Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick. Harvard Univ./Belknap, $29.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-674-72527-0
In 1960, when Belgium grudgingly ceded power, Lumumba became prime minister of the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) and the first democratically-elected head of the former Belgian colony. But historians Gerard, of the University of Leuven, and...
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Bruce Kuklick, Author . Oxford $30 (346p) ISBN 978-0-19-825031-9
Offering a thoughtful, inclusive overview of American philosophical activity from colonial divines to present-day academics, Kuklick, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania, defines philosophy expansively as "more or less systematic...
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Bruce Kuklick, Author Princeton University Press $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-691-02104-1
Steegmuller relates the story of the deep friendship between the 18th-century intellectuals Madame d'Epinay and the Abbe Galiani, who met in the Paris of Voltaire and Diderot, and corresponded for years thereafter. (Apr.)
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Bruce Kuklick, Author Princeton University Press $29.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-691-12349-3
Kuklick, a University of Pennsylvania American history professor, studies three groups of thinkers (the RAND Corporation; Harvard political scientist Richard Neustadt and Ernest May's ""May Group""; and academics who became presidential advisors,...
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