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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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American Foreign Policy: A History Since 1895by Kenneth J. Hagan, Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry CliffordISBN 0669351563 (0-669-35156-3)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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American Foreign Relations: A History to 1920by Kenneth J. Hagan, Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry CliffordISBN 0669351555 (0-669-35155-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968by Bruce Page, Godfrey Hodgson, Lewis ChesterISBN 0670119911 (0-670-11991-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jeffersonby Joseph J. EllisISBN 0679444904 (0-679-44490-4)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson'Book summary:Well timed to coincide with Ken Burns's documentary (on which the author served as a consultant), this new biography doesn't aim to displace the many massive tomes about America's third president that already weigh down bookshelves. Instead, as suggested by the subtitle--"The Character of Thomas Jefferson"--Ellis searches for the "living, breathing person" underneath the icon and tries to elucidate his actual beliefs. Jefferson's most ardent admirers may find this perspective too critical, but Ellis's portrait of a complex, sometimes devious man who both sought and abhorred power has the ring of truth. [via]
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Andrew Jackson & His Indian Warsby Robert V. ReminiISBN 0670910252 (0-670-91025-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andrew Jackson & His Indian Wars'Book summary:Like many of his Scots-Irish contemporaries on the western frontier of the early United States, Andrew Jackson grew up despising and fearing his Indian neighbors. He proved to be a formidable enemy, campaigning against the Cherokee, Creeks, Chickasaws, and other peoples, some of them former allies against England in the Revolution and the War of 1812. In doing so, he established precedents that his compatriots would follow for the rest of the 19th century.
Robert Remini, the National Book Award-winning biographer of Jackson, here turns his attention to Jackson's relations with the Indian nations of the American South. Those relations, he writes, were tempered by the racism of the day, but, as both general and president, Jackson was also unusual in enforcing rights guaranteed to those nations by treaty, even in instances when he disagreed with the terms. Despite his sense of justice, Jackson kept to his conviction that "Indians had to be shunted to one side or removed to make the land safe for white people to cultivate and settle," and during his tenure as president he pursued a policy of forced removal through which the Indian nations were relocated to the so-called Indian territories west of the Mississippi River, which in turn would be overrun only a few years later.
Though critical of Jackson's policies and actions, Remini suggests that removal saved many of the eastern Indian nations from almost certain annihilation. That view, while capably argued, is controversial, and some scholars of American Indian history are sure to take issue with it. Still, this is a valuable addition to the historical literature, one of interest to general readers as well as Remini's fellow historians. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0679420398 (0-679-42039-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Ageby Daniel T. RodgersISBN 0674002016 (0-674-00201-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age'Book summary:The title Atlantic Crossings refers to the cross-pollination of social thinking between the United States and Europe (primarily Britain) in the first half of the 20th century. Princeton history professor Daniel T. Rodgers's extensive narrative shows that while many Americans saw themselves as essentially isolationist, many ideas that influenced their daily lives, such as city planning and concepts of social security, were not homegrown. A network of government planners, academics, and concerned citizens communicated back and forth across the Atlantic; their correspondence was marked by controversy, and an aversion to "non-American" ideas persists in American social planning to this day (Rodgers notes the scuffles over health care reform in the early 1990s as one example). Rodgers has assembled a prodigious mountain of facts, and he's written a credible and comprehensive account of how people on both sides of the Atlantic contributed in sometimes surprising ways to the social reforms we consider utterly American. --Robert McNamara [via]
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The Best and the Brightestby David HalberstamISBN 0679410627 (0-679-41062-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best and the Brightest'Book summary:David Halberstams masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
Using portraits of Americas flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our countrys recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic. [via]More editions of The Best and the Brightest:
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Blind Ambitionby John Wesley DeanISBN 0671812483 (0-671-81248-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Ambition'Book summary:This New York Times bestseller is an insider's account of the fall of Richard Nixon and has remained an indispensable source into Nixon's presidency. BLIND AMBITION is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at thirty years of age, only to discover that when reaching the top he had touched the bottom. Most striking in this chronicle is its honesty. Dean spares no one, including himself. But, as TIME magazine noted, "Dean survived, despite the opposition of powerful foes...because he had no false story to protect and he had an amazing ability to recall the truth."
