Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5746 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693594 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712681 The true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra conference in 1957, exposing the Mafia to America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682864 A chronicle of key events in the civil rights movement traces how it evolved from a bus strike to a political and social revolution. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687144 From the editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, a timely and compelling look at how liberals use bullying toward their opponents on todays top political issues-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696384 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731363 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713197 For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. Hes had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers. Through a series of character-driven case histories--from the earliest trials in Salem, Massachusetts, to the bungled trial of Amanda Knox--Douglas shows what happens when the system breaks down and bias, media coverage, and other influences get in the way of a dispassionate pursuit of the evidence. Here also are Douglas personal reflections on his ongoing search for the truth, from painful lessons learned early in his career to his controversial findings in the West Memphis Three and JonBenet Ramsey investigations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732824 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687136 The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679391 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671975 Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an unforgiving corner of Arabia. The Last Refuge charts the rise, fall, and resurrection of al-Qaeda in Yemen over the last thirty years, detailing how a group that the United States once defeated has now become one of the worlds most dangerous threats. An expert on Yemen who has spent years on the ground there, Gregory D. Johnsen uses al-Qaedas Arabic battle notes to reconstruct their world as they take aim at the United States and its allies. Johnsen brings readers inside al-Qaedas training camps and safe houses as the terrorists plot and debate. The Last Refuge is an eye-opening look at the successes and failures of fighting a new type of war in one of the most turbulent countries in the world.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694344 The true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra conference in 1957, exposing the Mafia to America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711354 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712684 Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Trumans 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742083 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742072 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706097 For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, hes had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). Written with long-time collaborator Mark Olshaker, Law & Disorder is Douglas most provocative and personal book to date. In it, he addresses every law enforcement professionals worst nightmare: those cases where, for one reason or another, justice was delayed...or even denied. Through a series of character-driven case histories--from the earliest trials in Salem, Massachusetts to the bungled trial of Amanda Knox--Douglas shows what happens when the system breaks down and bias, media coverage, and other influences get in the way of a dispassionate pursuit of the evidence. Here also are Douglas personal reflections on his ongoing search for the truth--from painful lessons learned early in his career to his controversial findings in the West Memphis Three and Jon Benet Ramsey investigations. Brimming with procedural detail, Law & Disorder is an eye-opening insiders account of the exhilaration and frustration that attend the quest for justice.--from publishers description http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737977 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713207 Whether youre thinking of becoming a private investigator or youre just looking for some information, youve come to the right place. This revised and updated guide gives you everything you need to know to catch cheating spouses, locate missing people, track down deadbeat parents, perform background checks, and more. --cover p. 4. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668544 Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American viewers. Today, the fastest-growing news programs and media platforms are fighting hard for increasingly narrow segments of the public and playing on old prejudices and deep-rooted fears, coloring the conversation in the blogosphere and the cable news chatter to distract from the true issues at stake. Using the same tactics once used to mobilize political parties and committed voters, they send their fans coded messages and demonize opposing groups, in the process securing valuable audience share and website traffic. Race-baiter is a term born out of this tumultuous climate, coined by the conservative media to describe a person who uses racial tensions to arouse the passion and ire of a particular demographic. Even as the election of the first black president forces us all to reevaluate how we think about race, gender, culture, and class lines, some areas of modern media are working hard to push the same old buttons of conflict and division for new purposes. In Race-Baiter, veteran journalist and media critic Eric Deggans dissects the powerful ways modern media feeds fears, prejudices, and hate, while also tracing the history of the word and its consequences, intended or otherwise-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677536 Jake Tapper exposes the origins of one of the Afghan Wars deadliest battles for U.S. forces and details the stories of soldiers heroic and doomed, shadowed by the recklessness of their commanders in Washington, D.C. and a war built on constantly shifting sands. