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Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of Americas final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great sacrifice by an author who believed in the CIAs cause but was disillusioned by the agencys treacherous withdrawal, leaving thousands of Vietnamese allies to the mercy of an angry enemy. A quarter-century later, it remains a riveting and powerful testament to one of the darkest episodes in American history.

An examination of the controversial and important battles that led to the shrinking of the presidency under the law during the Clinton administration. Topics addressed include war power, executive privilege, pardon power, impeachment, executive immunity, independent counsel and campaign finance.

A comprehensive examination of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the USA, illustrating their diverse importance, describing the people who harvest them, and outlining the steps that are being taken to ensure access to them. It brings together research from numerous disciplines.

A mosaic of memoirs by key Chinese military commanders from the Korean conflict. It draws on their personal papers and archives to offer a behind-the-scenes story of the Communist campaign, including strategy and tactics, propaganda, and mobilization of the Chinese population.

When Gregory Lee Johnson burned a flag, he was convicted for flag desecration under Texas law, but the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction. This work examines the case and the attendant controversy over whether protection of the flag conflicts with constitutional guarantees of free speech.

This work tells the story of how cultural politics and economic greed transformed the New York's physical and social environment with an ongoing multibillion-dollar redevelopment programme, changing the district from a symbol of urban decay to one of urban renaissance.

Drawing from a wide range of sources, including official documents, first-person accounts, histories and personal letters, in addition to folklore and fiction, this book examines the common structure and themes of American prisoner-of-war narratives.

In this reassessment of Marcuse, the controversial ""New Left"" philosopher of the 1960s, 15 contributors consider his ideas in the radically different theoretical and political contexts of the 1990s.

As the troubled 20th century nears its end, democracy and competitive political parties are receiving renewed attention. Offering an analysis of political parties and political philosophy, this work presents eight conceptual models of political parties with special relevance for American democracy.

"One of the one hundred best books ever written on the Civil War". -- Civil War Times Illustrated. "A path-breaking work, written with grace and clarity. This book has achieved the richly deserved status of a classic". -- Civil War History.

Czarist Russia and its successor, the Soviet Union, were both confronted with the problem of conducting military operations involving mass armies along broad fronts, both strove toward a theory that became known as operational art- that level of warfare that links strategic goals to actual combat.

In May-June 1940 the Germans demolished the French Army, inflicting more than 300,000 French casualties, including more than 120,000 dead. While many historians have focused on France's failure to avoid this catastrophe, Kiesling is the first to show why the French had good reason to trust that their prewar defense policies, military doctrine, and combat forces would preserve the nation.

For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the twentieth century and peels back the layers of secrecy that surrounded the CIA's covert assistance to anticommunist forces in Cambodia during that span.Conboy's path-breaking study provides the first complete assessment of CIA ops in two key periodsduring the Khmer Republic's existence (1970-1975), in support of American military action in Vietnam, and during the Reagan and first Bush presidencies (1981-1991), when the CIA challenged Soviet expansion by supporting exiled royalists, Republicans, and even former Communists trying to expel the Vietnamese from their country. Through interviews with dozens of CIA Cambodia veteransas well as special forces officers from Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Australiahe sheds new light on the contributions made by foreign intelligence services. Through information gleaned from the U.S. Defense Attache's Office in Phnom Penh, he offers a detailed look at the development of the Khmer Rouge military structure, while his use of Vietnamese-language histories released by the People's Army of Vietnam helps more fully illuminate the PAVN's participation in the Cambodian wars.More than a simple expos of CIA activities, however, The Cambodian Wars is also an authoritative history of that country's struggles over half a century. Conboy examines Cambodia as kingdom, colony, republic, revolutionary state, and Vietnamese satellite, and offers fresh insight into the actions of key playersNorodom Sihanouk, Lon Nol, Sisowath Sirik Matak, Son Ngoc Thanh, and othersthat will enlighten even those who think they know that country's history.Three decades in the making, The Cambodian Wars tells a little known chapter in the Cold War in which non-communists pulled off a surprising victory. Featuring dozens of photos covering events from 1970 to the trial of Pol Pot in 1997, it is must reading for anyone interested in contemporary Southeast Asian history, CIA covert operations, and the Vietnam War.

The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the 'Stalingrad of the First World War', engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. This title presents an account of the Carpathian Winter War.

When American settlers arrived in the southwestern borderlands, they assumed that the land was unencumbered by property claims. But, as Maria Montoya shows, the Southwest was no empty quarter waiting to be parceled up. Claims were contested by Native Americans who had lived on the land for generations.

