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Let Freedom
Ring
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Terrorism and
Counter-terrorism:
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Sean
Hannity is the hottest new phenomenon in TV and talk
radio today. His gutsy, take-no-prisoners interviews
and commentary on the Fox News Channel's Hannity
& Colmes have made him one of cable
television's most popular personalities. And his
ascendance to the top of the talk radio world with
ABC Radio's The Sean Hannity Show has won him
a huge and devoted following that includes not only
conservatives but anyone else who values straight
talk over pandering and excuses.
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Colonel
Russell Howard and Captain Reid Sawyer have
collected and organized new and reprinted articles
and essays by political scientists, government
officials, and members of the nation's armed forces.
The editors and several of the authors write from
practical field experience in the nation's war on
terrorism. Others have had significant
responsibility for planning government policy and
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Slander
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Breakdown
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"Liberals
have been wrong about everything in the last half
century," writes conservative pundit Ann
Coulter, author of the bestselling anti-Clinton tome High
crimes and Misdemeanors.
They've been especially wrong about Republicans, she
writes. The bulk of Slander, in fact, is a
well-documented brief dedicated to the proposition
that most of the media despises anybody whose
political opinions lie an inch to the right of the New
York Times editorial page.
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From
the bestselling author of a scathing indictment of
Clintonian foreign policy, Betrayal, comes an
unbalanced but revealing expose on the mistakes,
misdirections and blunders behind "the most
damaging intelligence failure since Pearl
Harbor.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc
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Bias
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Leadership
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Think
the media are biased? CONSERVATIVES HAVE BEEN crying
foul for years, but now a veteran CBS reporter has
come forward to expose how liberal bias pervades the
mainstream media.
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A
gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to
the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape
from the original crisis command headquarters, and
closes with the efforts to address the aftermath
during his remaining four months in office.
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9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative...
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Originally
broadcast on CBS in March 2002, 9/11 is an
extraordinary record of that fateful day in New York
City. This one-of-a-kind documentary was originally
conceived as a portrait of 21-year-old Tony Benetatos,
a firefighter trainee at Manhattan's Duane Street
firehouse, located seven blocks from the World Trade
Center.
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Women
and the Republican Party, 1854-1924.. |
| Women
and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 presents the
complex interplay of partisan and nonpartisan
activity, the fierce debates among women about
the best way to make their influence felt, and
the ebb and flow of enthusiasm for women's
participation within the Republican party.
Gustafson documents the emergence of third
parties--in particular the Progressive party,
which split off from the Republican party in
1912--that fused the civic world of reform
organizations with the electoral world of voting
and legislation |
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Shakedown:
Exposing the Real Jesse... |
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contrast the leaders of the Democratic Party
continue to play the race card to gain votes.
Until now,
no one has been brave enough to say it and
diligent enough to prove it. But Ken Timmerman
has cracked Jackson's machine, found Jackson
cronies willing to break ranks, and uncovered a
sordid tale of greed, ambition, and corruption
from a self-proclaimed minister who has no qualms
about poisoning American race relations for
personal gain
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In
Our Defense : The Bill of Rights in Action. |
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to an often apathetic American public that the
principles of the Bill of Rights continue to
shape our collective destiny with stories of
people whose lives have been greatly influenced
by one or more of the ten amendments |
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The
Right to Privacy |
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authors present a valuable book, identical in
purpose and format to their previous one, In
Our Defense: The Bill of Rights (1991). In
what amounts to mandatory reading for all
citizens who consider themselves politically
aware, Alderman and Kennedy's manual offers
"an understanding of the legal right to
privacy" by reviewing model cases. |
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Ronald
Reagan : His Life in Pictures |
| Published
to coincide with its subject's ninetieth
birthday, Spada's black-and-white photo biography
of the fortieth president forcibly recalls his
enormous popularity when in office. |
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President
Reagan : The Role of a Lifetime |
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is possibly the single best book available on the
Reagan presidency. Lou Cannon began reporting on
Ronald Reagan as a journalist when Reagan first
ran for governor of California in 1966, and then
covered him again in Washington after his 1980
presidential election. In short, there is
probably no man or woman who has spent more years
writing about the Gipper than Cannon. |
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When
Character Was King : A Story of Ronald Reagan. |
It
is twenty years—a full generation—since
Ronald Reagan first walked into the White House
and ignited a revolution. From the beginning, he
enjoyed the American people's affection but now,
as he approaches the end of his life, he has
received what he deserved even more: their deep
respect.
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Leadership
in the Reagan Presidency: Seven Intimate
Perspectives. |
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first of four or five volumes on the Reagan
presidency to be co- published with The Miller
Center of Public Affairs, U. of Virginia,
presents oral histories by insiders Paul Laxalt,
Tom Griscom, Donald Regan, and Lyn Nofziger, and
by outsiders Fred Barnes, Lou Cannon, and Sander
Vanocur. No index. Annotation copyright Book
News, Inc. Portland, Or. |
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A
Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald
Reagan. |
| The
Ronald Reagan who emerges from Deaver's pages is
far different from the popularly held view,
fueled by the media, of the president as an
amiable but limited man who napped, golfed, and
left the business of running the government to
his lieutenants. Far from it, Deaver insists:
Reagan read widely, kept up with the issues, and
"firmly believed that it was his job to set
the priorities of his administrations and to make
the big decisions." |
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Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero |
| This
loving, even worshipful, tribute to America's
40th president is a visually stunning work of
art. Packed with over 500 photographs, many
previously unreleased from Nancy Reagan's private
collection, memorabilia, magazine covers on which
he appeared, and even his belt buckle collection,
this is a fitting celebration of a man who
touched people around the world. |
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Victory
: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy
That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union. |
| This
latest in the flourishing genre of post-Cold War
triumphalism argues that the various covert
practices of the Reagan administration hastened
the demise of an already decaying Soviet empire.
Schweizer (Friendly Spies, 1993), a media fellow
at the Hoover Institution, spans the globe with
the US foreign policy and national security
establishment, demonstrating that for Reagan and
Co. the best defense was a covert offense. |
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I
Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to
Nancy Reagan. |
| No
matter what else was going on in his life or
where he was—traveling to make movies, at the
White House, or sometimes just across the
room—Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy
Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and
feelings, and to stay in touch. Through these
extraordinary letters and reflections, the
private character and life of an American
president and his first lady are revealed. Nancy
Reagan reflects with love and insight on the
letters |
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George
Washington : A Biography |
The
life of Washington should be required reading for
everyone. The amount of difficulty he faced
throughout his life is unimaginable to modern
man. Washington had a life of privilege which is
the main reason he was placed in a position of
responsibility so early in life. However, in all
of his campaigns he was dealing with shortages,
sicknesses and other difficulties that make our
own seem not so difficult.
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George
Washington : The Forge of Experience 1732-1775... |
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This is a remarkably complete account of
Washington's early life, with a strong emphasis
on his military experiences and domestic life .
Pretty well written, Flexner is a tough but fair
biographer who does not shrink from criticism yet
does not sink to cheap-shot debunking.
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George
Washington and the New Nation, 1783-1793. |
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We see Washington returning to his beloved
acres... Mount Vernon, after the British are
finally leaving the American shores. Washington
is exhausted and wants to retire and live out his
life in the resplendency of his home and family.
We begin to see Washington open up so to speak,
relaxing in his quiet country life. But again the
matters of the New Nation are begining to pull
and strain the rather reluctant Washington to a
leadership roll.
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Give
Me Liberty : The Uncompromising Statesmanship of
Patrick Henry ... |
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compelling words from a speech delivered by
Patrick Henry in 1775 at the second Virginia
Convention embody the spirit of American courage
and patriotism. The speeches of the 'orator of
liberty' fueled the fire of the struggle for
American Independence. This insightful look at
one of our country's most colorful and verbal
forefathers will deepen every readers'
appreciation for the leaders in our past and
strengthen their understandimg that, even today,
freedom isn't free. |
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A
Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American
Republic. |
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As a lawyer and a member of the Virginia House
of Burgess, Henry spoke eloquently of the
inalienable rights all men are born with. His
philosophy inspired the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution, and, most
significantly, the Bill of Rights. Famous for the
line "Give me liberty or give me
death!" Patrick Henry was a man who stirred
souls and whose dedication to individual liberty
became the voice for thousands. A Son of Thunder
is as eloquent, witty, charged, and charismatic
as its subject.
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Goodbye,
Good Men : How Liberals Brought Corruption into
the Catholic Church... |
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Michael Rose's Regnery hardcover version of
his softcover bestseller is both disturbing as
well as encouraging. While some readers may
disagree with Rose's research methodology, his
lack of balance, and some of the conclusions he
reaches, they cannot argue with the book's
overall thesis - that a great many potentially
good priests have been turned away from U.S.
seminaries over the past two decades. |
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The
World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom... |
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World's Religions is no pollyannaish romp:
"It is about religion alive," Huston
writes. "It calls the soul to the highest
adventure it can undertake, a proposed journey
across the jungles, peaks, and deserts of the
human spirit. The call is to confront
reality." And by translating the voices of
Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism,
Christianity, and Judaism, among others, Smith
has amplified the divine call for generations of
readers. |
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Why
Religion Matters: The Fate of the... |
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subject of Why Religion Matters, Smith
writes, "is the importance of the religious
dimension of human life--in individuals, in
societies, and in civilizations." |
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The
Ten Commandments and Human Rights |
| First
of all, Harrelson "translates" the
first commandment for the pluralistic masses,
saying that for it to do work in our world it
ought to read something like "You shall have
only one ultimate master." This seems
utterly misguided. The commandment comes in the
context of a God rescuing a people from an
oppressor. That God is not talking to the folks
back in Egypt. I'm sure that there were plenty of
single-minded folks back in Egypt.
