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Table of Contents: “…Letters From Prison: The Prisoner Of Conscience And The Symbolic Politics Of Human Rights --…”
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Table of Contents: “…First acts -- In transit -- Englishness -- The newcomer -- Brennus -- Walking on water -- On the scene -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- Success -- Miriam -- 'Tom Stoppard doesn't know' -- Acrobatics -- The home team -- Travesties -- Terra firma -- Prisoners of conscience -- The fourth estate -- Undiscovered countries -- The real thing -- Crossing -- Doubles -- Script doctor -- Changing states -- Arcadia -- Mother and son -- Reinventions -- The scar of time -- Sir Tom, OM -- Utopia -- Commitments and engagements -- Rock 'n' roll -- Parade's end -- Circumspice -- The eightieth year -- A charmed life.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; One: Happy, Optimistic, and Good Company: Charles McCarthy Goes West; Two: A Prisoner for Conscience Sake: The Pen, the Railroad, and the Lord's Vineyard; Three: We Have Always Been Sweethearts: Home on the Canadian Range; Four: No Reversals: The Rapid Rise of Judge McCarthy; Five: No Fairy Godmother: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Six: The Tug of the West: A California Interlude; Seven: Dangerous & Rapidly Getting Worse: How to Ruin a Railroad, or the Checkered History of the Denver & Rio Grande Western.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Solomon: the wisest fool in the Bible -- Isaac: the man who dug old wells -- Achan: how sin lost a battle -- Barnabas: the good man behind a great man -- Caleb: a man, not a grasshopper -- Ezekiel: the man of sorrow and of vision -- Cornelius: a good soldier of Jesus Christ -- Mark: the man who failed and then made good -- Micaiah: in prison for conscience's sake -- Philip: the man who made a city glad -- Antipas--a faithful martyr -- Stephen: the man who looked like an angel -- Thomas: the man who was not there -- Andrew: the man who brought his brother -- Naaman: the man who washed and was clean -- Judas: the son of perdition.…”

Table of Contents: “…Happy, optimistic, and good company : Charles McCarthy goes west -- A prisoner for conscience sake : the pen, the railroad, and the Lord's vineyard -- We have always been sweethearts : home on the Canadian range -- No reversals : the rapid rise of Judge McCarthy -- No fairy godmother : the Reconstruction Finance Corporation -- The tug of the west : a California interlude -- Dangerous & rapidly getting worse : how to ruin a railroad, or the checkered history of the Denver & Rio Grande Western -- Like a drunken gandy dancer : saving the Denver & Rio Grande Western -- The great arsenal : the war to save democracy -- Rocky Mountain empire : the cowboy judge -- A western railroad operated by western men : the Rio Grande redeemed -- Divers projects of imperial proportions : the judge and history -- A missed opportunity : Judge McCarthy and an alternate vision of America's future.…”

Table of Contents: “…Merwin -- Acknowledgments -- ONE -- Bellwether -- Dramatis Personae -- Wave -- The Hobos -- Dreadful Chapter One -- Envoy -- Octagon -- Ace -- Prisoner of Conscience -- Leather-Stocking -- Dreadful Chapter Two -- Proof -- Shady Grove -- A Prayer Against Forgetting Boys -- Seventeen -- Progress Report -- Ontology -- Pontiac -- Dreadful Chapter Three -- Strait -- Quantum Cowboy -- Beck -- Analog -- Siding -- A Condensed History of Beauty -- TWO -- Pegasus -- Antimatter -- Dreadful Chapter Four…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction; The Vietnam-era GI Movement; Today's GI Movement; ONE: Resisting Illegal Wars; Pablo Paredes and the Illegal War in Iraq; Howard Levy and the Illegal War in Vietnam; TWO: Modern Conscientious Objectors; Defining a Conscientious Objector; Camilo Mejía: "Prisoner of Conscience"; Conscientious Objection Today; Conscientious Objection during Vietnam; Applying for CO Status Today: Myths, Regulations, and Resources; THREE: Winter Soldier; Winter Soldier 1971; Winter Soldier 2008; Rules of Engagement; Winter Soldier Goes to Congress; FOUR: Dissent and Disengagement.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Part 7: Holocaust -- 185: Adolf Hitler and Nazism, Mein Kampf, Aryan race, Nuremberg Laws -- 186: Yellow star -- 187: Munich, 1938, appeasement -- 188: Kristallnacht, 1938 -- 189: While six million died, S S St Louis -- 190: Einsatzgruppen, Babi Yar, 1941 -- 191: Final solution, genocide, holocaust -- 192: Concentration camps, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Theresienstadt -- 193: Dr Joseph Mengele -- 194: Judenrat, Kapo -- 195: Anne Frank -- 196: Warsaw ghetto revolt -- 197: Nuremberg trials, 1946 -- 198: German reparations -- 199: Eichmann trial -- 200: Yad Vashem, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- 201: Righteous Gentiles, Raoul Wallenberg, Oskar Schindler -- 202: Denmark -- 203: Holocaust revisionists -- 204: Never again -- 205: Elie Wiesel -- 206: 614th Commandment: not to grant Hitler posthumous victories -- Part 8: American-Jewish Life -- 207: George Washington's letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790 -- 208: Reform Judaism, Issac Mayer Wise, Hebrew Union College -- 209: Pittsburgh platform, 1885, Columbus platform, 1937 -- 210: Conservative Judaism, Jewish Theological Seminary, Solomon Schechter -- 211: Yeshiva University -- 212: Ellis Island, Lower East side -- 213: Galveston program -- 214: Sweatshops -- 215: Leo Frank Case -- 216: Jewish Organizations: UJC (United Jewish Communities), Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, Conference of Presidents of major Jewish Organizations, CLAL, Simon Wiesenthal Center, B'nai B'rith, American Jewish Committee -- 217: Henrietta Szold, Hadassah -- 218: Louis Brandeis -- 219: Albert Einstein -- 220: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik -- 221: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel -- 222: Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, reconstructionism, Juddaism as a civilization -- 223: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein / Reb Moshe -- 224: Sunday school, Hebrew School / Talmud Torah, Day School, Yeshiva -- 225: Women Rabbis -- 226: Patrilineal descent -- 227: Lubavitch, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn -- 228: Ba'al Teshuva Movement -- 229: Denominational conflicts -- 230: Vanishing American Jew: low birthrate, assimilation, and intermarriage -- 231: Senator Joseph Lieberman's nomination as the Democratic Vice President Candidate, 2000 -- Part 9: Soviet Jewry -- 232: Birobidzhan -- 233: Doctors' plot -- 234: Russian-Jewish Simkhat Torah celebrations -- 235: Refuseniks -- 236: Prisoners of conscience, Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky -- 237: Jackson-Vanik amendment, Detente -- 238: Soviet Jewry movement, Student struggle for Soviet Jewry -- 239: Let my people go! …”