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  • Representing America-Firsthand Accounts from a Century of U.S. Diplomacy (1924-2024)

    Edited by Robin Matthewman ...
    The stories you won't find in history books.History comes alive when told through firsthand accounts-and American diplomats tell a host of riveting, unforgettable stories, from the amusing to the tragic to the headline-making.For decades, the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training's Foreign Affairs Oral History collection has provided a treasure trove of great moments in history for ... Read more

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  • Hard Choices

    Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” (The New York Times).In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to return to the United States Senate. To her ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • No Higher Honor

    A Memoir of My Years in Washington

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the former national security advisor and secretary of state comes a “sharp and penetrating . . . reminder that foreign-policy choices facing the United States are complex and difficult, with no easy solutions” (The Washington Post).A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the civil rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The World as It Is

    A Memoir of the Obama White House

    by Ben Rhodes ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of Barack Obama’s most trusted aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive.“The closest view of Obama we’re likely to get until he publishes his own memoir.”—George Packer, The New YorkerONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST BOO... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Restless Wave

    Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise. The book is his farewell address, a mixture of the personal and the political. ‘I have loved my life,’ he writes. ‘All of it.’ The Restless Wave **is a fitting valedictory for a man who seldom backed down.” —**The Guardian... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Presidents in Crisis

    Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama

    Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When American lives or vital interests are at stake, the public-and especially the news media and political opponents-expect aggressive leadership. But, contrary to the dramatizations of Hollywood, rarely does a president have that option.In Presidents in Crisis, a former director of the Situation Room ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • “A Problem from Hell”

    America and the Age of Genocide

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!An impassioned critique of America’s repeated failure to stop genocides around the world, from a New York Times bestselling author and former US Ambassador to the UN.**“An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.” —**New RepublicIn her Pulitzer Prize-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, for... ... Read more

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  • The Shadow World

    Inside the Global Arms Trade

    The Shadow World presents the behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, exposing in forensic detail the deadly collusion that too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military--a situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy.Now a major PBS documentary"An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Myth of American Idealism

    How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

    **“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.” —The New StatesmanA sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it, and an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity’s future**The Myth of American Idealism offers a timely and comprehensive introduction to the ... Read more

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  • Rise to Globalism

    American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition

    In this compelling and informative exploration of American foreign policy, Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley delve into the evolution of the United States' global engagement.Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Washington Bullets

    A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations

    Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. The book contains essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ousting of Evo Morales in Bolivia. Despite all this, Washington ... Read more

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  • Never Give an Inch

    Fighting for the America I Love

    by Mike Pompeo ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration’s most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. In this compelling political memoir, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again.As the only four-year national security member of President Trump’s Cabinet, he worked to impose crushing pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran, avert a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD