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Product Description: Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well-meaning if ill-starred warriors, Timberg probes the fault line between those who fought the war and those who used money, wit, and connections to avoid battle...read more
By Patrick Lawlor (narrator)

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9781433260391 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America.

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Readers can follow the action as it unfolded in a series of narrated books that brings to life major events from history through first-hand accounts, quotes from participants, diagrams, photographs, and timelines.

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9780756534806 | Compass Point Books, January 1, 2008, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: Readers can follow the action as it unfolded in a series of narrated books that brings to life major events from history through first-hand accounts, quotes from participants, diagrams, photographs, and timelines.

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Product Description: Bruce Cameron's story is a rare look at an insider's efforts for a path of peace in Central America, reforming the Nicaraguan contras (revolucionarios) who were fighting the Sandinistas, all while staying sane and not losing sight of key values...read more

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9780826342515 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Bruce Cameron's story is a rare look at an insider's efforts for a path of peace in Central America, reforming the Nicaraguan contras (revolucionarios) who were fighting the Sandinistas, all while staying sane and not losing sight of key values.

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Discusses events leading up to the 1986 Iran-Contra scandal, wherein the Reagan administration sold guns to Iran in exchange for hostages and assisted rebels trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.

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9780516242286 | Childrens Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Discusses events leading up to the 1986 Iran-Contra scandal, wherein the Reagan administration sold guns to Iran in exchange for hostages and assisted rebels trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.

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Product Description: In this book the author describes how a C student from a middle class background used his self-doubts to great advantage.

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9781590311332 | Amer Bar Assn, October 1, 2003, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: In this book the author describes how a C student from a middle class background used his self-doubts to great advantage.

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Chomsky dissects the events of just one year - 1986 - as America was at the height of the Reagan Era. He describes American involvement in acts of supreme state terror, both open and clandestine, to present a case study which has great relevance today and whose lessons must never be forgotten.

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9780896083356 | South End Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Chomsky dissects the events of just one year - 1986 - as America was at the height of the Reagan Era.

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9781608463985, titled "Culture of Terrorism" | 2 edition (Haymarket Books, June 16, 2015), cover price $19.00
9780745302706, titled "Culture of Terrorism" | Pluto Pr, August 20, 2002, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Using the Irangate hearings as the start of a critique of American society, Chomsky accuses America's ruling elite of perpetrating a form of cultural imperialism.
9780896083349 | South End Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: This scathing critique of U.

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The independent counsel in the seven-year Iran-Contra investigation reveals the extent of the Reagan administration's deceit and the effects of the cover-up

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9780393040340 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The independent counsel in the seven-year Iran-Contra investigation reveals the extent of the Reagan administration's deceit and the effects of the cover-up

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9780393318609 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: The independent counsel in the seven-year Iran-Contra investigation reveals the extent of the Reagan administration's deceit and the effects of the cover-up
9780756764937 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The story of one of the most famous breaches of American presidential authority since Watergate.

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Presents the story of five top graduates of Annapolis who served heroically in Vietnam and rose to national prominence during the Reagan years (view table of contents)

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9780671673628 | Simon & Schuster, July 1, 1995, cover price $25.00
9780684803012, titled "The Nightingale's Song" | Simon & Schuster, July 1, 1995, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents the story of five top graduates of Annapolis who served heroically in Vietnam and rose to national prominence during the Reagan years

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9780684826738, titled "The Nightingale's Song" | Free Pr, September 11, 1996, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Presents the story of five top graduates of Annapolis who served heroically in Vietnam and rose to national prominence during the Reagan years

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Product Description: How is history produced? How do individuals write—or rewrite—their parts while engaged in the production of history? Michael Lynch and David Bogen take the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions. These hearings, held in 1987 by the Joint House-Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaragua Opposition, provided the nation with a media spectacle and a rare chance to see a struggle over the writing of history...read more

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9780822317296 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: How is history produced?

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9780822317388 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: How is history produced?

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The former National Security Advisor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, focusing on the Iran-Contra Affair and the Strategic Defense Initiative

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9781569778807 | Cadell & Davies, September 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The former National Security Advisor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, focusing on the Iran-Contra Affair and the Strategic Defense Initiative

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Cynthia Arnson incorporates substantial amounts of new primary source and recently declassified material coming out of the Iran-Contra trials and other Freedom of Information Act requests in this new edition of Crossroads. She also includes an entirely new chapter that carries the story of the Nicaragua and El Salvador policy debates to the end of the Bush Administration.

