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1	Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture more books like this by James H Billington add to wishlist see all copies from $4.85! new only from $13.25! \| first editions
2	Fire in the Minds of Men more books like this by James H Billington add to wishlist This text traces the origins of a faith - modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is different is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. see all copies from $17.75! new only from $42.16! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The icon and the axe; an interpretive history of Russian culture more books like this by James H. Billington add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $39.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World more books like this by Guillaume de Laubier (Photographer), Jacques Bosser (Text by), James H Billington (Foreword by) add to wishlist Now, for the first time, an internationally renowned photographer takes the reader on a journey to more than 20 of the most historic of these magical places, all architectural treasures. Included are national, scholarly, and religious libraries from 12 countries. see all copies from $21.95! new only from $25.51!
5	Treasures of the Library of Congress more books like this by Charles A. Goodrum, Edith M. Pavese add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.24! \| first editions
6	American Treasures in the Library of Congress: Memory, Reason, Imagination more books like this by Library Of Congress, Garry Wills, James H Billington (Foreword by) add to wishlist One of the world's largest and most diverse repositories of recorded knowledge, the Library of Congress holds nearly 110 million items in formats ranging from manuscripts to motion pictures and sound recordings. This volume showcases 76 of the library's most important American treasures, which have been selected for its first-ever permanent public ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Witnessing America: 1the Library of Congress Book of First-Hand Accounts of Public Life more books like this by Noel Rae (Editor), James H Billington (Introduction by) add to wishlist This oral history of the United States is arranged around 11 topics ranging from birth and immigration to courtship and marriage. It features 100 black and white illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith more books like this by James H Billington add to wishlist see all copies from $9.88! first editions
9	I'll Be Home for Christmas: The Library of Congress Revisits the Spirit of Christmas During World War II more books like this by Library Of Congress, James H Billington (Preface by) add to wishlist A thematic collection of poignant stories, correspondence, more than 70 photos and illustrations, and diary excerpts from those who went off to war and those who kept the home fires burning. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| first editions
10	Face of Russia more books like this by James H Billington add to wishlist When the Soviet communist empire was overthrown by the Russians themselves in August 1991, the change was more clearly anticipated by humanistic students of creativity than by economic and political scientists surrounded by statistics and information. Does the Russian pattern of creativity provide any hints as to how the Russians might solve their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.00! \| first editions
11	Churchill and the Great Republic more books like this by Mary Churchill Soames (Preface by), James H Billington (Foreword by), Sir Martin Gilbert add to wishlist Covers the great British wartime leader's long and consequential relationship with the United States of America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
12	Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope: Moscow, August 1991 more books like this by James H Billington add to wishlist Billington examines the changes that have occurred in the former Soviet Union over recent years and argues the neccesity of the USA and other Western powers making positive economic, political, strategic and cultural responses to the new circumstances. Billington was in Russia at the time of the coup in August 1991. The events and attitudes he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Russia in Search of Itself more books like this by James H Billington add to wishlist In the turbulent decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, conditions have worsened considerably for many Russians, and a wide-ranging debate has raged over the nature and destiny of their country. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress and a noted expert on Russia, examines the efforts of a proud but troubled nation to find a post ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $14.71! \| SVS
14	No Anchovies on the Moon: Three Score and Ten Washington Pictures and Poems more books like this by Paul Boswell, James H. Billington (Introduction by) add to wishlist A collection of poems and drawings created over the course of 50 years by Paul Boswell, who worked at the Library of Congress for 46 of them. see all copies from $2.69! signed copies \| first editions
15	The Face of Russia: Anguish, Aspiration, and Achievement in Russian Culture more books like this by James H Billington add to wishlist see all copies from $32.00! new only from $32.00!
16	Books and the World more books like this by James H Billington add to wishlist see all copies from $22.50!
17	Radiation damage in solids more books like this by D. S. Billington, Società italiana di fisica add to wishlist see all copies from $2.75! new only from $26.89! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Mikhailovsky and Russian populism. more books like this by James H. Billington add to wishlist see all copies from $6.73! first editions

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