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The Condor Years

How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

by John Dinges ...

A "compelling and shocking account" of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents ( The Miami Herald).Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror" ... Read more

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A "compelling and shocking account" of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents ( The Miami Herald).Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror"
... Read more
Our Man in Panama

The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega

by John Dinges ...

A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both ( The Washington Post).Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama."Describes in considerable detail the fascinating and ... Read more

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A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both ( The Washington Post).Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama."Describes in considerable detail the fascinating and
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Assassination on Embassy Row

by John Dinges, Saul Landau ...

Series Book 7 - Forbidden Bookshelf
Edgar Award Finalist: The gripping account of an assassination on US soil and the violent foreign conspiracy that stretched from Pinochet's Chile to the streets of Washington, DC, with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.On September 10, 1976, exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier delivered a blistering rebuke of Augusto Pinochet's brutal right-wing regime in a speech at Madison Square Garden. ... Read more

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Edgar Award Finalist: The gripping account of an assassination on US soil and the violent foreign conspiracy that stretched from Pinochet's Chile to the streets of Washington, DC, with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.On September 10, 1976, exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier delivered a blistering rebuke of Augusto Pinochet's brutal right-wing regime in a speech at Madison Square Garden.
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Chile in Their Hearts

The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing after the Coup

by John Dinges ...

Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were secretly executed as Chile's military, ... Read more

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Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were secretly executed as Chile's military,
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Our Man in Panama

The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega

by John Dinges ...

Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

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A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both (The Washington Post).Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.A New York Times Notable Book of the Year ... Read more

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A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both (The Washington Post).Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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The First Total War

Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

by David A. Bell ...

"A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons ... Read more

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"A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons
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"Not by Might, Nor by Power"

The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism

by Moshe Menuhin ...

Series Book 22 - Forbidden Bookshelf
With a new introduction by Adi Ophir: An early and fierce critique of Zionism from a Jewish child of Palestine who argued against nationalism and injustice.Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had grown up in a Hasidic home, but eventually rejected orthodoxy while remaining dedicated ... Read more

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With a new introduction by Adi Ophir: An early and fierce critique of Zionism from a Jewish child of Palestine who argued against nationalism and injustice.Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had grown up in a Hasidic home, but eventually rejected orthodoxy while remaining dedicated
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Information Wars

How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation & What We Can Do About It

by Richard Stengel ...

A "well-told" insider account of the State Department's twenty-first-century struggle to defend America against malicious propaganda and disinformation ( The Washington Post).Disinformation is nothing new. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But today, social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious. In a disturbing turn ... Read more

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A "well-told" insider account of the State Department's twenty-first-century struggle to defend America against malicious propaganda and disinformation ( The Washington Post).Disinformation is nothing new. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But today, social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious. In a disturbing turn
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The Quiet Before

On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

by Gal Beckerman ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An “elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated” (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements—from the 1600s to the present—and how current technology is undermining them“A bravura work of scholarship and reporting, featuring amazing individuals and dramatic events from seventeenth-century France to Rome, ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An “elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated” (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements—from the 1600s to the present—and how current technology is undermining them“A bravura work of scholarship and reporting, featuring amazing individuals and dramatic events from seventeenth-century France to Rome,
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The Violent American Century

War and Terror Since World War II

by John W. Dower ...

Series series Dispatch Books
"Tells how America, since the end of World War II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match setting the world on fire" (Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist and national security correspondent).World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of ... Read more

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"Tells how America, since the end of World War II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match setting the world on fire" (Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist and national security correspondent).World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of
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The Puzzle Palace

A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency

by James Bamford ...

The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory.In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA's origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade ... Read more

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The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory.In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA's origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade
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Thy Will Be Done

The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

by Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett ...

Series Book 25 - Forbidden Bookshelf
A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ).What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year ... Read more

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A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ).What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year
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