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Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem on Earth: People, Passions, and Politics in the Holy City by...
Free Pr 1988-10 0029257409 / 9780029257401 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
From Library JournalRabinovich, an Israeli Jew, presents an impressionistic and panoramic overview of this unique urban center, incorporating vignettes from a wide spectrum of the religious and ethnic community. There are a number of scenes featuring the city's mayor, Teddy Kollek; a composite portrait of both Muslim and Jewish lifestyles; and a description of the social processes of integration of the city after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. An underlying theme is that if people from two different cultures can interact on a personal level, as in Jerusalem, then there is hope that the Arab-Israeli conflict may abate. A poignant portrayal that highlights the human element in international politics. Sanford R. Silverburg, Catawba Coll . , Salisbury, N.C.
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Beth Archer Brombert Cristina: Portraits of a princess
Knopf 1977 0394408071 / 9780394408071 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Former library copy with usual markings. Good, clean condition. ReviewThe background of this sadly botched story is the Italian Risorgimento and the Paris of Musset, George Sand, Heine, and Liszt. At the age of twenty the beautiful Princess Belgiojoso (handicapped by epilepsy and the syphilis she had contracted from her husband) fled Austrian-ruled Lombardy and was befriended by leading French liberals of the July monarchy. During her subsequent career as a journalistic champion of Italian freedom and unification, she found time to translate Vico into French, publish a lengthy work on the patristic origins of Catholic dogma, spend several years on a farm in Turkey, and win a decades-long battle to legitimize her daughter Marie (perhaps the child of the historian Mignet). One is glad to be introduced to this material no matter how clumsily presented - but things change for the worse when Brombert starts in on the unrecorded secrets of various eminent lovelives. Balzac, we are told in mazy tracings of dark clues, obviously met the Princess in time to write her into La Peau de chagrin and then covered it up. Only Cristina - certainly not George Sand - was pale, thin, and musical enough to have been the model for Brigitte in Musset's Confessions d'un enfant du siecle. In 1846 Liszt must have had time for an unrecorded, unsuccessful declaration of love. Brombert also waxes tigerish against Cristina's antagonists and putative rivals: Marie d'Agoult "was inferior to her role, and unfit to be Liszt's companion," while Heine's poor contemptible Frau Mathilde "had reduced him to less than a man three years after they were married." All of these arguments are presented amid a tangle of misinformation. A sentence from Heine's Reisebilder, irreverently celebrating his eclectic taste in Italian women, is chopped up to prove his religious passion for some ideal of beauty in just Cristina's style. Elsewhere Cristina is called the possible model of Henry James' Princess Casamassima, impossible by Brombert's own account. With all these distortions and pointless polemics, Brombert's fulsome prose style and incoherent organization are the crowning exasperation. This biography renders only two services to Princess Belgiojoso: the generous excerpts from her own clear, incisive prose and the fervor with which it makes one desire a more adequate treatment of her story. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Brian De Breffny The Land of Ireland
Harry N Abrams 1985-05 0810980665 / 9780810980662 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Jacket shows minor wear. No markings, clean and tightly bound. Gorgeous, coffee table sized book, lavishly illustrated.
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Charles Colson; Jack Eckerd Why America Doesn't Work
W Pub Group 1991-09 0849908736 / 9780849908736 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Product DescriptionIn this uncompromising bestseller, two veterans of public service and private business reveal how America's work ethic has been stripped of its true meaning. Readers are then given the critical steps necessary to halt America's declining work ethic through an infusion of unique programs, hard work, and a renewed sense of integrity. Colson founded the Board of Prison Fellowship Ministries, and Eckerd founded the Eckerd drugstore chain.
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Daniel Burstein Euroquake: Europe's Explosive Economic Challenge Will Change the World by...
Touchstone Books 1992-03 0671756753 / 9780671756758 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
The end of the Cold War marks the beginning of the battle of capitalisms, writes Burstein, author of Yen! Japan's New Financial Empire and Its Threat to America (S. & S., 1988; Columbine: Fawcett, 1990. pap.). He describes a global economic scenario with Anglo-American, Japanese-Asian, and German-European models of capitalism vying for dominance. Burstein surveys the recent developments in the European economy setting the stage for 1992 and examines what the American economy has been doing during the same period. He also discusses Japan's economic clout, the possible economic consequences of the Gulf crisis, and the new free-market economies of Eastern Europe. To support his scenario, Burstein provides a number of thought-provoking and controversial ideas, including more than 100 specific predictions of change by the year 2000. This interesting and timely tome is recommended for business collections.- Steven J. Mayover, Free Lib. of PhiladelphiaCopyright 1991 Reed Business Informatio
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David Brinkley Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion
Knopf 1996-10-22 0679450718 / 9780679450719 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
This is a selection of Mr. Brinkley's favorite short commentaries, compiled from those he delivered over the last 15 years as host of "This Week With David Brinkley." Brinkley brings his weighty bearing, rich tones, dark humor, and acerbic wit to bear on the problems of the day and editorializes on the political questions of Washington. He is often funny in his irreverent dismissal of politicians and his world-weary resigned attitude to intractable issues both large and small is curiously appealing.
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David Haward Bain Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by Bain, David...
Viking Adult 1999-11-01 067080889X / 9780670808892 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Remainder mark bottom edge, no other markings.From Publishers WeeklyUniting the country by a transcontinental railroad had a special resonance for the generation that had recently fought the Civil War. Bain's comprehensive study starts with the visionaries who conceived the idea during the two decades before the war (a mere 40 years after the Lewis and Clark expedition). As Bain (Whose Woods These Are) explains, the dreamers gave way to the engineers and entrepreneurs who fixed the route, assembled financing, drafted a work force and launched the two lines toward the eventual meeting point at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869. The story alternates between the Union Pacific driving west from Omaha and the Central Pacific blasting through the mountains from California. About a score of the principal players appear throughout the book, their triumphs and depredations interwoven in a richly (sometimes overly) detailed composition. Bain specifies his heroes and villains, and does not neglect
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David Wyman Abandonment of the Jews by Wyman, David
Pantheon 1986-01-12 0394740777 / 9780394740775 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
No Jacket as Issued Very good condition, clean and unmarked with light edgewear to covers. "'"Subects the American record during the Holocaust to the closest scrutiny it has yet received.
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Dennis Bloodworth Eye for the Dragon: Southeast Asia Observed 1954-1970
Farrar Straus & Giroux 1970-06 0374151296 / 9780374151294 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Light wear to jacket. May have small tears at edges. Interior is clean and crisp. No markings. 100% of the proceeds from the purchase of this book will go towards our family's Christmas fundraising project. We are going to sponser at least one child for cleft palate corrective surgery through the Smile Train organization. Thank you for your purchase! Reader review:I first read this book when I was a young Australian engineer in Singapore in the 60's. It (and an earlier even better book "The Chinese Looking Glass") had an enormous impact on my understanding and appreciation of the Chinese people. By this time I had lived in Singapore for several days and just did not realise how little I understood the world I lived in. I have never since found a more readable book on the subject. I am at this site looking for a copy as I made the mistake of lending mine.
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Ed Rollins Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms
Broadway 1996-08-01 0553067249 / 9780553067248 Hardcover Used: Very Good Hardcover
ReviewSalty and enjoyable ... If you can laugh at what has become of our democracy, it is rollicking. If it is thought-provoking, however, the thoughts are somber ones. -- The New York Times Book Review
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