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Diplomatic Meeting - Reagan, Thatcher, And The Art Of Summitry

by James Cooper

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 Drawing on a host of recently declassified documents from the Reagan-Thatcher years, A Diplomatic Meeting: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Art of Summitry provides an innovative framework for understanding the development and nature of the special relationship between British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and American president Ronald Reagan, who were known as "political soulmates." James Cooper boldly challenges the popular conflation of the leaders' platforms, and proposes that Reagan and Thatcher's summitry highlighted unique features of domestic policy in their respective countries. Summits, therefore, were a significant opportunity for the two world leaders to further their own domestic agendas. Cooper uses the relationship between Reagan and Thatcher to demonstrate that summitry politics transcended any distinction between foreign policy and domestic politics-a major objective of Reagan and Thatcher as they sought to consolidate power and implement their domestic economic programs in a parallel quest to reverse notions of their countries' "decline." This unique and significant study about the making of the Reagan-Thatcher relationship uses their key meetings as an avenue to explore the fluidity between the domestic and international spheres, a perspective that is underappreciated in existing interpretations of the leaders' relationship and Anglo-American relations and, more broadly, in the field of international affairs.
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Unwilling To Quit - The Long Unwinding Of American Involvement In Vietnam

by David L. Prentice

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 Although US involvement in the Vietnam conflict began long before 1965, Lyndon Johnson's substantial large commitment of combat troops that year marked the official beginning of America's longest twentieth-century war. By 1969, after years of intense fighting and thousands of casualties, an increasing number of Americans wanted the United States out of Vietnam. Richard Nixon looked for a way to pull out while preserving the dignity of the United States at home and abroad, and at the same time, to support the anticommunist Republic of Vietnam. Ultimately, he settled on the strategy of Vietnamization-the gradual replacement of US soldiers with South Vietnamese forces. Drawing on newly declassified documents and international archives, Unwilling to Quit dissects the domestic and foreign contexts of America's withdrawal from the Vietnam War. David L. Prentice demonstrates how congressional and presidential politics were a critical factor in Nixon's decision to abandon his hawkish sensibilities in favor of de-escalation. Prentice reframes Nixon's choices, emphasizes Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's outsized yet subtle role in the decision-making process, and considers how South Vietnam's Nguyen Van Thieu and North Vietnam's Le Duan decisively shaped the American exit. Prentice brings Vietnamese voices into the discussion and underscores the unprecedented influence of American civilians on US foreign policy during the Vietnamization era.
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Remaking The World - Decolonization And The Cold War

by Jessica M. Chapman

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 Between 1945 and 1965, more than fifty nations declared their independence from colonial rule. At the height of the Cold War, the global process of decolonization complicated US-Soviet relations, while Soviet and American interventionism transformed the decolonizing process. Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization. Through six carefully selected case studies-India, Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, Angola, and Iran-historian Jessica M. Chapman addresses the shifting of Soviet, American, Chinese, and Cuban policies, the centrality of modernization, the role of the United Nations, the influence of regional actors like Israel and South Africa, and seminal post-Vietnam War shifts in the international system. Each case study analyzes at least one geopolitical turning point, demonstrating that the Cold War and decolonization were mutually constitutive processes in which local, national, and regional developments altered the superpower competition. Chapman presents the complexities of international relations and the ways in which local communist and democratic movements differed from their Soviet and American ties, as did their visions for independence and success.
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A Doctor For Rural America - The Reforms Of Frances Sage Bradley

by Barbara Barksdale Clowse

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 A balanced portrait of an overlooked pioneer and her work in healthcare.
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Paving The Way For Reagan - The Influence Of Conservative Media On Us Foreign Policy

