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1984by George Orwell, Fromm, Erich (AFT)ISBN 0451524934 (0-451-52493-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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1984by Thomas Pynchon, Erich Fromm, George OrwellISBN 0452284236 (0-452-28423-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Abraham Lincolnby John MorseISBN 0404508928 (0-404-50892-8)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Mythsby Stephen B. OatesISBN 0452007348 (0-452-00734-8)
Softcover, New American Library
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Age of Revolution 1789 1848by Eric J. HobsbawnISBN 0451627202 (0-451-62720-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Alice Roosevelt Longworthby Carol FelsenthalISBN 0399132589 (0-399-13258-9)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975by George HerringISBN 0471015474 (0-471-01547-4)
Softcover, Wiley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975'Book summary:Widely recognized as a major contribution to the study of American involvement in Vietnam, this comprehensive and balanced account analyzes the ultimate failure of the war, and the impact of the war on US foreign policy. The book seeks to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective and to offer answers to vital questions. This new edition has been necessitated not only by the development in the field, but also by dramatic change in the world in the time since the last edition. [via]
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American Diplomacy: 1900-1950by George Frost KennanISBN 0451611683 (0-451-61168-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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American Foreign Relationby Kenneth J. Hagan, Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry CliffordISBN 0395938872 (0-395-93887-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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American Foreign Relations: A History to 1920by Kenneth J. Hagan, Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry CliffordISBN 0395938864 (0-395-93886-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Foreign Relations: A History to 1920'Book summary:This text presents the best synthesis of current scholarship available to emphasize the theme of expansionism and its manifestations. The inclusion of recently declassified documents allows for new perspectives on American intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution, the origins of the Cold War and the Korean War, and the Cuban missile crisis.
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The Ancien Regimeby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0460014382 (0-460-01438-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancien Regime'Book summary:Alexis de Tocqueville was a French politician who was bitterly opposed to the seizure of power by Napoleon III in 1851 which put an end to his political career. The rest of his life was devoted to the study of French society and the ways in which it had been affrected by the revolution of 1789. Tocqueville's work showed that the revolution of 1789 was not so much a new start as a development of trends already present. It remains to this day both a brilliant investigation of its subject and a relevant comment on the problems of preserving the freedom of the individual within the modern state. [via]
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The Ancient Near Eastby Amelie KurhtISBN 0415167620 (0-415-16762-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0451525361 (0-451-52536-1)
Softcover, Signet
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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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Softcover, Plume - Animal Farm: ISBN 0395796776 (0-395-79677-6)
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Softcover, Penguin USA - Animal Farm: ISBN 0436350009 (0-436-35000-9)
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Aspects of British Political History, 1815-1914by Stephen J. LeeISBN 0415090075 (0-415-09007-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Best and the Brightestby David HalberstamISBN 0449240339 (0-449-24033-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Editionby David HalberstamISBN 0449908704 (0-449-90870-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Edition'Book summary:"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller." -- The Boston Globe
"Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative . . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance." -- Los Angeles Times
"Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A story which every American should read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch [via]More editions of The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Edition:
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudstersby Greg PalastISBN 0452285674 (0-452-28567-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters'Book summary:[via]"Palast is astonishing, he gets the real evidence no one else has the guts to dig up." Vincent Bugliosi, author of None Dare Call it Treason and Helter Skelter Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership. This exciting collection, now revised and updated, brings together some of Palast's most powerful writing of the past decade. Included here are his celebrated Washington Post exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and recent stories on George W. Bush's payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.
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Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixonby Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 0440307805 (0-440-30780-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Capitalby Karl MarxISBN 046000848X (0-460-00848-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000by Niall FergusonISBN 0465023266 (0-465-02326-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000'Book summary:Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the nexus, in Thomas Carlyle's phrase-between economics and politics. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. Among Ferguson's startling claims are: · Nothing has done more to transform the world economy than war, yet wars themselves do not have primarily economic causes. · The present age of economic globalization is coinciding-paradoxically-with political and military fragmentation. · Financial crises are frequently caused by unforeseen political events rather than economic fluctuations. · The relationship between prosperity and government popularity is largely illusory. · Since political and economic liberalization are not self-perpetuating, the so-called triumph of democracy worldwide may be short-lived. · A bold synthesis of political history and modern economic theory, Cash Nexus will transform the landscape of modern history and draw challenging conclusions about the prospects of both capitalism and democracy.[via]More editions of The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000:
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas PaineISBN 0486296024 (0-486-29602-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Common Sense: Library Edition'Book summary:"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0451527100 (0-451-52710-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independenceby Daniel T. RodgersISBN 0465014151 (0-465-01415-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidencyby Hamilton JordanISBN 0399127380 (0-399-12738-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Eleanor & Franklinby Joseph P. LashISBN 0451165160 (0-451-16516-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Embassy to Constantinople and Other Writingsby Liudprand of Cremona, John Julius NorwichISBN 0460872354 (0-460-87235-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Powerby Niall FergusonISBN 0465023290 (0-465-02329-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power'Book summary:Niall Ferguson's compelling tour de force, Empire, was published to coincide with a British TV series. Ferguson, author of The Pity of War and The Cash Nexus, does not so much provide a synoptic survey of the British empire since the 17th century, as an arresting argument about why it arose, and how it fell. Ferguson's emphasis throughout is on the pursuit of economic profit and military might.
Piracy overseas and a taste for sugar and spice at home combined with an unerring ability to vanquish rival European powers, such as the Dutch and French, in the dash for stash and status across the globe. But Ferguson is also alive to the peculiarities of British dominion: the manly and Christian civil service--less than a thousand strong--who ruled India, missionaries such as Livingstone, who explored and mapped as they preached, and the barons of empire--Rhodes, Curzon, and Kitchener--who found in empire an outlet for their homoeroticism.
The book is brilliant and persuasive on trade and buccaneering before 1750, on India, on the late Victorian imperial mentalité, and on the two world wars, but less convincing on the empire of white settlement, and strangely silent on the most difficult colony of all, Ireland. In the end, Ferguson's penchant for polemic gets the upper hand--the book closes with a controversial balance sheet of the gains and losses of the British imperial experience--but he provides a riveting read nonetheless. --Miles Taylor [via]
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The Federalist Or, the New Constitutionby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James MadisonISBN 0460005197 (0-460-00519-7)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Or, the New Constitution'Book summary:This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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The Federalist Papersby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Charles R. Kesler, Clinton Lawrence RossiterISBN 0451628810 (0-451-62881-0)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Papers'Book summary:"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties." So wrote John Jay, one of the revolutionary authors of The Federalist Papers, arguing that if the United States was truly to be a single nation, its leaders would have to agree on universally binding rules of governance--in short, a constitution. In a brilliant set of essays, Jay and his colleagues Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explored in minute detail the implications of establishing a kind of rule that would engage as many citizens as possible and that would include a system of checks and balances. Their arguments proved successful in the end, and The Federalist Papers stand as key documents in the founding of the United States. [via]
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The Federalist Papersby Charles R. Kesler, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Clinton Lawrence RossiterISBN 0451528816 (0-451-52881-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Papers'Book summary:"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties." So wrote John Jay, one of the revolutionary authors of The Federalist Papers, arguing that if the United States was truly to be a single nation, its leaders would have to agree on universally binding rules of governance--in short, a constitution. In a brilliant set of essays, Jay and his colleagues Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explored in minute detail the implications of establishing a kind of rule that would engage as many citizens as possible and that would include a system of checks and balances. Their arguments proved successful in the end, and The Federalist Papers stand as key documents in the founding of the United States. [via]
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The Fiftiesby David HalberstamISBN 0449909336 (0-449-90933-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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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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Fragile Glory : A Portrait of France and the Frenchby Richard BernsteinISBN 0452266785 (0-452-26678-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fragile Glory : A Portrait of France and the French'Book summary:[via]An enormously entertaining account of contemporary France from the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times. Bernstein combines personal memoir, informed observation, and news-hound curiosity to offer a stirring and unforgettable panaorama of Franceat times exalted, troubling, and occasionally absurd.
