We Hold These Truths Updating the Framers' Vision of American Democracy
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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1108845703 | 415 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Federalist remains the best single account of how American democracy is supposed to work. That said, it remains incomplete. While generations of scholars from Alexis de Tocqueville to Anthony Downs have worked hard to fill these gaps, America's constantly-changing society and political institutions continue to encounter new puzzles and challenges. We Hold These Truths provides a comprehensive survey of recent scholarship about the Framers' vision, stressing how long-established political patterns can abruptly change as voters become more polarized, and even lead to feedbacks that amplify public anger still further. Developing a theory of American democracy for the age of the internet, Trump, and polarization, this study mixes modern social science with a detailed knowledge of history, asking where the Framers' scheme has gone wrong - and what can be done to fix it.

We Are Charleston Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
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English | 2016 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0718077318 | EPUB | 4,0 mb
We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church and the wider denominational movement.

Water to the Angels William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
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English | 2015 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0062251422 | EPUB | 6,1 mb
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created-William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct-a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.

Watchmen and Philosophy A Rorschach Test
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English | 2009 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0470396857 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Within this world exists a group of crime busters, who don elaborate costumes to conceal their identity and fight crime, and an intricate Description to kill and discredit these "superheroes."

Watching the Wheels My Autobiography
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English | 2018 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 1509831932, 1509831908 | EPUB | 6,0 mb
2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of Damon Hill's coronation as Formula One World Champion. For the first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the last golden era of the sport when he took on the greats, including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, and emerged victorious as World Champion in 1996, stepping out of the shadow of his legendary father Graham Hill.