Product Description: In the early twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann said that the presentation of truthful news lies at the heart of democracy. This volume stems from Dan D. Nimmo’s conviction that opinion and policymaking are also significant, interrelated processes within any political system...read more

Product Description: In the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse; Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability. In the 1990s, the world was stunned by wars that raged across post-Yugoslavia; Geyer interviewed top officials and anticipated the conflicts...read more

Product Description: This is the story of how one strikingly beautiful country, with few resources, geographically positioned in a notably troubled neighborhood, has achieved an economic miracle. Sensible planning; timed development; and open international policy, instigated in the 1980s, have helped to create a progressive and flourishing country against the odds...read more

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Product Description: Buying the Night Flight is Georgie Anne Geyer's retelling of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated world of journalism. Geyer transports the reader to Guatemala, Cuba, Egypt, Russia, and Cambodia, recounting the history and politics, adventure and exhaustion of the time from a truly unique perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A veteran journalist, who has interviewed the key revolutionary figures of the seventies and eighties, reflects on her adventures and accomplishments in her profession and the sacrifices it demands

A prominent political commentator and respected foreign correspondent discusses the turmoil over illegal immigration and bilingualism, anchoring her points with exhaustive research, interviews, and testimonies of people on both sides of this explosive issue. Tour.

The author recounts her experiences traveling in the Muslim provinces of Soviet Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tatarstan, and Azerbaijan

Presents the story of the first modern guerrilla leader, in which the charismatic Cuban revolutionary emerges as his people's betrayer, motivated by megalomania and anti-Americanism