Plunder

  • Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal
    By Laura Nader, Ugo Mattei

    Henry Lewis Morgan's “progressive evolutionism” is expounded by his biographer, C. Resek in Louis Henry Morgan: American ... the dilemma of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1874,” in The Uses of Anthropology (W. Goldschmidt, ed.) ...

  • Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal
    By Danny Schechter

    Appearing on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, journalist David Corn explained that it involved ... a sly backroom legislative maneuver mounted by Phil Gramm, who was Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee in the '90s.

  • Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
    By Cynthia Saltzman

    One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two ...

  • Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
    By Menachem Kaiser

    From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from ...

  • Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal
    By Laura Nader, Ugo Mattei

    This thought-provoking text is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary law, politics, and social justice.

  • Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
    By Cynthia Saltzman

    Pederzani, Ivana. I Dandolo: dall'Italia dei lumi al Risorgimento. Milan: F. Angeli, 2014. Penny, N. National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings. Vol. 2, Venice, 1540–1600. London: National Gallery, 2008.

  • Plunder: a memoir of family property and stolen Nazi treasure
    By Menachem Kaiser

    Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance — material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.