Cold War

With more than 65 years of participation in and observation of political and economic systems, Paul T. Hellyer analyzes what he believes has gone wrong with the world and its economy....

In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in 1967, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story....

Forged in War takes a critical look at the systems we use and how we ended up in a society that values data over personal liberty and commerce over the public good....

A likeness between things, when the things are otherwise entirely different, is an analogy. Comparing one situation to another in order to gain ...

In The Games, Goldblatt delivers a magisterial history of the biggest sporting event of them all: the Olympics. He tells the epic story of the games....

In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life....

It is 1964, the height of the Cold War, and British Intelligence is riding high with its top double agent network: Constellation....

Both deeply personal and taking a broader historical view, My Russia is a passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country....

One of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works...

Follow the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan in this course by his acclaimed biographer Dr. Steven F. Hayward....

Though it never got "hot", the Cold War was a tense era until the dissolution of the USSR. And nothing symbolized the split more than the Berlin Wall, which literally divided the city....

Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting - the Constitutional Convention - presidents have struggled to balance open government with necessary secrecy....

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West....

Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and 1940s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others....

From Vietnam vet Ronald Wheatley, A Time for War features in-depth interviews with 65 veterans who served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan....

In US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy, a team of international scholars examines how the relationship between foreign policy and electoral politics evolved through the latter half of the 20th century....

The Billion Dollar Spy chronicles the six-year relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency and engineer, Adolf Tolkachev, who spied on the Soviet Union for the United States....

"A Gathering Storm" is an illuminative journey into the heart of global conflicts, unravelling their complex and multi-dimensional roots, right at ...

In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker and institution builder....

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Collection: The USSR 1 features three wild travel tales of unbelievable things that could have happened to you during the old Cold War Soviet Union communist era....