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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793651903321

Autore

Patenaude Bertrand M. <1956->

Titolo

Defining moments : the first one hundred years of the Hoover Institution / / Bertrand M. Patendaude

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-8179-2278-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 pages)

Disciplina

027.779473074

Soggetti

Policy sciences - United States - History

Research institutes - United States - History

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by George P. Shultz -- 1. Foundations. Remember the Lusitania! -- 2. The View from the Tower. The Nazi-Soviet Pact ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; Herbert Hoover and Poland ; The Okhrana Collection Revealed ; Alexander Kerensky at Hoover ; Nicolas de Basily Room -- 3. Hoover Becomes a Think Tank. Truth as a Weapon: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ; Ten Landmark Books by Hoover Fellows ; George Stigler ; The United States in the 1980s -- 4. Into a New Century. Robert Conquest ; Gorbachev at Stanford 1990 and 1992 ; Microfilming Soviet Communist Party Documents ; Thatcher on the Quad ; President George W. Bush and the Hoover Institution 2006 ; Hoover Nobel Laureates in Economics ; Firing Line ; Honors and Awards ; Chiang Kai-Shek's Diaries.