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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century Americaby Richard RortyISBN 0674003128 (0-674-00312-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:There are many shameful incidents in America's past: the institution of slavery, genocidal assaults on the indigenous peoples of this continent, the escalation of the Vietnam War, and so on. What should our response to such acts be? Should we regard the nation as irredeemably tainted by sin and spend our time cataloging its evils, or should we acknowledge its shortcomings and make a conscious effort to turn it into a better nation?
Philosopher Richard Rorty believes that there is hope for America, but that today's Left is not meeting the challenge. He contrasts the cultural, academic Left's focus on our heritage of shame (which, he admits, has to the extent that it makes hatred intolerable had the positive effect of making America a more civil society) with the politically engaged reformist Left of the early part of this century. "The distinction between the old strategy and the new is important," he writes. "The choice between them makes the difference between what Todd Gitlin calls common dreams and what Arthur Schlesinger calls disuniting Americans. To take pride in being black or gay is an entirely reasonable response to the sadistic humiliation to which one has been subjected. But insofar as this pride prevents someone from also taking pride in being an American citizen, from thinking of his or her country as capable of reform, or from being able to join with straights or whites in reformist initiatives, it is a political disaster."
Not everyone, to be sure, is going to agree with Rorty's ideas. But his approach to civic life, which is pragmatic in the tradition of John Dewey and visionary in the tradition of Walt Whitman, is bound to provoke increased discussion of what it is to be a citizen, and his call for a renewed awareness of the history of American reformist activism can only be applauded. [via]
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideasby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0670109444 (0-670-10944-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White Houseby Bob Woodward, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671666843 (0-671-66684-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House'Book summary:Working behind the scenes for the eighteen months following Bill Clinton's election, conducting hundreds of interviews with administration insiders and other key officials, and gaining access to confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works. Clinton's pledge for a new economic deal was the cornerstone of his 1992 campaign, and fulfilling it has been his central ambition and enterprise as president. By focusing on Clinton's efforts to pass a comprehensive economic recovery plan, Woodward takes us not only to the highest level meetings, the hard-fought debates, and the most difficult decisions but also to the very hear of this presidency -- and of this man. With its day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account, it is one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published. President Clinton is shown as he debates, scolds, pleads, celebrates, and rages in anger and frustration. What emerges also is a group portrait of Clinton's innermost circle of advisers in action -- including his wife, Hillary; Vice President Al Gore; Treasure Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and the economic team; George Stephanopoulos and David Gergen and the White House staff; James Carville, Paul Begala, and the other outside political strategists; Congressional leaders; and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Using his proven research method -- returning time and again to key sources and relying on the paper trail of internal documentation -- Woodward has assembled an extensive archive of the early Clinton presidency. This microscopic examination of the Clintons and this administration, working under pressure on the nation's most important task, reveals the deep and still unsettled conflicts among President Clinton's advisers and within himself. The questions about the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs, government spending, interest rates, the roles and responsibilities of the [via]
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Almost Everyone's Guide to Economicsby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0553225502 (0-553-22550-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The American Futureby Tom HaydenISBN 0671442678 (0-671-44267-8)
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The Anatomy of Antiliberalismby Stephen HolmesISBN 0674031857 (0-674-03185-7)
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The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)Leads Americaby Eric Alterman, Mark GreenISBN 0670032735 (0-670-03273-5)
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British Liberalism: Liberal Thought from the 1640s to 1980sby Robert EccleshallISBN 0582296552 (0-582-29655-2)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalismby Jonathan RiederISBN 0674093615 (0-674-09361-5)
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Candideby O. R. Taylor, Francois M. Voltaire, Haydn MasonISBN 0631004009 (0-631-00400-9)
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Candideby Voltaire, Rockwell KentISBN 0679642587 (0-679-64258-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candide : Or, Optimismby Peter Constantine, Voltaire, Diane JohnsonISBN 0679643133 (0-679-64313-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide : Or, Optimism'Book summary:In this splendid new translation of Voltaires satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refreshed.
Voltaire may have cast a jaundiced eye on eighteenth-century Europea place that was definitely not the best of all possible worlds. But amid its decadent society, despotic rulers, civil and religious wars, and other ills, Voltaire found a mother lode of comic material. And this is why Peter Constantines thoughtful translation is such a pleasure, presenting all the books subtlety and ribald joys precisely as Voltaire had intended.
