During the buildup to war, this book contends, tensions between Mr. Powell and Mr. Cheney grew so toxic that the two men "could not, and did not, have a sit-down lunch or any discussion about their differences".
This book contends that his multicultural upbringing left him with an urge "to rise above the divisions of culture and society, politics and economics," and that he had trouble with confrontation because "to confront was to acknowledge division, rupturing, imperfection, the traps of life he so wanted to transcend".
Through leverage, the book contends.
Indeed, the book contends that most forms of Occidentalism, even outside the West, borrow heavily from western ideas.
Much of the nation's well-intended efforts to help the underclass have failed, the book contends, because we have refused to recognize the basic problem: low IQ.
As a result, the book contends, boards have helped create a "distinctly American cult of the C.E.O".
Self-medicating with Dilantin, as the book contends Mr. Nixon did, would not be a good idea, Dr. Jacobsen added.
But the book contends that there is no evidence that any such proposal came to him, though a number of Jewish leaders did meet with lower-level officials to plead for bombing.
Only after he escaped from Europe and arrived in the United States in 1941, when he was a childless refugee with little English and few job prospects, and millions of his people had been massacred did he see he himself as having a different mission, the book contends.
With warm, gleaming, gem-like sentences, Woodson captures the rare treasures of girlhood friendships, but the book contends with so much else, and the taut plot balloons with tension as August grows to understand a tragic realization about her family, one that will shape her for decades after.
After settling in San Francisco, he wrote "Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture," a 1978 book tracing homophobic attitudes to the Middle Ages, when people accused of witchcraft, the book contended, were being persecuted in part for their sexuality, often their homosexuality.
