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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)
David M. Kennedy
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
An Iluminating Book
+ Wonderful book on the depression
+ Magnificent
+ Great Non-Romanticized Story-Telling
+ Freedom From Fear
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ROOTS OF LIBERTY, THE
ELLIS SANDOZ
Liberty Fund Inc., 2008
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Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman Papers)
George MacDonald Fraser
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999
Filthy Groveling Narcissistic Swine!
+ Flashman comes to America (unwillingly, of course)
+ Challenging, brave and brilliant.
+ Histories greatest scoundrel rides again!!!
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
Cokie Roberts
William Morrow, 2008
History jumps off the page
+ Ladies of Liberty
+ The lesser knowns are more interesting
+ Ladys of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation.
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Freedom from Addiction: The Chopra Center Method for Overcoming Destructive Habits
Deepak Chopra, M.D., David Simon
HCI, 2007
Freedom From Addiction
+ Freedom from Addiction
This book is amazing!!!! The way David Simmon refamed the 12 step program is remarkable and much more user friendly for the general public...it's very nice how he and Deepak explain why people become addicted and that it is not something you need to see as an addiction for the rest of your life. ...
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Back Bay Books, 1995
"Study history or it will repeat itself"
+ A required read for anyone going to South Africa
+ A great look into a class act of a human being,
+ great men can write!
+ "it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle"
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Freedom Just Around the Corner : A New American History: 1585-1828
Walter A. McDougall, 2005
The Textbook You Wish You'd Had in School
+ Informative history
+ Excellent Research - Great Writing
+ Like a Novel
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Give Me Liberty!, Second Edition (One-Volume Hardcover Edition)
Eric Foner
W. W. Norton, 2007
Best U.S. History Survey Textbook on the market today
+ A US History interesting book
"We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing." - Abraham Lincoln (1864)
Lincoln's aphorism is the pivotal crux of U.S. history explored by Professor Foner in this first-rate textbook for upper-grade high school students or freshman and sophomore ...
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Libertys Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote The Federalist, Defined the Constitution, and Made ...
Michael Meyerson
Basic Books, 2008
Wonderful story
+ The American Revolution, rallied and solidified by The Federalist!
+ A Good Introduction to The Federalist Papers
+ Excellent Blend of History And Legal Analysis
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
James M. McPherson
Oxford University Press, USA, 2003
Dale
+ Excellent
+ Marred by political correctness
+ If you read one book on the civil war
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Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Volume 1
Eric Foner
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
Freedom, the oldest of clichés and the most modern of aspirations, is the unifying theme in the new survey of American history by Eric Foner, the well-known historian and author of The Story of American Freedom . As the fundamental idea behind Americans' sense of themselves as individuals and as a nation, freedom is deeply embedded in the record of our history and the language of everyday life. ...
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Freedom in Exile
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho
Abacus, 1998
Hearbreaking
+ An intense account of the barbarism experienced in the name modernisation
+ Informative
+ Very Good Read on the Cultural Revolution
+ Great Book
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War and Liberty: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present
Geoffrey Stone
W. W. Norton, 2007
An essential work on the challenges of preserving civil liberties in wartime by a preeminent scholar of constitutional law. Winner of eight national awards for his magisterial work Perilous Times , Geoffrey R. Stone has now created a condensed, updated, and more accessible history of civil liberties in wartime. With an in-depth examination of how our constitutional rights have fared during the ...
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Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm, 1994
The Hobo Philosopher
+ An Honest and Sincere Analysis
+ Essential Delve Into What Freedom Is
+ One of the Greatest Socialist Thinkers of the 20th Century...
+ time to remember history
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Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Critical Perspectives Series)
Paulo Freire
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001
teacher to the world
+ Seminal Work relevant to reuniting America and stabilizing the Earth
+ Mezmorizing!
This small work is packed with wonderfully articulate insights, philosophical, political and practical, about education and how we should go about teaching young students. Paulo Friere is an enemy of oppression, coercion and neo-liberalism, a proponent of the human spirit and the possibility of a ...
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