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William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Издател: Liberty Fund

"When democracy turns, as it often does, into a corrupt plutocracy, both national decadence and social revolution are being prepared." So wrote the Irish-born historian, W. E. H. Lecky (1838–1903) in this devastating assault on mass democracy. Lecky spoke for the landed gentry and the upper middle classes of late Victorian England when he

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Издател: The American Enterprise Institute

“Dictatorships and Double Standards" is an essay by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, publishedin the November 1979 issue of Commentary Magazine, which criticized the foreign policy of the Carter administration. It is also the title of a 270 page book written by Kirkpatrick in 1982. The article in Commentary Magazine in 1979 is credited with leading

John Dickinson, Richard Henry Lee

Издател: Liberty Fund Inc.

Two series of letters that have been described as “the wellsprings of nearly all ensuing debate on the limits of governmental power in the United States” are collected in this volume. The writings include Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania - the “farmer” being the gifted and courageous statesman John Dickinson and Letters from the

Charles Mackay

Издател: Three Rivers Press

Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and

George Washington

Издател: Liberty Fund

George Washington: A Collection is an important addition to the literature on the American Revolution. The book provides a splendid introduction to Washington and his political beliefs, to the events of the Revolution through which he lived, and to the eighteenth-century world. —Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology George