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February 23 through March 2 is Peace Corps Week, celebrating the 48th anniversary of the Peace Corps. For more information about the history and activities of the Peace Corps see the following sites.

Peace Corps Home Page

Provides information for volunteers, their families, teachers, students, and others. The library section provides information about culture, language resources, teaching and learning, community development, and volunteer resources.

Remarks by the Honorable Michael H. Honda, Representative from California, published in the Congressional Record February 23rd, 2009.

Founding Documents of the Peace Corps
National Archives & Records Administration

See scanned images of Executive Order 10294, March 1st, 1961 establishing the Peace Corps, Public Law 87-293, September 22, 1961 to provide for the Peace Corps, and photographs of Kennedy greeting Peace Corps volunteers. This page also includes a bibliography of resources about the Peace Corps.

JFK in History: Peace Corps
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Hear President Kennedy’s remarks upon signing the Executive Order establishing the Peace Corps, March 1st, 1961, as well as his remarks to the students at the University of Michigan in October 1960 asking if they would volunteer to help undeveloped countries. Also includes photographs of Kennedy, Sargent Shriver, and Peace Corps volunteers.

RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY

Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research (Peace Corps). Sharing promising practices [CD-ROM]. Washington, D.C.: Peace Corps, Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, 2000. (GD MEDIA PE 1.13:SH 2/CD)

Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools (Peace Corps). Building bridges: a Peace Corps classroom guide to cross-cultural understanding. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Education Foundation & Paul D. Coverdell Worldwise Schools, [2002]. Available online.

Peace Corps (U.S.). A life inspired: tales of Peace Corps service. Washington, DC: Peace Corps, 2006. (GOV DOCS PE 1.2:L 62)

Peace Corps (U.S.). Peace Corps: on the home front: a handbook for the families of volunteers. Washington, D.C.: Peace Corps, 2005. (GOV DOCS PE 1.8:P 31/2) Also available online.

Peace Corps (U.S.). Peace Corps presentation kit [DVD]. Washington, D.C.: Peace Corps, 2001. (GOV DOCS MEDIA PE 1.13:P 92)

Peace Corps (U.S.). Peace Corps, the great adventure. Washington, D.C.: Peace Corps, 2002. (GOV DOCS PE 1.2:AD 9/2002)

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Assessing the safety and security of Peace Corps volunteers: hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, June 22, 2004. Washington D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 2005. (GOV DOCS Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-725). Also available online.

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This week marks the 194th anniversary of the rebirth of the Library of Congress. On January 30th, 1815, President James Madison signed a bill authorizing the purchase of Thomas Jefferson’s book collection of 6,487 volumes for $23,940. The original collection was destroyed in 1814, during the War of 1812 .

Today the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. It contains over 138 million items in its collection. It is home to the U.S. Copyright Office, American Folklife Center, the Congressional Research Service, and the Law Library of Congress. It is also home to one of my favorite web sites — the American Memory Project. Would you like to see a panoramic Map of Macon from 1912? It’s available in Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929. You can hear Examples of Omaha Indian Music, see examples of Quilts and Quiltmaking, listen to audio files of former slaves in Slave Narratives, or read congressional documents and debates from the 19th century in A Century of Lawmaking. For A complete list of collections available in American Memory is available here.

In addition to American Memory, the Library offers many other useful resources. Country Studies for various countries provide an in-depth look at the history, government, and culture of various countries. The Handbook of Latin American Studies provides a resource for research in this area. The Library of Congress has also been digitizing books from the 1800’s

For more information about the resources available check out their research centers.

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American Folklife Center. Hardin, James. Library of Congress American Folklife Center: an illustrated guide. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2004. (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 39.8:IL 6) (Music/CD Shelved At Government Documents Media Collection — Third Floor)

American treasures. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2003 (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:T 71/2 Government Documents Collection — Third Floor.)

Brylawski, Samuel. Library of Congress. Bob Hope and American variety. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2003 (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:B 63 Government Documents Collection — Third Floor.)

Cole, John Young.  Jefferson’s legacy: a brief history of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993. (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:J 35/8 Government Documents Collection — Third Floor.)

