Peter Kornbluh Editor (24 results)

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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1st Printing. Edited by Thomas W. Walker. Boulder & London: Westview Press, (1987). First Printing. 8vo. 337pp, Index. Black cloth, near fine condition (lower edge of text block lightly soiled), no dj (issued?). Frontispiece map, 5 tables, and 5 figures. President Reagan considered the Sandinistas a national security threat; he secured funding to support the Contras. When Congress restricted and then banned funding, Reagan bypassed Congress and sold weapons to Iran (then an embargoed nation) and used the profits to continue funding the Contras. The result: political scandal known as the Iran-Contra Affair. ISBN 0813303710; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Revised Edition. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear and there is a small, light crease to the top rear corner. The text pages are clean and bright. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) , or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in the United Kingdom, Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war. (from Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 337p. No jacket. Light rubbing. Previous owner's name blacked out on ffep and top edge of page block. Some underlining and occasional notes inside; otherwise clean and bright. Tightly bound. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in Tall. Year: 1987.

Trade paperback. Condition: good. Reprint Edition. vi, 250 pages. Wraps. Notes. Bibliography. Contributors. Covers somewhat worn and soiled. Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan). Klare also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Klare serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. Peter Kornbluh (born 1956) is the director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project and Cuba Documentation Project. He played a large role in the campaign to declassify government documents, via the Freedom of Information Act, relating to the history of the U.S. government's support for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. He is the author of several books, most recently The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. Kornbluh won a 1990 James Aronson Award honorable mention for writing on Central America in The New Yorker. The first book to take on the hottest military/foreign policy issue of the post-Irangate eighties--low-intensity warfare. The issues in this book would be the key to any foreign policy/defense debate in 1988. Among the contributor was Richard J. Barnet. Richard Jackson Barnet (May 7, 1929 - December 23, 2004) was an American scholar-activist who co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies. Derived from a Kirkus review: A collection of essays that explore--and challenge the Administration's position on--the relatively new concept of "low-intensity warfare." Klare teams up with Kornbluh to edit these pieces by Selig Harrison, Charles Maechling, Jr., Richard Barnet, Stephen Goose, Daniel Siegel, Walden Bellow, and Joy Hackel. The editors see the roots of America's low-intensity warfare strategy in President Kennedy's recognition that "subversive insurgency is a major form of politico-military conflict equal in importance to conventional warfare." After the Vietnam backlash and retrenchment against guerrilla warfare, the editors explain in their introduction, "a small contingent of officers, analysts, and political operators inside the national security establishment, supported by a growing neoconservative movement, committed themselves to reviving the United States as the 'guardian at the gate' of a global hegemonic order." The general binding theme of the essays presented here is best summed up by one of the editors' nemeses, Sam Sarkesian, whose pro-counterinsurgency stance they quote: ". . .low-intensity conflicts do not conform to democratic notions of strategy or tactics. . .survival is the ultimate morality." Thus, whether it be in the essays devoted to Nicaragua, El Salvador, or Afghanistan, on display here is an emphasis on condemning US government secret operations--a condemnation summed up in Barnet's concluding essay, wherein he states that any sustained effort to mislead Congress poses a serious threat to the integrity of the Constitutional process. An intelligent exposition to the anti-low-intensity warfare position, but clearly focused on only one side of the discussion.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by both authors to Stewart Mott. Mott was a notable philanthropist and on Nixon's enemies list. Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Water damage to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. *Autographed by author.* This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Signed. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition [stated]. xxvii, [1], 415, [3] p. Map. Notes. Reproduced Documents. Selected Glossary. Chronology of Events. Bibliography. Some pages are in a two column format. Foreword by Robert S. McNamara. On the 30th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, newly released documents reveal how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962 and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. A valuable new resource for teachers, students, and millions of Americans who were never given the whole story. Employing newly released documents that reveal how close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, this look at the Cuban Missile Crisis challenges the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. Peter Kornbluh (born 1956) is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive and the director of the Chile Documentation Project and the Cuba Documentation Project. Kornbluh's National Security Archive work included efforts related to the U.S. government's historical foreign policy. He has contributed to the declassification of documents that offer insight into U.S. government's support for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Kornbluh has authored and co-authored several publications. One of his significant works is The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which compiles a selection of declassified documents related to U.S. policy in Chile from 1970 to 1990. He also co-authored the book Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana with William LeoGrande. More than thirty years after the world stared down what Kennedy Administration officials described as "the gun barrel of nuclear war," we are still learning the secrets of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The National Security Archive's ground-breaking research and documentation of this near-nuclear confrontation is reflected in this book which combines formerly top secret presidential, Pentagon, and CIA documents, with contextual overviews, a comprehensive chronology of events, and biographies of the key U.S., Soviet, and Cuban players. The result is a document-by-document account of the most important superpower confrontation of the twentieth century. This collections of documents, which includes the recently declassified letters between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, minutes of executive committee meetings during the crisis, and CIA planning papers to overthrow Fidel Castro, provides the reader with a unique fly-on-the-wall view of the decision-making process and operations that brought the world to the brink of self-destruction. "The work of Chang and Kornbluh and their colleagues at the National Security Archive has helped to revolutionize not merely our conception of the event--which now appears more complex and dangerous than before--but also our conception of how to conduct rigorous, responsible inquiry into our recent history," writes James Blight, the nation's best known scholar on the missile crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, according to the Stanford Journal of International Affairs, "is a collection which students of the crisis, scholars of international relations, and even interested laymen should find fascinating and invaluable.".…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 412 pages. 9.95x7.99x1.31 inches. In Stock.