The globe-trotting misadventures of the youthful Candide; his tutor, Dr. Pangloss; Martin, and the exceptionally trouble-prone object of Candides affections, Cunégonde, as they brave exile, destitution, cannibals, and numerous deprivation, provoke both belly laughs and deep contemplation about the roles of hope and suffering in human life.
The transformation of Candides outlook from panglossian optimism to realism neatly lays out Voltaires philosophythat even in Utopia, life is less about happiness than survivalbut not before providing us with one of literatures great and rare pleasures. [via]More editions of Candide : Or, Optimism:
A Chance in Lifeby Jennifer CashmoreISBN 0646063669 (0-646-06366-9)
Hardcover, Ferguson Publications
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The Christian Faithby Friedrich Schleiermacher, H. R. Mackintosh, J. S. Stewart, B. A. GerrishISBN 0567087093 (0-567-08709-3)
Softcover, T&t Clark Ltd
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Christian Realism and Political Problemsby Reinhold NiebuhrISBN 0678027579 (0-678-02757-9)
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Collected Papersby John Rawls, Samuel Richard FreemanISBN 0674005694 (0-674-00569-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Papers'Book summary:John Rawls's work on justice has drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the twentieth century. Rawls is the author of two major treatises, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); it is said that A Theory of Justice revived political philosophy in the English-speaking world. But before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books. They are important in and of themselves because of the deep issues about the nature of justice, moral reasoning, and liberalism they raise as well as for the light they shed on the evolution of Rawls's views. Some of the articles tackle issues not addressed in either book. They help identify some of the paths open to liberal theorists of justice and some of the knotty problems which liberal theorists must seek to resolve. A complete collection of John Rawls's essays is long overdue.
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0671678817 (0-671-67881-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:Check out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse our library collection by typing in ngims or ngims plus the title you're looking for, e.g. ngims Gulliver's Travels. Free ebooks on the web are not organized for easy reading, littered with text errors and often have missing contents. You will not find another beautifully formatted classic literature ebook that is well-designed with amazing artworks and illustrations and a link to download free audiobook for a very low price like this one. The nominal price of this ebook covers the time and effort in formatting the materials and putting everything together in one place for your convenience. As a reader, you would want everything readily available at your fingertips because you many not have the time, interest or know where to look for your favorite book. The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism. FEATURES ? Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0671443879 (0-671-44387-9)
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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophyby Robert E. Goodin, Philip PettitISBN 0631199519 (0-631-19951-9)
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The Con III Controversy:the Critics Look at The Greening of America: The Critics Look at The Greening of Americaby Philip NobileISBN 0671785389 (0-671-78538-9)
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Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essaysby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0670235520 (0-670-23552-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideasby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0679735763 (0-679-73576-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas'Book summary:The Crooked Timber of Humanity contains eight of Isaiah Berlin's deservedly influential essays in the history of ideas, all dealing with political thought in the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the essays, "Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism," is published here for the first time; this reevaluation of the Savoyard counterrevolutionary occupies almost a quarter of the book, and not a word is wasted.
Although written separately, these essays exhibit a common concern with what Berlin calls pluralism, the idea that there can be different, equally valid but mutually incompatible, conceptions of how to live. Whatever their disagreements, traditional writers on politics have implicitly assumed that there is one best way to live, whether it was in the static utopias of More and Harrington or in the dynamic dramas of Hegel and Marx. But in the 18th century, Vico and Herder embraced pluralism, thus inaugurating the historicist turn in political thought. Berlin adeptly pursues pluralism and its repercussions through history, connecting it to the decline of utopian ideas, the origins of fascism and nationalism, the rise of the discipline of cultural history, and much else.
As always, Berlin's prose is graceful and powerful, but what truly makes The Crooked Timber of Humanity exhilarating to read is the depth and power of his intellect. Berlin credits Vico with realizing that "to exercise their proper function, historians require the capacity for imaginative insight, without which the bones of the past remain dry and lifeless." It is a capacity that Berlin himself amply displays here. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Educationby Martha C. NussbaumISBN 0674179498 (0-674-17949-8)
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Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalismby Brian M. BarryISBN 0674010019 (0-674-01001-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Democracy and Distrustby John ElyISBN 0674196376 (0-674-19637-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Reviewby John Hart ElyISBN 0674196368 (0-674-19636-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophyby Michael J. SandelISBN 0674197453 (0-674-19745-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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In search of a public philosophy adequate to our time, Sandel ranges across the American political experience, recalling the arguments of Jefferson and Hamilton, Lincoln and Douglas, Holmes and Brandeis, FDR and Reagan. He relates epic debates over slavery and industrial capitalism to contemporary controversies over the welfare state, religion, abortion, gay rights, and hate speech. Democracy's Discontent provides a new interpretation of the American political and constitutional tradition that offers hope of rejuvenating our civic life.
