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Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio LibertyAmong America's most unusual and successful weapons during the Cold War were Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. RFE-RL had its origins in a post-war America brimming with confidence and secure in its power. Unlike the Voice of America, which conveyed a distinctly American...
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The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, VirginiaOnce the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics,...
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The Rising Clamor: The American Press, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Cold WarThe US intelligence community as it currently exists has been deeply influenced by the press. Although considered a vital overseer of intelligence activity, the press and its validity is often questioned, even by the current presidential administration. But dating back to its creation in...
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Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and NonviolenceIn light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to...
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The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, VirginiaOnce the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics,...
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A Political Companion to Marilynne RobinsonMarilynne Robinson is arguably one of the most important writers of our time. Her voice resonates across the richly imagined American landscapes within which she grounds her stories of love and loss, alienation and belonging, injustice and redemption. Robinson's award-winning body of work--including Gilead,...
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Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative ChangeThe global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives-and have transformed from...
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Adorno and Democracy: The American YearsGerman philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. A leading member of the Frankfurt School, Adorno advanced an unconventional type of Marxist analysis in books such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Minima...
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Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's MemoirWhen four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man ""without peer among living generals."" In Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir, the celebrated soldier, scholar,...
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Army Diplomacy: American Military Occupation and Foreign Policy After World War IIIn the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States Army became the principal agent of American foreign policy. The army designed, implemented, and administered the occupations of the defeated Axis powers Germany and Japan, as well as many other nations. Generals such...
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Mexican Lobby: Matías Romero in Washington 1861-1867For Americans the Civil War was simply an internal conflict, and they have emphasized its military exploits and the romantic myths that have grown up around it. They have given little regard to its international aspects. In truth, however, the American Civil War attracted...
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The Promise and Perils of Populism: Global PerspectivesFrom the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change. When citizens demand "power to the...
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International Conflict and Collective SecurityThe control of man's violence against man presents to modern society its greatest problem. A capacity to deal with the most devastating type of conflict-international war-is crucial to human welfare and even to the survival of civilization. Nations have become interdependent in technology and...
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Little Kingdoms: The Counties of Kentucky, 1850-1891Kentucky's counties though theoretically provinces of the state were in reality powerful semi-sovereign entities during the latter half of the 19th century. Their positive accomplishments were many. Government funds were wisely invested in internal improvements, road construction, law enforcement, tax collection, and relief of...
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A Political Companion to John SteinbeckThough he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902-1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and...
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Art for Equality: The Naacp's Cultural Campaign for Civil RightsThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended...
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River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865-1954One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American...
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Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and CounterinsurgencyVietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and...
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Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South: Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South. Throughout its history, Louisville has simultaneously displayed northern and southern characteristics in its race relations. In their struggles against racial injustice in the mid-twentieth...
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The Essential Science Fiction Television ReaderOnce confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly established, and wildly popular, television genre over the last half century. The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader provides insight into and analyses of the most important programs in the...
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