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Author : William Edward Colby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences written by William Edward Colby and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Prados
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070061690X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book William Colby and the CIA written by John Prados and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is surprising that no one previous to John Prados attempted a biography of quintessential cold warrior William Colby, because his story is in many ways also the story of the CIA. From Italy to Vietnam, to the military coup in Indonesia, to Watergate, the prosecution of Richard Helms, investigations of CIA assassination plots, and the drugging and surveillance of unwitting Americans, Colby was there, on the ground or deeply involved at headquarters.—The Guardian William E. Colby was one of the most enigmatic figures of the Cold War and a central player in the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency. While publicly appearing as a calm bureaucrat, behind the scenes Colby helped orchestrate some of CIA's most controversial operations. His mysterious death even added to the aura. In the wake of new questions relating to CIA activities since 9/11—which John Prados discusses in his new preface—Colby's story provides crucial lessons for a nation that still struggles to reconcile intelligence methods with democratic principles. Prados tracks Colby's life and career from early years in the OSS to his tumultuous tenure as Director of Central Intelligence in the 1970s. Reviled by many outside the CIA for his role in Vietnam-and inside it for his cooperation with probes of the agency—Colby was cast as a scapegoat by the Ford White House during the Church and Pike congressional investigations. In addition, Prados offers fresh insights and new perspectives on Colby's involvement in the notorious Phoenix program in Vietnam and in the bloody Indonesian coup of 1965 that overthrew President Sukarno and brought General Suharto to power, as well as on the CIA's role in the 1963 assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam and on the actions of high-level CIA officials during the final demise of South Vietnam in 1975. A masterful study of a master spy, William Colby and the CIA also offers a vital and timely history of the inner workings of "the Company" for which he worked. Originally published in a cloth edition under the title Lost Crusader and retitled for this first paperback edition, William Colby and the CIA explores dilemmas of intelligence that are of renewed importance today.
Author : Dean King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982144483
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Guardians of the Valley written by Dean King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * “We see through this book the immense power of language…to change the minds of lawmakers and tourists alike.” —The New York Times Book Review * “A poignant portrait of an era when mere words could change the world.” —San Francisco Chronicle * The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir’s journey to save Yosemite is “a rich, enjoyable excursion into a seminal period in environmental history” (The Wall Street Journal). In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir—iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher—meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course of the rest of his life. Upon their arrival the men are confronted with a shocking vision, as predatory mining, tourism, and logging industries have plundered and defaced “the grandest of all the special temples of Nature.” While Muir is devastated, Johnson, an arbiter of the era’s pressing issues in the pages of the nation’s most prestigious magazine, decides that he and Muir must fight back. The pact they form marks a watershed moment, leading to the creation of Yosemite National Park, and launching an environmental battle that captivates the nation and ushers in the beginning of the American environmental movement. “Comprehensively researched and compellingly readable” (Booklist, starred review), Guardians of the Valley is a moving story of friendship, the written word, and the transformative power of nature. It is also a timely and powerful “origin story” as the towering environmental challenges we face today become increasingly urgent.
Author : Eleanor Herz Swent
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647790077
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)
Download or read book One Shot for Gold written by Eleanor Herz Swent and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association! An account of the creation of a modern, environmentally sensitive mine as told by the people who developed and worked it. In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive gold mine in the twentieth century. Named the McLaughlin Mine, it produced about 3.4 million ounces of gold between 1985 and 2002. The mine was also one of the first attempts at creating a new full-scale mine in California after the advent of environmental regulations and the first to use autoclaves to extract gold from ore. One Shot for Gold traces the history of the McLaughlin Mine and how it transformed a community and an industry. This lively and detailed account is based largely on oral history interviews with a wide range of people associated with the mine, including Homestake executives, geologists, and engineers as well as local neighbors of the mine, officials from county governments, townspeople, and environmental activists. Their narratives— supported by thorough research into mining company documents, public records, newspaper accounts, and other materials—chronicle the mine from its very beginning to its eventual end and transformation into a designated nature reserve as part of the University of California Natural Reserve System. A mine created at the end of the twentieth century was vastly different from the mines of the Gold Rush. New regulations and concerns about the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a large mine in this remote and largely rural region of the state-required decisions at many levels. One Shot for Gold offers an engaging and accessible account of a modern gold mine and how it managed to exist in balance with the environment and the human community around it.
Author : John Prados
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195128475
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Lost Crusader written by John Prados and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Prados is a senior researcher at the National Security Archive in Washington.
Author : Mark Stoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019023086X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Inherit the Holy Mountain written by Mark Stoll and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provided environmentalists with content, direction, and tone for the environmental causes they espoused.
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Total Pages : 1704 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Loch K. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019068271X
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Spy Watching written by Loch K. Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democracies pride themselves on privacy and liberty, but intelligence organizations have secret budgets, gather information surreptitiously around the world, and plan covert action against foreign regimes. Sometimes, they have even targeted the very citizens they were established to protect, as with the COINTELPRO operations in the 1960s and 1970s, carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against civil rights and antiwar activists. In this sense, democracy and intelligence have always been a poor match. Yet Americans live in an uncertain and threatening world filled with nuclear warheads, chemical and biological weapons, and terrorists intent on destruction. Without an intelligence apparatus scanning the globe to alert the United States to these threats, the planet would be an even more perilous place. In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services. Johnson explores the work of the famous Church Committee, a Senate panel that investigated America's espionage organizations in 1975 and established new protocol for supervising the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the nation's other sixteen secret services. Johnson explores why partisanship has crept into once-neutral intelligence operations, the effect of the 9/11 attacks on the expansion of spying, and the controversies related to CIA rendition and torture programs. He also discusses both the Edward Snowden case and the ongoing investigations into the Russian hack of the 2016 US election. Above all, Spy Watching seeks to find a sensible balance between the twin imperatives in a democracy of liberty and security. Johnson draws on scores of interviews with Directors of Central Intelligence and others in America's secret agencies, making this a uniquely authoritative account.