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A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnamby Robert MannISBN 0465043704 (0-465-04370-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam'Book summary:A Grand Delusion is the first comprehensive single-volume American political history of the Vietnam War. Spanning the years 1945 to 1975, it is the definitive story of the well-meaning but often misguided American political leaders whose unquestioning adherence to Cold War dogma led the nation into its tragic misadventure in Vietnam. At the center of this narrative are seven such men-Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, J. William Fulbright, Mike Mansfield, and George McGovern. During their careers, each occupied center-stage in the nation's debate over Vietnam policy.Mann focuses in particular on the role played by leading members of Congress, including senators' Mansfield and Kennedy's shaping of American policy toward Vietnam in the 1950s; Congress's acquiescence in the 1950s to the Eisenhower administration's support of the American-backed Diem government; and the blank check that Congress gave to Lyndon Johnson with the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution.Mann considers as well the evolution of opposition to the war, including pivotal hearings conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1966 to 1968; the small band of war opponents led by senators Fulbright, McGovern, and Wayne Morse; Mansfield's quiet-but-persistent lobbying campaign to dissuade his friend Lyndon Johnson from escalating the war in 1965; the bitter political feud that erupted between Fulbright and Johnson-erstwhile friends-over the war; McGovern and Hatfield's determined effort to force Richard Nixon to withdraw American forces from Vietnam; and Congress's assertion of its Constitutional role in war making in the early 1970s, culminating in the passage of the War Powers resolution in 1973. [via]
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The Great Little Madisonby Jean FritzISBN 0399217681 (0-399-21768-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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History of Western Philosophyby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415325056 (0-415-32505-6)
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History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection With Political & Social Circumstancesby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415078547 (0-415-07854-7)
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If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Leftby Maurice IssermanISBN 0465031978 (0-465-03197-8)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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J.S. Mill on Liberty in Focusby John Gray, G.W. SmithISBN 0415010012 (0-415-01001-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.S. Mill on Liberty in Focus'Book summary:This volume brings together J.S. Mills On Liberty and a selection of important essays by such eminent scholars as Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees, C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim. As well as providing authoritative commentary upon On Liberty, the essays reflect a broader debate about the philosophical foundations of Mill's liberalism, particularly the question of the connection betweenMill's professed utilitarianism and his commitment to individual liberty. Introduced and edited by John Gray and G.W. Smith, the book will be of interest to students of Mill, to ethical and political philosophers and to anyone interested in the contemporary status of liberalism. [via]
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King Johnby W. L. WarrenISBN 0413455106 (0-413-45510-6)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King John'Book summary:King John is a study of a king and his political misfortunes. It is also an examination of a fascinating era -- the early thirteenth century, a period of profound social and political change and unprecedented insecurity. W.L. Warren paints a picture of the king not only by assessing his achievements and failures but also by placing him in the context of the society in which he lived, the actions of his predecessors, and the problems posed by continuities independent of his making.
This account of John's reign is revealing and fair-minded, correcting distortions in the accounts of such chroniclers as Rogers of Wendover and Matthew Paris. Warren's analysis of the disputed succession, the conflict with France, the clash with Pope Innocent III, and the events leading to Magna Carta provide an intimate picture of the business of the Crown. Warren is unsparing in his criticism of the king's failings but acknowledges the more remarkable of John's personal qualities.
"An account of John's life and reign based on modern research and set forth in a manner that will appeal as much to the general reader as to the student". -- Daily Telegraph [via]
King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.by Wil HaygoodISBN 039570068X (0-395-70068-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Let the Word Go Forth: The Speeches, Statements, and Writings of John F. Kennedyby Theodore C. Sorensen, John F. KennedyISBN 0440500419 (0-440-50041-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophyby John GrayISBN 0415071364 (0-415-07136-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy'Book summary:"Liberalisms" aims to provide a coherent and comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking of the past century and considers the dominance of liberal thought in Anglo-American political philosophy between 1970 and 1990. John Gray assesses the work of all the major liberal political philosophers, including J.S. Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Popper, F.A. Hayek, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and explores their mutual connections and differences. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of political theory and the history of political thought. [via]
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A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950by Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0395707528 (0-395-70752-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Lindberghby A. Scott BergISBN 0425170411 (0-425-17041-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lindbergh'Book summary:Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris captured the imagination of a postwar generation hungry for heroes, and cemented an exalted spot for the 25-year-old pilot from Minnesota in the collective American imagination. A. Scott Berg's thorough new biography of the aviator suggests that despite the public scrutiny that accompanied his every move until his death in 1974, Lindbergh remained an intensely private man. The son of ill-matched parents who separated when he was 6, he was painfully shy and emotionally guarded. "Aviation created a brotherhood of casual acquaintances ... in which he felt comfortable," writes Berg with characteristic perceptiveness.
Lindbergh's wife, the writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, gave Berg unrestricted access to her husband's and her own voluminous personal papers--and he made good use of them to assess both the couple's relationship and their activities. Probably the most startling revelation is a brief but candid discussion of Anne's affair in the late 1950s with a New Jersey doctor, which helped assuage her need to vent emotions in a way her buttoned-up husband found insupportable. (During the horrendous days in 1932 when their 20-month-old son was kidnapped and killed, Berg notes, she never once saw Charles cry.) The biography is solid on all aspects of Lindbergh's career, including his notorious urging that America stay out of World War II; Berg rebuts charges that Lindbergh was a Nazi or a traitor, but rightly criticizes the anti-Semitism latent in some of his speeches. With this book, Berg succeeds in surveying Lindbergh's fascinating life and assessing its historic impact. [via]
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Medieval Europe: A Short Historyby C. Warren HollisterISBN 0471406988 (0-471-40698-8)
Softcover, Wiley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Europe: A Short History'Book summary:Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new essay program on medieval myths, and more. In his preface to the eighth edition, Professor Hollister wrote of his realization, while in college, that our world today "is a product of the medieval past." Medieval Europe introduces today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. [via]
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0452254264 (0-452-25426-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hallby William L. Riordon, George Washington PlunkittISBN 0451526201 (0-451-52620-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plunkitt of Tammany Hall'Book summary:This classic work offers the unblushing, unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most fascinating figures ever to play the American political game and win. George Washington Plunkitt rose from impoverished beginnings to become ward boss of the Fifteenth Assembly District in New York, a key player in the powerhouse political team of Tammany Hall, and a millionaire.[via]
In a series of utterly frank talks given at his headquarters at Grazianos bootblack stand inside the New York County Court House, he revealed to a sharp-eared and sympathetic reporter named William L. Riordon the secrets of political success as practiced and perfected by Tammany Hall titans.
The result is not only a volume that reveals more about our political system than does a shelf load of civics textbooks, but also an irresistible portrait of a man who would feel happily at home playing ball with todays lobbyists and kingmakers, trading votes for political and financial favors.
Doing for twentieth-century America what Machiavelli did for Renaissance Italy, and as entertaining as it is instructive, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall is essential reading for those who prefer twenty-twenty vision to rose-colored glasses in viewing how our government works and why.
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The Princessa: Machiavelli for Womenby Harriet RubinISBN 0440508320 (0-440-50832-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Prospects Of Industrial Civilisationby Russell, Dora Winifred Black Russell RussellISBN 0415131332 (0-415-13133-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germanyby William L. ShirerISBN 0449219771 (0-449-21977-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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"One of the most important works of history of our time."
