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Michael Lewis The fifth risk
undoing democracy
"The election happened, remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. And then there was radio silence. Across all departments, similar stories were playing out Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under...
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Engels | 219 pagina's | Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, London, UK | 2018
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Marcus Garvey Message to the people
Engels | 87 pagina's | Lushena Books, Inc, Bensenville, IL | 2014
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Ian Haney López Dog whistle politics
how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class
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Engels | 277 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York | 2014
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Gil Troy The Reagan revolution
a very short introduction
Engels | 150 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [New York] | 2009
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Len Colodny | Tom Shachtman The forty years war
the rise and fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama
Two bestselling investigative writers trace the arc of the neoconservative movement from the Nixon era through the end of Bush's second term.
Non-fictie
Engels | 489 pagina's | Harper, New York, NY | 2009
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Ahmed Rashid Descent into chaos
the United States and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
Engels | 484 pagina's | Viking, New York [etc.] | 2008
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial life in the Emerald City
inside Iraq's green zone
Beschrijving van het leven in de Groene Zone, die de Amerikanen hebben ingericht na de val van Bagdad.
Non-fictie
Engels | 365 pagina's | Vintage Books, New York | 2007
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson | Paul Waldman The press effect
politicians, journalists, and the stories that shape the political world
Kritische analyse van de rol en betekenis van de Amerikaanse media, met name bij de presidentsverkiezingen van 2000.
Non-fictie
Engels | 220 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] | 2003
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Amin Saikal Islam and the West
conflict or cooperation?
Analyse van de verhouding tussen de Arabisch/islamitische wereld en het westen, de oorzaken van de opgelopen politieke spanning en de mogelijkheden om tot een vreedzame oplossing te komen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 171 pagina's | Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [etc.] | 2003
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The Iraq war reader
history, documents, opinions
Documenten en achtergrondartikelen met betrekking tot de Amerikaanse inval in Irak in 2003 en de toekomst van Irak na de val van Saddam Hoessein.
Non-fictie
Engels | 715 pagina's | Touchstone, New York [etc.] | 2003
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John Killick The United States and European reconstruction, 1945-1960
Engels | 209 pagina's | Keele University Press, Edinburgh | 1997
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Ronald Brownstein The power and the glitter
the Hollywood-Washington connection
Engels | 437 pagina's | Pantheon Books, New York | 1990
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Harris Wofford (Jr.) Of Kennedys and Kings
making sense of the sixties
Engels | 503 pagina's | Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York | 1980
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