From the French and Indian War in 1754, with Benjamin Franklin's Join or Die cartoon, to the present war in Iraq, propaganda has played a significant role in American history. The Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda provides more than 350 entries, focusing primarily on propaganda created by the U.S. government throughout its existence. Two specialists, one a long-time research librarian at the U.S. Information Agency (the USIA) and the State Department's Bureau of Diplomacy, and the other a former USIA Soviet Disinformation Officer, Martin J. Manning and Herbert Romerstein bring a profound knowledge of official U.S. propaganda to this reference work. The dictionary is further enriched by a substantial bibliography, including films and videos, and an outstanding annotated list of more than 105 special collections worldwide that contain material important to the study of U.S. propaganda.

Students, researchers, librarians, faculty, and interested general readers will find the Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda an authoritative ready-reference work for quick information on a wide range of events, publications, media, people, government agencies, government plans, organizations, and symbols that provided mechanisms to promote America's interests, both abroad and domestically, in peace and in war. Almost all entries conclude with suggestions for further research, and the topically arranged bibliography provides a further comprehensive listing of important resources, including films and videos.

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The Historical Dictionary of the George W. Bush Era details the key events and major trends that defined the 43rd president of the United States from 2001-2008. Detailed chronologies track major events during Bush's presidency, appendixes furnish data, and the extensive bibliography provides an invaluable resource for additional reading and research.

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Andrei Codrescu, Dan Burkholder - The Color of Los s, An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katri na (2008).pdf

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John Samples - The Struggle to Limit Government, A Modern Political History (2010).pdf

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Mark Rennella - The Boston Cosmopolitans, Internat ional Travel and American Arts and Letters (2008).pdf

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Michael Burlingame - With Lincoln in the White Hou se, Letters. Memoranda, and other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865 (2000).jpg

USA Books - Michael Burlingame - With Lincoln in the White House, ... and other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865 2000.jpg

From the time of Lincoln's nomination for the presidency until his assassination, John G. Nicolay served as the Civil War president's chief personal secretary. Nicolay became an intimate of Lincoln and probably knew him as well as anyone outside his own family. Unlike John Hay, his subordinate, Nicolay kept no diary, but he did write several memoranda recording his chief's conversation that shed direct light on Lincoln. In his many letters to Hay, to his fiancee, Therena Bates, and to others, Nicolay often describes the mood at the White House as well as events there. He also expresses opinions that were almost certainly shaped by the president
For this volume, Michael Burlingame includes all of Nicolay's memoranda of conversations, all of the journal entries describing Lincoln's activities, and excerpts from most of the nearly three hundred letters Nicolay wrote to Therena Bates between 1860 and 1865. He includes letters and portions of letters that describe Lincoln or the mood at the White House or that give Nicolay's personal opinions. He also includes letters written by Nicolay while on troubleshooting missions for the president. An impoverished youth, Nicolay was an unlikely candidate for the important position he held during the Civil War. It was only over the strong objections of some powerful people that he became Lincoln's private secretary after Lincoln's nomination for the presidency in 1860. Prominent Chicago Republican Herman Kreismann found the appointment of a man so lacking in savoir faire "ridiculous." Henry Martin Smith, city editor of the Chicago Tribune, called Nicolay's appointment a national loss. Henry C. Whitney was surprised that the president would appoint a "nobody." Lacking charm, Nicolay became known at the White House as the "bulldog in the ante-room" with a disposition "sour and crusty." California journalist Noah Brooks deemed Nicolay a "grim Cerberus of Teutonic descent who guards the last door which opens into the awful presence." Yet in some ways he was perfectly suited for the difficult job. William O. Stoddard, noting that Nicolay was not popular and could "say 'no' about as disagreeably as any man I ever knew," still granted that Nicolay served Lincoln well because he was devoted and incorruptible. Stoddard concluded that Nicolay "deserves the thanks of all who loved Mr. Lincoln." For his part, Nicolay said he derived his greatest satisfaction "from having enjoyed the privilege and honor of being Mr. Lincoln's intimate and official private secretary, and of earning his cordial friendship and perfect trust

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This volume provides analysis of the state of Iraq's security and of current Western policy toward the country in the wake of the Gulf War. It also examines the political, economic, and security impact of sanctions, Iraq's future role as an oil explorer, the U.S. policy of "dual containment" in relation to Iraq, and options for dealing with Iraq in the future.

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