books about: abdication

books about: abdication

books:

Abdication

How Could You Do That?!: The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience

Laura C. Schlessinger

Harper Paperbacks, 1997

You are what you do-first do good then feel good
There is really no such thing as unconditional self-acceptance. Those who say so are promulgating a pernicious falsehood. One must first live a decent, honorable and productive life. Only then do you get to feel good about yourself. Seeking to heedlessly gratify ...

How Could You Do That?! The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience

Laura Schlessinger

Harpercollins, 1996

Some good points...but...
Schlessinger uses many examples from her audiences through the years to give advice in her book. Although there are some good points to the book--determining consequences before taking action, doing the right thing and taking responsibility for one's actions--it is ...

King's Counsellor Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles

Sir Alan Lascelles

Phoenix, 2008

Too discreet?
Tommy Lascelles saw it all, but was raised in the grand tradition of the English Gentleman so censored himself way to often in writing his diary. So much has, therefore, been lost. Still, I highly recommend it for the "feel" it gives to a now gone era.

Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas ...
Richard S. Wortman

Princeton University Press, 2006

This new and abridged edition of Scenarios of Power is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917. The author breaks new ground by showing how imperial ceremony and imagery were not simply displays of the majesty of the sovereign and his entourage, but also instruments ...

The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the abdication of James the Second, 1688. By ...
Hume, David

Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2006

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library?s preservation reformatting program.

King George III (the Mad King)

MacMay, 2008

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 ? 29 January 1820 ) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter of the United Kingdom, formed by the union of Great Britain and Ireland, He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, and the first of Hanover to be born in ...

Congressional Abdication on War and Spending (The Joseph V. Hughes, Jr., and Holly O. Hughes Series in the ...

Louis Fisher

Texas A&M University Press, 2000

Convincing Case for the Congress to reassert it's Perogative
I read this book for a course on the US Congress. Louis Fisher paints a picture of a Congress that has lost it's will to fight the president for it's war and spending powers which are explicitly given to it in the Constitution. The book shows that up until President ...

Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility (The CERI Series in Comparative Politics ...

Thérèse Delpech

Columbia University Press, 2007

A powerful overview of Iran's pursuit of the atomic bomb
The international landscape offers a few terrifying future scenarios, including the vision of Iran with a nuclear bomb. If this threat came to pass, it would destabilize the entire Middle East, disrupt long-standing relationships, threaten other Arab nations and ...

Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications (Politics, History, and Culture)
Ivan Ermakoff

Duke University Press, 2008

What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors? miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds with group interests. Ivan Ermakoff argues that ...

The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication

Susan Williams

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

A man of the people
Edward VIII was a flawed man like any leader, but he was far more of a man of the people than any British monarch before or since. The people did indeed adore him, especially war veterans. Edward didn't sail around doing nothing on a ship like his brother, he was a ...