The Violent American Century

Author: John Dower
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781608467235
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The winner of numerous national prizes for his historical writings, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, Dower draws heavily on hard data and internal U.S. planning and pronouncements in this concise analysis of war and ...

The Violent American Century

Author: John W. Dower
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608467260
Size: 25.92 MB
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The winner of numerous national prizes for his historical writings, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, Dower draws heavily on hard data and internal U.S. planning and pronouncements in this concise analysis of war and ...

Ways Of Forgetting Ways Of Remembering

Author: John W. Dower
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595589376
Size: 25.75 MB
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Both provocative and probing, Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering delves into a range of subjects, including the complex role of racism on both sides of the Pacific War, the sophistication of Japanese wartime propaganda, the ways in ...

Cultures Of War Pearl Harbor Hiroshima 9 11 Iraq

Author: John W. Dower
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340686
Size: 58.33 MB
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a comparative analysis of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror with Pearl Harbor and World War II, addressing institutional failures of intelligence and imagination and the driving forces ...

Overthrow

Author: Stephen Kinzer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082409
Size: 69.51 MB
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Offers a narrative history of the role of the U.S. in a series of coups, revolutions, and invasions that toppled fourteen foreign governments, from the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 to the 2003 war in Iraq, and examines the ...

The End Of Victory Culture

Author: Tom Engelhardt
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558495869
Size: 13.24 MB
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This book is a compelling account of how a national narrative of triumph through which Americans bad always sustained themselves as a people underwent a vertiginous decomposition from Hiroshima to Vietnam.

What Every Person Should Know About War

Author: Chris Hedges
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781416583141
Size: 75.87 MB
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Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format.

Harry S Truman And The War Scare Of 1948

Author: Frank Kofsky
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312123291
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Kofsky reveals how Truman and the two most important members of his cabinet, Marshall and Forrestall, systematically deceived Congress and the public into thinking that the USSR was about to start World War III.