From his years in the Kennedy administration up until his last days, Schlesinger was always at the center of American politics. Filled with his trademark acerbic wit and tremendous insight, "Journals" contains the author's candid thoughts about the signal events of the last 50 years.
Filled with dramatic revelations, "The Lost Spy" may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation, exploring the life and death of Isaiah Oggins, one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. of illustrations.
Post-Soviet Russia remains a country in limbo, a land of vast potential struggling with an unfinished past. Journeying to Russia's five corners - Moscow, Chechnya, Norilsk, Sakhalin and St. Petersburg - Andrew Meier presents a history of contemporary Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg Meier explores Russia's unbridles market and often lethal ...
Andrew's Meier riveting portrait of Chechnya, a land ravaged by indescribable carnage, enables us to understand the origins of this brutal conflict like no other recent work. The barbaric, terrorist siege in the summer of 2004 that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent children in Beslan did not begin either there or in the take-over of ...
Russia is a world in a dark limbo. The body politic is diseased, the state in collapse. Yet for all the signs of encroaching doom, Russians do not fear the future. They fear the past. Russians have long known theirs is not a land that develops and progresses. It careens, heaves and all too often sinks. Once again, Russia stands at a crossroads ...
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