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 through the President of the us in August, 1981. depending onprimary White residence study fabrics to be had within the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library documents, the ebook concludes that either the strike and thedismissal weren't in basic terms predictable, yet inescapable situations, 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 brought on France to invade Mexico? were you aware that the us invaded Mexico two times in the course of the Mexican Revolution? were you aware the Irish-born father of Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn fought along Pancho Villa within the revolution? do you know Germany provided to come Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to Mexico if it saved the us occupied in the course of global conflict 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 certain 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 various local, the West finish was once slated for whole removing 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 latest career, 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 occupation, the best consulting companies were advising and reshaping the most important enterprises on this planet because the Twenties.