• Making the rules and breaking the mold : Allan Meltzer, 1928-2017 / John Taylor
• Allan Meltzer and the history of the Federal Reserve / Michael D. Bordo
• Allan Meltzer : how he underestimated his own contribution to the modern concept of a central bank / Robert L. Hetzel
• "They profess to fear that for which they dare not hope" : how the Fed contributed to the Great Depression and the Great Recession by boosting banks' demand for reserves / George Selgin
• Allan Meltzer's model of the transmission mechanism and its implications for today / Peter N. Ireland
• The monetary base in Allan Meltzer's analytical framework / Edward Nelson
• Monetary policy and the interest rate : reflections on Allan Meltzer's contributions to monetary economics / Joshua R. Hendrickson
• Allan Meltzer and the search for a nominal anchor / James Bullard
• The Meltzer Commission / Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.
• Memories of Allan H. Meltzer / Robert Lucas
• Allan Meltzer's contributions to public policy thought as applied to the Federal Reserve / Charles Plosser
• Macro musings : Allan Meltzer / Allan Meltzer and David Beckworth

Allan H. Meltzer (1928-2017), a leading monetary economist of the twentieth century, is memorialized in eleven essays by prominent economists. Among his achievements, Meltzer transformed the field of central banking and dissected the economic disasters of the 1930s and late 2000s, as well as the avoidance of disaster in the 1970s. Focusing on his landmark A History of the Federal Reserve, 1913-1986, the first section argues that the Fed's biggest successes are tied to its adherence to classical monetary theory and also examines the monetarist counterrevolution. Next, the book turns to Meltzer's thinking on the monetary transmission mechanism and his close work with Karl Brunner on the Brunner-Meltzer Model; it argues that Meltzer's understanding of monetary economics could be used to measure the impact of the Fed's activities. Finally, Meltzer's contributions to public policy are examined, including his proposed reforms to the International Monetary Fund and his activities at the Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration.The conference papers that compose this volume celebrate Meltzer's fifty-year career at Carnegie Mellon. The book ends with a transcribed interview, conducted just a few months before his death, in which he shares sharp-witted insights about economics and his legacy.Contributors: Michael Bordo, James Bullard, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Robert Hetzel, Peter N. Ireland, Robert Lucas, Edward Nelson, Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., Charles Plosser, George Selgin, and John Taylor.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Accountability. A more accountable world? (2001)
• Chapter 2: Trust. The United States and Israel: partners for peace and freedom (1985). What I learned about Israel (2017)
• Chapter 3: A changing world. America can ride the 21st Century's waves of change (2018). Automation: a new dimension to old problems (1955)
• Chapter 4: The drug issue. Gary Becker and the War on Drugs (2011). The failed War on Drugs (2018)
• Chapter 5: Force and strength. The ethics of power (1984). Discerning strength from force (2017). Power and diplomacy (1984)
• Chapter 6: Practicing theories of governance. The new federalism (1970). Prescription for economic policy: steady as you go (1971)
• Chapter 7: America in the world. Resources are needed for effective foreign policy (1987). Proposed refugee admissions for FY 1989 (1988)
• Chapter 8: A balanced approach to climate change. A Reagan approach to climate change (2015). A conservative answer to climate change (2017)
• Chapter 9: Nuclear security, past and future. US-Soviet relations in the context of US foreign policy (1983). A world free of nuclear weapons (2007). Deterrence in the age of nuclear proliferation (2011). Lenten nukes, by the Rt. Rev. William E. Swing (2018)
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• About the author
• Index.

In a rich and varied career, George P. Shultz has aided presidents, confronted national and international crises, and argued passionately that the United States has a vital stake in promoting democratic values and institutions. In speeches, articles, congressional testimony, and conversations with world leaders, he has helped shape policy and public opinion on topics ranging from technology and terrorism to drugs and climate change. The result is a body of work that has influenced the decisions of nations and leaders, as well as the lives of ordinary people. In Thinking About the Future, Shultz has collected and revisited key writings, applying his past thinking to America's most pressing contemporary problems. Each chapter includes new commentary from the author, providing context, color, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of how decisions are made in the halls of power. In the more than half a century since Shultz entered public life, the world has changed dramatically. But he remains guided by the belief that ""you can learn about the future-or at least relate to it-by studying the past and identifying principles that have continuing application to our lives and our world.
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• Volume
• 1: Invasion, insurgency, civil war, 2003-2006
• Volume
• 2: Surge and withdrawal, 2007-2011.

