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Human Rights Book Fair, New York.

Posted on December 3, 2009. Filed under: Books, Documentaries, Events, Human Rights | Tags: biography, book reviews, Human Rights, Human Rights in China |

Hello to all our New York supporters out there and any of our supporters that happen to be in New York. We have just returned from this event and you gotta get down there. Great event worth supporting. Hurry though – only a few hours left. Sorry we never posted advance notice. Co-sponsored by Human [...]

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Was “Old Hickory” i.e. Andrew Jackson an ethnic cleanser? BOOK Review Pulitzer Prize Winner 2009: Biography Prize – ‘American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House’ by Jon Meacham

Posted on April 20, 2009. Filed under: Human Rights | Tags: biography, civil rights, Human Rights, Pulitzer Prize Winners 2009, slavery, US Presidents |

Newsweek editor, Jon Meacham, has taken out the ‘biography prize’ at the 2009 Pulitzer Awards held at Columbia University for his work ‘American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,’ a best-seller about the populist US president whose sympathy for the less fortunate never extended to slaves. “Jackson represents the best and the worst of [...]

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