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Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Mansfield Harvey C
epub |eng | 2010-05-30 | Author:Mansfield, Harvey C. [Mansfield, Harvey C.]

Democratic individualism Moving from ideas to “sentiments,” Tocqueville examines the feelings that characterize the democratic heart. The main one is a sense of weakness that he describes as “individualism.” This ...
( Category: Democracy March 21,2020 )
Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust by E. Thomas Wood
epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:E. Thomas Wood

“Polish-Soviet relations are not as good as we desire,” said Eden. “They ought to be improved. The main problem seems to be territory, Polish boundaries. But perhaps there is a ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2020 )
Children Of The Troubles by Laurel Holliday
epub |eng | | Author:Laurel Holliday

ANN McCALLION DERRY, COUNTY DERRY In her fifties now and a homemaker with three grown children and a granddaughter, Ann Mc-Callion lives with her husband, Manus, in the Creggan Estate ...
( Category: European March 21,2020 )
Forgetting to Be Afraid by Wendy Davis
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Wendy Davis

FOURTEEN There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you. —MAYA ANGELOU MEMORIES LIVE IN THE BODY, and in the mind, but some of my most ...
( Category: Political March 21,2020 )
Deliberation Day by Bruce Ackerman & James S. Fishkin
epub |eng | 2004-03-20 | Author:Bruce Ackerman & James S. Fishkin

Summing Up There will be substantial start-up costs, and some blunders in the early days. But hopefully, these will be forgiven—Deliberation Day won’t get off the ground without a groundswell ...
( Category: Elections March 21,2020 )
Children of Israel, Children of Palestine by Laurel Holliday
epub |eng | | Author:Laurel Holliday

AHMED YOUNIS Now a forty-year-old university lecturer, Academic Director of Rehabilitation at Al-Quds University, and the president of the Palestine Physiotherapy Association, Ahmed Younis, Ph.D., spent his entire childhood in ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 21,2020 )
Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage by Joe Wheeler
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Joe Wheeler

Of the campaign that followed, Isaac Arnold writes, “This presidential campaign has had no parallel. The enthusiasm of the people was like a great conflagration, like a prairie fire before ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2020 )
No Higher Honour by Condoleezza Rice
epub |eng | | Author:Condoleezza Rice [Rice, Condoleezza]

27 KATRINA I’D BEEN TO FORTY -SIX COUNTRIES and traveled 171,628 miles in nine months. I just wanted a vacation and took my annual trip to the Greenbrier, but it ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 20,2020 )
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas [Isaacson, Walter & Thomas, Evan]

CHAPTER 16 “A DIFFERENT WORLD” Of Super bombs and primitives On September 3, 1949, an American B–29 weather reconnaissance plane recorded a higher than normal radioactive count eighteen thousand feet ...
( Category: Political March 20,2020 )
Exit Right by Daniel Oppenheimer
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Oppenheimer

4 * * * * * * Mr. Yes, Mr. No: Norman Podhoretz The trouble is that Podhoretz has a great ridiculous fat-bellied mind which he pats too often. 1 ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 20,2020 )
She Said by Dominique Enright
epub |eng | | Author:Dominique Enright [Enright, Dominique]

Freya Stark (1893–1993) But what is woman? – only one of Nature’s agreeable blunders. Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) She wants to be perfect. That is her defect . . . It ...
( Category: Political March 20,2020 )
Escape From China by Zhang Boli
epub |eng | 1998-07-15 | Author:Zhang Boli

They asked me detailed questions about the ’89 Democracy Movement and the situation of the twenty-one student leaders. The translator’s Chinese was excellent. If you didn’t see him, with his ...
( Category: Chinese March 20,2020 )
Faustian Bargains by Joan Mellen
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Joan Mellen [Mellen, Joan]

Johnson embraced being President, entertaining at his Texas ranch foreign dignitaries, like the German chancellor, the press, and politicians. His character may be illuminated by his telephone call in 1966 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 20,2020 )
Eisenhower: Volume 1 by Stephen E. Ambrose
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

Eisenhower, on August 15, told the reporters that he expected that Hitler would end up hanging himself, but before he did he would “fight to the bitter end,” and most ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 20,2020 )
The Comte De St. Germain by Isabel Cooper-Oakley
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Isabel Cooper-Oakley [Unbekannt]

These charges were carefully investigated and rejected as worthless by J. J. Mounier, a writer who was neither Mystic nor Mason, but only a lover of honest dealing. Mounier says: ...
( Category: Prophecy March 20,2020 )

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