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 - records these ominous days prime 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 on hand within the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library files, the booklet concludes that either the strike and thedismissal weren't simply 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 warfare brought on France to invade Mexico? do you know that the U.S. 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? were you aware Germany provided to come back Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to Mexico if it stored the U.S. 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 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, lively, and various local, the West finish was once slated for whole elimination following international 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 up-to-date occupation, first released in 2006, Christopher McKenna deals a heritage of administration consulting within the 20th century. even though administration consulting would possibly not but be a famous career, the best consulting organizations were advising and reshaping the biggest corporations on the earth because the Nineteen Twenties.