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  • The Hero in History

    by Sidney Hook ...
    A great look at the role of the hero in society, often as a driving force through history. A must read for any keen amateur historian wishing to see the big picture. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hero in History: Study in Limitation and Possibility

    by Sidney Hook ...
    Sidney Hook's The Hero in History is a penetrating analysis of the role of individual agency in shaping historical events. Engaging with thinkers like Hegel, Marx, and Carlyle, Hook explores the tension between historical determinism and the power of personal decision. He classifies "heroes" into eventful and event-making figures, arguing that while some merely participate in great events, others ... Read more

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  • Marx and the Marxists

    The Ambiguous Legacy

    by Sidney Hook ...
    In this work Sidney Hook, a distinguished scholar, examines the chief issues which have divided Marxists from non-Marxists, and Marxists from each other. This volume of exposition, comment and readings is offered as an introduction to the study of Marxism in conflicting theory and practice. A valuable collection of original source readings are provided, including "The Communist Manifesto", ... Read more

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  • The Metaphysics of Pragmatism

    by Sidney Hook ...
    Considered by some the most controversial American philosopher of contemporary times, SIDNEY HOOK (1902-1989) was infamous for the wild swing in his political thought over the course of his career, starting out as a young Marxist before the Great Depression and ending up a vehement anti-Communist in his later years. The Metaphysics of Pragmatism-Hook's first work, originally published in 1927-is ... Read more

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  • Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

    by Thomas Paine ...
    A volume of Thomas Paine's most essential works, showcasing one of American history's most eloquent proponents of democracy.Upon publication, Thomas Paine’s modest pamphlet Common Sense shocked and spurred the foundling American colonies of 1776 to action. It demanded freedom from Britain—when even the most fervent patriots were only advocating tax reform. Paine’s daring prose paved the way for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Letters of Sidney Hook

    Democracy, Communism and the Cold War

    by Sidney Hook, Edward S. Shapiro ...
    Sidney Hook (1902-1989) is known for his participation in the public debates about communism, the Soviet Union and the Cold War. These letters, drawn from the Hook collection at the Hoover Institution, provide an insight into US intellectual and political history. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism. Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial "truth," the public good, doing one's duty—these are among the ... Read more

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  • Karl Marx

    Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin, Terrell Carver ...
    Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, ... Read more

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  • The Opium of the Intellectuals

    by Raymond Aron ...
    Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling the truth about social and political reality-in all its mundane imperfections and tragic complexities.Aron ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Communist Manifesto - with full original text by Karl Marx

    by Rupert Matthews ...
    This new edition of the political classic comes with a foreword by historian Rupert Matthews and includes a number of other early works relating to 19th Century Communism.The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is a short 1848 publication written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich ... Read more

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  • The Proper Study Of Mankind

    An Anthology of Essays

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    ‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of BooksIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his best essays in which his insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of today.The full (and enormous) range of his work ... Read more

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  • The Communist Manifesto

    by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx ...
    'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' Eric HobsbawmThe Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society ... Read more

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