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Erudite, balanced, and pleasingly written in spite of its long account of mayhem in the name of divinity, this is a storehouse of history and anecdote from the time of the pharoahs to the present. Concentrated mainly on Christian intolerances that moved populations.

Kauffman's perspective on progress in America - from the point of view of those who lost - revives forgotten figures and reinvigorates dormant causes as he examines the characters and arguments from six critical battles that forever altered the American landscape: the debates over child labor, school consolidation, women's suffrage, the back-to-the-land movement, "good roads" and the Interstate Highway System, and a standing army. The integration...

Soviet in Exile is the definitive examination of unofficial art from the Soviet Union, richly illustrated in color and black-and-white. It is also the chilling story of the continuing repression of freedom of expression in that country. - Book Jacket.

"A magnificent novel that sweeps from the Russia of the Revolution through the horrors of the Purges and the Second World War, to the inner tensions and complex realities of the Soviet Union today. A renowned author, Harrison Salisbury, whose unsurpassed intimate knowledge of modern Russia make him uniquely able to create one of the most electrifying and inspiring reading experiences of our time."--Goodreads

War against the oppressive ancien régime, that was the battle cry of the French Revolution; wars against foreign enemies were to be expected and were fought out of patriotism; but civil war, grounded in differences of principle, required taking a moral position. The revolt in the Vendée undermined the very concept of Revolution, for if the people were fighting the Revolution, restoring power to the enemies of the Revolution, what was the Revolution...

San Francisco lawyer Willa Jansson becomes involved with spies, smugglers, and a jailed poet as she searches Havana for her missing mother. The mother failed to return from a goodwill visit to Cuba, which she made with a group of women.

Includes profiles and oral histories of political protesters such as John Sellers, Max Cleland, Nicole Rank, Jeff Rank, Tweeti Blancett, Mort Sahl, Nadin Hamoui, Paul Hackett, Bogdan Dzakovic, Randi Rhodes, Max Mecklenburg, Coleen Rowley, Lorenzo Dominguez, Paul Krugman, Kathy Kelly, John Dempsey, Teresa Chambers, Kevin Sites, Rand Beers, Jay Stroup, and Daniel Ellsberg.