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"This title uses a then-and-now approach to compare the government response to the 1918 influenza pandemic with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. . . Photographs and content-packed sidebars will help readers explore how these two crises have impacted the world"--Provided by publisher.

. . . shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: not government oppression or suppression, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news. Levin takes the reader on a journey through the early American patriot press, which proudly promoted the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, followed by the early decades of the Republic during which newspapers around the young country were open and transparent about their fierce allegiance to one political party or the other. It was only at the start of the Progressive Era and the twentieth century that the idea of "objectivity of the press" first surfaced, leaving us where we are today: with a partisan party-press overwhelmingly aligned with a political ideology but hypocritically engaged in a massive untruth as to its real nature"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at Alexander Hamilton's philosophy surrounding the founding of the United States, evaluating the thought of this republican and would-be empire builder, the contradictions found in the Federalist Papers and other examples of his writings are explained.

Draws from the papers of Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, to provide an account of his thought on the principles of politics.

The author explains American political thought, discusses America's lack of interest in political theory, and argues against the United States attempting to impose American politics on other countries.

Presents a biography of nineteenth-century author Herman Melville, and traces his rise and eventual decline in both critical and popular reception against the backdrop of 19th-century America.

"A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America"--Provided by publisher.

The history of medicine is chock full of weird and wild remedies as well as brilliant breakthroughs. Through entertaining text, full-color images, and intriguing sidebars, readers will explore the most bizarre medical treatments of the past, including elixirs made of toxic metals, dressings of dung, corpse cures, and cupping. By examining the innovative ways different cultures around the world utilized the resources they had available to them to treat illness and injury, students will also learn the difference between weird science and quackery. They'll discover how some monstrous medical missteps led to modern medical miracles.

Provides a history of nineteenth-century surgery and recounts Joseph Lister's discoveries about germs and infection.