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Just as it had been a right-wing, Likud administration that had made peace with Egypt, it was a Likud administration that agreed to the first indirect talks with the Palestinians. In October 1991, with Yitzhak Shamir still prime minister, Israeli officials sat with Syrian, Lebanese, and Jordanian delegations in Spain, in what would become known as
... See moreDaniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Al parecer, Estados Unidos, mejor dicho, el secretario de Estado del Presidente Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, y su hermano Allen, el jefe de la CIA, habían elegido a Castillo Armas para dirigir la contrarrevolución por no ser tan aristocrático como Ydígoras Fuentes y porque al que tenía cabeza, ideas y prestigio, Córdova Cerna, se le descubrió en
... See moreMario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
That Woodrow Wilson, a Southerner, would seek to roll back empires made sense. His sympathy for the colonized was no doubt fueled by his anger at how the North had treated what Wilson called its “conquered possessions”—the former Confederate states—after the Civil War. But there was another, darker side to Wilson’s Southern identity. He was not jus
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
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Greeley’s spearheading of the anti-Seward forces was all the more credible because few were aware of his estrangement from Seward. Delegates accepted his arguments as those of a friend who simply feared Seward would not bring their party the presidency.
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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