Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times.
This comprehensive history of the Central Intelligence Agency, from the Cold War through the War on Terror, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, who interviewed hundreds of former CIA employees (including several directors), and who pored through "the Company's" ar ...
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This comprehensive history of the Central Intelligence Agency, from the Cold War through the War on Terror, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, who interviewed hundreds of former CIA employees (including several directors), and who pored through "the Company's" ar ...
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Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times.
Hoping to make her adored Papa proud of her and make her white classmates notice her "Magic Mind" and not her black skin, Lena vows to win the Bible-quoting contest. Winning does not bring Lena what she expected. Instead of honor, violence and death erupt and strike the one she loves most dearly. Le ...
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Ranging over several centuries, this history of utopian thought describes the thinkers and the dreamers (and their visions of an ideal social order) who have left their mark on the thought of later generations.