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Updated as of 2 October 05 Today in History: On October 2, 1780, Major John André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was executed on this day in history. Quote of the Day: "In my view we are much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys." A senior figure at a military-sponsored think tank as told to James Fallows in "Bush's Lost Year" in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 2004) Take the Ann Coulter Quiz Where are you politically? Take the Neocon Quiz and find out. "History is Far too Important to be left to History Professors" Teaching isn't such a novel idea
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Biographies and politics of the Early Cold war
Biographies, politics, and memoirs Abell, Tyler, ed. Drew Pearson Diaries, 1949-1959. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. Adams, Sherman. Firsthand Report: The Story of the Eisenhower Administration. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. Alexander, Charles. Holding the Line: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1961. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1975. Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower: Solider, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. ___. Eisenhower: The President. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. D'Este, Carlo. Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Donovan, Robert. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977. ___. Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982. Eisenhower, Dwight D. Mandate for Change: The White House Years. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. Frederickson, Kari. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Greenstein, Fred I. The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1982. Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Karabell, Zachary. The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Lyon, Peter. Eisenhower: Portrait of a Hero. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. Merry, Robert W. Taking On The World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop--Guards of the of the American Century. New York: Viking, 1996. Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1973. Mitchell, Greg. Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas-- Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950. New York: Random House, 1998. Neal, Steve. Harry and Ike: The Partnership that Remade the Postwar World. New York: Scribner, 2001. Parmet, Herbert S. Eisenhower and the American Crusades. New York: Macmillan, 1972. Perret, George. Eisenhower. New York: Random House, 1999. Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. Phillips, Cabell, The Truman Presidency: The History of a Triumphant Succession. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Whyte, William S. The Taft Story. New York: Harper and Row, 1954. Yoder, Edwin M., Jr. Joe Alsop's Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
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