books about: post-american     books:     Post-american      Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Fredric Jameson Duke University Press, 1991 mind stretching Being an engineer, I prefer not to be carried away with my use of words, but this book just makes, channels the reader talk, think, again talk on it in the ways he/she is not very used to. Nevertheless, this is a good exercise in the broadest sense of the word for ...             Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen Bob Greene Harper Paperbacks, 2003 Forgotten History This book is about the inspirational story of North Platte, Nebraska, a town that served as a brief haven for millions of World War II American soldiers. From Christmas Day 1941 until the end of the war, the residents welcomed every troop train with food, drink, ...             Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys Peter Evans Harper Paperbacks, 2005 Whoa! What a fascinating, very well written book! It seemed every page had a juicy morsel or two and really opened my eyes into what was really going on during the last months of John Kennedy's life and why Jackie married Aristotle Onassis. As a teenager, I was shocked ...             True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society Farhad Manjoo Wiley, 2008 You'll never look at the "news" the same way again I really really like this book and highly recommend it to everyone. The book describes various cognitive biases that are built into all of us -- things called, such as, selective perception, selective exposure, "experts", particularized trust -- and how these interact ...             Truman David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 1992 wonderful sense of American history I have read most of McCullough's books, and so I knew that after reading this I would understand Harry S. Truman more deeply than I ever had. What I didn't know what was that I would learn so much about 20th century American history. McCullough is a great story-teller. ...             White Male Privilege: A Study of Racism in America 40 Years After the Voting Rights Act Mark Rosenkranz Law Dog Books, 2007 Introspective As Well As Thought Provoking What strikes me about this book is the fact that the author seems to genuinely care about the responses he gets from his interviewees. I know I'm doing some reading between the lines, but I believe it's because the author himself has spent a good amount of time ...             Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, Edward "Babe" Heffron, ... Berkley Hardcover, 2007 We're not heros Like many veterans of WW2 these two men say they are not heros, that title they insist , belongs to the boys who didn't come home. Then what are they? They are two enlisted men who fought in some of the most savage fighting in western Europe during World War Two. ...             Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World Richard Heinberg New Society Publishers, 2004 My eyes will never be the same. From the article titled "Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force", in the Washington Post, "The White House went to great lengths to keep these meetings secret, and now oil executives may be lying to Congress about their role in the Cheney task force," ...             The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour Andrei Cherny Putnam Adult, 2008 An Uplifting Example and Amazing Story Reading this book is an emotional and stirring event on many different levels. It offers one of the clearest and most succient histories of the period just after the Second World War. The book also does an excellent job of providing balance between the outsized ...             The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria W. W. Norton, 2008 A must-read for all Americans The information and point of view in Zakaria's book should be required reading for all Americans. The rise of "the rest" -- China, India, Brazil, etc. and the "decline" (or is it?) -- of the U.S. is spelled out clearly. It could help diminish the chronic U.S. ...             Songs of the Doomed : More Notes on the Death of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson Simon & Schuster, 2002 Excellent Sampler This is an excellent introduction to the range of Thompson's writings though the early 1990's. It includes samples of his two early novels (Prince Jellyfish, The Rum Diary) and articles and excerpts from his later journalism and fiction ("Let The Trials Begin" is worth ...             High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Krushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis Max Frankel Presidio Press, 2005 it could easily have ended badly In these days of a proclaimed War on Terror, Frankel reminds us that the past was worse. In this recent recounting of the Cuban missile crisis, many of the facts are already known. But Frankel's narrative points out the myriad ways that disaster could have occurred. ...             The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the ... Library of America, 1993 Provides a complete environment for the Federalist Papers Study of the Federalist Papers, of course included in this two volume series, is a conduit for understanding the American ethic. When the Federalist Papers are viewed as included in this chronological deliberation between the Federalists and Antifederalists, they ...             The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia Tim Tzouliadis Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 A remarkable piece of forgotten history—the story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to meet a tragic, and until now forgotten, end The Forsaken starts with a photograph of a baseball team. The year is 1934, the image black and white: two rows of young men, one standing, the ...             Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full Conrad Black PublicAffairs, 2007 a true test for Detente The moment I finished reading this book, the image of the late USA President came to me when he left office and waved to the crowd his last Good-bye. Nixon looked hesitant and undecided like a man relieved of an overwhelming burden. His Good-bye expressions were made ...          products you might be interested in search for books 1787-february, antifederalist, interventions, post-american, post-contemporary, postmodernism we recommend wonderful sense of American history randomly chosen book: PDQ Endodontics