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A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state
A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, "is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation
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An original and authoritative account of Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide.
"Pietrusza steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, and instead weaves an intricate tale of a polarized nation; of America's complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle...
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"Peace on Our Terms follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia as they crossed oceans and continents; commanded meeting halls in Paris, Zurich, and Washington; and marched in the streets of Cairo and Beijing. Mona L. Siegel's sweeping global account of international organizing highlights how Egyptian and Chinese nationalists, Western and Japanese labor feminists, white Western suffragists, and African...
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Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book, released to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, reveals, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the revolution's profoundly democratic, emancipatory character. Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece...
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"Traces Beck's personal history from his troubled childhood through his years as a 'morning zoo' DJ to his sudden and meteoric rise to the conservative media heap. [The author] pays special attention to Beck's transformation from alcoholic-snorting, failed disc jockey without a political thought in his head to wealthy, bile-spewing, right-wing demagogue." -- Dust jacket.
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"Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin were a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth...
7) Dead doubles: the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings
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An account of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War traces the 1961 international manhunt for five Soviet spies whose activities exposed the shadowy world of deep-cover KGB operatives.
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The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the acclaimed author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the concurrent antifa movements that work fastidiously to topple...
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"In the fall of 1961, a KGB agent defected to West Germany. The slim 30-year-old man in police custody had papers in the name of an East German, Josef Lehmann, but claimed that his real name was Bogdan Stashinsky, and he was a citizen of the Soviet Union. On the orders of his KGB bosses, he had traveled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he singlehandedly tracked down and killed two enemies of the communist regime. He used a new, specially designed...
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Faces masked, dressed in black, and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Blocs have been transformed into an anti-globalization media spectacle. But, the popular image of the window-smashing thug hides a complex reality.
Francis Dupuis-Déri outlines the origin of this international phenomenon, its dynamics, and its goals, arguing that the use of violence always takes place in an ethical and strategic context.
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Originally published in 1970, Marge Piercy's second novel follows the lives of four teenagers, in a near-future society, as they rebel against a military draft and "the system." The occupation of Franklin High School begins, and with it, the open rebellion of America's youth against their channeled, unrewarding lives and the self-serving, plastic society that directs them.
From the disillusionment and alienation of the young at the center of the...
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This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions-such as protests, strikes and boycotts-separate brutal regimes from their means of control. They tell inside stories-how Danes outmaneuvered the Nazis, Solidarity defeated Polish communism,...
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"Lee Edwards is a historian of the conservative movement who has been present at nearly every major event of the modern conservative movement. His memoir reveals his insider account of Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; how he first interviewed Ronald Reagan when the actor was thinking of running for governor; how he created the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, and much more."--
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La Primera Guerra Mundial se debió a un conjunto de causas económicas y políticas, y estalló por la sucesión de unos acontecimientos que parecieron inevitables. Este libro es un acercamiento a esta tragedia que terminó con un mundo y abrió otro en el que Europa ya no sería hegemónica. Además en solo veinte años surgió un nuevo y mayor conflicto. La aparición de un progreso aparentemente ilimitado que acabaría con los problemas y carencias...
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This book brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles. With discussions of more than fifty countries, Katsiaficas articulates an understanding, which is neither bounded by national and continental divides nor focused on "Great Men and Women. Millions of people went into the streets, and their aspirations were remarkably similar. From the Prague revolt against Soviet communism to the French May uprising, the...
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"Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship" "Finalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers" Derek Sayer is professor emeritus and a former Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta. His other books include the award-winning Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History and The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (both Princeton).
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Charles Lindbergh was an American patriot who was subject to one of the most successful smear campaigns in American history. Angered by Lindbergh's criticism, President Roosevelt launched against him a crusade of personal destruction that was eagerly propagated by FDR's supporters throughout the government and media.
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"It is one of our most honored clichés that America is an idea and not a nation. This is false. America is indisputably a nation, and one that desperately needs to protect its interests, its borders, and its identity. The Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump swept nationalism to the forefront of the political debate. This is a good thing. Nationalism is usually assumed to be a dirty word, but it is a foundation of democratic self-government...
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