The Iraq War has been the costliest U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War. To date, few official studies have been conducted to review what happened, why it happened, and what lessons should be drawn. The U.S. Army in the Iraq War is the Army's initial operational level analysis of this conflict, written in narrative format, with assessments and lessons embedded throughout the work. This study reviews the conflict from a Landpower perspective and includes the contributions of coalition allies, the U.S. Marine Corps, and special operations forces. Presented principally from the point of view of the commanders in Baghdad, the narrative examines the interaction of the operational and strategic levels, as well as the creation of theater level strategy and its implementation at the tactical level. Volume 1 begins in the truce tent at Safwan Airfield in southern Iraq at the end of Operation DESERT STORM and briefly examines actions by U.S. and Iraqi forces during the interwar years. The narrative continues by examining the road to war, the initially successful invasion, and the rise of Iraqi insurgent groups before exploring the country's slide toward civil war. This volume concludes with a review of the decision by the George W. Bush administration to "surge" additional forces to Iraq, placing the conduct of the "surge" and its aftermath in the second volume.

• Foreword: Ardeshir Zahedi
• Foreword: Eric Wakin
• Introduction
• General Fazlollah Zahedi: A Profile
• Ardeshir Zahedi: A Profile
• Selected Documents: Document
• 1: 1922-1924, 1.1-1.5. Sheikh Khazal of Kurzestan: despot or king without a crown
• Document
• 2: 23 November 1933, 2.1. State permission for installation of concert radio receiver in the home of Brigadier General Zahedi
• Document
• 3: 23 August 1953, 3.1. Confidential advice to Zahedi from "Hirad" in regard to Hossein Makki's note to the shah
• Document
• 4: 9 September 1953, 4.1-4.2. Letter from Hassan Taqizadeh to General Zahedi
• Document
• 5: 15 September 1953, 5.1. Letter to General Zahedi from a professor at the university
• Document
• 6: 6 October 1953, 6.1-6.5. Correspondence from Great Britain seeking to resume diplomatic relations with Iran following the overthrow of Mossadegh government
• Document
• 7: 16 January 1954, 7.1. Report of Anoushiravan Sepahbodi to A. Zahedi
• Document
• 8: 17 February 1954, 8.1. Letter of Nasser Ghashghaei to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document
• 9: 13 December 1954, 9.1. Memorandum from Prime Minister to Mr. Abtin in re orders of Dr. Mofakham.
• Document
• 10: 3 December 1955, 10.1-10.2. Letter of Ali Asghar Hekmat to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document
• 11: 1953-1955, 11.1. Detailed account of gifts
• Document
• 12: 1954-1955, 12.1-12.8. Outline of General Zahedi's career prepared in anticipation of his personal memoirs
• Document
• 13: 1953-1955, 13.1-13.11. More of the outline General Zahedi prepared in anticipation of his personal memoirs
• Document
• 14: 1 April 1956, 14.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from a cleric who had worked to overthrow Mossadegh
• Document
• 15: 19 August 1955, 15.1. Letter from Shaban Jafari to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document
• 16: 12 October 1955, 16.1. Letter from Hassan Ma'assar
• Document
• 17: Around 1957-1958, 17.1-17.2. Letter from Princess Ashraf to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document
• 18: 17 February 1959, 18.1-18.2. Ali Asghar Hekmat to General Zahedi
• Document
• 19: 13 June 1959, 19.1. Letter of General Teymour Bakhtiar to General Zahedi
• Document
• 20: 30 January 1967, 20.1-20.2. Letter from Ardeshir Zahedi as foreign minister to the shah reporting on foreign policy
• Document
• 21: 3 February 1967, 21.1-21.4. Correspondence between Ardeshir Zahedi and the shah
• Document
• 22: Approximately March 1967, 22.1. Letter of Ardeshir Zahedi to shah of matters revolving around influence of Kermit Roosevelt
• Document
• 23: 11 June 1967, 23.1-23.6. Digest of the shah's meeting with the Soviet ambassador regarding Soviet breech of bilateral agreement to use of Iranian air space
• Document
• 24: Around 1967, 24.1-24.6. Correspondence between Ardeshir Zahedi as foreign minister and Armin Meyer, US ambassasor to Iran.

