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Trading Up
Why a massive trade deal is the key to the Asia
pivot -- and to America's future.
pivot -- and to America's future.
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John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
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2016
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7 editions
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The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square
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2004
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8 editions
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The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power
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2006
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13 editions
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Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America
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What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
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2019
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7 editions
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City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College
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1994
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8 editions
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The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did)
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2008
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10 editions
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Too Good to Be True: The Outrageous Story
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1990
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2 editions
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India: The Challenge of Change
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1981
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2 editions
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“Adams derived bitter satisfaction from the new administration’s peccadilloes. He sent letters to Charles and to Abby describing the White House fracas over Peggy Eaton, a tavernkeeper’s daughter whom Jackson’s secretary of war and close confidante, John Eaton, had married and whom the wives of other cabinet members and of Vice President Calhoun refused to meet. Secretary”
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
“He would not bend on anything he considered a matter of principle, no matter what the possible cost to his own happiness. And with Adams, practically everything was a matter of principle.”
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
“To know [John Quincy Adams] is not to love him. It is, however, to admire him greatly.”
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
― John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
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