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1984by George OrwellISBN 078389368X (0-7838-9368-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Adventures Of Theodore Rooseveltby Anthony BrandtISBN 0792293460 (0-7922-9346-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Against All Enemies: Inside America's War On Terrorby Richard A. ClarkeISBN 0743260457 (0-7432-6045-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against All Enemies: Inside America's War On Terror'Book summary:Few political memoirs have made such a dramatic entrance as that by Richard A. Clarke. During the week of the initial publication of Against All Enemies, Clarke was featured on 60 Minutes, testified before the 9/11 commission, and touched off a raging controversy over how the presidential administration handled the threat of terrorism and the post-9/11 geopolitical landscape. Clarke, a veteran Washington insider who had advised presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush, dissects each man's approach to terrorism but levels the harshest criticism at the latter Bush and his advisors who, Clarke asserts, failed to take terrorism and Al-Qaeda seriously. Clarke details how, in light of mounting intelligence of the danger Al-Qaeda presented, his urgent requests to move terrorism up the list of priorities in the early days of the administration were met with apathy and procrastination and how, after the attacks took place, Bush and key figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney turned their attention almost immediately to Iraq, a nation not involved in the attacks. Against All Enemies takes the reader inside the Beltway beginning with the Reagan administration, who failed to retaliate against the 1982 Beirut bombings, fueling the perception around the world that the United States was vulnerable to such attacks. Terrorism becomes a growing but largely ignored threat under the first President Bush, whom Clarke cites for his failure to eliminate Saddam Hussein, thereby necessitating a continued American presence in Saudi Arabia that further inflamed anti-American sentiment. Clinton, according to Clarke, understood the gravity of the situation and became increasingly obsessed with stopping Al-Qaeda. He had developed workable plans but was hamstrung by political infighting and the sex scandal that led to his impeachment. But Bush and his advisers, Clarke says, didn't get it before 9/11 and they didn't get it after, taking a unilateral approach that seemed destined to lead to more attacks on Americans and American interests around the world. Clarke's inside accounts of what happens in the corridors of power are fascinating and the book, written in a compelling, highly readable style, at times almost seems like a fiction thriller. But the threat of terrorism and the consequences of Bush's approach to it feel very sobering and very real. --John Moe [via]
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Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991by E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0718133072 (0-7181-3307-2)
Hardcover, Michael Joseph
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The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White Houseby Bob WoodwardISBN 0743274075 (0-7432-7407-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House'Book summary:A no-holds-barred look inside the Clinton White House during the first one hundred days of his presidency. What emerges is a portrait of a man hampered by his struggle to do the right thing. Despite the defeat of the health care initiative and the bungling first steps of a naive administration, Woodward uncovers the essential decency of the man from Hope. [via]
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jeffersonby Joseph J. EllisISBN 0783890761 (0-7838-9076-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson'Book summary:For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1896); and in the subsequent seventeen decades of his celebrity--now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety--has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person.
For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was ''as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, has discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing.'' In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today ''hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams.'' For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large--a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles.
From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to ''keep it in storage''). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naivete, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all--our very own sphinx. [via]More editions of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson:
The Americans, the National Experienceby Daniel J. Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0747401152 (0-7474-0115-2)
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Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845by Robert V. ReminiISBN 0801859131 (0-8018-5913-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821by Robert V. ReminiISBN 0801859115 (0-8018-5911-5)