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The
Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945-1993... |
| In
this compact treatise on the one diplomatic
concept (besides containment) that the average
citizen has heard of, the highly regarded Smith
pronounces dead the Monroe dictum and all its
corollaries, a demise he doesn't lament (Smith
dislikes interventions invoked under the
doctrine), but that still must be autopsied. To
his mind, the Cuban missile crisis and Kennedy's
acquiescence in a Soviet base were not a
refutation of the doctrine, as critics have
charged, but an inevitable consequence of the
nuclear age. But the real actuator of decline, in
Smith's view, was not the bomb, but, in a sense,
the venerable George Kennan. |
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April
1865: The Month That Saved America |
| This
is one of those rare, shining books that takes a
new look at an old subject and changes the way we
think about it. Winik shows that there was
nothing inevitable about the end of the Civil
War, from the fall of Richmond to the surrender
at Appomattox to the murder of Lincoln. It all
happened so quickly, in what "proved to be
perhaps the most moving and decisive month not
simply of the Civil War, but indeed, quite
likely, in the life of the United States." |
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They
Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold
History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early
America. |
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I purchased this book, with great reluctance,
as I thought it might be "racist" in
nature. However, I found it most enlighting. It
reveals, that slavery was never about race, but
rather about labor. Labor was looked upon as a
commodity to be bought and sold. My interest was
from a genealogical and historical point. It
alowed me to locate lines of my family both
white, Irish and English that were sold on the
auction block, in Barbados in the 1600's, along
with other slaves who were black. It will further
give great insight in the abusive child labor of
1800 England. For any and all it is a great read.
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Facing
East from Indian Country : A. |
| After
explaining the vast scope of Native American
culture probably more then two million native
people lived east of the Mississippi in 1492 in
villages that were "decentralized and
diverse, but not disconnected" Richter
reconstructs the Native American experience of
the European. |
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The
Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. |
| Abraham
Lincoln, the greatest of all American presidents,
left us a vast legacy of writings, some of which
are among the most famous in our history. Lincoln
was a marvelous writer--from the humblest letter
to his great speeches, including his inaugural
addresses, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the
Gettysburg Address. His sentences were so
memorably crafted that many resonate across the
years. |
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Battle
Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. |
| The
esteemed, Pulitzer Prize-Winning history of the
Civil War that brings to vivid life, the
generals, the presidents, the soldiers,
politicians, Abolitionists, Southern fire-eaters,
Northern barn-burners, Copperheads, and
Know-Nothings. An instant classic, this is the
single volume on the tragic war and its
background that every historian--amateur or
trained--will want to have on the shelf to read
again and again |
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The
Confederate War |
| A
revisionist examination of the Confederate
experience, as much concerned with historians and
their methods as with history itself. ` |
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Abraham
Lincoln: Redeemer President |
| It
is a testament to the strength of "Redeemer
President" that the matters it addresses
resist easy summary. The value of the book
itself, however, is easy enough to state: Out of
the countless volumes written about our 16th
president, it ranks quite simply among the best. |
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Lincoln's
Greatest Speech: The Second Inagural |
| At
the same time, White reminds readers that rather
than yanking such brilliant rhetorical nuggets
from their context, "We need to understand
Lincoln's strategy for the complete speech."
He provides this in some detail, describing the
political environment in which Lincoln found
himself, having recently won a presidential
election that he nearly lost and also seeing the
Confederacy begin to collapse for good. |
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Lincoln's
Virtues: An Ethical Biography |
| In
a narrative that positions a careful analysis of
Lincoln's life against his popular legend and
"ritual celebration," University of
Virginia historian Miller (Arguing About Slavery)
provides an incisive and shrewd discussion of
Lincoln's development as a person and a
politician. If it is assumed from the outset that
Lincoln was "a spectacularly wonderful
man," Miller argues, it "may diminish
our appreciation of the ways in which he may
actually have become one." |
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November:
Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg |
| A
remembrance of Lincoln's days of November 1863,
when he wrote and delivered the Gettysburg
address, sets the stage for a remembrance of
other November days, among them the Armistice
ending World War I; Kristallnacht, initiating the
Holocaust; and the assassination of John F.