Curtis, Glenn E. Hooglund, Eric J. Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. Iran: a country study. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 2008. (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.60:IR 1/2008) Also available online

Law Library of Congress (U.S.). Goldberg, Jolande E. Gawdiak, Natalie. Library of Congress Law Library: an illustrated guide. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2005. (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.6/4:L 41)

Library of Congress. Genealogical research at the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001 (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:G 28/2001)

—-. Here to stay: the legacy of George and Ira Gershwin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2003 (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:L 52/2)

—-. Humanities and Social Sciences Division. Information for researchers: using the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, 2001. (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 2.2:IN 3/2001)

—-. The Library of Congress: it’s more than a library. Washington, D.C.: The Library, 2000 (Call Number: LC 1.2:L 61/19)

—-. Interpretive Programs Office. Library of Congress family guide. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Interpretive Programs Office, 2003 (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.6/4:F 21)

—-. Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2003 (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:L 59)

—-. Telling America’s stories: a Library of Congress project. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001 (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:ST 6)

Nelson, Josephus. Farley, Judith. Center for the Book. Full circle: ninety years of service in the Main Reading Room. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1991. (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:C 49/3)

Veterans History Project (U.S.). Library of Congress. The Library of Congress Veterans History Project: field kit: conducting and preserving interviews. Washington, D.C.: Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 2008. (Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 39.2:V 64/3/KIT/2008) Also available online

Obituary in the New York Times.

Times Topic: John Updike at the New York Times

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BOOKS ABOUT JOHN UPDIKE & HIS WORKS

Goss, James. The assembling of the meaning of God in the short stories of Flannery O’Connor, Bernard Malamud and John Updike. Thesis (Ph. D.)Claremont Graduate School and University Center, 1970. (SPEC COLL PS374.S5 G67 1970a)

Wood, Ralph C. The comedy of redemption: Christian faith and comic vision in four American novelists. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c1988. (CIRC PS379 .W65 1988)

Hamilton, Alice. Hamilton, Kenneth. The elements of John Updike. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1970. (CIRC PS3571.P4 Z69)

Markle, Joyce B. Fighters and lovers: theme in the novels of John Updike. New York: New York University Press, 1973. (CIRC PS3571.P4 Z78 1973)

Levin, Martin. Five boyhoods: Howard Lindsay, Harry Golden, Walt Kelly, William K. Zinsser, and John Updike. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962. (CIRC PS221 .L4)

Yerkes, James. John Updike and religion: the sense of the sacred and the motions of grace. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, c1999. (CIRC PS3571.P4 Z743 1999)

Sahlin, Nicki. Manners in the contemporary American novel: studies in John Cheever, John Updike and Joan Didion. Thesis (Ph. D.) Brown University, 1980. (SPEC COLL PS374.M34 S24 1980a)

Strassberg, Mildred P. Religious commitment in recent American fiction: Flannery O’Conner, Bernard Malamud, John Updike. Thesis (Ph. D.) State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1971. (SPEC COLL PS74.R47 S77 1971a)

Rota, Charles David. Rhetorical irony and modern American fiction: the clergy in the novels of William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and John Updike. Thesis (Ph. D.) Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1992. (SPEC COLL PS374.C55 R68 1992a)

Gullette, Margaret Morganroth. Safe at last in the middle years the invention of the midlife progress novel: Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John Updike. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1988. (CIRC PS374.M49 G85 1988)

Neary, John. Something and nothingness: the fiction of John Updike & John Fowles. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, c1992. (GnetLib PS3571.P4 Z785 1992 GALILEO netLibrary electronic book

Lewis, Robert William. Sport and the fiction of John Updike and Philip Roth. Thesis (Ph. D.) Ohio State University, 1973. (HPER FICHE)

Borgman, Paul Carlton. The symbolic city and Christian existentialism in fiction by Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and John Updike. Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Chicago, 1973. (CIRC PS379 1973 .B6x)

O’Connell, Mary. Updike and the patriarchal dilemma: masculinity in the Rabbit novels. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1996. (CIRC PS3571.P4 Z8 1996) Also available as a GALILEO netLibrary electronic book
BOOKS BY JOHN UPDIKE

Bech; a book. New York, Knopf, 1970. (CIRC PS3571.P4 B4 1970)

Bech is back. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1982. (CIRC PS3571.P4 B44 1982)

A child’s calendar. New York: Holiday House, c1999. (JUVENILE PS3571.P4 C49 1999)

The complete Henry Bech: twenty stories. New York: Knopf, 2001. . (CIRC PS3571.P4 A6 2001)

The coup. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1978. (CIRC PS3571.P4 C58)

Couples. New York, Knopf, 1968. (CIRC PS3571.P4 C6)

Hugging the shore: essays and criticism. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1983. (CIRC PS3571.P4 H8 1983)

Midpoint, and other poems. New York, Knopf, 1969. (CIRC PS3571.P4 M5 1969)

