Patrick Pearse, an important Irish journalist, educator, and artist, came to play the pivotal role in the Easter Rising of 1916. Here Sean Farrell Moran examines Pearse within the context of contemporary Irish politics and culture to explain how this unlikely revolutionary became the spokesman of the violent forces within the nationalist movement.
The Memoirs of Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland 1982 - 1994
When Mauno Koivisto was elected president of Finland in 1982, Leonid Brezhnev was still in the Kremlin and Ronald Reagan had been the U.S. president for a year. Relations between the superpowers were at low ebb, and there seemed little prospect of improvement. A "Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance" with the USSR had been ......
Careful not to endow the Revolutionary generation with mythical proportions of virtue, the author shows how Arnold suffered because of his lack of political savvy in dealing with those who attacked his honor and reputation. He traces Arnold's life from his difficult childhood through his grueling w
Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics
Offering a critical analysis of Louis Farrakhan's ascent to national influence, the author argues that the minister's rise to prominence is a function of race and reaction in contemporary America. He probes the origins and significance of Farrakhan in American politics.
The Guide to the Presidency is an extensive study of the most important office of the U.S. political system. Its two volumes describe the history, workings and people involved in this office from Washington to Clinton. The thirty-seven chapters of the Guide , arranged into seven distinct subject areas (ranging from the origins of the office to the ......
From September 1862 until May 1865, Major William Watson served as surgeon with the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, which fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and elsewhere. Over the course of three years at war, he wrote 91 letters to his family, in which he describes his own war against death and ......
Answers questions surrounding Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, and puts this information into the broader perspective of McVeigh's childhood, his education, military service, and his efforts to find meaning and purpose in life. This biography offers details of Tim's life factors that contributed to his startling transformation.
Brave, humane, and generous ...still he was only a brave, humane, and generous rebel; curse on his virtues, they've undone this country. --Member of British Parliament Lord North, upon hearing of General Richard Montgomery's death in battle against the British At 3 a.m. on December 31, 1775, a band of desperate men stumbled through a raging ......
