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“…The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture…”
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“…Presentación del editor: "En un momento de la historia en que el odio sale de los márgenes para instalarse en el centro del discurso político, este libro no solo construye un marco teórico para entender uno de los grandes fenómenos de nuestro tiempo, sino que explica desde África, América, Asia, Europa y Oriente Medio las historias de sus protagonistas. …”

“…This biography of Henry Kissinger, America's most controversial Secretary of State, draws on 150 interviews - including more than 24 extensive sessions with Kissinger - this biography takes Kissinger from his childhood as a presecuted Jew in Nazi Germany through to his career as Secretary of State and his present job as a globe-trotting business consultant. …”

“…Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity, reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in America. Himmerlfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. …”

“…Thomas Kemeny made a career at some of the best ad agencies in America. In this book he shows how he got in, how he's stayed in, and how you can do it too. …”