The ideas of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd have transformedAmerican military policy and practice. A first-rate fighter pilotand a self-taught scholar, he wrote the first manual on jet aerialcombat; spearheaded the design of both of the Air Force's premierfighters, the F-15 and the F-16; and shaped the tactics that savedlives during the Vietnam War and the strategies that won the GulfWar. Many of America's best-known military and political leadersconsulted Boyd on matters of technology, strategy, andtheory. In The Mind of War, Grant T. Hammond offers the first completeportrait of John Boyd, his groundbreaking ideas, and his enduringlegacy. Based on extensive interviews with Boyd and those who knewhim as well as on a close analysis of Boyd's briefings, thisintellectual biography brings the work of an extraordinary thinkerto a broader public.

On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—two-thirdsblack and one-third white—held the greatest civil rightsdemonstration ever. In this major reinterpretation of the GreatDay—the peak of the movement—Charles Euchner brings back thetension and promise of the march. Building on countless interviews,archives, FBI files, and private recordings, this hour-by-houraccount offers intimate glimpses into the lives of those keyplayers and ordinary people who converged on the National Mall tofight for civil rights in the March on Washington.

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’sbirth and in conjunction with the Library of Congress 2009Bicentennial Exhibition, In Lincoln’s Hand offers an unprecedentedlook at perhaps our greatest president through vivid images of hishandwritten letters, speeches, and even childhood notebooks—manynever before made available to the public. Edited by leading Lincoln scholars Wolf Shenk and HaroldHolzer, this companion volume to the Library of Congress exhibitionoffers a fresh and intimate perspective on a man whose thoughts andwords continue to affect history. To underscore the resonance ofLincoln’s writings on contemporary culture, each manu* isaccompanied by a reflection on Lincoln by a prominent American fromthe arts, politics, literature, or entertainment, including ToniMorrison, Sam Waterston, Robert Pinsky, Gore Vidal, and presidentsCarter, George H.W., and George W. Bush. While Lincoln’s words are quite well known, the originalmanu*s boast a unique power and

On September 11, 2011, the world will be watching astheNational September 11 Memorialopens on the site of the WorldTrade Center. With photographs and architectural plans never beforepublished, paired with comments in the very voices of those whowitnessed the event, those who struggled in its shadow for days andmonths after, and those who have dedicated the years since torebuilding a place of hope and meditation at Ground Zero, this bookwill stand apart from all the reston the tenth anniversary of thatworld-changing event. Heavily illustrated and elegantly designed,the book recalls the excitement and symbolism of the Twin Towers,the horror and chaos of the attack of 9/11, the fierce devotion andexhaustion as rescue of living victims became recovery of remains.But it also carries on from that date in history to tell the insidestory of the long, complex, and sometimes contentious efforts toturn eight acres of Downtown Manhattan into a lasting memorial tothose lost in New York, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon.

From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely)narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrialage to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first realfactories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentiethcentury and their waning influence today, the con?test betweenlabor and capital for their share of American bounty has shaped ournational experience. Philip Dray’s ambition is to show us the vitalaccomplishments of organized labor in that time and illuminate itscentral role in our social, political, economic, and culturalevolution. There Is Power in a Union is an epic, character-drivennarrative that locates this struggle for security and dignity inall its various settings: on picket lines and in union halls,jails, assembly lines, corporate boardrooms, the courts, the hallsof Congress, and the White House. The author demonstrates,viscerally and dramatically, the urgency of the fight for fairnessand economic democracy—a strugg

Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese have been published in The New York Times , The WallStreet Journal , The Village Voice , Wired , Discover , and other national publications. D’Agnese’s workhas twice been included in the anthology “Best American ScienceWriting.” Both are winners of Educational Press Association awards.They live in North Carolina.

摆在读者面前的《战术基础理论》丛书，包括以下四种图书：《战术史纲要》、《战术的哲学基础》、《合同战斗发展史》、《中国战术史》。这部丛书反映了中国改革开放以来，中国军事学术界对战术学基础理论的探研成果。战术学是军事科学中最基础、最重要的分支学科之一，它研究的对象是战斗的本质及其规律。战术用通俗的话说是交战双方最直接的战斗方法，具有非常明显的实践性与操作性。而这四种书分别从史的角度与哲学的角度对战术学进行了深入研究，拓展了这一分支学科的研究广度与深度，从而大大提升了这一分支学科的理论含量与学科化程度，是有

America's endless fascination with Camelot has enshrinedcountess pictures of Jack and Jackie Kennedy, Caroline andJohn-John in our national iconography, but few books have focusedon their instinctive grasp of the media's visual magic. Now, in avolume that combines arresting photography and perceptive analysis,Camelot insiders and media experts tell the whole story of the"love affair" between the Kennedys and the camera—a far morecomplex and sophisticated relationship than we often suppose. The Kennedy Mystique looks behind and beyond what first meets theeye, reminding readers that JFK and Jackie recognized and used themedia's power, and encouraged photographers to capture privatemoments as well as public events. Unique commentaries from Kennedyintimates and observers like Letitia Baldridge, Hugh Sidey andRobert Dallek provide rare perspective on the photographs ashistorical records, as image-management, and as symbols. Readerslearn, for instance, that the heartwarming shots of Jack laughingwith

During the civil rights movement, epic battles for justicewere fought in the streets, at lunch counters, and in theclassrooms of the American South. Just as many battles were waged,however, in the hearts and minds of ordinary white southernerswhose world became unrecognizable to them. Jason Sokol’s vivid andunprecedented account of white southerners’ attitudes and actions,related in their own words, reveals in a new light thecontradictory mixture of stubborn resistance and pragmaticacceptance–as well as the startling and unexpected personaltransformations–with which they greeted the enforcement of legalequality.