P.A.T.C.O. AND REAGAN: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY: The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike of 1981

P. A. T. C. O. AND REAGAN: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY - The Air site visitors Controllers' Strike of 1981 - files these ominous days best as much as, together with, andafter the fateful strike and consequent firing of over 11,000 federal staff via the President of the us in August, 1981. depending onprimary White apartment study fabrics to be had within the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library files, the ebook concludes that either the strike and thedismissal weren't purely predictable, yet inescapable eventualities, given the resolute and tenacious personalities of the leaders concerned.

What's to Know About Mexico?: One Thousand Questions and Answers About America's Southern Neighbor

Were you aware that the Civil conflict caused France to invade Mexico? do you know that the us invaded Mexico two times in the course of the Mexican Revolution? do you know the Irish-born father of Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn fought along Pancho Villa within the revolution? do you know Germany provided to come back Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to Mexico if it stored the USA occupied in the course of international struggle I – and if Germany received?

Boston's West End (Images of America)

Inside those pages, writer Anthony Mitchell Sammarcobrings to lifestyles the historical past of Boston’s West End—thearea of the town sure by way of the Charles River and Storrow force in addition to North Station, urban corridor Plaza, and Myrtle road. as soon as a thriving, vigorous, and numerous local, the West finish used to be slated for whole elimination following international struggle II.

The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

Within the World's most up-to-date occupation, first released in 2006, Christopher McKenna deals a historical past of administration consulting within the 20th century. even if administration consulting would possibly not but be a famous career, the best consulting organizations were advising and reshaping the most important corporations on the planet because the Twenties.