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When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor. His writings all converge on the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to prevail in the face of adversity.

The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In these essays he offers his thoughts on his imprisonment.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Native Americans had thriving societies based on governing structures and property rights that encouraged productivity and trade. These traditional economies were crippled by federal law. This book provides the knowledge for tribes trapped in 'white tape' to revitalize their economies and communities.

Marking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, in 1947, this volume presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event. The transcripts reveal what was said on a wide range of topics, including free markets, monetary reform, wage policy, the future of Germany, and liberalism, and more.

Sixteen distinguished foreign policy experts test the chances of peace by examining American foreign policy.

The commander or chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is a prominent public figure in Israel. This in-depth, comparative study on the role and performance of the IDF chiefs of staff throughout modern Israel's history offers lessons for practitioners and students of strategy, military history and leadership everywhere.

Brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country's transformation and wartime activities, starting with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.

Most current climate policies require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Terry Anderson brings together essays by nine policy analysts who argue that adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy.

Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya Cameron.

Maintaining that the status quo is unacceptable, the authors of this volume take a forward-thinking look at how choice, competition, deregulation, and decentralization can create disruptive innovation and reform education for all students.

From 1917 to 1920, as the Bolsheviks consolidated power and nursed global ambitions, anti-Bolshevik 'Whites' struggled to achieve a different vision for the future of Russia. This book illuminates the White campaign with fresh purpose and information from the Hoover Institution Archives.

In 1945, with events fresh in his mind, Jerzy Kwiatkowski sat down to describe his sixteen-month internment at Majdanek concentration camp - everything he endured and witnessed. Translated into English for the first time, and illustrated with rare archival images, this historical record and its insights are now available to a wider audience.

Sidney Drell left a legacy worthy of many lifetimes -physicist, professor, national security expert, amateur musician, behind-the-scenes diplomat, and champion for peace and human rights, he was also friend and mentor. Dozens of interviews with those whose lives he touched reveal Drell as a man of brilliance, curiosity, and passions.

Examines a range of issues shaping our present and future, region by region. Concrete proposals address migration, reversing the decline of K-12 education, updating the social safety net, maintaining economic productivity, protecting our democratic processes, improving national security, and more.

Provides a history of Bulgarian comunism from the days of Dimitur Blagoev, a member of the first Marxist group in Russia and a founder of Bulgarian communism, to Todor Zhivkov, the head of the BCP from 1954 until its near demise in 1989.

As the Federal Reserve System conducts its latest review of the strategies, tools, and communication practices it deploys to pursue its dual-mandate goals of maximum employment and price stability, this book emerges as an especially timely volume. It examines key policy issues, offering perspectives on US monetary policy tools and instruments.

Examines key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. Michael Auslin also explores the history of American strategy in Asia, from the 18th century to today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region.

What are the keys to good economic policy? George P. Shultz and John B. Taylor draw from their several decades of experience at the forefront of American economic policy making to show how letting the market work on its own, without government intervention, is a recipe for success.

In documenting the extent of Beijing's expanding influence operations inside the United States, the authors of this book aim to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range of American institutions: state and local governments, academic institutions, think tanks, media, and businesses.

What caused the Financial Crisis of 2008? Russ Roberts argues that the underlying cause of the mess was the past bailouts of large financial institutions that allowed these institutions to gamble carelessly because they were effectively using other people's money.

Examines one of the most under appreciated forces that has shaped modern US foreign policy: American-Iranian relations. The authors argue that America's flawed reading of Iran's politics has hamstrung decades of US diplomacy, resulting in humiliations and setbacks ranging from the 1979-81 hostage crisis to Barack Obama's nuclear weapons deal.

In a time marked by gridlock and incivility, it seems the only thing Americans can agree on is this: we're more divided today than we've ever been in our history. In Unstable Majorities Morris P. Fiorina surveys American political history to reveal that, in fact, the American public is not experiencing a period of unprecedented polarization.

Offers a collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. The selection represents only 1% of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have put online in a user-friendly format. This book and the larger online collection are sorely needed and deserve to be read by generation after generation.

In this latest collection of essays Walter E. Williams takes on a range of controversial issues surrounding race, education, the environment, the Constitution, health care, foreign policy, and more. Skewering the self-righteous and self-important, he makes the case for what he calls the "the moral superiority of personal liberty and its main ingredient - limited government."

Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people". Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people", we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats", including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.

A side of Herbert Hoover the world was rarely permitted to see Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover s career and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955 The Crusade Years is a previously unknown memoir that Hoover composed and revised during the 1940s and 1950s and then, surprisingly, set aside. A parallel volume to Hoover s Freedom Betrayed, this work recounts Hoover s family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and, most of all, his unrelenting crusade against collectivism in American life. Aside from its often feisty account of Hoover s political activities during the Roosevelt/Truman era, and its window on Hoover s private life and campaigns for good causes, The Crusade Years invites us to reflect on the factors that made possible his extraordinarily fruitful postpresidential years. As least as much as Theodore Roosevelt, he came to personify the activist former president; some historians have even argued that he invented it. In this realm of exertion, as in so many others, Herbert Hoover was no ordinary man. Of all the individuals who have served as president of the United States, none has ever written a set of memoirs as prodigious as his. Rescued from obscurity, this nearly forgotten manuscript is published here and its contents made available to scholars for the first time."

This essay unscrambles the gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades.