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  • Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

    Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

    In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman’s most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research — mostly from ... Leer más

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  • The Day That Shook America

    A Concise History of 9/11

    Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever since, Walker, like many of his fellow Americans, was ... Leer más

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  • Most of 14th Street Is Gone

    The Washington, DC Riots of 1968

    "Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the *Washington Post'*s Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation's capital reeling in the wake of the riots of April 1968. In the devastating aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, a community already plagued by ... Leer más

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  • ACC Basketball

    The Story of the Rivalries, Traditions, and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference

    Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league’s basketball history. In ACC Basketball, J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes that occurred both on and off the court during the conference’s rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972 ... Leer más

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  • The Road to Madness

    How the 1973-1974 Season Transformed College Basketball

    The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is one of the iconic events in American sports. In this fast-paced, in-depth account, J. Samuel Walker and Randy Roberts identify the 1973–74 season as pivotal in the making of this now legendary postseason tournament. In an era when only one team per conference could compete, the dramatic defeat of coach John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins by the North Carolina State ... Leer más

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    Prompt and Utter Destruction

    Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition

    Narrado por Eric Jason Martin ...

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    4 hora 47 minutos

    In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research—mostly from ... Leer más

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    Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars

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  • Reign of Terror

    How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

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    My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad

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  • Known and Unknown

    A Memoir

    A powerful memoir from the late former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald RumsfeldWith the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history ... Leer más

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  • Days of Fire

    Bush and Cheney in the White House

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    In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president ... Leer más

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  • Playing to the Edge

    American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

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