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"Exploring the Greater Middle East, which encompasses much of the Arab world, this book weaves together classic texts, immersive travel writing and voices from every country to reveal the impacts of history on the present state and make the case for classical realism as an approach to this vast region"--
2) Enough
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington"--
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Advise and consent volume 4
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WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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The United States is thrown into chaos as the President is killed in a plane crash shortly after security his party's nomination in a hotly contested race for re-election. As suspicions are cast up on the circumstances of the plane crash, the incumbent party quickly convenes to nonimate a candidate in a storm of domestic and international chaos.
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2023.
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English
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"Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where, historically, empires clashed and sieges from the east toppled kingdoms and enslaved peoples. Many view the region-comprising present-day Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, and Romania, among other countries-as united only by the shared experience of invasions launched by foreign powers, from the Huns of the fourth century, to the Swedes of the seventeenth, to...
7) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
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To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of...
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A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals kidnap an elderly couple and begin blackmailing their grandson, demanding that he pay back what he owes. Suspenseful, thrilling, and expertly crafted, American Spirits...
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"Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new marriage--from the bloodthirsty press to the shadows...
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Senate volume 1864, no. 1
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Wright & Potter, state printers
Pub. Date
1864.
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1 online resource (88, cx pages).
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English
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2024.
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English
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"Allen C. Guelzo captures the president's firmly held belief that democracy was the greatest political achievement in human history. He shows how Lincoln's deep commitment to the balance between majority and minority rule enabled him to stand firm against secession while also committing the Union to reconciliation rather than recrimination in the aftermath of war. In bringing his subject to life as a rigorous and visionary thinker, Guelzo assesses...
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Threshold Editions
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2023.
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English
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Levin proves that since its establishment, the Democrat Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America. Here he alerts his fellow Americans to the destruction this country is facing, as the Democrats install Marxist philosophy and plan a new revolution. The Democrat Party must be resoundingly conquered in the next election, and several elections thereafter-- or it will become extremely difficult to under the...
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