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Henry Steele Commager's The Story of the Second World War

By: Henry Steele Commager

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Henry Steele Commager's The Story of the Second World War

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Henry Steele CommagerOCOs The Story of the Second World War, compiled in the warOCOs immediate aftermath, became an instant classic. Commager has presented a broad spectrum of contemporary writing about the war by such figures as Winston Churchill, John Steinbeck, Walter Lippman, John Hersey, and William Shirer. The book also contains stirring narratives by the soldiers and civilians who experienced the war on the frontlines or who endured it behind the lines. Readers will enjoy these remarkable firsthand accounts from all of the major theaters of the war and CommagerOCOs expert commentary, which puts the war in perspective.

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The Story of World War II

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By: Henry Steele Commager,Donald L. Miller

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The Story of World War II

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By: Henry Steele Commager,Donald L. Miller

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439128227

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The American Mind

An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's

By: Henry Steele Commager

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The American Mind

An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's

By: Henry Steele Commager

An analysis of the political and social thought prevalent in America from 1880 to 1940

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Yale University Press

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0300000464

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A Short History of the United States

By: Allan Nevins,Henry Steele Commager

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A Short History of the United States

By: Allan Nevins,Henry Steele Commager

A narrative history of the United States up until the second World War, written for laypeople by the esteemed public historians Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager.

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ACLS History E-Book Project

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1628200529

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The Defeat of America

Presidential Power and the National Character

By: Henry Steele Commager

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The Defeat of America

Presidential Power and the National Character

By: Henry Steele Commager

One of America's preeminent historians takes a hard look at two of the most divisive and controversial issues of our time -- the Vietnam War and the misuse of presidential power.

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New York : Simon and Schuster

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0671217771

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Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

By: Henry Steele Commager

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Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

By: Henry Steele Commager

Collected essays that expound on freedom--in all forms--as a necessity for national and human prosperity.

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ACLS History E-Book Project

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162820060X

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9781628200607

Freedom and Order

A Commentary on the American Political Scene

By: Henry Steele Commager

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Freedom and Order

A Commentary on the American Political Scene

By: Henry Steele Commager

Topically diverse essays on American political institutions and practices related to freedom.

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1597409626

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Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment

By: Henry Steele Commager

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Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment

By: Henry Steele Commager

A collection of essays and lectures from Henry Steele Commager, one of America's eminent historians. The focus is on the age of enlightenment, with particular attention to Thomas Jefferson, and how enlightenment philosophy shaped the birth of the United States.

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1628200960

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The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography

By: Henry Steele Commager

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The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography

By: Henry Steele Commager

Essays on the historiography of American history.

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1628200790

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Henry Steele Commager's The Story of the Second World War

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America's Robert E. Lee

By: Henry Steele Commager

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America's Robert E. Lee

By: Henry Steele Commager

A biography of the commander of the Confederate armies, describing his family life, his career, and his campaigns during the Civil War.

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Cavendish Square Publishing

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1559050888

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Commager on Tocqueville

By: Henry Steele Commager

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Commager on Tocqueville

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Commager explores the themes of Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America, his concern not so much with what Tocqueville says about America and democracy in the 1830s as with how his work illuminates the same subjects in the 1990s. The essays are based on a series of lectures. No bibliography or index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Missouri Press

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0826209416

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A Pocket History of the United States

By: Allan Nevins,Henry Steele Commager,Jeffrey Brandon Morris

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A Pocket History of the United States

By: Allan Nevins,Henry Steele Commager,Jeffrey Brandon Morris

Written by two distinguished American historians, this acclaimed classic traces the history of the oldest constitutional democracy in the world and presents and interprets the rise of the American people--from their earliest settlements to the emergence of the U.S. as a world power and beyond. Completely revised and updated. Maps. Bibliography. Index.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671790234

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Commager on Tocqueville

By: Henry Steele Commager

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Commager on Tocqueville

By: Henry Steele Commager

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University of Missouri Press

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The American Mind

An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's

By: Henry Steele Commager

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An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's

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An analysis of the political and social thought prevalent in America from 1880 to 1940

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A Pocket History of the United States

By: Allan Nevins,Henry Steele Commager,Jeffrey Brandon Morris

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The Story of World War II

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By: Henry Steele Commager,Donald L. Miller

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Why the North Won the Civil War

By: David Herbert Donald

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Why the North Won the Civil War

By: David Herbert Donald

Six authoritative views on the economic, military, diplomatic, social, and political reasons behind the confederacy's defeat.

