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36 produkter
Polk Conspiracy
Murder and Cover-Up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk
Av Kati Marton, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
221 kr
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In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the authorGreece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it …
Phoenix Program
America''s Use of Terror in Vietnam
Av Douglas Valentine, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
221 kr
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"This shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War" (Publishers Weekly).In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America''s Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, …
Search for an Abortionist
The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade
Av Nancy Howell Lee, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
144 kr
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This eye-opening look at the abortion process prior to the Supreme Court''s landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 is now more relevant than ever, with a new introduction by the author revisiting history that is still salient half a century laterIn the years before Roe v. Wade, women seeking to end …
(Canceled) Four Died Trying
Av John Kirby, Mark Crispin Miller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
280 kr
Kommande
They fought for peace. They fought for justice. The fought for equality. They had to go.In the 1960s, a series of catastrophic assassinations forever altered the course of American history. A generation that looked forward to remaking the world into a more equitable, just, and peaceful place was …
Depth of Field
Stanley Kubrick, Film and the Uses of History
Av G.L. Ercolini, Pat J. Gehrke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
786 kr
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Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth century, Stanley Kubrick created a reputation as a Hollywood outsider as well as a cinematic genius. His diverse yet relatively small oeuvre - he directed only thirteen films during a career that spanned more than four decades - …
Depth of Field
Stanley Kubrick, Film and the Uses of History
Av G.L. Ercolini, Pat J. Gehrke m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
324 kr
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Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth century, Stanley Kubrick created a reputation as a Hollywood outsider as well as a cinematic genius. His diverse yet relatively small oeuvre - he directed only thirteen films during a career that spanned more than four decades - …
Gypsy
The Art of the Tease
Av Mark Crispin Miller, Miller Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2009
182 kr
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A look at the career and influence of the iconic American stripteaser, Gypsy Rose Lee.San Francisco Chronicle Editor''s Choice"A satisfyingly short and smartly analytical study in which cultural commentary and biography are deftly woven together." —Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement (UK)A …
Wall Street
America''s Dream Palace
E-bok, 2008
191 kr
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Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad …
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
Av Susan Jacoby, Mark Crispin Miller
Häftad, 2010
506 kr
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A tough, evenhanded investigation of changing public perceptions of the Alger Hiss case and why it has served as a litmus test of American political loyalties for sixty yearsBooks on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers’s …
Gypsy
The Art of the Tease
Av Rachel Shteir, Mark Crispin Miller
Häftad, 2010
463 kr
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A revealing portrait of Gypsy Rose Lee, the “Striptease Intellectual” of 1930s burlesque A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first—and the only—stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, …
Gateway Arch
Av Tracy Campbell, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2013
221 kr
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This "fascinating, engaging" history of St. Louis''s monument to American expansion reveals a story of greed, discrimination, and community displacement (NextSTL.com). Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the Gateway Arch is one of the world''s most widely recognized structures and attracts …
Bush Dyslexicon
Observations on a National Disorder
Häftad, 2002
357 kr
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The Bush Dyslexicon is a raucously funny ride—whether it's Bush envisioning "a foreign-handed foreign policy" or Miller skewering vociferous cultural conservatives like William Bennett and Lynne Cheney for their silence on Bush's particular "West Texas version of Ebonics." But there is also a …
Cruel and Unusual
Bush/Cheney's New World Order
Häftad, 2005
324 kr
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Read a newspaper or catch the news on television and you might get the impression that America's current leadership is "mainstream": perhaps a bit more conservative and in its foreign policy more belligerent than its predecessors, but still a federal authority that functions within America's …
Armed Madhouse
Who''s Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ''08, No Child''s Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War
Av Shiva Rose, Randi Rhodes m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2006
286 kr
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The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers his most provocative and funniest book yet! Greg Palast has spent the last thirty years getting the goods on corporate con men and political hucksters. Now he and his special guests cut through the TV news babytalk in Armed Madhouse. …
Du Pont Dynasty
Behind the Nylon Curtain
Av Gerard Colby, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
227 kr
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Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America''s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the authorTheir name is everywhere. America''s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts, from their …
Assassination of New York
Av Robert Fitch, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
214 kr
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The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter KwongHow did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to …
Interference
How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football
Av Dan E. Moldea, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
25 kr
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A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners'' boxes, and in the corporate suitesAccording to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken …
Interference
How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football
Av Dan E. Moldea, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
227 kr
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A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners’ boxes, and in the corporate suites According to investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, for decades the National Football League has had a strong and unspoken …
Lords of Creation
The History of America''s 1 Percent
Av Frederick Lewis Allen, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
221 kr
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A "stimulating" account of the capitalists who changed America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, setting the stage for the 1929 crash and Great Depression (Kirkus Reviews).In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of unprecedented corporate expansion, with ultimate …
Blowback
America''s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy
Av Christopher Simpson, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
149 kr
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A searing account of a dark "chapter in U.S. Cold War history . . . to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies" (Library Journal).Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its …
Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950-1951
Av I. F. Stone, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2014
149 kr
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"A great journalist" raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings (The Baltimore Sun)."Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light …
Science of Coercion
Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960
Av Christopher Simpson, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2015
228 kr
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A provocative and eye-opening study of the essential role the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency played in the advancement of communication studies during the Cold War era, now with a new introduction by Robert W. McChesney and a new preface by the authorSince the mid-twentieth …
Assassination on Embassy Row
Av Saul Landau, John Dinges m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
144 kr
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Edgar Award Finalist: The gripping account of an assassination on US soil and the violent foreign conspiracy that stretched from Pinochet''s Chile to the streets of Washington, DC, with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.On September 10, 1976, exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier delivered a …
Deadly Deceits
My 25 Years in the CIA
Av Ralph W. McGehee, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2015
169 kr
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A veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency unmasks its culture of lethal lies in this devastating exposé, now with a new foreword by David MacMichael.Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation with …
Friendly Fascism
The New Face of Power in America
Av Bertram Gross, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2016
43 kr
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A look at corporate authoritarianism that William Shirer called "the best thing I''ve ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically."In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask," a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate …
Hoffa Wars
The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa
Av Dan E. Moldea, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2015
227 kr
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The definitive portrait of the powerful, corruption-ridden Teamsters union and its legendary president, Jimmy Hoffa—organizer, gangster, convict, and conspirator—with a new afterword by the authorJames Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in …
Underground to Palestine
And Other Writing on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East
Av I. F. Stone, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2015
149 kr
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A moving and unforgettable eyewitness account of the courageous exodus of Holocaust survivors from post–World War II Europe to the Promised Land, now expanded with Stone''s frontline reporting on the Arab-Israeli crises of 1948–49 and the Suez War of 1956, and with a new foreword by D. D. …
Culture of Cities
Av Lewis Mumford, Mark Crispin Miller
E-bok, 2016
149 kr
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A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The …
Wages of War
When America''s Soldiers Came Home: From Valley Forge to Vietnam
Av Lewis Milford, Richard Severo m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
221 kr
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A disturbing chronicle of the US government''s mistreatment of American soldiers and veterans throughout history, with a new introduction by Charles Sheehan-MilesTime and time again, the sacrifices made by veterans and their families have been repaid with scorn, discrimination, lack of health …
