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  The Hollow Crown - Shakespeare...

  Eliot A. Cohen

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  What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics 
   
   
   
  William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. 
   
   
   
  In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and scheming senators of Julius Caesar can teach us to better understand power and politics today. The White House, after all, is a court—with intrigue and conflict rivaling those on the Globe's stage—as is an army, a business, or a university. And each court is full of driven characters, in all their ambition, cruelty, and humanity. Henry V's inspiring speeches reframe John F. Kennedy's appeal, Richard III's wantonness illuminates Vladimir Putin's brutality, and The Tempest's grace offers a window into the presidency of George Washington. 
   
   
   
  An original and incisive perspective, The Hollow Crown shows how Shakespeare's works transform our understanding of the leaders who, for good or ill, make and rule our world.

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  From Enlightenment To Revolution...

  Maximillian Robespierre, Edmund...

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  History is often concentrated into short bursts of change, with long periods of shifting before and waves of alteration afterwards. Nowhere is this more obvious than the thirty year interregnum between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. In this period, three figures stand tall; Pitt, the elder stateman who saw the need for genuine constitutionalism; Burke, the consummate parliamentarian, speaking for the glory of empire; and Robespierre, the legendary and controversial frontman of the French Revolution.William Pitt The Elder speaks about the need for key changes to the body politic. The first speech here predates the interregnum, being from 1738, when he was merely thirty, and covers a key factor in Britain’s colonial problems for the next two centuries, being the complete internal corruption of the army.Edmund Burke represents the height of Royalist sympathy as the age of revolution gets underway. He speaks on the need for conciliation with America after the disaster of the Stamp Act and revolution, on the need to punish Warren Hastings for treating his Asian holdings as his own empire to fill with his own corruption, and on the end of an era with the passing of Marie Antoinette.Finally, the age of revolution, both industrial and political, has begun. Robespierre argues for the dignity of man; for rejecting the divinity of royal authority in favour of that of the human spirit; against the death penalty, as being below the dignity of a truly humanist state; on enemies, internal and external, who push the people to reject their own interests for those of the powerful. This is but a small selection of the man’s incredible output - in 1791 alone, he gave three hundred and twenty-eight speeches.Spitting bile and flame in his last speech, which closes this volume, Robespierre truly inaugurates the era when revolution against centuries-old powers brought their end, and their nations found their renewal.

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  Volodymyr Zelenskyy Effect The:...

  Vines Graener

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  The Zelensky Effect: New Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasia offers an in-depth exploration of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s unprecedented rise to power and his profound influence on global geopolitics. This audiobook delves into Zelenskyy’s transformation from comedian to president, shedding light on his leadership in the face of crisis and his role in reshaping the political landscape of Ukraine and Eastern Europe. 
  Through expert analysis, the audiobook examines Zelenskyy’s impact on the international stage, highlighting key themes such as resilience, democratic values, and Eastern European politics. It also explores the broader implications of his leadership on global security, Russia-Ukraine relations, and the future of Eurasian geopolitics. 
  Whether you're interested in international relations, Eastern European history, or contemporary political leadership, this audiobook provides fresh insights and unique perspectives. Ideal for listeners seeking to understand the dynamics of modern Eastern Europe, the rise of political outsiders, and the future of Eurasia, The Zelensky Effect is a must-listen for anyone passionate about the rapidly changing world order.

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  Storming the Ivory Tower - How a...

  Richard Corcoran, Christopher F....

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  Covid alerted the nation to the reality that K-12 schools were infested with ideologues bent on indoctrinating children. Then, three years after the beginning of the pandemic, the response to Hamas's genocidal assault on Israel made Americans aware that the same tumor had wholly sickened our country's colleges and universities. Now, conservatives—and increasingly, moderates and old-school liberals—want to know exactly how the radical left captured higher education. 
   
   
   
  Florida has been the vanguard in the war to restore sanity to higher education. And Richard Corcoran has been one of its commanding generals. When Corcoran was Florida's education commissioner, he was the point person for reopening schools and banning mask mandates. He triumphed. Then, he was given a herculean task: remaking a college overrun by radicalism and cancel culture. In 2023, he moved into the president's office in Sarasota, took on a campus mob, and challenged a media firestorm. 
   
   
   
  Just a year later, Corcoran achieved the seemingly impossible. He turned around New College of Florida. Now, free speech is protected. Violence and anti-Semitism are abolished. DEI bureaucracy is eliminated. And enrollment records are being broken. Storming the Ivory Tower is the story of how Corcoran is winning the fight for freedom in hostile territory and how others can join.

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  The Case for Basic Income -...

  Jamie Swift, Elaine Power

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  Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation—an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income.
  		 
  Could a basic income guarantee be the way forward to democratize security and intervene where the market economy and social programs fail? Jamie Swift and Elaine Power scrutinize the politics and the potential behind a radical proposal in a post-pandemic world: that wealth should be built by a society, not individuals. And that we all have an unconditional right to a fair share.
  		 
  In these pages, Swift and Power bring to the forefront the deeply personal stories of Canadians who participated in the 2017–2019 Ontario Basic Income Pilot; examine the essential literature and history behind the movement; and answer basic income’s critics from both the right and left.

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  Summary of Newt Gingrich’s...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Newt Gingrich’s Beyond Biden 
    
  The 2020 presidential election was one of the most divisive in American history. While Joe Biden came out victorious, the extremely small margin of victory demonstrated the large portion of Americans who wanted to return to conservative values. 
  Newt Gingrich is one of those people, and as he explains in Beyond Biden, the conservative electoral base has nothing to fear - following Biden, the Democratic Party is set for a collapse. Too long have they waged an unjust war against hard-working, traditionalist Americans, using incomprehensible weapons like Critical Race Theory and woke ideologies. Even with the help of the liberal media, Democrats are pushing their moderate followers to the fringes. 
  To protect our country, both domestically and abroad, we must return to, and embrace, our core American values: freedom, liberty, and a working spirit - the exact same values that made this country great in the first place. 
   

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