Author : William Egan Colby
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Honorable Men written by William Egan Colby and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1978 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veteran intelligence agent and former CIA director recalls the events, developments, and people of his career, describes the CIA's organization, workings, and procedures, and profiles famous and hazy world figures.
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Total Pages : 1396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Compendium of History, Reminiscence, and Biography of Nebraska written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Waller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451693761
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Disciples written by Douglas Waller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fantastic book, one of the very finest accounts of wartime spookery” (The Wall Street Journal)—a spellbinding adventure story of four secret OSS agents who would all later lead the CIA and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe from the author of the bestselling Wild Bill Donavan. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had—Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Before each of these four men became their country’s top spymaster, they fought in World War II as secret warriors for Wild Bill Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services. Allen Dulles ran the OSS’s most successful spy operation against the Axis. Bill Casey organized dangerous missions to penetrate Nazi Germany. Bill Colby led OSS commando raids behind the lines in occupied France and Norway. Richard Helms mounted risky intelligence programs against the Russians in the ruins of Berlin. Later, they were the most controversial directors the CIA has ever had. Dulles launched the calamitous operation at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. Helms was convicted of lying to Congress over the CIA’s role in the ousting of President Salvador Allende in Chile. Colby would become a pariah for releasing a report on CIA misdeeds during the 1950s, sixties and early seventies. Casey would nearly bring down the CIA—and Ronald Reagan’s presidency—from a scheme that secretly supplied Nicaragua’s contras with money raked off from the sale of arms to Iran for American hostages in Beirut. Mining thousands of once-secret World War II documents and interviewing scores, Waller has written a worthy successor to Wild Bill Donovan. “Entertaining and richly detailed” (The Washington Post), Disciples is the story of these four dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Journal of the West written by Lorrin L. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerome Anthony Watrous
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Milwaukee County written by Jerome Anthony Watrous and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6019 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 6019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes is a compelling anthology that brings together the diverse voices of seminal figures in the suffrage movement. Within its pages, readers will encounter a range of literary styles, from impassioned speeches to reflective memoirs, each contributing to the rich tapestry of the struggle for women's voting rights. This collection not only highlights the individual tenacity and collective power of these women but also situates their contributions within a broader literary and socio-political context, showcasing the evolution of feminist thought and activism over time. The inclusion of key texts, such as Stantons Declaration of Sentiments and Pankhursts accounts of militant action, underscores the diversity of strategies employed in the fight for equality. The authors and editors, each a luminary in her own right, hail from varied backgrounds but share a common dedication to the cause of womens suffrage. Their collective works not only document the historical and cultural shifts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries but also align with broader movements for social justice, including civil rights and feminist theory. Together, their narratives provide a multidimensional view of the suffrage movement, highlighting the intersectionality of the fight for gender equality. This anthology is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the suffrage movement, feminist studies, or gender history. It offers readers the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the personal and political journeys of these pioneering women. Through its curated selection of writings, the collection fosters a deeper understanding of the sacrifices, triumphs, and enduring legacy of the women who fought tirelessly for their right to vote. Women of the Suffrage Movement is more than a historical record; it is a catalyst for ongoing dialogue and reflection on the pursuit of equality and justice.
Author : Tobin T. Buhk
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811745856
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book True Crime in the Civil War written by Tobin T. Buhk and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime did not take a holiday during the Civil War, far from it. As Tobin Buhk shows in this fast-paced narrative, the war created new opportunities to gain profits from illegal activities, to settle old scores against personal enemies under the cover of fighting the nation's enemies, to pillage, plunder, and murder amid the carnage and destruction that seemed to offer license to legitimize such crimes. Students of the Civil War will find new information in this readable account. --James M. McPherson,Author of Battle Cry of Freedom • Examines criminal cases during the conflict • Cases include currency counterfeiting, tyrannical actions of Gen. Benjamin Butler, the murder of Gen. Earl van Dorn, raids by William Quantrill's Bushwhackers, the Fort Pillow Massacre, the horrific prison conditions at Andersonville, the fate of Lincoln the assassination conspirators, and more
Author : Elizabeth D. Leonard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146966805X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Butler written by Elizabeth D. Leonard and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively narrative as a man whose journey took him from childhood destitution to wealth and profound influence in state and national halls of power. Prize-winning biographer Elizabeth D. Leonard chronicles Butler's successful career in the law defending the rights of the Lowell Mill girls and other workers, his achievements as one of Abraham Lincoln's premier civilian generals, and his role in developing wartime policy in support of slavery's fugitives as the nation advanced toward emancipation. Leonard also highlights Butler's personal and political evolution, revealing how his limited understanding of racism and the horrors of slavery transformed over time, leading him into a postwar role as one of the nation's foremost advocates for Black freedom and civil rights, and one of its notable opponents of white supremacy and neo-Confederate resurgence. Butler himself claimed he was "always with the underdog in the fight." Leonard's nuanced portrait will help readers assess such claims, peeling away generations of previous assumptions and characterizations to provide a definitive life of a consequential man.
Author : Sierra Club
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Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sierra Club Bulletin written by Sierra Club and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."
