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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) & Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) deserve to be taken more seriously, & also to be compared. They are great precursors of modernity, & prophets of that wholly contingent world that the abolition of Christian providentialism entails. The one liberated politics from the Church; the other freed human desire from conventional moralizing. Machiavelli's ideas have been assimilated by the modern world, Mandeville's less so. His crude robustness awoke the mind of Adam Smith, & modernity is in part a dispute between the pessimism of Mandeville & the more optimistic Smith. The discussion is illuminated with reference to four contemporary church documents, & their presuppositions are questioned. Adapted from the source document.

"Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who value both tradition and the exploration of new frontiers, people who deserve the freedom to build better lives for themselves in their adopted homeland. This 60th anniversary edition of his posthumously published, timeless work--with a new introduction, a new foreword by Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, and updated information on immigration policy reform--offers the late president's inspiring suggestions for immigration policy and presents a chronology of the main events in the history of immigration in America. In Spanish Un país de inmigrantes"--

Pennsylvania Elections provides a systematic and thorough analysis of every statewide election in Pennsylvania since 1950. By combining quantitative political science, political history, and political geography, this book will both pique the interest of those interested in the state's politics and serve as a reference source for future scholars.