Timothy Naftali è uno storico il cui lavoro approfondisce momenti cruciali della Guerra Fredda e la storia della politica antiterrorismo. Come direttore della Tamiment Library e degli Archivi Robert F. Wagner della New York University, e precedentemente presso la Biblioteca Presidenziale di Nixon, si è concentrato sul rendere accessibili i documenti storici e fornire interpretazioni obiettive. La sua esperienza risiede nello scoprire contesti nascosti e offrire una visione più imparziale di eventi controversi, come lo scandalo Watergate. Le analisi di Naftali attingono spesso a uno studio approfondito di materiali d'archivio e registrazioni presidenziali, contribuendo a una rinnovata comprensione della politica estera e delle questioni di sicurezza americane.
The book delves into the historical instances of impeachment in American politics, focusing on Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton. Four experts analyze the implications of these events and their relevance in contemporary political discourse. By exploring the constitutional and political ramifications of impeachment, the authors provide insights into how these cases reflect the challenges and complexities of presidential accountability in today's society.
This book, stemming from the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, explores US intelligence agencies' insights into Nazi crimes and their involvement in the Holocaust. It highlights corporate profiteering from Jewish property expropriation and uncovers Cold War ties between the US and former Nazi officers, offering a unique view of intelligence operations.
Traces the long history of American efforts to thwart terrorism, from World
War II to the Munich Games hostage-taking to the first attack on the World
Trade Center in 1993.
Based on classified Soviet archives, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and the KGB, "One Hell of a Gamble" offers a riveting play-by-play history of the Cuban missile crisis from American and Soviet perspectives simultaneously. No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the Soviet Union have long been sealed from public view: Of the most frightening episode of the Cold War--the Cuban Missile Crisis--we have had an incomplete picture. When did Castro embrace the Soviet Union? What proposals were put before the Kremlin through Kennedy's back-channel diplomacy? How close did we come to nuclear war? These questions have now been answered for the first time. This important and controversial book draws the missing half of the story from secret Soviet archives revealed exclusively by the authors, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and his leadership circle. Contained in these remarkable documents are the details of over forty secret meetings between Robert Kennedy and his Soviet contact, records of Castro's first solicitation of Soviet favor, and the plans, suspicions, and strategies of Khrushchev. This unique research opportunity has allowed the authors to tell the complete, fascinating, and terrifying story of the most dangerous days of the last half-century.
Nikita Chruszczow, pozostawał przez cały czas jednym z najbardziej
nieobliczalnych, enigmatycznych przywódców światowych. Autorzy, jeden z
najwybitniejszych współczesnych rosyjskich historyków oraz znakomity
amerykański ekspert do spraw byłego ZSRR, odtwarzają dramatyczny okres jego
rządów ich książka jest też kroniką zimnej wojny. Jako źródła posłużyły im
przede wszystkim odtajnione w ostatnich latach materiały Biura Politycznego KC
KPZR oraz radzieckich służb specjalnych. Główna teza autorów głosi, że
polityka konfrontacyjna Chruszczowa była w istocie kamuflażem służącym ukryciu
militarnej i gospodarczej słabości Rosjan.
