Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges. Sweeping in its scope and insight, Sisters reveals the sp

Biographies & Memoirs

Fialka, John J.

Historical

St. Martin's: Griffin

An award-winning investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal provides a thought-provoking look at the theft of America's technological secrets by foreign powers and its potentially devastating impact on the U.S. economy.

War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America

Business & Money

Business Culture

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"The best book yet on the threat to American business posed by industrial spies. . . . Historians may well turn to Fialka's book for a quick study."―John Mintz, Washington Post In this action-filled journey through tomorrow's headlines, award-winning journalist John Fialka reveals a secret war that jeopardizes the economic security of the United States and the livelihood of millions of Americans. The battlefield is now economic rather than ideological, but espionage in the 1990s springs directly from the ruins of the Cold War spy regimes. Newly configured, the covert operations of America's enemies-and friends-threaten to hollow out the U.S. economy and siphon away the jobs and technologies we need to remain competitive in the twenty-first century. From Russia's brazen shopping tours for U.S. secrets to the subtle art of technology "tunneling" by the Japanese, this book illuminates a loss that is widely felt, but not often seen or understood. Fialka's incisive reporting and trenchant analysis expose an attack on the American economy so deadly as to constitute a time-lapse Pearl Harbor; his book outlines the hard choices we must make if we are to survive.

W.W.Norton&Company

During America's Civil War, accounts of the Battle of Bull Run reached New York within 24 hours. During the Gulf War, reports took three or four days - sometimes two weeks - just to get from the front lines to the nearby press headquarters at the Dhahran International Hotel. From an insider's perspective, Fialka tells why the Marines had a better plan than the Army for getting news back from the front - and how even good plans go awry in the fog of war. He describes the hotel warriors, journalists who experienced the war mainly through televized briefings, pool reports, and CNN.

Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War (Woodrow Wilson Center Special Studies)

History

Americas

Woodrow Wilson Center Press

The resurgence of the electric car in modern life is a tale of adventurers, men and women who bucked the complete dominance of the fossil fueled car to seek something cleaner, simpler and cheaper. Award-winning former Wall Sreet Journal reporter John Fialka documents the early days of the electric car, from the M.I.T./Caltech race between prototypes in the summer of 1968 to the 1987 victory of the Sunraycer in the world's first race featuring solar powered cars.
Thirty years later, the electric has captured the imagination and pocketbooks of American consumers. Organizations like the U.S. Department of Energy and the state of California, along with companies from the old-guard of General Motors and Toyota as well as upstart young players like Tesla Motors and Elon Musk have embraced the once-extinct technology. The electric car has steadily gained traction in the U.S. and around the world. We are watching the start of a trillion dollar, worldwide race to see who will dominate one of the biggest commercial upheavals of the 21st century.
Drawing from the last decade of his 26-year career at the Wall Street Journal, where he covered energy and environmental matters, ClimateWire founder and industry insider John Fialka brings to life this thrilling and important story about American's rejection and second obsession with the electric car.

Car Wars: The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of the Electric Car

Industries

Thomas Dunne Books

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Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America

War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America

War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America

Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War (Woodrow Wilson Center Special Studies)

Car Wars: The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of the Electric Car