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One of the most persistent myths to come out of World War II is that the Third Reich failed because a militarily incompetent Hitler and a small circle of ""yes-men"" consistently overrode the professional judgement of the German General Staff. This text seeks to dispel this long-standing myth.

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While the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have often been overlooked by political scientists, this book argues that it is an essential period to understanding presidential communication. Anne Pluta offers a new theoretical approach to understanding how and why presidential communication has evolved.

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Who should decide what is constitutional? The Supreme Court, of course, both liberal and conservative voices say - but in a bracing critique of the ""judicial engagement"" that is ascendant on the legal right, Greg Weiner makes a cogent case to the contrary.

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A guide to the geology, natural resources, landmarks, and landscapes of Kansas along nine of the Sunflower State's major highways. Covering more than 2,600 miles, and featuring more than 100 photographs, drawings, and maps, it provides the descriptions of contemporary and historical features to be seen across Kansas.

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Ever since that fateful day in Dallas, theories about President Kennedy's murder have proliferated, running the gamut from the official ""lone gunman"" verdict to both serious and utterly screwball conspiracy theories. This book presents an objective accounting, underlining both the logic and the limitations of the major theories about the case.

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Focuses on the twelve-month period from North Korea's invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, through the end of June 1951 - the most active phase of the internationalized 'Korean War'.

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Measures Hillary Clinton's historical footprint, tracing her activities during the turbulent decade that brought her to national prominence and examining her influence as a key player in her husband's administration.

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It was one of the most critical elections of American history, overshadowed only by the one that plunged the country into civil war. The deadlocked election of 1800 has earned considerable attention and debate from historians; now James Roger Sharp reveals that modern observers didn’t necessarily get it right.

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In May-June 1940 the Germans demolished the French Army, inflicting more than 300,000 French casualties, including more than 120,000 dead. While many historians have focused on France's failure to avoid this catastrophe, Kiesling is the first to show why the French had good reason to trust that their prewar defense policies, military doctrine, and combat forces would preserve the nation.

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This work provides an analysis of the evolution of Stalin's Red Army during the 1930s and its near decimation at the beginning of World War II. It argues that the Stalinist state largely failed in its attempt to use military service as a means to indoctrinate its citizens, especially the peasantry.

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Firsthand experience and research shed light on claims that Euro Disneyland is nothing but American cultural imperialism. A former employee goes beyond media bites and academic scorn to examine Europe's love/hate relationship with the park and some of the undiscussed issues surrounding it.

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The presidency of George W. Bush has been the subject of extensive commentary but limited scholarly analysis in the years since he left office. 43 draws extensively, but not solely, from the recently released interviews of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia.

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The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabel - a German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division, and fought against his former countrymen in the Battle of the Bulge. Gabel conveys with rare immediacy an in-depth look at the training of a paratrooper, the dangers of combat, and his transformation from romantic idealist to warrior.

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When American and South Vietnamese forces attacked Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent anti-war protests in the US. Based on research and analysis of the Cambodian invasion's objectives, planning, organization, and operations, this study encourages respect for one of America's genuine military successes during the war.

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A new English translation of Ardant du Picqs classic Battle Studies, introduced by a new biographical essay. Battle Studies is one of handful of books which address the experience of combat directly.

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From Eisenhower's toppling of Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 to Bush's overthrow of Noriega in Panama in 1989, this title casts an eye on eight major cases of US intervention in the Western Hemisphere, offering interpretations of why they occurred and what they signified.

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This is an essay on the ambiguities and dilemmas of the American presidency. It offers observations on the issues and controversies surrounding high office, questioning what a president does, and by what right he or she does it.

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This account charts the changing nature of Great Society liberalism from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. Based on research, it analyzes the downward path of the welfare state in the USA, and demonstrates the march of the liberals away from the centre and into the political wilderness.

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In 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable, the US undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that would become Washington's largest nation-building effort since Vietnam. Brian D'Haeseleer argues in The Salvadoran Crucible, that the US counterinsurgency in El Salvador produced no more than a stalemate, and in the process inflicted tremendous suffering on Salvadorans.

