A Dangerous Place

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Little. Brown and Company

Moynihan served in the cabinet or subcabinet of four consecutive Presidents, as Ambassador to India, Professor of Government at Harvard University and as U.S. Senator from New York. In this book he examines crucial issues facing the United States in foreign policy, the judicial system and domestic and regional policies.

Counting our blessings: Reflections on the future of America

Little,Brown

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The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan

Random House]

Counting Our Blessings

Secker Warburg

Secrecy: The American Experience

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Yale Univ Pr

Foreign Policy. “In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.”
Grenada. “We might have benefited from a weekend’s pause in which we could have considered our interests rather than merely giving in to our impulses.”
The mining of Nicaraguan harbors. “A practice of deception mutated into a policy of deceit.”
Iran–Contra. “The idea of international law had faded. But just as important, in the 1980s it had come to be associated with weaknesses in foreign policy. Real men did not cite Grotius.”
As the era of totalitarianism recedes, the time is at hand to ask by what rules we expect to conduct ourselves, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan writes in this pellucid, and often ironic, examination of international law. Our founding fathers had a firm grasp on the importance and centrality of such law; later presidents affirmed it and tried to establish international institutions based on such high principles; but we lost our way in the fog of the Cold War.
Moynihan’s exploration of American attitudes toward international law―those of presidents, senators, congressmen, public officials, and the public at large―reveals the abiding reverence for a law of nations and the attempts for almost two hundred years to make international law the centerpiece of foreign and strategic policy. Only in the last decade did a shift in values at the highest levels of government change the goals and conduct of the United States.
Displaying a firm grasp of history, informed by senatorial insights and investigative data, elegantly written, this book is a triumph of scholarship, interpretation, and insight.

On the Law of Nations

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

This is the highly controversial and much-publicized report that proposed changes for improving classification and declassification practices of the U.S. Gov't. to protect the nation's secrets while still ensuring that the public has access to infor. on gov't. operations. Explores the historical roots of current practices, the consequences for both the dissemination of info. to the public and the sharing of info. within the Fed. Gov't., the functioning of the bureaucracy that protects government secrets, the effort to promote greater accountability, and the various costs associated with protecting secrets and reducing secrecy. Charts and tables.

Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy

Diane Books Publishing Company

After first arriving in the U.S. in 1890, the Japanese overcame the barriers of prejudice through education and perseverance, revealing the immense talents of their people. Their achievements are those of a people who have fought the odds and triumphed.

Japanese Americans: Peoples of North America

Harry H. L. Kitano

Chelsea House Pub (T)

When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as a "philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers.” Though Moynihan never wrote an autobiography, he was a gifted author and voluminous correspondent, and in this selection from his letters Steven Weisman has compiled a vivid portrait of Moynihan’s life, in the senator’s own words. Before his four terms as Senator from New York, Moynihan served in key positions under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. His letters offer an extraordinary window into particular moments in history, from his feelings of loss at JFK’s assassination, to his passionate pleas to Nixon not to make Vietnam a Nixon war, to his frustrations over healthcare and welfare reform during the Clinton era.This audiobook showcases the unbridled range of Moynihan’s intellect and interests, his appreciation for his constituents, his renowned wit, and his warmth even for those with whom he profoundly disagreed.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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