Focusing on the mobilisation of national resources, Koistinen analyses all relevant aspects of the American World War II economy from 1940 to 1945, describing the struggle to establish effective control over industrial supply and military demand.

This volume demonstrates that the democratic purposes of education are not outmoded ideas but can continue to be driving forces in public education. It establishes the intellectual foundation for revitalizing US schools and offers ideas for how the education process can be made more democratic.

A pathbreaking study of the Romanian Front in World War I. Provides a unique account of Romanian military operations and restructures our understanding of the Balkan and south Russian theaters of operation.

Exploring the vast literature produced by the romoters and reminiscers of the American West from the end of the Civil War through the 1920s, this book clarifies the pivotal impact of their works on our vision of both the historic and mythic West, and shows us that the West may well move into the twenty-first century, but our images of it are forever rooted in the nineteenth.

Thirty years ago the Love Canal Homeowners Association challenged big government and big business, and ultimately won relocation. This book takes readers behind the headlines to examine how race, class, and gender influenced the way people-from African American women to middle class white Christian groups-experienced the crisis and became active at Love Canal.

The first comprehensive study of the three Progressive Era presidents who stretched the limits of the early twentieth-century presidency in order to meet the emerging public expectations. Explains the leadership differences between the three presidents and looks at the impact the Progressive movement had on the office of the presidency.

Examines presidential speeches over the course of six administrations. Editors Michael Nelson and Russell Riley have brought together an outstanding team of academics and professional writers-including nine former speechwriters who worked for every president from Nixon to Clinton-to examine how the politics and crafting of presidential rhetoric serve the various roles of the presidency.

Jimmy Carter has been called America's greatest ex-president, a man who lost the White House after one term but went on to become a respected spokesman for peace and human rights. The authors re-examine the world events that shaped Carter's presidency, from Koreagate and the Cuban boatlift to the Camp David accords and the Iran hostage crisis.

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Louis Fisher analyzes the case of eight Germans who landed in the USA in 1942 bent on sabotage. Caught before they could carry out their missions, they were hauled before a secret military tribunal and found guilty. Six of the men were put to death.

This volume chronicles the first five months of Truman's presidency, encompassing the destruction and defeat of the Axis Powers in Germany and Japan, the dropping of the first atomic bombs, the birth of the United Nations, the death of colonialism and the beginning of the Cold War.

John Sullivan was one of the CIA's top polygraph examiners during the final four years of the war in Vietnam. In this book he tells what it was like to be an agency officer working in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during those chaotic years, putting a human face on covert operations.

The ghostly presence stands in for numerous other ""voices"" in a range of American films. In this synthesis of film and politics, Ray Pratt aims to show how such movies are deeply rooted in post-war American culture and continue to exert an enormous influence on the national imagination.

With the landmark election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, decades of Republican ascendancy gave way to a half century of Democratic dominance. This book examines the 1932 presidential election that ushered in the New Deal. It looks at how candidates responded to the nation's economic crisis and how voters evaluated their performance.

During the run-up to the 1888 presidential election, Americans flocked to party rallies, marched in endless parades, and otherwise participated zealously in the political process. Although they faced a choice between two uncharismatic candidatesRepublican challenger Benjamin Harrison and Democratic incumbent Grover Clevelandvoters took intense interest in the issues they espoused. And though Harrison became one of only four candidates to win the presidency while losing the popular vote, the lasting significance of the election was its foreshadowing of both the modern campaign and the modern presidency.Charles W. Calhoun shows how this presidential contest not only exemplified Gilded Age politics but also marked a major shift from divisive sectional rhetoric to an emphasis on voters' economic concerns. Calhoun first explores Cleveland's rise to the presidency and explains why he turned to economic issues, especially tariff reduction, in framing his bid for reelection. He then provides a detailed analysis of the raucous Republican national convention and describes Harrison's effective front porch campaign, in which he proclaimed his views almost daily to visiting voters and reporters. Calhoun also explores the role of party organizations, business interests, labor, women, African Americans, and third parties in the campaign; discusses alleged fraud in the election; and analyzes the Democrats' suppression of black votes in the South.The 1888 campaign marked an important phase in the evolution of American political culture and augured significant innovations in American politics and governance. The Republicans' performance, in particular, reflected the party's future winning strategies: emphasis on economic development, personal participation by the presidential candidate, a well-financed organization, and coordination with beneficiaries of the party's agenda.Harrison set important precedents for campaigning and then, once in office, fashioned new leadership strategies and governing techniquesemphasizing legislative intervention, extensive travel, and a focus on foreign affairs-that would become the stock-in-trade of later presidents. His Republican successors built upon these transformations, making the GOP the majority party for a generation and putting the presidency at the center of American governancewhere it has remained ever since.