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The Truman Legacy: How America's Post World War II Foreign Policies Led to the Emergence of The Communist and Radical Islamic "Rogue Nations" of the 21st Century!

by M. Lawrence Waxler

213 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1024; ISBN 1-4120-3197-4; US$17.10, C$17.10, EUR11.68, £8.83

Witness the events that began with American foreign policy under the Truman administration and led to a 45 year Cold War with communism.

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About the Book

The Truman Legacy:
How America's Post World War II Foreign Policies Led to the Emergence of The Communist and Radical Islamic "Rogue Nations" of the 21st Century!

How did an American president, less than 10 years after Pearl Harbor, set in motion an international political environment for America's second ''Pearl Harbor'' on 9/11/2001? What is the connection between Fascism, Communism and Terrorism? What was America's role in the ''Secret War'' during the Bolshevik Revolution? How did America go from a World Power to a Super Power to a nation alienated from the world community? When did America, during times of war, change from accepting only unconditional surrender to attempting the achievement of peace at any cost? To whom have America's leaders pledged their allegiance? What international organization ranks as the world's No. 1 oxymoron? What really happened to Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction? Who is responsible for America's not being able to prevent the horror of 9/11/2001? What events reminiscent of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts are preventing the American military from defeating the al-Qaida-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan? The Truman Legacy reveals the ''answers'' to these questions, and some of them will astound you! Available in Hardcover from the following stores: www.Amazon.com www.Chapters.com www.Borders.com www.BarnesandNoble.com www.PowellBooks.com Special discounts on books available directly from the author: www.trumanlegacy.com

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About the Author

M. Lawrence Waxler was a product of the Cold War in the days when Americans were building their own personal bomb shelters. Practice air raid sirens wailed every Saturday at noon in cities, towns and villages across the nation. School children were instructed to duck under their desks and cover their heads as part of the air raid drill in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack.

Mr. Waxler served for four years in the U.S. Air Force during the tumultuous years of the Hungarian uprising; the British and French venture to regain control of the Suez Canal after Egyptian nationalization; Communist China's attempt to invade Formosa (now called Taiwan); and a civil war in Lebanon.

In 1958 the author was stationed at Brize-Norton, a British Royal Air Force base shared with the U.S. Air Force near Oxford, England. Early in his tour at the British base he participated in a special high-profile military operation. It commenced with the Eisenhower administration ordering the Pentagon to send Mr. Waxler's Strategic Air Command (SAC) bomb wing squadron to an American Air Force base in Torrejon, Spain, just north of Madrid. This action was in response to Soviet Premier Khrushchev's threat of military intervention in the Lebanon Civil War if the Americans sent in military forces to assist that democratic government under siege by radical Islamics. The Soviets backed down from this show of force.

Four years later the author took advantage of his specialized training and applied as a civilian technical adviser at the Strategic Air Command Bomb Wing at Homestead AFB, Florida. It was the period between the Bay of Pigs political fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mr. Waxler had been following the events on the Communist island 90 miles south of Key West and the exploits of Gerry Patrick Hemming and his band of compatriots.

His meeting with the flamboyant and controversial Hemming took place in the Little Havana section of Miami in 1962. Hemming, an ex-Marine and paratrooper, had gone from close ties with Fidel Castro to training anti-Castro commandos for the Bay of Pigs mission. Hemming was also alleged to have been connected with the JFK assassination.

Mr. Waxler's last "adventure" before turning to writing was as a logistics coordinator with Riddle Airlines for the U.S. Air Force units based at Miami International Airport during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Table of Contents

CONTENTS - 1

About The Author - 1
Foreword - 3
The Starting Point
The Cold War
The Wall Falls
One Threat Replaces Another
And Thus The War Against Terrorism

CHAPTER 1 PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN - 10
World War II - The Last Victory
The Cold War Begins
Police Action South of Manchuria

CHAPTER 2 PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER - 22
1956 - The Hungarian Uprising
1956 - Suez Canal Nationalization
1957 - Sputnik
1958 - Showdown at Matsu & Quemoy
1958 - The Lebanon Civil War
1960 - U-2 Incident

CHAPTER 3 PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY - 34
The Bay of Pigs
The Aftermath
The Soviets React To American Failure
The Cuban Missile Crisis
1938 - Munich Revisited
The Showdown

CHAPTER 4 PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON - 50
CHAPTER 5 PRESIDENTS NIXON AND FORD - 56
CHAPTER 6 PRESIDENT JAMES E. CARTER - 64

CONTENTS - 2

CHAPTER 7 PRESIDENT RONALD R. REAGAN - 68
CHAPTER 8 PRESIDENT GEORGE H. BUSH - 76
CHAPTER 9 PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON - 82
The Official Start of World War III
Sleeping With The Enemy
Back To The Islamic Terrorists

CHAPTER 10 PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH - 88
Death To The Infidels
Failure To Protect
This Is An Outrage

CHAPTER 11 SURVIVAL - 100
Another Reminder
Air Raid Sirens
From Air Raid Sirens To Color Codes
The Enemy Within
Passing The Buck

CHAPTER 12 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION - 108
No Stockpiles Required
Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction

CHAPTER 13 OXYMORONS - 120
United Nations
Turkish Ally
Pakistani Ally
Saudi Ally
Egyptian Ally

CONTENTS - 3

CHAPTER 14 AXIS OF EVIL - 126
The Original ''Axis of Evil''
1940 - The Tri-Axis Tripartite Pact
World Domination
Master Plan Of The Master Race
History Forgotten
Axis of Evil In The 21st Century

CHAPTER 15 RETREATING FROM THE ENEMY - 132
Appeasement - Then and Now
The Korean ''Police Action''
Iraq
The Clinton Years
Here We Go Again
Borders Under Siege
The War Against Terrorism
In The Name Of God
Al-Qaida
Divide And Conquer
Of Things To Come

CHAPTER 16 THE IRAQI CONNECTION - 150
Iraq And The Al-Qaida Connection
News Media - Iraqi Distortions

CHAPTER 17 THE LAST VICTORY - 158
1950-1953 - The Korean War
1965-1975 - Vietnam War
Chronology Of American Political Setbacks

CHAPTER 18 IRAN - SATAN OF THE EAST - 166
Iran Turns To Nukes

CONTENTS - 4

CHAPTER 19 EMBARGOES - 170

CHAPTER 20 WHY THEY HATE AMERICA - 174
The Bolsheviks
The New Enemy
Propaganda

CHAPTER 21 I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE - 182
Trading With The Enemy
China - Yes! Cuba - No!
Sharing The Blame

CHAPTER 22 INTELLIGENCE - 186
Family Tree
Road To Disaster
Another Irony
The Israeli Connection
The Spanish Connection

CHAPTER 23 WELCOME TO AMERICA - 192
Recipe For Disaster
Atta ''In The Name Of Allah''

CHAPTER 24 BEFORE THE BEGINNING - 198
America's Rise To Power
The 1917 Russian Revolution
The Secret War
Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Lawrence of Arabia
Terrorism - Nazi Style
The Second Roman Empire
Victory Over Fascism

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