Freedman: 317 books

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Breaking the Line

The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights

by Samuel G. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

Two rival football teams. Two legendary coaches. Two talented quarterbacks. Together they broke the color line, revolutionized college sports, and transformed the NFL. Freedman’s dramatic account, highly praised as a contributing part of the movement and a riveting sports story, is now available in...
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The Future of War

A History

by Lawrence Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence. Questions about the future of war are a regular feature...
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by Lawrence Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013

In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's...
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The Naked Constitution

What the Founders Said and Why It Still Matters

by Adam Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012

“In this very entertaining and informative book, Freedman skewers those who have judicially rewritten the Constitution at the expense of our individual liberties. Well-researched and full of historical insight.” —David Limbaugh, author of The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama’s War on the Republic Conservative...
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Who She Was

My Search for My Mother's Life

by Samuel G. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

When Samuel G. Freedman was nearing fifty, the same age at which his mother died of breast cancer, he realized that he did not know who she was. Of course, he knew that Eleanor had been his mother, a mother he kept at an emotional distance both in life and after death. He had never thought about the...
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A Less Perfect Union

The Case for States' Rights

by Adam Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

One of America’s leading conservative commentators on constitutional law provides an illuminating history of states’ rights, and the vital importance of reviving them today. Liberals believe that the argument for “states’ rights” is a smokescreen for racist repression. But historically,...
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Transient Images

Personal Media in Public Frameworks

by Eric Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010

In this probing study, Eric Freedman focuses on what images from photography, mobile communications, and the Internet reveal about looking. Exploring subjectivity by critically examining the look, he elaborates on the nature of the photographic frame and its relation to interpretive practices. Freedman...
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Dinosaurs Love Underpants

With Audio Recording

by Claire Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

Find out what really drove the dinosaurs to extinction in this funny, wacky celebration of underpants from top-selling author-illustrator team Claire Freedman and Ben Cort! The mystery of dinosaur extinction is solved! Scientists have plenty of theories about why dinosaurs are extinct, but...
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Kennedy's Wars : Berlin Cuba Laos and Vietnam

Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam

by Lawrence Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000

In his thousand-day presidency John F. Kennedy led America through one of its most difficult and potentially explosive eras. With the Cold War at its height and the threat of communist advances in Europe and the Third World Kennedy had the unenviable task of maintaining U.S. solidarity without leading...
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Tokyo in Transit

Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

by Alisa Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010

Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic,...
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Prime Time

How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement And Transform America

by Marc Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008

Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer...
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Peggy Seeger

A Life of Music, Love, and Politics

by Jean R. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017

Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. Here is the story of Seeger's...
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A Choice of Enemies

America Confronts the Middle East

by Lawrence Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008

It is in the Middle East that the U.S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The history of the U.S. in the Middle East, then, becomes an especially revealing mirror on America's view of its role in the wider world. In this wise,...
Book cover of Poemetics: Suspiciously Cute, Ode to a Total Stranger
by Emerson Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011

Poemetics: Suspiciously Cute, Ode to a Total Stranger is a collection of urban poetry written by Emerson JS Freedman, originally published on the Darker Zeus website. Poetic themes range from near misses during the mundane everyday commute, such as in the titled piece, Suspciously Cute, Ode...
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