Lloyd C Gardner
1) The war on leakers: national security and American democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden
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"Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii-but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly but steadily across the Cold War, Vietnam, the fall of Communism, and into the present. Ripped from today's headlines, Lloyd C. Gardner's latest book...
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"With Obama's election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States' leadership role in the world. In this shattering new assessment, historian Lloyd C. Gardner argues that, despite cosmetic changes, Obama has simply built on the expanding...
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When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25th-and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met-the politics of the region changed overnight. And the United States' long friendship with the man who had ruled under Emergency Law for thirty years came starkly into question. From Franklin D. Roosevelt's brief meeting with King Farouk near the end of World War II to Barack Obama's Cairo Speech...
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The diplomatic historian examines the ideas, policies and actions that led from Vietnam to the Iraq War and America's disastrous role in the Middle East.
In this revealing narrative of America's path to its "new longest war," one of the nation's premier diplomatic historians excavates the deep historical roots of the US misadventure in Iraq. Lloyd Gardner's sweeping and authoritative narrative places the Iraq War in the context of US foreign policy...