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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Professor Guelzo looks at Lincoln's life and legacy, from his youth and maturation into a successful lawyer through the evolution of his views on slavery to his presidency and triumphant management of emancipation and the restoration of the union.
563) Notes on resistance
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Noam Chomsky dissects the multiple crises facing humankind and the planet; and provides a road map for resistance.
In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as the pandemic, the wealth gap (made worse because of the pandemic), climate destruction, the increasing power of the corporate owned media, systematic racism, Big Tech, and more.
Noam Chomsky is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.
565) Bernie
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a kid growing up in Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders was surrounded by grinding poverty that turned families against each other as they scrimped and saved to pay their bills. Bernie saw politics as his chance to give a decent life to everyone, not just those born into wealth or the lucky few who hit it big. But the Democratic Party and the country overall were moving to the right. Bernie joined a tiny independent party from Vermont. He ran for mayor....
568) The historian's Wizard of Oz: reading L. Frank Baum's classic as a political and monetary allegory
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality. . .and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening." So wrote George Orwell in his novel "1984" a striking similarity to the current state of civic cluelessness. "1984" is no longer a date in the future. This documentary points out that today in America, media outlets are owned by five or six corporations, and the likes of Rupert Murdoch, GE,...
573) Marx can wait
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Italiano
Description
In his most achingly personal film to date, legendary Italian Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio uses the occasion of a family reunion in his hometown of Piacenza to excavate and discuss a traumatic event: the death of his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in the late '60s at age 29. Through detailed conversations with his siblings, archival footage providing context about 20th-century Italian leftist politics, and occasional clips from his films,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders. Paul Kengor reveals a singular bond, which included a spiritual connection between the Catholic pope and the Protestant president, that drove the two men to confront what they knew to be the great evil of the twentieth century: Soviet communism....
577) The imperial cruise
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
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