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Product Description: With his policy of containment, US diplomat George F. Kennan (1904–2005) devised a way to resist the Soviet Union’s attempt to conquer the world for Communism. That way was to go to the brink of war to prevent war. His idea was first expressed in his famous Long Telegram from Moscow on February 22, 1946...read more

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9781412856881 | Transaction Pub, October 6, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: With his policy of containment, US diplomat George F.

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Product Description: A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and…a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U...read more

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9781620971116 | New Pr, May 5, 2015, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and…a wild boar hunt!

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9780679457114 | Random House Inc, June 17, 2014, cover price $35.00

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9780804179706 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, March 17, 2015), cover price $20.00

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Product Description: In this major biography of an important politician and statesman, Dean Kotlowski presents the life of Paul V. McNutt, a great understudied figure in the era of FDR. McNutt was governor of Indiana, high commissioner to the Philippines (while serving he helped 1,300 Jews flee Nazi Germany for Manila), head of the WWII Federal Security Agency, and would-be presidential candidate...read more

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9780253014689 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 2, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In this major biography of an important politician and statesman, Dean Kotlowski presents the life of Paul V.

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Product Description: During the five years that he represented Brazil in the United States (under both the Cardoso and Lula presidencies), Ambassador Barbosa witnessed presidential elections that brought opposition parties to power in both the United States and Brazil, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the outbreak of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva...read more

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9780826520111 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, December 15, 2014, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: During the five years that he represented Brazil in the United States (under both the Cardoso and Lula presidencies), Ambassador Barbosa witnessed presidential elections that brought opposition parties to power in both the United States and Brazil, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the outbreak of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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9780826520128 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, December 15, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: During the five years that he represented Brazil in the United States (under both the Cardoso and Lula presidencies), Ambassador Barbosa witnessed presidential elections that brought opposition parties to power in both the United States and Brazil, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the outbreak of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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9781594203763 | Penguin Pr, November 13, 2012, cover price $40.00

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9780143124078 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 24, 2013), cover price $20.00

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9781611761382 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, November 13, 2012), cover price $59.95

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9781469606958 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $35.00

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9781482910896 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2013), cover price $34.95

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Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] Lee Craig's definitive biography of political powerhouse Josephus Daniels. As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world...read more
By Lee A. Craig and Johnny Heller (narrator)

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9781482910902 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2013), cover price $123.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.

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9780062265463 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 22, 2013), cover price $18.99

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Product Description: Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe, and as ambassador to both Germany and the United Nations...read more
By Derek Chollet (editor) and Samantha Power (editor)

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9781610392150 | Reprint edition (Public Affairs, November 6, 2012), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.

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Product Description: “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did,” so the saying goes, “but she did it backwards and in high heels.” Faith Whittlesey popularized this quotation during the 1980s, and many books attribute the line to her...read more

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9781612001593 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, October 19, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did,” so the saying goes, “but she did it backwards and in high heels.

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Product Description: A dozen years out of Harvard, investment banker Bill Middendorf’s salary hit $250,000 a year; another dozen years, with his own firm and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, his income was well into seven figures. But he was restive...read more

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9781591145370 | Naval Inst Pr, July 15, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A dozen years out of Harvard, investment banker Bill Middendorf’s salary hit $250,000 a year; another dozen years, with his own firm and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, his income was well into seven figures.

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Product Description: When the White House Calls tells the life story of John Price, one of Utah’s most prominent citizens, beginning with his birth in Germany through his years as a successful builder and real estate developer—with business interests in broadcasting, manufacturing, distribution, and banking—to his life as a diplomat...read more

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9781607811435 | Univ of Utah Pr, June 17, 2011, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: When the White House Calls tells the life story of John Price, one of Utah’s most prominent citizens, beginning with his birth in Germany through his years as a successful builder and real estate developer—with business interests in broadcasting, manufacturing, distribution, and banking—to his life as a diplomat.

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