China's New Red Guards Green

China's New Red Guards GreenEver since Deng Xiaoping effectively de radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the adoption and spread of the Internet? One debate that did not occur in any serious way, however, was whether Mao Zedong would make a political comeback. As Jude Blanchette details in China's New Red Guards,

China is the sole exception

and executives

single-engine rocket aimed toward the skies

created two different spacecraft

The modern 75th Ranger Regiment represents the culmination of 250 years of American soldiering

Sua Sponte follows a group of these aspiring young warriors through the crucible that is Ranger training and their preparation for direct-action missions in Afghanistan against America's enemies

Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6

from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die

His attempt to reveal the truth to the 9/11 Commission would not go over well with the higher-ups

including political pluralism

including the North Vietnamese commanders

Zinsser refers to the work of many successful memoir writers