Winter & Books When Virtue Wed Terror By Eugen Weber IF you want t? learn where the paranoid element in French politics comes from, read David Andress' The Terror: The Merciless War for...
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Writers & Writing Divided We Stand By Eugen Weber ETYMOLOGICALLY, religion is what holds us together. Religio is the bond that links members of a church or some other assembly, like a...
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Summer Books The Indifferent Planet By Eugen Weber Globalization is shrinking the world, leveling the universal playing field, flattening our planet by abolishing hitherto unavoidable...
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WINTER BOOKS The Other United States By Eugen Weber IN 1693, William Perm sketched out a dream: a united Europe. Through the 18th and 19th centuries a trickle of other visionaries—like...
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Our Greatest Diplomat The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin By Gordon S. Wood Penguin. 299 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Eugen Weber Professor of history emeritus, UCLA; author, "The Western...
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Blurred Vision After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order By Emmanuel Todd Columbia. 233 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Eugen Weber Professor of history emeritus, UCLA; author, "The...
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A Clatter of Clashing Claims Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World By Margaret MacMillan Random. 560 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Eugen Weber Professor emeritus of history, UCLA;...
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Writers & Witing An Archeology of Prejudice By Eugen Weber After Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, in 332 BCE, it quickly became an important center of Hellenic trade, science and...
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Out with the Jews! The Holocaust, The French and the Jews By Susan Zuccotti Basic. 400 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Eugen Weber Joan Palevsky Professor of Modern European History, UCLA; author, "My...
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