1945-1989

Republican Senator Jesse Helms recounts the events that have shaped his life and political views, discussing his childhood, relationship with his parents, career in journalism, early political career, election to the Senate, and other related topics.

Chronicles the history of recording devices in the White House from the microphone that was placed in FDR's desk lamp in 1940 through the video recordings of Clinton's time in the Oval Office, discussing how those tapes have changed the way Americans view the presidency.

Contains political cartoons describing two decades of American history.

Analyzes dozens of presidential campaign commercials according to the truth-in-advertising standards imposed on product commercials and discusses how presidents and presidential candidates use television.

Discusses the true cost of America's victory in the Cold War against the Soviet Union, arguing that the U.S. not only expended money on warheads, foreign aid, soldiers, propaganda, and intelligence, it also paid the price in wasted time and talent in industry, science, education, trade, and the loss of pubic confidence.

Presents the inaugural address given by John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961, after he was elected as the thirty-fifth President of the United States, along with other addresses given by Kennedy during his presidency.

A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners. Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when Allende fell; he ran Charlie Wilson's war in Afghanistan; he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it; he caught Pablo Escobar in Colombia; he tried to warn George Tenet that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. Devine served America's interests for more than thirty years in a wide range of covert operations, ultimately overseeing the Directorate of Operations, a CIA division that watches over thousands of American covert operatives worldwide. Good Hunting is his guide to the art of spycraft, told with great wit, candor, and commonsense wisdom. Caricatured by Hollywood, lionized by the right, and pilloried by the left, the CIA remains one of the least understood instruments of the United States government. Devine knows more than almost anyone about the CIA's vital importance as a tool of American statecraft. Now, as he sees it, the agency is trapped within a larger bureaucracy, losing swaths of turf to the military and, most ominous of all, being transformed into a paramilitary organization. Its capacity to do what it does best has been seriously degraded. In wonderfully readable prose, Good Hunting aims to set the record straight. This is a revelatory inside look at an organization whose history has not been given its real due.

"The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible assets against their new Cold War enemies. When the Justice Department finally investigated and learned the truth, the results were classified and buried. Using the dramatic story of one former perpetrator who settled in New Jersey, conned the CIA into hiring him, and begged for the agency's support when his wartime identity emerged, Eric Lichtblau tells the full, shocking story of how America became a refuge for hundreds of postwar Nazis"--.

Declan Hayes explores the threats Japan faces in the coming decades, particularly if the United States downscales its military presence in the region.