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Award-Winning Foreign Correspondents of the New York Times 1931-1991
This volume presents 25 Foreign Correspondents of the New York Times and their Pulitzer Prize-decorated works from the early 1930s to the early 1990s, covering political and social occurrences in countries like Argentina, Australia, Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.
Living-Room War
"One doesn't have to be a panjandrum of Communications to realize that television does something to us," Michael Arlen (former TV critic of The New Yorker) writes in the Introduction to Living-Room War. He continues, "Television has a transforming effect on events. It has a transforming effect on the people who watch the transformed events-it's just hard to know what that is." Living-Room War is Arlen's valiant-and entertaining-attempt to figure out exactly what exactly television does to us. This timeless collection of essays provides a poetic look at 1960s television culture, ranging from the Vietnam war to Captain Kangaroo, from the 1968 Democratic convention to televised sports.
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We All Lost the Cold War
In the 1980s, Soviet evidence suggests, the Reagan arms buildup delayed rather than hastened the accommodation Gorbachev desired for internal political reasons. Both nations, the authors argue, expended lives and resources out of all reasonable proportion to their legitimate security interests, with destabilizing consequences that persist today.
CIA and Vietnam Policymakers
Reviews the Intelligence Community's analytic performance during the chaotic Vietnam era, with particular focus on the efforts of CIA analysts. Offers a candid view of the CIA's intelligence assessments concerning Vietnam during three episodes between 1962 and 1968 and the reactions of senior U.S. policymakers to those assessments. Shows that CIA analysts had a firm grasp of the situation in Vietnam and expressed doubts that heightened U.S. military pressure alone could win the war. Contrary to the opinions voiced by Robert McNamara and others, this volume illustrates the expertise CIA officers brought to the Vietnam question. Photos.
Eisenhower 1956
Draws on hundreds of newly declassified documents to present an account of the Suez crisis that reveals the considerable danger it posed as well as the influence of Eisenhower's health problems and the 1956 election campaign.
American Federalism
"In September 1981, scholars joined federal, state, and local policymakers at a conference to grapple with those issues of federalism that the Reagan administration had identified as major concerns. Most of the chapters in this book are taken from papers given at the conference, together with comments by respondents. The book forms a spirited reaction to the president's proposals"--Back cover.
