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"The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."
3) Twentieth century interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: a collection of critical essays
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Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. In the twentieth century, as new technologies allowed leaders to place their image and voice directly into their citizens' homes, a new phenomenon appeared where dictators exploited the cult of personality to achieve the illusion of popular approval without ever having to resort to elections. In How to Be a...
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Dover Publications, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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This dual-language anthology presents fifteen compelling tales in a unique survey of twentieth-century Russian short fiction. Featuring the original Russian on the left-hand page and new English translations on the right-hand side, contents include "The Fugitive" by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, "The Present" by Leonid Andreev, "Trataton" by Dimitry Mamin-Sibiryak, "Life Granted" by Aleksandr Grin, and "Icarus" by Stepan Skitalets, plus stories by Vasily...
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological innovations. There were transportation and communication networks. There was the network of the globalized marketplace, which brought into the...
12) Sister Carrie
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Publisher
R. Bentley
Pub. Date
19--
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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14) A burnt-out case
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
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Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of an attack of indifference, no longer finding meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he loses himself in work for the lepers. As he helps the lepers, so he approaches a self-cure.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama, the “cup of gold.” Cup of Gold is a lush, lyrical swashbuckling pirate fantasy, and sure to add new dimensions to readers’...
17) The wreath
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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Set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath, the first volume of Undset's medieval trilogy begins the life story of Kristin Lavransdatter. Starting with Kristin's childhood and continuing through her romance with Erlend Nikulausson, a dangerously charming and impetuous man, Undset re-creates the historical backdrop in vivid detail, immersing readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political undercurrents of the period. But the story...
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Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Primary source documents are used to describe the events preceeding the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, the investigation of the crime, and the subsequent trial of the man accused, convicted, and executed for the child's murder.
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