Rice, Earle.
Summary: Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between Soviet Russia and the United States from the end of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 327.73047 RICFirme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the history of the Cold War (1945-1991) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.825 FIRWestad, Odd Arne
Summary: "We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WESJentleson, Bruce W.
Summary: "Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 JENSummary: "Immediately following World War II, former allies the United States and the Soviet Union began an open yet restricted rivalry that became known as the Cold War and played out around the world until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Many conflicts, such as the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Arab-Israeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the U.S.-Soviet competition....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 COLFollett, Ken.
Summary: East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world. Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy goes against conventional wisdom--cemented during the Cold War--and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FDR's handling of the Depression; here we see him as wartime chief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5314 PLOHornfischer, James D.
Summary: "A close-up, action-filled narrative about the crucial role the U.S. Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Holdthe Sea, combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on--and under--the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.00973 HOROffley, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.938 OFFWard, Geoffrey C
Summary: "A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"-- More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. This volume draws on hundreds of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.7 WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 959.7 WARSummary: A sweeping look at nearly five decades of global history, a crystallization of a massive, three-year-long effort helmed by award-winning documentarian Jeremy Isaacs (The World at War). Isaacs's team shot more than 1,000 hours of original footage and gathered archival footage from all over the world to include historically important, and often emotionally stunning, images, many never before seen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV COLFursenko, A. A.
Contents: Red star ascendant -- Geneva -- Arms to Egypt -- Suez -- Twin crises -- "Khrushchey's comet" -- Coup in Iraq -- "A bone in my throat" -- Khrushchev in America -- Grand design -- The crash heard round the world -- Castro and Lumumba -- Southeast Asian test -- "He is a son of a bitch." -- Iron ring -- "The storm in Berlin is over" -- Meniscus -- "I think we will win this operation" -- Cuban...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 FURFollett, Ken.
Summary: East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOLSummary: During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC NEIMorris, Jan
Contents: The 1950s -- Mount Everest, 1953 -- A benign republic: USA -- Kingdom of troubles: the Middle East -- South African White and Black -- Confusions in paradise: the Caribbean -- Europe: after the war was over -- Orientalisms: The Far East -- The 1960s -- The Eichmann Trial -- The Cold War -- South American frissons -- Oxford, 1965 -- Australia -- A New Africa -- Manhattan, 1969 -- The 1970s --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.825 MORSummary: A unique glimpse at more than fifty years of American history. Educator, civil rights champion, advisor to presidents, envoy to popes, theologian and activist, Rev. Theodore Hesburgh was called on by countless world leaders to tackle the most challenging issues of the day. He built a reputation as a savvy political operator with a penchant for bridging the divide between bitter enemies. Through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HESBotting, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORGaddis, John Lewis.
Summary: Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a new account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight into its most crucial events. It contains much new information drawn from newly opened Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives. Now, as America once again finds itself in a global...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.825 GADSteyn, Mark.
Summary: In his first major book, concervative columnist Steyn takes on the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The future, Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. The Islamists are both, while the West--wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4827 STESummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Wheen, Francis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBS/PublicAffairs 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.827 WHEWill, George F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 WILSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005