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Edward P. Stafford - The Big E, The Story of the U SS Enterprise (2005).PDF

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William N. Hess - German Jets Versus the U.S. Army Air Force, Battle for the Skies over Europe (1996 ).jpg

Accounts of American air combat over Europe during WWII often leave readers with the impression the American P-51 Mustang and other U.S. fighters ruled the sky, and, in many instances that appeared to be the case. However, in the late summer of 1945, radical new jet-powered German fighters suddenly appeared, striking sheer panic in the hearts of Allied airmen and their commanders. Capable of speeds one hundred miles an hour faster than the best the Allies had to offer, these new weapons threatened to inflict unbearable losses on Allied Air formations. Author Hess, through first-hand interviews with German and American pilots and analysis of air combat reports, addresses this critical period in WWII air combat. He recounts the new jets' strengths and weaknesses, Allied encounter tactics, German blunders, and stories of the first ever prop vs jet air combat. Coverage includes Adolf Galland's jet units, the Me 163, 262, Arado 234, etc.

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William N. Hess - German Jets Versus the U.S. Army Air Force, Battle for the Skies over Europe (1996 ).pdf

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Vincent Terrace - Encyclopedia of Television Shows , 1925 through 2007 (4 Volume Set) (2008).jpg

Before the Internet and the rise of scholarship on popular culture, Vincent Terrace built his reputation as one of the leading researchers in TV reference. This work represents decades of research and spans television's entire history. While documentation regarding cast and personnel is now often found online, descriptions of the shows from authoritative sources are still not widely available. Terrace fills that gap with this work, which covers over 9,100 shows (including pilots!) and constitutes the most comprehensive documentation of TV series ever published. All the traditional genres are here along with show genres not well covered elsewhere - including children's programming, talk shows, game shows, stage plays, women's programming, dance, and more.

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Vincent Terrace - Encyclopedia of Television Shows , 1925 through 2007 (4 Volume Set) (2008).pdf

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Yasutaro Soga - Life Behind Barbed Wire, The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei (200 7).jpg

Yasutaro Soga's Life behind Barbed Wire (Tessaku seikatsu) is an exceptional firsthand account of the incarceration of a Hawai`i Japanese during World War II. On the evening of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Soga, the editor of a Japanese-language newspaper, was arrested along with several hundred other prominent Issei (Japanese immigrants) in Hawai`i. After being held for six months on Sand Island, Soga was transferred to an Army camp in Lordsburg, New Mexico, and later to a Justice Department camp in Santa Fe. He would spend just under four years in custody before returning to Hawai`i in the months following the end of the war.
Most of what has been written about the detention of Japanese Americans focuses on the Nisei experience of mass internment on the West Coast--largely because of the language barrier immigrant writers faced. This translation, therefore, presents us with a rare Issei voice on internment, and Soga's opinions challenge many commonly held assumptions about Japanese Americans during the war regarding race relations, patriotism, and loyalty.
Although centered on one man's experience, Life behind Barbed Wire benefits greatly from Soga's trained eye and instincts as a professional journalist, which allowed him to paint a larger picture of those extraordinary times and his place in them. The Introduction by Tetsuden Kashima of the University of Washington and Foreword by Dennis Ogawa of the University of Hawai`i provide context for Soga's recollections based on the most current scholarship on the Japanese American internment.

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Yasutaro Soga - Life Behind Barbed Wire, The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei (200 7).pdf

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Donald A. Ritchie - Reporting from Washington, The History of the Washington Press Corps (2005).jpg

Donald Ritchie here offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet. Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred in the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists--including Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, and Drew Pearson (voted "the best ratcatching reporter in town")--as well as the great investigative reporters, from Paul Y. Anderson (who broke the Teapot Dome scandal) to the two green Washington Post reporters who launched the political story of the decade--Woodward and Bernstein. We read of the rise of radio news--fought tooth and nail by the print barons--and of such pioneers as Edward R. Murrow, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Elmer Davis. Ritchie also offers a vivid history of TV news, from the early days of Meet the Press, to Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite, to the cable revolution led by C-SPAN and CNN. In addition, he compares political news on the Internet to the alternative press of the '60s and '70s; describes how black reporters slowly broke into the white press corps (helped mightily by FDR's White House); discusses path-breaking woman reporters such as Sarah McClendon and Helen Thomas, and much more. From Walter Winchell to Matt Drudge, the people who cover Washington politics are among the most colorful and influential in American news. Reporting from Washington offers an unforgettable portrait of these figures as well as of the dramatic changes in American journalism in the twentieth century.

