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Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939 (Wolfgang Schivelbusch)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracy

Neo realism is not an ideology, but rather a set of principles based on history and human nature. Chivelbush makes clear his own angle from the book's epigraph. I quote from david hume as force is always on the side of the governed. The governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore an opinion that the government has founded. And this maxim extends to the most despotic and the most military governments,. But let's purse the book.

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