wyszukanych pozycji: 7
A Life with History
ISBN: 9780700613380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author of such classic works as The Republican Roosevelt, V Was for Victory, and Years of Discord, John Morton Blum is one of a small group of intellectuals who for more than a quarter of a century dominated the writing of American political history. Writing now of his own career, Blum provides a behind-the-scenes look at Ivy League education and political power from the 1940s to the 1980s. Blum insightfully recounts a long and distinguished journey that began at Phillips Academy, where he first realized he could make a career of teaching and writing history. He...
The author of such classic works as The Republican Roosevelt, V Was for Victory, and Years of Discord, John Morton Blum is one of...
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309,79 zł |
The Republican Roosevelt: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780674763029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a book about politics and politicians; about elections, lawmaking, governing, and how they work. It is also about power, its increasing concentration in American society, and its implications at home and abroad especially for those who exercise it. It is a book about the Republican Party during the period in which it developed the forces and frictions which still characterize it today. Finally, it is a book about a remarkably successful and vibrant man who contained within himself much of the best and the worst of his environment, who contributed generously to American life, who... This is a book about politics and politicians; about elections, lawmaking, governing, and how they work. It is also about power, its increasing con... |
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174,45 zł |
Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974 (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393309102 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These fifteen years are as rich as any in American history, rich in incident - the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the antiwar crusade, the opening of China, Watergate, Kennedy's assassination, Johnson's retirement, the fall of Nixon: rich in personality - Robert Kennedy, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr, Earl Warren, Bob Dylan, Henry Kissinger, George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey: and rich, finally in what it tells us of power, its attainment, and its use at home and abroad.
These fifteen years are as rich as any in American history, rich in incident - the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, t...
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140,94 zł |
Liberty, Justice, Order
ISBN: 9780393333381 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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116,87 zł |
V Was for Victory
ISBN: 9780156936286 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A distinguished historian examines the nation s involvement in a war that most americans thought necessary and righteous. He focuses on the home front: how our culture and politics affected the course of the war and how the war in turn affected us. Index.
" A distinguished historian examines the nation s involvement in a war that most americans thought necessary and righteous. He focuses on the home front...
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99,70 zł |
The Progressive Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson
ISBN: 9780393000634 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Advocates of a strong versus a weak presidency have struggled throughout American history, but never so fiercely as in the twentieth century, which saw the rise of progressivism. This is the story of four progressive presidents, from the first Roosevelt, who himself brought plenty of backbone to the office, to Woodrow Wilson, who articulated the theory of a progressive presidency, to FDR, who brought it unique power, and, finally, to Lyndon Johnson, who provided perhaps its last great surge in our century. In a time of progressive malaise, it is important to know the history, to see the...
Advocates of a strong versus a weak presidency have struggled throughout American history, but never so fiercely as in the twentieth century, which sa...
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86,73 zł |
Trends in Modern American Society
ISBN: 9780313221064 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. American culture is in a state of transition. What is the nature of this change? To what degree is it desirable? What are its implications? It is to these questions in relation to various aspects of our culture that eight distinguished scholars here address themselves.
American culture is in a state of transition. What is the nature of this change? To what degree is it desirable? What are its implications? It is t... |
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300,30 zł |