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Through exhaustive use of declassified documents, previously unavailable investigative materials, and wide-ranging interviews, Malcolm Byrne revisits Iran-Contra episode. Placing the events in their historical and political context (notably the Cold War and a sharp partisan domestic divide), he explores what made the affair possible and meticulously relates how it unfolded.

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This title argues that vengeance has fallen into disrepute without being seriously examined with respect to its real moral value. It investigates the use of vengeance themes in literature and popular culture, from the ""Iliad"" and ""Hamlet"" to film Westerns such as Clint Eastwood's ""Unforgiven"".

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The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought, Michael Zuckert’s A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent centre to Lincoln’s political ideology, a core idea that unifies his thought and thus illuminates his deeds as a political actor. That core idea is captured in the term ‘democratic sovereignty’.

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Covers the first phase of the Vicksburg campaign (October 1862-July 1863), involving perhaps the most wide-ranging and complex series of efforts seen in the entire campaign. Massive and scope, this book covers everything from politicians and generals down to the individual soldiers, as well as civilians, and slaves making their way to freedom.

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‘What if American Studies is defined not so much in the pages of the most cutting-edge publications, but through what happens in our classrooms and other learning spaces?’ In Teaching American Studies Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Joseph Entin, and Rebecca Hill ask a diverse group of American Studies educators to respond to that question.

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This fourth edition of Executive Privilege, called ‘the definitive contemporary work on the subject’ by the Journal of Politics, has been revised and updated to include the two Obama administrations and the first three years of the Trump administration.

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For most first ladies, their years in the White House are their sole claim to fame. For one - Hillary Rodham Clinton - that tenure was just another step in a remarkable political career. This book provides a look at arguably the most polarizing first lady in history and undoubtedly the most prominent American woman of our time.

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Tells the story of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld President James Earl Carter’s unilateral decision to nullify the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China (Taiwan), thereby enabling the United States to establish relations with the People’s Republic of China.

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Presents facts that reveal how the Axis coalition undermined Hitler's objectives from the Eastern Front to the Balkans, Mediterranean, and North Africa. The author argues that the Axis military alliance was doomed from the beginning by a lack of common aims, the absence of a unified command structure, and each nation's mistrust of the others.

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Offers a long perspective and draws on recently opened records to provide an in-depth analysis of the approaches taken by the Clinton and Bush administrations toward terrorism in general and Al-Qaeda in particular. The book also delivers arresting new details on the four 9/11 hijackings and the collapse of the Twin Towers.

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In this volume, scholars from philosophy, law, and political science respond to recent work in legal theory by exploring what constitutes a ""radical"" critique of the law. Examining various approaches and theories, they propose alternatives they regard as truly radical.

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The Cold War marked a new era for America's military, one dominated by nuclear weapons and air power that seemed to diminish the need for conventional forces. This title chronicles the US Army's struggles with its identity, structure, and mission in the face of those challenges.

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Leading observers and scholars of US politics examine President Barack Obama's choices, operating style, and opportunities taken and missed, as well as the institutional and political constraints on the president's policy agenda.

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This work on the Civil War describes how and why the Confederate leader, John Bell Hood, was ultimately defeated by the Union General, George G. Thomas, at Springhill, Franklin and Nashville after the fall of Atlanta. The story is told from both sides, illuminating both the good and the bad.

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When Nikita Khrushchev toured America in 1959, the country was enjoying a period of unprecedented prosperity, just as the Cold War and the possibility of thermonuclear annihilation were causing widespread dread throughout the land. This book for the first time fully explores Khrushchev's journey as a reflection of a critical moment in US life.

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Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942–1944, the Normandy landing—and so, perhaps, World War II—would have ended differently. This is one of many lessons of The Mediterranean Air War, the first one-volume history of the vital role of airpower during the three-year struggle for control of the Mediterranean Basin in World War II.

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Offers a interpretive synthesis filled with intriguing insights into the presidency's evolution during America's rise to global prominence. This title traces the decline of the party system, the increasing importance of the media and its role in creating the president-as-celebrity, and the growth of the White House staff and executive bureaucracy.

