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Before the Next Attack
Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
A leading political and legal thinker explains how to end the dangerous cycle of repression unleashed by the war on terror Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in...
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics
A Study in Political Culture
Why have Russians chosen unlimited autocracy throughout their history? Why is democracy unable to flourish in Russia??Russian Conservatism and Its Critics provides the first account of...
Political Economy of Socialist Realism
For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests an entirely new view:...
One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic
Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on...
Mozart and the Nazis
How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon
Despite the apparent incompatibility between Mozart’s humanitarian and cosmopolitan outlook and Nazi ideology, the Third Reich tenaciously promoted the great composer’s music to further the goals of the fascist regime. In this...
Holocaust Odysseys
The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Their Flight through France and Italy
The chilling, nuanced story of nine Jewish families, unwanted refugees in France and Italy during the Holocaust, and how they struggled in the face of persecution This book describes the ever-escalating...
Forgive Us Our Debts
The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility
A plain-English explanation of federal deficits and debt and the threat they pose to our nation and our children’s future In this immensely timely book, Andrew Yarrow brings the sometimes eye...
John Wilkes
The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
A highly entertaining biography of the incredible John Wilkes, champion of liberty and irrepressible libertine. "It is difficult to believe that John Wilkes, a notorious womanizer and scandal-monger,...
Conversation
A History of a Declining Art
The story of the rise and fall of the art of conversation in Western civilization Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the...
Criticism in the Wilderness
The Study of Literature Today, Second Edition
Originally published in 1980, this now classic work of literary theory explores the wilderness of positions that grew out of the collision between Anglo-American practical criticism and Continental philosophic criticism....