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With country music as popular as ever-what other form of music has been honored on an official state quarter? Country Music's Most Wanted hits the stage to bring you tales of country music’s famous and infamous. Alan Jackson delivered mail to Hee Haw before he made it big. Garth Brooks was booed off the stage during an eleventh-grade talent show. Kris Kristofferson landed a borrowed helicopter on Johnny Cash’s lawn so he could pitch Cash a son...

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Tom Reilly idolized his older brother, Ron. After their parents' unexpected early deaths, Ron protected his younger brother and taught him the ways of the world. Ron was a charismatic and worldly career soldier, and his kid brother thought of him as a mentor and hero. In July 1970, Ron died halfway around the world in Vietnam. When the Army provided no explanation except that Ron's death was not due to combat, the nineteen-year-old author set ...

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Late in 1939 Nazi Germany, with new military weapons and tactics, was poised to overrun Europe and impose Adolph Hitler¿s control over Western civilization. At that very time, two British physicists invented the cavity magnetron. About the size of a hockey puck, it unlocked the enormous potential of radar exclusively for the Allies. Since the discovery of radar early in the twentieth century, development across most of the world had progressed...

An Incipient Mutiny covers 1892 to 1918: the events leading up to the U.S. Army pilots' revolt in 1915, as well as the resulting trials. This is a historical account of mismanagement, criminal fraud, and cover-up.

Containment in the Middle East is expressed in many ways. The United States and Israel strive to contain Iran, including its nuclear project. However there were disputes between the United States and Israel about how to do that, particularly in regard to the military option. It seems that the United States managed both to contain Israel so the latter will not bomb Iran and to contain Iran¿s nuclear project, to a certain degree. This book discu...

As a U.S. Army colonel and an lead infectious disease physician at USAMRIID, Kortepeter provides an insider's perspective and an expert's insight on the ever-evolving threat of "black" biology harnessed as a weapon against mankind.

Told from the vantage point of two insiders with a privileged perspective on the individuals and events involved, Cheated examines athletic-academic corruption at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics.

An insider's account of Soviet and Russian politics from Gorbachev's democratizing reforms in the 1980s to the current authoritarian Russia of Putin.

This inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words¿from the Revolutionary War to the present wars in the Middle East. Serving with the Union Army during the Civil War as a nurse, scout, spy, and soldier, Harriet Tubman tells what it was like to be the first American woman to lead a raid against an enemy, freeing some 750 slaves. Busting gender stereotypes,...

Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude¿the world¿s largest reserves¿an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc. Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela¿s economic ruin and turned the country into a c...

The late 1990s and early aughts were a time of hope¿for democracy and free press. The Soviet Union had failed, leaving behind a number of independent countries where the Scorpions¿ 1990 pop ballad ¿Wind of Change¿ became a rallying cry. Communist propaganda was being replaced by Western ideals of freedom of speech, or so it was hoped. Two decades later the wind of change is blowing the other way. The Russians are proving their expertise in pro...

From Sadat to Saddam offers a fresh perspective on the politicization of the U.S. diplomatic service and the militarization of U.S. foreign policy. The narrative begins with the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Sadat, continues through two Gulf wars and ends with US withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq in 2011. The book recounts successes along with spectacular failures of U.S. foreign policy. The book addresses the basic question of ...

Jacqueline Saper, named after Jackie Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. As a teenager, she witnesses the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times as well as the Iran-Iraq War. A deeply intimate and personal story, Jacqueline recounts her privileged childhood growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran and how she gradually becomes aware of the par...

In examining over thirty unlikely presidential candidates from the past two centuries, Mark Stein reveals how fringe candidates have impacted the nation's political landscape.

9/12 is the epic saga of more than ten thousand first responders who became ill as a result of working on the Ground Zero cleanup and the historic and ground-breaking legal, political, medical and scientific battle on their behalf.