Patterson, Robert
Contents: An officer's oath -- The finger on the nuclear trigger -- Hillary's "football" -- Fear and loathing -- National defense or social petri dish? -- CNN diplomacy -- The war on terrorism -- A time to move on -- Appendix : The dangers we still face, by Caspar Weinberger, former secretary of defense -- President Clinton foreign policy chronology, 1993-2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0335 PATThompson, Nicholas
Summary: Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies in that harrowing conflict. Both came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening moments, and fought epic political battles that spanned decades. Yet despite their very different views, Paul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2009
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Summary: Journalist Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. The book begins on the shattering afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a grief-stricken Robert Kennedy urgently demands answers about the assassination of his brother, then shifts back in time, revealing the shadowy conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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Summary: Examines the White House years of Dwight Eisenhower and reveals the former president, often viewed as a doddering lightweight, as a brilliant, intellectual tactician who could be patient and ruthless, and generous and self-serving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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Summary: "An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan's foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the Cold War and laid the foundation for the twenty-first century. Today, the ending of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, U.S. intelligence predicted the Soviet Union would last another century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022