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A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM
Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of
the Civil War
Harry V. Jaffa
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000
576 pp., $35.00
In an incisive commentary on
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Harry Jaffa discusses the legal and
moral underpinnings of Lincoln's position on freedom and secession. |
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SHAKESPEARE AND THE GODDESS OF COMPLETE BEING
Ted Hughes
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992
524 pp., $35.00
Starting with his early poems,
Shakespeare created out of two archaic myths the plots and substance
of his greatest plays. |
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TERRORISM, ASYMMETRIC WARFARE, AND
WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION
Defending the U.S. Homeland
Anthony H. Cordesman
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002
448 pp., $49.95
Four very different books examine
the threat of terrorism and the need for flexibility in meeting
unpredictable attacks and weapons. |
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WHAT KIND OF NATION
Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the
Epic Struggle to Create a United States
James F. Simon
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002
348 pp., $27.50
A law professor examines the
decades-long conflict between the states-rights views of Thomas
Jefferson and the Federalist beliefs of John Marshall. |
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THE PROSPECT BEFORE HER
A History of Women in Western Europe
Volume One: 1500--1800
Olwen Hufton
New York: Knopf, 1996
638 pp., $35.00
Historian Olwen Hufton vibrantly
portrays the reality of women's experiences from the waning of the
Middle Ages to the beginnings of the Enlightenment. |
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