Kennedy. |
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Lincoln
at Gettysburg : The Words That Remade America. |
| The
author probes Lincoln's decision to rely more on
the Declaration of Independence than the U.S.
Constitution, a decision Wills says represented a
"revolution in thought." He speaks
effusively of the 272-word address: "All
modern political prose descends from [it]. The
Address does what all great art accomplishes. [I]t
tease[s] us out of thought." |
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The
Emancipation Proclamation... |
| Tells
the story of the document which led eventually to
the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment and
relates the role of President Lincoln in freeing
the slaves |
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Abraham
Lincoln: Letters from a Slave... |
| This
series title presents fictionalized letters
between a 12-year-old slave girl living on a
South Carolina plantation and President Lincoln,
from 1861 to 1863. Lettie Tucker has been
secretly taught to read and write by the
plantation owner's daughter, who encouraged her
to begin the correspondence. She describes her
life and her family's circumstances and
challenges the president on his position toward
slavery, urging him to free the slaves. |
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Abraham
Lincoln : Speeches and Writings 1832-1858. |
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These volumes have every conceivable bit of
correspondence imaginable. Lincoln apparently
preferred the short letter, as there are several
single paragraph letters to generals on the field
and the like. He also wrote with simplicity and
surprising bluntness. Volume 1 has a number of
early speeches and famous debates which give you
a sense of the lawyer turned politician. These of
course are very lengthy. But also in volumes 1
and 2 there are numerous short letters which
include urgent notes to General McClellan and
others that would have made me quit the post had
I been the receiver! In contrast there are
letters revealing Lincolns more sensitive
personal side.
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A
House Divided : America in the Age of Lincoln. |
This
introduction to the Civil War years emphasizes
slavery as the overwhelming cause of the conflict
between North and South and relies heavily on
period illustrations and artifacts. Photos are
great.
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The
Federalist Papers
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gridlock is not a bad thing according to
"The Federalist Papers." The
Constitution is written in such a way that the
government can't easily pass laws. Remember, for
every law passed, we loose some of our natural
rights |
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Common
Sense (Dover Thrift Editions) |
| Thomas
Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A
friend of Ben Franklin, he was a writer of poetry
and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775,
as hostilities between Britain and the colonies
intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to
encourage the colonies to break the British
exploitative hold through independence. The
little booklet of 50 pages was published January
10, 1776 and sold a half-million copies,
approximately equal to 75 million copies today. |
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The
Rise of Southern Republicans |
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South's political identity has been transformed
in the last half-century from a region of
Democratic hegemony to a region of Republican
majority. Earl and Merle Black, political science
professors at Rice and Emory universities,
respectively (and coauthors of Politics and
Society in the South), sedulously examine this
remarkable change. The Blacks first explain the
historical circumstances that made the Southern
Democratic Party virtually invincible until the
1960s and then analyze, decade by decade, the
cultural, demographic and political events that
eroded Democratic advantages and made a
competitive Republican Southern strategy viable. |
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The
Declaration of Independence and the... |
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founding documents are like the Bible . . .often
quoted, seldom read. In fact it is worse, since
they are seldom read, when people quote-unquote
"quote" them, they are actually
spouting nonsense, as opposed to the political
wisdom of the ages. |
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Civil
Disobedience |
| Thoreau's
own natural life was his inspiration, and (as we
can see in his texts) he loved nature, and he
spent a lot of time of his life around it. He
liked freedom, and in this work he depicts his
ideas about freedom, and how it should be applied
to him, as well as all mankind |
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Walden |
| Walden
is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of
his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to
play by the rules of hard work and the
accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom
it gave him to adapt his living to the natural
world around him. This new edition traces the
sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and
considers the author in the context of his
birthplace and sense of history--social,
economic, and natural |
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What
Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern
Response
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| In
the fields of Islamic and Middle Eastern history,
few people are as prominent and prolific as
Lewis, emeritus professor at Princeton. This time
around, however, he has written a book with an
inconsistent argument and an erratic narrative
consisting of recycled themes from his earlier
books, a work that sheds no new light on Middle
Eastern history or on the events of September 11. |
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The
Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and and the Rise
of American Power
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| As
editorial features editor of the Wall Street
Journal, Boot (Out of Order: Arrogance,
Corruption, and Incompetence on the Bench) has a
reputation as a fire-breathing polemicist and
unabashed imperialist. This book addresses
America's "small wars" in chronological
order, dividing the action from 1801 to the
present into three sections ("Commercial
Power," "Great Power" and
"Superpower") to argue that "small
war missions are militarily doable" and are
now in fact a necessity. |
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