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“patrick o'day”

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  • Shot at Dawn Jesse Short · Étaples, 1917 · Politics of Military Justice

    by Patrick O'Day ...
    200-Word Book SummaryOn the night of September 9, 1917, thousands of soldiers broke through the wire of the British Army's largest base camp in France and took the streets — and one man paid for it with his life. At Étaples-sur-Mer, where the BEF processed hundreds of thousands of men toward the killing fields of Passchendaele, a uniquely toxic combination of institutional contempt, class ... Read more

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  • The Orange Riots: Sectarian Violence and State Massacre in 1871 New York

    by Patrick O'Day ...
    The Orange Riots: Sectarian Violence and State Massacre in 1871 New YorkOn July 12, 1871, New York City witnessed its second-deadliest civil disturbance when at least sixty-eight people died during the Orange Riots. This comprehensive historical account reveals how a Protestant parade celebrating the Battle of the Boyne became a flashpoint for catastrophic violence when it marched through the ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten War: The Japanese Invasion of the Aleutian Islands, 1942 - 1943

    by Patrick O'Day ...
    The Forgotten War: The Japanese Invasion of the Aleutian Islands, 1942 - 1943The Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II represents one of the most brutal and overlooked chapters in American military history. For eighteen months between 1942 and 1943, American and Japanese forces fought for control of these fog-shrouded islands at the edge of the North Pacific, where the environment proved as ... Read more

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  • The New Road to Serfdom

    A Letter of Warning to America

    by Daniel Hannan ...
    A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism.In March 2009, British conservative Daniel Hannan became a celebrity overnight when he assailed prime minister Gordon Brown on the floor of the European Parliament. The YouTube clip went viral, leading to whirlwind appearances on FOX News and other ... Read more

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  • 1867

    How the Fathers Made a Deal

    by Christopher Moore ...
    “In the 1860s, western alienation began at Yonge Street, and George Brown was the Preston Manning of the day.” So begins Christopher Moore’s fascinating 1990s look at the messy, dramatic, crisis-ridden process that brought Canada into being – and at the politicians, no more lovable or united than our own, who, against all odds, managed to forge a deal that worked.From the first chapter, he turns a ... Read more

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  • The Challenges of Democracy

    And the Rule of Law

    by Jonathan Sumption ...
    'Few contemporary Britons are as intelligent as Jonathan Sumption' The Telegraph'A timely red alert that democratic values cannot be taken for granted' The TimesNOW FEATURING A NEW ESSAY ON ISRAEL, GAZA AND INTERNATIONAL LAWAcross the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did ... Read more

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  • Democracy and Its Crisis

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    The EU referendum in the UK and Trump’s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters.First he considers those moments in history when the challenges we face today were first encountered ... Read more

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  • Nation Like No Other

    Why American Exceptionalism Matters

    by Newt Gingrich ...
    It’s become fashionable among the liberal elite to downplay, deride, even deny America’s greatness. The political correctness police insist that America is hated” around the world for being too big, too powerful, too rich, too successful, too loud, too intrusive. And besides, it’s not nice to brag.They are completely missing the point.America’s greatness, America’s exceptional greatness, is not ... Read more

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  • The Right Balance

    Canada's Conservative Tradition

    by Hugh Segal ...
    In a manner that reflects his long-time academic and practitioner’s association with conservative politics and ideas in Canada, Hugh Segal traces the deep historical roots of Canadian conservatism and the themes that unite its pre- and post-confederation reality with today’s challenges and issues. The Right Balance connects the historical roots and exclusive intellectual principles of Canadian ... Read more

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  • Liberty in the Age of Terror

    A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater 'security''A rollicking defence of Freedom and Enlightenment in the style of Tom Paine or William Godwin' Spectator'The even-handed tone of philosophy professor AC Grayling's latest book does not lessen the intensity of its polemical content ... Grayling underlines the seriousness ... Read more

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  • The Odd Couple

    Re-configuring the America-Australia relationship

    by Allan Behm ...
    A set of provocative ideas about recalibrating the relationship between Australia and the USA to deliver peace and prosperity rather than conflict and disharmonyAmerica matters. Australia matters. They matter to each other. They matter to the world. Their institutional and structural alignments are deep and powerful. Americans believe in themselves. Australians believe in each other. They are ... Read more

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  • The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors

    Canada at 150

    by David E. Smith ...
    Whether it’s the first-past-the-post electoral system or partisan government appointees to the Senate, Canadians want better representation and accountability from the federal government. Before reforms can be enacted, however, it is important to explore and clarify the relationships among Canada’s three parliamentary institutions: Crown, Senate, and Commons.In The Constitution in a Hall of ... Read more

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