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Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, ...

Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, ...

James G. Blight

U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988 James G. Blight, Janet M. Lang, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, John ... See also James G. Blight, Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Savage, MD: ...
Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers ...

Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers ...

James G. Blight

James G. Blight, David Lewis, and David A. Welch, “Cuba between the Superpowers, Antigua, 3-7 January 1991: Transcript of the Meetings”; typescript ( available from Brown University's Watson 1nstitute for 1nternational Studies, Providence, ...
The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

James G. Blight

Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara James G. Blight, Janet M. Lang. to Kennedy. See also Aleksander Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, “One Hell of a Gamble” Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958—1964 (New York: Norton, 1997), ...
The Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban ...

The Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban ...

James G. Blight

Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis James G. Blight. 3. Carnesale et al ., Living with Nuclear Weapons, p. 44. 4. Ibid., p. 68. 5. "Anatomy of a Crisis," CBS News special report, October 28, 1962, narrated by Charles Collingwood.
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam ...

Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam ...

Robert S. McNamara

In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy Robert S. McNamara, James Blight, Robert K. Brigham, Thomas J. Biersteker, ... This summary of the method of critical oral history is adapted from James G. Blight and David A. Welch, On ike Brink: ...
An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A ...

An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A ...

David Gioe

1 James G. Blight, Joseph S. Nye and David A. Welch, 'The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited', Foreign Affairs, 66/1 (Fall 1987) 188. 2 James G. Blight and David A. Welch, 'Risking “The Destruction of Nations”: Lessons of the Cuban Missile ...
American Oracle

American Oracle

David W. Blight

David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War’s centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier.
A Blight of Mages

A Blight of Mages

Karen Miller

But the lure of this great power reveals a darkness in Morgan which will bring their land to its knees. A Blight of Mages is set in the world of Karen Miller's Bestselling debut The Innocent Mage.
Riverside Quarterly

Riverside Quarterly

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Arthur Jean Cox's story, "The Blight," even more has a mildly antique charm. Like virtually everything here it seems like that exceptional good story that did turn up in the Gernsback magazines. "The Blight" owes little in style or plot to any of the ...
Race and Reunion

Race and Reunion

David W. BLIGHT

In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.
Why the Civil War Came

Why the Civil War Came

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Gabor S. Boritt, David W. Blight. Contributors David W Blight, Associate Professor of History and Black Studies at Amherst College, is author of Frederick Douglass' Civil Wtr: Keeping Faith in ]ubilee (1989), and editor of When This Cruel War Is ...
Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory & the American Civil War

Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory & the American Civil War

David W. Blight

In this collection of essays, Blight examines the meanings embedded in the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War, the nature of changing approaches to African American history, and the significance of race in the ways Americans, ...
Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers ...

Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers ...

James G. Blight

In tracing the developments of the Missile Crisis and beyond, this text presents and interprets a secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968.
Union & Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the ...

Union & Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the ...

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Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era David W. Blight, Brooks D. Simpson. Introduction. David W. Blight & BROOKS D. SIMPSON NOT long ago it seemed that American historians generally had moved beyond or around ...
The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the ...

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the ...

James G. Blight

On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the Cuban missile crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly ...
Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined

Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined

James G. Blight

With the benefit of new documentation, however - from U.S. government and Cuban exile sources - as well as the first-hand accounts of key participants, Politics of Illusion shows the current mythology to be just that.
Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the ...

Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the ...

James G. Blight

Describes the events leading to the missile crisis, analyzes American actions, and shares the opposing viewpoints of American and Russian experts.
Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived

Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived

James G. Blight

Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House officials from both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the analysis of top historians, this book presents compelling evidence that JFK was ...
Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, ...

Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, ...

James G. Blight

Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the ...
The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the ...

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the ...

James G. Blight

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis transports the reader back to October 1962, telling a story as gripping as any fictional apocalyptic novel.
Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home

Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home

Matthew Pinsker

The members formed an all-star cast of Lincoln and Civil War— era scholars and included Jean Baker, James Basker, David Blight, Gabor Boritt, David Donald, Allen Guelzo, Harold Holzer, David Long, Phillip Paludan, Gary Scott, and ...
Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City), ...

Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City), ...

Heather Allison Long

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New Spring: A Wheel of Time Prequel

New Spring: A Wheel of Time Prequel

Robert Jordan

The city of Canluum lies close to the scarred and desolate wastes of the Blight, a walled haven from the dangers away to the north, and a refuge from the ill works of those who serve the Dark One.
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!

Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!

Patrick F. McManus

The author journeys through the great outdoors with tales of Rancid Crabtree, Retch Sweeney, Game Warden Sneed, and fish-eating shrimp in Lake Blight
Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, ...

Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, ...

Mike Bartlett

James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda James Amanda Yeah. I was. Idiot. I knew about roaming patrol. So I was jumpy. I stood up and tried to see.
Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

Christopher Sandford

Kurt Cobain, who handled opposition far better than he did fame, put enough rage and guilt into Bleach to blight an entire generation. The record crackled with self-loathing, as though the internecine struggle between Cobain the joker and ...

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