Of the farm. New York, Knopf, 1965. (CIRC PS3571.P4 O4)

Pigeon feathers, and other stories. New York, Knopf, 1962. (CIRC PS3571.P4 P5)

The poorhouse fair. New York, Knopf, 1963. (CIRC PS3571.P4 P65 1963)

Problems and other stories. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1979. (CIRC PS3571.P4 P7)

Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy. New York: Knopf, 1995. . (CIRC PS3571.P4 A6 1995)

Rabbit at rest. New York: Fawcett Crest, c1990. (CIRC PS3571.P4 R23 1991)

Rabbit is rich. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1981. (CIRC PS3571.P4 R25 1981)

Rabbit redux. New York, Knopf, 1971. (CIRC PS3571.P4 R27 1971)

Rabbit, run. New York, Knopf, 1960. (CIRC PS3571.P4 R3 1960)

Roger’s version. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine, 1987, c1986. (CIRC PS3571.P4 R64 1987)

The same door; short stories. New York, Knopf, 1963. (CIRC PS3571.P4 S2 1963)

Self-consciousness: memoirs. New York: Knopf, 1989. (CIRC PS3571.P4 Z475 1989)

Still looking: essays on American art. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 2005. (CIRC N6505 .U64 2005)

Telephone poles. Knopf, 1963. (CIRC PS3571.P4 T4)

Terrorist. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. (CIRC PS3571.P4 T44 2006)

Villages. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. (CIRC PS3571.P4 V55 2004)

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With the inauguration of a new President less than two weeks away, I thought I would direct your attention to resources about Presidential Inaugrations in the U.S., both past and present.

To begin, the American Memory site from the Library of Congress offers the collection <i>“I do Solemnly Swear”: Presidential Inaugurations</i>. This collection provides access to materials such as diary entries, letters, drafts of inaugural addresses, prints, photographs, and other resources dealing with inaugurations from 1789 to 2001.

Speaking of inaugural addresses, you can geet transcripts of past speeches from the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School site. Bartleby.com offers access to “Inaugural Address of the Presidents of the United States“ . Both of thise sites offer access to speaches from George Washington to George W. Bush. American Rhetoric offers transcripts of many of the addresses offered through the years. Simply do a site search for the phrase “inaugural address”. Many of the speeches have sound files where you can hear the speech being read by an actor or historical portrayer. Many later addresses include a video file of the speech being given on inaugural day, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first Inaugural Address.

Several websites provide information about the current inauguration, including the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Presidential Inaugural Committee, the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, the District of Columbia’s Presidential Inauguration website, and the U.S. Secret Service’s 56th Presidential Inauguration web page.

Information about Presidential Inaugurations fournd in the Library

1933 Inaugural Committee (U.S.). Official program of the inaugural ceremonies inducting into office Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the United States, John N. Garner, vice president of the United States, March 4, 1933. Washington, D.C.: Ransdell incorporated, c1933. SPEC COLL F199 .W31 1933

1965 Inaugural Committee (U.S.). Threshold of tomorrow: the Great Society; the inauguration of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States and Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States, January 20, 1965. Washington: Program and Book Committee of the 1965 Presidential Inaugural Committee, 1965. OVERSIZE F200 .W33 1965

1977 Inaugural Committee (U.S.). “A new spirit, a new commitment, a new America”: the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter F. Mondale. New York: Bantam Books, c1977. CIRC F200 .A17 1977a

Freitag, Ruth S. Presidential inaugurations: a selected list of references. 3d ed. Washington: Library of Congress, 1969. GOV DOCS LC 2.2:P 92/3/969

United States. Congress. Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington 1789 to George Bush 1989. Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 1989. CIRC J81 .C61 1989

United States. National Park Service. The Presidents: from the inauguration of George Washington to the inauguration of Jimmy Carter: historic places commemorating the Chief Executives of the United States. Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1977. CIRC E159 .U55 1977

United States. President. Lott, Davis Newton. The inaugural addresses of the American Presidents, from Washington to Kennedy. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1961. CIRC J81 .C61

United States. President. Williams, Edwin. Walker, Edward. The statesman’s manual: the addresses and messages of the presidents of the United States, inaugural, annual, and special, from 1789 to 1851 ; with a memoir of each of the presidents, and a history of their administrations, also the constitution of the United States, and a selection of important documents and statistical information. (3 vol.) New York: E. Walker, 1853, c1849. CIRC J81 .A54 1853

United States. Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement. Rights in concord: the response to the counter-inaugural protest activities in Washington, D.C., January 18-20, 1969; a special staff study submitted to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969. GOV DOCS Pr 36.8:V81/R 44

So, the general election is over and we have a new President.