"(Dean's) lawyer warned him before he testified, 'Don't waste their time telling them what a nice guy you are.' He has apparently taken this advice to heart." (New York Times Book Review) [via]
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Blind Ambition: The White House Yearsby John DeanISBN 0671224387 (0-671-22438-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Brethren: Inside The Supreme Courtby Bob WoodwardISBN 0671241109 (0-671-24110-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brethren: Inside The Supreme Court'Book summary:The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices -- maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising and making decisions that affect every major area of American life. [via]
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A Bully Fatherby Theodore Roosevelt, Joan P. Kerr, David McCulloughISBN 067943948X (0-679-43948-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bully Father'Book summary:The Roosevelt family, with its rambunctious father and six children, invaded and occupied the White House as no other family has since. Roosevelt was a wonderful father, writing to his children, guiding them, playing with them and loving them as do only the best fathers. Long out of print, these personal letters are warm, wonderfully wise and witty--the best things Teddy Roosevelt ever wrote. Photos. [via]
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Caesar: Politician and Statesmanby Matthias GelzerISBN 0674090012 (0-674-09001-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Coming Furyby Bruce CattonISBN 0671543083 (0-671-54308-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming Fury'Book summary:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award! A thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces conspiring to tear apart the United States--with the disintegrating political processes and rising tempers finally erupting at Bull Run. "...a major work by a major writer, a superb re-creation of the twelve crucial months that opened the Civil War."--The New York Times.[via]More editions of Coming Fury:
The Coming of the American Civil Warby Michael PermanISBN 0669271063 (0-669-27106-3)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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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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Companero : The Life and Death of Che Guevaraby Jorge G. Castaneda, Marina CastanedaISBN 0679440348 (0-679-44034-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Companero : The Life and Death of Che Guevara'Book summary:By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it.
Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on interviews with Guevara's family and associates, Castaneda follows Che from his childhood in the Argentine middle class through the years of pilgrimage that turned him into a committed revolutionary. He examines Guevara's complex relationship with Fidel Castro, and analyzes the flaws of character that compelled him to leave Cuba and expend his energies, and ultimately his life, in quixotic adventures in the Congo and Bolivia. A masterpiece of scholarship, Companero is the definitive portrait of a figure who continues to fascinate and inspire the world over.
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Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920by Samuel P. HaysISBN 0674165012 (0-674-16501-2)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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The Constitution and the New Dealby G. Edward WhiteISBN 0674008316 (0-674-00831-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independenceby Daniel T. RodgersISBN 0674167112 (0-674-16711-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Dark Continent : Europe's Twentieth Centuryby Mark MazowerISBN 0679438092 (0-679-43809-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Continent : Europe's Twentieth Century'Book summary:As the European Union introduces a common currency to world financial markets, Mark Mazower's Dark Continent critically examines the notion of "Europe." The Euro notwithstanding, Mazower argues that the "'Europe' of the European Union may be a promise or a delusion, but it is not a reality." Renouncing the notion of an essential "Europe," Mazower instead explores the conflicts which dominated the continent in the 20th century and the social value systems which informed them.
Mazower orders his examination chronologically, commencing with the collapse of Europe's continental empires following World War I and the initial European experiments in democracy and national self-determination which followed. He continues with analyses of state interventions in family health and the importance of healthy progeny, the financial crisis of the 1920s, the Hitler regime, the transformed democracy that emerged following World War II, the gradual erosion of the social state in the 1980s, and, finally, the collapse of communism. He consistently displays a firm grip of European history, directing his argument to readers with a foundational knowledge of the events that shaped 20th century Europe rather than historical novices unfamiliar with the period. Provocatively insightful, Dark Continent makes a convincing argument for a European 21st century characterized by continuity and harmony through divergence. "If Europeans can give up their desperate desire to find a single, workable definition of themselves," Mazower concludes, "they may come to terms more easily with the diversity and dissension which will be as much their future as their past." --Bertina Loeffler [via]
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Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiographyby Benazir BhuttoISBN 0671696033 (0-671-69603-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography'Book summary:Daughter of Destiny, the autobiography of Benazir Bhutto, is a historical document of uncommon passion and courage, the dramatic story of a brilliant, beautiful woman whose life was, up to her tragic assassination in 2007, inexorably tied to her nation's tumultuous history. Bhutto writes of growing up in a family of legendary wealth and near-mythic status, a family whose rich heritage survives in tales still passed from generation to generation. She describes her journey from this protected world onto the volatile stage of international politics through her education at Radcliffe and Oxford, the sudden coup that plunged her family into a prolonged nightmare of threats and torture, her father's assassination by General Zia ul-Haq in 1979, and her grueling experience as a political prisoner in solitary confinement.
With candor and courage, Benazir Bhutto recounts her triumphant political rise from her return to Pakistan from exile in 1986 through the extraordinary events of 1988: the mysterious death of Zia; her party's long struggle to ensure free elections; and finally, the stunning mandate that propelled her overnight into the ranks of the world's most powerful, influential leaders.
