History
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
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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
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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
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"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
The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
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In The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward.
The Republic: A New Translation
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"I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text."—John Ciardi