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In this challenge to traditional historiography, the author argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany during the democratic culture of the Weimar Republic. He asserts that rather than rising with the Nazis, geopolitics faded in importance when Hitler came to power.

These quasi-autobiographical poems and prose poems range from topics such as clairvoyant grandmas, roosters of questionable pedigree, one-armed farmhands, and a girl obsessed with holding her breath.

After World War II, Woodrow Wilson and his contemporaries engaged in a wide-ranging debate about the fundamental character of American national security in the modern world. This book examines that debate offering a detailed analysis of how US political leaders and opinion makers conceptualized and pursued national security from 1914 to 1920.

Ten-year-old Beverly Potts was last seen at 9:00 P.M. the evening of August 24, 1951. James Jessen Badal reexamines the events leading up to Beverly Potts's disappearance and the subsequent police investigation and over-the-top, sensational publicity in the Cleveland press.

Includes essays ranging from Xenophon's memoir of his two-year march with the mercenaries of the Persian Prince Cyrus, through Canadian accounts of the Boer War and American civilian women's narratives of confinement in WWII Japanese internment camps, to Vietnam veterans' online testimonials and post - Persian Gulf War memoirs.

"In 'Love Poem to the Phrase Let's Get Coffee,' Catherine Pierce writes 'I adore / your elegant manner, / one hand on the car door, / the other on the ass.' She writes with her own tricky elegance, one that acknowledges yet adores language's self-serving grace. Pierce deftly blends repetition with sophisti-cated syntax, and a sinister wit glows inside the emotional wisdom of her vision. Animals of Habit is an exhilarating book." - Andrew Hudgins; "If I didn't know the poet personally, I'd think the name Catherine Pierce was a pseudonym, for these poems are not merely edgy, they are razor-sharp - they disembowel. What an extraordinary command of structure, persona, and humor this poet has! In one fell swoop, she has reinvented the 'love' poem and eschewed both pretentiousness and the anti-intellectual by being always smart and entertaining." - Kathy Fagan"

When George W. Bush won the White House, he was the first encumbent Republican governor elected president since William McKinley in 1896. This work shows that William McKinley was the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House, and it covers his career history.

This volume documents Robert A. Taft's experiences through World War II and his early postwar years. After winning a tough reelection battle as Senator from Ohio in 1944, Taft moved steadily upward in the leadership ranks of his conservative party.

Reverdy Cassius Ransom spent his life as a pastor, editor, politician, writer, civil rights leader, and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. This work offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction.

This collection of poetry takes the reader through a world that is at once beautiful and tragic, sacrosanct and profane. The poems are drawn ineluctably to the place where passion and intelligence collide - and often end with passion having fled and intelligence standing alone.

This text is the autobiography of John E. Doilbois, US Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1981. Doilbois was born in Luxembourg in 1918 and moved to the USA in 1931. Having graduated from Miami University, he served in American Military Intelligence where he interrogated Nazi war criminals.

What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.

The title poem of this collection tells of the creation of barbecue, how slaves cooked their masters' scraps into a survival food that became a cuisine. Powerful and moving, these poems teach how the ""nasty leftovers"" in life can be transformed into music, scripture, celebration.

In this lively memoir, William B. Saxbe narrates his life's journey from his youth in a small Ohio town to his military career during World War II and Korea and through his career as a public servant in Ohio, Washinton D.C. and overseas.

A collection of essays from Civil War historians on leadership during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. Based on manuscript sources and consideration of existing literature, the contributors challenge prevailing interpretations of key officers' performances.

In this reassessment of the career of Nelson A. Miles - which he began as a volunteer officer in the Civil War - the author suggests that comments made by his enemies influenced the way Miles's career has been viewed by historians and tries to readdress this.

This text reproduces Arnold's essay of 1886 on Grant, and Twain's rejoinder to the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut. Arnold's essay praised Grant, but to many Americans its tone seemed patronizing of their hero and country.

Schumann's intention in writing this memoir is to show young Americans how easy it can be to control and manipulate a whole nation - especially its young people. He analyzes his life in Nazi Germany, explaining why he became a devoted Nazi believer and describing his post-1945 experiences.

Reveals the subculture of pole vaulting - from Bob Richards, who won Olympic gold twice in pole vaulting; to Sergey Bubka, the controversial pole vaulter; to Don Bragg, a rowdy Tarzan-like character who swung on ropes in his backyard to build upper-body strength; to the duel between Mack and Toby Stevenson as they battled for gold in Athens.

Perhaps the most easily recognizable military helmet of the 20th century is the German Stahlhelm. In this revised and expanded edition of the text, Floyd R. Tubbs and Robert W. Clawson identify and classify the Stahlhelm and relate its history, designs, features and uses.

Peter S. Bridges's service as American Ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foregin Service. This text presents a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offering pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers.

For a decade of his early adulthood, Williams was a member of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. This work explores both the history behind the myths and metaphysics Williams was to make his own and the hermetic culture that influenced him. It examines its expressions in Williams' novels, poetry, and the development of his ideas.

This work charts the life of 19th-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast John Louis O'Sullivan. It presents an in-depth examination of O'Sullivan's ideas as they were expressed in the ""Democratic Review"" and other newspapers and literary magazines that he edited.

Ripperology - an obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper - is a subject of interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole. This study presents a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes, and aims to tell the story of the literary efforts directed at solving the mystery.