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Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
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Donald T Phillips
This book examines Abraham Lincoln's diverse leadership abilities and how they can be applied to today's complex world.
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Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America
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Mike Huckabee
Part campaign memoir, part manifesto, this work from the former governor of Arkansas and a rising star of the Republican party lays out his optimistic vision for America's future. 8-page b&w photo insert.
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The Obama Nation
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Jerome R Corsi, PH.D.
Barack Obama stepped onto the national political stage when the then-Illinois State senator addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, author Jerome Corsi began researching Obama's personal and political background. Scrupulously sourced with more than 600 footnotes, The Obama Nation is the ...
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We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work
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Professor Jimmy Carter
President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three decades, as president of the United States and as founder of The Carter Center, he has studied the complex and interrelated issues of the region's conflicts and has been actively involved in reconciling them. He knows the leaders of all factions in the ...
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The Principles of Uncertainty
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Maira Kalman
Part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, and part chapbook, this compilation of Kalman's "New York Times" columns form an intricately interconnected world view and an idiosyncratic inner monologue.
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Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
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John W Dean
This highly critical view of the George W. Bush administration is by one of the key figures of the Watergate scandal, Nixon's former counsel John W. Dean. Now a respected columnist and author, Dean deplores what he sees as the Bush administration's strong-arm tactics and its penchant for secrecy, and he faults Bush on both domestic policies and ...
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The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life
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Bill O'Reilly (Read by)
These observations on politics and American life--from the popular television commentator--are terse, acerbic, and sometimes witty. Considered by some to be right-of-center, O'Reilly calls them the way he sees them, and he is no defender of the status quo.
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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
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Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen (Translator)
The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Umberto Eco's response is a provocative, passionate, and witty series of essays--which originally appeared in the Italian newspapers La Repubblica and L'Espresso- ...
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Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
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Allen C Guelzo
From the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize comes a brilliant account of the most famous open-air debates in American history--those between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. 8-page b&w photo insert.
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
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Gore Vidal
In essay-articles on Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as in new thoughts on 9/11, Vidal expresses his dissenting views on America and its role around the world.
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Philosophy and Social Hope
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Professor Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives a stimulating summary of his central philosophical ...
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Benjamin Franklin's the Art of Virtue: His Formula for Successful Living
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of the greatest American minds of the 18th century, and his goal was to be a doer of good and to live a useful life. His dedication to principles of self-improvement and his belief that these principles could be beneficial to all led him in 1760 to "propose ... a little work ... to be called The Art of Virtue". Though ...
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The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam
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My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
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Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (Editor)
The very best of Eleanor Roosevelt's historic newspaper column, for the first time in a single volume-a dazzling diary of her life and times. Recently named "Woman of the Century" in a survey conducted by the National Women's Hall of Fame, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her hugely popular syndicated column "My Day" for over a quarter of that century, ...
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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom
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Cornel West
Offering openhearted wisdom for modern times, this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, and photographs by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Democracy Matters" includes an original CD that highlights Dr. West's outstanding spoken-word artistry.
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Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism
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Richard C Longworth
A "Chicago Tribune" reporter explores the new reality of life in todays heartland and reveals what these changes mean for the region and the country. Longworth addresses whats right and whats wrong in the region, and offers a prescription for how it must change--politically as well as economically--if it is to survive and prosper.
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The Millionaire from Nazareth: His Prosperity Secrets for You!
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Catherine Ponder
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
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Professor Noam Chomsky, Peter R Mitchell (Editor), John Schoeffel (Editor)
In this collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky discusses his views on the American presence in the world from the Vietnam era through the present in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and other places. Chomsky is critical of American policies in these areas, and many of his comments implicate the media for the role they play in shaping public opinion ...
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World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
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Laurence Rees
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict. Drawing on material available only since opening of archives in Eastern Europe and ...
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Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress
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Joseph Wheelan
In this engaging biography, historian Joseph Wheelan describes Adamss battles against the House Gag Rule that banished abolition petitions; the removal of Eastern Indian tribes; and the annexation of slave-holding Texas, while recounting his efforts to establish the Smithsonian Institution. As a man of the whole country, Adams was not bound by ...
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Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician
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Barry Seldes
From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York ...
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Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
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Ronald J Pestritto
Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism highlights Wilsons sharp departure from the traditional principles of American government, most notably the Constitution. Ronald J. Pestritto persuasively argues that Wilsons unfailing criticism places him clearly in line with the Progressives assault on the original principles of American ...
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The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism
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Professor Thomas Evans
In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a televised speech in support of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. "The Speech," as it has come to be known, helped launch Ronald Reagan as a leading force in the American conservative movement. However, less than twenty years earlier, Reagan was a prominent Hollywood liberal, the president of the ...
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Diary of a Bad Year
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J M Coetzee
An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". It is a chance to air some urgent concerns. He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, on anarchism, on al Qaida, on intelligent design, on music. What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the ...
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Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
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Charlie Savage
In 1789, the Founders devised a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of presidents. But in the 1970s and 80s, a faction of Republicans, outraged by the weakening of the presidency after Watergate and Vietnam, abandoned the traditional conservative suspicion of concentrated government power. These men hatched a plot ...
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