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Type: documentary

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Author: Joseph J. Ellis

Tags: history american politics democracy

2007-11-04

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Type: documentary

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Author: Geoffrey Nunberg

Tags: history english politics language linguistics

2006-08-21

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Type: documentary

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Author: Geoffrey Nunberg

Tags: english politics language linguistics

2006-08-21

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Type: fiction

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Authors: George Orwell Erich Fromm

Tags: future politics dystopian government society control orwell big_brother

Description: In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the ThoughtIn a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be....

2006-08-04

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Type: documentary

Status: now reading

Author: Thomas Ricks

Tags: middleeast war politics military government middle_east

2006-08-04