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The Wages of Globalism
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 22.99This volume looks at Lyndon Johnson's control of international relations, putting his handling of Vietnam in the context of the many other crises he confronted. The resulting portrait of a politician at work illuminates the outdated policies of containment he was expected to uphold. more...
The Age Of Gold
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00The discovery of gold in California in 1848 sparked a frenzy that shook the world. People swarmed to the gold fields from as far as China and Australia. They came by ship and overland, braving Tierra del Fuego and the pestilence of Panama, lured by the promise of riches. At the heart of The Age of Gold is the story of Captain John Fremont,... more...
What America Owes the World
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 29.00This book is an intellectual and moral history of US foreign policy, and a guide to the fundamental question of America's relations with the rest of the world. more...
Bound to Empire
Oxford University Press, USA 1992; US$ 34.99From the day Commodore Dewey's battleships destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila to the closing of the Subic Bay naval base in 1992, America and the Philippines have shared a long and tangled history. It has been a century of war and colonialism, earnest reforms and blatant corruption, diplomatic maneuvering and political intrigue, an era colored... more...
The Devil We Knew
Oxford University Press, USA 1993; US$ 19.99In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so low, writes H.W. Brands, that it could have fit "inside a high-school gymnasium,"... more...
African Game Trails
Cooper Square Press 2001; US$ 23.99Ex-President and explorer Theodore Roosevelt recalls in his journal of a hunting trip in Africa the many animals he stalked and killed for the Smithsonian institution, and his meetings with East Africans. more...
Woodrow Wilson
Henry Holt and Co. 2003; US$ 24.99A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policy On the eve of his inauguration as President, Woodrow Wilson commented, ?It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.? As America was drawn into the Great War in Europe, Wilson used his scholarship,... more...
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