Plan Of Attack-Back Door To War-Silenced-U.S History (eBook Compilation)

material included:

1. Silenced!: Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America - by Bruce E. Johansen 2007

This book is about people whose ideological circumstances have found them opposing established beliefs in our times--scholars advocating the Palestinian cause in a very hostile intellectual environment, for example, as well as climate scientists defending themselves against the de-funding of their laboratories by defenders of fossil-fuel interests; opponents of "creation science" under assault for teaching what once was regarded as household-variety biology (a.k.a. Darwinism); Marxists in a political system dominated by neoconservatives. The central thesis that unites this diverse array of controversies is that shutting down free inquiry--most notably for points of view deemed unpopular--"dumbs" us all down by restraining the search for knowledge, which demands open inquiry. We have been told when going to war, as in Iraq, that "freedom isn't free," the unstated assumption being that our armed forces are fighting and dying to safeguard our civil rights at home and abroad. During recent years, however, freedom to inquire and debate without retribution has been under assault in the United States. This assault has been carried out under a distinctly Orwellian cast, under Newspeak titles such as the Patriot Act, parts of which might as well be described more honestly as the Restriction of Freedom of Inquiry Act. The information gathered here will interest (and probably anger) anyone who is concerned with protecting robust, free inquiry in a nation that takes seriously its freedom to speak out, and to define truth through open debate.

2. U-X-L Encyclopedia of U.S. History - by Lawrence W. Baker, Sarah Hermsen 2008

Presents almost seven hundred entries that cover important events, people, places, and concepts in United States history.

3. Plan of Attack - by Bob Woodward 2004

The 2003 American invasion of Iraq was contentious, not just in the arena of global public opinion, but within the tight-lipped world of the George W. Bush White House. As Bob Woodward reveals in Plan of Attack, Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were part of a group leading the charge to war while Secretary of State Colin Powell, General Tommy Franks, and others actively questioned the plan to invade a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks while war in Afghanistan was still being waged. Woodward gained extensive access to dozens of key figures and enjoyed hours of direct contact with the President himself (more time, seemingly, than former Bush administration officials Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neill claim to have had). As a result, he's able to cite the kind of gossip you won't find in a White House press release: Franks calls Pentagon official Douglas Feith "the f*cking stupidest guy on the face of the earth," Powell shares his alarm over how the cautious Cheney of the first Bush administration had transformed into a zealot, and Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar seems to enjoy significantly more entrée and influence than most anyone would have thought. Bush is shown as a man intent on toppling Saddam Hussein in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and never really wavering in his decision despite offering hints that non-military solutions could be achieved. Light is also shed on CIA director George Tenet, who insists that the evidence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction was "a slam dunk" only to later admit that his intelligence was flawed when months of post-war searches turned up nothing. But the book's most interesting character is Powell. A former soldier himself, who finds himself increasingly at odds with the agenda of the administration, Powell rejects evidence on WMDs that he sees as spurious but ultimately endorses the invasion effort, apparently out of duty. Upon its publication, the Bush administration roundly denied many of the accounts in the book that demonstrated conflict within their circles, poor judgment, or lousy planning, but the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign nonetheless listed Plan of Attack as recommended reading. And it is. It shows alarming problems in the way the war was conceived and planned, but it also demonstrates the tremendous conviction and dedication of the people who decided to carry it out. --John Moe --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

4. Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941 - by Charles Callan Tansill 1975

If you can make it through this encyclopedia, you will be rewarded with the truth. This book goes into great detail which is necessary to prove what most of us shudder to hear, (much less accept) namely that FDR planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. What is even more shockng is that these service men were sacrificed so that the United States could enter a war with Japan as a back door to entering a war with Germany, which was engaged with the USSR on its eastern front. Since the USSR was the great experiment (of international socialism), FDR wanted to save it from possible extinction. Read this book if you have the courage to challenge the history lessons you were probably taught in school.
As the other reviewer has mentioned this book tries to show that the US not only knew of the impending attack by the Japanese but also pushed them in the direction leading up to the attack. Although the statement in the other reviewers comments about FDR planning the attack can be misleading it does seem that he had intimate knowledge of the attack and he desperately wanted to join WWII. The author does not debate the fact that the US's entrance into the war was critical, but that the only way the US could be convinced to join the conflict (due to its isolationism). In order to be compelled to fight the US needed to be attacked in a merciless manner. Hence his argument that the Japanese move in that direction. He also points out many facts around the attack that are convincing as well.