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Wilhelm II

The Kaiser's Personal Monarchy, 1888-1900

By: John C. G. Röhl

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Wilhelm II

The Kaiser's Personal Monarchy, 1888-1900

By: John C. G. Röhl

Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) ruled Imperial Germany from his accession in 1888 to his enforced abdication in 1918 at the end of the First World War. This book, based on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, provides the most detailed account ever written of the first half of his reign. Following on from John Röhl's definitive and highly acclaimed Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888 (1998), the volume demonstrates the monarch's dynastic arrogance and the wounding abuse he showered on his own people as, step by step, he built up his personal power. His thirst for glory, his overweening nationalism and militarism and his passion for the navy provided the impetus for a breathtaking long-term goal: the transformation of the German Reich into the foremost power in the world. Urgent warnings from all sides, both against the revival of a semi-absolute Personal Monarchy on the threshold to the twentieth century and against the challenge his goal of 'world power' implied for the existing World Powers Great Britain, France and Russia were brushed aside by the impetuous young ruler with his faithful military retinue and blindly devoted court favourites. Soon the predicted consequences - constitutional crisis at home and diplomatic isolation abroad - began to make their alarming appearance.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521819202

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The hidden world part 2

By: John Baselmans

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The hidden world part 2

By: John Baselmans

Through these two books I want to show you as much as possible the completely blueprint where I've worked on for years. It's my library, a collection from which I work, and the many documents that I now use as evidence. This book is a collection of quotations from many books, magazines, newspapers, internet documents and reports from others. Therefore I see this book as a manual / reference book for those interested. It's important to me that finally there is a book where everything that is concealed for us for centuries, is at a glance. What you do with the information and how much it is worth to you to know these things is up to you. Here I simply put those pieces that in my eyes came closest to the truth, and which fitted together like a puzzle. The past has big secrets which still are carefully concealed in the present. By putting the many citations and articles at a glance we see a strong message: Wake up people.

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Lulu.com

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1326036459

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9781326036454

Music in German Immigrant Theater

New York City, 1840-1940

By: John Koegel

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Music in German Immigrant Theater

New York City, 1840-1940

By: John Koegel

A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.

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University Rochester Press

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1580462154

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9781580462150

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

By: Christopher John Murray

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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

By: Christopher John Murray

Review: "Written to stress the crosscurrent of ideas, this cultural encyclopedia provides clearly written and authoritative articles. Thoughts, themes, people, and nations that define the Romantic Era, as well as some frequently overlooked topics, receive their first encyclopedic treatments in 850 signed articles, with bibliographies and coverage of historical antecedents and lingering influences of romanticism. Even casual browsers will discover much to enjoy here."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

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Taylor & Francis

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1579584225

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Cultured Force

Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire

By: Barnett Singer,John W. Langdon

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Cultured Force

Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire

By: Barnett Singer,John W. Langdon

Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era through the Fifth Republic. They ask us to rethink and reevaluate, pulling away from the usual shoal of simplistic condemnation. In a series of finely-etched biographical studies, and with much detail on both imperial culture and wars (including World War I and II), they offer a balanced, deep, strong portrait of key makers and defenders of the French Empire, one that will surely stimulate much historical work in the field.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299199002

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9780299199005

Emperor, Deus

Charlemagne's Wars to Defeat Islam and Unify Europe as the Holy Roman Empire

By: John R Prann Jr.

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Emperor, Deus

Charlemagne's Wars to Defeat Islam and Unify Europe as the Holy Roman Empire

By: John R Prann Jr.

It is 732 AD, twenty years after Duke Odo usurped Aquitaine, a territory in Gaul stretching from the border of Spain to almost Paris. Now as his eighth decade of life quickly approaches, he has come to Paris to meet with the bastard Frankish mayor, Charles Martel, to discuss the possibility of a war against Muslims invading from Spain. After Charles finally agrees to help fight the Muslims by the city of Tours, he also must assure Odo that he will remain in control of Aquitaine as its duke, but loyal to Martel and the Franks. Thirty-six years after the Battle of Tours, Martel’s son, Pepin, has gained a reputation as an equally effective ruler, but without the major triumphs. Two days before he takes his last breath, he appoints his son, Charles, to be the kingdom’s Charlemagne. Charles, who inherited his grandfather’s military genius, holds additional skills that propel him down a successful path to conquer the Lombards, Saxons, Bavarians, Huns, and the Muslims of Northern Spain. As he incorporates a feudal system with the increasingly powerful Church in Rome, he eventually unifies Europe. His success is supported by many that include his concubines, four wives, and the one who remains with him till death, Hildegard. Emperor, Deus is the historical tale of Charlemagne’s efforts, through military might and political ingenuity, to forge the first unified Europe over one thousand years before the official European Union.

