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What the heck are you up to, Mr. President? : Jimmy Carter, America's "malaise", and the speech that should have changed the country
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ISBN: 9781596915213 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York [etc.] Bloomsbury

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The thirteen American arguments : enduring debates that define and inspire our country
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ISBN: 9780812976359 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Random House,

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The genteel tradition in American philosophy
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ISBN: 1282352903 9786612352904 0300156510 9780300156515 9780300116656 0300116659 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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This book brings together two seminal works by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century: Character and Opinion in the United States, which stands with Tocqueville's Democracy in America as one the most insightful works of American cultural criticism ever written, and "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy," a landmark text of both philosophical analysis and cultural criticism. An introduction by James Seaton situates Santayana in the intellectual and cultural context of his own time. Four additional essays include John Lachs on the ways Santayana's understanding of "the soul of America" help explain the relative peace among nationalities and ethnic groups in the United States; Wilfred M. McClay on Santayana's life of the mind as it relates to dominant trends in American culture; Roger Kimball on Santayana's "most uncommon benefice, common sense"; and James Seaton on Santayana's distinction between "English liberty" and "fierce liberty." All the essays serve to highlight the relevance of Santayana's ideas to current issues in American culture, including education, immigration, and civil rights.


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Le paradoxe persan : un carnet iranien
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ISBN: 9782213629155 2213629153 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris: Fayard,

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The genteel tradition in American philosophy and Character and opinion in the United States.
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ISBN: 9780300116656 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Haven Yale university press

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Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism
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ISBN: 1280490233 9786613585462 0813928184 Year: 2009 Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,

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The Civil War, then, when it came, was America's answer to the 1848 revolutions, a testimony to America's democratic shortcomings, and an American version of a violent, nation-building revolution.


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American studies : an anthology
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ISBN: 9781405113519 9781405113526 1405113510 1405113529 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell


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The narcissism of minor differences
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ISBN: 0197562744 1282328964 9786612328961 0199739528 9780199739523 9780195391206 0195391209 9781282328969 6612328967 9780197562741 9780199836826 0199836825 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans, America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-ridden, violent, and sharp-elbowed. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two continents really are.


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La mentalité américaine : au-delà de Barack Obama
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ISBN: 9782895960867 Year: 2009 Publisher: Montréal : Lux éditeur,

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Mark Twain and the novel : the double-cross of authority
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ISBN: 9780521107624 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge New York [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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