 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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ADM. HYMAN RICKOVER HE GOT RESPECT, NOT FRIENDSHIP.(Perspective)
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Byline: Patrick J. Sloyan
The ensign kept listing the advantages of being a supply officer and how he was not simply trying to be a good supply officer but the best supply officer in the United States Navy.
He was auditioning for Adm. Hyman Rickover, who personally screened every officer who wanted to hold the fate of mankind in the palm of his hand. "I think you're a supply officer because you're a coward," Rickover interjected.
No, sir, the youth insisted, adding that he was willing to die for his country. "Good," said Rickover, picking up the ...
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What they're reading this summer // Authorial tastes, from Cliff's Notes to Fernand Braudel
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; JOSEPH HELLER, whose latest book (with Speed Vogel) is No Laughing Matter (Putnam's, $17.95): "I'm reading books on ancient Athens for my next novel, Poetics. It's about Aristole, which is not an easy thing to do. I'll read Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian Wars. I see many similarities
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Early Modern History and the Social Sciences: Testing the Limits of Braudel's Mediterranean.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Sciences: Testing the Limits of Braudel's Mediterranean. Kirksville...1-931112-07-X (pbk). Fernand Braudel was a pioneer of contemporary global...of the "new history," which Braudel had invoked in his inaugural lecture...
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All France For Their Province
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...IDENTITY OF FRANCE, Vol. I History and Environment By Fernand Braudel Translated from the French by Sia^n Reynolds Harper & Row. 432 pp. $25 Fernand Braudel was one of the last of a generation of great scholars...
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Still making waves
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE ANCIENT WORLD by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sian Reynolds Allen Lane/Penguin, 20, pp. 354, ISBN 0713993316 AUTUMN BOOKS Fernand Braudel is a writer whose influence has increased and is still...
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The Big Picture
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS By Fernand Braudel Translated from the French By Richard Mayne Penguin...later? The only possible answer is that its author, Fernand Braudel, was a world-famous and much-admired historian...
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A History of Civilizations.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; By Fernand Braudel. Translated by Richard Mayne. (New...1994. Pp. xl. 600.$30.00.) Braudel believed that students were traditionally...critical issues in the contemporary world. Braudel wanted students to study global history...
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The world economic system in Asia before European hegemony.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...critically reexamine the work of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein, both...the contradictions between what Braudel and Wallerstein say and what they...interpretations, Wallerstein and Braudel's evidence demonstrates that...
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BOOK REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...there be one without the other? Fernand Braudel died in 1985, widely recognised...attributes of culture. In the 1950s, Braudel headed a movement that tried to...method needed a textbook, and Braudel wrote the first section of a three...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The Identity of France.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...IDENTITY OF FRANCE IT WAS always Fernand Braudel's plan to produce, as his testament...book was also to be a testament to Braudel's own kind of history. He believed...is, at first sight, no road. Braudel's account of his own country...
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SHORT TAKES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...them. Memory and the Mediterranean By Fernand Braudel (text edited by Roselyne de Ayala and Paule Braudel; translated, from the French, by Sian...in the 1960s by the renowned historian Fernand Braudel, then set aside and never published...
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