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Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the 60'sby Peter Collier, David HorowitzISBN 0671701282 (0-671-70128-2)
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The Dominion Of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000by Fred Anderson, Andrew CaytonISBN 0670033707 (0-670-03370-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dominion Of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000'Book summary:Americans often think of their nations history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton boldly reinterpret the development of the United States, arguing instead that war has played a leading role in shaping North America from the sixteenth century to the present.
Anderson and Cayton bring their sweeping narrative to life by structuring it around the lives of eight menSamuel de Champlain, William Penn, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, and Colin Powell. This approach enables them to describe great events in concrete terms and to illuminate critical connections between often-forgotten imperial conflicts, such as the Seven Years War and the Mexican- American War, and better-known events such as the War of Independence and the Civil War. The result is a provocative, highly readable account of the ways in which republic and empire have coexisted in American history as two faces of the same coin. The Dominion of War recasts familiar triumphs as tragedies, proposes an unconventional set of turning points, and depicts imperialism and republicanism as inseparable influences in a pattern of development in which war and freedom have long been intertwined. It offers a new perspective on Americas attempts to define its role in the world at the dawn of the twenty-first century. [via]
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An Evil Cradling/the Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostageby Brian KeenanISBN 0670851469 (0-670-85146-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Fiftiesby David HalberstamISBN 0679415599 (0-679-41559-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fifties'Book summary:"In retrospect," writes David Halberstam, "the pace of the fifties seemed slower, almost languid. Social ferment, however, was beginning just beneath this placid surface." He shows how the United States began to emerge from the long shadow of FDR's 12-year presidency, with the military-industrial complex and the Beat movement simultaneously growing strong. Television brought not only situation comedies but controversial congressional hearings into millions of living rooms. While Alfred Kinsey was studying people's sex lives, Gregory Pincus and other researchers began work on a pill that would forever alter the course of American reproductive practices. Halberstam takes on these social upheavals and more, charting a course that is as easy to navigate as it is wide-ranging. [via]
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First in His Classby David MaranissISBN 0671871099 (0-671-87109-9)
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George Orwell's 1984by Ralph A. RanaldISBN 067100719X (0-671-00719-X)
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Germans into Nazisby Peter FritzscheISBN 0674350928 (0-674-35092-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracyby George McJimseyISBN 0674372875 (0-674-37287-5)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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A History of Englandby C. Warren HollisterISBN 066904377X (0-669-04377-X)
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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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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day'Book summary:Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica. [via]
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Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalismby Tony Freyer, Oscar HandlinISBN 0673399516 (0-673-39951-6)
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolutionby Bernard BailynISBN 0674443020 (0-674-44302-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'Book summary:The leaders of the American Revolution, writes the distinguished historian Bernard Bailyn, were radicals. But their concern was not to correct inequalities of class or income, not to remake the social order, but to "purify a corrupt constitution and fight off the apparent growth of prerogative power." They wished, in other words, to mend a broken system and improve upon it. In doing so they drew on many traditions of political and social thought, ranging from English conservative philosophers to exponents of the continental Enlightenment, from backward-looking interpretations of ancient Roman civilization to forward-looking views of a new American people. Bailyn carefully examines these sources of sometimes conflicting ideas and considers how the framers of the Constitution resolved them in their inventive doctrine of federalism. [via]
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John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Lifeby Paul C. NagelISBN 0674479408 (0-674-47940-8)
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The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, "a Laborer," 1747-1814by Sean Wilentz, Michael Merrill, William ManningISBN 0674502884 (0-674-50288-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, "a Laborer," 1747-1814'Book summary:The recovery of the ideas and experiences of William Manning is a major event in the history of the American Revolutionary era. A farmer, foot soldier, and political philosopher, Manning was a powerful democratic voice of the common American in a turbulent age. The public crises of the infant republic - beginning with the Battle of Concord - shaped his thinking, and his writings reveal a mind grappling with some of the weightiest issues of the nation's founding. His most notable contribution was the first-known plan for a national political association of labouring men. That plan, and Manning's broader conclusions, open up a new vista on the popular origins of American democracy and the invention of American politics. Until now, only a few specialists have referred to any of Manning's writings - though always with some wonderment at his sophistication - and his place as a pioneering and exemplary American democrat has been largely unacknowledged. In this presentation of his works, the often arid debates over republicanism" and "liberalism" in early America come to life. The early growth of democratic impulses among quite ordinary people - impulses that defy orthodox categories, yet come closer to describing the ferment that led to the repeated political conflicts of the late 18th century - is here visible and felt. "The Key of Liberty" allows us a fuller understanding of the popular responses to the major political battles of the early republic, from Shay's Rebellion through to the election of Thomas Jefferson. It offers a grassroots view of the rise of democratic opposition in the new nation. It sheds light on the popular culture - literary, religious, and profane - of the epoch, with more exactness than previous histories, presenting a controversial interpretation of early American democracy. [via]
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Leading with My Heartby Virginia C. Kelley, James Morgan, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671522957 (0-671-52295-7)
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Liberalism and Its Discontentsby Alan BrinklyISBN 0674001850 (0-674-00185-0)
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Madame Mao: The White-Boned Demonby Ross TerrillISBN 0671744844 (0-671-74484-4)
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The Making of England: 55 B C to 1399by C. Warren Hollister, Lacey B. SmithISBN 0669244570 (0-669-24457-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolutionby Stanley KarnowISBN 0670454273 (0-670-45427-3)
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Melbourneby David CecilISBN 0672520389 (0-672-52038-9)
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Miamiby Joan DidionISBN 067166820X (0-671-66820-X)
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As Didion follows Miami's drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence. [via]-
Mornings on Horsebackby David G. McCulloughISBN 0671447548 (0-671-44754-8)
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Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it is the story of a remarkable little boy -- seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma -- and his struggle to manhood.
