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Author | : James N. Rowe |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2011-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307781690 |
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When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him. His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit. His story is gripping.
Author | : Annelien De Dijn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0674245598 |
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Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
Author | : Diane McWhorter |
Publisher | : Scholastic Nonfiction |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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McWhorter offers an incisive and personal look at the American civil rights movement, honoring its heroes as well as the ordinary individuals behind it.
Author | : Jaycee Dugard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-07-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501147633 |
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"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 030787429X |
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By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.
Author | : Calvin C. Johnson, Jr. |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780820327846 |
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"The only firsthand account of a wrongful conviction overturned by DNA evidence"--Cover.
Author | : Larry Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-04-20 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9781950369195 |
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"The end of an empire. The birth of two nations. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy's House, New Delhi. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen--but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war. Freedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi"--
Author | : Jullien Gordon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2017-12-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781981329755 |
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Author | : Dean Jacobs |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781520156606 |
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Four Years of Freedom is the true story of a young man growing up in Southern California, who pays the long term price of wanting to be cool more than anything else in his youth. Drugs, gangs, prison, and a wrongful conviction for murder follow as he enters early adulthood. Finally snapping back to reality, he once again finds his true self...and a world full of regrets. But, is the damage to his life irreparable by now? A story that spans several years, Four Years of Freedom will take the reader through many unfamiliar worlds; some dark, some pleasant, So.Cal. teenage culture, gangs, drugs, prison, world travel, adult dating, and much, much more. But most of all, you'll see our own world through the eyes of an outsider. Whether you like dark humor, or thoughtful drama, there's something here for everyone.
Author | : Susan J. Erenrich |
Publisher | : Kent State University |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781606354018 |
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The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 is a multi-genre collection describing the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, the aftermath, and the impact on wider calls for peace and justice. Fifty years after the National Guard killed four unarmed students, Susan J. Erenrich has gathered moving stories of violence, peace, and reflection, demonstrating the continued resonance of the events and the need for sustained discussion. This anthology includes personal narratives, photographs, songs, poetry, and testimonies--some written by eyewitnesses to the day of the shootings--as well as speeches from recent commemoration events and items related to the designation of the site on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Erenrich, who came to Kent State in 1975 as a college freshman, became a member of the May 4 Task Force, a student organization that continues to the present as an organizing group for marking the anniversary each year. Her involvement with the task force led her to make the many connections with writers, artists, and memory-keepers that have built this collection of primary source material. While a number of books and articles over the years have treated the Kent State shootings and aftermath, this collection is unique in its focus on justice issues and its call for the future. The movement to seek justice, as Erenrich notes, is an ongoing one. These voices call to us to continue to move forward even as we learn from the past.