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  • One Scandalous Story

    Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnishe

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    In 1963 Marvin Kalb observed the Secret Service escorting an attractive woman into a hotel for what was most likely a rendezvous with President Kennedy. Kalb, then a news correspondent for CBS, didn't consider the incident newsworthy. Thirty-five years later, Kalb watched in dismay as the press dove headfirst into the scandal of President Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Nixon Memo

    Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    An absorbing example of political journalism, The Nixon Memo is a case study of Richard Nixon's relentless quest for political rehabilitation. At issue is the key role of this former president of the United States (best known for his involvement in the famous "watergate" scandal) in the post-cold war debate about aiding Russia in its uncertain revolution.The story begins on March 10, 1992. Nixon ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Road to War

    Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. From Korea to Vietnam, Panama to Grenada, Lebanon to Bosnia, Afghanistan to Iraq-why have presidents sidestepped declarations of war? Marvin Kalb, former chief ... Read more

    $38.19 CAD

  • Imperial Gamble

    Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Year I Was Peter the Great

    1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia-and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called the year of the thaw-a time when Stalin's dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with ... Read more

    $26.29 CAD

  • Assignment Russia

    Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television newsMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow ... Read more

    $26.29 CAD

  • Enemy of the People

    Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an enemy of the American people. Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump's presidential campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic turning point: language like this ventured into dangerous territory. Twentieth-century dictators-notably, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao-had all denounced their critics ... Read more

    $23.39 CAD

  • Haunting Legacy

    Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama

    The United States had never lost a war-that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country." The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on the decision of whether to put "boots on the ground" and commit troops to war.In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

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    Reagan-Mondale Debate 2

    Unabridged

    1 hour 27 min

    The second of two debates between President Ronald Reagan and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale was held in Kansas City, Missouri on October 21, 1984. Edwin Newman was the debate moderator. Georgie Anne Geyer, Marvin Kalb, Morton Kondracke, and Henry Trewhitt were the four panelists who asked questions.This second debate was on defense and foreign policy. Questions focused on the following ... Read more

    $2.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Enemy of the People

    Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

    by Marvin Kalb ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 50 min

    Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an "enemy of the American people." Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump's presidential campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic turning point: language like this ventured into dangerous territory. Twentieth-century dictators—notably, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao—had all denounced their ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Shadow War

    Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

    by Jim Sciutto ...
    Narrated by Jim Sciutto ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged—often without the public’s full knowledge—from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry.The United States is currently under attack from multiple adversaries—yet most Americans have no idea of the dangers threatening us. In this eye ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Kushner, Inc.

    Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

    by Vicky Ward ...
    Narrated by Vicky Ward, Fiona Hardingham ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    The first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to powerJared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump’s White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the couple has created, depicting themselves as the voices ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD