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  So Help Me God - The Founding...

  Forrest Church

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  The author of The American Creed tells “the story of our nation’s historical encounters with God and culture” (Peter J. Gomes, New York Times bestselling author). 
   
  Today’s dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a revelatory look at our nation’s birth, Forrest Church recreates our first great culture war—a tumultuous, nearly forgotten conflict that raged from George Washington’s presidency to James Monroe’s. 
   
  Religion was the most divisive issue in the nation’s early presidential elections. Battles raged over numerous issues while the bible and the Declaration of Independence competed for American affections. The religious political wars reached a vicious peak during the War of 1812; the American victory drove New England’s Christian right to withdraw from electoral politics, thereby shaping our modern sense of church-state separation. No longer entangled, both church and state flourished. 
   
  Forrest Church has written a rich, page-turning history, a new vision of our earliest presidents’ beliefs that stands as a reminder and a warning for America today. 
   
  “An illuminating study of the great tangle of our time. If we look back to our early years, we may well find a way forward.” —Jon Meacham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of His Truth is Marching On 
   
  “In this beautifully crafted and timely work, the aptly named Church takes us through the complex thoughts and actions of the nation’s founders in a way that will give pause to most readers . . . This is an important work that delights and informs.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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  American politics

  JD Lovil

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  Politics is a mess. 
  If we want our country to survive, we have to find some solutions. Let's argue about it, apply Occam's Razor to figure out the best solutions, and get it done! 
  If you are concerned about immigration, social programs, or freedom in general, you need to read this book. It might give you something to think about.Get this book now, and start your quest to find the answers.

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  Cancel Culture - The Latest...

  Alan M. Dershowitz

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  Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his steadfast and consistent championing of those same principles, and his famed "shoe-on-the-other-foot test," to those who have been "cancelled" for any number of faults, both real and imagined. Cancel Culture is a defense of due process, free speech, and even-handedness in the application of judgment. It makes the case for restraint and care in decisions about whom and what to cancel, boycott, deplatform, and bar from public life, and offers recommendations for when, why, and to what degree these steps may be appropriate, as long as objective, fair-minded criteria can be determined and met. While Dershowitz argues against the worst excesses of cancel culture, he also acknowledges that its defenders ostensibly try to use it to create meaningful, positive change, and notes that cancelling may itself be a constitutionally protected form of free speech.In the end, Cancel Culture represents an icon in the defense of free speech and due process reckoning with the greatest challenge and threat to these rights since the rise of McCarthyism.

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  The Nazi Spy Ring in America -...

  Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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  The Nazi Spy Ring in America tells the story of Hitler's attempts to interfere in American affairs by spreading anti-Semitic propaganda, stealing military technology, and mapping US defenses.This fast-paced history provides essential insight into the role of espionage in shaping American perceptions of Germany in the years leading up to US entry into World War II. Fascinating and thoroughly researched, The Nazi Spy Ring in America sheds light on a now-forgotten but significant episode in the history of international relations and the development of the FBI.At the center of the story is Leon Turrou, the FBI agent who helped bring down the Nazi spy ring in a case that quickly transformed into a national sensation. The arrest and prosecution of four members of the ring was a high-profile case with all the trappings of fiction: fast cars, louche liaisons, a murder plot, a Manhattan socialite, and a ringleader codenamed Agent Sex. Part of the story of breaking the Nazi spy ring is also the rise and fall of Turrou, whose talent was matched only by his penchant for publicity, which eventually caused him to run afoul of J. Edgar Hoover's strict codes of conduct.

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  Leviathan - Ideas That Are...

  Thomas Hobbes

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  Leviathan concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.   
  Contents:  
  Of Man 
  Of Sense 
  Of Imagination 
  Of the Consequence or Train of Imagination 
  Of Speech 
  Of Reason and Science 
  Of the Ends or Resolutions of Discourse 
  Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual; and Their Contrary Defects 
  Of the Several Subject of Knowledge 
  Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness 
  Of the Difference of Manners 
  Of Religion 
  Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts 
  Of Other Laws of Nature 
  Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated 
  Of Commonwealth 
  Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth 
  Of the Rights of Sovereigns by Institution 
  Of Dominion Paternal and Despotical 
  Of the Liberty of Subjects 
  Of Systems Subject Political and Private 
  Of the Public Ministers of Sovereign Power 
  Of Counsel 
  Of Civil Laws 
  Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations 
  Of Punishments and Rewards 
  Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative 
  Of the Kingdom of God by Nature 
  Of a Christian Commonwealth 
  Of the Principles of Christian Politics 
  Of the Signification in Scripture of Kingdom of God, of Holy, Sacred, and Sacrament 
  Of the Signification in Scripture of the Word Church 
  Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Moses, the High Priests, and the Kings of Judah 
  Of the Office of Our Blessed Saviour 
  Of Power Ecclesiastical 
  Of What Is Necessary for a Man's Reception into the Kingdom of Heaven 
  Of the Kingdom of Darkness 
  Of Spiritual Darkness from Misinterpretation of Scripture 
  Of Demonology and Other Relics of the Religion of the Gentiles 
  Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy and Fabulous Traditions 
  Of the Benefit That Proceedeth from Such Darkness, and to Whom It Accrueth

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  Leo Tolstoy: The Short Stories -...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Leo Tolstoy: The Short Stories includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 5 greatest short stories in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators 
   
  This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section. 
   
  The Coffee-House of Surat – A coffee-house in Surat, India, is a meeting place for where many travellers from all parts of the world. This hushed setting acts as the backdrop to a story of religion, beauty, deities, and the importance of faith. 
   
  Master and Man – A story of capitalism, greed, and its dangers, set amongst the Russian countryside and a bitter battle for land. 
   
  How Much Land Does a Man Need? – A story focused on themes that Tolstoy continually returned to: greed, charity, life and death. 
   
  Alyosha the Pot – Alyosha falls in love with Ustinja, a young girl who cooks for the merchant's family. Eventually he asks Ustinja to marry him, but his father scolds him and tells him that marriage will come when and with whom the father chooses only for tragedy to soon strike. 
   
  Ivan the Fool – Though his brothers are easily tempted by money and military power, unsophisticated Ivan, with his simple way of life, becomes the true hero of the story.

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