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Focusing on women of the counterculture, this book describes how gender was perceived within the movement, with women taking on much of the responsibility for sustaining communes. It examines the lives of younger runaways and daughters who shared the lifestyle.

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Assesses Union generalship during the final two years of the Civil War. Steven Woodworth, one of the war’s premier historians, is joined by a team of distinguished scholars who critique Ulysses S. Grant’s commanders in terms of both their working relationship with their general-in-chief and their actual performances.

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First published in 1967, ""Freedom and the Court"" has become a standard text on civil liberties law. Now updated to cover Supreme Court decisions through 2003, this eighth edition addresses essential questions of how to reconcile civil liberties with national security in the aftermath of 9/11.

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Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam-one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home-over whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. In this study, Kevin M. Boyle examines the “Lost Victory” hypothesis, namely that the war actually was won after the 1968 Tet Offensive, only to be thrown away later through a failure of political will.

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Three decades ago - years after most tribes had filed land claims - the Zuni initiated legal battles related to aboriginal claims, rights, and use that few experts thought they could win. Tying together current events with cultural and legal history, this volume provides expert observations on how and why the Zuni succeeded.

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Mary Glantz analyzes tensions shaping the policy stance of the US toward the Soviet Union before, during, and immediately after World War II. She shows how career officers were able to resist and shape presidential policy - and how their critical views helped shape the parameters of the subsequent Cold War.

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William E Colby was one of the most enigmatic figures of the Cold War and a central player in the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency. This title tracks Colby's life and career from early years in the OSS to his tumultuous tenure as Director of Central Intelligence in the 1970s. It also offers a history of the inner workings of the CIA.

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Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and work—and even image—continue to permeate American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961. And never has there been a chronology of the writer’s life and times as comprehensive, detailed, and useful as The Hemingway Log.

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This text examines the role of the news media during the Vietnam War. The author aims to demystify the subject, using military documents and news reports to explore how the press contradicted themselves and each other and how the war came to be seen as a hopeless effort.

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A study of the often misunderstood Philippine War. From the pitched battles of the early war to the final campaigns against guerrillas, it traces the entire course of the war. The text is grounded in original documents, including the letters and diaries of soldiers from both sides.

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With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) was one of the most successful and prolific director-producers of his day. Producer of Controversy is the first book to take a close-up look at Kramer's career, films, and liberal politics in an effort to explain his contributions and historical significance.

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Did we ""know"" the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies could have intervened to save thousands of lives at Auschwitz. In this volume, a number of historians address these questions, revealing a complex dilemma.

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Analyses the nationalist and populist themes that dominate the rhetoric of President Trump and links those themes to a persona that has evolved from celebrity outsider to presidential strongman. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how Trump's rhetoric undermines basic principles at the heart of American democracy.

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Organized interests are perennially under fire for distorting public policies. This book explores the development of interest-group politics in the United States through the defining lens of four key advocacy associations in two major and highly contested policy domains, the small business and environmental lobbies.

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Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle between the American 22d Infantry Regiment and elements of the German LXXIV Korps around Grosshau, Rush chronicles small-unit combat at its most extreme.

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This work takes the reader on a journey round the state of Kansas, visiting 106 towns, such as Palermo, Fostoria, and Old Clear Water, and examining why they have declined or been abandoned.

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Explores the implications of Sartrean philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic tradition. The author shows that Sartre appreciated Freud's psychoanalytic achievements but rebelled against the determinism of his metatheory.

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Examines the Republicans' ideological struggle, focusing on how party thought - particularly concerning the concept of republicanism - determined the contours of their efforts and was in turn shaped by it. This book focuses on what they thought about their actions, particularly their beliefs about the meaning and nature of the American Republic.

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The first English-Language study of a non-Russian Soviet republic during World War II, this book explores how the war altered official policies toward the region's ethnic groups - and accelerated Central Asia's integration into Soviet institutions.

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Speaking from personal experience as well as reporting research findings, the contributors of Graduate Students at Work illustrate the significant expertise that graduate students are asked to enact in their time-intensive jobs as teachers, researchers, and administrators, even as they are kept in poverty wages.

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Provides a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book on US history, Lucas Powe, Jr situates the Court and its work into a broad narrative of American history.

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