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(0)James Reston
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English
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Included in this frequently inspiring and often poignant volume of plays, originally published in 1985, are works penned in the same era as the Vietnam War from some of the most revered playwrights in the national canon. The challenging work within-from playwrights like Terrence McNally, Emily Mann and David Rabe-reflects on the social and political ethos of this pivotal moment for America. Plays include Streamers by David Rabe, Botticelli by Terrence...
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English
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This Eyewitness Account of the Impeachment Process against Richard Nixon Holds Lessons for Our Own Time.
James Reston, Jr., took leave from teaching during the summer of 1973 to witness the Senate Watergate Committee hearings as he worked with his coauthor on what became the first full-length book to advocate for Richard Nixon's impeachment. During the following summer, he returned to Washington, DC, to witness the final act of the impeachment...
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English
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For the last four hundred years, Galileo has fascinated and inspired writers, theologians, playwrights, historians, and scientists. As the founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. Here James Reston, Jr., presents a lively, dramatic portrait of Galileo, one that not only takes us to the heart of this passionate, embattled, prickly, vain, arrogant,...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 260 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
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In 1521, the Catholic Church, through the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, issued an edict calling for the apprehension and punishment of Luther as a heretic. The edict was akin to a death sentence. If Luther had been caught, he would almost inevitably have been burned at the stake. His fragile movement would have been crushed, and the nascent Reformation strangled in its cradle. Historian James Reston, Jr., recounts this crucial but little-known episode...
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Publisher
Zola Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Exclusive History Book Club edition ; first print edition.
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Historian James Reston Jr. makes the case that Texas Governor John Connally, not President John F. Kennedy, was the intended target of Lee Harvey Oswald.
7) Defenders of the faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the battle for Europe, 1520-1536
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Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxi, 407 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English