United States

Contents: Legislative Branch -- Judicial Branch -- Executive Branch: the President -- Executive Branch: Departments -- Executive Branch: independent agencies and government corporations -- Other international organizations -- Selected bilateral organizations -- Commonly used agency acronyms -- History of agency organizational changes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Claitor's Publishing Division 2017

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 353 UNI

Gates, 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 GAT

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: "We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. Now Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Wallach, Janet

Summary: "The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Marguerite Harrison was born into Gilded Age American privilege and launched a successful career as a culture writer for the Baltimore Sun as a young widow. But when America entered World War I,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, MARGUERITE WAL

Isenberg, Nancy

Summary: "John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (and it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results, and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ISE