by Laurence R. Jurdem

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 From 1964 to 1980, the United States was buffeted by a variety of international crises, including the nation's defeat in Vietnam, the growing aggression of the Soviet Union, and Washington's inability to free the fifty two American hostages held by Islamic extremists in Iran. Through this period and in the decades that followed,Commentary,Human Events, andNational Reviewmagazines were critical in supporting the development of GOP conservative positions on key issues that shaped events at home and abroad. These publications and the politicians they influenced pursued a fundamental realignment of US foreign policy that culminated in the election of Ronald Reagan.Paving the Way for Reagan closely examines the ideas and opinions conveyed by the magazines in relationship to their critiques of the dominant liberal foreign policy events of the 1960s and 1970s. Revealed is how the journalists' key insights and assessments of the US strategies on Vietnam, China, the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT), the United Nations, the Panama Canal, Rhodesia, and the Middle East applied pressure to leaders on the Right within the GOP who they believed were not being faithful to conservative principles. Their views were ultimately adopted within the conservative movement, and subsequently, helped lay the foundation for Reagan's "peace through strength" foreign policy.Incorporating primary sources and firsthand accounts from writers and editors, Jurdem provides a comprehensive analysis of how these three publications played a fundamental role influencing elite opinion for a paradigm shift in US foreign policy during this crucial sixteenyear period.
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American South And The Vietnam War - Belligerence, Protest, And Agony In Dixie

by Joseph A. Fry

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 <DIV>To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation''s commitment to the war, in the conflict''s duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary o</DIV>
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Remaking The World - Decolonization And The Cold War

by Jessica M. Chapman

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 Drawing on new scholarship, this comprehensive study provides a chronological overview from World War I to the Soviet collapse and highlights key developments in the international system as decolonization unfolded in tandem with the Cold War.
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America'S Israel - The Us Congress And American-Israeli Relations, 1967â€“1975

by Kenneth Kolander

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 Provides an important new perspective on the special relationship between the US and Israel.
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Robert Riskin - The Life And Times Of A Hollywood Screenwriter

by Ian Scott

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 The first sociohistorical examination of Robert Riskinâ€™s life and work.
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Cecil B. Demille'S Hollywood

by Robert S. Birchard

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 A detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film in Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Sharp Cut - Harold Pinter'S Screenplays And The Artistic Process

by Steven H. Gale

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 Examines and analyses the screenplays of Harold Pinter.
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Diplomatic Games - Sport, Statecraft, And International Relations Since 1945

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 A compelling case for the use of sport as a lens through which to view international relations.
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The Politics Of Richard Wright - Perspectives On Resistance

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 A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy.
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A Diplomatic Meeting - Reagan, Thatcher, And The Art Of Summitry

by James Cooper

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 An innovative basis to understand the relationship between two leaders.
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The Watercolors Of Harlan Hubbard

by Bill Caddell, Flo Caddell, Harlan Hubbard e Peter Morrin

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 Argues Hubbard's place in the art historical canon while highlighting and analysing the artist's own voice.
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The Sailor - Franklin D. Roosevelt And The Transformation Of American Foreign Policy

by David F. Schmitz

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 An important interpretive analysis of the Roosevelt administration's foreign policy.
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The Whigs' America - Middle-Class Political Thought In The Age Of Jackson And Clay

by Dick Gilbreath e Joseph W. Pearson

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 Leading one of the two great political parties in the United States between 1834 and 1856, the Whigs battled their opponents, the Jacksonian Democrats, for offices, prestige, and power.
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Soccer Diplomacy - International Relations And Football Since 1914

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 An international group of experts analyse the relationship between football and diplomacy.
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America'S Israel - The Us Congress And American-Israeli Relations, 1967--1975

by Kenneth Kolander

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 A new perspective on the US-Israel bond.
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Fourteen Points For The Twenty-First Century - A Renewed Appeal For Cooperative Internationalism

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 When the United States entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilsondeclared to Congress that the objective was not merely to bring "a new balanceof power," but rather to bring a "just and secure peace" to the world.
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Katherine Jackson French - Kentucky'S Forgotten Ballad Collector

by Elizabeth Disavino

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 Academic rivalries, gender prejudice, and broken promises set against a thirty-year feud known as the Ballad Wars denied French her place in history and left the field to northerner Olive Dame Campbell and English folklorist Cecil Sharp, setting Appalachian studies on a foundation marred by stereotypes and misconceptions.
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Adolph Rupp And The Rise Of Kentucky Basketball

by James Duane Bolin

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Foreign Friends - Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, And The Division Of Korea

by David P. Fields

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 By transforming Korea into a moralist tale of the failures of American foreign policy in Asia, Rhee and his camp turned the country into a test case of American exceptionalism in the postwar era.
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Lincoln, Seward, And Us Foreign Relations In The Civil War Era

by Joseph A. Fry

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 The Civil War marked a significant turning point in American history -- not only for the United States itself but also for its relations with foreign powers both during and after the conflict.
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