AMERICA'S GREATEST BLUNDER
Author | : Burton Yale Pines |
Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 098914870X |
A detailed look at one of history's greatest turning points.
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Author | : Burton Yale Pines |
Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 098914870X |
A detailed look at one of history's greatest turning points.
Author | : Jonathan Lee |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525658505 |
An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” (Wall Street Journal), “immersive” (The New Yorker), and “seriously entertaining” (The Sunday Times, London). Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free. A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.
Author | : David C. Gompert |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0833087789 |
The history of wars caused by misjudgments, from Napoleon’s invasion of Russia to America’s invasion of Iraq, reveals that leaders relied on cognitive models that were seriously at odds with objective reality. Blinders, Blunders, and Wars analyzes eight historical examples of strategic blunders regarding war and peace and four examples of decisions that turned out well, and then applies those lessons to the current Sino-American case.
Author | : Burton Yale Pines |
Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0989148734 |
A detailed look at one of history's greatest turning points.
Author | : Kenneth Brower |
Publisher | : Heyday Books |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781597142281 |
In the 1920's the thirsty city of San Francisco reached deep into Yosemite National Park to build the O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River, diverting one-third of the river's water and flooding the Hetch Hetchy Valley, said at the time to be as magnificent as Yosemite Valley itself. Brower envisages the species-by-species reclamation of the valley by its native flora and fauna as wildness flourishes again. Offering viable alternatives for restoration, Brower's Hetch Hetchy is both an exploration of the pitched battle over an environmental tragedy and an inspiring reverie of a possible future.
Author | : Brendan Simms |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541619080 |
A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States By early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were not yet inextricably linked—and the United States remained at peace. Hitler’s American Gamble recounts the five days that upended everything: December 7 to 11. Tracing developments in real time and backed by deep archival research, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler’s intervention was not the inexplicable decision of a man so bloodthirsty that he forgot all strategy, but a calculated risk that can only be understood in a truly global context. This book reveals how December 11, not Pearl Harbor, was the real watershed that created a world war and transformed international history.
Author | : Andrew J. Bacevich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Middle East |
ISBN | : 0553393936 |
A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs.
Author | : Gary D. Joiner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780842029377 |
Taking its title from General William Tecumseh Sherman's blunt description, this book is a fresh inspection of what was the Civil War's largest operation between the Union Army and Navy west of the Mississippi River. Maps & photos.
Author | : Todd Andrlik |
Publisher | : Journal of the American Revolu |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781594162787 |
The fourth annual compilation of selected articles from the online Journal of the American Revolution.
Author | : Roy W. Spencer |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1594036020 |
"The Great Global Warming Blunder provides a simple explanation for why forecasts of a global warming Armageddon constitute a major scientific faux pas: climate researchers have mixed up cause and effect when they have analyzed cloud behavior. Combining illustrations from everyday experience with state-of-the-art satellite measurements, Roy W. Spencer reveals how these scientists have been fooled by Mother Nature into believing that the Earth's climate system is very sensitive to humanity's production of carbon dioxide through the use of fossil fuels. He presents evidence that recent warming, rather than being the fault of humans, is a result of chaotic, internal natural cycles that have been causing periods of warming and cooling for thousands of years" --Cover, p. 2.