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|  | Iran-Contra Scandal by Malcolm Byrne, Peter Kornbluh
Description not available.Gathers government documents dealing with the Iran-Contral scandal AUTHOR: Malcolm Byrne, Peter Kornbluh
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough, Grover Gardner
Popular historian David McCullough tells the story of the building of the Panama Canal, which connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. He relates the engineering, the politics, and the human drama. THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS won a National Book Award in history. AUTHOR: David McCullough, Grover Gardner
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | And the World Closed Its Doors by David Clay Large
David Clay Lodge writes about a German-Jewish family`s attempts to leave Nazi-dominated Europe and find refuge elsewhere--and the heartbreaking details of their failure. In addition to being a large-scale indictment of anti-Semitism and just plain indifference to the plight of the Jews in the 1930s, his account is a vivid portrait of a decent middle-class family: their daily life, their humanity, and their eventual disappearance into the camps. AUTHOR: David Clay Large
PUBLISHER: Basic Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Cell by Chris Mitchell, John Miller, Michael Stone
A television journalist, John Miller tells how he got a 1998 interview with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Miller and his fellow authors draw on their contacts in law enforcement who tell of their efforts prior to September 11 to fight domestic terrorism despite the limited resources available to them. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. AUTHOR: Chris Mitchell, John Miller, Michael Stone
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Killing the White Man's Indian by Fergus M. Bordewich
In the face of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Mans Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual government extermination of the savage redmen, Americans today have recast Native Americans into another, equally stereotyped role, that of eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism, yet whose spiritual ties with the natural world form our last, best hope of salvaging our natural environment and ennobling our souls.The truth, however, is neither as grim , nor as blindly idealistic, as many would expect. The fact is that a virtual revolution is underway in Indian Country, an upheaval of epic proportions. For the first time in generations, Indians are shaping their own destinies, largely beyond the control of whites, reinventing Indian education and justice, exploiting the principle of tribal sovereignty in ways that empower tribal governments far beyond most Americans imaginations. While new found power has enriched tribal life and prospects, and has made Native Americans fuller participants in the American dream, it has brought tribal governments into direct conflict with local economics and the federal government.Based on three years of research on the Native American reservations, and written without a hidden conservative bias or politically correct agenda, Killing the White Man's Indian takes on Native American politics and policies today in all their contradictory--and controversial-guises. AUTHOR: Fergus M. Bordewich
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The O'Reilly Factor by Bill O'Reilly
These observations on politics and American life--from the popular television commentator--are terse, acerbic, and sometimes witty. Considered by some to be right-of-center, O`Reilly calls them the way he sees them, and he is no defender of the status quo. AUTHOR: Bill O'Reilly
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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