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While car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in hospital, battle lines were drawn between her parents and her lesbian companion, initiating a nearly decade-long struggle over Kowalski's guardianship. This text chronicles the landmark case in the fight for the rights of same-sex partners.

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Reveals the Benjamin Franklin behind the many masks and shows that the real Franklin was far more remarkable than anyone has yet discovered. The author shows us a powerful intellect lurking behind the leather-apron countenance. This lively, witty, and revelatory book is written for readers who want to delve into the mind of this great man.

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Women have participated in war throughout history, but their experience in Russia during the First World War was truly exceptional. This book draws on archival research, including many first-person accounts, to examine the roots, motivations, and legacy of these women.

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From 1926 to 1933, a transformation swept through the Soviet Union - a militarization of society that was as powerful and far-reaching as the Revolution itself. This work chronicles this transformation and shows why it is central to the understanding of Stalin's consolidation of power.

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Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous Englishwoman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist. Michael Winship disentangles what really happened from the legends that have misrepresented her for so long.

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Focuses on the experiences and writings of the surprisingly large number of Prussian, British, and French military observers who witnessed the Civil War firsthand. Luvaas's fascinating account reveals why they came, what they wrote, what their armies learned from their reports, and how their writings influenced later European military theorists.

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This volume presents a comprehensive history of airpower in small wars - conflicts pitting states against non-state groups such as insurgents, bandits, factions and terrorists - tracing it from the early years of the 20th century to the present day and examining conflicts with different scenarios.

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Most people think Star Wars was Reagan's idea, but its roots reach decades farther back. Military historian Don Baucom traces them to the dawn of the atomic age in 1944. In this first scholarly account of the origins of SDI, Baucom brings together the political, technological, and strategic forces that have shaped the history of ballistic missile defenses from World War II to the present.

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Examines Abraham Lincoln’s defense of majority rule, his understanding of its capabilities and limitations, and his hope that slavery could be peacefully and gradually extinguished through the action of a committed national majority.

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From 1942-1945 the Allies' war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. By charting the evolution of the military effectiveness of the US-Australian alliance, MacArthur's Coalition puts the relationship between the US and Australia at the centre of the war against Japan.

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Challenges longstanding suppositions that James Madison harboured misgivings about majority rule, arguing instead that he viewed constitutional institutions as delaying mechanisms to postpone decisions until after public passions had cooled and reason took hold.

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Drawing on more than 25,000 party and amicus briefs led between 1984 and 2015 and the text of the related court opinions, as well as interviews with former Supreme Court clerks and attorneys, Morgan Hazelton and Rachael Hinkle shed light on one of the more mysterious and consequential features of Supreme Court decision-making.

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Why does the American Civil War still speak to us so powerfully? Many of the questions at the heart of the conflict are also central to the very idea of America - and that many of them remain unresolved. This book offers the opportunity to pursue these questions from a new, critical perspective.

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The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored. Boris Gorbachevsky first saw front-line duty as a rifleman in the 30th Army. Through the Maelstrom recounts his three harrowing years on some of the war's grimmest but forgotten battlefields.

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While the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have often been overlooked by political scientists, this book argues that it is an essential period to understanding presidential communication. Anne Pluta offers a new theoretical approach to understanding how and why presidential communication has evolved.

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Argues that US military elites play an exceptionally powerful role due to their extraordinary influence over policy process, outcome, and implementation. A silent coup of the guardians has occurred, and professionals and citizens need to ask what should be done rebalance US civil-military relations.

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The Whole Earth Catalog grew from a Bay Area blip to a national phenomenon. In recovering the history of the Catalog's brand of environmentalism, this book recounts how San Francisco's Stewart Brand and his counterculture cohorts in the Point Foundation promoted a philosophy of pragmatic environmentalism.

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In 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. This volume offers a full account of this brilliant and original operational maneuver, utilizing a full range of materials, from personal accounts to archival holdings - including the bits the official historians left out.

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By taking a closer look at what we thought we knew, William Shkurti persuasively demonstrates how combat units still in harm’s way adapted to the challenges before them and soldiered on in a war everyone else wanted to be over. In doing so, he also suggests a context to better understand the challenges that may lie ahead.

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