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Summary: Analyzes three historical moments from the past thirty-five years to reveal how the U.S. and Israel have worked together to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 KHACrist, David.
Summary: Reveals the covert operations that have brought the United States and Iran to the brink of open war, including Iran's proposal for peace after 9/11, which was rejected by President Bush, and Iran's secret army in post-U.S. invasion Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 CRIFreeman, Joshua Benjamin.
Summary: Examines the movements and developments that propelled the United States to world dominance, covering the transformations of World War II, the tragedies that shaped American civic life, and the loss of individual liberty to private corporations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 FREZinn, Howard
Summary: Collects articles penned by the author for "Progressive" magazine from 1980 to 2009, offering critiques of the government, encouragement for citizens to organize, and a voice on behalf of the working class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 ZINDevine, Jack
Summary: A CIA veteran with extensive experience in covert operations presents a guide to the art of spycraft while illuminating the CIA's essential role, sharing a cautionary message about its recent transition toward paramilitary activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEVINE, JACK DEVBurns, William J. (William Joseph)
Summary: "Ambassador William J. Burns is the most distinguished and admired American diplomat of the last half century. Over the course of four decades, he played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time--from the bloodless end of the Cold War to post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNS, WILLIAM J BURChristopher, Warren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 CHRMaddow, Rachel.
Summary: Identifying what the author believes to be a battle between the priorities of civilian life and the war, the host of the critically acclaimed The Rachel Maddow show explains that today's focus on national security is actually compromising national stability, tracing the historical events and contributing factors that have promoted a deeply militarized American culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.2 MADMaddow, Rachel.
Summary: Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.2 MADHaass, Richard
Summary: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course. Respect for sovereignty alone cannot uphold order in an age defined by global challenges from terrorism and the spread of nuclear weapons to climate change and cyberspace. Meanwhile, great-power rivalry is returning. Weak states pose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HAAFriedman, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 FRIHarman, Jane
Summary: "Insanity Defense is an insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 HAREngel, Jeffrey A.
Summary: "The untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history--the end of the Cold War--based on unprecedented access to heretofore classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 ENGChomsky, Noam.
Summary: From the Publisher: From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 CHOJohnson, Chalmers A.
Summary: In Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth of American militarism has jeopardized our stability. Now, in Nemesis, he shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, both economically and politically. Delving into new areas--from plans to militarize outer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 JOHTanner, Stephen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 TANSchorr, Daniel
Summary: Daniel Schorr, an institution at CBS for decades and a twenty-year mainstay of NPR, is a legend in journalism. This is the first selection of Schorr's observations on politics and American life from the years 1990 to the present--a commentary on the history of our time. Schorr's essays reveal him as a master of pithy, get-to-the-point analysis, whether he is calling the Supreme Court's 2000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 SCHGates, Robert Michael
Summary: "Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity, seemingly unwilling to accept the mantle of leadership or unable to govern itself effectively. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.929 GATBaier, Bret
Summary: On May 31, 1988, Reagan addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, with a remarkable -- yet now largely forgotten -- speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 BAIReagan, Michael
Summary: The eldest son of the late fortieth president explains how today's political challenges are comparable to those of his father's political career, discussing how Reagan's famous 1976 speech at the Republican National Convention introduced still-applicable principles for a strong Republican party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 REABurrows, William E.
Summary: Unknown to the public and cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the United States flew missions against the Communist bloc almost continuously during the Cold War in a desperate effort to collect intelligence and find targets for all-out nuclear war. The only hint of the relentless, clandestine operations came when one of the planes was shot down. Many of the air force and navy flyers were killed on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BURPermanent Peoples' Tribunal
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Publisher / Publication Date: Synthesis Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.85 ONTFitzGerald, Frances
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 FITLichtblau, Eric.
Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014