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Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions.In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often perilous political and spiritual ground, expounding on issues global and local, individual and universal, often drawing anecdotally on his own life experience.We hear from Wiesel on subjects that include the moral responsibility of both individuals and governments; the role of the state in our lives; the anatomy of hate; the threat of technology; religion, politics, and tolerance; nationalism; capital punishment, compassion, and mercy; and the essential role of historical memory. These conversations present a valuable and thought-provoking distillation of the thinking of one of the world’s most important and respected figures—a man who has become a moral beacon for our time.From the Hardcover edition.

Here, in a single volume, are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history.Accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D. Heffner and online journalist Alexander Heffner, this book includes important documents such as:• The complete text of the Declaration of Independence• The complete Constitution of the United States• The Monroe Doctrine• The Emancipation Proclamation• Woodrow Wilson’s War Message to Congress• Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Speech• John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address• Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech• Ronald Reagan’s Inaugural Addresses, 1981 and 1985• Documents relating to September 11, 2001This edition has been expanded and updated to include a new chapter on the Bush/Cheney Administration and the First and Second Election and Inauguration of Barack Obama as the Forty-Fourth President of the United States More Than One Million Copies Sold!

French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville''s classic treatise on the American way of life.Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. Here, Tocqueville discusses the advantages and dangers of majority rule—which he thought could be as tyrannical as the rule of a monarchy. He analyzes the influence of political parties and the press on the government and the effect of equality on the social, political, and economic life of the American people. He also offers some startling predictions about world politics, which history has borne out. So brilliant and penetrating are his comments and criticisms, they have vital meaning today for all who are interested in democracy.Abridged and with an Introduction by Richard D. Heffnerand an Afterword by Vartan Gregorian