American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
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    • The Congregationalists >
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    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
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      • Eleanor and Franklin
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      • On Her Own
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

BINKIN, MARTIN. Who Will Fight the Next War? (1993). The author focuses on “the changing face of the American military” through the Gulf War, including the place of women and African Americans in the armed forces.

CLARKE, RICHARD. Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror (1994). A chief counterintelligence specialist under Clinton and Bush, Clarke describes the Bush administration’s tendency to distort facts in persuading Americans to go to war with Iraq in 2003.

JENTLESON, BRUCE W. With Friends Like These (1996). Details the ways that Presidents Reagan and Bush supported Saddam Hussein as a counterweight to Muslim fundamentalist regimes in the Middle East.

LANE, CHARLES. “The Legend of Colin Powell,” New Republic, April 17, 1995. Brings to light some of the criticisms of Powell’s career—many of which strike me, however, as overstated or unfounded.

LEOGRANDE, WILLIAM M. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992 (1998). History of U.S. support—often secret—of counterinsurgency in Nicaragua and El Salvador during the final years of the cold war.

MOSKOS, CHARLES C., ET AL., EDITORS. The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces after the Cold War (2000). Essays on the evolution of the military in twelve Western democracies during the past decade.

PELLETIERE, STEPHEN C. “War Crime or an Act of War.” New York Times, January 31, 2003, section A, page 29. Pelletiere, who was the CIA’s senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war, makes the argument that Iran and Iraq share the responsibility for the civilian deaths at Halabja in March 1988.

POWELL, COLIN. My American Journey (1995). Powell’s book is one of the best-written and most informative autobiographies by any American public figure.

PRUDEN, CAROLINE. Conditional Partners: Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the Search for a Permanent Peace(1988). Americans in 2003 were following closely the relationship between the United States and the United Nations over Iraq. This book describes the early history of cooperation and tension between the United States and the United Nations, focusing on such matters as Korea, Indochina, and Guatemala.

WOODWARD, BOB. The Commanders (1991). Colorful contemporary account of the Gulf War and its leaders.

———. Bush at War (2002). The first year of the George W. Bush’s presidency, including the war in Afghanistan and the role of Colin Powell in placing the Iraq question before the United Nations.

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