Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Underworld Underworld Don DeLillo Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a bl… OL1921185W
The Québec affair The Québec affair Robert Penbrooke "As the Vietnam war rages, a Princeton University graduate is drafted by the CIA to intercept classified fusion energy information from a defecting Soviet nuclear scientist in China. What starts simp… OL19663652W
The Cold War's killing fields The Cold War's killing fields Paul Thomas Chamberlin "In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold War, long viewed as a mostly peaceful, if tense, diplomatic standoff between democracy and communism, fos… OL19761688W
Ike and McCarthy Ike and McCarthy David A. Nichols "Describes how President Eisenhower used surrogates to orchestrate a secret campaign against the powerful Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy best known for his anti-Communist witch hunt, that ultimat… OL20052238W
The Kitchen Debate and Cold War consumer politics The Kitchen Debate and Cold War consumer politics Shane Hamilton Materials ancillary to the "debate" or exchanges between Richard M. Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. OL23393626W