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Author
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist 'Bird' McIntyre and neo-con Angel Templeton start a rumor that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Their outrageous scheme provokes a series of crises involving the White House, the CIA, and a strangely sympathetic and vulnerable Chinese president, with both countries veering perilously toward war.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of thsoe implacable American moralists whose goodness is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious and consequential international relationships. As President Barack Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States' policy known as reset that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries....
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