A masterful account of Lyndon Johnson and America’s fall into Vietnam by one of our finest historians, filled with fresh interpretations, deft portraits, and new perspectives. “Absolutely terrific...s
Lyndon Johnson brought to the presidency a political outlook nurtured by New Deal liberalism and the idea of government intervention for the public good. In his desire to make that idea work at home
Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to theChicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the J
"With Obama's election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a
When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square on January 25th—and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met—the politics of the region changed overnight.
In an account of the U.S. role in the Middle East, Three Kings is an ?erudite, persuasively argued, and lucid” (Publishers Weekly) narrative of America’s deep and tangled relationships in the region.
A sweeping and authoritative narrative, The Long Road to Baghdad places the Iraq War in the context of U.S. foreign policy since Vietnam, casting the conflict as a chapter in a much broader story of
A chronicle of the period between the Vietnam and Iraq wars makes cautionary observations about America's role in the Middle East, evaluating how shifting foreign policies and efforts to establish an
The war within the war was the struggle among Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin for the shape of the world that would follow World War II. That delicate diplomacy is traced and analyzed in Lloyd Gardne
This ground-breaking book probes the way that two capitalist superpowers, Great Britain and the United States, responded to the momentous challenge of revolution that emerged during the early years of
