Suskind, Ron:
The Price of Loyalty; George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill - signiertes Exemplar
2018, ISBN: 9780743255455
Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe
Oxford: Oxford U. P., 2001. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xvi + 359pp., b/w pls., index, Author contends that there was widespread public knowledge about Concentration Camps… Mehr…
Oxford: Oxford U. P., 2001. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xvi + 359pp., b/w pls., index, Author contends that there was widespread public knowledge about Concentration Camps and persecution of minorities in Nazi Germany, and that large numbers of Germans participated in the Terror, Oxford U. P., 2001, 5, London: John Murray, 2000. 1st edition. New Book. octavo. dust jacket xx + 636pp., bibliog., index, Author contends that Germans, unless they were a persecuted minority, were not worried by the Gestapo, who were quite indulgent to the local populationÕs transgressions, provided that they were Ôgood GermansÕ, John Murray, 2000, 6, Paperback / softback. New. Representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict the women as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and offer evidence of the means to their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. Lisa Ze Winters contends that these representations conceal the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora., 6, US: Routledge, 2018. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This book argues that the international refugee regime and its 'temporary' humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global liv e in 'protracted' conditions that extend from years to decades, without leg al status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended th at they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and c ease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S hifting the conversation away from the salient discourse of 'solutions' and technical fixes within state-centric international relations, the authors recover the subjectivity lost for those stuck in extended exile. The book first argues that humanitarian assistance to refugees remains vita l to people's survival, even after the emergency phase is over. It then con nects asylum politics in the global North with the intransigence of extende d exile in the global South. By placing the urgent crises of protracted exi le within a broader constellation of power relations, both historical and g eographical, the authors present research and empirical findings gleaned fr om refugees in Iran, Kenya and Canada and from humanitarian and government workers. Each chapter reveals patterns of power circulating through the 'co lonial present', Cold War legacies, and the global 'war on terror". Seeking to render legible the more quotidian struggles and livelihoods of people who find themselves defined as refugees, this book will be of great interest to interna., Routledge, 2018, 3, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton, Inc, 1984. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 334, [2] pages. Endpaper maps. Includes 59 black and white illustrations. Foreword. Chapters include Thirty-Five Years, Christmas 1944--Christmas 1980; "Frostbite March", The Armies and the Refugees: December 1944-February 1945; Bombs Away! Ideas of Air Power: 1918-1945; The Target: In Dresden: 1200-1945; The Dresden Decision: The Fatal Minutes and Memos; 'Enjoy the War for the Peace will be Awful': Marking-Up the Target: 13 February 1945; 'The Swine! The Swine!' The First Wave of Attack: 10-10.25 p.m., 13 February 1945; Ways Through the 'Witches' Cauldron'; 'Mummy, Where Are You?' The Third Attack: 12.15-12.25 p.m., 14 February 1945; 'Learn How to Weep' Aftermath, and the Fourth Attack: 15-23 February 1945; "Acts of Terror and Wanton Destruction", International Repercussions: February--April 1945 and After; 'Activists from the First Hour'--The Red Army Reaches Dresden: May 1945; 'Who Knows Us?' Dresden: 1945-1980. Sources and Acknowledgments, Bibliography, and Index. Alexander Paul Charrier McKee OBE (25 July 1918 - 22 July 1992) was a British journalist and military historian, who published nearly thirty books. In the Second World War, McKee served in the British Army. After the War he became a writer and producer for the British Forces Network in Germany. After demobilization, McKee wrote plays for BBC radio. His plays covered Trotsky's assassination, Dr. Semmelweiss's campaign to get modern standards of hygiene adopted, and the "mad" monk Rasputin's seemingly hypnotic influence on the Russian Imperial Family. In this compelling narrative, Alexander McKee examines motive, morality and responsibility in the horrific Allied raid on Dresden, Germany. Undefended and without strategic significance, this historic city sheltered a million people, half of them refugees. On February 13-15, 1945, 1,300 British and American aircrafts dropped 5,000 tons of incendiary and high-explosive bombs, destroying Dresden and causing a 3,000 F firestorm. Between 35,000 and 100,000 people died, among them American, British and Russian prisoners of war. Survivors' accounts capture the hope and courage that transcended the horror of the raid. In analyzing the rationale and planning behind the raid, McKee dissects the leadership egos, command rivalries, and hidden agendas that insidiously promoted terror bombing as a British policy later shared by her American ally. And in demonstrating that the Dresden raid's permanent moral cost greatly exceeded its temporary military benefits, he gives contemporary military strategist powerful reason for restraint. Derived from a Kirkus review: A worthy attempt to "bring out the terrible truth" about the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden at the close of World War II--widely condemned at the time and made indelible in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. The passing years, moreover, have brought only further disrepute to WW II strategic bombing. But military historian McKee, appalled at word and sight of Dresden, still smarts at British Bomber Command justifications. The author interweaves myriad individual stories and the extensive eyewitness testimony is potent. The mass of material supplies clarification of what occurred. The lead-up and the attempts to disclaim responsibility are well-known, however; and much of the continuing controversy is an internal British one. McKee contends that much remains to be told in the US: from initial unwillingness to condemn an ally to Cold War reluctance to give propaganda to the Russians. The book may re-focus interest on the issue., E. P. Dutton, Inc, 1984, 3, New York: Hyperion, 1999. First Edition [stated]. Fifth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Paul J. Pugliese (Map). xiii, [3], 265, [5] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Map. Minor wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by author sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. Linda Greenlaw was the first female sea captain in the swordfishing fleet and has skippered a boat through two terrible storms. In this book, she relives some of the most exciting and frightening trips of her life, including the five-day trip during which she encountered a 48-hour ocean storm. Linda Greenlaw, provides the details of one memorable event searching for fish in the waters off Newfoundland. Unlike so many other accounts that tell of disasters at sea, The Hungry Ocean provides an informative look at the typical routine of a successful fishing voyage. Linda Greenlaw is known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her own, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick. Derived from a Kirkus review. A precise account of what happens aboard a swordfishing boat on the Grand Banks when it is not being terrorized by a perfect storm. It is Greenlaw's intention to tell the story of a typical swordfishing trip, how she manages the boat, crew, and fishing during the month they will be together at sea pulling a 40-mile longline. And she does tease from the everyday a fixating description of the fisherman's shipboard day, preparing for and pulling in the harvest and contending with that temperamental nuisance known as the weather. Then there is the simple nature of the work, the hundreds of hours of arduous physical labor squeezed in a few weeks, under brutal conditions, that you might not get paid for. Greenlaw is a savvy captain with a knack for knowing the mood of both her crew and the weather. There is a noticeable lack of sting and fear when things go wrong. Absent as well are doubts or confusions Greenlaw might have understandably entertained about this or that, which undercuts any rawness or immediacy demanded by the retelling of events. Still, this is a welcome flip side to the multitude of hellzapoppin' peril-at-sea stories., Hyperion, 1999, 3, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 25 cm. [10], 180, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Embossed stamp on t-p. Frank Charles Barnaby is Nuclear Issues Consultant to the Oxford Research Group, a freelance defence analyst, and a prolific author on military technology, based in the UK. Barnaby trained as a nuclear physicist and worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, between 1951 and 1957. He was on the senior scientific staff of the Medical Research Council (UK) when a university lecturer at University College London (1957-67). Barnaby was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 1971-81. In 1981, Barnaby became a founding member of the World Cultural Council. He was a Professor at the VU University Amsterdam 1981-85, and awarded the Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the University of Minnesota in 1985. Barnaby contends that future wars may be fought entirely by machines--with little or no direct human involvement. Derived from a Kirkus review: Nuclear physicist Barnaby examines how tanks, aircraft, missiles, and warships are being revolutionized by the new technologies. He argues that besides changing the nature of weapons, these changes alter the logistic needs of the military. Armies can ill afford to lose large numbers of soldiers, since the complicated new weaponry and the skilled operators it requires add greatly to the costs of training. It is not only the brawn of the military that is affected but the brains also. No longer can we look towards the likes of the great military strategists of the past, unless their names include VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit). Barnaby calls for a ""conventional non-provocative defensive deterrence."" This is based upon ensuring that the size, structure, weapons, logistics, training, maneuvers, war games, textbooks, etc., demonstrate in their totality a defensive posture, with no possibilities for offense., Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986, 3, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. very good/very good. ix, [9], 348, [2] pages. Index. Small corner crease on front DJ flap. Signed by the author on the title page. Ronald Steven "Ron" Suskind (born November 20, 1959) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and best-selling author. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000 and has published the books A Hope in the Unseen, The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World, Confidence Men, and his memoir Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for articles in the Wall Street Journal that became the starting point for his first book, A Hope in the Unseen. Suskind has written books on the George W. Bush Administration, the Barack Obama Administration, and related issues of the United States' use of power. Paul Henry O'Neill (born December 4, 1935) served as the 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first term. He was fired in December 2002 for his public disagreement with the administration. Prior to his term as Secretary of the Treasury, O'Neill was chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based industrial giant Alcoa and chairman of the RAND Corporation. Ron Suskind interviewed O'Neill extensively about his tenure in the Bush Administration. He was also given access to a large amount of documentation. In 2004 he produced the book The Price of Loyalty, detailing O'Neill's tenure in the Bush Administration. The book describes many of the conflicts that O'Neill had with the Bush administration. The book also details O'Neill's criticisms of some of Bush's economic policies. O'Neill claims that Bush appeared somewhat unquestioning and uncurious, and that the war in Iraq was planned from the first National Security Council meeting, soon after the administration took office. At the first cabinet meeting of the new Bush administration, O'Neill observed that the debate was not "should we attack Iraq?" but rather "how do we go about attacking Iraq?" O'Neill viewed this as a violation of earlier guarantees that (then-presidential candidate) Bush would refrain from nation building endeavors during his time in office.The candid assessments of Paul O'Neill, who was for two years Treasury Secretary under President George W. Bush. The Price of Loyalty was published on January 13, 2004. The book, which chronicled the two-year tenure of United States Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, was about the conduct and character of the Bush presidency. While the book covered a number of foreign and domestic issues, it is focussed on events that culminated in the Iraq War. Among the disclosures in the book, which drew from numerous sources and more than 19,000 internal government documents, one was that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the U.S. occupation of Iraq was planned from Bush's first U.S. National Security Council meeting in January 2001, soon after Bush took office. This lay in contrast to the perception that concerns over Iraq came to the forefront after the September 11 attacks in 2001. Administration officials have contended that O'Neill confused contingency plans with actual plans for invasion.Rather than denying his allegations, Bush officials attacked O'Neill's credibility, while answering that regime change in Iraq had been official U.S. policy since 1998, three years before Bush took office. However, O'Neill's claims called into question the relationship of the Iraq occupation to the post-9/11 War on Terrorism. After the cover sheet of a packet containing classified information was shown during a 60 Minutes interview of O'Neill and Suskind, the United States Department of Treasury investigated whether both men had improperly received classified materials. It concluded in March 2004 that no laws were violated, but that inadequate document handling policies at the Treasury had allowed 140 documents which should have been marked classified to be entered into a computer system for unclassified documents. The documents were among those subsequently released to O'Neill in response to a legal document request and then given to Suskind. In domestic affairs, the statements by O'Neill about the administration's allegedly chaotic and politically driven policy-making process supported the claims of John DiIulio. O'Neill stated that Vice President Cheney had become part of "a co-presidency" with George W. Bush. One of the book's disclosures involved the conflict between O'Neill and Cheney over what would become the 2003 tax cut. O'Neill, in a November 2002 meeting with Cheney and other senior officials, said that it was unprecedented to cut taxes at a time of war and that the cuts-which included the wealthiest Americans-would eventually push the government toward "fiscal crisis." Cheney's response was, "Reagan proved deficits don't matter. We won the midterms. This is our due." O'Neill opposed this policy., Simon & Schuster, 2004, 3<