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  • God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

    Jonathan D. Spence

    Paperback

    "A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."--Washington Post Book World

  • At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995

    George F. Kennan

    Paperback

    “Thoughtful critiques of many of the major issues confronting American foreign policymakers in the 1980s and early ‘90s. . . .Kennan’s voice is unique, tempered by three decades of life in Stalinist Europe and informed by a deep, unmatched knowledge of Russia’s people and history.” —Matthew DallekBoston Book Review

  • John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism

    Alan Ryan, Edwin Burrage Child

    Paperback

    When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives,...

  • Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

    David Schoenbaum

    Paperback

    Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, David Schoenbaum shows how Hitler improvised a program that apparently offered something to everyone--above all, the mirage of a classless society.

  • The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means, and Opportunity

    Dan E. Moldea

    Paperback

    "Carefully reasoned . . . dramatic. . . . [Moldeas] book should be read, not so much for the irrefutability of its conclusions as for the way the author has brought order out of a chaotic tale and turned an appalling tatter of history into an emblem of our misshapen times."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times