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Robert H. Jackson - That Man, An Insider's Portrai t of Franklin D. Roosevelt.jpg

Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir. Written with skill and grace, this is truly a unique account of the personality, conduct, greatness of character, and common humanity of "that man in the White House," as outraged conservatives called FDR. Jackson simply but eloquently provides an insider's view of Roosevelt's presidency, including such crucial events as FDR's Court-packing plan, his battles with corporate America, his decision to seek a third term, and his bold move to aid Britain in 1940 with American destroyers. He also offers an intimate personal portrait of Roosevelt--on fishing trips, in late-night poker games, or approving legislation while eating breakfast in bed, where he routinely began his workday. We meet a president who is far-sighted but nimble in attacking the problems at hand; principled but flexible; charismatic and popular but unafraid to pick fights, take stands, and when necessary, make enemies. That Man is not simply a valuable historical document, but an engaging and insightful look at one of the most remarkable men in American history. In reading this memoir, we gain not only a new appreciation for Roosevelt, but also admiration for Jackson, who emerges as both a public servant of great integrity and skill and a wry, shrewd, and fair-minded observer of politics at the highest level.

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Robert H. Jackson - That Man, An Insider's Portrai t of Franklin D. Roosevelt.pdf

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R McCaughey - Stand, Columbia, A History of Columb ia University (2003).jpg

The elaborate mosaic that displays as it should be displayed Columbia's long and rich history. This is an incomparable account of a great institution rooted inextricably in a great city.

I got the book at my 30th Columbia College reunion last year, but have just finished it. It made me super-nostalgic for my college days. I feel that, while the first part of the book, up to 1901 when Nicholas Murray Butler took over as President, is somewhat dry, the second part, consisting of the 20th Century, is insightful, immediate, and riveting. I was there from 1970-1974, and the description of the campus unrest in 1968, 1970, and 1972 is right on the money. The fact that Prof. McCaughey could get oral histories from approximately 1950 or so through to the present meant that he could analyse events through considering the reports and opinions of the major players in that time. I would recommend this book to all alumni/ae and former faculty, administrators, and anyone who would appreciate an intimate portrait, a biography even, of Columbia. And, as the Columbia fight song mentioned in the title of this review concludes, as for Columbia, "We Own New York!" This book tells everyone why that's true.

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George Forty - US Army Handbook 1939-1945 (1999).jpg

The building of the American Army during WWII, from a tiny, outdated and ill-equipped force, into one of the mightiest armies in the world was rightly described by Sir Winston Churchill as being a "prodigy of organization." Its value to the Allied cause was immeasurable and it had a fine fighting record all over the world. It was a marvelously well-equipped army, thanks to American inventiveness, know-how, and technical prowess, and by 1945 it lead the world in weaponry, strategic mobility and logistic capabilities. US Army Handbook 1939-1945 is fully illustrated with a varied and exciting selection of contemporary action photographs.

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George Forty - US Army Handbook 1939-1945 (1999).pdf

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Neva R. Googwin - The Consumer Society (1996).jpg

The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater satisfaction, security, or well-being, even for affluent consumers.The Consumer Society provides brief summaries of the most important and influential writings on the environmental, moral, and social implications of a consumer society and consumer lifestyles. Each section consists of ten to twelve summaries of critical writings in a specific area, with an introductory essay that outlines the state of knowledge in that area and indicates where further research is needed.

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Neva R. Googwin - The Consumer Society (1996).pdf

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Arthur Garson, Carolyn L. Engelhard - Health Care Half Truths, Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality (2 007).jpg

Aren't you tired of hearing that the American health care system is broken? Well, it is: you can't understand your bill--or pay it; you wait for an hour before seeing the doctor for 10 minutes; and that was your child who was just laid off, and whose family has no health insurance. Now, a new book by Dr. Arthur Garson Jr., Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, informs Americans about American health care, ways in which it is tarnished and ways in which it shines. Garson says that if we are going to make our healthcare system work for us we must begin with a common set of information; but our current information comes from sound bites that on their surface seem perfectly reasonable, but on closer examination are wrong. Health Care Half Truths untangles the misinformation, misperceptions and confusion that have confounded the American public and our elected officials. Dr. Garson identifies twenty myths about the U.S. health care system and uses his extensive knowledge and keen insights to blow them apart. diagnoses the health care crisis, addresses and debunks 20 commonly held perceptions, and delivers a system that meets the needs of patients, physicians, and politicians.