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Lifeby Walter IsaacsonISBN 074325807X (0-7432-5807-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Benjamin Franklin: An American Life'Book summary:Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, the revolutionary leader represents a political tradition that has been all but forgotten today, one that prizes pragmatism over moralism, religious tolerance over fundamentalist rigidity, and social mobility over class privilege. That broadly democratic sensibility allowed Franklin his contradictions, as Isaacson shows. Though a man of lofty principles, Franklin wasn't shy of using sex to sell the newspapers he edited and published; though far from frivolous, he liked his toys and his mortal pleasures; and though he sometimes gave off a simpleton image, he was a shrewd and even crafty politician. Isaacson doesn't shy from enumerating Franklins occasional peccadilloes and shortcomings, in keeping with the iconoclastic nature of our time--none of which, however, stops him from considering Benjamin Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age," and one of the most admirable of any era. And heres one bit of proof: as a young man, Ben Franklin regularly went without food in order to buy books. His example, as always, is a good one--and this is just the book to buy with the proceeds from the grocery budget. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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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 0745318460 (0-7453-1846-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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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: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, Karachi to Santiago, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation, globally. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his acerbic wit and 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, worldwide. This exciting new collection brings together some of Palast's most powerful and influential writing of the past decade. His columns in the Observer have a cult following and he made headline news when he went undercover for the Observer to break open the 'Lobbygate' scandal of corruption inside the Blair Cabinet. Included here are his reports on that story, which earned him the distinction of being the first journalist ever to be personally attacked on the floor of Parliament by a prime minister; his celebrated Washington Post exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, which made him "a legend and a hero on the Internet" (Alan Colmes / Fox Radio) when it ran in Salon.com; and recent stories on George W. Bush's pay-offs to corporate cronies, and the business-created 'energy crisis.' Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.[via]More editions of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters:
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The Best War Ever: America and World War IIby Michael C.C. AdamsISBN 0801846978 (0-8018-4697-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best War Ever: America and World War II'Book summary:Was it really such a "good war"? It was, if popular memory is to be trusted. We knew who the enemy was. We knew what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. It was a war of tanks and airplanes-a cleaner war than World War I. Americans were united. Soldiers were proud. It was a time of prosperity, sound morality, and power. But according to historian Michael Adams, our memory is distorted, and it has left us with a misleading-even dangerous-legacy. Challenging many of our common assumptions about the period, Adams argues that our experience of World War II was positive but also disturbing, creating problems that continue to plague us today. [via]
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The Bloody Crucible Of Courage: Fighting Methods And Combat Experience Of The Civil Warby Brent NosworthyISBN 0786715634 (0-7867-1563-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bloody Crucible Of Courage: Fighting Methods And Combat Experience Of The Civil War'Book summary:In this groundbreaking achievement in Civil War scholarship, acclaimed military historian Brent Nosworthy leads an all-out attack on the many myths and misunderstandings about how the North and South fought, and covers for the first time in any book the variety of Civil War combat methods in their entirety. Now everything from grand tactics to hand-to-hand combat during our nation's costliest war is given its proper due in the development of warfare. Nosworthy weaves together the story of newly emerging weapons, the resulting changes in military doctrine, and the combatants' experiences as these innovations were applied to the battlefield. Detailing methods of warfare from General Irvin McDowell's first tentative efforts at Bull Run to Lee's and Grant's final exertions at Petersburg and Appomattox, the author examines tactical variations due to regional differences and the distinctive circumstances of each campaign. Along with maps, diagrams, and illustrations throughout, The Bloody Crucible of Courage recognizes the primacy of the war's most compelling voices, and contains hundreds of firsthand accounts from the front lines.[via]More editions of The Bloody Crucible Of Courage: Fighting Methods And Combat Experience Of The Civil War:
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The Brethren: Inside The Supreme Courtby Bob Woodward, Scott ArmstrongISBN 0743274024 (0-7432-7402-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bush at Warby Bob WoodwardISBN 0743244613 (0-7432-4461-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bush at War'Book summary:Bush at War focuses on the three months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during which the U.S. prepared for war in Afghanistan, took steps toward a preemptive strike against Iraq, intensified homeland defense, and began a well-funded CIA covert war against terrorism around the world. The narrative is classic Woodward: using his inside access to the major players, he offers a nearly day-by-day account of the decision-making processes and power battles behind the headlines. Woodward's information is based on tape-recorded interviews of over a hundred sources (some unnamed), including four hours of exclusive interviews with the president, along with notes from cabinet meetings and access to some classified reports.
Woodward's analysis of President Bush's leadership style is especially fascinating. A self-described "gut player" who relies heavily on instinct, Bush comes across as a man of action continually pressing his cabinet for concrete results. The revelation that the president developed and publicly stated the so-called Bush Doctrine--the policy that the U.S. would not only go after terrorists everywhere but also those governments or groups which harbor them--without first consulting Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, or Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is particularly telling. Other principals are examined with equal scrutiny. Though National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice emerges as soft-spoken and even tentative during group meetings, it becomes clear that Bush is dependent on her for candid advice as well as for conveying his thoughts to his cabinet. The relationship between Powell and Rumsfeld (and to a lesser degree Powell and Cheney) is often strained, exposing their differences regarding how to deal with Iraq and whether coalition building or unilateralism is most appropriate. Woodward also describes how CIA director George Tenet prepared a paramilitary team to infiltrate Afghanistan to set the groundwork for invasion, and how this ushered in a new era of cooperation between the defense department and the CIA. A worthwhile and often enlightening read, this is a revealing and informative first draft of the Bush legacy. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Bush at War : Inside the Bush White Houseby Bob WoodwardISBN 0743204735 (0-7432-0473-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bush at War : Inside the Bush White House'Book summary:Award-winning author and journalist Bob Woodward turns his attention to the presidency of George W. Bush. Before the acts of terrorism on 11 September, George W. Bush's presidency had been beset by numerous problems. Not only was it in many peoples eyes invalid, very few people took him seriously as a world statesman. Then following one violent mindless act of terrorism, George W. Bush became a president that his country could rely on, one they felt they could trust to lead them through these difficult times. And the world saw a man who was decisive and resolute, a president who was seemingly determined to route out the people who had carried out the heinous acts. But one year after the attacks how has the 44th President of the United States fared? And what were the actual behind the scenes discussions that took place whilst the country was rocked by the crisis? Bob Woodward has been shadowing the President since those fateful events, he was allowed unprecedented access to closed-door meetings and briefings and this masterful book is a look at what really happened. [via]
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Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Alliesby Stephen J. Randall, John Herd ThompsonISBN 0773523774 (0-7735-2377-4)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsISBN 0717806219 (0-7178-0621-9)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:It was no easy task to prepare the second volume of "Capital" for the printer in such a way that it should make a connected and complete work and represent exclusively the idens of its author, not of its publisher. The great number of available manuscripts, and their fragmentary character, added to the difilculties of this task. At best one single manuscript (No.4) had been revised throughout and made ready for the printer. And while it treated its subject-matter fully, the greater part bad become obsolete through subsequent revision. The bulk of the material was not polished as to language, even if the subject-matter was for the greater part fully worked out. The language was that in which Marx used to make his outlines, that is to say his style was careless, full of colloquial, often rough and humorous, expressions and phrases, interspersed with English and French technical terms, or with whole sentences or pages of English. The thoughts were jott
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CONTENTS; Page; PREFACE 7; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE SO; THE CIRCULATION OF CAPITAL PART I; THE MBT«ORJ"HOSES OP CAPITAL AND THRIR CYCLES; CHAPTER I-The Circulation o{ Money-Capital 31; Section I-First *~btage 3P=L' 32; Section II-Second Stage, Functions of Productive Capital 41; Section III-Third Stage, C-M" 40; Section IV-The Rotation as a Whole 58; CHAPTER II-The Rotation of Productive Capital 72; Section I-SimrJTfe Reproduction 77~~ 73; Section II-Accumulation and Reproduction on an Enlarged Scale SO; Section III-Accumulation ol Money 83; Section IV-Reserve Funds 96; CHAPTER IIL-The Circulation of CoromodLb^Capital 98; CHAPTER IV-The Three "Diagrams of the I'rocess of Circulation 114; CHAPTER V-The Time of Circulation 139; CHAPTER VI-The Expenses of Circulation 147; Section I,-Genuine Expenses of Circulation 147; 1 The Time ol Purchase and Sale 147; 2 Bookkeeping 131; 3 Money 153; Section II-Expenses of Storage 104; 1 General Formation of Supply 105; [via] 
Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli and Papal Politics in European Affairsby Frank J. CoppaISBN 0791401855 (0-7914-0185-5)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Cicero: A Turbulent Lifeby Anthony EverittISBN 0719554918 (0-7195-5491-8)
Hardcover, John Murray
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cicero: A Turbulent Life'Book summary:This is one of those rare books, like I Claudius, that brings ancient Rome alive. The biography of a brilliant orator and writer, and a politician who twice held the reins of power, it is also the spectacular story of the fall of the Roman Republic. Cicero's speeches and ideas have influenced European civilized values for two thousand years. Personally, he is accessible to us in his hundreds of letters, many of them to his dear friend Atticus. We are able to follow his busy life as a lawyer and politician, and the historic events in which he took part from day to day (sometimes from hour to hour) as he nervously prepares a speech to deliver in the Forum or to the Senate, detects the supposedly incorruptible Brutus in a financial scam, puts a stop to a sexual escapade of the young Mark Antony, steadies Rome at a moment of acute vulnerability following Julius Caesar's assassination, vainly tries to prevent civil war...or, at more private moments, entertains dinner parties with his wit or irons out a problem with his wayward nephew. In this account of Cicero's career from his provincial origins - he was never entirely accepted by Rome's ruling class - to his tragic end as the Republic he revered crashed round his ears, Anthony Everitt makes full use of Cicero's own words and those of his contemporaries. The figure that emerges is intensely human - often dithering and uncertain, boastful from inner insecurity, emotional enough, beneath a near-Stoic exterior, to wander through the woods weeping in a way then thought unmanly when his daughter died in childbirth. This biography intimately and convincingly brings to life the man whose name has become emblematic of the last days of Republican Rome. [via]
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The Comanches: A History, 1706-1875by Thomas W. KavanaghISBN 080327792X (0-8032-7792-X)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas Paine, Gregory TietjenISBN 0760712026 (0-7607-1202-6)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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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. Marx, Mick HumeISBN 0745310338 (0-7453-1033-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0745310346 (0-7453-1034-6)
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Condition of the Working Class in Englandby Friedrich EngelsISBN 0804706344 (0-8047-0634-4)
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The Conservative Tradition in Americaby Charles W. Dunn, J. David WoodardISBN 0742522342 (0-7425-2234-2)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz: The Tragic Love Story of Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter and the German Emperorby John Van der KisteISBN 0750930527 (0-7509-3052-7)
Softcover, Sutton Publishing, Limited
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The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of The History of Rome from Its Foundationsby Livy, B. O. FosterISBN 0760770239 (0-7607-7023-9)
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United Statesby Charles Austin BeardISBN 0765804573 (0-7658-0457-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States'Book summary:In his piercing introduction to An Economic Interpretation the author wrote that whoever leaves economic pressures out of history or out of discussion of public questions is in mortal peril of substituting mythology for reality. It was Beards view that the founding fathers, especially Madison, Jay, and Hamilton, never made such a miscalculation. Indeed, these statesmen placed themselves among the great practitioners of all ages and gave instructions to succeeding generations in the art of government by their vigorous deployment of classical political economy.
In this new printing of a major classic in American historiography, Louis Filler provides a sense of the person behind the book, the background that enabled Beard to move well beyond the shibboleths of the second decade of the twentieth century. While the controversies over Beards book have quieted, the issues which it raised have hardly abated. Indeed, one can say that just about every major work in the politics and economics of the American nation must contend with Beards classic work. Beards work rests on an examination of primary documents: land and slave owners, geographic distribution of money, ownership of public securities, the specific condition of those who were disenfranchised as well as those who were in charge of the nascent American economy.
The great merit of Beards work is that despite its incendiary potential, he himself viewed An Economic Interpretation in coldly analytical terms, seeing such a position as giving comfort to neither revolutionaries nor reactionaries. Attacked by Marxists for being too mechanical, and by conservatives as being blind to the moral purposes of the framers of the constitution, the work continues to exercise a tremendous influence on all concerned. The fact that Beard wrote with a scalpel-like precision that gripped the attention of those in power no less than the common man is, it should be added, no small element in the enduring forces of this work.
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Elizabeth I, Queen of Englandby Neville WilliamsISBN 0722191537 (0-7221-9153-7)
Hardcover, Sphere
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The Federalist Papersby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 0743487710 (0-7434-8771-0)
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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 French Radical Party in the 1930'sby Peter J. LarmourISBN 0804702063 (0-8047-0206-3)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972by Gordon H. ChangISBN 0804715653 (0-8047-1565-3)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605by Antonia FraserISBN 0753814013 (0-7538-1401-3)
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The Imperial Presidencyby Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0735100470 (0-7351-0047-0)
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The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and Beliefby Marvin MeyersISBN 0804705062 (0-8047-0506-2)
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The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840by Daniel FellerISBN 0801851688 (0-8018-5168-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840'Book summary:In Jacksonian Promise historian Daniel Feller offers a fresh look at the United States in the tumultuous Age of Jackson. Viewing the era through the eyes of people who lived in it, Feller's account captures the optimism and energy that filled America after the War of 1812. His emphasis on Americans' confidence in the future and faith in improvement challenges historians who depict the Jacksonian temperament in terms of anxiety and foreboding.
Jacksonian Promise opens with the Jubilee anniversary of Independence in 1826, when Americans celebrated their national birthright of liberty and opportunity. Blessed with abundant resources and what they held to be the best government on earth, citizens believed they could accomplish nearly anything. They felt it in their power to remake themselves, their country, and the world.
Feller traces the influence of this enterprising spirit across a broad range of Jacksonian activity. Experiment and innovation flourished as Americans built canals and factories, founded unions and utopias, staged religious revivals and moral crusades, and campaigned to eradicate social ills and to purify law and politics. Yet despite their common source, competing programs of progress soon clashed with each other. As citizens organized to pursue their hopes for America's future, divisions arose among that pointed ultimately toward civil war.
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Jeffersonian Persuasionby Lance BanningISBN 0801492009 (0-8014-9200-9)
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The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideologyby Lance BanningISBN 0801411513 (0-8014-1151-3)
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John Adamsby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0743223136 (0-7432-2313-6)
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Overshadowed by the lustrous presidents Washington and Jefferson, who bracketed his tenure in office, Adams emerges from McCullough's brilliant biography as a truly heroic figure--not only for his significant role in the American Revolution but also for maintaining his personal integrity in its strife-filled aftermath. McCullough spends much of his narrative examining the troubled friendship between Adams and Jefferson, who had in common a love for books and ideas but differed on almost every other imaginable point. Reading his pages, it is easy to imagine the two as alter egos. (Strangely, both died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.) But McCullough also considers Adams in his own light, and the portrait that emerges is altogether fascinating. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Kennedy Conspiracyby Anthony SummersISBN 0751518409 (0-7515-1840-9)
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Let the Eagle Soar!: The Foreign Policy of Andrew Jacksonby John M. BelohlavekISBN 0803211872 (0-8032-1187-2)
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Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of Americaby William C. DavisISBN 0743234995 (0-7432-3499-5)
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Lucius D. Clay: An American Lifeby Jean Edward SmithISBN 0805017879 (0-8050-1787-9)
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Madame Mao: The White-Boned Demonby Ross TerrillISBN 0804729220 (0-8047-2922-0)
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Map Of Loveby Ahdaf SoueifISBN 0747545634 (0-7475-4563-4)
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Rooseveltby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0743217381 (0-7432-1738-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt'Book summary: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 also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with a new introduction by the author, Mornings on Horseback is reprinted as a Simon & Schuster Classic Edition.
Mornings on Horseback is about the world of the young Theodore Roosevelt. It is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household (and rarefied social world) in which he was raised.
His father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, "Greatheart," 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, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, Teddy Roosevelt's first love. And while such disparate figures as Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, and Senator Roscoe Conkling play a part, it is this diverse and intensely human assemblage of Roosevelts, all brought to vivid life, which gives the book its remarkable power.
The book spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886 when, as a hardened "real life cowboy," he returns from the West to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit. The story does for Teddy Roosevelt what Sunrise at Campobello did for FDR -- reveals the inner man through his battle against dreadful odds.
Like David McCullough's The Great Bridge, also set in New York, this is at once an enthralling story, with all the elements of a great novel, and a penetrating character study. It is brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship, which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. For the first time, for example, Roosevelt's asthma is examined closely, drawing on information gleaned from private Roosevelt family papers and in light of present-day knowledge of the disease and its psychosomatic aspects.
At heart it is a book about life intensely lived...about family love and family loyalty...about courtship and childbirth and death, fathers and sons...about winter on the Nile in the grand manner and Harvard College...about gutter politics in washrooms 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. "Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough," Roosevelt once wrote. It is the key to his life and to much that is so memorable in this magnificent book. [via]
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The Murder Of Charles The Goodby Galbert, James Bruce Ross, Marshal, Medieval Academy of AmericaISBN 0802064795 (0-8020-6479-5)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898by Walter LafeberISBN 0801485959 (0-8014-8595-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0742542467 (0-7425-4246-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922by David FromkinISBN 0805008578 (0-8050-0857-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922'Book summary:Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Attaturk, Emir Feisal and Lloyd George the book describes the showdown with the Ottoman Empire which erupted into the devastating Eastern campaign of World War I and led to the formation - by bureaucracy and subterfuge by Americans and Europeans - of the states known collectively as the Middle East. The years 1914-1922 were the creative, formative years when everything seemed possible, but the events of 1922, the pivotal year, set the course for a future of endless wars and acts of terrorism that became the legacy of this period. Issues such as The Allenby Declaration establishing nominal independence for Egypt, the Palestine Mandate and the Churchill White Paper (from which Israel and Jordan sprang), the installing of Hashemite leaders of predominantly Shi'ite teritories, new leaders for Egypt and Iraq, the Russian declaration of a Soviet Union intent on re-establishing her rule over Moslem Central Asia - David Fromkin shows how all these changed the Middle East (and Europe) forever. [via]
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Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle Eastby David FromkinISBN 0805068848 (0-8050-6884-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East'Book summary:The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval today[via]
In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down, in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will continue to live with its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War.
In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all-even an alliance between Arab nationalism and Zionism-seemed possible he raises questions about what might have been done differently, and answers questions about why things were done as they were. The current battle for a Palestinian homeland has its roots in these events of 85 years ago.More editions of Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East:
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Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End Warby Margaret Olwen MacmillanISBN 0719559391 (0-7195-5939-1)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War'Book summary:After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau - but thousands of others came too, each with a different agenda. Kings, prime ministers and foreign ministers with their crowds of advisers rubbed shoulders with journalists and lobbyists for a hundred causes, from Armenian independence to women's rights. Everyone had business that year - T.E. Lawrence, Queen Marie of Romania, Maynard Keynes, Ho Chi Minh. There had never been anything like it before, and there never has been since.;For six extraordinary months the city was effectively the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China and dismissed the Arabs, struggled with the problems of Kosovo, or the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, it has been said, failed dismally, and above all failed to prevent another war.Margaret MacMillan argues that they have been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. They tried to be evenhanded, but their goals could never in fact be achieved by diplomacy. [via]
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The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empireby Nancy F. KoehnISBN 0801426995 (0-8014-2699-5)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neilby Ron SuskindISBN 0743255461 (0-7432-5546-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill'Book summary:The George W. Bush White House, as described by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, is a world out of kilter. Policy decisions are determined not by careful weighing of an issue's complexities; rather, they're dictated by a cabal of ideologues and political advisors operating outside the view of top cabinet officials. The President is not a fully engaged administrator but an enigma who is, at best, guarded and poker-faced but at worst, uncurious, unintelligent, and a puppet of larger forces. O'Neill provided extensive documentation to journalist and author Suskind, including schedules with 7,630 entries and a set of 19,000 documents that featured memoranda to the President, thank-you notes, meeting minutes, and voluminous reports. The result, The Price of Loyalty, is a gripping look inside the meeting rooms, the in-boxes, and the minds of a famously guarded administration. Much of the book, as one might expect from the story of a Treasury Secretary, revolves around economics, but even those not normally enthused by tax code intricacies will be fascinated by the rapid-fire intellects of O'Neill and Fed chairman Alan Greenspan as they gather for regular power breakfasts. A good deal of the book is about the things that O'Neill never figures out. He knows there's something creepy going on with the administration's power structure, but he's never inside enough to know quite what it is. But while those sections are intriguing, other passages are simply revelatory: O'Neill asserts that Saddam Hussein was targeted for removal not in the 9/11 aftermath but soon after Bush took office. Paul O'Neill makes for an interesting protagonist. A vaunted economist from the days of Nixon and Ford, he returns to a Washington that's immeasurably more cutthroat. And while he appears almost naïvely academic initially, he emerges as someone determined to speak his mind even when it becomes apparent that such an approach spells his political doom. --John Moe [via]
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The Princessa: Machiavelli for Womenby Harriet RubinISBN 0747535167 (0-7475-3516-7)
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Profiles in Courage for Our Timeby Caroline KennedyISBN 0786886781 (0-7868-8678-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage for Our Time'Book summary:Nearly half a century after then -- Senator John F. Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage, the Kennedy family continues to keep alive the tradition of honoring selfless public service with its Profiles in Courage Award. Now in paperback, Profiles in Courage for Our Time pays tribute to 13 such heroes in the same spirit as the original collection. Some of our greatest writers have brought their formidable talents to this celebration of modern political bravery including Michael Beschloss, Anna Quindlen, Bob Woodward, and Marian Wright Edelman. Also included is Caroline Kennedy's profile of the latest award recipient, Kofi Annan. These are just a few of the luminaries who eloquently and passionately record the experiences of the award winners. This celebration of modern political bravery demonstrates that heroism among today's elected officials is as possible and inspiring as ever.
"The Profiles in Courage Award seeks to honor those whose lives of service prove that politics can be a noble profession. We hope that Americans realize that there are men and women serving at all levels of our government who are legends of our time." --Caroline Kennedy [via]
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Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Agesby Pauline StaffordISBN 0718501748 (0-7185-0174-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Questionby Henri Alleg, Jean Paul Sartre, John CalderISBN 0803259603 (0-8032-5960-3)
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Religion and Politics in the United Statesby Kenneth D. WaldISBN 0742518418 (0-7425-1841-8)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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Sam Rayburn: A Biographyby Alfred SteinbergISBN 0801552109 (0-8015-5210-9)
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Six Wives of Henry the VIIIby Antonia FraserISBN 074517700X (0-7451-7700-X)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Six Wives of Henry VIIIby Alison WeirISBN 0802136834 (0-8021-3683-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Wives of Henry VIII'Book summary:The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports to bring these women to life. Catherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured and innocent woman naively unaware of the court intrigues that determined her fate; Catherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Catherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time.[via]More editions of Six Wives of Henry VIII:
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45by Barbara TuchmanISBN 0802138527 (0-8021-3852-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Story of American Freedomby Eric FonerISBN 0756758041 (0-7567-5804-1)
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This Hallowed Groundby Bruce CattonISBN 078581552X (0-7858-1552-X)
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Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Developmentby Stephanie Sabine PincetlISBN 0801873126 (0-8018-7312-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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W: Revenge of the Bush Dynastyby Elizabeth MitchellISBN 0786866306 (0-7868-6630-6)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generalsby David HalberstamISBN 0743223233 (0-7432-2323-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals'Book summary:A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of 17 books, David Halberstam has a gift for bringing current events alive and putting them into historical perspective in an engaging way. In many respects, War in a Time of Peace serves as a sequel to his classic The Best and the Brightest in its examination of how the lessons of Vietnam have influenced American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Beginning with the Persian Gulf War, Halberstam discusses the political shift in emphasis from foreign to domestic issues that ushered in the first Clinton administration. Despite the fact that Clinton, along with much of the country, preferred to focus on the home front, the U.S. nonetheless found itself drawn into conflicts in Haiti, Somalia, and the Balkans--events that reflected American discomfort with the use of its military forces abroad while at the same time acknowledging that much of the world is dependent upon the U.S. for both guidance and support. The book also highlights the many nonpolitical factors that have influenced these political changes, including a generational shift in national leadership, the modern media's emphasis on entertainment over foreign news, a leap in military technology, and American economic prosperity that has rendered foreign policy largely irrelevant to many citizens.
Halberstam is a master at presenting well-rounded portraits and telling anecdotes of the personalities that have created U.S. policy, casting new light on well-known figures such as Clinton, Colin Powell, and George H.W. Bush, as well as supporting players such as Anthony Lake, Richard Holbrooke, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark, Al Gore, and many other influential American leaders of the past decade. Having covered many aspects of American history and foreign policy since the early 1960s, Halberstam is uniquely qualified to report on an era in which the U.S., and the world, has changed so dramatically. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Richby Kevin PhillipsISBN 0767905342 (0-7679-0534-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Wealth and Democracy : How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracyby Kevin PhillipsISBN 0767905334 (0-7679-0533-4)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wealth and Democracy : How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy'Book summary:Most American conservatives take it as an article of faith that the less governmental involvement in affairs of the market and pocketbook the better. The rich do not, whatever they might say--for much of their wealth comes from the "power and preferment of government." So writes Kevin Phillips, the accomplished historian and one-time Washington insider, in this extraordinary survey of plutocracy, excess, and reform. "Laissez-faire is a pretense," he argues; as the wealth of the rich has grown, so has its control over government, making politics a hostage of money. Examining cycles of economic growth and decline from the founding days of the republic to the recent collapse of technology stocks, Phillips dispels notions of trickle-down wealth creation, pricks holes in speculative bubbles, and decries the ever-increasing "financialization" of the economy--all of which, he argues, have served to reduce the well-being of ordinary Americans and government alike. Highly readable for all its charts and graphs, Phillips's book offers a refreshing--and, of course, controversial--blend of economic history and social criticism. His conclusions won't please all readers, but just about everyone who comes to his pages will feel hackles rising. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Who Runs This Place: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Centuryby Anthony SampsonISBN 0719565650 (0-7195-6565-0)
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Wild Swansby Jung ChangISBN 0743254392 (0-7432-5439-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Swans'Book summary:In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents. [via]
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of Chinaby Jung ChangISBN 0743246985 (0-7432-4698-5)
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