This parallels to the predicted reaction that the Pentagon expected from "U.S. noncombatants" in recently declassified reports that have begun to be released to the general public. ... By storing these massive amounts of radioactive booty at his house and trading to the local town's folk starts a radioactive epidemic that claims the lives of three more Fort Reposians before killing Porky himself. This doesn't seem very important in Frank's book at first, but it's most likely a very realistic picture of how our society thinks in some ways. ... Frank is most likely trying to ...

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Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... RFK's book offers that the Intelligence Community in 1962 gave JFK reports that the Soviet Union would not make Cuba a military base, " the risk of retaliation from the United States would be too great to take the risk in this case- [p.6]. ... RFK admits that once the quarantine started President Kennedy had no control over the course of events [p.49]. ... That decision shows how high the stakes were during the Cold War and how the decisions by innately fallible humans can affect the course of history. ... It al...

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Throughout the book you come to find that Truman had some people that he was not very fond of. ... The Book brings to light several interesting facts, both on the good and bad or disturbing in some cases. The introduction of mass media was just starting and Truman used it to his advantage, "Truman's State of the Union address on January 6, 1947, was the first to be televised" (pg 157)." ... Although General Landry was more than qualified his report stated that there was nothing of substance to be considered credible or a threat. ... He also loved seeing how technology changed over time,...

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Time can change many things included how humans see world around them. ... Historian Michael Lind in his book "Vietnam the Necessary War" mention that China aided North Vietnam with as much as 327,000 soldiers. ... Government overstates danger, and understates, or did not report true situation in South Vietnam. ... When I started read about Vietnam War I mainly concentrated on wrongness of the war, but as I went further, it became that it is impossible to judge. ... Yet it is impossible to predict what would occur if the war would never start. ...

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-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... As the 1940's began to wind down, U.S officials started to understand the ineffect...

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The New American reported in its December 13, 1993 issue Birch once wrote in a poem that he desired to "live slowly, to relax with my family before a glowing fireplace ... to enjoy a good book ... to reach the sunset of my life sound in body and mind, flanked by strong sons and grandsons."" ... Then he began to put the pieces together and started to realize that America was at great risk. ... In 1924, Lenin explained his theory of how Communism will take over the world. ... The magazine spoke of the Conspiracy and how deeply entrenched it was in America. ... Welch went on to publish Rev...

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• Grade Level: High School

This book does not try to make a political statement by addressing the issues surrounding America's involvement in Vietnam. ... Once the foundation had been laid, the book jumped quickly into the story of the battle. Here are a few examples of the most memorable short stories told in the book. ... To properly understand how America's involvement in Vietnam came about one must look back into history a long ways. ... It has been suggested using declassified documents that General Taylor and General Harkin deliberately misled the President with falsified reports about U.S. military prog...

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Martin McCauley states in his book Khrushchev and Khrushchevism, "Khrushchev could not grasp the root causes of the deficiencies he was attempting to eliminate. ... As a result, "The number of sovnarkhozy was reduced by mergers, a process that illustrated the need for a hierarchical management system to limit its transaction costs by containing the number of reporting units to be supervised at each level. ... As time past during Khrushchev's reign his actions started to drive a wedge between him and those who he needed to carry out his policies. In Khrushchev and Khrushchevism Martin McC...

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Martin McCauley states in his book Khrushchev and Khrushchevism, "Khrushchev could not grasp the root causes of the deficiencies he was attempting to eliminate. ... As a result, "The number of sovnarkhozy was reduced by mergers, a process that illustrated the need for a hierarchical management system to limit its transaction costs by containing the number of reporting units to be supervised at each level. ... As time past during Khrushchev's reign his actions started to drive a wedge between him and those who he needed to carry out his policies. In Khrushchev and Khrushchevism Martin McC...

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In the opening of his book on Japan's foreign policy Michael Green speaks to the difficulty of ascertaining the states objectives, or even if they have any at all. ... This has much to do with the states economic strength, and how it has become a technological giant. ... Japan's trade abroad with its" main ally, the United States, for many years has been how the state integrates itself with other states. ... Instead of collapsing beneath its widely reported political and economic misfortunes, Japan's global cultural influence has quietly grown. ... Thus the debate in Japan i...

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