Ny holt 2005 (5 risultati)

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Stated First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; color illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition- 1ST PRT. 1ST ED, 1ST PRT. SIGNED BY NEWBERY AUTHOR SCHMIDT. Another terrific tale by 2005 NEWBERY HONOR & 2005 PRINTZ HONOR author Gary Schmidt, who also signed this copy on the title pg. Story of 14 yr old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm & stands up for himself during the political turmoil of a presidential election. Scarce with signature. Suspenseful & riveting. Author wrote "Lizzie Bright". Signed by Author(s).…

red & black hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 388p. + author bio note + american empire project note. notes. acknowledgments. index. world history. american history. politics. foreign policy. islam. history of iran. espionage. covert operations. secret societies. muslim brotherhood. conspiracy theory. ~ THE FIRST COMPLETE INVESTIGATION OF AMERICA'S MOST DANGEROUS FOREIGN POLICY MISCALCULATION: SIXTY YEARS OF SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM. Devil's Game is the previously untold account of America's misguided efforts, stretching across six decades, to cultivate the Islamic right in an effort to dominate the economically and strategically vital Middle East. Drawing on archival research and interviews with policy makers and CIA, defense, and foreign~service officials, Robert Dreyfuss argues that America's historic alliance with the Islamic right is greatly to blame for the emergence of Islamist terrorism in the 1990s. Among the hidden stories of U.S. collusion with radical Islam that Dreyfuss reveals here are President Eisenhower's 1953 Oval Office meeting with a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the United States' later secret alliance with that group and their Saudi patrons against Egypt's President Nasser. Dreyfuss meticulously documents the CIA's funding of the Iranian ayatollahs in the coup d'etat that restored Iran's shah to power, the United States' support for Saudi Arabia's efforts to create a worldwide Islamic bloc as an antidote to Arab nationalism, and the longstanding ties between Islamic fundamentalists and the leading banks of the West. With clarity and rigor, Dreyfuss also chronicles how the United States looked the other way when Israel's secret service supported the creation of the radical Palestinian group Hamas and how a secretive clique of American strategists in the 1970s exploited political Islam to conduct a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan~leading directly to the rise of the Taliban. Wide~ranging and deeply informed, Devil's Game reveals a history of double~dealing and cynical exploitation that continues to this day~as in Iraq, where the United States is backing radical Islamists, allied with Iran's clerics, who have surfaced as the dominant force in the post~Saddam Hussein Iraqi government. What emerges is a pattern that, far from furthering either democracy or security, ensures a future of blunders and blowback.…

1st edition with 1 in the numberline; small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps; 191 pages; color and b&w illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy.