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Week of June 28, 2010
Generals & the Social Forum
In the News: General Stanley McChrystal was relieved of his duties as the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Taking his place is General David Petraeus, Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and architect of the 2007 counterinsurgency operations in Iraq. This week we look at other U.S. generals from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Also In the News: The second U.S. Social Forum, an offshoot of the World Social Forum, was held in Detroit last week, but the event received very little news coverage by the mainstream media.
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15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century
By Stanley Weintraub. Free Press, 2007
Call Number: DS919 .P43 2008
Daniel “Chappie” James: The First African American Four Star General
By Earnest N. Bracey. McFarland & Co., 2003
Call Number: E840.5 .J36 B73 2003
Eisenhower: The Prewar Diaries and Selected Papers, 1905-1941
Edited by Daniel D. Holt. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
Call Number: E742.5 .W372 1998
Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life
By Carlo D’Este. Henry Holt & Co., 2002
Call Number: E836 .D47 2002
The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
By David Cloud and Greg Jaffe. Crown Pub., 2009
Call Number: DS79.76 .C57 2009
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008|
By Thomas E. Ricks. Penguin Press, 2009
Call Number: DS79.76 .R537 2009
It Doesn’t Take a Hero: General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Autobiography
By H. Norman Schwarzkopf and Peter Petre. Bantam Books, 1992
Call Number: E840.5 .S39 A3 1992
MacArthur and the American Century: A Reader
Edited by William M. Leary. University of Nebraska Press, 2001
Call Number: E745 .M3 M23 2001
Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur
By Geoffrey Perrot. Random House, 1996
Call Number: E745 .M3 P42 1996
Patton (DVD)
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1999 (motion picture released 1970)
Call Number: PN1997. P377 1999 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Persian Gulf, Images of a Conflict. A Conversation with General Schwarzkopf: An Interview (VHS)
ABC News. MPI Home Video, 1991
Call Number: VH 3748
A Soldier Reports
By William C. Westmoreland. Doubleday, 1976
Call Number: DS559.5 .W47
Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton
By Robert K. Wilcox. Regnery Pub., 2008
Call Number: E745 .P3 W53 2008
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq
By Linda Robinson. PublicAffairs, 2008
Call Number: DS79.76 .R63885 2008
Truman & MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown
By Michael D. Pearlman. Indiana University Press, 2008
Call Number: DS919 .P43 2008 (Also available online via NetLibrary)
Westmoreland: The Inevitable General
By Ernest B. Furgurson. Little, Brown, 1968
Call Number: E840.5 .W4 F8
Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives at the World Social Forum
Edited by William F. Fisher & Thomas Ponniah. Zed Books, 2003
Call Number: HF1359 .A66 2003
Engaging Social Justice: Critical Studies of 21st century Social Transformation
Edited by David Fasenfest. Brill, 2009
Call Number: HM671 .E54 2009
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America
Edited by Jane S. Jaquette. Duke University Press, 2009
Call Number: HQ1236.5 .L37 F46 2009
Hugo Chavez: World Social Forum 2005, Porto Alegre, Brazil (DVD)
Z Video Productions, 2005
Call Number: F2328.52 .C48 H85 2005 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Zed Books, 2006
Call Number: HN18.3 .S263 2006
Social Movements for Global Democracy
By Jackie Smith. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Call Number: HN17.5 .S586 2008
Stopping a War, Building a Movement (DVD)
Talks by Stephen R. Shalom & Joanne Landy. Z Video Productions, 2003
Call Number: JZ5574 .S77 2003 (Boca Raton Media Center)