constitutional authority, the president’s actual control over administration varies significantly in practice from one president to the next. This book provides a new approach for studying the presidency that centres on this often overlooked historical variable.

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Focuses on the two-term precedent and how it came into being not by legal prescription but by the tacit influence of George Washington’s refusal to run for a third term and what it suggests about American conceptions of executive power.

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This text presents the history of Richard Nixon's political economy. Nixon came to office preoccupied with foreign policy, but had to deal with an economy that threatened him with political defeat. When the economy dipped into recession, he turned to John Connelly, Governor of Texas, for rescue.

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Drawing on Dine stories from the LDS Native American Oral History Project, Farina King illuminates the mutual entanglement of Indigenous identity and religious affiliation, showing how their Dine identity made them outsiders to the LDS Church and, conversely, how belonging to the LDS community made them outsiders to their Native community.

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Kansas has a great diversity of birds: 453 species documented within its borders. This book focuses on the 203 species that breed in the state, from the Green-winged Teal to the Great-tailed Grackle, to create an accurate reference based on standardized methods of data collection.

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Originally published in 1998, Like Men of War was a groundbreaking study of Black troops in the Civil War that is still considered a major contribution to the literature on the United States Colored Troops. In this chronological operational history, Trudeau covers every major engagement - and a few minor ones - that the USCT participated in.

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In the latest volume in his five-volume history of the Vicksburg Campaign of the US Civil War, Timothy Smith offers the first book-length examination of Ulysses S. Grant’s winter waterborne attempts to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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Pat Nixon may be the least understood of modern first ladies. Although public opinion polls rated her one of our nation’s most admired women, few Americans really knew much about her. This first scholarly biography of Thelma Ryan Nixon goes further than any other book to show readers the real Pat Nixon.

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Covers the period of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and focuses on the Second Coalition's campaign in Italy and their victories under Suvorov's dynamic leadership that carried the tide of battle up against the French frontier. This first English translation of volume 5 of Clausewitz's collected works conveys the character of Clausewitz's writing in all its registers.

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Analysing an original survey of political appointments at all levels of state government, All Roads Lead to Power offers an expanded, nuanced view of women in politics. This book also questions the manner in which political ambition, particularly among women, is typically studied and understood.

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The Watergate scandal has been extensively dissected and vigorously debated. Keith Olson, however, offers a “layman's guide to Watergate”, a concise and readable one-volume history that highlights the key actors, events, and implications in this dark drama.

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It is broadly understood that an American president might test the limits of the law in extraordinary circumstances - and does so with advice from legal counsel. Advising the President is an exploration of this process, viewed through the experience of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert H. Jackson on the eve of World War II.

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The politics of division and distraction, conservatives' claims of liberalism's dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua Kastenberg in this in-depth account of a campaign to impeach Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas.

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The Watergate scandal has been extensively dissected and vigorously debated. Keith Olson, however, offers a “layman's guide to Watergate”, a concise and readable one-volume history that highlights the key actors, events, and implications in this dark drama.

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Handed down through his family over the past century and faithfully transcribed here, William D. Street’s story of frontier life is as rich in history as it is in character, giving us a sense of what it was to be not just a witness to, but a player in, the drama of the plains as it unfolded in the late nineteenth century.

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With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was an eerie precursor to that of 2000. This offers a fresh interpretation of this disputed election, not merely to rehash claims of fraud but to explain why it was so close.

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