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Challenging American Leadership
Springer 2008; US$ 109.99After leading the world during most of the 20th century in economic, political, technological, military, and even social terms, America's role is being challenged. India and China are emerging as new economic powers, with advancing technological prowess. This book talks about this issue. more...
Patton's One-Minute Messages
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.95This collection of George S. Patton's pithy one-liners shows how business managers can succeed by applying the combat-tested principles of one of America's most famous battlefield leaders. Also featured are the works of W. Edwards Deming and Walter A. Shewhart, two pioneers in quality control who have influenced management practice for over 50 years. more...
Terrible Terry Allen
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00Terry de la Mesa Allen?s mother was the daughter of a Spanish officer, and his father was a career U.S. Army officer. Despite this impressive martial heritage, success in the military seemed unlikely for Allen as he failed out of West Point?twice?ultimately gaining his commission through Catholic University?s R.O.T.C. program. In World War I, the young... more...
Marion Butler and American Populism
The University of North Carolina Press 2003; US$ 73.50Exploring the life and leadership of Populist Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of American reform politics. The son of North Carolina farmers and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Butler displayed an early proclivity for agrarian reform. By age twenty-eight he led the Farmers' Alliance of... more...
To Dare and to Conquer
Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 9.99The Fifty-Year Wound is the first cohesively integrated history of the Cold War, one replete with important lessons for today. Drawing upon literature, strategy, biography, and economics -- plus an inside perspective from the intelligence community -- Derek Leebaert explores what Americans sacrificed at the same time that they achieved the longest... more...
The Making of the Cold War Enemy
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 32.95At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison... more...
Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00From his role as FDR’s “negro advisor” to his appointment, under Lyndon Johnson, as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume, the first biography of the first African American... more...
Earnest Endeavors
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 122.00George Rublee (1868-1957), was an eastern establishment lawyer and corporate liberal who made a significant contribution to economic reform legislation on the state and national levels during the progressive era. He was also involved in a number of important international events from 1917 to 1939. Despite his achievements, he has been largely overlooked.... more...
Politics of Conscience
ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 49.00Margaret Chase Smith was the most influential woman in the history of American politics. Her goal was to be a United States senator, not a woman senator, and she succeeded by overcoming gender, not by championing it. Smith began her political career as Maine's daughter and demonstrated nationally the New England virtues of honesty, hard work, frugality,... more...
U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security: Chronology and Index for the 20th Century
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 125.00This comprehensive guide provides an in-depth, chronological overview of issues and policy processes related to U.S. foreign, military, and national security policy during the 20th century. more...