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The Economic Theory of the Leisure Class.by NikolaÖI Ivanovich BukharinISBN 067800580X (0-678-00580-X)
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The Essential Galbraithby John Kenneth Galbraith, Andrea D. WilliamsISBN 0618119639 (0-618-11963-9)
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The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzscheby Monroe C. BeardsleyISBN 0679600248 (0-679-60024-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United Statesby John Fay, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Robert SciglianoISBN 0679603255 (0-679-60325-5)
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This new edition of The Federalist is edited by Robert Scigliano, a professor in the political science department at Boston College. His substantive Introduction sheds clarifying new light on the historical context and meaning of The Federalist. Scigliano also provides a fresh and definitive analysis of the disputed authorship of several sections of this crucial work. [via]More editions of The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States:
Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitutionby Ronald William DworkinISBN 0674319281 (0-674-31928-1)
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A Future Perfect : The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalizationby John Micklethwait, Adrian WooldridgeISBN 060961083X (0-609-61083-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Future Perfect : The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization'Book summary:Globalization is the single most important force in the world today, write journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, both of The Economist (and coauthors of The Witch Doctors):
The integration of the world economy is not only reshaping business but also reordering the lives of individuals, creating new social classes, different jobs, unimaginable wealth, and, occasionally, wretched poverty. From Washington to Beijing, politicians are increasingly defined in terms of their attitudes toward globalization. The key political arguments of the next few years--between Islam and the West, Euroskeptics and Europhiles, the new left and the old--will all be variations arising from one underlying conflict: the one between globalizers who want to see the world reshaped in their own image and traditionalists who want to preserve fragments of traditional culture and local independence.
Micklethwait and Wooldridge are advocates of the former, not the latter. In A Future Perfect--a rich synthesis of anecdote, analysis, and argument--they make a strong case both for globalization's economic benefits and its classically liberal underpinnings. They acknowledge frustration with public debates over globalization that "always seem to involve a shuttered textile factory in South Carolina, never a young African child sitting at a computer; always a burning Amazonian forest, never a young Brazilian investment banker; always The Lion King or the Spice Girls, never the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao." A Future Perfect relentlessly reports the upside of globalization--the book is full of stories--and makes the vital point that more than economics is at stake. At bottom, write Micklethwait and Wooldridge, the issue is freedom. They bemoan "restrictions on where people can go, what they can buy, where they can invest, and what they can read, hear, or see. Globalization by its nature brings down these barriers, and it helps to hand the power to choose to the individual." Like a good article in The Economist, A Future Perfect is well written and concise. It also renders complicated subjects understandable, and has the welcome effect of making readers feel smarter for having cracked its spine. Much has been written about globalization; this book may be the best of the bunch thus far. --John J. Miller [via]
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Gladstone : A Biographyby Roy JenkinsISBN 0679451447 (0-679-45144-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gladstone : A Biography'Book summary:From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. This full and deep portrait of a complicated man offers a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographers art.
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Growth of Philosophic Radicalismby Elie HalevyISBN 0571097871 (0-571-09787-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Dayby Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3d EarlISBN 0671201581 (0-671-20158-1)
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The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A Social and Cultural Historyby Tony KushnerISBN 0631194835 (0-631-19483-5)
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Illiberal Education : The Politics of Race and Sex on Campusby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0679738576 (0-679-73857-6)
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Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warmingby Al GoreISBN 0670062715 (0-670-06271-5)
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Innocence and Experienceby Stuart HampshireISBN 0674454499 (0-674-45449-9)
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Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decisionby Peter H. IronsISBN 0670889180 (0-670-88918-0)
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The Law of Peoplesby John RawlsISBN 0674005422 (0-674-00542-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Law of Peoples: With "the Idea of Public Reason Revisited"by John RawlsISBN 067400079X (0-674-00079-X)
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"The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls's most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine--such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls's own "Justice as Fairness," presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).
