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Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power - James K. Libbey - Google Books

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Today, air power is a vital component of the U.S. armed forces. James Libbey, in Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power, highlights the contributions of an aviation pioneer who made much of it possible.Graduating from the Imperial Russian…

Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy - Dennis A. Henigan - Google Books

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Guns don t kill people; people kill people. When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. An armed society is a polite society. Who hasn t heard these engaging assertions, time and time again? Burned into the national consciousness by years of…

Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World ... - Norman Polmar - Google Books

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Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and…

JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy - John McAdams - Google Books

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The mother of all conspiracy theories concerns the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Many of its elements have even become part of American folklore: the single bullet, the grassy knoll shooter, and the mysterious deaths of interested…

Life in the Slipstream: The Legend of Bobby Walthour Sr - Andrew M. Homan - Google Books

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A century before Lance Armstrong captured headlines around the world by winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France, another American dominated the world of competitive cycling. His name was Bobby Walthour, and in the early 1900s he was one of the…

JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy - John McAdams - Google Books

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The mother of all conspiracy theories is the supposed one about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Many of its elements have become part of American folklore: the single bullet, the grassy knoll shooter, and the mysterious deaths of interested parties.…

Tortured Logic: A Verbatim Critique of the George W. Bush Presidency - Joseph Russomanno - Google Books

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It is hard to imagine a more Orwellian presidency than George W. Bush's, according to Joseph Russomanno, who demonstrates how a form of Newspeak became thoroughly entrenched in the historical record. Bush and his team, especially Vice President Dick…

John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power - John Andreas Olsen - Google Books

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Dr. John Andreas Olsen has written an insightful, compelling biography of retired U.S. Air Force colonel John A. Warden III, the brilliant but controversial air warfare theorist and architect of Operation Desert Storm’s air campaign. Warden’s radical ideas…

Tennis's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Baseline Blunders, Clay Court ... - Floyd Conner - Google Books

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Tennis history is filled with unusual, bizarre, and unbelievable stories. Tennis's Most Wanted chronicles 700 of the most outrageous players, coaches, and officials in tennis history. Its seventy lists describe in detail tennis's colorful characters,…

Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation - Eileen F. Lebow - Google Books

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Before Amelia is the remarkable story of the worldas women pioneer aviators who braved the skies during the early days of flight. While most books have only examined the women aviators of a single country, Eileen Lebow looks at an international spectrum of…