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On November 8th, 1926 Antonio Gramsci, a newspaper editor, Marxist thinker, and elected member of the parliament for the Italian Communist Party was arrested by the Italian Fascist police despite his parliamentary immunity, and sent to the Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State. The party was outlawed by Benito Mussolini during his regime, and Mr. Gramsci was sentenced to twenty years in prison for subversive propaganda against the power of state. He was relocated from one penitentiary onto another for precautionary measures; Mr. Stalin himself made several attempts to negotiate ...

You won’t find this American Founder on a coin or a Broadway musical. But Elias Boudinot (1740–1821) left an enduring mark on history. Hamilton’s mentor. Washington’s friend. President of the Continental Congress, Revolutionary War veteran, legislator, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist. Boudinot shaped governments, schools, churches, and charities. Now, in the first biography dedicated to his life in 50 years, Ordinary Greatness invites readers to discover the compelling story of this Founder’s dedication to faith and liberty amid volatile times. Set in times of ...

The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism.

Derruba mal-entendidos arraigados, sem eliminar a pluralidade de interpretações possíveis a um dos capítulos fundamentais da história da humanidade. Neste livro, pensamento e ação não são vistos de forma estanque. O autor rejeita, por exemplo, a idéia de que o Iluminismo se limitou a uma elaboração teórica, ao passo que a Revolução teria sido apenas a sua consequência prática.

An exciting account and analysis of Lenin's role in the Russian Revolution and the creation of the Soviet system. How did a revolutionary leader who was frequently surprised by events— and was often compelled to observe them from abroad—finally seize power in a bloodless coup? This study, besides charting his rise to power, examines Lenin’s propagandist skill in crafting resonant slogans to fit every changing situation. He made failure look like success, and won the debate while seeming to lose it. Lenin’s legacy of government by propaganda still survives in Putin’s ‘sovereign ...

A book that examines war fiction as told in books and films. My own works are mentioned as well as powerful writers working within that field and a look at the history of such writing.

A study of Wordsworth, Helen Maria Williams and Sensibility, and the effect of this literary liaison on his contemporary reputation. Why did Wordsworth write his first published poem to Helen Maria Williams? What role did she play in forming his views of poetry, and of the French Revolution? Why was Wordsworth able to recite in 1820 a poem by Miss Williams that he first read in 1790? Was his own poetical sensibility comparable with that of the older woman? Did the reception of Wordsworth’s *Poems, in Two Volumes* by Francis Jeffrey and others—as ‘puerile’, ‘namby-pamby’, ‘...