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The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposing the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point.
This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden’s first year in the White House.
From Donald Trump’s assault on the 2020 election and his ongoing campaign of vengeance against his fellow Republicans, to the behind-the-scenes story of Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate and his bitter struggles to unite the Democratic Party, this book exposes the degree to which the two-party system has been strained to the point of disintegration. More than at any time in recent history, the long-established traditions and institutions of American politics are under siege as a set of aging political leaders struggle to hold together a changing country.
Martin and Burns break news on most every page, drawing on hundreds of interviews and never-before-seen documents and recordings from the highest levels of government. The book asks the vitally important (and disturbing) question: can American democracy, as we know it, ever work again?
Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the
Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on
behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the
'Great Game'. His account of these travels was a bestseller in its
day and this brand new edition brings the heady sense of
excitement, risk and zeal bursting from the pages.
In the long and often disastrous history of British entanglement in
Afghanistan, the name of Alexander Burnes (1805 41) deserves to be
remembered. Aged sixteen, he went to India to take up a post in the
army, and speedily learned both Hindustani and Persian. His skills
led him to political work, and he himself proposed a covert
expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country and to observe the
expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. (Burnes'
1834 account of this journey is also reissued in this series.) In
1836, he was sent to Kabul, and became involved in the British plan
to replace Dost Muhammad Khan with Shah Shuja (which he personally
thought a mistake). The British became a focus of increasing local
discontent, and in November 1841 Burnes was murdered in Kabul by a
mob. This account of his stay in the city was published
posthumously in 1842."
Aged sixteen, Alexander Burnes (1805 41) took up a post in the
Bombay army, and speedily learned both Hindustani and Persian. His
skills led him to political work, and he himself proposed a covert
expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country, but also to observe
the expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. In
1832, he set off, with an army doctor, and two Indians as surveyor
and secretary. They travelled in local dress and adopted whatever
personas a situation required. Having reached Bukhara, they
continued overland to the Caspian Sea, and then to Tehran,
returning to Bombay by sea in 1833. This three-volume account of
his adventures, published in 1834, was an instant bestseller.
Volume 1 describes the journey to Bukhara, through Afghanistan into
barely explored territory. Burnes continued his diplomatic
activities in Afghanistan, but was murdered there by a mob in
1841."
Aged sixteen, Alexander Burnes (1805 41) took up a post in the
Bombay army, and speedily learned both Hindustani and Persian. His
skills led him to political work, and he himself proposed a covert
expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country, but also to observe
the expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. In
1832, he set off, with an army doctor, and two Indians as surveyor
and secretary. They travelled in local dress and adopted whatever
personas a situation required. Having reached Bukhara, they
continued overland to the Caspian Sea, and then to Tehran,
returning to Bombay by sea in 1833. This three-volume account of
his adventures, published in 1834, was an instant bestseller.
Volume 2 completes the journey, and describes the geography and
history of central Asia. Burnes continued his diplomatic activities
in Afghanistan, but was murdered there by a mob in 1841."
Aged sixteen, Alexander Burnes (1805 41) took up a post in the
Bombay army, and speedily learned both Hindustani and Persian. His
skills led him to political work, and he himself proposed a covert
expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country, but also to observe
the expansionist activities of the Russians in central Asia. In
1832, he set off, with an army doctor, and two Indians as surveyor
and secretary. They travelled in local dress and adopted whatever
personas a situation required. Having reached Bukhara, they
continued overland to the Caspian Sea, and then to Tehran,
returning to Bombay by sea in 1833. This three-volume account of
his adventures, published in 1834, was an instant bestseller.
Volume 3 is an account of Burnes' earlier diplomatic mission up the
Indus to Lahore in 1831. He continued his diplomatic activities in
Afghanistan, but was murdered there by a mob in 1841."
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James Alexander Burns
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Reports and Papers, Political, Geographical, & Commercial Submitted to Government by Alexander Burnes, Lieutenant Leech, Doctor Lord, and Lieutenant Wood, Employed On Missions in the Years 1835-36-37 in Scinde, Affghanisthan, and Adjacent Countries (Hardcover)
Alexander Burnes
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Alexander Burnes was a British adventurer and employee of the East
India Company during this turbulent era. He spoke Hindi and Persian
and was nicknamed 'Bokhara Burnes' for his role in establishing
contact with and exploring Bukhara, which made his name. He was
rumored to be a spy during the first Afghan War and was knighted by
Queen Victoria for his clandestine services during the conflict.
Burnes kept a lively, detailed record of his trail-blazing journey
across Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, the Indian sub-continent and beyond
which he later published to great acclaim, entitled Travels into
Bokhara - A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool,
Tartary & Persia.
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