Marvin Kalb: 7 books
Imperial Gamble
Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine....
The Nixon Memo
Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
An absorbing example of political journalism, The Nixon Memo is a case study of Richard Nixon's relentless quest for political rehabilitation. At issue is the key role of this former president of the United States (best known for his involvement in the famous "watergate" scandal) in the...
One Scandalous Story
Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnishe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In 1963 Marvin Kalb observed the Secret Service escorting an attractive woman into a hotel for what was most likely a rendezvous with President Kennedy. Kalb, then a news correspondent for CBS, didn't consider the incident newsworthy. Thirty-five years later, Kalb watched in dismay as the press dove...
Haunting Legacy
Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The United States had never lost a war-that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country." The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on the decision...
Enemy of the People
Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an “enemy of the American people.” Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic turning point: language like this ventured into dangerous...
The Year I Was Peter the Great
1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents
1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a time when Stalin’s dark legacy of dictatorship died...
The Road to War
Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. From Korea to Vietnam, Panama to Grenada, Lebanon to Bosnia, Afghanistan...