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In American history the 1950s are remembered as an affluent and
harmonious decade. Not so in Austria. That nation emerged out of
World War II with tremendous war-related destruction and with a
four-power occupation that would last for ten years until 1955.
Massive American economic aid enabled the Austrian economy to start
recovering in the 1950s and reorient it from East to West. Unlike
the United States, however, general affluence did not set in until
the 1960s and 1970s even though Austria's dramatic baby boom
enabled it to recover from the demographic catastrophe resulting
from manpower losses of World War II., This volume deals with these
larger trends. Stephen E. Ambrose discusses American-European
relations and sets the larger international context for the
Austrian scene. Oilver Rathkolb retraces the changing importance of
the Austrian question for the Eisenhower administration. Michael
Gehler presents an in-depth analysis of the intriguing question of
whether Austria's unification at the price of permanent neutrality
might have been a model for Germany. Franz Mathis and Kurt Tweraser
look at economic reconstruction and the roles played by both the
Austrian public industrial sector and the American Marshall Plan.
Karin Schmidlechner looks at the youth culture of the era. Franz
Adlgasser shows how Herbert Hoover's food aid was instrumental in
the containment of communism in Hungary. Beth Noveck analyzes
Austrian political culture of the First Republic from the
perspective of Hugo Bettauer. Rolf Steininger presents an
insightful historical overview of how the Austro-Italian South
Tyrol conflict was resolved after seventy-five years of tension.
What is the current state of rela tions between the United States
and the Republic of China on Tai wan and how might they be im
proved? These were the broad questions addressed at a confer ence
co-sponsored by the Clare mont Institute's Asian Studies Center and
the Institute of Interna tional Relations in Los Angeles in 1989.
This volume, which brings together the papers presented by American
and Chinese scholars, diplomats, and businessmen, con siders the
current international status of the Republic of China and its
economic and strategic partner ship with the United States.
Lived In Crazy is a collection of stories from the life of Stephen
Mosher, in which he tells how he went from unknown Dallas
photographer to portraitist to the stars, sharing his experiences
working with people like Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Christopher
Meloni, Maggie Smith and more to create The Sweater Book (2003 St
Martin's Press). Mosher also writes about his personal life, his
colorful family, his triumph over addiction, his unique 30 year
marriage, the making of the documentary film Married...And Counting
and his work in health and fitness, helping others to live better
lives. Told out of chronological order, the book is a candy box
that the reader can open, select a story and see what they get:
smiles, tears, laughter or lessons.
The Climategate scandal covered from beginning to end--from 'Hide
the Decline' to the current day. Written by two authors who were on
the scene--Steven Mosher and Tom Fuller--Climategate takes you
behind that scene and shows what happened and why. For those who
have heard that the emails were taken out of context--we provide
that context and show it is worse when context is provided. For
those who have heard that this is a tempest in a teacup--we show
why it will swamp the conventional wisdom on climate change. And
for those who have heard that this scandal is just 'boys being
boys'--well, boy. It's as seamy as what happened on Wall Street.
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