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      General George S. Patton and the Art of Leadership

      William Nester

      For General George S. Patton, ?Leadership is the thing that wins battles. I have it-but I'll be damned if I can define it. Probably it consists in knowing what you…

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      World of War

      William Nester

      "This book explores the violent conflicts of the United States-on land, at sea, and in the air -with meticulous scholarship, thought-provoking analysis, and vivid prose"--

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      Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Art of Leadership

      William Nester

      After their independence and civil wars, Americans never faced a greater threat than the sixteen years of global depression followed by global war from 1929 to 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt…

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      America’s Unending Civil War: The Enduring Conflict from Jamestown through to Recent Elections

      Nester, William

      Explores the financial and political background as well as the military elements of the Civil War.

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      The Hamiltonian Vision, 1789-1800: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic

      William Nester

      The creation of American diplomacy and power as an art

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      Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq

      William Nester

      Explores the dynamic trajectory of beliefs, actions, and their consequences in what will forever be debated as among the most controversial and costly operation in US history in terms of…

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      The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607-1755

      William Nester

      For Britain, the last French and Indian War of 1754-1760 dwarfed all earlier conflicts. From a wider historical perspective, this text studies the struggle for North America in the previous…

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      The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic

      William Nester

      The creation of American diplomacy and power as an art

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      The Jeffersonian Vision, 1801-1815: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic

      William Nester

      The Jeffersonian Vision, 1801-1815, reveals how the nation’s leaders understood and asserted power during those fifteen crucial years from when Thomas Jefferson took the oath as the nation’s third president…

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      The Age of Jackson 1815-1848: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic

      William Nester

      As William Nester asserts in The Age of Jackson, it takes quite a leader to personify an age. A political titan for thirty-three years (1815-1848), Andrew Jackson possessed character, beliefs…

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      The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power 1848-1876

      William Nester

      Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of the Reconstruction era, history has not…

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      Land of War: A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin

      William Nester

      In this colorful new telling of European warfare-and indeed European history through the continent’s all too numerous wars and conflicts-William Nester describes millennia of armed conflict. He covers the greatest…

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      Haughty Conquerors: Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763

      William Nester

      An exploration of the underlying causes, the military campaigns, and the far-reaching consequences of the Great Indian Uprising of 1763.

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      The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775

      William Nester

      By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between France and England had expanded into a global struggle among all of Europe’s Great…

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      The Coalitions against Napoleon: How British Money, Manufacturing and Military Power Forged the Alliances that Achieved Victory

      William Nester

      This book explains the social and economic factors which enabled the UK to fund the coalitions that Napoleon faced.

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      Putin’s Virtual War: Russia’s Subversion and Conversion of America, Europe and the World Beyond

      William Nester

      Analyses Russia’s historical position in the world and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.

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      Britain’s Rise to Global Superpower in the Age of Napoleon

      William Nester

      Explores all of Britain’s key land and sea campaigns and the dynamic relation among them during the Age of Revolution and Napoleon. Reveals how two military geniuses were the reason…

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      Winston Churchill and the Art of Leadership: How Winston Changed the World

      William Nester

      The author is an expert in this field, being a professor in the Department of Government and Politics at St. John’s University in New York City, and is the award-winning…

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      Napoleon and the Art of Leadership: How a Flawed Genius Changed the History of Europe and the World

      William Nester

      No previous book has explored deeper or broader into Napoleon’s seething labyrinth of a mind and revealed more of its complex, fascinating, provocative, and paradoxical dimensions. This is Napoleon as…

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      American Industrial Policy: Free or Managed Markets?

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      Those policies are largely determined by the representatives of the targeted industry, bureaucrats from agencies and departments that administer that industry, and politicians with firms from that industry in their…

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      The Epic Battles for Ticonderoga, 1758

      William R. Nester

      Presents a history of the military campaigns near Fort Ticonderoga, New York, in 1758.

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      The Epic Battles for Ticonderoga, 1758

      William R. Nester

      Presents the history of the military campaigns near Fort Ticonderoga, New York, in 1758.

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      The Old West’s First Power Couples: The Fremonts, the Custers, and Their Epic Quest for Manifest Destiny

      William R Nester

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      The Old West’s First Power Couples

      William R Nester

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      Japan and the Third World: Patterns, Power, Prospects

      William R. Nester

      An analysis of how Tokyo entangles strategic countries and regions in an integrated overseas political economic web, generating enormous wealth and power for Japan.

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      Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power: An American for All Time

      William R. Nester

      This study comprehensively and systematically explores how Theodore Roosevelt understood, massed, and wielded power to pursue his vision for an America that was the world’s most prosperous, just, and influential…

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      The Foundation of Japanese Power:: Continuities, Changes, Challenges

      William R. Nester

      Recent events in Tianamen Square have made such books abruptly important, though in some aspects outdated

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      European Power and The Japanese Challenge

      William R. Nester

      Analyzing relations amidst the European Community’s growing unity and Japan’s ever more dynamic economy, this book compares the processes, means, ends, successes and failures of European and Japanese industrial, trade…

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      A Short History of American Industrial Policies

      William R. Nester

      For nearly four centuries, Americans have debated the government’s proper role in developing the economy. A Short History of American Industrial Policies analyzes the ideological, political, and industrial policy struggle…

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      The Struggle for Power in Colonial America, 1607-1776

      William R. Nester

      This study provides a broad examination of the overlapping conflicts and power struggles among the indigenous population, colonists, and other European peoples that shaped the American colonies. The author analyzes…

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      America’s War against Global Jihad: Past, Present, and Future

      William R. Nester

      This book analyzes America’s crusade against Jihadism. It addresses the successes and failures of Washington’s counter-Jihadist strategy before and after September 11, and explores whether the United States should stay…

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      Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power: An American for All Time

      William R. Nester

      This study comprehensively and systematically explores how Theodore Roosevelt understood, massed, and wielded power to pursue his vision for an America that was the world’s most prosperous, just, and influential…

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      The Struggle for Power in Colonial America, 1607-1776

      William R. Nester

      This study provides a broad examination of the overlapping conflicts and power struggles among the indigenous population, colonists, and other European peoples that shaped the American colonies. The author analyzes…

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      The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France

      William R. Nester

      The French and Indian War was the world’s first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most…

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      Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon

      William R. Nester

      For more than twenty years after the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, France and England waged a protracted war that ended in British victory. In Titan…

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      Japanese Industrial Targeting: The Neomercantilist Path to Economic Superpower

      William R. Nester

      This book analyzes the policy making process, implementation, successes, occasional shortcomings, and challenges posed by Tokyo’s neomercantilist policies toward its trade rivals.

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      Japanese Industrial Targeting: The Neomercantilist Path to Economic Superpower

      William R. Nester

      Japan achieved it’s present economic position by rejecting free trade theory and instead mastering neomercantilist policies which target strategic industries for development with a range of government sponsored cartels, subsidies…

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      George Rogers Clark: I Glory in War

      William R. Nester

      George Rogers Clark led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and British in the Ohio Valley during the American Revolution, but his most astonishing coup was recapturing Fort Sackville in…

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      European Power and the Japanese Challenge

      William R. Nester

      Analyzing relations amidst the European Community’s growing unity and Japan’s ever more dynamic economy, this book compares the processes, means, ends, successes and failures of European and Japanese industrial, trade…

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