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The author relies on recently published government records and FBI files to reveal the myths surrounding Joseph McCarthy and his political campaign to uncover Communist sympathizers in America during the 1950s.

A history of the Cold War, focusing on the escalation of the stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1952 and 1963, and discussing the role of various leaders and other participants on both sides of the conflict.

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from the Soviet crackdown on Moscow's Helsinki Watch Group in February-March 1977, to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Includes a review of post-1991 developments.

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from Khrushchev's denoucement of the Stalinist regime in 1956, to the formation of a Soviet citizen group to investigate political abuses of psychiatry in 1977.

"An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the features and history of the Kennedy Space Center. Includes several fun facts and a That's Amazing! feature.

Chronicles the events leading up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the details of the attack itself, and the ensuing reaction of the United States.

"Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Does it migrate, become malleable or transmuted? What is authentic, sacred, kitsch? Using documentary and conceptual photographic strategies, acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie explores the meaning of Chinese-ness in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the United States, and in China. Huie, the youngest of six children and the only one born in the United States, grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, where images of pop culture fed, formed, and confused him. At times his own parents seemed foreign and exotic. His visit to China in 2010 compounded the confusion: his American-ness made him as visible there as his Chinese-ness did in Minnesota. To make sense of his experiences, Huie photographed and interviewed people of Chinese descent and those influenced by Chinese-ness. Their multifaceted perspectives project humor and irony, as well as cultural guilt and uncertainty. In a series of diptychs, Huie wears the clothes of Chinese men whose lives he could have lived, blurring the boundary between photographer and subject. How does Chinese-ness collide with American-ness? And who gets to define those hyphenated abstract nouns? Part meta-memoir and part actual memoir, 'Chinese-ness' reframes today's conversations about race and identity"--Provided by publisher.

" ... the Mueller inquiry focuses on Donald Trump, his presidential campaign, and Russian interference in the 2016 election, and draws on the testimony of dozens of witnesses and the work of some of the country's most seasoned prosecutors" -- Back of cover.

Provides an account of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 from both the U.S. and Soviet perspectives, looking at the factors that led to the crisis, and discussing how the dangerous situation was defused.