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Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen, Balogh, Mary (AFT), Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451531019 (0-451-53101-9)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense and Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense and Sensibility:
The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Foundedby Ronald KesslerISBN 0446603848 (0-446-60384-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Straight into Darknessby Faye KellermanISBN 0446611506 (0-446-61150-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straight into Darkness'Book summary:New York Times bestselling author Kellerman traveled to Germany for the meticulous research conducted for this new novel that takes readers on an edge-of-your-seat journey to 1920s Munich: a city stalked by a ruthless killer. [via]
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomasby Jane Mayer, Jill AbramsonISBN 0452274990 (0-452-27499-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Themes in Modern European History, 1830-90by Bruce WallerISBN 041509075X (0-415-09075-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Themes in Modern European History, 1830-90'Book summary:Providing a series of lively essays which reflect the skills that historians have to master when challenged by problems of evidence, interpretation, and presentation, this important new text covers the topics of France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Russia, as well as analyzing the themes of political thought, cultural trends, the economy and warfare, international relations and imperialism.
Six distinguished scholars, all of whom are regularly involved in student teaching, provide an authoritative student guide to the main contours of nineteenth-century European history when the continent's standing was at its highest and its influence spanned the globe.
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A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White Houseby Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.ISBN 0449300218 (0-449-30021-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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To Set the Record Straightby John J. SiricaISBN 0451091566 (0-451-09156-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Two Treatises of Governmentby John LockeISBN 0460017519 (0-460-01751-9)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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W: Revenge of the Bush Dynastyby Elizabeth MitchellISBN 0425194329 (0-425-19432-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Winds of History: The German Years of Lucius DuBignon Clayby John H. BackerISBN 0442213824 (0-442-21382-4)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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The World Turned Right Side Up: A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in Americaby Godfrey HodgsonISBN 0395822939 (0-395-82293-9)
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Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency Of George W. Bushby John DeanISBN 0446694835 (0-446-69483-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency Of George W. Bush'Book summary:The most facile presidential comparison one could make for George W. Bush would be his father, who presided over a war in Iraq and a struggling economy. Some "neocons" reject the parallel and compare Bush to his father's predecessor, Ronald Reagan, citing a plainspoken quality and a belief in deep tax cuts. But John Dean goes further back, seeing in Bush all the secrecy and scandal of Dean's former boss, the notorious Richard Nixon. The difference, as the title of Dean's book indicates, is that Bush is a heck of a lot worse. While the book provides insightful snippets of the way Nixon used to do business, it offers them to shed light on the practices of Bush. In Dean's estimation, the secrecy with which Bush and Dick Cheney govern is not merely a preferred system of management but an obsessive strategy meant to conceal a deeply troubling agenda of corporate favoritism and a dramatic growth in unchecked power for the executive branch that put at risk the lives of American citizens, civil liberties, and the Constitution. Dean sets out to make his point by drawing attention to several areas about which Bush and Cheney have been tight-lipped: the revealing by a "senior White House official" of the identity of an undercover CIA operative whose husband questioned the administration, the health of Cheney, the identity of Cheney's energy task force, the information requested by the bi-partisan 9/11 commission, Bush's business dealings early in his career, the creation of a "shadow government", wartime prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, and scores more. He theorizes that the truth about these and many other situations, including the decision to go to war in Iraq, will eventually surface and that Bush and Cheney's secrecy is a thus far effective means of keep a lid on a rapidly multiplying set of lies and scandals that far outstrip the misdeeds that led directly to Dean's former employer resigning in disgrace. Dean's charges are impassioned and more severe than many of Bush's most persistent critics. But those charges are realized only after careful reasoning and steady logic by a man who knows his way around scandal and corruption. --John Moe [via]
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