Sjursen, Daniel A.
Summary: A combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan examines the history of the United States through an alternate lens that emphasizes our history of slavery, indigenous genocide, and militarist imperialism to present a more balanced view of the American story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SJUChomsky, Noam.
Summary: Chomsky analyzes the United States' foreign policy during the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. He predicts that America's pursuit of world domination will have catastrophic consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.73 ChoDidion, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 DIDHaley, James L.
Summary: The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996..9 HALBlumenthal, Max
Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BLUFerguson, Niall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 FERMurphy, Cullen.
Summary: The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our Republic. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves either as a triumphal call to action, or a dire warning of imminent collapse. Esteemed editor and author Murphy ventures past the pundits' rhetoric to draw nuanced lessons about how we might avoid Rome's demise. Working on a canvas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 MURO'Rourke, P. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 OROKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: Veteran correspondent Kaplan shows how American imperialism and the Global War on Terrorism are implemented on the ground, mission by mission, in the most exotic landscapes around the world. Kaplan takes us from the jungles of the southern Philippines to the dust bowls of Mongolia, from the forts of Afghanistan to the forests of South America--not to mention Iraq--to show us Army Special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 KAPDowd, Maureen.
Summary: The columnist discusses the Bush dynasty and the people surrounding the administration, including Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove, Wolfowitz, and Perle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 DOWClark, Wesley K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 CLAWest, Cornel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 WESBurleigh, Michael
Summary: Describes how the collapse of power in the Philippines, the Congo, and Iran, among other places, contributed to Cold War tensions and explains how this cemented the United States' role as the world's great enforcer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 BURElkins, Caroline
Summary: "Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022