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Aug 29, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Benjamin Nathans |Princeton Press |Helen Andrews

Books When Soviet Dissidents Disappoint A new history of the Soviet dissident movement tries to make heroes of an underwhelming lot. To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans, Princeton University Press, 816 pages, August 2024Professor Benjamin Nathans thinks Soviet-era dissidents don’t get enough respect in modern Russia.

Mar 22, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Timothy Hampton |Princeton Press |Lee Trepanier

Today we are bombarded with calls to be happy, optimistic, and the best version of ourselves, whether in popular self-help books or academic studies of human flourishing. One of the threads that connects these works together is the theme of cheerfulness, the state of being noticeably happy and optimistic. But what is cheerfulness and where does it come from? Timothy Hampton, the Aldo Scagione and Marie M.

Apr 26, 2023 | globegazette.com | Princeton Press

Don't Miss "Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales" by Jack Zipes; Princeton University Press (249 pages, $35) ——— Most of us grew up reading fairy tales — stories that had been collected and retold by the Brothers Grimm, perhaps, or by Andrew Lang. But fairy tale expert Jack Zipes — professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota — goes to the original source. In book after ...

Apr 23, 2023 | compliancepodcastnetwork.net | Princeton Press

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, we begin a multipart blog post series considering books on ideas from university presses.

Feb 3, 2023 | thealphengroup.com | Frank Costigliola |Princeton Press

Princeton University PressKennan: A Life Between Worlds By Frank Costigliola, Princeton University Press (2023)[This article was first published by Policy Magazine]As the author of America’s postwar policy of containment toward the Soviet Union that defined the core dynamic of the Cold War, it is hard to think of a foreign service officer with more enduring influence on US foreign policy than George Kennan. Much has been written by and of Kennan.