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The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.by Richard HofstadterISBN 0394700953 (0-394-70095-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Centuryby Frances FitzGeraldISBN 039474439X (0-394-74439-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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America in Our Time : From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Whyby Godfrey HodgsonISBN 0394725174 (0-394-72517-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journeyby Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0394711955 (0-394-71195-5)
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The Arabs : Journeys Beyond the Mirageby David LambISBN 0394757580 (0-394-75758-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Assassination on Embassy Rowby Saul Landau, John DingesISBN 0394508025 (0-394-50802-5)
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Authorityby Richard SennettISBN 0394746554 (0-394-74655-4)
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Between Capitalism and Socialism: Essays in Political Economicsby Robert L. HeilbronerISBN 039470861X (0-394-70861-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Blood of Abrahamby Jimmy CarterISBN 0395414989 (0-395-41498-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Ageby Paul BoyerISBN 0394747674 (0-394-74767-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 039472657X (0-394-72657-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital. [via]
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The Challenge of Democracyby Kenneth JandaISBN 0395343534 (0-395-34353-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Cultureby Ruth Benedict, Ezra F. VogelISBN 0395500753 (0-395-50075-3)
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City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United Statesby Ira KatznelsonISBN 039450075X (0-394-50075-X)
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A Civil Actionby Jonathan Harr, Marty AsherISBN 0394563492 (0-394-56349-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Civil Action'Book summary:In America, when somebody does you wrong, you take 'em to court. W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods had been dumping a cancer-causing industrial solvent into the water table of Woburn, Massachusetts, for years; in 1981, the families of eight leukemia victims sued. However, A Civil Action demonstrates powerfully that--even with the families' hotshot lawyers and the evidence on their side--justice is elusive, particularly when it involves malfeasance by megacorporations. Much of the legal infighting can cause the eyes to glaze. But the story is saved by great characters: the flawed, flamboyant Jan Schlichtmann and his group of bulldogs for the prosecution; Jerome Facher, the enigmatic lawyer for Beatrice, who proves to be more than a match; John J. Riley, the duplicitous, porcine tannery owner; and a host of others. It's impossible not to feel the drama of this methodical book, impossible not to grieve for the parents who lost children, and impossible not to share Schlichtmann's desperation as he runs out of money. A Civil Action reads like one long advertisement for a few well-placed Molotov cocktails. (But that wouldn't make for a very long book, now would it?) [via]
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Communist Party of the Soviet Unionby Leonard SchapiroISBN 0394707451 (0-394-70745-1)
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The Constitution : That Delicate Balanceby Fred W. FriendlyISBN 0394540743 (0-394-54074-3)
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0394707214 (0-394-70721-4)
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The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinkingby Theodore RoszakISBN 0394751752 (0-394-75175-2)
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The Cycles of American Historyby Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jenna TerryISBN 039545400X (0-395-45400-X)
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The Cycles of American Historyby Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.ISBN 0395378877 (0-395-37887-7)
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Danger and Survival : The Political History of the Nuclear Weaponby McGeorge BundyISBN 0394522788 (0-394-52278-8)
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Darkness at Noonby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0394600746 (0-394-60074-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness at Noon'Book summary:This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the treason trials. Rubashov, the protagonist and a hero of the revolution, is arrested and jailed for things he has not done, though there is much about the current Soviet state that veered from his ideals as a revolutionary. His investigators, Ivanov and Gletkin, seek a public confession and interrogate him using a number of methods. Through the ordeal, Rubashov reaches an epiphany or two while his interrogators suffer the cruel fate of the Soviet machine. Darkness at Noon succeeds as political/historical novel, but even more so as a refreshing tale of the human spirit. [via]
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Declaration of Independence a Study in the Historyby Carl BeckerISBN 0394700600 (0-394-70060-0)
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Distant Neighbors: Portrait of the Mexicansby Alan RidingISBN 0394740157 (0-394-74015-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Education of Henry Adamsby Henry AdamsISBN 0395166209 (0-395-16620-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Education of Henry Adams'Book summary:Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry, born in Boston in 1838, was destined for a walk-on role in his nation's history--and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact from the time he was an adolescent.
It gets worse. For the author could neither match his exalted ancestors nor dismiss them as dusty relics--he was an Adams, after all, formed from the same 18th-century clay. "The atmosphere of education in which he lived was colonial," we are told,
revolutionary, almost Cromwellian, as though he were steeped, from his greatest grandmother's birth, in the odor of political crime. Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged.
Here, as always, Adams tells his story in a third-person voice that can seem almost extraplanetary in its detachment. Yet there's also an undercurrent of melancholy and amusement--and wonder at the specific details of what was already a lost world.Continuing his uphill conquest of the learning curve, Adams attended Harvard, which didn't do much for him. ("The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.") Then, after a beer-and-sausage-scented spell as a graduate student in Berlin, he followed his father to Washington, D.C., in 1860. There he might have remained--bogged down in "the same rude colony ... camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads"--had not the Civil War sent Adams père et fils to London. Henry sat on the sidelines throughout the conflict, serving as his father's private secretary and anxiously negotiating the minefields of English society. He then returned home and commenced a long career as a journalist, historian, novelist, and peripheral participant in the political process--a kind of mouthpiece for what remained of the New England conscience.
He was not, by any measure but his own, a failure. And the proof of the pudding is The Education of Henry Adams itself, which remains among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. It contains thousands of memorable one-liners about politics, morality, culture, and transatlantic relations: "The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest." There are astonishing glimpses of the high and mighty: "He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism..." (That would be Abraham Lincoln; the "melancholy function" his Inaugural Ball.) But most of all, Adams's book is a brilliant account of how his own sensibility came to be. A literary landmark from the moment it first appeared, the Autobiography confers upon its author precisely that prize he felt had always eluded him: success. --James Marcus [via]
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The Fall of Public Manby Richard SennettISBN 0394724208 (0-394-72420-8)
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Vby William HintonISBN 0394704657 (0-394-70465-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese V'Book summary:More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff.
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Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indianby Michael Paul RoginISBN 039471881X (0-394-71881-X)
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For Reasons of Stateby Noam Chomsky, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 039471895X (0-394-71895-X)
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A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Timeby Howard M. SacharISBN 0394736796 (0-394-73679-6)
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The Human Polity: An Introduction to Political Scienceby Kay LawsonISBN 039532775X (0-395-32775-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independenceby Garry WillsISBN 0394727355 (0-394-72735-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence'Book summary:From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" (Edmund S. Morgan New York Review of Books ).[via]More editions of Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence:
Japan: The Story of a Nationby Edwin O. ReischauerISBN 0394513622 (0-394-51362-2)
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Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warriorby John FrohnmayerISBN 0395655714 (0-395-65571-4)
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Lenin for Beginnersby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate, Michael AppignanesiISBN 0394737156 (0-394-73715-6)
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Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky-His Life and Legacyby Sanford D. HorwittISBN 0394572432 (0-394-57243-2)
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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Lifeby Sissela BokISBN 0394728041 (0-394-72804-1)
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The Making of the English Working Classby E.P. ThompsonISBN 0394703227 (0-394-70322-7)
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"Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement [via]More editions of The Making of the English Working Class:
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The March of Foll: From Troy to Vietnamby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0394527771 (0-394-52777-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The March of Foll: From Troy to Vietnam'Book summary:In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain's George III, and the United States' persistent folly in Vietnam. The March of Folly brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today's reader. [via]
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Marx's Kapital for Beginnersby David Smith, Phil Evans, Karl MarxISBN 039471265X (0-394-71265-X)
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720954 (0-394-72095-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'Book summary:Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960. This, the third of a projected four-volume series, studies not only the pragmatic, ruthless, ambitious Johnson, who wielded influence with both consummate skill and "raw, elemental brutality," but also the Senate itself, which Caro describes (pre-1957) as a "cruel joke" and an "impregnable stronghold" against social change. The milestone of Johnson's Senate years was the 1957 Civil Rights Act, whose passage he single-handedly engineered. As important as the bill was--both in and of itself and as a precursor to wider-reaching civil rights legislation--it was only close to Johnson's Southern "anti-civil rights" heart as a means to his dream: the presidency. Caro writes that not only does power corrupt, it "reveals," and that's exactly what this massive, scrupulously researched book does. A model of social, psychological, and political insight, it is not just masterful; it is a masterpiece. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Means of Ascentby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394528352 (0-394-52835-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Means of Ascent'Book summary:The second installment in a projected four-volume biography of LBJ that opened with The Path to Power, Means of Ascent shines a harsh light on the early political years of one of America's most paradoxical presidents. The man who would later ram civil rights legislation through a reluctant Congress, and then be brought down by Vietnam, came out of a political swamp--Caro gives a graphic picture of the Texas democratic political machine at its most corrupt. The climax of the book is LBJ's election to the Senate in 1948, an election he won by 87 dubious votes out of almost a million. That vote arguably changed history. This book won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. [via]
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My Country and the Worldby Andrei D. SakharovISBN 0394720679 (0-394-72067-9)
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The New Class War : Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequencesby Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. ClowardISBN 0394706471 (0-394-70647-1)
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The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequencesby Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394523180 (0-394-52318-0)
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The New Industrial Stateby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395124751 (0-395-12475-1)
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No Contest: The Case Against Competitionby Alfie KohnISBN 0395631254 (0-395-63125-4)
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One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dreamby Tom WickerISBN 0394550668 (0-394-55066-8)
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The Ordeal of Twentieth-Century America:Interpretive Readings: Interpretive Readingsby Jordan A. SchwarzISBN 0395145198 (0-395-14519-8)
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Origins of American Politicsby Bernard BailynISBN 0394708652 (0-394-70865-2)
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Frederick B. Tolles, Political Science Quarterly
"He produces historical analysis which is as revealing to the political scientist or sociologist as to the historian, of the significance of social and cultural forces on political changes in eighteenth-century America."
John D. Lees, Cambridge University Press
"...these well-argued essays represent the first sustained and systematic attempt to provide a comprehensive and integrated analysis of all elements of American political life during the late colonial period...the author has once again put all students concerned with colonial America heavily in his intellectual debt."
Jack P. Greene, The New York Historical Society Quarterly
"...Mr. Bailyn brings to his effort a splendid gift for pertinent curiosity. What he has found, and what patterns he has made of his findings, light our way through his longitudes and latitudes of scholarly precision."
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Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peaceby Hans J. Morgenthau, Kenneth W. ThompsonISBN 0394541014 (0-394-54101-4)
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Politics and Government: How People Decide Their Fateby Karl Wolfgang DeutschISBN 0395284864 (0-395-28486-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Failby Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394726979 (0-394-72697-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America
-- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO
-- The Southern Civil Rights Movement
-- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization. [via]More editions of Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail:
Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishmentby Kirkpatrick SaleISBN 0394721306 (0-394-72130-6)
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Private Power and American Democracyby Grant McConnellISBN 0394708458 (0-394-70845-8)
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Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experimentby Raymond CarrISBN 0394724313 (0-394-72431-3)
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The Radical Renewal: The Politics of Ideas in Modern Americaby Norman BirnbaumISBN 0394706595 (0-394-70659-5)
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The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policyby Seymour M. HershISBN 0394570065 (0-394-57006-5)
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The Second Sexby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0394607449 (0-394-60744-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Sex'Book summary:In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. "One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should ...," she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to show women's place in the world and to postulate on the power of sexuality. This is a powerful piece of writing in a time before "feminism" was even a phrase, much less a movement. [via]
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Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelationby Sissela BokISBN 039472142X (0-394-72142-X)
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Shadows and Whispers : Power Politics Inside the Kremlin from Brezhnev to Gorbachevby Dusko DoderISBN 0394549988 (0-394-54998-8)
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Sherman's Marchby Burke DavisISBN 0394757637 (0-394-75763-7)
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"What gives this narrative its unusual richness is the author's collation of hundreds of eyewitness accounts...The actions are described in the words, often picturesque and often eloquent, of those who were there, either as participants -- Union soldiers, Confederate soldiers -- in the fighting and destruction or as victims of Sherman's frank vow to 'make Georgia howl.' Mr. Davis intercuts these scenes with closeups of the chief actors in this nightmarish drama, and he also manages to give us a coherent historical account of the whole episode. A powerful illustration of the proposition put forth in Sherman's most famous remark." -- The New Yorker
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The Soviet Paradox: External Expansion, Internal Declineby Seweryn BialerISBN 0394752880 (0-394-75288-0)
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The Soviet-Type Economies: Performance and Evolutionby Robert Wellington CampbellISBN 0395172314 (0-395-17231-4)
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 0394707192 (0-394-70719-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Days That Shook the World'Book summary:The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. Tired of fighting a war that meant little to them, the soldiers also grew restless: "When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll know we have something to fight for, and we'll fight for it!"
Lenin pressed the Bolsheviks to seize power. On the night of October 24, an organized mass of workers, soldiers, peasants, and sailors stormed the Winter Palace. On the following day, at the opening of the second Congress of Soviets, Trotsky announced the overthrow of the provisional government. Counterrevolutionary forces marched on the capital, but the Revolutionary Army triumphed. After all, "[t]his was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will."
In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel: Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives. Though this is no mere piece of propaganda, Reed's enthusiasm for the revolution infuses the text (some readers may be put off by Reed's florid prose), casting each counterrevolutionary act in a negative light. Helpful notes flesh out the background for those less familiar with the preceding events and render this a solid work of history. Ten Days That Shook the World is a stirring account of a stirring event. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Terrorism and Democracyby Stansfield TurnerISBN 0395430860 (0-395-43086-0)
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The Theory of the Leisure Class: With an Introd. by John Kenneth Galbraithby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0395140080 (0-395-14008-0)
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Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got Thereby Noam ChomskyISBN 0394749448 (0-394-74944-8)
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Unbought and Unbossedby Shirley ChisholmISBN 0395109329 (0-395-10932-9)
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, Brooks Atkinson, Townsend ScudderISBN 0394604210 (0-394-60421-0)
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War and Peace in the Nuclear Ageby John NewhouseISBN 0394562178 (0-394-56217-8)
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War Without Mercyby John DowerISBN 0394751728 (0-394-75172-8)
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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific Warby John DowerISBN 039450030X (0-394-50030-X)
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Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math.by Morris KlineISBN 0394719816 (0-394-71981-6)
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Wild Blue Yonder : Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomberby Nick KotzISBN 039455700X (0-394-55700-X)
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The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Cultureby Christopher LaschISBN 0394710460 (0-394-71046-0)
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The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 039471654X (0-394-71654-X)
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Powerby Robert CaroISBN 0394499735 (0-394-49973-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power'Book summary:The profound understanding of the uses and abuses of power Robert Caro displayed in his 1974 biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, is a scathing achievement the author surpassed with panache in this, his second book. Caro's dogged research and refusal to accept received wisdom results in an eye-opening portrait that unforgettably captures the titanic personality of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973). Though stronger on Johnson's duplicity and naked self-promotion than his intelligence and charm, Caro nails it all. He chronicles the evolution of an attention-demanding youth from the Texas hill country into a seasoned congressman who would abandon his ardent espousal of the New Deal as soon as it ceased to be expedient. The dirty details begin with college elections that earn young Lyndon a reputation as a crook and a liar; Caro goes on to unravel financial shenanigans of impressive ingenuity. Johnson's consuming desire to get ahead and his political genius "unencumbered by philosophy or ideology" are staggering. The White House, Great Society, and Vietnam lie ahead when the main narrative closes in 1941, but the roots of Johnson's future achievements and tragic failures are laid bare. This biography may well stand as the best book written in the second half of the 20th century about personal ambition inextricably linked with historic change. --Wendy Smith [via]
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