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Co-published with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
this book offers a critical assessment of European Union
developments since 1994. It combines the texts of the five
Paul-Henri Spaak lectures given at Harvard University in the
1994-2000 period, and a cogent analysis of the successes and
failures of the EU by Professor Andrew Moravcsik, entitled 'Europe
without Illusions.' The European Union is the most successful
voluntary international organization in world history. Europe
without Illusions explores the paradox that the EU recently
completed perhaps the most successful decade of integration in its
history, yet it continues to be widely perceived as unstable and
undemocratic. The Center for International Affairs was founded in
1958 and was renamed the Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs in 1998 in gratitude for the endowment established by
Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation. The
Center was created as a means of confronting global problems. The
Center is the largest international research center within Harvard
University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is distinctive in its
recognition that knowledge is a product not only of individual
academic research, but also of vigorous, sustained intellectual
dialogue among scholars and nonacademic experts. To stimulate this
dialogue, the Center sponsors a wide array of seminars, research
programs, workshops, and conferences.
Co-published with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
this book offers a critical assessment of European Union
developments since 1994. It combines the texts of the five
Paul-Henri Spaak lectures given at Harvard University in the
1994-2000 period, and a cogent analysis of the successes and
failures of the EU by Professor Andrew Moravcsik, entitled "Europe
without Illusions." The European Union is the most successful
voluntary international organization in world history. Europe
without Illusions explores the paradox that the EU recently
completed perhaps the most successful decade of integration in its
history, yet it continues to be widely perceived as unstable and
undemocratic. The Center for International Affairs was founded in
1958 and was renamed the Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs in 1998 in gratitude for the endowment established by
Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation. The
Center was created as a means of confronting global problems. The
Center is the largest international research center within Harvard
University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is distinctive in its
recognition that knowledge is a product not only of individual
academic research, but also of vigorous, sustained intellectual
dialogue among scholars and nonacademic experts. To stimulate this
dialogue, the Center sponsors a wide array of seminars, research
programs, workshops, and conferences.
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Gladstone (Paperback)
Roy Jenkins
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R360
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Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways.
Gladstone, by historian and eminent politician Roy Jenkins, is a full and deep portrait of a complicated man, offering a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer's art.
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of
Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw
some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning
the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and
cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russia in his later years in
office, his larger-than-life and complex personality has continued
to fascinate writers and historians. In this comprehensive
biography, Roy Jenkins faithfully presents these events, while also
managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's
character. Weaving together in-depth analysis and brilliant
historical research, Jenkins has succeeded in crafting this
magnificent one-volume account packed with insights that only a
fellow politician can convey. Bringing to life the statesman,
writer, speaker and leader, Churchill is packed with insights into
one of the most important figures of the twentieth century.
A masterly work by the "New York Times" bestselling author of
"Churchill "and "Gladstone"
A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more
than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of
his predecessors could truly be placed in contention with his
standing, and of his successors, there are so far none.
In acute, stylish prose, Roy Jenkins tackles all of the nuances and
intricacies of FDR's character. He was a skilled politician with
astounding flexibility; he oversaw an incomparable mobilization of
American industrial and military effort; and, all the while, he
aroused great loyalty and dazzled those around him with his
personal charm. Despite several setbacks and one apparent
catastrophe, his life was buoyed by the influence of Eleanor, who
was not only a wife but an adviser and one of the twentieth
century's greatest political reformers.
Nearly complete before Jenkins's death in January 2003, this volume
was finished by historian Richard Neustadt.
THROUGH THIS BOOK, YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO: * PROTECT YOUR FAMILY
CIRCLE. *TAKE LITERALLY THE WARNING FOUND IN ST. MATTHEW 7:15;
BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, BUT INWARDLY THEY ARE
RAVENING WOLVES. *TRUST GOD AND FAMILY IMPLICITY. *TREAT OTHERS AS
YOU WANT TO BE TREATED. *"BE WISE AS SERPENTS AND HARMLESS AS
DOVES."
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