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The possibility that the UNHRC chose him because he was a Jew who could shill for the biased inquiry apparently eluded him.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Though Moses’ battles with private detectives and boxing promoters earned him reams of newsprint in 1927 and 1928, the significant accomplishments of his tenure as Secretary of State were accomplishments for which he never received any public notice. And they came in fields in which the Secretary of State supposedly had no power.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
I soon learned that thought was not free in North Korea. A free thought could get you killed if it slipped out. If you were lucky, you might get sent to some remote mountainous region to do hard labor. Or you might get sent to a concentration camp for political prisoners because you were deemed a “liberal” or a “capitalist” with “bad habits.” And b
... See moreMasaji Ishikawa • A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Meiji (which means “the enlightened ruler”) ruled Japan for nearly fifty years, until 1912, a period widely described as the Meiji Restoration in which the modern Japanese state was established. Unlike China, Japan followed a course parallel to what was taking place in Europe and the United States. A modern bureaucratic government and administrativ
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
the Meiji Period (1868–1912),
Hector Garcia • Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Geek In...guides)
Victoria, empress of India, never visited the jewel of her realm—Curzon
Wade Davis • Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Morgan was among the first generation of bankers whose clients were primarily private corporations instead of governments, but there were substantial continuities in approach. His mediations among the railroad barons were very much in the tradition of the supranational financial/diplomatic service operated by the Rothschilds and the Barings in midc
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Yang's successor, Jin Shuren,
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
banning any unauthorized studies of colonial Manchurian history.