As Anatoly Sharansky, he was a political prisoner of the Soviet Union, an experience he recounted in an earlier memoir, FEAR NO EVIL. He took the name Natan when he moved to Israel to join his family, shortly after his release in 1986, which was the result of an international campaign and the intercession of President Reagan. Sharansky draws on this unique perspective, and on his career as an Israeli politician, to view the crisis in the Middle East through the lens of freedom and tyranny. Dividing the world into governments that allow dissent and those that stifle it, he is forthright and uncompromising in his assessment of those nations which operate by terror, and of the prospects for bringing democratic ways to the Middle East. Sharansky was a participant in the failed attempts to bring about agreements between Israel and Palestine at Oslo, and he provides insider accounts and an informed analysis of those negotiations. THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY became newsworthy when it was reported that President George W. Bush considered it one of his favorite books, and it is said to have been formative in both the ideas and the language of Bush's State of the Union address in January, 2005. Suggested price $32.95. Our price $3.95. Save 88%.
Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over 1000 miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thiry-three of its fifty year existence. Yet it is the linchpin in the United States' war on terror, receiving over $10 billion of American aid since 2001 and purchasing more than $5 billion of U.S. weaponry in 2006 alone. Original. New hardcover. 2008.
What role should America play in the world? What key challenges face us in the century to come, and how should we define our national interests? These questions have been given electrifying new significance in the wake of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Not since Rome has any nation had so much economic, cultural, and military power, but that power is still not enough to solve global problems like terrorism, environmental degradation, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction without involving other nations. In The Paradox of American Power, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. focuses on the rise of these and other new challenges and explains clearly why America must adopt a more cooperative engagement with the rest of the world. The threat of terrorism, Nye argues, is merely the most alarming example of why we must engage in constructive relations with other nations weak and strong. Now more than ever, as technology spreads and non-governmental organizations ranging from transnational corporations to terrorists increase their power, American leadership must reorient itself toward the global community. Further, for many key issues--from international financial stability to drug smuggling and global climate change to terrorism--military power alone cannot ensure success and at times may undermine rather than enhance our objectives. Suggested price $19.95. Our price $4.95. Save 75%.
Ever since George W. Bush began running for public office in the 1990s, questions have been raised in the public eye about his service in the Air National Guard during the late 1960s and early 1970s-when countless American soldiers (John Kerry among them) were serving heroically in Vietnam. By the time of the presidential race in 2000, it was clear that Bush's record of servicecontained several troubling gaps-esoecially in the period between May 1972 and May 1973, when Bush was supposed to have transferred to the Alabama Air National Guard.
In early 2004, as the election season heated up, the WHite House bowed to pressure and released a host of documents related to Bush's service, promising that this disclosure would put the matter to rest. Yet the documents raised as many new questions as they answered. Original. New book, light markings on cover. Remainder mark on bottom book edge. 2004.
