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• God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush

  - 2008-06-22

  God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from john F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. By Randall Balmer. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. 243 pp. $24.95 paper. In 1960, presidential candidate John Kennedy insisted that his religion should be a non-issue; most voters apparently agreed, and...

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• Doing philosophy historically

  - 2003-06-01

  QUINE IS SAID TO HAVE JOKED THAT "there are two sorts of people interested in philosophy, those interested in philosophy and those interested in the history of philosophy." (1) Though many of us would bristle at Quine's joke, it makes a straightforward point: that there is a distinction to be...

  Tags: Campbell, Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger, History, John, Nature, Philosophy, Plato, Randall, Richard, Truth

• Awakening Words: John Bunyan and the Language of Community

  - 2002-01-01

  Awakening Words: John Bunyan and the Language of Community. Ed. by David Gay, James G. Randall, and Arlette Zinck. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 223 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. This volume is offered as a reflection of `the community of scholarship formed around...

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• Defining Moments and Recurring Myths: Comparing Canadians and Americans after the American Revolution

  - 2000-11-01

  Dans cet article, nous examinons la celebre these de S.M. Lipset, qui affirme que la revolution americaine a cree des differences durables entre les valeurs canadiennes et americaines. Nous reconsiderons tout d'abord l'affirmation centrale de la these selon laquelle l'exode des loyalistes vers le Canada a ancre de facon permanente...

  Tags: American, Americans, Brown, Catholic, Church, Craig, Curtis, English, G., Harris, History, II, James, John, Macmillan, McClelland, Miller, Oxford, Protestant, Randall, Roman, Smyth, Social, Stewart, Thompson, Vol, W., Wilson

• New realist research on alliances: refining, not refuting, Waltz's balancing proposition. (Kenneth M. Waltz)(response to article by John Vasquez, in this issue, p. 899)

  - 1997-12-01

  John Vasquez misread Randall L. Schweller's article on bandwagoning in international politics as a rebuttal of the balancing proposition offered by Kenneth N. Waltz. Scheweller's paper adds unit-level variables to Waltz's proposition to tranform it from a theory of international politics into a foreign policy theory. The bandwagoning argument of...

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