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  • Reagan

    His Life and Legend

    door Max Boot ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWashington Post • 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024Best Books of 2024: The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, The Auburn Citizen"This elegant biography of the 40th president stands out for its deep authority and nimble style.... A landmark work." —New York Times, "10 Best Books of 2024""Reagan: His Lif... ... Meer lezen

    29,25 €

  • The Corrosion of Conservatism

    Why I Left the Right

    door Max Boot ...
    A “must read” (Joe Scarborough) by a New York Times– best- selling author, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents a necessary defense of American democracy.Praised on publication as “one of the most impressive and unfl inching diagnoses of the pathologies in Republican politics that led to Trump’s rise” (Jonathan Chait, New York), The Corrosion of Conservatism documents a president who has ... Meer lezen

    11,65 €

  • Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

    An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

    door Max Boot ...
    As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz’s On War was in its own time, Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world—when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies—Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq ... Meer lezen

    15,04 €

  • The Road Not Taken

    Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

    door Max Boot ...
    **Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.**Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot’s role as a “master chronicler” (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and ... Meer lezen

    13,35 €

  • War Made New

    Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today

    door Max Boot ...
    A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefieldCombining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise ... Meer lezen

    9,64 €

  • The Road Not Taken

    door Max Boot ...
    'Judicious and absorbing' New York Times Book ReviewIn this biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the model for Greene's The Quiet American, Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a 'hearts and minds' diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was ultimately crushed by America's giant military bureaucracy, ... Meer lezen

    14,41 €

  • The Savage Wars Of Peace

    Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

    door Max Boot ...
    "Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered a new era in international relations must read [this book] . . . Vividly written and thoroughly researched." -- Los Angeles TimesAmerica's "small wars," "imperial war," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with ... Meer lezen

    12,99 €

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    Reagan

    His Life and Legend

    door Max Boot ...
    Verteld door Graham Winton ...

    Niet ingekort

    32 uur 7 min

    In this “monumental and impressive” biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president’s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides “the best biography of Ronald Reagan to date ... Meer lezen

    31,21 €

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    The Corrosion of Conservatism

    Why I Left the Right

    door Max Boot ...
    Verteld door Max Boot ...

    Niet ingekort

    15 uur 37 min

    Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent. As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents an urgent defense of American democracy. Pronouncing Mexican immigrants to ... Meer lezen

    17,83 €

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    The Lost Founding Father

    John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

    Verteld door Richard Poe ...

    Niet ingekort

    16 uur 38 min

    Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous ... Meer lezen

    27,65 €

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    He Calls Me By Lightning

    The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

    door S. Jonathan Bass ...
    Verteld door Mirron Willis ...

    Niet ingekort

    13 uur 40 min

    Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was ... Meer lezen

    17,83 €

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    Plaintiff in Chief

    A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits

    door James D. Zirin ...
    Verteld door Michael Butler Murray ...

    Niet ingekort

    9 uur 36 min

    A comprehensive analysis of Donald Trump's legal history reveals his temperament, methods, character, and morality.Unlike all previous presidents who held distinguished positions in government or the military prior to entering office, Donald Trump's political worldview was molded in the courtroom. He sees law not as a system of rules to be obeyed and ethical ideals to be respected, but as a weapon ... Meer lezen

    24,08 €