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My friend Tom the poet-playwright Tennessee Williams / by Smith, William Jay, 1918-

Table of Contents: “…Louis, 1935 1940 -- Battle of angels: Boston, 1940 -- The glass menagerie: New York, 1946 -- The poet, lyric and dramatic -- A streetcar named desire: New York, 1947 -- Williams and Frank Merlo: Florence, 1949 -- With Williams at a performance of America hurrah by Jean- Claude van Itallie: New York, 1966 -- Reading of Williams at Lynchburg College: Virginia, 1979 -- Clothes for a summer hotel: New York, March 26, 1980 -- Award of Medal of Freedom to Williams by President Carter: The White House, June 9, 1980 -- Death of Tennessee Williams: New York, February 24, 1983.…”
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Beware of limbo dancers a correspondent's adventures with the New York Times / by Reed, Roy, 1930-

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Terrorism issues, policies and legislation

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Summary of the White House review of the December 25, 2009 attempted terrorist attack / Office of the Press Secretary -- Ocean piracy and its impact on insurance / Rawle 0. …”
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My friend Tom the poet-playwright Tennessee Williams / by Smith, William Jay, 1918-

Table of Contents: “…Louis, 1935 1940 -- Battle of angels: Boston, 1940 -- The glass menagerie: New York, 1946 -- The poet, lyric and dramatic -- A streetcar named desire: New York, 1947 -- Williams and Frank Merlo: Florence, 1949 -- With Williams at a performance of America hurrah by Jean- Claude van Itallie: New York, 1966 -- Reading of Williams at Lynchburg College: Virginia, 1979 -- Clothes for a summer hotel: New York, March 26, 1980 -- Award of Medal of Freedom to Williams by President Carter: The White House, June 9, 1980 -- Death of Tennessee Williams: New York, February 24, 1983.…”
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Beware of limbo dancers a correspondent's adventures with the New York Times / by Reed, Roy, 1930-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Terrorism issues, policies and legislation

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Summary of the White House review of the December 25, 2009 attempted terrorist attack / Office of the Press Secretary -- Ocean piracy and its impact on insurance / Rawle 0. …”
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Lines in the sand congressional redistricting in Texas and the downfall of Tom DeLay / by Bickerstaff, Steve

Table of Contents: “…-- Republican triumph in the Senate -- Redistricting by cabal: the final redistricting plan -- The effects of the final plan -- The dilemma for racial- and ethnic-minority lawmakers and advocacy organizations -- The role of congressman Tom DeLay, Republican activists and donors, and the White House -- The legal implications of the 2003 redistricting -- Criminal investigations and indictments -- The fall of Congressman DeLay -- Conclusion.…”
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Faith-based war from 9/11 to catastrophic success in Iraq / by Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith-based war -- Catastrophic success -- American blindspot -- Religious trauma -- America the beautiful -- Defending God's chosen -- City on a hill -- Alternative cities -- Amalek -- Limitless divine sanction -- Land of promise -- Wine of astonishment -- Rival traditions -- The fire of freedom -- The shining city as God -- Christian soldiers -- The president as mystic -- Drinking the Kool Aid -- Conquest as liberation -- Saddam as Hitler -- Unreal cities -- Avenging angel -- Saint George -- Christlike sacrifice -- The wrath of the Lamb -- Six-gun saviors -- Make-believe cowboys -- Messiahs on horseback -- Six-gun saviors in the White House -- Moral clarity and moral collapse -- Shock and awe -- Moral clarity in battle -- Dead certainty -- Shaken souls -- A theology of torture -- Advertising the dark side -- A theology of torture -- UnAmerican activities -- Coda: Hooded man.…”
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Hanoi's war an international history of the war for peace in Vietnam / by Nguyen, Lien-Hang T., 1974-

