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This update of the 1978 edition collects four essays printed in law journals from 1964-77 in which Bloustein, the late president of Rutgers, State U. of New Jersey (1971-89), discusses first amendment
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The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the "magisterial and paradoxical Dr. Schumpeter". A figure in a rare class with John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich von Hayek, and Alf
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Huang has revised his original nine essays and added two more. One of them describes the experiences of Mainland Chinese visitors to Taiwan in the early years after World War II as an inspiration for
Large Print Edition This book was first published in 1951 as The General and the President after President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean Wara€‧a memorab
