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Author
Series
Confessiones volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A third volume in a series of translations from Saint Augustine's "Confessiones" contends that Augustine sought to understand humanity's capacity for evil despite its good nature, analyzing three founding biblical sins.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lipper/Viking
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers. Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Assesses the role of the atomic bomb in altering the nature of American democracy, tracing the secrecy of the Manhattan Project, the ways the bomb changed the institution of the presidency, and the state of war alert that has existed since its invention.
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