How American professional football came to dominate national culture across boundaries of race, class, and even gender as well as cast a giant shadow internationally.
Michael Morell spent 33 years at the CIA. Many of the details in his surprisingly candid (and even self critical) account of his tenure at the CIA are new and of importance to those studying the war on terror.
"The Big Green Tent" is a worthy successor in a long line of first-rate Russian novels. It pulsates with life, reflects a historical era accurately, deals with important moral questions, and is extremely readable.
This book helps to put to rest the canard that the United States empire was created by “invitation” or as a historical “accident “ and that the United States exhibits a purely benign influence on world affairs.
The book is a beautifully-produced tribute to the unknown and unsung iron workers, cable spinners, electricians and laborers whose efforts literally put one of America’s most photographed and visited landmarks on the map.
