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The brothers : John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret world war
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into foreign adventures that decisively shaped today's world as the Cold War was at its peak.
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\White and Peaceful Wings\: Debating U.S. Imperialism in 1898
Editor's Introduction: HJM is proud to select as our Editor's Choice Award for this issue Stephen Kinzer's The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire (2017), published by Henry Holt & Co. The author of numerous highly acclaimed works, Kinzer is an incisive historian of American foreign policy. \" 4 He became a founding member and the first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving from 1909 until his death in 1929. Given the increasing literacy rate of the American public, Kinzer argues that the average American had access to the various positions being advocated on each side of the debate. According to another, \"Nearly all the settees on the floor were filled, while the benches in the gallery were well fringed with ladies.
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The true flag : Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the birth of American empire
\"Revealing a piece of forgotten history, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others ... The country's best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before--in the period when the United States was founded--have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a question so fraught with meaning for all humanity\"--Amazon.com.
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Cruel Realities: The American Conquest of Guam
Of all the military operations the United States launched in 1898, the one in Guam bears the clearest imprint of the naval visionary Alfred Thayer Mahan, whose book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, revolutionized American strategic thinking. At their direction, according to one text, the Chamorros were \"herded together like animals\" and \"forced to give up their ancestor worship, warfare, bachelor houses, and most of their indigenous ceremonies, including chanting and dancing, and were compelled to replace them with Spanish Catholic rituals.\" A movement for native rights began to emerge in the 1970s, suggesting that for some people on the island, economic and political progress does not outweigh the lack of self-government and loss of cultural identity.
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Reconciliation and Development in Kagame's Rwanda
In an interview, Stephen Kinzer, US author, journalist and academic, talked about Rwanda. He said that Rwanda's story is quite remarkable. In 1994, Rwanda and Somalia were probably the two most ruined countries in the world. There was every reason to believe they would have the same fate going forward; they had been decimated by conflict, there was a great leadership vacuum, all institutions had fallen apart. Rwanda is the only country in the world about which development experts and human rights specialists have such different opinions. Now, the threats that Rwanda faces, principally because the former genocide army is now poised right on their border in eastern Congo, certainly has been a factor in leading Pres Paul Kagame to be especially vigilant about dissent and debate within Rwanda. Success can be measured in preventing conflict, or open hostility and violence. But it's much more difficult to measure changes inside the human soul. Essentially, the Rwandan government has decreed that there shouldn't be any more talk about ethnicity.
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العودة إلى الصفر : إيران وتركيا ومستقبل أميركا
يقدم الكتاب أمثلة حية من التاريخ ويستعرض موكبا من الشخصيات كأمراء وسياسيين ونساء من العالم وجواسيس وظالمين ومحررين وحالمين، في علاقتهم مع أميركا وتأثيرهم على السياسة الخارجية الأميركية، لاسيما في الشرق الأوسط وهذا ما يشير إليه الكتاب وهو يقدم رؤية جديدة ومفاجئة لإعادة بناء شراكات أميركا الاستراتيجية في الشرق الأوسط ولا مصلحة الآن مع إسرائيل والسعودية، والدور الأبرز لتركيا وإيران لبلوغ استقرار منشود في المنطقة يتقاطع مع مصلحة كل من أميركا وإيران لأن أي تقارب جديد مع إسرائيل تترتب عليه عواقب بل كوارث.
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