His father -- the first Theodore Roosevelt, "Greatheart," -- is a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. His mother -- Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt -- is a Southerner and celebrated beauty.
Mornings on Horseback spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886 when he returns from the West a "real life cowboy" to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit.
This is a tale about family love and family loyalty...about courtship, childbirth and death, fathers and sons...about gutter politics and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884...about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and "blessed" mornings on horseback at Oyster Bay or beneath the limitless skies of the Badlands. [via]
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My American Journey: An Autobiographyby Joseph E. Persico, Colin L. PowellISBN 0679432965 (0-679-43296-5)
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Never Call Retreatby Bruce CattonISBN 0671638831 (0-671-63883-1)
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New Worlds, Lost Worlds : The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603by Susan BrigdenISBN 0670899852 (0-670-89985-2)
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Above all, the Tudor epoch emerges as a battleground between the new world of Protestantism and the old one of unquestioned Catholicism-a great religious rent in the fabric of English society that underlies turbulence and carnage from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the threat of conquest by Spain. The Rule of the Tudors is an authoritative, impeccably written, and startlingly atmospheric history. [via]More editions of New Worlds, Lost Worlds : The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603:
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth centurys greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smiths desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual. [via]More editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four:
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No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0671642405 (0-671-64240-5)
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The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speechesby Brian MacArthurISBN 0670831263 (0-670-83126-3)
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Politics and Powers: The United States Senate, 1869-1901by David J. RothmanISBN 0674687752 (0-674-68775-2)
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The Politics of Provincialism: The Democratic Party in Transition, 1918-1932by David BurnerISBN 0674689402 (0-674-68940-2)
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The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clintonby Stephen SkowronekISBN 0674689372 (0-674-68937-2)
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The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bushby Stephen SkowronekISBN 0674689356 (0-674-68935-6)
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The Power to Lead: The Crisis of the American Presidencyby James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0671427318 (0-671-42731-8)
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Reds : McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century Americaby Ted MorganISBN 0679443991 (0-679-44399-1)
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germanyby William L. ShirerISBN 0671728687 (0-671-72868-7)
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The Ruin of Kaschby Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0674780299 (0-674-78029-9)
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The Ruin of Kaschby William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli, Roberto CalassoISBN 0674780264 (0-674-78026-4)
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Sam Houston: A Biography of the Father of Texasby John Hoyt WilliamsISBN 0671746413 (0-671-74641-3)
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The Spanish Civil Warby Hugh ThomasISBN 0671758764 (0-671-75876-4)
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This Hallowed Groundby Bruce CattonISBN 067163884X (0-671-63884-X)
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This Realmby SmithISBN 0669244589 (0-669-24458-9)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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This Realm of England: 1399-1688by SmithISBN 0669134228 (0-669-13422-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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This Realm of England, 1399 to 1688by Lacey Baldwin SmithISBN 0669043788 (0-669-04378-8)
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Thomas E. Dewey and His Timesby Richard Norton SmithISBN 0671417428 (0-671-41742-8)
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Trudeau's Shadow: The Life And Legacy Of Pierre Elliott Trudeauby Andrew CohenISBN 0679310061 (0-679-31006-1)
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Vietnam: A Historyby Stanley KarnowISBN 0670746045 (0-670-74604-5)
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Wanderlust : A History of Walkingby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0670882097 (0-670-88209-7)
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Why Hitler Came into Powerby Theodore AbelISBN 0674952006 (0-674-95200-6)
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of Chinaby Jung ChangISBN 0671685465 (0-671-68546-5)
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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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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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World Affairs Companionby Gerald SegalISBN 0671880209 (0-671-88020-9)
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