The Gun and the Olive Branch

David Hirst

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Books
• More than a decade before Israel's New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, English journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Ol... Lees meer

Blood, Class and Empire

Christopher Hitchens

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Books
• Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have ... Lees meer

Love, Poverty, and War

Christopher Hitchens

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• "I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not w... Lees meer

Left Hooks, Right Crosses

Christopher Hitchens

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• Christopher Hitchens, provocateur and contrarian on the Left, makes the news as often as he reports it, and writes about the most controversial news a... Lees meer

Al-Qaeda

Jane Corbin

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• The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American military and governmental offices, most notably the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa in 1998. O... Lees meer

Pity the Nation

Robert Fisk

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• With the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk's explo... Lees meer

Napoleon's Glance

William Duggan

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• In Napoleon's Glance William Duggan discovers the secret of Napoleon's success -- coup d'oeil (pronounced koo-DOY) meaning a stroke of the eye, or "gl... Lees meer

How to Build a Nuclear Bomb

Frank Barnaby

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Books
• Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are the greatest threat to national security in the twenty-first century. How to Build a Nuclear Bomb explains what ... Lees meer

Busted

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• Thirty years ago Richard Nixon called drugs "the modern curse of youth" and launched the modern "War on Drugs" as we know it. Thirty years later, even... Lees meer

Rfk: A Memoir

Jack Newfield

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• As one of the most complex, charismatic and controversial figures of our times, Robert Kennedy occupies a remarkable and paradoxical place in the Amer... Lees meer

Capri and No Longer Capri

Raffaele La Capria

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• Raffaele La Capria creates a portrait of Capri that begins in the time of Ulysses and moves to our present complex and hectic reality, and composes an... Lees meer

Dreaming War

Gore Vidal

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• When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last ... Lees meer

Silver City and Other Screenplays

John Sayles

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• John Sayles -- winner of the John Steinbeck Award and others -- has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's ... Lees meer

Don't You Know There's a War On?

Richard Lingeman

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• The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency -- Pearl Harbor -- and ... Lees meer