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Peter Wickham brings us Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville’s piercing examination of America’s democratic system. One of the greatest examples of 19th-century political writing, the work leaves no stone unturned and offers many unique insights into American life today. We also have more non-fiction by Edmund Burke, with his impassioned treatise on the French Revolution, Reflections on the Revolution in France, as well as a recording of James Fenimore Cooper’s famous novel The Last of the Mohicans, a moving portrayal of the Seven Years War and the last remaining members of the Mohican tribe.

Sent by the French government to examine the American prison system, Alexis de Tocqueville spent nine months touring the United States between 1831 and 1832.

Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution…

This famous novel deals with the early frontier period of American history and is set in 1757 during the Seven Years War between the French and the British.

The NAB Blog: Stoicism in The Age of Anxiety – The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

In 1947 W.H. Auden published his eclogue The Age of Anxiety, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in the following year. The poem is essentially pessimistic, suggesting that man’s ambition to find his identity in a rapidly changing …

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