Unravelling the mechanisms of daily diplomacy in the mid-20th century, this book follows one Dutch diplomatic couple, the van Kleffens, on their postings from the 1930s to the 1950s to offer a new perspective on how non-officials and ...
"This is a delightful and innovative book. Never before has any book on U.S. foreign relations provided such insightful character sketches.
In Writers of Conviction, Julia C. Ehrhardt examines the literary careers of four American writers who have not received the critical attention they deserve: Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield...
Private Politics and Public Voices follows their lives after the war, when they carried their debates about race relations into public political activism.
In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class.
Combining vast archival research with a groundbreaking theoretical analysis, this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society.
Some summers, we went to the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, where Serkin and Stern and violinist Alexander Schneider collaborated. In the afternoons we would sit quietly in or just outside the barnlike theater and listen to their ...
Würzburg : Naumann , 1989 . Schirdewan , Karl . Ein Jahrhundert Leben . Erinnerungen und Visionen . Autobiographie . Berlin : Edition Ost , 1998 . Schlesinger , Arthur M. Jr. A Life in the Twentieth Century : Innocent Beginnings ...
Looks at the political partnership of Bill and Hillary Clinton and how their personal relationship affected it, in a book that covers health care, Ken Starr, welfare reform, Hillary Clinton's unprecedented powers as First Lady, and the ...
The focus on aggregate opinions is the logic used by Morris Fiorina in various publications. He argues that there have been no real shifts in the percentage of Americans supporting different policy options such as abortion, ...