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Inventing the Job of President
Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the United States is of the utmost importance. In this book,...
The Great Rebalancing
Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of the world economies....
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 38
1 July to 12 November 1802
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and all of August and September, he resides at Monticello. Frequent correspondence with his heads of department and two visits with Secretary of State James...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8
1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
Volume Eight of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 591 documents dated from 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815. Jefferson is overjoyed by American victories late in the War of 1812 and highly interested in the treaty negotiations that ultimately end the conflict. Following...
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the...
Cold War Civil Rights
Race and the Image of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States' segregated...
Troubling the Waters
Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance...
Taken Hostage
The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds...
The Presidency of George W. Bush
A First Historical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The Presidency of George W. Bush brings together some of today's top American historians to offer the first in-depth look at one of the most controversial U.S. presidencies. Emotions surrounding the Bush presidency continue to run high--conservatives steadfastly defend its achievements, liberals call...
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement. David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New...
by Philip Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense...
by Robert J. Fogelin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks.
Arguing that these criticisms have--from...
Poetics before Plato
Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition.
Literary...
Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy
The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution? The justices on the Supreme Court certainly seem to think so--and their critics say that this position threatens democracy. But Keith Whittington argues that the Court's justices have not simply seized power...