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  • Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.

    The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent

    by John Muller ...
    A rollicking account of how Mark Twain mocked and mined DC's self-important, incompetent, and corrupt political scene to further his literary career.When young Samuel Clemens first visited the nation's capital in 1854, both were rough around the edges and of dubious potential. Returning as Mark Twain in 1867, he brought his sharp eye and acerbic pen to the task of covering the capital for nearly a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Build Your Own PC on a Budget: A DIY Guide for Hobbyists and Gamers

    by John Mueller ...
    Design and assemble an inexpensive yet fast and reliable PCConstruct the PC of your dreams using the practical information contained in this hands-on guide. Build Your Own PC on a Budget explains, step-by-step, how to put together a customized computer that is affordable, stable, and powerful. Discover how to choose the parts that fit your needs, safely connect and test components, add video and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Atomic Obsession

    Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda

    by John Mueller ...
    Following 9/11, Americans were swept up in a near hysteria-level fear of terrorists, especially of Islamic extremists working domestically. The government and media reports stoked fears that people living in the US have the desire and means to wreak extreme havoc and destruction. Early reports estimated slightly more than 300 al Qaeda operatives living in the United States. It wasn't long before ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Stupidity of War

    American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency

    by John Mueller ...
    It could be said that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats - including during the Cold War - have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. A policy of complacency and appeasement likely would have worked better. In this highly readable book, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.

    The Lion of Anacostia

    by John Muller ...
    "Reconstruct[s] Douglass's life in the nation's capital, both at home and in the halls of power, in ways that no other biographer has done" (Leigh Fought, author of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass ).The remarkable journey of Frederick Douglass from fugitive slave to famed orator and author is well recorded. Yet little has been written about Douglass's final years in Washington, DC. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atomic Obsession

    Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda

    by John Mueller ...
    Following 9/11, Americans were swept up in a near hysteria-level fear of terrorists, especially of Islamic extremists working domestically. The government and media reports stoked fears that people living in the US have the desire and means to wreak extreme havoc and destruction. Early reports estimated slightly more than 300 al Qaeda operatives living in the United States. It wasn't long before ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Germany and the Second World War

    Volume 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power. Part I: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources, 1939-1941

    Edited by Bernhard R. Kroener, Rolf-Dieter Muller, Hans Umbreit ...
    Series Book 1 - Germany & Second World War
    This is part one of the fifth volume in the comprehensive and authoritative series, Germany in the Second World War. It deals with developments in wartime administration, economy, and manpower resources in Germany and its occupied territories from 1939-1941. Series description This is the fifth in the magisterial ten-volume Germany and the Second World War. The six volumes so far published in ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery

    by John Mueller ...
    Democracy is overrated. Capitalism, on the other hand, doesn't get enough credit. In this provocative and engaging book, John Mueller argues that these mismatches between image and reality create significant political and economic problems--inspiring instability, inefficiency, and widespread cynicism. We would be far better off, he writes, if we recognized that neither system is ideal or ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Peace, Prosperity, And Politics

    by John Mueller ...
    This book deals with a variety of issues of history, of national security, and of political economy, and focuses on the need for a dynamic perspective. It emphasizes the development of ideas as the motor forces behind the economic policies. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • War and Ideas

    Selected Essays

    by John Mueller ...
    This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions.Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good idea has gained currency. The first part of the book extends this argument, noting that as ideas have ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Overblown

    How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them

    by John Mueller ...
    Why have there been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11? It is ridiculously easy for a single person with a bomb-filled backpack, or a single explosives-laden automobile, to launch an attack. So why hasn't it happened? The answer is surely not the Department of Homeland Security, which cannot stop terrorists from entering the country, legally or otherwise. It is surely not the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Remnants of War

    by John Mueller ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    "War... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer on high. And it seems to me that the institution is in pronounced decline, abandoned as attitudes toward it have changed, roughly following the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD