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By Peter Finn, Petra Couvée. 2014
Journalist Finn and translator Couvée examine the life and major work of Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), author of Doctor Zhivago (DB…
75275). Details influences on the novel, writing culture in the Soviet state, how the novel was published, and its use by Western intelligence agencies as Cold War propaganda. Some strong language. 2014By Elizabeth A. Fenn. 2014
Historian Elizabeth Fenn examines discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, and epidemiology to retrieve the history of the Mandan Indians,…
a tribe of Plains people who lived along the upper Missouri River. Twenty-first century archaeological finds are referenced to demonstrate how the Mandan society thrived and later collapsed. 2014By James Risen. 2014
Author of State of War (DB 61826) examines the financial cost of war and governmental waste. Discusses duplication of efforts…
by federal agencies, loss of aid dollars sent to war-torn countries, and the persecution of whistleblowers within the United States. 2014By Karen Abbott. 2014
Profiles of four women and their service during the Civil War. Discusses Emma Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man…
and fought for the Union Army; Belle Boyd, who was a Confederate spy; Rose O'Neal Greenhow, another Confederate spy; and Elizabeth Van Lew, who spied for the Union. 2014By Charles C. Mann, Martin Martinez-Lage. 2013
Analiza el ascenso y la caída de los imperios indígenas de las Américas y ofrece conclusiones de la investigación antropológica…
y arqueológica sobre el hemisferio occidental antes de la exploración europea. Examina la evidencia de una gran población indígena y su impacto ecológico sobre el medio ambiente a través de la modificación de los cultivos, el paisajismo, y la agricultura en la selva tropical. Traducido del Inglés. ViolenciaBy Vernon Loeb, Jack Devine. 2014
Devine (born 1940) describes joining the Central Intelligence Agency in the late-1960s after working as a high school social studies…
teacher and part-time teamster. Explains his roles as an overseas covert operative and as leader of the mission known as "Charlie Wilson's War." Examines the culture of intelligence gathering. 2014By Kyle T Mays. 2021
The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our…
understanding of who was Indigenous in early America Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian, Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled for freedom, sometimes together, and sometimes apart. Whether to end African enslavement and Indigenous removal or eradicate capitalism and colonialism, Mays show how the fervor of Black and Indigenous peoples calls for justice have consistently sought to uproot white supremacy. Mays uses a wide-array of historical activists and pop culture icons, &“sacred&” texts, and foundational texts like the Declaration of Independence and Democracy in America. He covers the civil rights movement and freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, and explores current debates around the use of Native American imagery and the cultural appropriation of Black culture. Mays compels us to rethink both our history as well as contemporary debates and to imagine the powerful possibilities of Afro-Indigenous solidarityBy Tennent H. Bagley, T. H Bagley. 2013
Former CIA officer Bagley examines the life of KGB chief Sergey Kondrashev--Bagley's counterpart and later friend. Discusses KGB operations during…
the Cold War and reveals previously unknown breaches of security. Reminiscences include Kondrashev's interpreting for Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President John Kennedy. 2013By Larry Hancock, Stuart Wexler, Larry J Hancock. 2014
Details the history and evolution of America's covert war activities. Examines how they have been authorized and practiced, their patterns…
and consequences, and why presidents have turned to secret military action. 2014By John Rizzo, John Anthony Rizzo. 2014
Serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, John Rizzo witnessed and participated in virtually every major operation of the…
CIA's modern history. Former chief legal officer of the agency, he charts its evolution from shadowy entity to an organization subject to new laws, rules, and public scrutiny. 2014By Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger. 2008
Wallace, former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service, and Melton, an expert on clandestine devices, survey spy gadgets…
from World War II to the War on Terror. Describes cameras, microphones, disguises, and encryption systems; their use in the field; and transition into the digital age. 2008Author of American Lightning (DB 68656) examines the development of a German spy ring in the United States just before…
the country's entry into World War I. Details efforts of the New York Police Department's Bomb and Neutrality Squad to uncover the ring and counteract its machinations. Some violence. 2014By Bob Drury, Tom Clavin. 2013
Examination of the life of Red Cloud (1821?-1909), leader of the Oglala Sioux, who created a coalition of Plains Indians…
that successfully waged war against the United States Army between 1866 and 1868. Discusses his challenges in early childhood, battle tactics, and eventual rise to statesman. 2013By Roger L. Nichols. 2013
Historian examines the relationship between the United States government and Native American tribes from the late 1700s to the late…
1800s. Analyzes why the military option was so frequently chosen through a chronological series of case studies of individual wars. Some violence. 2013By Terry Mort, T. A Mort. 2013
Details the February 1861 events that sparked years of war between the Chiricahua Apaches and the U.S. Army and white…
settlers in the West. Describes the mistakes of inexperienced lieutenant George Bascom after a rancher's stepson was kidnapped and the subsequent acts of revenge by Indian leader Cochise. 2013By Scott C. Johnson. 2013
Former Newsweek foreign correspondent contemplates his childhood abroad and describes the sense of betrayal he felt when he learned that…
his dad was a spy. Discusses his own career as a journalist in hot spots such as Afghanistan and Iraq--and occasionally crossing paths with his father. Strong language. 2012By Joseph Epes Brown, Black Elk. 1989
Recounts the 1947 recording of elderly Native American Black Elk (born c. 1862) revealing to anthropologist Brown the seven sacred…
rites of his people, the Oglala Sioux. Rituals included purification, vision, the sun dance, and the sacred pipe. 1953By Stephen Kinzer. 2013
Biography of siblings John Foster Dulles, secretary of state from 1953 to 1959, and Allen Dulles, CIA director from 1953…
to 1961, who controlled American foreign policy during the Cold War. Describes their role in shaping policies that still had an impact more than a half-century later. 2013By Mark Mazzetti. 2013
Award-winning New York Times journalist tracks the militarization of the CIA and its use of special forces after the September…
11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Discusses targeted killings via drone strikes and the emergence of a military-intelligence alliance to carry out this new style of war. 2013By Clare Mulley. 2013
Examination of the life of Christine Granville, née Krystyna Skarbek (1908-1952), a spy for Britain's Special Operations Executive during World…
War II. Details her early years in Poland, operations she ran, and her many lovers--one of whom murdered her. Some violence. 2012