Almost.

On December 15 the Electoral College will meet to select the President and Vice President of the United States. There is an article in the October issue of Prologue magazine detailing the responsibility of the National Archives and its Office of the Federal Register in the electoral process. You can read the article here or the magazine is availalbe on the current issues shelves in the library. The National Archives also has a web page - which provides more information on the topic.

Other links:

National Archives - http://www.nara.gov

Office of the Federal Register - http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/

Tony Hillerman died this past weekend. Mystery readers may recognize him as the author of the ‘Navaho’ mysteries featuring Lt Joe Leaphorn and Sgt Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. I enjoyed the way he melded Navajo belief and worldview, geography, and current situations into interesting mysteries. He is one of those authors I like to read with a map nearby so I can try to track the action as it happens.

I think my favorite novels of his were The Blessing Way and Skinwalkers. Unfortunately, the library only has one title by Tony Hillerman — Hunting Badger (Circ PS3558.I45 H86 2000), but I believe there are some copies of his last novel Shapeshifters in the Paperback Exchange on the first floor. Many of his titles are also available at the public library.

For more information:

List of his works from Novelist (Galileo password may be required)

Obituary from the New York Times

(1918 - 2008)

Obituary

New York Times

Nobel Prize

Literature (1970)

Books available in the Library

• August 1914. (CIRC PG3488.O4 A9413 1972)
• The cancer ward. (CIRC PZ4.S69 Can)
• From under the rubble. (CIRC HN523.5 .I913 1975b)
• The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956. (CIRC HV9713 .S6413 1974)
• Letter to the Soviet leaders. (CIRC DK274.3 .S6413 1974b)
• The love-girl and the innocent: a play. (CIRC PG3488.O4 L613 1969b)
• One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. (CIRC PG3488.O4 O3313 1995)
• The Russian question: at the end of the twentieth century. (CIRC DK510.76 .S6513 1995)
• Solzhenitsyn at Harvard: the address, twelve early responses, and six later reflections. (CIRC CB245.S5693 S64)

BOOKS ABOUT SOLZHENITSYN in the Library

• Dunlop, John B., Haugh, Richard S., and Alexis Klimoff. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: critical essays and documentary materials. Belmont, Mass.: Nordland Pub. Co., c1973. CIRC PG3488.O4 A23
• Rothberg, Abraham. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: the major novels. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971. CIRC PG3488.O4 Z86
• Thomas, D. M. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. CIRC PG3488.O4 Z8887 1998
• Moody, Christopher. Solzhenitsyn. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1973. CIRC PG3488.O4 Z78
• Scammell, Michael. Solzhenitsyn: a biography. 1st ed. New York: Norton, c1984. CIRC PG3488.O4 Z873 1984
• Ericson, Edward E. Solzhenitsyn: the moral vision. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, c1980. CIRC PG3488.O4 Z646

Journal Articles and other Information

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Woodruff, Paul. First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (CIRC JC75 .D36 W66 2006)

Democracy has been in the news lately. A search of Lexis/Nexis for one week reveals over 1,000 news articles discussing democracy somewhere in the world. The idea is tossed around so much we may lose sight of what a democracy involves. First Democracy reminds us of the origins of democracy by telling the story of its birth and growth in Ancient Greece. The author provides seven ideas of what makes a democracy (freedom from tyranny, harmony, rule of law, natural equality, citizen wisdom, reasoning without knowledge, and general education) and discusses each of them in a separate chapter. In a final chapter, he tries to offer suggestions for making modern society more democratic.

Reading the book makes you realize how difficult democracy is to obtain and keep. Athens was not perfect. Slavery and the place of women in society ran counter to the ideas it espoused. Tyrants arose and were defeated. Wars were fought for the best, and worst, of reasons. In the end, democracy could not survive the invasion by the Macedonians. It lasted approximately 300 years.

My personal favorites from the book include the description of a tyrant on pages 66-67 and the chapter on Paideia, or education, for democracy. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in this topic.

