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The Unquiet American

Author : Derek Chollet
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390792
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet American written by Derek Chollet and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe, and as ambassador to both Germany and the United Nations. He had a key role in brokering a peace agreement among warring factions in Bosnia that led to the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995. Widely regarded to possess one of the most penetrating minds of any modern diplomat of any nation, Holbrooke was also well known for his outsized personality, and his capacity to charm and offend in equally colossal measures. In this book, the friends and colleagues who knew him best survey his accomplishments as a diplomat, activist, and author. Excerpts from Holbrooke's own writings further illuminate each significant period of his career. The Unquiet American is both a tribute to an exceptional public servant and a backstage history of the last half-century of American foreign policy.

The Unquiet American

Author : Derek H. Chollet
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390784
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet American written by Derek H. Chollet and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that includes Richard Holbrooke's own writings as well as reflections by friends and colleagues looks at the life of a master American diplomat who worked for presidents Clinton and Obama in places like Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

An Unquiet American

Author : A. F. N. Clarke
Publisher : Clarke-Books
ISBN 13 : 9781938611162
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book An Unquiet American written by A. F. N. Clarke and published by Clarke-Books. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rufus Redd a former British Special Forces Officer turned controversial author wakes up to fins himself incarcerated in a CIA 'Black Site' prison. A secret location outside the USA and beyond the reach of legal and ethical conventions. He has been falsely arrested under the Untied States Foreign Surveillance Act. But his story is only the tip of a complex and dangerous struggle for the survival of democracy in the USA. Set against the backdrop of the 2008n Presidential campaigns An Unquiet American ix a novel that defies convention and question the very fabric of Amrican Democracy.

Edward Lansdale, the Unquiet American

Author : Cecil B. Currey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Edward Lansdale, the Unquiet American written by Cecil B. Currey and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edward Lansdale, the Unquiet American

Author : Cecil B. Currey
Publisher : Potomac Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Edward Lansdale, the Unquiet American written by Cecil B. Currey and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Village Voice called the complex life of U.S. Air Force major general and CIA agent Edward G. Lansdale one of "Technicolor fascination". The maverick military thinker's brilliant counterinsurgency tactics preserved democracy in the Philippines, but his subsequent efforts to create "a broad-based, open society" in Vietnam failed following his return to the United States in 1956. Lansdale later led an undercover organization dedicated to bringing down Fidel Castro. This important biography of the legendary intelligence operative and master of political and psychological warfare is now available as a Brassey's Five-Star Paperback.

The Quiet American

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504052544
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Quiet American written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).

The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene

Author : Richard Greene
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039365107X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene written by Richard Greene and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene’s extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds new light on one of the foremost modern writers.

A Quiet American

Author : Andy Marino
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312267674
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book A Quiet American written by Andy Marino and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varian Fry, an American war correspondent, set up a secret refuge escape system in Marseilles to get leading artists and intellectuals out of occupied France.

The Quiet American

Author : Ross Maxwell Walker
Publisher : Insight Publications
ISBN 13 : 1920693335
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Quiet American written by Ross Maxwell Walker and published by Insight Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shadow World

Author : Andrew Feinstein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932716
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow World written by Andrew Feinstein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, heartbreaking, and enraging."--Arundhati Roy Andrew Feinstein reveals the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history--between the British and Saudi governments---to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the current $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. Based on pathbreaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information, The Shadow World takes us into a clandestine realm that is as vitally important as it is shocking.

The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962

Author : James Terence Fisher
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807849491
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962 written by James Terence Fisher and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Fisher argues that Catholic culture was transformed when products of the "immigrant church," largely inspired by converts like Dorothy Day, launched a variety of spiritual, communitarian, and literary experiments. He also explores the life and works

Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War

Author : K.A. Cuordileone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113605510X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War written by K.A. Cuordileone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War explores the meaning of anxiety as expressed through the political and cultural language of the early cold war era. Cuordileone shows how the preoccupation with the soft, malleable American character reflected not only anti-Communism but acute anxieties about manhood and sexuality. Reading major figures like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Adlai Stevenson, Joseph McCarthy, Norman Mailer, JFK, and many lesser known public figures, Cuordileone reveals how the era’s cult of toughness shaped the political dynamics of the time and inspired a reinvention of the liberal as a cold warrior.

American Foreign Policy Since World War II

Author : Steven W. Hook
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1071814699
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book American Foreign Policy Since World War II written by Steven W. Hook and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2024-01-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its Twenty-Second Edition, Hook, Spanier, and Grove’s American Foreign Policy Since World War II has long set the standard in guiding students through the complexities of American foreign policy. The text introduces students to the American "style" of foreign policy, imbued with a distinct sense of national exceptionalism. By giving students the historical context they need, this book allows them to truly grasp the functions and dysfunctions of the nation’s foreign policy agenda with historical insight into modern policy context.

The quiet contemporary American novel

Author : Rachel Sykes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526108895
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The quiet contemporary American novel written by Rachel Sykes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of ‘quiet’ – an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles – and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions, arguing that from Hester Prynne to Clarissa Dalloway, from Bartleby to William Stoner, the Western tradition is filled with quiet characters. Secondly, it asks what it means for a novel to be quiet and how we might read for quiet in an American literary tradition that critics so often describe as noisy. Examining recent works by Marilynne Robinson, Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, among others, the book argues that quiet can be a multi-faceted state of existence, one that is communicative and expressive in as many ways as noise but filled with potential for radical discourse by its marginalisation as a mode of expression.

Subsidizing Culture

Author : James T. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351487728
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Subsidizing Culture written by James T. Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects, a new policy consensus asserted that by offering financial support to the arts, the federal government was affirming their importance to the nation.Subsidizing Culture examines the development of and controversies surrounding federal programs that directly benefit writers, artists, and intellectuals. James T. Bennett examines four cases of such support: the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects; the vigorous promotion, in the post-World War II and early Cold War eras, of abstract expressionism and other forms of modern art by the US government; the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which has fortified its position as the preeminent arts bureaucracy; and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NEA's less embattled twin, which funnels monies to scholars.Bennett concentrates on the creation of and the debate over these government programs, and he gives special attention to the critics, who are usually ignored. He reminds us that the chorus of anti-subsidy voices over the years has included such disparate figures as writers William Faulkner and John Updike; artists John Sloan and Wheeler Williams; and social critics Jacques Barzun and H.L. Mencken.

America in the World

Author : Michael J. Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498074
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book America in the World written by Michael J. Hogan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the historical literature on intelligence and national security during the Cold War.

National Arts and Humanities Foundations

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Arts and Humanities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book National Arts and Humanities Foundations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Arts and Humanities and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: