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American Diplomacy: A Historyby Robert H. FerrellISBN 0393093093 (0-393-09309-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The American Presidentsby David C. WhitneyISBN 0385185251 (0-385-18525-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophyby George F. KennanISBN 0393034119 (0-393-03411-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy'Book summary:"I have attempted to take the high ground, " writes George Kennan in the foreword to this work, "trying to stick to the broader discussion of things that would still be expected to be visible and significant in future decades." Against the background of a century of wars, revolution and uneasy peace, Kennan advances his thoughts on a broad front: how the individual's quest for power often translates into governments marked by an atmosphere of inflamed ambitions, rivalries, sensitivities, anxieties and suspicions; how a nation's size can create barriers between the rulers and the ruled. Rich in historical example, the volume is a summing up of the author's accumulated experience. A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, George F. Kennan is the author of 18 books on Russia and the Soviet Union, the nuclear issues and diplomatic history. [via]
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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds Criticismby Benjamin Franklin, Paul M. Zall, J. A. Leo LemayISBN 0393017370 (0-393-01737-0)
Hardcover, Norton
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Britain Against Itself: The Political Contradictions of Collectivismby Samuel Hutchison BeerISBN 0393015645 (0-393-01564-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalistby Roger LowensteinISBN 0385484917 (0-385-48491-7)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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But Was It Just?: Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf Warby Jean Bethke Elshtain, Stanley HauerwasISBN 0385422814 (0-385-42281-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxesby Cass R. Sunstein, Stephen HolmesISBN 0393046702 (0-393-04670-2)
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787by Gordon S. WoodISBN 0393006441 (0-393-00644-1)
Hardcover, Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787'Book summary:Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of American history at Brown University--had no idea what he was getting into when he began this 653-page book. Innocently, he wanted to write a "monographic analysis of constitution-making in the Revolutionary era." Little did he know he would discover an intellectual world where a complete transformation of political thought was occurring, one that would create "a distinctly American system of politics." As Wood explains, "Beneath the variety and idiosyncrasies of American opinion there emerged a general pattern of beliefs about the social process--a set of common assumptions about history, society, and politics that connected and made significant seemingly discrete and unrelated ideas. Really for the first time I began to glimpse what late eighteenth-century Americans meant when they talked about living in an enlightened age." This original study of the American political system is a strong contribution to the scholarly studies of the events surrounding the nation's independence. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Gibian, Jessie Senior CoulsonISBN 0393092925 (0-393-09292-5)
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Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politicsby Walter Dean BurnhamISBN 0393099628 (0-393-09962-8)
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Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Orderby Mark Crispin MillerISBN 0393059170 (0-393-05917-0)
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A Diplomatic History of the American Peopleby Thomas Andrew BaileyISBN 039005027X (0-390-05027-X)
Hardcover, Appleton-Century-Crofts
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The Dragons Of Expectation: Reality And Delusion In The Course Of Historyby Robert ConquestISBN 0393059332 (0-393-05933-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Ethics of Libertyby Murray N. RothbardISBN 0391023713 (0-391-02371-3)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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The Fall of Public Manby Richard SennettISBN 0393308790 (0-393-30879-0)
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Frederick Douglassby William S. McFeelyISBN 0393028232 (0-393-02823-2)
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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated With a New Chapterby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0385413726 (0-385-41372-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated With a New Chapter'Book summary:Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called "a sparkling intellectual guidebook... an engrossing journey not to be missed." Now with a new chapter that brings the ever-changing history of the conflict in the Middle East up to date, this seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." -- Seymour Hersh. "From Beirut To Jerusalem is the most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read." -- New York Times Book Review. [via]
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The Future of Warfareby Bevin AlexanderISBN 0393037800 (0-393-03780-0)
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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terrorby Mahmood MamdaniISBN 0385515375 (0-385-51537-5)
Softcover, Three Leaves Pub
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Gorbachevby Medvedev, Zhores, A.ISBN 0393304086 (0-393-30408-6)
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Grant: A Biographyby William S. McFeelyISBN 0393300463 (0-393-30046-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography." Justin Kaplan, The New Republic Illustrations [via]More editions of Grant: A Biography:
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Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393061310 (0-393-06131-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Robert KimbroughISBN 0393043479 (0-393-04347-9)
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Identity And Violence: The Illusion of Destinyby Amartya SenISBN 0393060071 (0-393-06007-1)
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The world may be more riven by murderous violence than ever before; yet Amartya Sen, the galvanizing Nobel Laureate, proposes in this sweeping philosophical work that the brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Conflict and violence are sustained by the illusion of a unique identity, overlooking the need for reason and choice in deciding on bonds of class, gender, profession, scientific interests, moral beliefs, and even our shared identity as human beings. Challenging the reductionist view that people of the world can be partitioned into little boxes in terms of civilizational categories, Sen draws on history, economics, science, literature, and his own memories of difficult as well as easy times on three continents to present an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward violence and war.
About the series: Issues of Our Time: "Aware of the competition for the attention of readers, W. W. Norton & Company and I have created the "Issues of Our Time" as a lucid series of highly readable books through which some of today's most thoughtful intellectuals seek to challenge the general reader to reexamine received truths and grapple with powerful trends that are shaping the world in which we live. The series launches with Anthony Appiah, Alan Dershowitz, and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen as the first of an illustrious group who will tackle some of the most plangent and central issues defining our society today through books that deal with such issues as sexual and racial identities, the economics of the developing world, and the concept of citizenship in a truly globalized twenty-first-century world culture. Above all else, these books are designed to be read and enjoyed."Henry Louis Gates Jr., W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University [via]More editions of Identity And Violence: The Illusion of Destiny:
The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators: American Society at the End of the 20th Centuryby William J. BennettISBN 0385499124 (0-385-49912-4)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central Americaby Walter LafeberISBN 0393302121 (0-393-30212-1)
Softcover, W.W. Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America'Book summary:Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are five small countries, and yet no other part of the world is more important to the US. This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of Central American dependency. This second edition is updated to include new material covering the Reagan and Bush years, and the Iran/Contra affair. [via]
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It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United Statesby Seymour M. Lipset, Gary Wolfe MarksISBN 0393040984 (0-393-04098-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Italy Republic Without Government?by P. A. AllumISBN 0393093026 (0-393-09302-6)
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Karl Marx : Interviews and Recollectionsby David McLellanISBN 0389201146 (0-389-20114-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Khrushchev: The Years in Powerby Ro-I Aleksandrovich MedvedevISBN 0393008797 (0-393-00879-7)
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Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone, 1932-40by William ManchesterISBN 0385313314 (0-385-31331-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Long Shot:George McGovern Runs for President: George McGovern Runs for Presidentby Gordon Lee WeilISBN 0393054985 (0-393-05498-5)
Hardcover, Norton
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Losing America: Confronting A Reckless And Arrogant Presidencyby Robert C. ByrdISBN 0393059421 (0-393-05942-1)
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Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power and Proofby Alan D. TaylorISBN 0387943919 (0-387-94391-9)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalismby Walter LafeberISBN 0393047474 (0-393-04747-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism'Book summary:Not everyone embraces the "American Way." But as historian Walter LaFeber demonstrates in this highly original look at the effects of global capitalism, not everyone has a choice. Using powerful communications satellites in the 1980s and, later, unbridled capital, transnational corporations such as McDonald's and Nike and their media-mogul counterparts have infiltrated cultures from Paris to Beijing, understanding perfectly that what the world sees the world buys (in this case, Big Macs and anything plastered with a Nike swoosh). Of course, it helps when hoops legend Michael Jordan--the world's most idolized athlete--is pitching your products. His influence is pervasive: "McDonald's, blaring Michael Jordan's endorsement, operated in 103 nations and fed one percent of the world's population each day. 'Within the East Asian urban environment,' one historian of the firm notes, 'McDonald's fills a niche once occupied by the teahouse, the neighborhood shop, the street-side stall, and the park bench.'"
LaFeber transitions smoothly from Michael Jordan biography to socioeconomic commentary, first exploring Jordan as the great American hero, then turning a critical eye on Nike and its shoddy overseas labor practices. Jordan can certainly sell shoes, but at what cost? In the final chapter heading, LaFeber asks whether Michael Jordan is the "Greatest Endorser of the Twentieth Century" or "An Insidious Form of Imperialism." He presents evidence of both, but ultimately The New Global Capitalism becomes less about Jordan's marketing prowess than America's influence over the world's consumer habits, and, subsequently, the havoc that power can wreak. LaFeber's short (164 pages), lucid study gives readers a fresh perspective on the battle between capital and culture. Recommended. --Rob McDonald [via]
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Micromotives and Macrobehaviorby Thomas C. SchellingISBN 0393090094 (0-393-09009-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Micromotives and Macrobehavior'Book summary:Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
"Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals."official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize
Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And the subject of these storieshow small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large groupis more important than ever. In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but-not-malicious preference to have neighbors of the same race eventually leads to completely segregated populations.
The updated edition of this landmark book contains a new preface and the author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. [via]More editions of Micromotives and Macrobehavior:
Militant Islam Reaches Americaby Daniel PipesISBN 0393052044 (0-393-05204-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Nation of Sheepby William J. LedererISBN 0393052885 (0-393-05288-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Womenby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0385475772 (0-385-47577-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madisonby James Madison, United States Constitutional Convention (1787)ISBN 0393304051 (0-393-30405-1)
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Notes on the State of Virginiaby Thomas JeffersonISBN 0393006476 (0-393-00647-6)
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Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policyby KissingerISBN 0393004945 (0-393-00494-5)
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On Socialist Democracyby Ro-I Aleksandrovich MedvedevISBN 0393008509 (0-393-00850-9)
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On the Origins of Warby Donald KaganISBN 0385423748 (0-385-42374-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peaceby Donald KaganISBN 0385423756 (0-385-42375-6)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964by Timothy J. Naftali, Aleksandr FursenkoISBN 0393040704 (0-393-04070-4)
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Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali have taken advantage of recent unrestricted access to Soviet records and performed painstaking detective work to fill the gaps in the historical record. Some of the tension of the narrative is lost, because we know the outcome; even so, they give penetrating insights as they reconstruct the drama step by step. We learn that the Kremlin did seriously consider launching a nuclear attack on the U.S.: the appropriate orders were discussed and Khrushchev spent the night of October 22 in his office so he could be on hand to cable his authorization. Some of the most interesting facts to emerge, however, are those concerning John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. JFK had always previously been portrayed as something of a parochial gung-ho type, but this, it emerges, was merely a public persona designed to appease the Pentagon hawks. At the same time JFK was talking about a Cuban invasion, he and his brother were engaging in a more secret policy of appeasement through the Soviet ambassador. Fortunately for all of us, diplomacy won the day. In recent years, JFK has been somewhat discredited as a leader for his unpleasant sexual carryings-on and corruption. It may just be that this view is as incomplete as his portrayal as the saintly "King of Camelot". If so, One Hell of a Gamble could be the first stage in his partial rehabilitation. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracyby Thomas FrankISBN 0385495048 (0-385-49504-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'Book summary:After nearly a decade of bull markets, Americans have come to equate free markets with democracy. Never one for mincing words, social critic Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler and author of The Conquest of Cool, challenges this myth. With his acerbic wit and contempt for sophistry, he declares the New Economy a fraud. Frank scours business literature, management theory, and marketing and advertising to expose the elaborate fantasies that have inoculated business against opposition. This public relations campaign joins an almost mystical belief in markets, a contempt for government in any form, and an "ecstatic" confusion of markets with democracy. Frank traces the roots of this movement from the 1920s, and sees its culmination in market populism as a fusion of the rebellious '60s with the greedy '80s. The overarching irony is the swapping of roles--suddenly Wall Street is no longer full of stodgy moneygrubbers, but cool entrepreneurs "leaping on their trampolines, typing out a few last lines on the laptop before paragliding, riding their bicycles to work, listening to Steppenwolf while they traded." Meanwhile, "Americans