Gary Austin

Reviews of this title

Thomason, Anne. “First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea.” in Higher Education Exchange 2006.Brown, David W. and Deborah Witte (Eds.). Kettering Foundation. 2006. pp.73-76. (Available online).Kirkus Reviews. 12/1/2004, Vol. 72 Issue 23, p1142-1142. (Available online from Ebscohost)

Publishers Weekly. (Dec 6, 2004) Vol. 251, Iss. 49; pg. 50. (Available online from Proquest)

Palaima, Tom. “First Democracy”. History Today; Jul2005, Vol. 55 Issue 7, p62-63. (Available online from EBSCOHost)

If you would like to read more by this author, the library also has…

On justice, power, and human nature: the essence of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. Indianapolis: Hackett, c1993. (Third Floor DF229.T55 W66 1993)

These other works by this author are available at other USG Libraries. Click on the title and use GIL Express to request a copy.

Early Greek political thought from Homer to the sophists. Translated and edited by Michael Gagarin and Paul Woodruff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Euripides.Bacchae. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., c1998.

Facing evil: light at the core of darkness. Paul Woodruff and Harry A. Wilmer (eds). LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, c1988.

Plato. Hippias major. Translated, with commentary and essay, by Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 1981, c1980.

Plato. Phaedrus. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Alexander Nehamas & Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett, c1995.

Plato. Symposium. Translated, with introduction & notes, by Alexander Nehamas & Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., c1989.

Plato. Two comic dialogues. Translated by Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., c1983.

Reason and religion in Socratic philosophy. Edited by Nicholas D. Smith & Paul B. Woodruff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Sophocles. Antigone. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., c2001.

Sophocles. Four tragedies [Selections]. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., c2007.

Sophocles. Oedipus tyrannus. Translated, with introduction and notes by Peter Meineck and Paul Woododruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., c2000.

Sophocles. Theban plays [Selections]. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., c2003.

Selected Resources on this Topic

Anderson, Greg. The Athenian experiment: building an imagined political community in ancient Attica, 508-490 B.C. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. (CIRC JC73 .A5 2003)Barrow, Robin. Plato and education. Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1976. (CIRC LB85.P7 B35 1976)Claster, Jill N. Athenian democracy: triumph or travesty? New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. (CIRC JC79.A8 C55)

Dahl, Robert Alan. On democracy New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. JC423 .D2497 1998) (Available online from Netlibrary.)

Fantham, Elaine. Women in the classical world: image and text. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. (CIRC HQ1127 .W652 1994)

Gabriel, Ralph Henry. The course of American democratic thought: an intellectual history since 1815. New York: Ronald Press Co., c1940. (CIRC E169.1 .G23)Goldwin, Robert A. and William A. Schambra. How democratic is the Constitution? Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, c1980. (CIRC JK21 .H78)

Guinier, Lani. The tyranny of the majority: fundamental fairness in representative democracy. New York: Free Press, c1994. (CIRC JF1075.U6 G85 1994)

Hansen, Mogens Herman. The Athenian democracy in the age of Demosthenes: structure, principles, and ideology . Cambridge, USA: B. Blackwell, 1991. (CIRC JC79.A8 H33 1991)

Jaeger, Werner Wilhelm. Paideia: the ideals of Greek culture. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. (CIRC DF77 .J274)

Jones, Nicholas F. The associations of Classical Athens the response to democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. (Available online from Netlibrary.)

Just, Roger. Women in Athenian law and life. New York: Routledge, c1989. (CIRC HQ1134 .J87 1989)

Mansbridge, Jane J. Beyond adversary democracy. New York: Basic Books, c1980. (CIRC JC423 .M353)

Meiggs, Russell. The Athenian empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. (Available online from Netlibrary.)

Munn, Mark Henderson. The school of history: Athens in the age of Socrates. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000. (Available online from Netlibrary.)

Ostwald, Martin. From popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law law, society, and politics in fifth-century Athens. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1986. (Available online from Netlibrary.)

Popper, Karl Raimund The open society and its enemies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. (CIRC B63 .P6 1950)

Roberts, J. W. City of Sokrates: an introduction to classical Athens. Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1984. (CIRC DF275 .R62 1984)

Samons, Loren J. Athenian democracy and imperialism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1998. (CIRC JC75.D36 A77 1998)

Sehr, David T. Education for public democracy. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, c1997. (Available online from Netlibrary.)

Surowiecki, James. The wisdom of crowds: why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations. New York: Doubleday, 2004. (CIRC JC328.2 .S87 2004)

Wolpert, Andrew. Remembering defeat: civil war and civic memory in ancient Athens. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. (CIRC DF231.3 .W65 2002)

DVD. Can Mr. Smith get to Washington anymore? (Music & Media Collections JK1976 .C36 2006)

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