The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe since 1989
* Acknowledgements * Maps * Introduction: The Shock of the New * 1. Different Paths on an Open Road: Economic and Social Change * 2. In Praise of Ethnic Cleansing? National Struggles * 3. Peeling the Past: Nostalgia and Punishment * 4. Portraits in Hubris: Democratic Politics * 5. A New Europe: The East in the West * Conclusion: The Edge of History * Notes * Index
The Grooves of Change: Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium
The Grooves of Change is the culmination of J. F. Brown’s esteemed career as an analyst of Eastern Europe. He traces events in this diverse and disruption-riddled region from the communist era to the years of transition after the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present. Brown also provides specific analyses of the development of liberal democratic culture in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe—Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the successor states of Yugoslavia. 

While acknowledging that the term “Eastern Europe” began to fall into disuse with the end of the cold war, Brown uses it as a framework for discussing the enduring features of the modern history of this region: its basic continuity, the prominence of ethnic and national factors, and its dependence on great powers or combinations of powers outside it. He explains the significance of the growing gulf between East Central Europe and South Eastern Europe, the overall political and economic deprivation and its effect on the people, the urgency of change, and the complex dynamics within Eastern Europe that have defied definitions and generalization. Finally, Brown points to the need for continuing assistance by the United States and the West and suggests what the twenty-first century may bring to this constantly changing part of the world.

Those seeking a clear overview of events in Eastern Europe during the recent psat and the state of these nations now will benefit from this incisive study by J. F. Brown.
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
Available for the first time in paperback, "Keeping Faith" is Jimmy Carter s account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office."Keeping Faith" is Jimmy Carter s account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Offce. Mr. Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President of the United States and leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981. The President who cared details his anguish over the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph against all odds at Camp David, his secret communications with China s Deng Xiaoping, and his dramatic and revealing encounters with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and other world leaders.Mr. Carter also shares glimpses of his private world his feelings of being an outsider in Washington, his relationship with Rosalynn, his pain about the attacks on his friends and his brother Billy.Captivatingly written, this rich historical document delineates a morally responsible president who has continued to earn respect and admiration as a world statesman and advocate for the poor and repressed of all nations."