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The Last Days: A Son's Story Of Sin And Segregation At The Dawn Of A New SouthThe Last Days is something entirely different in the literature of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This uncompromising, heartbreaking memoir shows how people struggled with the actual processes of integration. Seeking to come to terms with the haunting memories of his childhood...
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal BeliefIn the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character....
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Freedom: Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western CultureThis magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery, and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom in the West from antiquity through the Middle Ages.Author: Orlando...
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Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights SpeechesRipples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans, Asian Americans, gays, Hispanic Americans,...
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The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as PresidentRiding in an open-topped convertible through Dallas on November 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson heard a sudden explosive sound at 12:30 PM. The Secret Service sped him away to safety, but not until 1:20 PM did he learn that John F. Kennedy had been...
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Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of RightsWhere do our rights come from? Does "natural law" really exist outside of what is written in constitutions and legal statutes? If so, why are rights not the same everywhere and in all eras? On the other hand, if rights are nothing more than...
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Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth CenturyThe Cold War dominated history for nearly half a century, locking two superpowers in a global rivalry that ended only with the collapse of the Soviet Union. For millennia, the outcomes of war had been determined on the battlefield, but the most decisive moments...
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Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the WestWhether by choice or not, the West finds itself in a low-grade yet bitter war with Islamic fanaticism. It is a war the West is singularly ill-equipped to fight. The foe is resistant to any of the normal methods of conflict resolution such as...
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The Choice: Global Domination or Global LeadershipThe overwhelming reality of our time is this: In the opening years of the 21st century, the United States finds itself not only the most powerful nation on earth but the most powerful nation that has ever existed. Given the contradictory roles America plays...
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Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide"The most important political book of the year."--Gregg Easterbrook, author of The Progress Paradox Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong. Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are...
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Blind FaithThe sordid, #1 New York Times bestselling true crime story of adultery, addiction, gambling debt, and murder in a privileged suburban town--from author and journalist Joe McGinniss. The Marshalls were the model family of Tom's River, New Jersey, living the American dream and seemingly...
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End the FedIn the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not...
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Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler's Hunt for Society's Most Violent PredatorsHe was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkness, he entered a seminary to search for the good... Between Good and Evil. No one gets closer to...
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Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black BudgetBased on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the Black Budget--a 36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda of top-secret weapons and wars.Author: Tim WeinerPublisher: Grand Central PublishingPublished: 09/01/1990Pages: 273Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize:...
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Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun: 1,500 Years Ago Attila Got the Competitive Edge. Now He Tells You How You Can Get It, Too--His WayThis sequel to Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun goes beyond the first book's focus on individual leadership and applies Attila's wisdom and lessons to the challenges of leadership in organizations. As essential for business managers and leaders as its now classic predecessor.Author: Wess...
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Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is TodayHindsight hurts. * The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense--which instead starts a revolution. * In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself...and the Great Depression gets greater. * Nixon tapes...
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Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold W ARWhen the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy. Between 1995 and 2000, Comrade J was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the...
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Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a CityTo see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to...
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The Psychology of TerrorismThis new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based research to...
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Peacekeeping Intelligence: New Players, Extended BoundariesThis is a new evaluation of the role, dynamics and challenges of intelligence in peacekeeping activities and its place in a much wider social, economic and political context.It assesses the role of coalition forces, law enforcement agencies, development institutions, and non-governmental organisations who have...
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