The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an "outlaw society," and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions.
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0582505089 (0-582-50508-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Liberal Crack-Upby R. Emmett TyrrellISBN 0671527355 (0-671-52735-5)
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Liberals and Communitariansby Stephen Mulhall, Adam SwiftISBN 0631198199 (0-631-19819-9)
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Liberty in the Modern Stateby Harold J. LaskiISBN 0678031665 (0-678-03166-5)
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Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedomby R. M. DworkinISBN 0679733191 (0-679-73319-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groupsby Mancur OlsonISBN 0674537513 (0-674-53751-3)
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Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Mediaby Edward S. Herman, Noam ChomskyISBN 0679720340 (0-679-72034-0)
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Marxism and Liberalismby E.F. PaulISBN 0631151656 (0-631-15165-6)
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Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?by Molly IvinsISBN 0679741836 (0-679-74183-6)
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politicsby Reinhold Niebuhr, Langdon GilkeyISBN 0664224741 (0-664-22474-1)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenshipby Michael WalzerISBN 0674630254 (0-674-63025-4)
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Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813by Simon SchamaISBN 0679729496 (0-679-72949-6)
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A People's History of the United Statesby Howard ZinnISBN 0582489482 (0-582-48948-2)
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A People's History Of The United States: 1492-Presentby Howard ZinnISBN 0606301127 (0-606-30112-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Philosophical Argumentsby Charles TaylorISBN 0674664779 (0-674-66477-9)
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Political Thought from Plato to NATOISBN 0563210885 (0-563-21088-5)
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Property and Political Theoryby Alan RyanISBN 0631136916 (0-631-13691-6)
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The Radical Future of Liberal Feminismby Zillah R. EisensteinISBN 0582282063 (0-582-28206-3)
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Radicalism of the American Revolutionby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0679736883 (0-679-73688-3)
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The Revolution of the Saintsby Michael WalzerISBN 0674767861 (0-674-76786-1)
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Social Limits to Growthby Fred HirschISBN 0674813650 (0-674-81365-0)
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Toward a Feminist Theory of the Stateby Catharine A. MacKinnonISBN 0674896467 (0-674-89646-7)
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We the People: Foundationsby Bruce A. AckermanISBN 0674948416 (0-674-94841-6)
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We the People: Transformationsby Bruce AckermanISBN 0674003977 (0-674-00397-7)
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Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjectsby Bertrand Russell RussellISBN 0671203231 (0-671-20323-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects'Book summary:Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic, and lofty wisdom for which his other work as philosopher, writer, and teacher has been famous. These qualities make the essays included in this book perhaps the most graceful and moving presentation of the freethinker's position since the days of Hume and Voltaire.
"I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue," Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man's mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as 1954.
The book has been edited, with Lord Russell's full approval and cooperation, by Professor Paul Edwards of the Philosophy Department of New York University. In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the highly controversial "Bertrand Russell Case" of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared "unfit" to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York.
Whether the reader shares or rejects Bertrand Russell's views, he will find this book an invigorating challenge to set notions, a masterly statement of a philosophical position, and a pure joy to read. [via]
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Will and Political Legitimacy: A Critical Exposition of Social Contract Theory in Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Hegelby Patrick RileyISBN 0674953169 (0-674-95316-9)
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Madeby Walter Isaacson, Evan ThomasISBN 0671657127 (0-671-65712-7)
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloyby Evan Thomas, Walter IssacsonISBN 0671504657 (0-671-50465-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy'Book summary:Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos, and whose strong response to Soviet expansionism would leave a legacy that dominates American policy to this day.
In April 1945, they converged to advise an untutored new president, Harry Truman. They were Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelts special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, selfcast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nations most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Together they formulated a doctrine of Communist containment that was to be the foundation of American policy, and years later, when much of what they stood for appeared to be sinking in the mire of Vietnam, they were summoned for their steady counsel. It was then that they were dubbed the Wise Men. Working in an atmosphere of trust that in todays Washington would seem quaint, they shaped a new world order that committed a once-reticent nation to defending freedom wherever it sought to flourish. [via]
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloyby Walter Isaacson, Evan ThomasISBN 0571146066 (0-571-14606-6)
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