world politics

Bruno Salvador, the orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese woman, is inspired by his mentor at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages, and becomes a British agent with conflicting loyalties.

Attempts to determine whether or not the United States should become involved when violence breaks out in other countries.

Argues that world political actions and decisions are being configured along cultural rather than economic or religious lines and looks at the issues and areas most likely to be in the forefront in the near future.

A collection of approximately forty essays, written over the course of seventy-five years, that illuminate America's twentieth-century encounters with the world, drawn from the pages of "Foreign Affairs" magazine. Organized thematically within decade-by-decade chapters.

On cover: Profiles and reminiscenes of men who have shaped the modern world.

A historical account of the Truman presidency discussing the man, his personal views and quarrels, foreign policy decisions, legislation and programs, and his political strategies.

Presents in newspaper format facts relating to the French, American, Russian, and Chinese revolutions.