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1) In the Name of Liberty and Democracy: Personal Reflections on Civil Rights and the War in Vietnam
Author
Language
English
Description
Book synopsis: This is the story of a U.S. Army veteran who went to Hanoi forty years after returning home after serving in the Vietnam War.R. Lee Mahee was a full-time faculty member at a historically black university that offered classes in Hanoi to students from various countries-even Communist ones like Russia and China. When he was asked to teach an MBA course there, he agreed.But stepping off the airplane, he was apprehensive. His thoughts turned...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After Thomas Jefferson visited Mount Vernon in 1801 to pay his respects to George Washington's widow, Martha Washington remembered the encounter as the second-worst experience of her life-after the death of her husband. The two founders had become estranged by the time that Washington died. But for most of the time that they had known one another, from their first meeting in 1769, they enjoyed a productive and positive relationship. Contrary to the...