Michael William: 249 books
How Beautiful the Ordinary
Twelve Stories of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had "an...
Blue Moon over Cuba
Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Most books on the Cuban Missile Crisis tell the story using the memoirs of those who advised President Kennedy as he struggled to avoid World War III. This book is the only known personal account of the lead photographic reconnaissance squadron's scouting dangerous low-level operations, flying the...
Theology and Public Philosophy
Four Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America’s public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that...
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how...
The United States and the International Criminal Court
National Security and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century.
The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide....
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
by John Judis, Alan L. Berger, Bruce S. Warshal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When he assumed the presidency in April 1945, Harry S. Truman inherited various international sources of turmoil, including the ambiguity of American policy toward political Zionism. Three years later, President Truman recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, just 11 minutes after the announcement...
Reagan and the World
Leadership and National Security, 1981--1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought "peace through strength" during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and scholars have argued over the president's legacy: some consider Reagan a charismatic and consummate leader who renewed American strength and defeated communism....
Madness in Mogadishu
Commanding the 10th Mountain Division's Quick Reaction Company during Black Hawk Down
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down over the Somali capital of Mogadishu, leaving a handful of U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force operators at the mercy of several thousand approaching militants. Ordered to "go find the glow"--the burning wreckage--hard-charging...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
1000 Years of Sobriety
20 People x 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Twenty people who have each been sober for more than fifty years tell their recovery stories--and offer actionable advice to others who are in recovery.
1000 Years of Sobriety features the moving personal accounts of twenty men and women who have each remained sober for more than fifty years....
Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations
A Guide to Sustainable World-Class Capability and Results
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations clearly defines how to achieve and maintain a supply chain leadership position by focusing on real-world execution and detailed integration of specific actions and process techniques. These distinguished experts and accomplished authors have gathered the...
Class and Power in the New Deal
Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates,...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...