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Ars Americana, ars politica partisan expression in contemporary American literature and culture / by Swirski, Peter, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…1960s: The return of the Black Panther: Irving Wallace's The man -- 1970s: The life and death of Walter Bodmor Nixon: Richard Condon's Death of a politician -- 1980s: The whores r us: P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of whores -- 1990s: That dirty word, socialism: Warren Beatty's Bulworth -- 2000s: Truth or dare? …”
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Ars Americana, ars politica partisan expression in contemporary American literature and culture / by Swirski, Peter, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…1960s: The return of the Black Panther: Irving Wallace's The man -- 1970s: The life and death of Walter Bodmor Nixon: Richard Condon's Death of a politician -- 1980s: The whores r us: P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of whores -- 1990s: That dirty word, socialism: Warren Beatty's Bulworth -- 2000s: Truth or dare? …”
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Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics by Demulder, Bram, Demulder, Bram

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Literature, satire and the early Stuart state by McRae, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Contesting identities: libels and the early Stuart politician -- Pt. II. Public Politics -- 3. Freeing the tongue and the heart: satire and the political subject -- 4. …”
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Into the hearts of the Amazons in search of a modern matriarchy / by DeMott, Tom

Table of Contents: “…The blue mortuary -- The politician -- Honoring San Vicente -- The apologist -- Lavada -- The Russian -- Quintessential isthmus women -- The kid -- Vela Zandunga -- The spy -- The other city hall -- The princess -- Purse strings -- The blaseña -- Tirada de frutas -- The radical -- Day of the dead -- The Italian -- Bloqueo -- The journalist -- Marketplace Tehuantepec -- The filmmaker -- Inventing Santa Inés -- The grad student -- Green mangos -- The investigator -- The general's daughter.…”
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Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics by Demulder, Bram, Demulder, Bram

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The big house after slavery Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / by Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work -- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households -- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations -- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt -- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.…”
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The big house after slavery Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / by Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work -- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households -- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations -- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt -- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.…”
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"We fight for peace" : twenty-three American soldiers, prisoners of war, and "turncoats" in the Korean War / by McKnight, Brian Dallas

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings and backgrounds -- The short careers of soldiers -- Captivity and compromise -- Winning the hearts of soldiers -- Politicians and their careers -- The shocking refusal: July 27-October 20, 1953 -- The returns ... …”
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"We fight for peace" : twenty-three American soldiers, prisoners of war, and "turncoats" in the Korean War / by McKnight, Brian Dallas

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings and backgrounds -- The short careers of soldiers -- Captivity and compromise -- Winning the hearts of soldiers -- Politicians and their careers -- The shocking refusal: July 27-October 20, 1953 -- The returns ... …”
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William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War by Walther, Eric H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.…”
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The next justice repairing the Supreme Court appointments process / by Eisgruber, Christopher L.

Table of Contents: “…A broken process in partisan times -- Why judges cannot avoid political controversy -- The incoherence of judicial restraint -- Politics at the court -- Why judges sometimes agree when politicians cannot -- Judicial philosophies and why they matter -- How presidents have raised the stakes -- Should the Senate defer to the president? …”
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The next justice repairing the Supreme Court appointments process / by Eisgruber, Christopher L.

Table of Contents: “…A broken process in partisan times -- Why judges cannot avoid political controversy -- The incoherence of judicial restraint -- Politics at the court -- Why judges sometimes agree when politicians cannot -- Judicial philosophies and why they matter -- How presidents have raised the stakes -- Should the Senate defer to the president? …”
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William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War by Walther, Eric H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.…”
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Japan's backroom politics : factions in a multiparty age / by Watanabe, Tsuneo, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the defeated one : the decline of party politicians -- The backroom : testimonies of party leadership elections -- Popularity : leadership and the people -- Money : the basis for politics -- Factions, part 1 : steps to an administration -- Factions, part 2 : background of leaders -- Multiparty age : undercurrents of the 1967 elections -- The myth of a two-party system : recommendations for a multiparty system -- The end of backroom politics : administrations in a multiparty age.…”
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Japan's backroom politics : factions in a multiparty age / by Watanabe, Tsuneo, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the defeated one : the decline of party politicians -- The backroom : testimonies of party leadership elections -- Popularity : leadership and the people -- Money : the basis for politics -- Factions, part 1 : steps to an administration -- Factions, part 2 : background of leaders -- Multiparty age : undercurrents of the 1967 elections -- The myth of a two-party system : recommendations for a multiparty system -- The end of backroom politics : administrations in a multiparty age.…”
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When illness goes public celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / by Lerner, Barron H.

Table of Contents: “…: Jimmy Piersall's mental illness -- Picturing illness : Margaret Bourke-White publicizes Parkinson's disease -- Politician as patient : John Foster Dulles battles cancer -- No stone unturned : the fight to save Brian Piccolo's life -- Persistent patient : Morris Abram as experimental subject -- Unconventional healing : Steve Mcqueen's Mexican journey -- Medicine's blind spots : the delayed diagnosis of Rita Hayworth -- Hero or victim? …”
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I did it to save my life love and survival in Sierra Leone / by Bolten, Catherine E. (Catherine Elizabeth), 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sierra Leonean emotions, Sierra Leonean war -- Understanding Makeni and nested loyalties: marginality and collaboration in the northern capital -- "I must be grateful to them for freeing me": the soldier -- "They said nobody would hide from this war": the rebel -- "I held a gun but I did not fire it": the student -- The government brought death, the rebels allowed us to live": the trader -- "It was the Lord who wanted me to stay": the evangelist -- "They really damaged me": the father -- "The RUF thought I was on their side": the politician -- Epilogue and conclusions: Makeni, May 2010.…”
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I did it to save my life love and survival in Sierra Leone / by Bolten, Catherine E. (Catherine Elizabeth), 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sierra Leonean emotions, Sierra Leonean war -- Understanding Makeni and nested loyalties: marginality and collaboration in the northern capital -- "I must be grateful to them for freeing me": the soldier -- "They said nobody would hide from this war": the rebel -- "I held a gun but I did not fire it": the student -- The government brought death, the rebels allowed us to live": the trader -- "It was the Lord who wanted me to stay": the evangelist -- "They really damaged me": the father -- "The RUF thought I was on their side": the politician -- Epilogue and conclusions: Makeni, May 2010.…”
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When illness goes public celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / by Lerner, Barron H.

Table of Contents: “…: Jimmy Piersall's mental illness -- Picturing illness : Margaret Bourke-White publicizes Parkinson's disease -- Politician as patient : John Foster Dulles battles cancer -- No stone unturned : the fight to save Brian Piccolo's life -- Persistent patient : Morris Abram as experimental subject -- Unconventional healing : Steve Mcqueen's Mexican journey -- Medicine's blind spots : the delayed diagnosis of Rita Hayworth -- Hero or victim? …”
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