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The Principle of Federation by P.J. Proudhon

Although it thus stands apart from the mainstream of North American views of federalism, Proudhon’s book raises questions which are posed by any federal arrangement and builds significant political tensions into the concept of federalism itself.

1. Gianni , Vernetti

Il nuovo grande gioco. Dal Giappone all'Ucraina. Viaggio lungo la frontiera tra libertà e autoritarismo

A Tokyo si discute di cambiare la Costituzione più pacifista del mondo. Taiwan costruisce nuovi rifugi e prepara una difesa a 'porcospino'. L'India festeggia i novant'anni del Dalai Lama, si scontra con il Pakistan e costruisce strade, tunnel e basi militari lungo il confine con la Cina. Iran e Israele si preparano ad un possibile 'secondo tempo' di un conflitto solo in parte concluso. L'Ucraina resiste all'aggressione della Russia, cambiando le regole della guerra moderna con droni e robot. L'Europa guarda a Washington per capire se d'ora in poi dovrà fare da sola. È la nuova sfida fra le democrazie di Europa, Asia e America e le autocrazie di Cina, Russia, Iran e con gli Stati Uniti di Trump come incognita in trasformazione. Un confronto senza esclusione di colpi che sta già mutando lo scacchiere internazionale e si svolge fra il Mar Cinese Meridionale, gli atolli del Pacifico, la catena himalayana, il subcontinente indiano, la Penisola Arabica fino a raggiungere le pianure dell'Ucraina e i mari dell'Artico. Gianni Vernetti racconta il viaggio compiuto in questi anni lungo i confini della nuova sfida fra democrazie e autocrazie: un arco di 15.000 chilometri, fra il Giappone e l'Ucraina, che è teatro del 'nuovo Grande Gioco' in grado di mutare in profondità il mondo che conoscevamo. Un itinerario affascinante che incrocia passato e presente, aneddoti storici e testimonianze dei protagonisti: leader politici, semplici cittadini, esponenti di governo, intellettuali, militari, dissidenti, spie e religiosi. Un grande reportage sul campo che ricostruisce la nuova mappa preziosa dello scenario geopolitico in rapida trasformazione.

1. Vernon L. , Kellogg

Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work

Vernon L. Kellogg's Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work is an admiring yet documentary portrait of Hoover before the presidency, presenting him as engineer, organizer, and humanitarian administrator. Written in a lucid Progressive Era prose, the book emphasizes practical intelligence, moral efficiency, and public service, tracing Hoover's rise from mining engineer to leader of Belgian relief and American food conservation during the First World War. Its literary context is the early twentieth-century civic biography: less a private life than an account of character proven through public action. Kellogg was unusually well placed to write such a study. A distinguished Stanford biologist, educator, and public intellectual, he shared with Hoover both institutional connections and wartime administrative experience. His service in relief and food organizations gave him direct knowledge of the immense logistical and ethical pressures surrounding famine prevention, wartime scarcity, and international aid. These experiences shape the book's tone: informed, earnest, and convinced that competent organization could become a form of moral leadership. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Hoover before his later political controversies, as well as students of humanitarianism, Progressive reform, and wartime administration. It offers a valuable contemporary view of how Hoover's reputation was constructed around discipline, efficiency, and service.

1. Verne W , Newton

Cambridge Spies

Three British diplomats and spies, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Guy Burgess, did everything in their power to see to it that the Soviet Union prevailed in post-WWII clashes with the United States.

1. Verne W. , Newton

Cambridge Spies

As World War II ended, dancing broke out in the streets of victorious capitals. But in Washington and Moscow, menacing ultimatums soon replaced declarations of common purpose. The music stopped, the Grand Alliance crumbled, and the Soviet Union and the United States squared off against one another. The victor in this war would be determined by the outcome of a series of geo-strategic battles. Which side would capture the Persian Gulfs oilfield's, and who would seize the Congolese uranium essential for the manufacture of atomic bombs? And whose air and naval bases would dominate the globe's vital traffic lanes from the Black Sea Straits to the Pacific Islands?Three British diplomats, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Guy Burgess, did everything in their power to see to it that the Soviet Union prevailed in these clashes. The Cambridge Spies is the first book to detail their behind-the-scenes effort to sabotage America's national security apparatus during the crucial period between 1945 and 1951 when each, at various times, served at the British embassy in Washington.The book is the result of many years of digging through the State Department and Foreign Office records overlooked by previous scholars and undiscovered by government officials responsible for "purging" such files.For the first time in history the reader can follow the Soviet spies as they work behind enemy lines to sabotage the machinery of Western foreign policy. It is also the first book written by an American on these fabled British spies, and the first to chronicle their most effective period as allied diplomats and enemy agents. The Cambridge Spies reveals the story Washington managed to cover up for forty years. Telling it at a time the work is beginning to relive the fiftieth anniversary of many of the events described in these pages will only add to its explosive impact, and spark new historical debates on issues of abiding interest and contemporary concern.

1. Vernon Bogdanor

Making the Weather

A fascinating study of six politicians who ‘made the weather’ in post-war British politics and deeply influenced all our lives without achieving his office.