China Hand–Now Available
03/01/2012
China Hand: An Autobiography John Paton Davies, Jr. Foreword by Todd S. Purdum. Epilogue by Bruce Cumings 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
Category: Public Policy
Talking Douglass-like about Law–A Guest Blog Post by Jeannine Marie DeLombard
02/22/2012
Overcoming an initial reluctance to “talk ‘lawyer-like’ about law” in his early career as abolitionist orator, author, and editor, the celebrated autodidact drew on “well known rules of legal interpretation” to offer influential commentary on the U.S. Constitution and Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). This legal literacy, combined with a longstanding commitment to gender and racial equality, might have led Douglass to question the wisdom of current efforts to make personhood coterminous with humanness.
NYPD’s Mitchell Silber on the Brian Lehrer Show
01/31/2012
Mitchell Silber, author of The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West and Director of Intelligence Analysis for the New York Police Department, was a guest on yesterday's episode of… READ MORE