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9780271010991 | 2 sub edition (Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $60.50 | About this edition: Cynthia Arnson incorporates substantial amounts of new primary source and recently declassified material coming out of the Iran-Contra trials and other Freedom of Information Act requests in this new edition of Crossroads.

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9780271010984 | 2 edition (Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $25.95

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Product Description: Oliver North tells his side of the Iran-Contra affair in this revealing autobiography. 11 cassettes.

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9780060183349 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Recounts his background and training, his military career and service in Vietnam, and his years at the White House, and discusses his role in the Iran-Contra Affair and his reasons for taking part in it

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9780061090561 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Recounts his background and training, his military career and service in Vietnam, and his years at the White House, and discusses his role in the Iran-Contra Affair

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9780786104680 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 1993), cover price $76.95 | About this edition: Oliver North tells his side of the Iran-Contra affair in this revealing autobiography.
9781559946148 | Harperaudio, October 1, 1991, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Oliver North tells his side of the Iran-Contra affair in this revealing autobiography.

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Product Description: Through a close inspection of empirical evidence, the authors wish to show how high-level policymakers are beset by complex decision-making tasks that the rational and systemic perspective fails entirely to take into account. This book focuses on the contributions of both cognitive psychology and the analysis of bureaucratic politics to the understanding of foreign policy decisions made by individuals, small groups, and large organizations...read more

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9780819190758 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 1, 1993, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: Through a close inspection of empirical evidence, the authors wish to show how high-level policymakers are beset by complex decision-making tasks that the rational and systemic perspective fails entirely to take into account.

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9780819190765 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 1, 1993, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: Through a close inspection of empirical evidence, the authors wish to show how high-level policymakers are beset by complex decision-making tasks that the rational and systemic perspective fails entirely to take into account.

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Product Description: This book examines the Iran-Contra affair, the trials of Poindexter and North and the testimony of Ronald Reagan as a test-case of political morality. It draws out the implications of the statements of North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, who were so convinced of the moral rightness of their actions that they were prepared to break the law, lie and destroy vital evidence...read more

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9781850433484 | Tauris Academic Studies, October 1, 1991, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Essays examine the key players in the Iran-Contra Affair, and analyzes what they were doing and what they thought they were doing, and evaluates the morality and ethics of the incident

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9781850435587, titled "Lives, Lies and the Iran-Contra Affair" | Reprint edition (Tauris Academic Studies, October 1, 1992), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This book examines the Iran-Contra affair, the trials of Poindexter and North and the testimony of Ronald Reagan as a test-case of political morality.

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The man who organized the sale of arms to Iran and funneled the proceeds to the contras reveals Reagan's secret Iran initiative, the president's knowledge of the operation, Bush's role in the initiative, and the secret war in Laos. Tour. (view table of contents)

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9780471573289 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his life, military career, experiences in Vietnam, and role in the Iran-Contra Affair

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A conservative political figure criticizes the 'criminalization' of his role in the overturning of Nicaragua's government when he served as Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs under the Reagan Administration.

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9780029001677 | Free Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A conservative political figure criticizes the 'criminalization' of his role in the overturning of Nicaragua's government

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Details the origins of the Iran-Contra scandal, the roles of Reagan, Bush, CIA Director Casey, and others, and argues that President Reagan clearly set the policy then feigned ignorance to escape blame

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9780809096138 | Hill & Wang Pub, May 1, 1991, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Details the origins of the Iran-Contra scandal, the roles of Reagan, Bush, CIA Director Casey, and others, and argues that President Reagan clearly set the policy then feigned ignorance to escape blame

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9780671778149 | Touchstone Books, June 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Details the origins of the Iran-Contra scandal, the roles of Reagan, Bush, CIA Director Casey, and others, and argues that President Reagan clearly set the policy then feigned ignorance to escape blame

Recounts the investigation and trial of Oliver North, examines how government lawyers build a case, and reveals a young lawyer's training

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9780140167702 | Rev upd edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1992), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Recounts the investigation and trial of Oliver North, examines how government lawyers build a case, and reveals a young lawyer's training

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Reveals the amazing story of Terry Waite's dealings in the Middle East before he was kidnapped, and tells how Oliver North and the U.S. government used the emissary to help supply a cover for arms-for-hostages deals. 50,000 first printing.

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9780316359900 | Little Brown & Co, December 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Argues that attempts by Oliver North and the United States government to manipulate Terry Waite resulted in his kidnapping

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