Gateway To Statesmanship

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The study of statesmanship is not a subject for leaders in politics alone. It is the study of the whole human being in thought and action. The classics teach us of the difficult choices that must be made, an activity that guides lives and forms character. This collection of writings includes ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and modern scholarship on statesmanship from Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Erasmus, Niccolo Machiavelli, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and more, selected and with an introduction by the president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, John A. Burtka.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : John A. Burtka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release : 2024-02-20
File : 189 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781684516995


Statesmanship

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No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than The New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. Some astonishing things were first published in its pages: great poems such as W.B. Yeats' "Easter 1916"and Edward Thomas's "Adlestrop"; H.G. Wells' interview with Stalin in 1934; C.P. Snow's "Two Cultures" essay; Christopher Hitchens' final interview, conducted by Richard Dawkins; and Hugh Grant's "The bugger bugged". Most of the great political and cultural writers of the recent past have written for The New Statesman. Many have been on its staff or were associates of it: George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, V.S. Pritchett, Paul Johnson and John Gray. The most significant intellectual and cultural currents of the age ripple through its pages. Many of the radical causes of our times were launched in association with or in the pages of The New Statesman. For example, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Charter 88. There is, too, a rich history of illustration and cartoons to draw on, from Low's sketches of the great and the good to the gonzo art of Ralph Steadman and Will Self's early comic strips. The book is more than an anthology. It tells the story of the New Statesman, from the eve of the First World War to the long aftermath of 9/11 and the Great Recession through which we are still passing. It looks forward as well as back, offering a unique and unpredictable perspective on the world.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Various
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release : 2019-11-28
File : 432 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781474615020


The Gateway To History

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In this book, originally published in 1962, one of America’s most distinguished historians defines the scope and variety fo his field and out lines his views on history’s objectives both as a science and as an art. The book provides insight into historians’ methods of interpreting and presenting the past from Thucydides to twentieth century scholarship on Europe and America. It sets apart the different approaches to history – biographical, cultural, intellectual, geographical and political – illuminating the peculiar goals, problems and development of each discipline. It discusses the question of pre-history and its companion science, archaeology and spans the history of the collection and use of records.

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Genre : History
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2018-10-24
File : 373 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317278283


Closing The Gate

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open immigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for future restrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s and against Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Andrew Gyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politics during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Rather than directly confront such divisive problems as class conflict, economic depression, and rising unemployment, he contends, politicians sought a safe, nonideological solution to the nation's industrial crisis--and latched onto Chinese exclusion. Ignoring workers' demands for an end simply to imported contract labor, they claimed instead that working people would be better off if there were no Chinese immigrants. By playing the race card, Gyory argues, national politicians--not California, not organized labor, and not a general racist atmosphere--provided the motive force behind the era's most racist legislation.

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Genre : History
Author : Andrew Gyory
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Release : 2000-11-09
File : 371 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780807866757


The Gate Called Beautiful

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Genre : Christian sociology
Author : Edward Augustus Warriner
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Release : 1898
File : 356 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433061708115


Through The Ivory Gate

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This 19th century work examines great figures from history from a psychological perspective. The story of Louis Riel begins on page 238 of the book.

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Genre : Biography
Author : William Wotherspoon Ireland
Publisher : Edinburgh : Bell & Bradfute ; Hamilton [Ont.?] : Adams
Release : 1889
File : 368 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015001990962


The Gate To China

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"The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on documents from archives in China and the West, interviews with key figures and eyewitness reporting over three decades"-- Provided by Amazon book.

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Genre : History
Author : Michael Sheridan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2021-10-26
File : 481 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780197576236


Rebels At The Gate

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Rebels at the Gate is the dramatic story of the first Union victories of the Civil War and the events that caused Virginians to divide their state. In a defiant act to sustain President Lincoln's war effort, Virginia Unionists created their own state government in 1861—destined to become the new state of West Virginia.

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Genre : History
Author : W Hunter Lesser
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release : 2005-05-01
File : 397 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781402250101


Wide Is The Gate

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Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize–winning saga continues as Lanny Budd faces the horrors of Nazi Germany and steps into the fire of the Spanish Civil War Lanny Budd’s dedication to social justice and political action has placed a serious strain on his marriage to his heiress wife, Irma, but as he moves through the 1930s, the international art dealer is unable to turn a blind eye to what is happening in Europe. As the Nazi Party solidifies its power in Germany, Lanny recognizes a golden opportunity to make a difference when his arms dealer father strikes a business agreement with Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command. Robbie Budd’s alliance with the Luftwaffe commander and Lanny’s art world reputation enable the younger Budd to move easily among the Nazi high command and gather valuable information he can transmit back to those who are dedicated to the destruction of Nazism and Fascism. It is a dangerous—albeit necessary—game that Lanny is playing, and it will carry him from Germany to Spain on a life-and-death mission on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. The fourth installment of an eleven-book series, Wide Is the Gate continues Upton Sinclair’s literary journey through the tumult of the twentieth century. An astonishing mix of history, adventure, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Open Road Media
Release : 2016-01-19
File : 719 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781504026482


Hell S Gate Book 1 In New Multiverse Series

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The Union of Arcana has become the most powerful civilization in human history, expanding through the portals linking parallel universes and laying claim to one uninhabited planet after another. But now the Union's scouts have discovered a new portal, on the far side of which lies a shattering revelation.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : David Weber
Publisher : Baen Books
Release : 2006-10-31
File : 634 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781416509394