From one of our country's most distinguished statesmen, The Politics of Diplomacy is an outstanding inside account of an extraordinary time in world history. By any reckoning, James Baker's years as Secretary of State contained some of the most pivotal events of the second half of the twentieth century, and few men played as critical a role in so many of them as Baker himself. In this candid, r…
This book is drawn directly from these daily records and describes events from late 1977 to late 1981, the seminal years of negotlations to achieve Palestinian rights and peace in the Middle East.
Anatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington in 1962. He was only forty-three, the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet ambassador to the United States. Amazingly he remained in Washington through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the main back channel for the White House and the Kremlin to exchange ideas, negotiate in secret, and set up summit mee…
James Jesus Angleton's involvement with some of the most notorious counterespionage events
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For anyone interested in understanding the rich networks that operate across Asia—from India to Indochina and the ASEAN states that the greater China trio of the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and finally the North Asian powerhouse of Japan and Korea.
To view his two towns in time, Pare in Indonesia and Sefrou in Morocco, Greetz adopts various perspectives on anthropological research and analysis during the postcolonial period, the Cold War, and the emergence of the new states of Asia and Africa.
This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the Washingto…
In this revealing and very funny account of his career in journalism, Phlillip Knightley tells the real story of a reporter's life. Fro inauspicious beginnings as a seaman, vacuum cleaner salesman and South Sea Island trader, and became one of the few journalists to get access to Philby in Russia.
Agent Storm opens a unique window onto bleak interlocking landscapes the radicalization on European Muslims that has now been energized by the Syrian civil war, the leadership and organization of global jihad, and the twilight struggle waged by western intelligence agencies against an elusive and implacable enemy Steven Simon bestselling co-author of The Age of Scared Terror and The Next Attack.