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Owen Lattimore and the Loss of China
E-bok, 1992
594 kr
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed …
Owen Lattimore and the Loss of China
Häftad, 1992
848 kr
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Owen Lattimore and the Loss of China explores one of the most contentious debates in mid-20th-century American history, centered on the fall of China to communism and the U.S. response to this geopolitical shift. At the heart of the controversy was Owen Lattimore, a distinguished scholar of China …
Owen Lattimore and the Loss of China
Inbunden, 1992
1348 kr
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Owen Lattimore and the Loss of China explores one of the most contentious debates in mid-20th-century American history, centered on the fall of China to communism and the U.S. response to this geopolitical shift. At the heart of the controversy was Owen Lattimore, a distinguished scholar of China …
Cold War Romance of Lillian Hellman and John Melby
Häftad, 2011
591 kr
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Lillian Hellman's memoirs are as notable for what they omit as for what they reveal. In An Unfinished Woman (1969), she notes that, although she kept an extensive diary of her Moscow trip in the winter of 1944-45, ""No where is there a record of . . . how close I felt then and now to a State …
Enola Gay and the Court of History
Häftad, 2004
356 kr
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In this hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, and crisply argued book, award-winning historian Robert P. Newman offers a fresh perspective on the dispute over President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in World War II. Newman’s argument centers on the controversy that erupted …
Invincible Ignorance in American Foreign Policy
The Triumph of Ideology over Evidence
Häftad, 2012
480 kr
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This book is a review of major post-World War II American foreign policy decisions made by authorities who were blinded by ideology. In each of the nine situations examined, accurate evidence was available and even known to many of the decision makers, but chauvinism, anti-Communism, or willful …
Invincible Ignorance in American Foreign Policy
The Triumph of Ideology over Evidence
Inbunden, 2012
1630 kr
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This book is a review of major post-World War II American foreign policy decisions made by authorities who were blinded by ideology. In each of the nine situations examined, accurate evidence was available and even known to many of the decision makers, but chauvinism, anti-Communism, or willful …
Truman and the Hiroshima Cult
Inbunden, 1995
1163 kr
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 to end World War II as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. That is the compelling and elegantly simple argument Newman puts forward in his new study of World War II's end, Truman and the Hiroshima Cult. According to Newman: (1) The …
