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A LifeA comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron        Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe and united        Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality....

Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of WarThere have been five central crises in America&'s post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran&'s progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, and the prospect of Israel launching air strikes to stop it, are ingredients for a conflict that could...

Gregory Wills argues that Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has played a        fundamental role in the persistence of conservatism, not entirely intentionally.          Tracing the history of the seminary from the beginning to the present, Wills shows        how its foundational commitment to preserving orthodoxy was implanted...

with Other Popular MoralistsA unique edition of the sayings of Diogenes, whose biting wit and eccentricity inspired the anecdotes that express his Cynic philosophy. It includes the accounts of his immediate successors, such as Crates and Hipparchia, and the witty moral preacher Bion. The contrasting teachings of the Cyrenaics and the hedonistic...

Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11This timely book links the explosion of conspiracy theories about the U.S. government in recent years to the revelations of real government conspiracies. It traces anti-government theories from the birth of the modern state in World War I to the current war on terror....