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Richard Kreitner

    Richard Kreitner befasst sich mit dem Wesen der amerikanischen Geschichte und Politik und untersucht die Komplexität von Spaltungen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Union. Seine Arbeit dringt tief in die gesellschaftlichen Kräfte ein, die Nationen formen, und bietet scharfsinnige Einblicke in die Dynamik, die zu Spaltungen und Trennungen führt. Kreitner versucht, die verborgenen Erzählungen und unausgesprochenen Wahrheiten aufzudecken, die unter der Oberfläche der politischen Landschaft liegen. Sein Ansatz ist analytisch und doch fesselnd und lädt die Leser ein, über das bleibende Erbe der Vergangenheit für die Gegenwart nachzudenken.

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    Break It Up
    • Break It Up

      • 496 Seiten
      • 18 Lesestunden
      3,7(28)Abgeben

      The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn't limited to the South or the nineteenth century. With a scholar's command and a journalist's curiosity, Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region. Each New England town after Plymouth was a secession from another; the thirteen colonies viewed their Union as a means to the end of securing independence, not an end in itself; George Washington feared separatism west of the Alleghenies; Aaron Burr schemed to set up a new empire; John Quincy Adams brought a Massachusetts town's petition for dissolving the United States to the floor of Congress; and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery pact with the devil. From the "cold civil war" that pits partisans against one another to the modern secession movements in California and Texas, the divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have centuries-old roots in the earliest days of our Republic. Richly researched and persuasively argued, Break It Up will help readers make fresh sense of our fractured age

      Break It Up
    • Who is Hillary Clinton? is a fascinating time-lapse depiction of the leading Democratic presidential candidate as seen from the left. But it is also much more than that. A carefully-edited anthology of The Nation's coverage of Clinton's career, it's a rigorous and painstaking study of one of our most enigmatic public figures. It is a history of our time, and a must-read for the 2016 election season, providing perspective on the woman who could become the first female President of the United States.Contributors include David Corn, Erica Jong, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Tomasky, William Greider, Ari Berman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Chris Hayes, Jessica Valenti, Richard Kim, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Michelle Goldberg, and many more.

      Who is Hillary Clinton?
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      • 240 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden
      3,6(303)Abgeben

      This practical armchair travel guide explores eighty of the most iconic literary locations from all over the globe that you can actually visit.

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