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Archway Publishing

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1665717971

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9781665717977

Hub Perdue

Clown Prince of the Mound

By: John A. Simpson

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Hub Perdue

Clown Prince of the Mound

By: John A. Simpson

A strong-armed devastating spitball pitcher from rural Tennessee who once won 16 games with the Boston Braves, Hub Perdue is better remembered today as one of the clown princes of the Deadball Era. Often compared with fellow player-comedians Germany Schaefer, Nick Altrock, and Rabbit Maranville, Perdue had a quick wit and a rebellious streak that amused teammates but sometimes led to conflicts with management and umpires. ("Mix 'em up!" manager George Stallings had told him, encouraging the weak-hitting pitcher to take his at-bats more seriously; Perdue, a right-hander, dutifully took his strikeouts from alternating sides of the plate.) His penchant for the subversive--he was also a players' union representative who freely dispensed advice on contracts and negotiation--might in fact have curtailed what had been a promising big league career. But his antics in the majors and minors became the stuff of legend, known as "Hublore.

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McFarland

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0786472251

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9780786472253

Jews in Nevada

A History

By: John P. Marschall

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Jews in Nevada

A History

By: John P. Marschall

Jews have always been one of Nevada’s most active and influential ethnic minorities. They were among the state’s earliest Euro-American settlers, and from the beginning they have been involved in every area of the state’s life as businessmen, agrarians, scholars, educators, artists, politicians, and civic, professional, and religious leaders. Jews in Nevada is an engaging, multilayered chronicle of their lives and contributions to the state. Here are absorbing accounts of individuals and families who helped to settle and develop the state, as well as thoughtful analyses of larger issues, such as the reasons Jews came to Nevada in the first place, how they created homes and interacted with non-Jews, and how they preserved their religious and cultural traditions as a small minority in a sparsely populated region.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874177480

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Federico Fellini as Auteur

Seven Aspects of His Films

By: John C. Stubbs

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Federico Fellini as Auteur

Seven Aspects of His Films

By: John C. Stubbs

Federico Fellini as Auteur: Seven Aspects of His Films offers a comprehensive auteurist study of the renowned Italian director. Film scholar John C. Stubbs dispenses with a traditional film-career review of the man, focusing instead on the key elements of the filmmaker’s style, the influence of Carl Jung and dreams, the autobiographical depiction of childhood and adolescence, the portrait of the artist, the filmmaker’s working relationship with his wife, Fellini’s comic strategies, and his adaptation of works by others. Each of the aspects is fully contextualized. This examination of the critical elements in Fellini films offers a better understanding of the artistry that is uniquely Fellini.

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SIU Press

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0809334658

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Odd Jobs

Essays and Criticism

By: John Updike

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Odd Jobs

Essays and Criticism

By: John Updike

To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812983793

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Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought

Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi

By: John S. Major

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Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought

Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi

By: John S. Major

The Huainanzi has in recent years been recognized by scholars as one of the seminal works of Chinese thought at the beginning of the imperial era, a summary of the full flowering of early Taoist philosophy. This book presents a study of three key chapters of the Huainanzi, "The Treatise on the Patterns of Heaven," "The Treatise on Topography," and "The Treatise on the Seasonal Rules," which collectively comprise the most comprehensive extant statement of cosmological thinking in the early Han period. Major presents, for the first time, full English translations of these treatises. He supplements the translations with detailed commentaries that clarify the sometimes arcane language of the text and presents a fascinating picture of the ancient Chinese view of how the world was formed and sustained, and of the role of humans in the cosmos.

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State University of New York Press

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1438411731

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9781438411736

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music

By: John Michael Cooper

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Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music

By: John Michael Cooper

Library Journal praises the book as "an excellent one-volume ready reference resource for students, researchers, and others interested in music history." Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition covers the persons, ideas, practices, and works that made up the worlds of Western music during the long 19th century (ca. 1780–1918). It’s the first book to recognize that Romantic music was very nearly a global phenomenon. It includes more women, more Black musicians and other musicians of color, and more exponents of musical Romanticism from Central and South America as well as Central and Eastern Europe than any other single-volume study of Romantic music—thus challenging the conventional hegemony of musical Romanticisms by men and by Western European nations. This book includes entries on topics including anti-Semitism, sexism, and racism that were pervasive and defining to the worlds of musical Romanticism but are rarely addressed in general studies of that subject. It includes Romantic musicians who were not primarily composers, as well as topics such as the Haitian Revolution, spirituals, and ragtime that were more important for music in the long 19th century than is generally acknowledged. The result is an expansive, inclusive, diverse, and more richly textured portrayal of Romantic music than is elsewhere available. Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 600 cross-referenced entries on traditions, famous pieces, persons, places, technical terms, and institutions of Romantic music. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Romantic music.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538157527

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9781538157527

Historical Sketch of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania

By: John Hill Martin

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Historical Sketch of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania

By: John Hill Martin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382128128

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Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera

By: John W. Murray

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Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera

By: John W. Murray

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Cambridge University Press

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0521828392

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9780521828390

Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature

Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature

By: John Limon

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Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature

Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, Literature

By: John Limon

Death's Following refuses the call of twentieth-century philosophy to face death heroically, advocating instead the mediocrity of Heidegger's "they-self" and its inauthentic, distanced relation to death. Through literary criticism and autobiography, the book considers mediocrity the privileged site for imagining eternal absence: mediocrity as practice for being forgotten.

