Defining moments : the first one hundred years of the Hoover Institution / Bertrand M. Patendaude.

Front Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; 1 Foundations; Remember the Lusitania!; 2 The View from the Tower; The Nazi-Soviet Pact; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Herbert Hoover and Poland; The Okhrana Collection Revealed; Alexander Kerensky at Hoover; Nicolas de Basily Room; 3 Hoover Becomes a Think Tank; Truth as a Weapon: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Ten Landmark Books by Hoover Fellows; George Stigler; The United States in the 1980s; 4 Into a New Century; Robert Conquest; Gorbachev at Stanford, 1990 and 1992; Microfilming Soviet Communist Party Documents; Thatcher on the Quad

President George W. Bush and the Hoover InstitutionNobel Laureates in Economics; Firing Line; Honors and Awards; Chiang Kai-Shek's Diaries; Notes; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; Index