political aspects

Sixteen essays apply philosophy to Bob Dylan's work, life, and worldview, exploring such topics as women, honesty and freedom, Christianity, and personal identity.

Provides an account of the last decade of the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, discussing Soviet plans for a "Star Wars" program, their biological weapons, and the doomsday machine known as Dead Hand, and examining the dangers that remained with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rush to secure the weapons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Examines Abraham Lincoln's emergence onto the political scene in the years leading up to the Civil War and draws on Lincoln's own words to explore his response to the issues that shaped the war and his presidency.