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Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood RadicalJames Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the...
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Tales from Kentucky SheriffsFollowing the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montell presents a new volume of tales from Kentucky sheriffs. Montell collected stories from all areas of the state to represent the diversity of social and...
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The Mind of Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign RelationsWith an economy and population that dwarf most industrialized nations, China is emerging as a twenty-first-century global superpower. Even though China is an international leader in modern business and technology, its ancient history exerts a powerful force on its foreign policy. In The Mind...
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War in the Modern Great Power System: 1495-1975The apparently accelerating arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union and the precarious political conditions existing in many parts of the world have given rise to new anxiety about the possibility of military confrontation between the superpowers. Despite the fateful nature...
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Sylvia Rafael: The Life and Death of a Mossad Spy""There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action. . . . She knows that she is special and that she possesses unusual and varied abilities.""-From the Mossad's psychological evaluation of Sylvia Rafael When Moti Kfir, head of the Academy for...
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Divide and Dissent-PaFew men have been more important to the life of Kentucky than three of those who governed it between 1930 and 1963 -- Albert B. Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Bert T. Combs. While reams of newspaper copy have been written about them, the...
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Kennedy V. Nixon: The Presidential Election of 1960"For almost half a century The Making of the President, 1960 has stood as the standard work on this topic. Kallina has exposed the mythology of Theodore White's description of Camelot. For the first time we have an unbiased portrayal of what happened before,...
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The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political IntegrationFocusing on the NAACP's campaign for voting rights, Manfred Berg challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a resourceful, dynamic, and politically astute organization that did much to open up the electoral process to greater black participation.Author: Manfred BergPublisher: University...
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Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of SarajevoIn this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times weaves together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families. "I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia, which lived...
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Presidential Lottery: The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral SystemIn this eye-opening nonfiction account, world-renowned author James A. Michener details the reckless gamble U.S. voters make every four years: trusting the electoral college. In 1968, Michener served as a presidential elector in Pennsylvania. What he witnessed that fall disturbed him so much that...
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Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New AmericaIn politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground. In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how,...
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American ConstitutionIn May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer....
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Human Rights and Global Governance: Power Politics Meets International JusticeInternational human rights have been an important matter for study, policy, and activism since the end of World War II. However, as William H. Meyer observes, global governance is not only a relatively new topic for students of interational relations but also a widely...
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Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great RecessionEver since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order--the combination of ideas, electoral and governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full employment economics that became the standard-bearer for political...
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Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan CitySince the early 1990s, new migratory patterns have been emerging in the southern Mediterranean. Here, a large number of West Africans and young Moroccans, including minors, make daily attempts to cross to Europe. The Moroccan city of Tangier, because of its proximity to Spain,...
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Toppling Foreign Governments: The Logic of Regime ChangeIn 2011, the United States launched its third regime-change attempt in a decade. Like earlier targets, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi had little hope of defeating the forces stacked against him. He seemed to recognize this when calling for a cease-fire just after the intervention began....
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Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, FalwellIn Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell differed profoundly on issues of theology and politics,...
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Free Speech on CampusFrom the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech. Repeatedly, students, faculty, administrators, and politically polarizing invited guests square off against one another, assuming contrary...
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Christian Human RightsIn Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just...
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Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and ActionSpecifically designed for educational use in international relations, law, political science, economics, and philosophy classes, Human Rights in the World Community treats the full range of human rights issues, including key paradoxes and contestations surrounding human rights, implementation problems, and processes involving international, national,...
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