Selected short stories of Irwin Shaw by Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984

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Franklin of Philadelphia by Wright, Esmond

Table of Contents: “…A tradesman in the age of reason -- A city upon a hill -- Journeyman printer -- we, the middling people -- The old England man -- The prime mover -- Two views of empire -- One community with one interest -- The ungrateful incendiary -- Bonhomme Richard -- Plenipotentiary for the congress -- Patriarch of free men -- Father of all the Yankees?…”


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Blasphemy : verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie by Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006

Table of Contents: “…The origins of the offense -- The Jewish trial of Jesus -- Christianity transforms blasphemy -- Compelling heretics -- Protestantism rediscovers blasphemy -- The fires of Smithfield -- Socinian anti-Trinitarians -- The Ranters : antinomianism run amok -- The early English Quakers -- Christianity becomes the law of the land -- Early colonial America : Gorton and the Quakers -- America from 1660 to 1800 -- England's Augustan age of toleration -- Blasphemy and obscenity -- The "Age of reason"? -- Eaton to Carlile : deism for the people -- Carlile's shopmen and free expression -- Early American state cases -- England reconsiders the law of blasphemy -- English prosecutions of the 1840s -- Bible burning and a debate revived -- Bradlaugh, Foote, and Coleridge's decency test -- The age of John W. …”


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Dissent : the history of an American idea by Young, Ralph, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Dissent and America -- The "free aire of a new world" -- Dissent in an age of reason -- Revolution -- Discord in the new republic -- Slavery and its discontents -- Reformers and dissidents -- Expansion and conflict -- Dissent imperils the union -- A nation divides -- Liberation and suppression -- Protest and conflict in the West -- Workers of the world unite! …”


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The political life of Abraham Lincoln by Blumenthal, Sidney, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Timeline of Major Events ; Cast of Major Characters ; The Slave ; The Reader ; The Age of Reason ; The Slasher ; Paradise Lost ; Old Man Eloquent ; The Springfield Lyceum ; The Rivals ; The Romance ; The Prophet ; The Duelist ; Coup d'État ; Infidels ; Great Expectations ; Ranchero Spotty ; The Hayseed ; The Firm ; The Spoils ; A Hundred Keys…”


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