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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

wowo — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:48:18 +0000

“What was he like?”Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. With the verve of a novelist, Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. [...]

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

wowo — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:23:05 +0000

Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 – how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how [...]

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Leviathan (Oxford World’s Classics)

wowo — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:48:02 +0000

Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. This new edition reproduces the first printed text, retaining the original punctuation but modernizing the spelling. It offers exceptionally thorough and useful annotation, an [...]

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The Gettysburg Address (Great Ideas)

wowo — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:47:25 +0000

The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked [...]

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Anthem

wowo — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:44:27 +0000

ISBN13: 9781607961413 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice and he had the courage to seek after knowledge. [...]

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ANTHEM by Ayn Rand with Active Table of Contents

Civil Disobedience (Green Integer: 41)

wowo — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:44:24 +0000

One of the most important texts of American political thought, Civil Disobediance eloquently states a position that has influenced the thinking of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and many figures of the protests in the 1960s against the Vietnam War. Thoreau argues that “the progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy [...]

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Utopia

wowo — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:44:37 +0000

First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveller Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women’s rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly [...]

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Rescue America: Our Best America Is Only One Generation Away

wowo — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:45:12 +0000

America’s founding values and the leadership traits that embodied them gave rise to the greatest nation on earth. Their attractive power enticed millions of immigrants to leave the comforts and security of their homelands for the promise of hope, opportunity, and a liberty the world had never known. They also unleashed an entrepreneurial spirit that [...]

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The Prince (Special Student Edition)

wowo — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:44:42 +0000

The Prince is a classic book that explores the attainment, maintenance, and utilization of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to demonstrate his skill in the art of the state, presenting advice on how a prince might acquire and hold power. Machiavelli defended the notion of rule by force rather than [...]

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The Hornet’s Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum

wowo — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:44:25 +0000

The exploits of Tommy Sneum, the Danish-born spy who died in 2007, made him a legend in espionage circles. But until now, the full extraordinary story of Sneum’s action-packed career as a British-run spy has never been told. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Sneum, Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made an incredible [...]

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