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      True Believer

      James Traub

      A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America

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      The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square

      James Traub

      As Times Square celebrates its centenary in April 2004, Traub tells the story of how this crossroads came to be the center of popular culture and the symbol of urban…

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      What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea

      James Traub

      An award-winning journalist and author examines the history of liberalism, from the American and French revolutions through the writings of John Stuart Mill and early 20th-century American progressives to its…

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      John Quincy Adams

      James Traub

      A penetrating, lyrical biography of John Quincy Adams, the President and politician whose experiences spanned-and shaped-the most critical period in our nation’s history

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      The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did)

      James Traub

      Traub, a journalist for The New York Times Magazine, traces the history of America’s democratic evangelizing and describes the rise and fall of the Freedom Agenda during the Bush years.

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      Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy

      James Traub

      A moral examination of one of the first Jewish senators, confidante to Jefferson Davis, and champion of the cause of slavery

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      The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

      James Traub

      Kofi Annan described 2004 as his annus horribilis. A man who had received the Nobel Peace Prize, who was widely counted one of the greatest UN secretaries general, was nearly…

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