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Waging peace : global adventures of a lifelong activist /
Table of Contents: “…Chapter 7: Blockade: Standing in the Way of Bombs Headed for Namchapter 8: Reversing the Blueprint: Saying No to Nukes; chapter 9: Accompaniment: Into the Central American War Zones; chapter 10: Assault on the Tracks: Facing Violence with Love and Courage; chapter 11: The World Is Watching: Facing Down Death Squads; chapter 12: A Force for Peace: Creating a Nonviolent Army; chapter 13: Taking the Long View: Active Nonviolence in Palestine and Averting War with Iran; chapter 14: Transforming Our Society from One Addicted to Violence and War to One Based on Justice and Peace with the World.…”
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Colonel House : a biography of Woodrow Wilson's silent partner /
Table of Contents: “…The Great War, 1914-1917 -- The Great War -- The search for peace -- London, Paris, Berlin -- The turn to war -- American interlude -- The lure of peace -- The House-Grey Memorandum -- The failure of peace -- Presidential politics -- Re-election and the plea for peace -- America goes to war -- Part IV. …”
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First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country /
Table of Contents: “…-- The power of colonial classicism -- Washington studies how to rise in colonial society -- John Adams aims to become an American Cicero -- Jefferson blooms at William & Mary -- Madison breaks away to Princeton -- Adams and the fuse of rebellion -- Jefferson's declaration of the "American mind" -- Washington: the noblest Roman of them all -- The war strains the classical model -- From a difficult war to an uneasy peace -- Madison and the Constitution: balancing vice with vice -- The Classical vision smashes into American reality -- The revolution of 1800: the people, not the plebes -- The end of American classicism -- Epilogue: What we can do -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: The Declaration of Independence.…”
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Jerry Wiesner : scientist, statesman, humanist : memories and memoirs /
Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- Jerry in his own words -- Memoirs -- A random walk through the twentieth century -- Remembering the rad lab and RLE -- Los Alamos -- Technological capabilities panel -- Up the ladder to the White House -- Kennedy -- ABM -- Gorbachev's revolution -- Selected speeches and papers -- Convocation speech/MIT, October 15, 1969 -- Science, technology, and the quality of life/Inaugural address as MIT president, October 7, 1971 -- Commencement address/Valedictory address as MIT president, June 2, 1980 -- Communication theory and the learning process/CBS, Westchester, New York, October 23, 1980 -- Disenthralling ourselves/National Academy of sciences, Washington, D.C., April 28, 1984 -- Creating with computing/ Wiesner Building dedication, MIT, October 2, 1985 -- The rise and fall of the President's science advisory committee, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1987 -- Survival, the moral equivalent of the arms race/National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., January 1988 -- A department of development/Cambridge, Mass., May 17, 1988 -- In memory of Andrei Sakharov/American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass., April 27, 1990 -- President Eisenhower's changing search for peace/Moscow, Russia, November 1990 -- The world needs a better security system/Cambridge, Mass., December 1991 -- Lillian/Memorial meeting for Lillian Hellman, ca. 1993 -- Award speech/National Academy of Sciences Public welfare medal, Washington, D.C., April 24, 1993 -- Selected letters and documents.…”
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