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The Obstructed Path

French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation, 1930-1960

By: Henry Stuart Hughes

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The Obstructed Path

French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation, 1930-1960

By: Henry Stuart Hughes

The years of political and social despair in France-from the great depression through the Nazi occupation, Resistance, and liberation, to the Algerian War-forced French intellectuals to rethink the values of their culture. Their faltering attempts to break out of a psychological impasse are the subject of this thoughtful and compassionate book by a distinguished American historian. In this first treatment of contemporary French thought to bridge philosophy, literature, and social science and to show its relation to comparable thinking in Germany, Britain, and the United States. Hughes also assesses the work of other writers in terms of their emotional biography and role in society. Hughes found those who struggled to find meaning and purpose amid chaos to be among the most brilliant minds of their century. They included the social historians Bloch and Febvre; the Catholic philosophers Maritain and Marcel; the proponents of heroism Martin du Gard, Bernanos, Saint-ExupÃ©ry, Malraux, and DeGaulle; and the phenomenologists Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. They also included the strangely assorted trio of Camus, Teilhard de Chardin, and LÃ©vi-Strauss, who showed the way to a wider cultural community. Yet in nearly every case these scholars achieved something quite different from what they set out to do. For this self-questioning generation, the interchange between history and anthropology became most compelling and of greatest interest to the world outside. The Obstructed Path blends H. Stuart Hughes' concern for the many ways in which historians define and practice their craft, his lifelong interest in literature, his fascination with the influence of Marx and Freud, and his empathy with the varieties of Christian thought. It also demonstrates his delicate grasp of singular personalities such as Bernanos, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre and LÃ©vi-Strauss. His profound insight into the flaws of many elaborate philosophical constructions, and into the core of deep emotions, bold images, and searing passions that were often hidden in them, bring us close to these thinkers and makes this an enduring work.

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Transaction Publishers

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141283807X

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The Cultural Life of the American Colonies

By: Louis B. Wright,Henry Steele Commager,Richard Brandon Morris

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The Cultural Life of the American Colonies

By: Louis B. Wright,Henry Steele Commager,Richard Brandon Morris

Sweeping survey of 150 years of colonial history (1607-1763) offers authoritative views on agrarian society and leadership, non-English influences, religion, education, literature, music, architecture, and much more. 33 black-and-white illustrations.

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Courier Corporation

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0486422232

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9780486422237

Logical Self-defense

By: Ralph Henry Johnson,J. Anthony Blair

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Logical Self-defense

By: Ralph Henry Johnson,J. Anthony Blair

Classic work once again available. Offers step-by-step guidelines for identifying and analyzing arguments. It outlines a theory of good argument to use for purposes of evaluating and constructing arguments. It contains guidelines for constructing arguments and for preparing and writing essays or briefs. Special methods for interpreting and assessing longer arguments are provided. It gives guidelines to help filter out the more reliable information from newspapers and television news. Offers an array of devices to deal with the tricks and deceits of so much of today's advertising. Helps students improve their ability to recognize, interpret, and evaluate arguments and to formulate clear, well-organized arguments themselves. Secondary and college students, debate coaches, classroom instructors, community active people.

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IDEA

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1932716181

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The Divided Heart

Essays on Protestantism and the Enlightenment in America

By: Henry Farnham May

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The Divided Heart

Essays on Protestantism and the Enlightenment in America

By: Henry Farnham May

Bringing together essays by a leading intellectual and religious historian, The Divided Heart is a collection of recent reflections, sometimes with a considerable autobiographical element, by Henry F. May on the conflict between Protestantism and the Enlightenment that runs throughout the history of American culture. Summarizing May's opinions on recent historiographical arguments, the introduction to The Divided Heart tells of his own development as a historian, major influences upon his thinking, and how his practicing assumptions grew. Covering religion, there are essays on early American history, Jonathan Edwards, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Reinhold Niebuhr, and "reflections on the uneasy relation" between religion and American intellectual history. Relating to the Enlightenment, there are essays on the Constitution and the "Jeffersonian Moment." Suggesting a new and interdisciplinary approach, May's last essay deals with the end of the Enlightenment and the beginning of Romanticism, an area of history with which he has never before dealt.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195058992

