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 major as much as, together with, andafter the fateful strike and consequent firing of over 11,000 federal staff by way of the President of the us in August, 1981. depending onprimary White apartment learn fabrics to be had within the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library information, the ebook concludes that either the strike and thedismissal weren't simply 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

Do you know that the Civil struggle caused France to invade Mexico? were you aware that the U.S. invaded Mexico two times through the Mexican Revolution? do you know the Irish-born father of Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn fought along Pancho Villa within the revolution? were you aware Germany provided to come Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to Mexico if it saved the USA occupied in the course of global battle I – and if Germany gained?

Boston's West End (Images of America)

Inside those pages, writer Anthony Mitchell Sammarcobrings to existence the historical past of Boston’s West End—thearea of town certain by way of the Charles River and Storrow force in addition to North Station, urban corridor Plaza, and Myrtle highway. as soon as a thriving, vigorous, and various local, the West finish used to be slated for whole removing following global warfare 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 modern occupation, first released in 2006, Christopher McKenna deals a background of administration consulting within the 20th century. even if administration consulting won't but be a famous occupation, the best consulting agencies were advising and reshaping the most important corporations on the earth because the Nineteen Twenties.