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668080 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672365 Recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double agents and communist sympathizers--most notably Harry Dexter White--to lead Japan into war against the United States, proposing Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687253 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622926 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559051 Combining groundbreaking investigative research with a shocking and true conspiracy story, investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger Charles puncture the myth about what happened on April 19, 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Oklahoma City reveals that more players were involved in the plot than simply Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667573 A timely look at the evolution of US immigration policy and how the increasingly hostile anti-immigrant climate is detrimental to our nations economic well-being-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1550145 Shows how, since 9/11, America has learned to take on the terrorists in ever more lethally incisive operations which have culminated in the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687368 A full decade before J. Edgar Hoovers FBI even acknowledged the existence of the Mafia, the Los Angeles Police Department launched the real-life Gangster Squad - eight men who met covertly and slept with Tommy guns while combating what city fathers saw as an invasion of undesirables. But for two cops, Sgt. Jack OMara and Sgt. Jerry Wooters, all that mattered was nailing one strutting little gangster named Mickey Cohen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668881 Jake Tapper exposes the origins of this tragic and confounding story, exploring the history of the camp and detailing the stories of soldiers heroic and doomed, shadowed by the recklessness of their commanders in Washington, D.C. and a war built on constantly shifting sands. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1652964 James Meredith engineered two of the most epic events of the American civil rights era: the desegregation of the University of Mississippi in 1962, which helped open the doors of education to all Americans; and the March Against Fear in 1966, which helped open the floodgates of voter registration in the South. Part memoir, part manifesto, A Mission from God is James Meredith?s look back at his courageous and action-packed life and his challenge to America to address the most critical issue of our day: how to educate and uplift the millions of black and white Americans who remain locked in the chains of poverty by improving our public education system. Born on a small farm in Mississippi, Meredith returned home in 1960 after nine years in the U.S. Air Force, with a master plan to shatter the system of state terror and white supremacy in America. He waged a fourteen-month legal campaign to force the state of Mississippi to honor his rights as an American citizen and admit him to the University of Mississippi. He fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Meredith endured months of death threats, daily verbal abuse, and round-the-clock protection from federal marshals and thousands of troops to became the first black graduate of the University of Mississippi in 1963. In 1966 he was shot by a sniper on the second day of his ?Walk Against Fear? to inspire voter registration in Mississippi. Though Meredith never allied with traditional civil rights groups, leaders of civil rights organizations flocked to help him complete the march, one of the last great marches of the civil rights era. Decades later, Meredith says, ?Now it is time for our next great mission from God. . . . You and I have a divine responsibility to transform America.? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713334 ... These works not only chronicle a leading dissidents struggle against tryranny but enrich the record of universal longing for freedom and dignity. Liu writes pragmatically, yet with deep-seated passion, about peasant land disputes, the Han Chinese in Tibet, child slavery, the CCPs Olympic strategy, the Internet in China, the contemporary craze for Confucius, and the Tiananmen massacre. Also presented are poems written for his wife, public documents and a foreward by Vclav Havel--Jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1549884 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668865 John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy. Operation Snow shows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double agents and communist sympathizers--most notably Harry Dexter White--to lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1616413 A narrative report on the FBIs covert involvement with future President Ronald Reagan, radical Mario Savio and liberal university president Clark Kerr to suppress the 1960s student movement at Berkeley reveals J. Edgar Hoovers campaign of planted news stories, illegal break-ins and other acts designed to undermine the Democratic party. - Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1616026 Recounts the story of the six double agents--Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle, Garbo, and a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed here for the first time--who would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitlers army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety on 6 June 1944, D-Day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669067 Americas war over gun control has raged since the 1960s. In 2008, the Supreme Court startled the left by concluding that with the Second Amendment the founders elevated above all other interests the right to bear arms in defense of hearth and home. Liberals feared the NRA would succeed in rolling back regulations nationwide. Discussion about guns in America has been stalemated, shortcircuited, and dominated by rigidly and mutually intolerant ideologies. Yet we may be closer to a solution than either side may imagine.In Living With Guns, veteran New York Times editor Craig Whitney carefully reexamines Americas relationship with guns, showing how guns are an important part of American culture. The earliest colonists needed them to survive. We have nearly 300 million of them today. Trying to restrict gun ownership doesnt effectively deter crime--we need to get serious about what actually works. Whitney shows that, if we focus on controlling violence rather than guns themselves, the Second Amendment may not be so lethal as the left would like to think-- Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649881 This is a true story of secret identities and international intrigue; it