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The Poet Without a Name

Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History

By: Henry Weinfield

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The Poet Without a Name

Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History

By: Henry Weinfield

Henry Weinfield offers a new reading not only of the Elegy itself but also of its place in English literary history. His central argument is that in Gray’s Elegy the thematic constellation of poverty, anonymity, alienation, and unfulfilled potential—or what Weinfield calls the "problem of history"—is fully articulated for the first time, and that, as a result, the Elegy represents an important turning-point in the history of English poetry.

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0809316528

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Stand and Prosper

Private Black Colleges and Their Students

By: Henry N. Drewry,Humphrey Doermann

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Stand and Prosper

Private Black Colleges and Their Students

By: Henry N. Drewry,Humphrey Doermann

Stand and Prosper is the first authoritative history in decades of black colleges and universities in America. It tells the story of educational institutions that offered, and continue to offer, African Americans a unique opportunity to transcend the legacy of slavery while also bearing its burden. Henry Drewry and Humphrey Doermann present an up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of their past, present, and possible future. Black colleges fully got off the ground only after the Civil War--more than two centuries after higher education formally began in British North America. Despite horrendous obstacles, they survived and even proliferated until well past the mid-twentieth century. As the authors show, however, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education brought them to a crucial juncture. While validating the rights of blacks to pursue opportunities outside racial and class lines, it drew the future of these institutions into doubt. By the mid-1970s black colleges competed with other colleges for black students--a welcome expansion of choices for African-American youth but a huge recruitment challenge for black colleges. The book gradually narrows its focus from a general history to a look at the development of forty-five private black colleges in recent decades. It describes their varied responses to the changes of the last half-century and documents their influence in the development of the black middle class. The authors underscore the vital importance of government in supporting these institutions, from the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction to federal aid in our own time. Stand and Prosper offers a fascinating portrait of the distinctive place black colleges and universities have occupied in American history as crucibles of black culture, and of the formidable obstacles they must surmount if they are to continue fulfilling this important role.

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Princeton University Press

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1400843170

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9781400843176

Spinglish

The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language

By: Henry Beard,Christopher Cerf

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Spinglish

The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language

By: Henry Beard,Christopher Cerf

Spinglish—the devious dialect of English used by professional spin doctors—is all around us. And the fact is, until you’ve mastered it, politicians and corporations (not to mention your colleagues and friends) will continue putting things over on you, and generally getting the better of you, every minute of every day—without your even knowing it. However, once you perfect the art of terminological inexactitude, you’ll be the one manipulating and one-upping everyone else! And here’s the beauty part: Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, authors of the New York Times semi-bestseller The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, have compiled this handy yet astonishingly comprehensive lexicon and translation guide—a fictionary, if you will—to help you do just that. If you want to succeed in business (or politics, sports, the arts, or life in general) without really lying, this is the book for you! (Your results may vary.) Spinglish includes these nifty bits of spurious verbiage and over a thousand more: aesthetic procedure – face-lift dairy nutrients – cow manure enhanced interrogation techniques – torture “For your convenience.” – “For our convenience.” hands-on mentoring – sexual relations with a junior employee incomplete success – failure rightsizing – firing people zero-tasking – doing nothing With each and every entry sourced from some of the greatest real-life language benders in the world today, you’re virtually guaranteed to have the perfectly chosen tried-and-untrue term right at the tip of your forked tongue. Wish you could nimbly sidestep a question without batting an eye? Not sure how to apologize while also . . . not apologizing? Spinglish has you covered. Simply consult this convenient, shoot-from-the-lip glossary, and before you know it, you’ll be telling it like it isn’t, it wasn’t, and it couldn’t ever have been.

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Penguin

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0698179013

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9780698179011

Earth Tales

New Perspectives on Geography and History

By: Henry T. Conserva

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Earth Tales

New Perspectives on Geography and History

By: Henry T. Conserva

This book presents 239 selected stories on the relationship between space (geography) and time (history) in human affairs. The stories represent an infinitely small sampling of the myriad interrelationships of space and time.

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