Creator: Frederick Woods
Edition: 2nd Rev
Publication date: 1990-06
Price: $60.00
Review A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill / St Pauls Bibliographies:
Creator: J. Richard Snyder
Publication date: 1988-07
Dewey code: 973.9220924
List Price: $65.00
Price: $198.15
Review John F. Kennedy: Person, Policy, Presidency / Sr Books:
Creator: Russ Witcher
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 973.924092
List Price: $99.95
Price: $76.95
Review Articles, Interviews, and Book Excerpts (1976-2000) on Richard Nixon's Legacy (Studies in American History, 49) / Edwin Mellen Press:This work is a collection of articles, interviews and excerpts from journalists, historians, and associates of Nixon's, of views of both people who admired him and those who feverishly despised him. These viewpoints give a rounded account of his still controversial figure.
Edition: First Edition, First
Publication date: 2004-08-10
Dewey code: 954.035092
List Price: $85.00
Price: $82.25
Review UnGandhian Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma (Anthem South Asian Studies) / Anthem Press:This major study reconsiders the creation of the Gandhian legend through the myriad texts and images that helped spread it through both India and the Western world. In revealing how the picture of the Mahatma as saint-as-politician was founded on Indian nationalistic selectivity and limited Western representations of Gandhi, Claude Markovits shows how Gandhi's legend has obscured the facts of his public career. Gandhi's professional role in the public sphere, Markovits argues, was heavily influenced by his long and critical phase of maturation in South Africa, a period often dismissed as the precursor to his celebrated work in India. Markovits proposes that Gandhi's later Indian career, marked by his meteoric rise to prominence, was the result of his own radical self-reinvention as he negotiated the pitfalls of political life in order to create his influential political manifesto. In re-evaluating critical stages of Gandhi's career, and his sometimes ambivalent ideological positions, Markovits confronts the discrepancies between his early and late careers, closely rereading the Mahatma's varying intellectual positions as described both within his own writings and in those by commentators and biographers. Rather than seeing Gandhi as an upholder of traditional Indian values, Markovits stresses the paradoxical modernity of Gandhi's anti-modernism.
Publication date: 1991-12
List Price: $89.00
Price: $72.39
Review Correspondence Between John Adams & Mercy Warren / Reprint Services Corporation:
Authors
- Alan Lawson
- Michael P. Johnson
- Patricia Cline Cohen
- Susan M. Hartmann
- James L. Roark
- Benjamin Franklin
- Olaudah Equiano
- Sarah Stage
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 2006-08-01
Dewey code: 973
Price: $77.56
Review American Promise Compact 3e V1 & Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 2e & Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 2e & Bedford Glossary for U.S. History / Bedford/St. Martin's:
Run time: 6600 min.
Publication date: 2008
Price: $76.00
Review Great Non-Jews in Jewish History: From Alexander the Great to Harry S. Truman / The Destiny Foundation:A remarkable part of Jewish survival is the role played by non Jews in the Jewish experience. This series highlights the involvement and contributions of important personalities and illustrates how they colored events in the Jewish world and aided the cause of the Jewish people.
Publication date: 1996-04
Review Nine Lives of a Bush Banker / Merlin Books Ltd:
Edition: Corrected
Publication date: 1866
Review Washington and the generals of the American Revolution / Lippincott:
Publication date: 2008-05-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $77.99
Price: $77.99
Review The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals / IndyPublish:"This book contains a life of Columbus written with the hope of interesting all classes of readers " states the author in his preface.
Authors
- George (1732-1799). Andrist, Ralph K., ed. Washington
Review George Washington; a biography in his own words, edited by Ralph K. Andrist. With an introd. by Donald Jackson. Joan Paterson Kerr, picture editor - [Complete in 2 volumes] / New York, Newsweek; distributed by Harper & Row:
Creator: Edward
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $77.17
Review Ulysses S. Grant / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Perret's absorbing biography explains how Grant he triumphed in war by creating a new approach to battle, and why, as Americas first modern leader, he was so widely misunderstood and underrated as president. Ulysses S. Grant worked with Red Cloud, chief of the Lakota Sioux, to create an arguably more humane Indian policy-"no president could have done more," argues Geoffrey Perret, whose reassessment of Grant as a politician is his biography's finest achievement. Not that he scants his subject's military genius; the relentless, aggressive campaigns that won the Civil War are skillfully outlined and analyzed. Grant emerges in this nuanced portrait as a quintessential American: he is depicted as a restless rover perpetually in search of "movement, drama, adventure. " Firmly situated in his time, he nonetheless seems a strikingly modern man.
