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As the title of the book shows, the author swings back and forth between the high possibility of a civil war and the idea of the ability to avoid such a war. As Marche mentioned, the next civil war in America will raise from meaning, "Difference is the core of the American experience."
Books with anti-war themes have explicit anti-war messages or have been described as having significant anti-war themes or sentiments. Not all of these books have a direct connection to any particular anti-war movement. The list includes fiction and non-fiction, and books for children and younger readers.
The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, as well as a national bestseller.. Abraham Verghese, reviewing the book in the New York Times described it as "a brilliant, thoughtful, timely and unsettling book whose greatest merit is that it will rattle jingoists, pacifists, moralists, nihilists, politicians and ...
The book rejects the idea that white supremacist violence is only done by lone wolves. [8] Although the book was written before the Unite the Right rally, [9] it provides a history of the movements that lead to the rally. [10] [11] Belew traces William Luther Pierce and his 1978 novel The Turner Diaries to the rise of white supremacists. [12]
Jeffry Wert's interest in history first began after an eighth grade school field trip to the Gettysburg Battlefield.After high school he graduated cum laude with a B.A. from Lock Haven University, and a M.A. from The Pennsylvania State University, both in History.
In War Without Mercy, Dower, emeritus professor at MIT, examines the Pacific Campaign in the Second World War through a racial lens. [5] He argues that the fighting between the US and the Japanese be seen as a race war, as evidenced in "songs, slogans, propaganda reports, secret documents, Hollywood movies, the mass media and quotes from soldiers, leader and politicians".
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Interventions: A Life in War and Peace is a memoir by former Secretary-General of the United Nations and 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kofi Annan. The book, published in 2012, focuses on the workings of the United Nations Secretariat and the conditions under which the Secretary General has to make decisions.