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• Introduction Chapter One: Seeing Glory Chapter Two: Time Ending Chapter Three: Coming Darkness Chapter Four: The Cock Crows Chapter Five: Courage to Change Chapter Six: The Topmost Branch Chapter Seven: Hurting Each Other Chapter Eight: Sweet Rain Chapter Nine: Monster Rising Chapter Ten: The Humiliated Men Chapter Eleven: Awful Wisdom Chapter Twelve: Horizon of Dreams.
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Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name Detente, and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, hoped to forge a new relationship between East and West. Yet, the greatest changes of the era took place outside the sphere of international diplomacy. The 1960s brought social collision across the world, from the anti-war protests in America to the student demonstrations on the streets of Paris, and Mao Tsetung's Red Guards in China. A new generation, whom advertising executives dubbed the baby-boomers, brought new attitudes to towards sex, gender, race, the environment and religion. In this book, Richard Crowder explores the years of Detente, and introduces us to the key players of the era, whose stories form the narrative of this book.
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• Foreword Introduction - A Brilliant Clan: Matsuoka Yosuke and the Three Sato Brothers Ichiro, Nobusuke, and Eisaku
• Chapter 1 - From Being the "Slowpoke" of the Ministry of Railways to "Triple-Jump Eisaku"
• Chapter 2 - "An Honor Student of the Yoshida School": Sato's Turn to Politics
• Chapter 3 - "The Politics of Waiting": From Finance Minister in the Kishi Cabinet to MITI Minister under Ikeda
• Chapter 4 - "Social Development" and "Independent Diplomacy": The First Sato Government
• Chapter 5 - The Reversion of Okinawa and the "Secret Agreement": The Second Sato Government
• Chapter 6 - 2,797 Days: The Third Sato Government, Longest and Undefeatable Conclusion - The Nobel Peace Prize: The Glory of Sato's Final Years and his Sudden Death Afterword Notes.
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This book is a biography of Eisaku Sato (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Sato's management of Japan's relations with the United States and Japan's neighbours in East Asia, where Sato worked to normalize relations with South Korea and China. It also covers domestic Japanese politics, particularly factional politics within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), where Sato, as the founder of what would become the largest LDP faction, was at the centre of LDP politics for decades. The book highlights Sato's greatest achievement - the return of Okinawa from United States occupation - for which, together with the establishment of the non-nuclear principles, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the only Japanese to receive the Prize.
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"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule. As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame. The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its predecessors, though to newly extreme ends. In a work for readers of How Democracies Die and even Master of the Senate, Jentleson makes clear that, without a reevaluation of Senate practices-starting with ending the filibuster-we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1963
• Race
• Sex
• War
• Debt
• Diversity
• Winners
• Losers

• 1963
• Race
• Sex
• War
• Debt
• Diversity
• Winners
• Losers

Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycontin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules

• 1963
• Race
• Sex
• War
• Debt
• Diversity
• Winners
• Losers

Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycontin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules

• Introduction: Contesting the international rule of law
• America's "exceptional" international law policy
• The structure of American foreign policy ideology
• Competing conceptions of the international rule of law
• Clinton administration, 1992-2000
• Bush 43 administration 2000-2004
• Bush 43 administration 2004-2008
• Obama administration 2008-2016
• Conclusion: Between power & transcendent values

American engagement with international law has long been framed by commitment to the 'international rule of law', which persists even across divergent political and historical eras. Yet, despite appeals to legal ideals, American international law policy is consistently criticised as fraught with contradiction and distorted by beliefs in 'exceptionalism'. These contested claims of fidelity to law are the subject of this book: what does the 'international rule of law' mean for American legal policymakers even as they advocate competing commitments to international legal order? Answers are found in extensive evidence that American policymakers receive international law through established foreign policy ideologies, which correspond with divisions in both legal scholarship and diplomatic history. Using the case of the International Criminal Court, the book demonstrates that the very meaning of the international rule of law is structured by competing ideological beliefs; between American policymakers and global counterparts, and among American policymakers themselves.
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• Introduction: Contesting the international rule of law
• America's "exceptional" international law policy
• The structure of American foreign policy ideology
• Competing conceptions of the international rule of law
• Clinton administration, 1992-2000
• Bush 43 administration 2000-2004
• Bush 43 administration 2004-2008
• Obama administration 2008-2016
• Conclusion: Between power & transcendent values

American engagement with international law has long been framed by commitment to the 'international rule of law', which persists even across divergent political and historical eras. Yet, despite appeals to legal ideals, American international law policy is consistently criticised as fraught with contradiction and distorted by beliefs in 'exceptionalism'. These contested claims of fidelity to law are the subject of this book: what does the 'international rule of law' mean for American legal policymakers even as they advocate competing commitments to international legal order? Answers are found in extensive evidence that American policymakers receive international law through established foreign policy ideologies, which correspond with divisions in both legal scholarship and diplomatic history. Using the case of the International Criminal Court, the book demonstrates that the very meaning of the international rule of law is structured by competing ideological beliefs; between American policymakers and global counterparts, and among American policymakers themselves.
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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction
• 1. The Demise of Free Security
• 2. Confrontation
• 3. To the Ends of the Earth
• 4. Leaner and Meaner
• 5. The Nuclear Rubicon
• 6. Gulliver's Travails
• 7. Nixon's World
• 8. A New Cold War
• 9. Endgame
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

"A creative, carefully researched, and incisive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long struggle against the Soviet Union." -Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy "Craig and Logevall remind us that American foreign policy is decided as much by domestic pressures as external threats. America's Cold War is history at its provocative best." -Mark Atwood Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. America prevailed, but only after fifty years of grim international struggle, costly wars in Korea and Vietnam, trillions of dollars in military spending, and decades of nuclear showdowns. Was all of that necessary? In this new edition of their landmark history, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall engage with recent scholarship on the late Cold War, including the Reagan and Bush administrations and the collapse of the Soviet regime, and expand their discussion of the nuclear revolution and origins of the Vietnam War. Yet they maintain their original argument: that America's response to a very real Soviet threat gave rise to a military and political system in Washington that is addicted to insecurity and the endless pursuit of enemies to destroy. America's Cold War speaks vividly to debates about forever wars and threat inflation at the center of American politics today.
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• Introduction by Frida Berrigan
• Preface
• CHAPTER ONE: The Draft Resistance Movement, 1965-1968
• CHAPTER TWO: My Personal Transformation
• CHAPTER THREE: From Catonsville Onward
• CHAPTER FOUR: Taking on the FBI Too
• CHAPTER FIVE: Changing Hearts and Minds in the Courtroom
• CHAPTER SIX: Prison
• CHAPTER SEVEN: The Harrisburg 8 (Minus 1) Trial
• CHAPTER EIGHT: A "Fast unto Death"
• CHAPTER NINE: Anti-War Burglar Culture
• CHAPTER TEN: After Harrisburg
• CHAPTER ELEVEN: Resigning from the Catholic Left
• CHAPTER TWELVE: Lessons Learned