Challenges of equality

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Gabriel de Broglie

"Le changement dynastique n'est que l'un des effets de la révolution de 1830. Les Trois Glorieuses et la monarchie qu'elles engendrèrent, portées par les parties les plus dynamiques de la société gens de plume, artistes, entrepreneurs, jeunesse étudiante, par l'impressionnante galerie des hommes nouveaux, par la frange la plus éclairée de l'aristocratie et des catholiques, ne sacrifièrent guère à l'utopie. La volonté d'implanter en France des moeurs et des institutions libérales était un projet solide, réaliste, conçu pour l'avenir. C'est lui qu'il faut créditer du progrès des libertés, du développement économique, du maintien de la paix au prix de quelques déconvenues et même de l'exceptionnelle floraison romantique. Si ces avancées, cette acclimatation au parlementarisme, cet enrichissement, certes bien inégalitaire, du pays ont fini emporté par le torrent de 1848, c'est en partie parce que les équipes dirigeantes, à l'épreuve du pouvoir, n'ont pas bien su accompagner le projet : défaut d'imagination devant l'événement, routine, rivalités personnelles, aveuglement ou sincérité douteuse du roi, scandales, résistance au changement, particulièrement en matière sociale, tout vint pervertir et gauchir une construction qui aurait peutêtre assuré à la France un avenir meilleur. On aurait tort de condamner les idées et les aspirations des hommes de 1830 au motif que le régime a sombré dans le discrédit et a partiellement échoué à unir la nation. Nourri & Ultime connaissance que son auteur a de l'orléanisme, éclairé par de longs passages dus à d'illustres témoins de Hugo à Chateaubriand, de Tocqueville à Guizot, de Rémusat à Louis Blanc ..., enrichi dés recherches et des problématiques les plus récentes, ce livre offre la synthèse précise et vivante qui manquait. Un grand pan de notre histoire, longtemps négligé, nous est ainsi révélé." P. [4] of cover.

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Lionel Vairon

From the long-term threat of nuclear war between the United States and China, to the disappearance of the African elephant due to Chinese demand for ivory, each week brings a new round of critique and denunciation of the risks China poses to the stability of the entire planet. While critics raise a certain number of fundamental questions that bear asking about this nascent superpower, the answers put forth are usually based on ideological or economic considerations. Systematically challenges these views in this updated edition, with an incisive review of China's economic strategy, deployment of resources, national defense, political reform, ethnicity and religion, terrorism, and developments in human rights, Vairon amply demonstrates that China poses no threat to the world. --Publiosher's description.

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Dick Williams

An unprecedented shift in American political power is underway. In the last decade of the 20th century, there is a leader whose program is debated in town halls and union halls across America, whose first name has become a household word, who addresses the nation in televised speeches from his office, and whose offhand remarks make headlines across the country. He resides not in the Oval Office but at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue: in the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Newt Gingrich, who studied and planned and labored so long to create a new conservative majority, has become what *Time* magazine calls “the virtual president” and “the preeminent political leader in America.” But what road led him to this extraordinary destination? The Washington press corps once dismissed him as a flaky bomb-thrower, the “congressman from Outer Space,” fascinated with wave theories and addicted to partisan mudslinging. Today, that same corps scrambles to make sense of Newt Gingrich, triumphant leader of a new conservative majority. With **Newt! Leader of the Second American Revolution** Dick Williams provides the first up-close, thoughtful study of the man and the ideas that have made this revolution. Their first encounter came in 1976 when Newt, a fresh-faced college professor struggling to win election to Congress, paid a visit to Dick, news director of an Atlanta TV station. In the two decades since, Dick Williams has become one of the South’s most respected conservative commentators, chronicling the building Republican revolution now overtaking American politics. Along the way he interviewed Newt hundreds of times and watched the development of a fresh and promising new political philosophy. From Gingrich’s beginnings as a popular but quirky professor, to his early campaign defeats, to his growing influence as a new breed congressional conservative, to his battles with the Democratic leadership and his own Republican president, to the birth and stunning success of the Contract With America, **Newt! Leader of the Second American Revolution** takes you behind the scenes of one of the most dramatic political stories of our time. Including excerpts from Newt’s now-famous college lecture series and other important speeches, Dick Williams gives readers a rare, balanced look at the history of a modern political revolution . . . and where it may lead us next. For Newt, ideas matter, and education is forever. These are his ideas. For fans and foes alike, the education begins here.

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Antony Thomas

Cecil Rhodes conquered an area the size of England, Germany, France, and the Low Countries combined, adding a million square miles to Britain's African Empire and lending his name to a new country - Rhodesia. By age thirty-four, Rhodes had founded the DeBeers Company, achieving a worldwide monopoly on diamond production. He went on to earn a second fortune in gold, becoming the richest man in the western world before he was forty. A stalwart patriot and racist, Rhodes laid the foundations of modern apartheid and drew Britain into the bloody Boer War. He mercilessly pinned Africa under his control, believing it England's duty to colonize the world. Today, the monopolies are gone, apartheid is over, and Rhodes, once a hero, has been decried as a racist and imperialist whose only remaining legacy is the scholarship that bears his name. Antony Thomas's biography of Cecil Rhodes is the study of an idealist corrupted by power and of a nation forced under England's control against its will.