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  • The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History

    Series series Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
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  • Existentialism Is a Humanism

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    A new translation of two seminal works of existentialismIt was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as ... Leer más

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  • Benjamin V. Cohen

    Architect of the New Deal

    A key figure in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Benjamin V. Cohen (18941983) was a major architect of public policy from the first days of FDR’s presidency through the early days of the Cold War. Although he kept a low public profile, Cohen’s influence extended across a wide range of domestic and foreign policy initiatives. In this biography, William Lasser offers ... Leer más

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  • Mark Rothko

    Toward the Light in the Chapel

    Series series Jewish Lives
    Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society began with a series of painful experiences, especially as a student at Yale, where he felt ... Leer más

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  • The Notes

    or On Non-premature Reconciliation

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    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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  • Bernard Berenson

    A Life in the Picture Trade

    de Rachel Cohen ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
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  • Of Human Kindness

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    When State Education Reform Works

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    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
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