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The newest in Alan Axelrod's celebrated CEO series examines Theodore Roosevelt--typically ranked among the top five US presidents by historians.  Following in the vein of his popular Winston Churchill, CEO and Gandhi, CEO, Axelrod provides an unprecedented look at this much-studied figure. In an engaging,...

On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin. It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean...

On 2 June 1953, 27-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen, the eyes of the world upon her as she dedicated herself to her country. It is fascinating to look back over the sixty years since then and see how this remarkable woman, decade by decade, has brought the monarchy into the modern...

Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, tortured revolutionaries, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other activists, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and...

A new assemblage of masterly essays from a foremost scholar of American history and culture Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones—like the...

A vivid description of the Russian-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by Alan Levy, an American journalist who lived there from 1967 to 1971.

The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940....

What is the connection between philosophy and law--or, more specifically, the common law? Moreover, what actually is the specific philosophy that can hold the common law (thus our rights) in place? Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University...

Who would have thought love to be a principle/law first and foremost from which feeling follows? In this article the author explains love by the means of polar opposites. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy,...

Violence--most would say they are against it and yet it seems to permeate our very institutions. Can we get down to the bottom and see exactly what a moment of violence is, how it is committed, by whom, and under what rationale? Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of...

Have you ever felt joy--in your soul? In this article, the author addresses the origin of joy, how joy itself is encoded in the light, and how each one of us can feel this joy when we understand the procreant balance that comprises the nature of light. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 -...

Benito Mussolini (born July 29, 1883 at Dovia di Predappio in the province of Forlì-Cesena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, died April 28, 1945 at Giulino di Mezzegra) is a journalist and Italian statesman, President Council of 1922-1943.   Founder of fascism, he is Chairman...

Former county cricketer and one-time England Test batsman Alan Butcher was looking for a new challenge after leaving his job coaching Surrey County Cricket Club. A phone call out of the blue from a Zimbabwean great alerted him to the possibility of coaching the nation's cricket team. His three years...

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