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 347.732634
List Price: $45.95
Price: $73.54
Review Not a Particularly Different Voice: The Jurisprudence of Sandra Day O'Connor (Studies in Law and Politics, Vol 4) / Peter Lang Publishing:As the leading voice of conservative pragmatism on the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has surprised both liberals and conservatives by crafting new approaches to several areas of American constitutional law. Much of the prior work examining Justice O'Connor's Supreme Court record has tried in vain to demonstrate that she stakes out legal positions based on her gender. In this comprehensive and systematic study, Robert W. Van Sickel explores the full corpus of O'Connor's opinions, as well as her various speeches, articles, and work on the Arizona Court of Appeals. He identifies a set of flexible yet consistent values that pervade her decisions during the past fifteen years.
Publication date: 1991-04
Dewey code: 818.5409
Price: $34.95
Review Leonard Cohen: Prophet of the Heart / Music Sales Corp:
Creator: Barbara B. Oberg
Publication date: 1992-07-29
Dewey code: 973.30924
List Price: $100.00
Price: $89.67
Review The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 29: Volume 29: March 1 through June 30, 1779 (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 1966-01
Review Abraham Lincoln (Clarendon Biographies) / Oxford University Press:
Authors
- Paul Matussek
- Jan Marbach
- Peter Matussek
Publication date: 2007-02-15
Dewey code: 302
List Price: $29.95
Price: $77.34
Review Affirming Psychosis: The Mass Appeal of Adolf Hitler / Peter Lang Publishing:
Publication date: 2001-11-30
Dewey code: 973.929092
List Price: $95.00
Price: $76.00
Review Covering Clinton: The President and the Press in the 1990s / Praeger Publishers:The end of the 1990s saw increasing criticism of the media's treatment of the scandals in Washington. Critics complained that journalists either had not covered the political crisis well, that they had bungled it, or that they had simply blown it out of proportion. Some went so far as to call the situation "Pressgate. " As Hayden points out, however, the larger question remained: What was Clinton's overall relationship with the media? Hayden examines presidential-press relationships in the 1990s, focusing first on the 1992 campaign, then on issues and events over Clinton's two terms. He analyzes the press response to the programs of the Clinton era as well as the scandals, the roles of consultants like James Carville, the effectiveness of various press secretaries, and the use of pollsters like Dick Morris. He also examines the fate of the First Amendment in the 1990s and how Clinton responded to freedom of expression concerns. This analysis will be of interest to media specialists as well as the general public concerned with contemporary Washington politics and journalism.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-09-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $81.10
Review Benjamin Franklin (Library of America) / Routledge:The most complete one-volume collection ever published of a brilliant public figure and the most powerful writer of his time, including The Autobiography in a new edition based on Franklin's manuscript.
Creator: Barbara B. Oberg
Publication date: 1993-12-29
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $100.00
Price: $89.67
Review The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 30: Volume 30: July 1 through October 31, 1779 (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series) / Yale University Press:In the months covered in this volume of this long-standing series, Benjamin Franklin continues his tenure as sole minister plenipotentary to the French Court. The volume begins with the toasts of Franklin's Independence Day party, and goes on to record the documents of diplomatic and naval events during these four months. Many of the figures who appear are familiar from previous volumes (Arthur Lee, John Paul Jones, Madame Brillon, Richard and Sally Bache). The volume also provides glimpses of the private and often whimsical Franklin: listening to Morellet's drinking song; presenting a ceremonial sword to Lafayette; telling the story of how he introduced high-quality English paper into the French printing business; and even a passing reference to Robinson Crusoe.
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A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy: Person, Policy, Presidency, Articles, Interviews, and Book Excerpts (1976-2000) on Richard Nixon's Legacy (Studies in American History, 49), UnGandhian Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma (Anthem South Asian Studies), Correspondence Between John Adams & Mercy Warren, American Promise Compact 3e V1 & Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 2e & Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 2e & Bedford Glossary for U.S. History, Great Non-Jews in Jewish History: From Alexander the Great to Harry S. Truman, Nine Lives of a Bush Banker, Washington and the generals of the American Revolution, The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals, George Washington; a biography in his own words, edited by Ralph K. Andrist. With an introd. by Donald Jackson. Joan Paterson Kerr, picture editor - [Complete in 2 volumes], Ulysses S. Grant, Not a Particularly Different Voice: The Jurisprudence of Sandra Day O'Connor (Studies in Law and Politics, Vol 4), Leonard Cohen: Prophet of the Heart, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 29: Volume 29: March 1 through June 30, 1779 (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series), Abraham Lincoln (Clarendon Biographies), Affirming Psychosis: The Mass Appeal of Adolf Hitler, Covering Clinton: The President and the Press in the 1990s, Benjamin Franklin (Library of America), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 30: Volume 30: July 1 through October 31, 1779 (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series)Top headlines: Just dating him in the meantime? Dont!: Dating in the meantime is based on the belief that time is infinite. But in reality, in the meantime is wasted time, which means missed opportunities for true love. ›17:29 20 Nov, Thu Dr. 90210 shares his 7 beauty secrets: Looking to preserve your youth? Start by looking inside your own house. 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