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Arthur Garson, Carolyn L. Engelhard - Health Care Half Truths, Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality (2 007).pdf

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Barry F. Machado - In Search of Usable Past, The M arshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction Today (200 7).jpg

In recent years the Marshall Plan has been invoked on numerous occasions as a solution for problems domestic and foreign. This study aims to establish the relevance for contemporary postwar reconstruction programs of an experimental foreign policy conceived and executed back in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The monograph clarifies why and how the program was adopted, what its essential features were, and why it succeeded in Western Europe, concluding that it had important and mutually reinforcing aspectspolitical, psychological, and economic. Fear of Communist expansion westward and the resulting containment doctrine energized its American proponents and European recipients. Its principal architects were realists, motivated by enlightened self-interest. The strengths, weaknesses, and one major myth of their realism are analyzed. Features of great solidity and current relevance include the Economic Cooperation Administrations partnership with Congress and the American people; a multilateral, regional approach that treated Western Europe as a unit; an insistence on European self-help and mutual aid; restriction of the ECAs role to a catalytic agent rather than a driving force; imposition of the highest standards for recruitment and hiring; creation of ECA as a small, autonomous, and unbureaucratic agency; popularization of economic growth as a national priority; freedom from corruption and scandal; and an understanding of the requirements of world leadership. Further examples are provided throughout the text. Some weaknesses discovered were abuses of quantification and language, interagency feuding, and, most importantly, oversimplification of the root causes of Communist popularity in parts of Western Europe.

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Barry F. Machado - In Search of Usable Past, The M arshall Plan and Postwar Reconstruction Today (200 7).pdf

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Thomas Biolsi - Companion to the Anthropology of A merican Indians (2004).jpg

The status of American Indians has long been rooted in a view of Indians as members of indigenous polities with distinct cultures. Often, these cultures have been characterized by dominant colonial authorities as "savage " or "primitive, " and it is the discipline of anthropology that, willingly and wittingly, or not, helped to make the idea of "the primitive " into a social reality. Consequently, the "tribal slot " inhabited by American Indians -with both its benefits and its oppressions -is difficult to imagine without the discipline of anthropology.A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians contains 27 original contributions by leading scholars who work actively as researchers in American Indian communities, or on the topic of American Indians. The book summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point.Treated here is the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture. Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic while situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data in a broader framework. This framework includes the linked histories of American Indians and anthropology, the role of continued native resistance in changing both the situation of Indian people and the content of anthropology, and the potential role of anthropology in an anti-colonial project that speaks to the pressing concerns of contemporary Indians.

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Thomas Biolsi - Companion to the Anthropology of A merican Indians (2004).pdf

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Gary Allen - None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1971).jpg

This is one of those books that have people polarized. Anyone who attempts to balance this with three stars will get from both sides.
The first paragraph of the introduction lets you know what you are in for:
The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed to protect the guilty. This book may have the effect of changing your life. After reading this book you will never look at national and world events in the same way again.
I pretty much keep up with events and try to make connections. However I leave it up to the authors (Gary Allen with Larry Abraham) to make their point.
This book has eight chapters:
One...Don't Confuse me with the Facts
Two...Socialism---Royal Road to Power For The Super-Rich
Three... The Money Manipulators
Four...Bankrolling The Bolshevik Revolution
Five...Establishing The Establishment
Six...The Rockefellers And the Reds
Seven...Pressure From Above and Pressure From Below
Eight...You Are the answer.
If this book was written today I doubt if a word would be changed. But what a field day there would be with new additions.

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Gary Allen - None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1971).pdf

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Gary Allen - Kissinger, The Secret Side of the Sec retary of State (1976).jpg

Gary Allen (1936 – 29 November 1986) was an American conservative journalist.

As a student, he was majoring in history at Stanford University and studied at California State University, Long Beach. Gary Allen was a prominent member of the John Birch Society, of which he was a spokesman. He contributed to magazines such as Conservative Digest and American Opinion since 1964. He also was the speech writer for George Wallace during the Alabama Governor Presidential campaigns and was adviser to the conservative Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt.

