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Presents a collection of Lincoln's most famous speeches given before his election and during his presidency.

Presents selections from Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," as well as excerpts from Arent's reporting on high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for "The New Yorker" magazine, in which she considers the tendency of ordinary people to follow orders and conform to mass opinion without thought to the consequences of their actions.

Examines American society and economics in the early nineteenth century, focusing on the leisure class and its spending habits.