This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture; all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture; Cultural Change and Economic Development; a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters; it discusses modernization; democratization; economic; and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of cultural values; attitudes; and institutions. (Cover design by Katie Makrie.)
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 5 starsBy readerGreat book on White House life surrounding the presidency. If you like this book you will also want to read the following 99 cent books life around the presidency:1 Thirty-six Years in the White House (1902)2 The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (1867)3 Memories of the White House: The Home Life of Our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt (1911)4 Inside History of the White House: The Complete History of the Domestic and Official Life in Washington of the Nation's Presidents and Their Families (1908)5 The Creation of the Presidency; 1775-1789: A Study in Constitutional History (1922)6 The Ladies of the White House: Abigail Adams (1882)7 The Ladies of the White House: Martha Washington (1882)8 The Presidency; Its Duties; Its Powers; Its Opportunities and Its Limitations (1916)9 Presidential Problems (1904)0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Slavery and the White House and Washington from a unique perspectiveBy Italophile Book ReviewsYou can see where the screenwriter took many of his elements for the Spielberg film "Lincoln"; from this eyewitness in the Lincoln White House. The ghostwriter did not do the author justice by inserting the flowery language. You and see the divided heart that the great evil of slavery gave so many people who grew up enslaved; but also blood relatives to their owners and brought up as the lesser relatives; the important fact excluded from the book is that the author was the illegitimate child of the slave owner; as was her mother before her. And then she was given to her half-brother as his family slave; and then to her half-niece; from whom she was allowed to buy her freedom.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I feel as though I have just returned from the 19th centuryBy JJThis is such a rich; beautifully written account of the civil war years. It's as though I actually stood before the Lincoln's in their private chamber and witnessed the streets of Washington City. From the excitement of victory and bands playing to the stench of death; it became very real. Mrs. Keckley is(was) a remarkable woman; a true inspiration for all. I have read elsewhere that her memoir met with hateful public criticism; truly undeserved. And I thought that was a contemporary problem with Twitter and Facebook.I highly recommend this book to history students studying the American Civil War or anyone curious about that time period.Born into slavery in Virginia inn 1818; Elizabeth takes us through her life as a slave; eventually buying her freedom. Her gift and craft of dressmaking provided her a good living. Being a wise business woman; she chose Washington City as her home and through her renowned skill became modiste to Mrs. Lincoln. She takes us through her time in New York City with Mrs. Lincoln after the president's death. She ends her story there. But there is much more to the ending which shows her strong character.