In 1972, Gary Allen wrote with Larry Abraham a famous book None Dare Call It Conspiracy (prefaced by John G. Schmitz), which was a best seller (said to have sold over five million copies worldwide) during the United States presidential election. An investigator of US financial, industrial, and political elites, he wrote other books about the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, claiming that that the term “New World Order” was used by a secretive elite dedicated to the destruction of all national sovereignties.

He died in 1986, at the age of 50, while publishing Say "No!" to the new world order.

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Bill Fawcett - You Said What, Lies and Propaganda Throughout History (2007).jpg

A fascinating, fun, and fact-filled compendium of the greatest lies, deceptions, propaganda, and frauds ever perpetrated
Throughout history—from the dawn of man to the War on Terror—governments, corporations, historians, and high-level braggarts of every stripe have freely engaged in the time-honored pastime of lying for fun and profit. You Said What? is an endlessly entertaining and outrageously edifying look at some of the biggest whoppers of all time, chock-full of deceptions, trickery, and incredible untruths both infamous and obscure.

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Bill Grantham - Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians (2002).jpg

The creation stories, myths, and migration legends of the Creek Indians who once populated southeastern North America are centuries--if not millennia--old. For the first time, an extensive collection of all known versions of these stories has been compiled from the reports of early ethnographers, sociologists, and missionaries, obscure academic journals, travelers' accounts, and from Creek and Yuchi people living today. The Creek Confederacy originated as a political alliance of people from multiple cultural backgrounds, and many of the traditions, rituals, beliefs, and myths of the culturally differing social groups became communal property. Bill Grantham explores the unique mythological and religious contributions of each subgroup to the social entity that historically became known as the Creek Indians. Within each topical chapter, the stories are organized by language group following Swanton's classification of southeastern tribes: Uchean (Yuchi), Hitchiti, Alabama, Muskogee, and Choctaw—a format that allows the reader to compare the myths and legends and to retrieve information from them easily. A final chapter on contemporary Creek myths and legends includes previously unpublished modern versions. A glossary and phonetic guide to the pronunciation of native words and a historical and biographical account of the collectors of the stories and their sources are provided.

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Bill Grantham - Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians (2002).djvu

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George Pitcher - he Death of Spin (2003).jpg

Every decade has its own identity, key values and needs. The 1990s were the age of spin, when the materialism of the 1980s, the desire for instant communication and soundbite democracy came together in the spin culture. This spread throughout society from business and politics even to charities and the church. Somewhere in these polished communications the message was lost. In this fascinating and highly readable work George Pitcher tells the story of the rise and fall of the spin culture, predicting its final death in the early years of the twenty first century. He examines methods of communication as a reflection of and within the context of the values of society and the process of democracy, before drawing on his considerable experience both as the giver and receiver of spin, to examine how we can move beyond the age of spin.
* A zeitgeist work that captures the quest for meaning in the current age and a desire to progress beyond the heady days of spin culture.
* Charts the history and rationale of spin throughout society from the early days of Margaret Thatcher to the death of spin in the hands of the masters of the spin culture.
* Interspersed with the author's own diary entries as a journalist covering major events of the past twenty years
* Discusses methods of communication, how they reflect the values of the age and the relationship between business and politics
* Discusses the way ahead: how politicians, businesses and institutions can communicate with the general population in the post spin age.
* Author offers a unique perspective with insights both as the giver and receiver of spin.

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George Pitcher - he Death of Spin (2003).pdf

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John Dickie - Cosa Nostra, A History of the Sicili an Mafia (2005).jpg

Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have dared to tread.In this gripping history of the Sicilian mafia, John Dickie uses startling new research to reveal the inner workings of this secret society with a murderous record. He explains how the mafia began, how it responds to threats and challenges, and introduces us to the real-life characters that inspired the American imagination for generations, making the mafia an international, larger than life cultural phenomenon. Dickie's dazzling cast of characters includes Antonio Giammona, the first "boss of bosses'; New York cop Joe Petrosino, who underestimated the Sicilian mafia and paid for it with his life; and Bernard "the Tractor" Provenzano, the current boss of bosses who has been hiding in Sicily since 1963.

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