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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGUED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Black, Conrad.

Flight of the eagle: the grand strategies that brought America from colonial dependence to world leadership/Conrad Black.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-59403-759-7 (ebook)

1. United States—Foreign relations. 2. Strategic culture—United States—History. 3. United States—Foreign relations administration. 4. Presidents—United States—History. I. Title.

E183.7.B57 2013

327.73—dc23

2012038962

Chapter 1: Wikimedia Commons, Source: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brush/ben.htm. Chapter 2: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117116 DLC. Chapter 3: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117117 DLC. Chapter 4: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117120 DLC. Chapter 5: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-13011 DLC. Chapter 6: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-13016 DLC. Chapter 7: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-13018 DLC. Chapter 8: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-13026 DLC. Chapter 9: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-13028 DLC. Chapter 10: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCUSZ62-26759 DLC. Chapter 11: Wikimedia Commons, Source: U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #: NH 67209: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-p/pow12.htm. Donation of Vice Admiral Harry Sanders, USN (Retired), 1969. Chapter 12: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-88849 DLC. Chapter 13: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117123 DLC. Chapter 14: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117124 DLC. Chapter 15: Wikimedia Commons, Courtesy of the National Archives & Records Administration. Chapter 16: Wikimedia Commons, Courtesy of Ronald Reagan Library, Source: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs/photo.html