• Document
• 25: 13 November 1968, 25.1-25.14. Minutes of a meeting betwen the shah of Iran and the Saudi monarch, King Faisal
• Document
• 26: 25 January 1969, 26.1-26.4. Zahedi reporting in minute detail his conversations with the Soviet ambassador
• Document
• 27: 10 February 1969, 27.1-27.5. Letter from Ardeshir Zahedi, then foreign minister, to the shah of Iran
• Document
• 28: 28 July 1969, 28.1. Letter in English from King Huyssein of Jordan to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran
• Document
• 29: 10 February 1970, 29.1-29.5. Ardeshir Zahedi report to the shah of Iran
• Document
• 30: 2 March 1970, 30.1̀-30.8. Ardeshir Zahedi report to the shah of Iran
• Document
• 31: 19 February 1974, 31.1-31.2. Telegram to US Ambassador in Tehran requesting prevention of broadcasting 60 Minutes interview
• Document
• 32: 9 July 1974, 32.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from US Senator Edward Wm. Brooke
• Document
• 33: 6 May 1976, 33.1-33.2. Letters of Assadollah Alam (former prime minister of Iran) to the shah
• Document
• 34: 20 December 1976, 34.1-34.2. Documentation of gifts of caviar
• Document
• 35: 11 January 1977, 35.1. Letter of thanks from US Representative James Wright to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document
• 36: 22 January 1977, 36.1. Letter of thanks from Kirk Douglas; 36.2. Letter of thanks from Washington Post columnist Art Buchwald
• Document
• 37: 26 January 1977, 37.1-37.2. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi, ambassador of Iran to US, from Sylvan M. Marshall, giving a legal opinion; 37.3-37.7. Letter from Ardeshir Zahedi to David Susskind, US television producer, objecting to allegations made by Reza Baraheni; 37.8. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from David Rockefeller
• Document
• 38: 27 January 1977, 38.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from Rose Mary Woods, secretary to President Richard Nixon
• Document
• 39: 16 March 1977, 39.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from US Senator Barry Goldwater
• Document
• 40: 16 March 1977, 40.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger; 40.2. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from Katharine Graham of the Washington Post
• Document
• 41: 18 March 1977, 41.1. Letter of gratitude to Ardeshir Zahedi from John R. Silver, president of Boston University
• Document
• 42: 7 November 1977, 42.1. Letter of gratitude to Ardeshir Zahedi from US Senator Hubert Humphrey
• Document
• 43: 5 January
• 1978: 43.1. Letter of gratitude to Ardeshir Zahedi from Claudia A. "Lady Bird" Johnson; 43.2. Telegram to Ardeshir Zahedi from Mrs. Ronand Reagan (Nancy); 43.3. Telegram to Ardeshir Zahedi from Mrs. Ronald Reagan; 43.4. Handwritten note of thanks to Ardeshir Zahedi from Mrs. Ronald Wilson Reagan
• Document
• 44: 30 January 1978, 44.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahidi [sic] from Lord Hartley William Shawcross
• Document
• 45: 25 September 1978, 45.1. Letter to Ardeshir Zahedi from Douglas Fairbanks in regard to Tabas earthquake; 45.2. Response to Douglas Fairbanks
• Document
• 46: 9 January 1979, 46.1. Letter of concern from Nelson A. Rockefeller
• Document
• 47: 22 January 1979, 47.1. Letter from Ronald Reagan to Ardeshir Zahedi
• Document
• 48: January 1979, 48.1. Telegram from William Rogers.

The inner workings of Iranian politics, as experienced by two key figures at their center, are revealed as never before through the meticulously preserved documents and photographs in the Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. These materials are essential for understanding modern Iranian history and its global context.These archives were preserved over the course of two illustrious careers: those of Ardeshir Zahedi, Iran's ambassador to the United States and United Kingdom and minister of foreign affairs; and his father, Fazlollah Zahedi, military general and prime minister of Iran after the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh. Abbas Milani, American-Iranian historian and an expert in US-Iran relations, has sifted through these archives to select resources of unparalleled value and fascination for understanding Iran's politics, culture, and history-both before and after the 1979 Revolution that toppled the shah and sent him and the younger Zahedi into exile.Published for the very first time, the papers and photos included here are connected with many of the key events and figures of the twentieth century. They are indispensable primary sources for scholarship on modern Iranian history as well as intriguing studies on the mechanisms of international diplomacy.
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In Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance, George P. Shultz, Jim Hoagland, and James Timbie present views from some of the country's top experts in the sciences, humanities, and military that scrutinize the rise of post-millennium technologies in today's global society. They contemplate both the benefits and peril carried by the unprecedented speed of these innovations-from genetic editing, which enables us new ways to control infectious diseases, to social media, whose ubiquitous global connections threaten the function of democracies across the world. Some techniques, like the advent of machine learning, have enabled engineers to create systems that will make us more productive. For example, self-driving vehicles promise to make trucking safer, faster, and cheaper. However, using big data and artificial intelligence to automate complex tasks also ends up threatening to disrupt both routine professions like taxi driving and cognitive work by accountants, radiologists, lawyers, and even computer programmers themselves.
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• Executive summary
• Policy options: for the United States, science and risk, and the international community
• Science and Risk
• Conclusion.

