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Ed Muskie -- a principled and talented politician
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I was standing at Ed Muskie's feet that day in 1972 when the snow
came down and the tears welled up and he lost his shot at the White
House.
Sen. Edmund Sixtus Muskie, who died early yesterday morning, two
days short of his 82d birthday, began that campaign to unseat Richard
Nixon as probably the most respected man in politics at the time.
He was the Colin Powell of his day, his reputation having been
enhanced by his exemplary conduct in the 1968 presidential campaign.
Although '68, with its urban and antiwar riots, political and
racial assassinations, vicious racial polarization and the ...
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Napoleon III: A Life.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; Fenton Bresler Napoleon III: A Life. Carroll & Graf, 300 pages, $27.50 Being a fan of Napoleon III can be frustrating. Friends and relatives...write; so we get not just the personal Napoleon III, but the personal biographer, too...
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Napoleon III: the other Napoleon and his Empire.(Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Pl. I) was proclaimed Napoleon III, emperor of the French...prosperity, Napoleon III's regime swiftly collapsed...Ironically, the future Napoleon III was the first child...confronted Napoleon III, saying, "You have...
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Napoleon III: Napoleon III le mal-aime.(Napoleon III ou l empire des sens)(Napoleon III ou /Obstination couronnee)(La Guerre du Mexique (1862-1867): Le mirage americain de Napoleon III)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography
; Napoleon III Napoleon III le mal-aime. Lucien Boia. Paris: Ed. Les Belles Lettres, 2008. 240 pp. Euro23. Napoleon III. Eric Anceau. Paris: Ed. Tallandier, 2008. 750 pp. Euro32. Napoleon...
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Carpeaux's vision for Napoleon III: mourning the death of an emperor.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...Prince Imperial Louis-Napoleon, the only son of Napoleon III and Eugenie, the ex...imperial heir, Louis-Napoleon, who was born in 1856...shows Napoleon III from behind supporting...individual portraits of Napoleon III's wife and son...
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Books: Farce of a mountebank continues to fascinate Napoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler HarperCollins pounds 24.99
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...currents which made Louis Napoleon's "Brumaire" coup...pleading for Napoleon III alerts us to a hidden...Bresler but nothing about Napoleon III. He seems not to be aware...scholarly biography of Napoleon III is unsurpassed. He says...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coventry Patmore, and Alfred Tennyson on Napoleon III: The Hero-Poet and Carlylean Heroics.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry
; ...Carlyle had described Napoleon I in this way: "Napoleon...but also of Napoleon III's intervention in Italy...begins with "Napoleon III in Italy," an ode to...poetic reactions to Napoleon III clarifies what she...Napoleon became Napoleon III, Emperor ...
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Napoleon III's grand ideas linked to the seaside town of Southport
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...the head of no less a personage than Napoleon III? There is evidence to suggest that...North". More importantly, Napoleon III, the man who ordered the transformation...redevelopment of Paris. Napoleon III (1808-73), the nephew of Napoleon...
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France wants Napoleon III's remains back.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; France wants Napoleon III's remains back London, Dec 9 (PTI...France but for 130 years, Emperor Napoleon III's remains are in Britain where he spent...Estrosi was quoted as saying. Napoleon III spent the last few years of his life in...
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Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; NAPOLEON III AND HIS CARNIVAL EMPIRE. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE...that he and his friends could use Louis Napoleon. Bismarck, who destroyed the man and...there was nothing there to use: Louis Napoleon was "a sphinx without a riddle". Undeterred...
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The complete guide to elegant France: Second Empire France Without the vision of Napoleon III and his planner Baron Haussmann in the 19th century, Paris would not be the city we know today. But the influence of the Second Empire spread beyond the architecture of the French capital.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Exactly 150 years ago, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, French President...Bismarck's Germany, and Napoleon III's exile and rapid demise in...PARIS CHANGE? Under Napoleon III, a major urban-planning programme...described his work as "the Napoleon III style", and it incorporates...
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