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Summary: "A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9 SANKhan, Sulmaan Wasif
Summary: "As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, America declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 951.249 KHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.249 KHAKalb, Marvin L.
Summary: Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 KALChomsky, Noam
Summary: "A conversation between public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 CHOSummary: Dennis Quaid delivers a tour-de-force performance as 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan in this cinematic journey that encapsulates the spirit of the American dream. From his small-town roots to the glitter of Hollywood where he meets actress Jane Wyman and Warner Brothers' studio president Jack Warner, Reagan's incredible story culminates in obtaining the presidency with the support of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2024
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Summary: "The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 BLAStent, Angela
Summary: "An analysis of Putin's Russia and how Russians perceive their place in the modern world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 STEHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how one-sided pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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Summary: Reveals the covert operations that have brought the United States and Iran to the brink of open war, including Iran's proposal for peace after 9/11, which was rejected by President Bush, and Iran's secret army in post-U.S. invasion Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 CRIForeman, Amanda
Summary: In the Civil War, both the North and the South demanded Britain's support. A World on Fire portrays the complex web of relationships between the two countries through the lives of a selected group of participants who shared one thing in common. They all wrote about their experiences in diaries and letters that survive to this day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.72 FORDoyle, Michael
Summary: "By 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia's lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post-Cold War years were a time of immense hope and possibility. They heralded an opportunity for creative cooperation among nations, an end to ideological strife, perhaps even the beginning of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1 DOYKemper, Steve
Summary: "In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated the prime minister. The military had a stranglehold on the government. War with Russia loomed, and propaganda campaigns swept the country, urging schoolchildren to give money to procure planes and tanks. Into this maelstrom stepped Joseph C. Grew, America's most experienced and talented diplomat. When Grew was appointed to serve as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.73 KEMSummary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESullivan, John Joseph
Summary: For weeks before the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night by an employee at Embassy Moscow with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the cold of that February night: it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hippocrene Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.9042 ALEBaer, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.538 BAERBerthon, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5322 BERBradley, James.
Summary: Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 359.4 BRAHasday, Judy L.
Summary: Chronicles the events leading up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the details of the attack itself, and the ensuing reaction of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5426 HASMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: By 1972 the U.S. was still mired in Vietnam, and China was reeling from the changes wrought by the cultural revolution. In February of that year the leaders of these two great nations sat down for talks for the first time since 1949. Nixon and Mao both hoped to secure trade and diplomatic relations, but did either get what they truly wanted? MacMillan answers this question and countless others,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.7305 MACRonald, Susan
Summary: "Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court ofSt. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOSEPH P. RONSciutto, Jim
Summary: "CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged -- often without the public's full knowledge -- from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry. The United States is currently under attack from multiple adversaries -- yet most Americans have no idea of the dangers threatening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 SCIIndyk, Martin
Summary: "A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arabneighbors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 INDSheinkin, Steve
Summary: Presents the story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015