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- Category: EA July 2011
- Created on 24 July 2011
How Paris Taught Modernity to 19th-Century America ------- In his new best-seller, a renowned and 
popular American historian unearths and brings vividly to life a rich high point in France’s tradition of incubating the talents of Americans who go on to change their own nation’s destiny. His book fills a gap of neglect. Until now, Americans have generally viewed their nation’s cultural and intellectual debts to France as arising from two key periods – in the late 18th century and early part of the 20th century. The first involved the French role in the American revolution through military assistance to General George Washington and via the Enlightenment’s inspiration for the Founding Fathers’ revolutionary concept of freedom. The second period featured Paris as an artistic hot-house for expatriate American artists and writers such as Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.
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- Category: EA February 2011
- Created on 11 February 2011
Striving to bring back the U.S. from economic slump and recover from an opposition victory in recent Congressional elections, President Barack Obama has put his political capital behind the idea that the U.S. can rebound economically by pushing innovation and thus increasing exports.- Article Information
- Category: EA October 2010
- Created on 29 September 2010
"IF U.S. REDUCES TO “SECURITY ON A SHOESTRING,” HOW WILL EUROPE LIKE IT?
The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era.
By Michael Mandelbaum
PublicAffairs, 2010, 282 Pages.
We are now deep enough into the 21st century that its chroniclers have already recalibrated its turning-point date. No longer is it September 11, 2001, but September 15, 2008 – the day of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the official advent of the Great Global Recession.
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- Category: August -- September 2010
- Created on 26 July 2010
The Dirty and Dangerous Details of Nuclear Technology Smuggling
Peddling Peril
By David Albright
Free Press, 2010, 254 Pages
Reviewed by Kurt Moss
This account of the global clandestine traffic of nuclear-weapons technology is written by David Albright (no relation to Madeline), one of the most knowledgeable American experts on proliferation. Albright minces no words about his conviction that the most dangerous threat today to international security is the threat of nuclear weapons falling into “the wrong hands:” terrorists, criminals or irresponsible governments. He is equally clear about what needs to be done in self-defense against this threat. Western democracies and their allies should not rely on pre-emptive military action as their first line of defense against nuclear-armed rogues. Instead, Albright argues that Western democracies and other responsible governments should make it a security imperative to combat the global nuclear smuggling that is spreading this weapons technology amid comparative indifference to this particular dangerous threat.
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- Category: August -- September 2010
- Created on 26 July 2010
Gaullist Modernization France had some Seminal Roots in Much-Reviled Third Republic and Vichy – A Revisionist View
France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era
By Philip Nord
Princeton University Press, 2010, 383 pages.
Reviewed by Jennifer Wnuk
Even Charles de Gaulle, almost universally hailed as the savior of modern France, is subject to the revisionist diligence of Philip Nord, a Harvard historian who has written a meaty book challenging some of the conventional wisdom about the sources of France’s postwar modernization.
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