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This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the current debates and tensions within American Catholicism, which are the result of the American Catholic confrontation with historical change that occurred between 1964 and 1974 and gave rise to the current division between liberals and conservatives in America's largest church....

The Life and Mind of Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most...

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Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary        group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides        them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as        decisively as they anticipate the modern world: almost all of the histories...

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