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(0)Noah Feldman
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A guide to contemporary Judaism by law professor and public intellectual Noah Feldman"--
"A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other. What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Harvard Law School professor and author of ""The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State"" examines the inherent human relevance of the Arab Spring, explaining how in spite of tragic backlash it represents a crucial first time in modern history that Arabic-speaking groups are taking collective political action in support of self-determination.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution―a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution?...
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Scorpions" tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself, exploring the constitutional battles of the Roosevelt era (1940s and 1950s) and their contemporary relevance.