Potomac Books imprint: 389 books

How China Sees the World

Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics

by John M. Friend, Bradley A. Thayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

Han-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate right to advance Chinese interests at the expense of other countries. Han nationalists have called for policies that will allow China to reclaim the prosperity stolen...

Spies, Lies, and Citizenship

The Hunt for Nazi Criminals

by Mary Kathryn Barbier
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

In the 1970s news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to deport offenders. The subsequent creation of the Office...

Chinese Nuclear Proliferation

How Global Politics Is Transforming China's Weapons Buildup and Modernization

by Susan Turner Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

While the world’s attention is focused on the nuclearization of North Korea and Iran and the nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, China is believed to have doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal, making it “the forgotten nuclear power,” as described in Foreign Affairs. Susan Turner...
by David L. Hudson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

Known as "the sport of kings," horse racing has been around the track, so to speak. Out of the gates as early as ancient Greeces Olympic Games, racing would truly find its footing centuries later when Arabian horses were brought to England during the Crusades. Soon nobles with deep pockets were striking...

The Golden Fleece

High-Risk Adventure at West Point

by Tom Carhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

In the fall of 1965 West Point cadet Tom Carhart and five of his classmates from the U.S. Military Academy pulled off a feat of extraordinary ingenuity, precision, and raw guts: the theft of the billy goat mascot from their rival, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, just before the biggest football...
by James W. Cortada
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011

During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front. One was attaché Col. Stephen O. Fuqua of the U.S. Army, who had once held the rank of major general. His presence was highly unusual, for most military observers were less-experienced...

Desert Diplomat

Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11

by Robert W. Jordan, Steve Fiffer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan’s nomination sped through Congress in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and he was at his post by early October, though with no prior diplomatic experience, as Saudi...
by David Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007

The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon. It can change a game in a heartbeat, making a tight game into a blowout or a seemingly easy win into a nail-biter. Homers are majestic, powerful, and awe inspiring. And sluggers are the sport's biggest stars, from the days of Babe Ruth through Barry...
by Daniel R. Levitt; Mark L. Armour
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004

An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In Paths to Glory, Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas...
by Steven J. Rubenzer; Thomas R. Faschingbauer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004

Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House is the first book-length work to present truly scientific personality evaluations of the American presidents. This benchmark work dramatically improves the state-of-the-art in classifying presidents and predicting performance in the White House....
by John T. Fishel; AndrTs Saenz
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007

In 2004, for the second time in a decade, the international community found it necessary to intervene in Haiti to enforce and keep a peace. For the first time under a United Nations mandate, several Latin American countries stepped up to lead the mission. Chile provided political leadership in the form...
by Trin Yarborough
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005

Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the warÆs end and grew up as Americans, speaking English and...

Loving and Leaving Washington

Reflections on Public Service

by John Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy’s call, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, when the power game in Washington...
by Neyla Arnas
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009

Compiled to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing security environment, this important collection grew out of an innovative Department of Defense (DOD) workshop. The bookÆs purpose is to examine strategic trends, their defense relevance, how they may overlap to produce strategic ôshocksöùsuch...
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