Tabla de Contenidos: “…Historical Background on Stalin's Great Purge -- Overview of the Great Purge / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Stalin's Five-Year Plan Has Created Hardship / Gareth Jones -- Interrogations During the Purges Involved Torture / Aleksandr I. …”

Sumario

“…This book contains studies of four of the most influential political theorists in the Western tradition: Machiavelli, whose name is a byword for duplicity, Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, Mill, liberal thinker and champion of individual liberty, and Marx, whose legacy has affected the lives of millions. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Myths of the White Republic -- The Myth of the Frontier -- The Myth of the Founding -- Civil War Mythologies -- Lincoln and Liberation -- Confederate Founding: Civil War as Culture War -- The Lost Cause: Redemption and the White Reunion -- The Nation Transformed: From Reconstruction to the Good War -- Industrialization, Vigilantism and the Imperial Frontier -- The Great Exception: The New Deal and National Myth -- The Myth of the Good War Myth: Platoon Movies and the Reconception of American Nationality -- American Apotheosis: From Kennedy's New Frontier to Reagan's Morning in America -- The New Frontier: Savage War and Social Justice -- Cultural Revolution: The Sixties, the Movement and the Great Society -- Back in the Saddle: Reagan, Neoliberalism and the War Against the Sixties -- Rising Tide: Climate Change and the Fossil Fuel Frontier -- Cowboys and Aliens: The Global War on Terror -- The Age of Culture War -- The Obama Presidency: The Myth of the Movement and the Tea Party Reaction -- Equalizers: The Gun Rights Movement and Culture-War Conservatism -- The Trump Redemption: Make America Great Again -- Trump in the White House: The President as Insurgent -- Imagining Civil War: The 2020 Election -- "The Last President of the Confederacy": Trump's Lost Cause -- National Myth and the Crisis of Democracy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sources for Alexander the Great; 3. The Macedonian background; 4. The Persian enemy; 5. …”

“…Great Spanish stories…”