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Disciples

The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan

By: Douglas Waller

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Disciples

The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan

By: Douglas Waller

They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had--Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451693729

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9781451693720

Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community, 1946-2005

By: Douglas F. Garthoff

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Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community, 1946-2005

By: Douglas F. Garthoff

President Harry Truman created the job of director of central intelligence (DCI) in 1946 so that he and other senior administration officials could turn to one person for foreign intelligence briefings. The DCI was the head of the Central Intelligence Group until 1947, when he became the director of the newly created Central Intelligence Agency. This book profiles each DCI and explains how they performed in their community role, that of enhancing cooperation among the many parts of the nation's intelligence community and reporting foreign intelligence to the president. The book also discusses the evolving expectations that U.S. presidents through George W. Bush placed on their foreign intelligence chiefs. Although head of the CIA, the DCI was never a true national intelligence chief with control over the government's many arms that collect and analyze foreign intelligence. This limitation conformed to President Truman's wishes because he was wary of creating a powerful and all-knowing intelligence chief in a democratic society. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress and President Bush decided to alter the position of DCI by creating a new director of national intelligence position with more oversight and coordination of the government's myriad programs. Thus this book ends with Porter Goss in 2005, the last DCI. Douglas Garthoff's book is a unique and important study of the nation's top intelligence official over a roughly fifty-year period. His work provides the detailed historical framework that is essential for all future studies of how the U.S. intelligence community has been and will be managed.

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362

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612343651

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9781612343655

The AIDS Crisis

A Documentary History

By: Douglas A. Feldman,Julia Miller

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The AIDS Crisis

A Documentary History

By: Douglas A. Feldman,Julia Miller

AIDS has grown in just two decades from a rare disease to one that has already killed millions of men, women, and children worldwide. To help high school and college students understand the history and current status of AIDS as a social, political, psychological, public health, and cultural phenomenon, this documentary history provides 228 short and highly readable selections from primary and secondary sources of information about AIDS and HIV. Its scope covers the entire history of the epidemic from its beginnings to early 1997. The documents, many of which cannot easily be found elsewhere, will help the reader to understand and debate the many perspectives and points of view on this controversial topic. Douglas A. Feldman, one of the country's leading specialists in international and domestic AIDS social research, and Julia Wang Miller, a research consultant, have selected documents and provided explanatory introductions to them to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the sociocultural ramifications of AIDS. Following a narrative historical overview of the AIDS crisis, the work is organized into nine topical chapters: the history of HIV/AIDS; the impact of the epidemic in the United States and globally; HIV/AIDS within communities and populations; AIDS in the developing world; the human side of AIDS; the politics of AIDS; education and behavioral change; legal and ethical issues; and the future of AIDS. Each chapter contains an introductory narrative overview of the topic, brief explanatory introduction to each document, and list of suggested readings. A glossary of terms and an AIDS resource directory of organizations to contact for further information complete the work. This important documentary history belongs on the shelves of every public school and college and university library.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313007950

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9780313007958

Friends in High Places

The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford

By: Douglas Frantz,David McKean

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Friends in High Places

The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford

By: Douglas Frantz,David McKean

For more than forty years, Clark Clifford was Washington's consummate Democratic power broker - attorney and adviser to the nation's most influential leaders. His 1991 memoir, Counsel to the President, looked back on a remarkable career of public service. But the very year his autobiography was published, the Clifford legend began to crumble. Caught up in the scandal that destroyed the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the eighty-five-year-old Clifford was arrested on charges relating to his law firm's involvement with the outlaw bank. Though his case never went to trial, and his protege, Robert Altman, was found not guilty, Clifford's reputation was in ruins. How could such a man come to such an end? What happened? And why? In Friends in High Places, a noted investigative reporter and a chief investigator in the Senate inquiry on BCCI provide the answers. Drawing on original documents, more than a hundred interviews with Clifford's friends and adversaries, and fifty hours of interviews with Clifford himself, the authors reveal the drive and shrewdness that led Clifford to the pinnacle of power - and demonstrate convincingly that his involvement with BCCI was no aberration, but the bitter fruit of seeds planted at the beginning.

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476

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St. Martin's Press

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0316291625

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9780316291620

Street of Dreams

The Nature and Legacy of the 1960s

By: Douglas M. Knight

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Street of Dreams

The Nature and Legacy of the 1960s

By: Douglas M. Knight

The 1960s are well documented but not well understood; the rhetoric of and reaction to the decade continues to trouble American public discourse. This work by Douglas Knight, who served as president of Duke University from 1963 to 1969 during clashes on that campus, is not only an honest account of one institution's experience, but draws parallels to the situations on other campuses and seeks to comprehend the time and its enduring influence.

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Duke University Press

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0822309025

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9780822309024

Slavery by Another Name

The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two

By: Douglas A. Blackmon

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Slavery by Another Name

The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two

By: Douglas A. Blackmon

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

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429

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Icon Books

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1848314132

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9781848314139

The Strength of the Wolf

The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs

By: Douglas Valentine

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The Strength of the Wolf

The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs

By: Douglas Valentine

Voted Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice. The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), which existed from 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. The most successful federal law enforcement agency ever, the FBN was populated by some of the most amazing characters in American history, many of whom the author interviewed for this book. Working as undercover agents and with mercenary informers around the globe, these freewheeling "case making" agents penetrated the Mafia and the French connection, breaking all the rules in the process, and uncovering the Establishment's ties to organized crime. Targeted by the FBI and the CIA, the case-makers were, ironically, victims of their own fabulous success in hunting down society's predators. An incredible, never-before-told story, The Strength of the Wolf provides a new, exciting, and revealing look at an important chapter in American history.

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Verso Books

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1781686238

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9781781686232

He Loved to Carry the Message: The Collected Writings of Douglas Helms

By: Douglas Helms

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He Loved to Carry the Message: The Collected Writings of Douglas Helms

By: Douglas Helms

This volume is a collection of the writings of Douglas Helms on topics ranging from the history of the cotton boll weevil and the soils of the South to the history of soil and water conservation programs in the United States. They were authored over a more than thirty year career as a historian in the public service at the National Archives and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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735

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Lulu.com

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1105678466

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9781105678462

Who's who in Christian History

By: James Dixon Douglas

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Who's who in Christian History

By: James Dixon Douglas

Describes the men and women who made a lasting impact on Christian faith and experience. With over 1,500 biographical entries, this book is the most comprehensive resource available. It spans the first through the twentieth centuries--from Jesus and the apostles to Billy Graham and Mother Teresa. A great reference book for pastors, Bible students and teachers, or anyone desiring a one-volume biographical dictionary of who's who in Christian history.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842310142

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9780842310147

The Unfinished Presidency

Jimmy Carter's Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize

By: Douglas Brinkley

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The Unfinished Presidency

Jimmy Carter's Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize

By: Douglas Brinkley

Hailed by "Time" magazine as "a fascinating . . . rich, energetic American story", this extraordinary biography will transform America's perception of Jimmy Carter. Photos. National radio telephone tour.

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0140276165

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9780140276169

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Disciples

Disciples

Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community, 1946-2005

Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community, 1946-2005

The AIDS Crisis

The AIDS Crisis

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

Street of Dreams

Street of Dreams

Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name

The Strength of the Wolf

The Strength of the Wolf

He Loved to Carry the Message: The Collected Writings of Douglas Helms

He Loved to Carry the Message: The Collected Writings of Douglas Helms

Who's who in Christian History

Who's who in Christian History

The Unfinished Presidency

The Unfinished Presidency

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