Author: Christopher Dawson File Type: pdf In a time of remarkable but selective amnesia in the West reflected perhaps most dramatically in the denial of the Christian roots of Europe in the first drafts of the European constitution, Understanding Europe is as relevant today as it was on its first appearance in 1952. Christopher Dawson wrote of the uneasiness that characterized twentieth-century Western civilization in the aftermath of two disastrous global conflicts and the attempt to build a new secular civilization on impersonal economic forces. He desired a unified Europe, but one unified by a common Christian religion. Recognizing the emphasis on economic utility and mass productivity in European culture, Dawson argued that a renewed study of Christian faith and culture was essential in order to recover the deeper sense of European unity. In Understanding Europe, Dawson expresses a desire for Europe to rediscover and renew its foundational Christian sources in order to recover a deeper sense of integrity. This edition includes an introduction by George Weigel. **

Author: Brian G. Shellum File Type: pdf African American Officers in Liberia tells the story ofseventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force from 1910 to 1942. In this West African country founded by freed black American slaves, African American officers performed their duties as instruments of imperialism for a country that was, at best, ambivalent about having them serve under arms at home and abroad. The United States extended its newfound imperial reach and policy of Dollar Diplomacy to Liberia, a country it considered a U.S. protectorate. Brian G. Shellum explores U.S. foreign policy toward Liberia and the African American diaspora, while detailing the African American military experience in the first half of the twentieth century. Shellum brings to life the story of the African American officers who carried out a dangerous mission in Liberia for an American government that did not treat them as equal citizens in their homeland, and he provides recognition for their critical role in preserving the independence of Liberia. **

Author: Edward Klein File Type: pdf Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most polarizing figure in American politics. Love her or hate her, everyone has a strong opinion about the former first lady turned senator who is almost certainly going to run for president in 2008.Despite more than a dozen years in the national spotlight and more than a dozen unauthorized books about her, she has managed to keep many secrets from the public especially about her turbulent marriage and its impact on her career. There have been plenty of rumors about what Hillary and Bill Clinton did behind closed doors, but never a definitive book that exposes the truth.Bestselling author Edward Klein draws on rare access to inside sources to reveal what Hillary knew and when she knew it during her years as first lady, especially during her husbands impeachment. Kleins book, embargoed until publication, will break news about the choices and calculations she has made over the years. It will also prove that she lied to America in her bestselling autobiography Living History.When she was just a little girl, Hillary Rodham dreamed of becoming the first female president, and her lifelong dream is almost within reach. But just as the swift boat veterans convinced millions of voters that John Kerry lacked the character to be president, Kleins book will influence everyone who is sizing up the character of Hillary Clinton.

Author: Cedric J. Robinson File Type: pdf An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinsons analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin with or depend on the existence of capitalism, Robinson interrogates the social, cultural, institutional, and historical materials that were the seedbeds for communal modes of living and reimagining society. Ultimately, it pushes back against Marxs vision of a better society as rooted in a Eurocentric society, and cut off from its own precursors. Accompanied by a new foreword by H.L.T. Quan and a preface by Avery Gordon, this invaluable text reimagines the communal ideal from a broader perspective that transcends modernity, industrialization, and capitalism. **ReviewAs a theory with answers for everything, Marxism has become a covenant of faith for some and a whipping boy for others. But easy answers often fail to live up to the aesthetic, ethical, and sacred demands of liberation. In this rebuke of evangelical politics, Cedric Robinson sutures the conceptual architecture of scientific Marxism to its disinherited heretical intimates. An Anthropology of Marxism is a model of rigorous research that allows itself to be a vessel for the immaterial that is eminently perceivable to those who seek it. If you care about creativity, the will to survive, and cultivating love for all things, Robinsons writing is a guide. In the face of brutality, murder, and vulgar racist vitriol, we can live.--Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, University of California, Irvine Cedric Robinson was a great and wonderful man and a brilliant scholar.Everything he wrote is of incalculable value, and An Anthropology of Marxism is no exception.With great brilliance, clarity, and aplomb, it traces a broad, global history of socialism that predates the variations on that tradition that emerged in the work and wake of Marx and suggests, even more importantly, that socialism predates capitalism as well--indeed, that capitalism is the brutal regulatory mode that responds to socialism.Robinson not only extends a lifelong project devoted to the study, articulation and establishment of the alternative he also lets us know, again, that the alternative is and has been at hand, that the alternative is closest not only to what we want but also to what we are.Both because ofthe revolutionary importance of its thesis and because of its erudition and elegance, this book remains indispensable.--Fred Moten, New York University About the Author Cedric J. Robinson (1940-2016) was professor of black studies and political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Black Marxism, Forgeries of Memory and Meaning, and An Anthropology of Marxism.