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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances S Saunders Publisher Comments Shocking evidence of cultural manipulation during the Cold War is presented as Saunders' book draws together newly declassified documents and interviews with cultural figures such as George Orwell and Gloria Steinem to expose the CIA's astonishing... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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1959: The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan Publisher Comments Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year Everything Changed An engrossing story about not just where the '60s came from but the birth of the future. Kaplan does a masterful job of weaving together the strands - in politics, society, culture, and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Vintage) by Michael Dobbs Synopsis Thoroughly researched and with the pacing of a thriller, "One Minute to Midnight" is an authoritative chronicle of the tense days surrounding the Cuban missile crisis.... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Magic of the Sixties by Gene Anthony Publisher Comments Relive one of the most magical times in history, a time that saw profound cultural and spiritual change throughout the world, but nowhere more than in the San Francisco Bay of the mid to late 1960's. Author and photographer Gene Anthony was there... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post-Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Ellen Schrecker Publisher Comments Incorporating important recent scholarship, this popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the U.S. The volume’s 95-page essay follows... (read more) List Price $14.40 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson Publisher Comments A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era--written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Hardcover
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The Fifties by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution by David A Nichols Publisher Comments On the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock school desegregation crisis, a leading authority on the Eisenhower presidency mines historical archives to show that the president played a much more active and forceful role in advancing civil rights than is... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol Publisher Comments Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy loathed each other. Their antagonism, propelled by clashing personalities, contrasting views, and a deep, abiding animosity, would drive them to a bitterness so deep that even civil conversation was often impossible... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pure Goldwater by John W Dean Publisher Comments The legacy of Barry Goldwater, firebrand politician, optimistic conservative, and defining figure in American public life, is more important than ever in an era in which American conservatism has lost its way. This illuminating look at his life assembles... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 by Lynn Spencer Publisher Comments On the azure blue morning of 9/11 the skies were pronounced "severe clear," in the parlance of airline pilots; a gorgeous day for flying. Nearly 5,000 flights were cruising the skies over America when FAA Operations Manager Ben Sliney arrived at the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service by Lynne Joiner Synopsis Honorable Survivor weaves John S. Service's extraordinary story into the fabric of a watershed moment in our history when World War II was ending, the Cold War was dawning, and the McCarthy era witch-hunters were stirring. The book reveals how people... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (Vintage) by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) by Godfrey Hodgson Publisher Comments During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian... (read more) List Price $71.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G Calvin Mackenzie Synopsis An engaging be hind-the-scenes look at the lesser-known forces that fueled the profound social reforms of the 1960s Provocative and incisive, The Liberal Hour reveals how Washington, so often portrayed as a target of reform in the 1960s, was in fact the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One American Town by Kevin Coyne Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-398) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow (Speaker's Corner Books) by Eugene J Mccarthy Publisher Comments - Contains excerpts from previously published books and articles, with current commentary by Eugene McCarthy on the relevance of the writings to today's world- Contains several previously unpublished pieces- The most comprehensive compilation of McCarthy'... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke Publisher Comments The definitive account of Robert Kennedy's exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president — a revelatory history that is especially resonant now. After John F. Kennedy's assassination, Robert Kennedy — formerly Jack's no-holds-barred... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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