is the gripping account of the history making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. It relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. But there is a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. A midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders, directors, producers, and actors, traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the ideal backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot being fired. Here the author finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685759 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667658 The true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1608993 A thrilling, exclusive expos of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1587457 A senior Economist writer argues that the Kremlins spymasters have excelled in their field beyond the capabilities of their Western-world adversaries, tracing the story behind the 2010 deportation of Anna Chapman while analyzing triumphs and disasters in Western intelligence throughout the Cold War as revealed by a leading Russian NATO spy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621204 Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich--and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germanys most valued agent--or double agent: it took four tries before the British believed he was really on the Allies side. In the guise of Garbo, Pujol invented armadas out of thin air and brought a vast network of fictional subagents whirring to life. His German handlers believed every word, and banked on Garbos lies as their only source of espionage within Great Britain. For his greatest performance, Pujol had to convince the German High Command that the D-Day invasion of Normandy was a feint and the real attack was aimed at Calais. The Nazis bought it.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684617 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646969 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1483087 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615674 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547301 Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of al-Qaeda. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615438 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584685 Recounts Project AZORIAN, the clandestine Cold War efforts of the CIA, under the guise of an undersea mining operation, to recover the sunken Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304270 Draws on dozens of interviews with officials, military figures, and spies throughout the world to profile the al Qaeda terrorist behind the September 11 attacks, revealing previously undisclosed facts and details about other plots. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375398 Reveals the Pentagons covert strategy for countering terrorism that developed when initial efforts following September 11 were unsuccessful, explaining how multiple agencies have adapted Cold War practices to disrupt key jihadist networks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1372968 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474307 DeRose tells the never-before-told story of the 1789 congressional election in Virginias 5th district and of the two men who fought it: James Madison and James Monroe. They were friends and political allies for most of their lives, but their paths diverged when they found themselves at odds with each other in the battle over the Constitution. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1398370 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364535 This work is a narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIAs top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Ladens top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agencys worst loss of life in decades. In this book the author, a reporter, takes us deep inside the CIAs secret war against al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser guided missiles against a cunning enemy intent on unleashing carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between the two sides was Balawi, a young man with extraordinary gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened terrorists as well as veteran spymasters. With his breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaedas lair, Balawi appeared poised to become Americas greatest double agent in half a century, but he was not at all what he seemed. Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayers The Dark Side, the author takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375388 A decade after the World Trade Center disaster, rampant speculation abounds on what actually happened. Wild talk flourishes on the Internet, TV, and radio. Was the Pentagon really struck by a missile? Was the untimely death of Barry Jennings, who witnessed the collapse of Tower 7 and thought he heard explosions, actually an assassination? Not everyone is convinced the truth is out there. Once again, in this updated edition, Popular Mechanics counters the conspiracy theorists with a dose of hard, cold facts. The magazine consulted more than 300 experts in fields like air traffic control, aviation, civil engineering, fire fighting, and metallurgy, and then rigorously, meticulously, and scientifically analyzed the 25 most persistent 9/11 conspiracy theories. Each one was conclusively refuted with facts, not politics and rumors, including five new myths involving the collapse of 7 World Trade Center and four longstanding conjectures now considered in the context of new research.--Publishers description http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1365372 The threat of terrorism in America, the Obama administration claims, is contained and controlled. Attempted attacks like the Times Square bombing, the underwear bombing, and the attack on a Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony were all isolated plots that failed. In the words of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano, The system worked. Dont believe it. Here, investigative reporter Erick Stakelbeck exposes the staggering truth about our national security: the Obama administration is concealing the enormous terrorist threat growing right here within our borders. If you believe terrorism is only a problem for other countries, Stakelbeck will open your eyes. This book sounds the alarm on a growing threat that the US government refuses to face honestly. As we struggle against a relentless Islamist enemy committed to destroying our nation, we cant say we werent warned. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1209397 Fallout takes reader inside the CIAs covert operation to penetrate A. Q. Khans weapons intelligence network and exposes the agencys desperate and ultimately flawed plans to sabotage the nuclear programs of Iran and Libya. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1369184 A critical assessment of the war on terror offers insight into such topics as the decision to invade Iraq, the high number of civilian casualties, and the United States associations with questionable allies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1255596 Draws on hundreds of interviews and once-secret documents to deliver the untold story of the FBIs secret battles in the war on terror--both outside the United States and inside the U.S. government--highlighting the tensions between the FBI and CIA. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1275256 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644950 Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, ranging from lobbying to endowments to think tanks and policy centers, universities and workshops for teachers in kindergarten through twelfth grade, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from Americas addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by long-time experts in the fields of national security, foreign policy, education, and law, this book uses first-hand accounts to explore the Saudis vast grip. It addresses how Saudi influence has eased the rise of domestic terrorism as well as a promulgation of pernicious ideas regarding American foreign policy. All this has produced a philosophy of moral equivalency, mitigating against a sense of American exceptionalism or a moral clarity of Americas unique mission in the world. -- Product Description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299129 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298578 Traces the history of the online organization WikiLeaks, which released thousands of previously secret or classified documents from numerous government agencies, and examines its impact on world politics and freedom of information. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393177 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375724 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1241915 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302580 Between 1865 and 1870, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S., the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to all Americans, white or black, and the 15th gave black American males the right to vote. In 1875 the far reaching Civil Rights Act granted all Americans regardless of color the full and equal enjoyment of public conveyances and places of amusement. Yet eight years later, in 1883, the Supreme Court, by an 8-1 vote, overturned the Civil Rights Act as unconstitutional, arguing Congress had overstepped its authority. As the author pointedly acknowledeges, in the next 20 years despite by the dawn of the 20th century the U.S. had become the nation of Jim Crow laws, quasi slavery, and precisely the same two tiered system of justice that had existed in the slave era. How and why this happened, and the ramifications and reverberations unto today, is the subject of this work. As he has done before, the author challenges the conventional view of history through a rigorous examination of the historical record. He makes clear the Supreme Court, in cases as celebrated as Plessy v. Ferguson and the equally important Williams v. Mississippi, was deeply guilty by association, turning a blind eye to the obvious reality of Jim Crow, preferring to focus instead on constituional minutiae, and demonstrating the fallacy and hypocrisy of a strict interpretation of the Constitution. He reveals clear evidence that the great black migrations north were less about seeking opportunity than about escaping tyranny. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303183 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392437 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1484012 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1283884 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658617 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684247 Martin Luther Kings 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech, King declared that segregation was on its deathbed and that the movement had already achieved significant milestones. Although the civil rights movement had won many battles in the struggle for racial equality by the mid-1960s, including legislation to guarantee black voting rights and to desegregate public accommodations, the fight to implement the new laws was just starting. In reality, Kings speech in Montgomery represented a new beginning rather than a conclusion to the movement, a fact that King acknowledged in the address. This book begins where many histories of the civil rights movement end, with Kings triumphant march from the iconic battleground of Selma to Montgomery. The authors focus on events in the South following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It examines the social, economic, and political implications of these laws in the decades following their passage, discussing the empowerment of black southerners, white resistance, accommodation and acceptance, and the nations political will. The book also provides a history of the period of race relations during the presidential administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, and both George H.W. and George W. Bush. Ending with the election of President Barack Obama, this study will influence contemporary historiography on the civil rights movement. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376651 After 9/11, when the nation was still in shock over the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, Shannen Rossmiller, a country judge and mother of three in rural Montana, was formulating a plan. Soon she was devouring literature on Islamic culture, teaching herself Arabic, and preparing to infiltrate the central nervous system of global terror: online networks. Her efforts succeeded beyond imagination. Posing as an Islamic terrorist under dozens of screen aliases, she joined forces with the FBI and started trolling jihadist chat rooms, striking up conversations at 3am with men as far away as Pakistan, and amassing evidence against an array of suspected terrorists both at home and abroad. Her work laid the foundation for the online searches so crucial to law enforcements fight against terror today. Shannens husband, Randy, uncovered her double life after a chat room terrorist wiped out the family computer and reports rolled in that the Rossmillers were being targeted for reprisal. Undeterred, Shannen started working with the FBI on sting operations, involving everything from jihadist cells to weapons caches to bomb plots, and bringing many of her targets to justice, as well as pioneering the digital entrapment tactics that are at the forefront of todays war on terror. This is the story of one womans unexpected courage and how it changed the face of this global struggle--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279621 Details the inner workings of the organization the author was a former spokesman for, revealing the evolution, finances, and inner tensions from the first meeting with Julian Assange to his withdrawal from Wikileaks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304260 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1236050 The CIA operative author of See No Evil and his CIA sharpshooter wife describe how they unexpectedly fell in love during a mission and the complicated challenges they faced in their shared effort to return to civilian life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393264 This book is a cyber-crime story that explores the Conficker Computer Worm, a potentially devastating computer virus that has baffled experts and infected as many as 12 million computers to date. It is about the next frontier in terrorism. When the Conficker computer worm was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. The worm, exploiting the security flaws in Microsoft Windows, grew at an astonishingly rapid rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within weeks. Once the worm infiltrated one system it was able to link that system with others to form a single network under illicit outside control, a situation known as a botnet. This botnet was soon capable of overpowering any of the vital computer networks that today control banking, telephone service, energy flow, air traffic, health-care information, even the Internet itself. Was it a platform for criminal profit, or a weapon? Security experts do not know for sure what Confickers purpose is, or even where it came from. This book reports this new frontier on terror. The author explores the battle of wits between expert programmers over the future of the Internet, a battle that has pitted those determined to exploit the Internet against those committed to protect it, and awakened the U.S. government to the urgent nature of the threat. The book delivers a look at the ongoing and largely unreported war taking place literally beneath our fingertips. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393707 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1263160 In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate nonpartisan truth-seeker, proves beyond any doubt that the official spin of numerous government programs is bull. He and Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274593 Jesse Ventura, the straight-talking author of the New York Times bestseller American Conspiracies, reveals the shocking secrets contained in sixty-three government documents and their implications for the general public. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364732 This riveting narrative examines the world of the Somalian pirates: how they live, the forces that have created piracy in Somalia, how they spend the ransom money, and how they deal with their hostages. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392398 Describes the enormous, top-secret, invisible universe created by the government after 9/11 and describes why the system in place to keep us safe may actually be putting us in greater danger. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477337 Chronicles the Shiite exiles effort to enlist the United States into helping to remove Saddam Hussein from power, documenting his coup attempts, engagements with policymakers, and ill-fated ambition to become an overseer of U.S. interests in the Middle East. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297601 For twenty years Robert Baer and his wife Dayna worked as operatives for the CIA. Here the couple shares how they were able to balance the intense world of spying with the everyday issues that regular families encounter on a daily basis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1264555 The threat of terrorism in America, the Obama administration assures us, is contained and controlled. Recent attempted attacks were all isolated plots that failed anyway. In the words of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano, The system worked. Dont believe it. Here, investigative reporter Erick Stakelbeck exposes the truth about our national security: the administration is whitewashing the terrorist threat growing within Americas borders. Stakelbeck has been inside Americas radical mosques, visited U.S.-based Islamic enclaves, and interviewed al-Qaeda-linked terrorists themselves. He reveals: how Islamic radicals have established separatist compounds and even jihadist training camps throughout rural America; that an overt disciple of Irans Ayatollah Khomeini now leads one of the largest mosques in America; how mega-mosques are being built in the heart of the Bible Belt as part of a plan for Islamic domination; and how the Obama administrations beguiling counter-terrorism policies are increasing the threat of another 9/11.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1391475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1525274 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1550690 In this riveting narrative, renowned historian Neill Lochery offers a revelatory portrait of World War IIs back stage as he tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only physically intact but significantly wealthier. The countrys emergence as a prosperous European Union nation would be financed in part, it turns out, by a cache of Nazi gold. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376656 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213712 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375387 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1365371 The bestselling author of Shadow War and Losing Bin Laden exposes the sinister Al Qaeda mastermind behind 9/11.