traded their long tradition of electoral democracy for the democracy of the supermarket, where all brands are created equal and endowed by their creators with all sorts of extremeness and diversity." Frank's close reading of the salesmen of market populism nails such financial gurus as George Gilder, Joseph Nocera, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas Friedman. Their writings, he contends, have served to make "the world safe for billionaires" by winning the cultural and political battle--legitimizing the corporate culture and its demands for privatization, deregulation, and non-interference. Frank's incisive prose verges on brilliant at times, though his yen for repetition can be exasperating. In either case, his boisterous reminder that markets are fundamentally not democracies is worth repeating as the level of wealth polarization in America reaches heights not seen since the 1920s. --Lesley Reed [via]
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The Pathology of Powerby Norman CousinsISBN 0393305414 (0-393-30541-4)
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Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectationsby Paul KrugmanISBN 0393036022 (0-393-03602-2)
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Peron and the Enigmas of Argentinaby Robert CrasswellerISBN 0393305430 (0-393-30543-0)
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Personality and Politics: Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualizationby Fred I. GreensteinISBN 0393007677 (0-393-00767-7)
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Political Science: The State of the Disciplineby Ira Katznelson, American Political Science Association, Helen V. MilnerISBN 0393051420 (0-393-05142-0)
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Departmentby Dean AchesonISBN 0393304124 (0-393-30412-4)
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"The period covered in this book was one of great obscurity to those who lived through it," Acheson wrote at the beginning of his memoirs, first published in 1969. "The period was marked by the disappearance of world powers and empires ... and from this wreckage emerged a multiplicity of states, most of them new, all of them largely underdeveloped politically and economically. Overshadowing all loomed two dangers to all--the Soviet Union's new-found power and expansive imperialism, and the development of nuclear weapons." Present at the Creation is a densely detailed account of Acheson's diplomatic career, delineated in intricately eloquent prose. Going over the origins of the cold war--the drawing of lines among the superpowers in Europe, the conflict in Korea--Acheson discusses how he and his colleagues came to realize "that the whole world structure and order that we had inherited from the nineteenth century was gone," and that the old methods of foreign policy would no longer apply. Among the accolades Acheson garnered for his candid self-assessment was the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for history. [via]
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A Primer for Policy Analysisby Richard Zeckhauser, Edith StokeyISBN 0393056880 (0-393-05688-0)
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Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuriesby Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0393003280 (0-393-00328-0)
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Little attention has been paid to modern movements of social protest which fall outside the classic patterns of labor or socialist agitation, and even less to those whose political coloring is not modernist or progressive but conservative, or reactionary or, at any rate, rather inarticulate. [via]More editions of Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries:
Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition An Oral Historyby Griffin FarielloISBN 0393037320 (0-393-03732-0)
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Redesigning the American Dreamby Dolores HaydenISBN 0393303179 (0-393-30317-9)
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Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Lifeby Dolores HaydenISBN 0393017796 (0-393-01779-6)
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Representative Mom: Balancing Budgets, Bill, and Baby in the U.S. Congressby Elinor Burkett, Susan MolinariISBN 0385492200 (0-385-49220-0)
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The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracyby Christopher LaschISBN 0393036995 (0-393-03699-5)
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The Schools We Need and Whyby Hirsch, E. D., Jr.ISBN 0385484577 (0-385-48457-7)
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The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Themby E.D. HirschISBN 0385495242 (0-385-49524-2)
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Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Futureby Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Vali NasrISBN 0393062112 (0-393-06211-2)
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Sleepwalking Through Historyby Haynes B. JohnsonISBN 0385422598 (0-385-42259-8)
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Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Yearsby Haynes JohnsonISBN 0393029379 (0-393-02937-9)
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Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920by George Frost KennanISBN 0393302148 (0-393-30214-8)
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The Strange Tactics of Extremismby Harry Allen OverstreetISBN 0393052680 (0-393-05268-0)
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Supreme Court Watch-1994: Highlights of the 1993-1994 Term Preview of the 1994-1995 Termby David M. O'BrienISBN 0393036812 (0-393-03681-2)
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Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Lifeby Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. NalebuffISBN 0393029239 (0-393-02923-9)
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisisby Robert F. KennedyISBN 0393098966 (0-393-09896-6)
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Thomas Hobbes: Radical in the Service of Reactionby Arnold RogowISBN 0393022889 (0-393-02288-9)
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Three Who Made a Revolutionby Bertram D. WolfeISBN 0385290489 (0-385-29048-9)
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Trial of Socratesby I.F. StoneISBN 0385260326 (0-385-26032-6)
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Truman-Macarthur Controversy and the Korean Warby John W. SpanierISBN 0393002799 (0-393-00279-9)
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Uncivil Libertiesby Calvin TrillinISBN 0385187645 (0-385-18764-5)
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War And The American Presidencyby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0393060020 (0-393-06002-0)
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Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialismby Michael W. DoyleISBN 0393038262 (0-393-03826-2)
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying The West From Withinby Bruce BawerISBN 0385514727 (0-385-51472-7)
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Why Not Me?by Al FrankenISBN 0385334540 (0-385-33454-0)
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Why Not Me? : The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidencyby Al FrankenISBN 038531809X (0-385-31809-X)
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The Wisdom Of Crowdsby James Surowiecki, Surowiecki, James (AFT)ISBN 0385721706 (0-385-72170-6)
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With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world. [via]More editions of The Wisdom Of Crowds:
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nationsby James SurowieckiISBN 0385503865 (0-385-50386-5)
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H. L. Mencken was wrong.
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliantbetter at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
This seemingly counterintuitive notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized and how we live our daily lives. With seemingly boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world.
Despite the sophistication of his arguments, Surowiecki presents them in a wonderfully entertaining manner. The examples he uses are all down-to-earth, surprising, and fun to ponder. Why is the line in which youre standing always the longest? Why is it that you can buy a screw anywhere in the world and it will fit a bolt bought ten-thousand miles away? Why is network television so awful? If you had to meet someone in Paris on a specific day but had no way of contacting them, when and where would you meet? Why are there traffic jams? Whats the best way to win money on a game show? Why, when you walk into a convenience store at 2:00 A.M. to buy a quart of orange juice, is it there waiting for you? What do Hollywood mafia movies have to teach us about why corporations exist?
The Wisdom of Crowds is a brilliant but accessible biography of an idea, one with important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, conduct our business, and think about our world. [via]More editions of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations:
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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instabilityby Amy ChuaISBN 0385721862 (0-385-72186-2)
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Apostles of globalization, such as Thomas Friedman, believe that exporting free markets and democracy to other countries will increase peace and prosperity throughout the developing world; Amy Chua is the anti-Thomas Friedman. Her book wil be a dash of cold water in the face of globalists, techno-utopians, and liberal triumphalists as she shows that just the opposite has happened: When global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and politics turns ugly and violent.
Drawing on examples from around the world--from Africa and Asia to Russia and Latin America--Chua examines how free markets do not spread wealth evenly throughout the whole of these societies. Instead they produce a new class of extremely wealthy plutocrats--individuals as rich as nations. Almost always members of a minority group--Chinese in the Philippines, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America, Indians in East Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia--these "market-dominant minorities" have become targets of violent hatred. Adding democracy to this volatile mix unleashes supressed ethnic hatreds and brings to power ethnonationalist governments that pursue aggressive policies of confiscation and revenge. Chua further shows how individual countries are often viewed as dominant minorities, explaining the phenomena of ethnic resentment in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the rising tide of anti-American sentiment around the world. This more than anything accounts for the visceral hatred of Americans that has been expressed in recent acts of terrorism.
Bold and original, WORLD ON FIRE is a perceptive examination of the far-reaching effects of exporting capitalism with democracy and its potentially catastrophic results. [via]More editions of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability:
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