"Drawing from a series of discussions convened by the Hoover Institution, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, this essay explores the challenges facing our coastal communities in a series of discussions designed to advance US resilience to climate change impacts, strengthen the sustainability and economic security of coastal infrastructure, and enhance national security. Areas of discussion include understanding the state of scientific knowledge, identifying important gaps, and exploring relevant policies, decision-support tools, and decision-making approaches." -- publisher.

• Introduction
• The roots of Catholic "revolution": Thomism, the 'human person,' and Emmanuel Mounier
• Personalism at war : clandestine intellectual life and anti-Nazi resistance in World War II
• Catholicism in a newly Communist world : between Christian democracy and Catholic socialism
• The twilight of social Catholicism? Emmanual Mounier and Poland's Catholic press, 1945-1948
• World peace on nationalist terms : progressive Catholicism and the Stalinist turn of 1948
• Pastors and catechumens : Catholic renewal at the margins of Marxist revolution
• Stalinist Catholics of Europe, unite! The Stockholm Appeal and the Polish project of a Catholic-Socialist International, 1949-1953
• The limits of Catholic "revolution": the Vatican and Stalinism's turn against the church, 1953-1956.

In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life-not with guns, but French philosophy This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle Poland's Communist regime. Seeking to change the way we understand the Catholic Church, World War II, the Cold War, and communism, this study centers on the idea of "revolution." It examines two crucial countries, France and Poland, while challenging conventional wisdom among historians and introducing innovations in periodization, geography, and methodology. Why has much of Eastern Europe gone back down the road of exclusionary nationalism and religious prejudice since the end of the Cold War? Piotr H. Kosicki helps to understand the crises of contemporary Europe by examining the intellectual world of Roman Catholicism in Poland and France between the Church's declaration of war on socialism in 1891 and the demise of Stalinism in 1956.
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• Introduction : the choice
• Escape to Switzerland
• The beginnings of Dutch-Paris
• Extending the line through Brussels
• Allies in Paris and Toulouse
• Over the mountains
• Catastrophe in Paris
• The Gestapo knocks
• Sociaalwerk in the chaos of war
• Waiting for news
• Conclusion : the helper's courage.

Of all the resistance organizations that operated during the war, about which much has been written, one stands out for its transnational character, the diversity of the tasks its members took on, and the fact that, unlike many of the known evasion lines, it was not directed by Allied officers, but rather by group of ordinary citizens. Between 1942 and 1945, they formed a network to smuggle Dutch Jews and others targeted by the Nazis south into France, via Paris, and then to Switzerland. This network became known as the Dutch-Paris Escape Line, eventually growing to include 300 people and expanding its reach into Spain. Led by Jean Weidner, a Dutchman living in France, many lacked any experience in clandestine operations or military tactics, and yet they became one of the most effective resistance groups of the Second World War. Dutch-Paris largely improvised its operations-scrounging for food on the black market, forging documents, and raising cash. Hunted relentlessly by the Nazis, some were even captured and tortured. In addition to Jews, those it helped escape the clutches of the Nazis included resistance fighters, political foes, Allied airmen, and young men looking to get to London to enlist. As the need grew more desperate, so did the bravery of those who rose to meet it. Using recently declassified archives, The Escape Line tells the story of the Dutch-Paris and the thousands of people it saved during World War II. Koreman, who was given exclusive access to many of the archives, is herself the daughter of Dutch parents who were part of the resistance, offers the definitive account of this largely untold story.
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Amid the chaos and violence of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the Tsar's opponents printed and distributed vast quantities of picture postcards. Easy to share, hide and smuggle, postcards were a way to beat the censor and spread a message of defiance. Produced by a diverse set of revolutionaries, liberals, and opportunists, the content of these cards is equally wide-ranging: from satirical caricatures directed against the government to rare photographs of revolutionary demonstrations. Many of the cards are darkly humorous, combining laughter with a sense of raw indignation at the injustices of Imperial Russia.