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Fordham Univ Press

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082324279X

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9780823242795

Days of Grace

By: John De Liefde

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Days of Grace

By: John De Liefde

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3382808161

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9783382808167

A Most Wanted Man

A Novel

By: John le Carre

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A Most Wanted Man

A Novel

By: John le Carre

A half-starved young Russian is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he?

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Simon and Schuster

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1416594892

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9781416594895

Cloning of America

By: John M. Carlo

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Cloning of America

By: John M. Carlo

When Nazi Germany surrendered in 1945, the world was jubilantand largely unaware of the technological capabilities that the Nazis had developed. Along with untold wealth and ambitions to create a master race, Nazi scientists had perfected human cloning, dispersing their facilities to remote islands that remained hidden after the end of the war. Many of the inner circle who escaped decided that victory in an open war was not achievablebut that it might be possible to conquer the United States in time and with patience. Over the years, the Nazis work to install their clones in the US government, hoping eventually to get one elected president. But forces are at work to prevent the Nazi clones from taking over the nation. When auto mechanic Jon Donner is shot by clones, he is accidentally injected with a special gel developed by the Nazis that gives him superhuman powers. With these new abilities, he and the Speaker of the House of Representatives conspire through numerous clandestine missions to try to keep the United States safe and free. In this science fiction thriller, as Nazi scientists work to install clones in the US government, one man inadvertently gains superhuman powers and works to stop their nefarious plans.

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Archway Publishing

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1480824704

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9781480824706

The Persistence of Voice: Instrumental Music and Romantic Orality

By: John Neubauer

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The Persistence of Voice: Instrumental Music and Romantic Orality

By: John Neubauer

This work, completed by Neubauer on the very eve of his death in 2015, complements both his benchmark The Emancipation of Music from Language (Yale UP, 1986) and his History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe (John Benjamins, 2004-10). It thematizes Romantic interest in oral speech, its poetical usage in music and musical discourse, and its political usage in the national-communitarian cult of the vernacular community. Subtly and with great erudition, Neubauer traces in different genres and fields the many transnational cross-currents around Romantic cultural criticism and writings on music and language, offering not only fresh analytical insights but also a rich account of the interaction between Romantic aesthetics and cultural nationalism.

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BRILL

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9004343369

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9789004343368

A New Approach to Differential Geometry using Clifford's Geometric Algebra

By: John Snygg

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A New Approach to Differential Geometry using Clifford's Geometric Algebra

By: John Snygg

Differential geometry is the study of the curvature and calculus of curves and surfaces. A New Approach to Differential Geometry using Clifford's Geometric Algebra simplifies the discussion to an accessible level of differential geometry by introducing Clifford algebra. This presentation is relevant because Clifford algebra is an effective tool for dealing with the rotations intrinsic to the study of curved space. Complete with chapter-by-chapter exercises, an overview of general relativity, and brief biographies of historical figures, this comprehensive textbook presents a valuable introduction to differential geometry. It will serve as a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, beginning-level graduate students, and researchers in the algebra and physics communities.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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081768283X

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9780817682835

Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque

By: John Butt

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Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque

By: John Butt

In considering the role of practical music in education this book explores the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. The author examines the large number of surviving treatises and instruction manuals used in the Lutheran schools during the period 1530-1800 and builds up a picture of the function and status of music in both school and church. This understanding of music as a functional art--musica practica--in turn gives us insight into contemporary performance of the sacred work of Praetorius, SchÜtz, Buxtehude or Bach.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521433274

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9780521433273

Princess Diana

The Hidden Evidence : how MI6 and the CIA Were Involved in the Death of Princess Diana

By: Jon King,John Beveridge

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Princess Diana

The Hidden Evidence : how MI6 and the CIA Were Involved in the Death of Princess Diana

By: Jon King,John Beveridge

Was Princess Diana murdered? Or was she just the victim of a tragic traffic accident? If she was murdered, who did it? Who ordered the assassination and what were the motives behind it? Were the same powers behind England's recent "Butler Scandal"? Based on information received from a veteran CIA contract agent one week prior to the crash in Paris - plus further evidence obtained from other highly placed British Intelligence sources, this investigative work presents an uncompromising inquiry into Diana's death. Included are exclusive new interviews with named MI5 officers who will confirm British Intelligence's involvement in Diana's death!

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SP Books

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1561719226

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9781561719228

Harold E. Stassen

The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican

By: Alec Kirby,John F. Rothmann

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Harold E. Stassen

The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican

By: Alec Kirby,John F. Rothmann

In 1938 Harold E. Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota at age 31, an office he resigned in 1943 to enter the United States Navy at the height of World War II. In the postwar years he helped write the charter of the United Nations and, serving in the Eisenhower administration, very nearly achieved a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. He is famously known as a perennial candidate for the Republican Party nomination for president, seeking it 10 times between 1944 and 1992.

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McFarland

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0786465549

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