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Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins John Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226004525, ISBN: HB: 9780226148830, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
152 pp., 22x14 cm

Barack Obama has called him "one of my favorite philosophers". John McCain wrote that he is "a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war". Andrew Sullivan has said, "We need Niebuhr now more than ever". For a theologian who died in 1971, Reinh...

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Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Smith Steven B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181234, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and various occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political...

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Media Studies

What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

Hendershot Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226326788, ISBN: HB: 9780226326771, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones, 3 line illus.

The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and '60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridat...

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War Stories Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North

Clarke Frances M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108629, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 7 halftones

The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of its immense suffering. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism, as most people continued to portray the war in high...

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When London was Capital of America

Flavell Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780300178135, Yale University Press, August 2011
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Geor...

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Military

War by Land, Sea, and Air Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command

Jablonsky David

ISBN: PB: 9780300171358, Yale University Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U. S. military – a concept that eventually led to the c...

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Why Parties? A Second Look

Aldrich John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012742, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 24 tables, 24 line illus.

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, "Why Parties?" has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark...

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William Clark's World Describing America in an Age of Unknowns

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139013, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 41 black&white illus.

William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through the...

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War, Revolution and Society In the Rio De La Plata, 1808-1810 Thomas Kinder's Narrative of a Journey to Madeira, Montevideo And Buenos Aires

Newitt Malyn

ISBN: PB: 9781904955696, Signal Books, January 2010
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm, 30 black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! The year 2010 witnessed the official celebration of the bicentenary of the revolutions in the Rio de la Plata. This book contains the narrative that Thomas Kinder wrote of his voyage to that region in 1808-10 and of his stay in...

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Week the World Heard Gallaudet

Gannon Jack R.

ISBN: PB: 9781563684142, Gallaudet University Press, January 2009
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, photos

In 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs, "The Week the World Heard Gallaudet" depicts, day by day, the "Deaf President Now!" Revolution at Gallaudet University as it unfolded March 6-13, 1988. Author Jack Gannon interviewed such main charac...

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