A Cold War Odyssey

Author : Donald E. Nuechterlein
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813181712
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cold War Odyssey written by Donald E. Nuechterlein and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating ride through a period of history in which United States foreign policies and relationships matured greatly.” —Ralph C. Bledsoe, Special Assistant to the President, 1982–88 The Cold War—that long ideological conflict between the world’s two superpowers—had a profound effect not only on nations but on individuals, especially all those involved in setting and implementing the policies that shaped the struggle. Donald Nuechterlein was one such individual and this is his story. Although based in fact, the narrative reads like fiction, and it takes the reader behind the scenes as no purely factual telling of that complex story can. Presented as the story of David and Helen Bruening and their family, A Cold War Odyssey carries us across three continents. Against a backdrop of national and international events, we follow the Bruenings through five decades as David’s governmental and academic assignments take them to all corners of the world. In the tradition of Herman Wouk’s Winds of War, the Bruenings’ personal and professional odyssey offers us a microcosm of world history in the second half of the twentieth century. Through the acute eyes of these participant observers, we see the partitioning of Europe after World War II, Korea and Vietnam, Watergate and Iran, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union and, with it, the end of the Cold War. With each succeeding episode, our understanding of the causes and consequences of international struggle is deepened through the Bruenings’ experience.

Author : Yale Richmond
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450131
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Public Diplomacy written by Yale Richmond and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much discussion these days about public diplomacy—communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats—but little information about what it actually entails. This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a US Foreign Service cultural officer in five hot spots of the Cold War - Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria, and the Soviet Union - as well as service in Washington DC with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Part history, part memoir, it takes readers into the trenches of the Cold War and demonstrates what public diplomacy can do. It also provides examples of what could be done today in countries where anti-Americanism runs high.

Author : Peter N. Carroll
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722773
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade written by Peter N. Carroll and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War

Author : Michael E. Robinson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824831748
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey written by Michael E. Robinson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating to the beginnings of the Cold War and now projects the politics of that period into the twenty-first century. Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey is designed to provide readers with the historical essentials upon which to unravel the complex politics and contemporary crises that currently exist in the East Asian region. Beginning with a description of late-nineteenth-century imperialism, Michael Robinson shows how traditional Korean political culture shaped the response of Koreans to multiple threats to their sovereignty after being opened to the world economy by Japan in the 1870s. He locates the origins of both modern nationalism and the economic and cultural modernization of Korea in the twenty years preceding the fall of the traditional state to Japanese colonialism in 1910. Robinson breaks new ground with his analysis of the colonial period, tracing the ideological division of contemporary Korea to the struggle of different actors to mobilize a national independence movement at the time. More importantly, he locates the reason for successful Japanese hegemony in policies that included—and thus implicated—Koreans within the colonial system. He concludes with a discussion of the political and economic evolution of South and North Korea after 1948 that accounts for the valid legitimacy claims of both nation-states on the peninsula.

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Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1885211449
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sword of Heaven written by and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 1999 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of Aaland's journey toward personal and world peace.

Author : Paul N. Edwards
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262550284
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closed World written by Paul N. Edwards and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology--and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. The Closed World explores three apparently disparate histories--the history of American global power, the history of computing machines, and the history of subjectivity in science and culture--through the lens of the American political imagination. In the process, it reveals intimate links between the military projects of the Cold War, the evolution of digital computers, and the origins of cybernetics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Edwards begins by describing the emergence of a "closed-world discourse" of global surveillance and control through high-technology military power. The Cold War political goal of "containment" led to the SAGE continental air defense system, Rand Corporation studies of nuclear strategy, and the advanced technologies of the Vietnam War. These and other centralized, computerized military command and control projects--for containing world-scale conflicts--helped closed-world discourse dominate Cold War political decisions. Their apotheosis was the Reagan-era plan for a " Star Wars" space-based ballistic missile defense. Edwards then shows how these military projects helped computers become axial metaphors in psychological theory. Analyzing the Macy Conferences on cybernetics, the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, and the early history of artificial intelligence, he describes the formation of a "cyborg discourse." By constructing both human minds and artificial intelligences as information machines, cyborg discourse assisted in integrating people into the hyper-complex technological systems of the closed world. Finally, Edwards explores the cyborg as political identity in science fiction--from the disembodied, panoptic AI of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the mechanical robots of Star Wars and the engineered biological androids of Blade Runner--where Information Age culture and subjectivity were both reflected and constructed. Inside Technology series

Author : Sidney Krimsky
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514437961
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Brooklyn to Brookline written by Sidney Krimsky and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiographical memoir of Sidney Krimsky who was born and grew up in Brooklyn and then lived for 55 years in California, Cambridge and Brookline, MA. He worked in many high tech organizations including Polaroid Corp. and the DoD. The book describes his European family background, the childhood memories of growing up in Coney Island, engineering challenges during the cold war era, marrying Dorothy Goldstein, his participation in redressing ethical social issues, family challenges, employment by the DoD, and various reflections and recollections over seven decades. Many photographs bring life to the words.

Author : Lewis Allen Lambert
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463445970
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Son’S Odyssey written by Lewis Allen Lambert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sons Odyssey is the third and final book on the life of Air Commodore Jack Meadows, the youngest flag officer in the RAF during World War II. The first two books, Michaels Messengers and Uncommon Warrior chronicled Jacks life from his early years in Poland until the day he disappeared near Munich, Germany on May 5th, 1945. A Sons Odyssey reflects the deep devotion of one man for another in an effort to satisfy a belief that Jack Meadows was alive somewhere in the world. A Sons Odyssey is a love story about two fathers and their sons, and the love of a mother for the father of her child.

Author : Norman A. Graebner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Twentieth-century Odyssey written by Norman A. Graebner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : .Dan Conley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1036113728
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down to the Sea in Submarines written by .Dan Conley and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: