Bob Souer
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Ronald Reagan is hailed today for a presidency that restored optimism to America, engendered years of economic prosperity, and helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. Yet until now little attention has been paid to the role Reagan's personal spirituality played in his political career, shaping his ideas, bolstering his resolve, and ultimately compelling him to confront the brutal — and, not coincidentally, atheistic — Soviet empire.
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...2) The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England
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A new look at Thomas Morton, his controversial colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans
Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian peoples and English colonists could coexist. Infamous for dancing around a maypole in defiance...
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A biography of Abraham Lincoln that examines his untold legacy as the Great Builder of American infrastructure.
Abraham Lincoln's view of the right to fulfill one's economic destiny was at the core of his governing philosophy―but he knew no one could climb that ladder without strong federal support. Some of his most enduring policies came to him before the Civil War, visions of a country linked by railroads running ocean to ocean, canals turning...