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Faith-based war from 9/11 to catastrophic success in Iraq / by Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith-based war -- Catastrophic success -- American blindspot -- Religious trauma -- America the beautiful -- Defending God's chosen -- City on a hill -- Alternative cities -- Amalek -- Limitless divine sanction -- Land of promise -- Wine of astonishment -- Rival traditions -- The fire of freedom -- The shining city as God -- Christian soldiers -- The president as mystic -- Drinking the Kool Aid -- Conquest as liberation -- Saddam as Hitler -- Unreal cities -- Avenging angel -- Saint George -- Christlike sacrifice -- The wrath of the Lamb -- Six-gun saviors -- Make-believe cowboys -- Messiahs on horseback -- Six-gun saviors in the White House -- Moral clarity and moral collapse -- Shock and awe -- Moral clarity in battle -- Dead certainty -- Shaken souls -- A theology of torture -- Advertising the dark side -- A theology of torture -- UnAmerican activities -- Coda: Hooded man.…”
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Hanoi's war an international history of the war for peace in Vietnam / by Nguyen, Lien-Hang T., 1974-

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Mark Twain and the Colonel Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century / by McFarland, Philip James

Table of Contents: “…War -- Return to America -- Celebrity -- Vice-presidential candidate -- Warfare -- Imperialist America -- Anti-imperialist -- Election results -- The strenuous life -- West -- Rural upbringing -- Urban upbringing -- Clemens goes west -- Grand tours -- Western writings -- Continental America -- The Philippines -- Pan-American Exposition -- Race -- Yale bicentennial -- Racial America -- Back to Hannibal -- Roosevelt and race -- Livy -- Huckleberry Finn -- Roosevelt and the Philippines -- Placating the South -- Oil -- The Kanawha -- Corporate America -- Roosevelt as reformer -- The Gilded Age -- Bankruptcy -- In the White House -- Trustbusting -- Our life is wrecked -- Children -- A seventieth birthday -- Susy -- America at home -- Bully father -- President in his own right -- Global visions -- Bereft and adrift -- Young people -- Peace -- Carnegie -- America at peace -- Late pleasures -- TR steps down -- Jean -- Funerals -- Bull Moose -- Afterward.…”
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Lines in the sand congressional redistricting in Texas and the downfall of Tom DeLay / by Bickerstaff, Steve

Table of Contents: “…-- Republican triumph in the Senate -- Redistricting by cabal: the final redistricting plan -- The effects of the final plan -- The dilemma for racial- and ethnic-minority lawmakers and advocacy organizations -- The role of congressman Tom DeLay, Republican activists and donors, and the White House -- The legal implications of the 2003 redistricting -- Criminal investigations and indictments -- The fall of Congressman DeLay -- Conclusion.…”
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Mark Twain and the Colonel Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the arrival of a new century / by McFarland, Philip James

Table of Contents: “…War -- Return to America -- Celebrity -- Vice-presidential candidate -- Warfare -- Imperialist America -- Anti-imperialist -- Election results -- The strenuous life -- West -- Rural upbringing -- Urban upbringing -- Clemens goes west -- Grand tours -- Western writings -- Continental America -- The Philippines -- Pan-American Exposition -- Race -- Yale bicentennial -- Racial America -- Back to Hannibal -- Roosevelt and race -- Livy -- Huckleberry Finn -- Roosevelt and the Philippines -- Placating the South -- Oil -- The Kanawha -- Corporate America -- Roosevelt as reformer -- The Gilded Age -- Bankruptcy -- In the White House -- Trustbusting -- Our life is wrecked -- Children -- A seventieth birthday -- Susy -- America at home -- Bully father -- President in his own right -- Global visions -- Bereft and adrift -- Young people -- Peace -- Carnegie -- America at peace -- Late pleasures -- TR steps down -- Jean -- Funerals -- Bull Moose -- Afterward.…”
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Presidential leadership : from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman / by Ferrell, Robert H.

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Presidential leadership : from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman / by Ferrell, Robert H.

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The rhetorical presidency of George H.W. Bush

Table of Contents: “…Why rhetoric matters : George Bush in the White House / by Martin J. Medhurst -- George Bush's struggle with the "vision thing" / by Catherine L. …”
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The rhetorical presidency of George H.W. Bush

Table of Contents: “…Why rhetoric matters : George Bush in the White House / by Martin J. Medhurst -- George Bush's struggle with the "vision thing" / by Catherine L. …”
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Avoiding trivia the role of strategic planning in American foreign policy /

Table of Contents: “…Friedberg -- A strategic planning cell on national security at the White House / Peter Feaver and William Inboden -- pt. 4. …”
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Avoiding trivia the role of strategic planning in American foreign policy /

Table of Contents: “…Friedberg -- A strategic planning cell on national security at the White House / Peter Feaver and William Inboden -- pt. 4. …”
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