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"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America—just, fair, and caring—and then to struggle for it."—Bill Moyers
"Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent voyage into anti-democratic political depravity. His analysis of the plight of America's youth is particularly heartbreaking.
2) Summary: America Between the Wars: Review and Analysis of Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier's Book
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The must-read summary of Chollet and Goldgeier's book: "America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror".
This complete summary of "America Between the Wars" by Derek Chollet, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and James Goldgeier, a renowned political professor, presents their examination of how the decisions made in the 12 years between the fall of the...
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This collection of scholarly essays explores the role of history in terrorism studies and today's counterterrorism initiatives.
In Doomed to Repeat?, scholars, policy makers, and other practitioners explore how a better understanding of the past can help us combat terrorism in the future. The first section establishes a broader context for discussion by examining the connections between history and Terrorism Studies. The second section presents...
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Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for foreign empires for more than 200 years. The British, Russians, and Americans have all fought across its beautiful and inhospitable terrain, in conflicts variously ruthless, misguided and bloody. This violent history is the subject of David Loyn's magisterial book. It is a history littered with misunderstandings and broken promises, in which the British, the Russians, and later the Americans, constantly underestimated...
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Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within Marx and Engels' thought. As Losurdo argues, class struggle is often misunderstood as exclusively the struggle of the poor against the rich, of the humble against the powerful. It is an interpretation that is dear to populism, one that supposes a binary logic that closes its eyes to complexity and inclines towards the celebration of poverty as a place...
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This complete summary of "Shadow War" by Richard Miniter, a renowned investigative journalist and writer, presents his argument that the media has missed many of Bush's biggest developments and success in the war on terror. He delivers the unreported stories of failed assassination plots and successful captures of Al-Qaeda members and proves that the war on terror can be and is being won.
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The must-read summary of Seymour M. Hersh's book: "Chain of Command: The Road form 9/11 to Abu Ghraib".
This complete summary of "Chain of Command" by Seymour M. Hersh, a renowned American investigative journalist, gives an overview of his report on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and his examination of the reasons the Bush administration led the nation into a war on terror. Hersh uncovers the lies and obsessions of an administration blinded by ideology.
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The must-read summary of Bill Sammon's book: "Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters".
This complete summary of "Misunderestimated" by Bill Sammon, former White House correspondent for The Washington Times, presents the author's account of Bush's presidency, as his focus shifted from Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan to Iraq and the 2004 election in which he ran against John Kerry. Sammon also details the rise...
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The must-read summary of Tom Tancredo's book: "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security".
This complete summary of "In Mortal Danger" by Tom Tancredo, a Republican politician, outlines his examination of the American immigration system. He discovers that the system is broken and corrupt and that national security has been at risk from illegal immigration since 9/11.
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The renowned activist's lectures on Cold War foreign policy delivered in Nicaragua during the US-backed war against the Sandinista government.
One of Noam Chomsky's most accessible books, On Power and Ideology is a product of his 1986 visit to Managua, Nicaragua, for a lecture series at Universidad Centroamericana. Delivered at the height of US involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war, this succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam...
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