Word: essays
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Souter's senior thesis, submitted for honors at Harvard's Philosophy Department, would seem to be a more promising source of insight. The 48-page essay is titled "Holmes' Legal Position and the Criticism From a Current Position of Natural Law" is about legal theory and was written at a time when Souter did not expect anyone but his professors to agonize over...
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...Memoirs. His tales of his evolution to widely-acclaimed human rights champion and critic of the Soviet regime are fascinating--never does Sakharov consciously break ties with the past. Sakharov humbly relates the succession of events where he faithfully follows his conscience, and his eventual publication of the essay, "Reflections of Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom" in the New York Times in 1968 which overnight garnered the scientist international fame...
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Throughout his personal essays, Ash inserts historical background that is immensely readable, his narration frequently benefiting from personal experience. But Ash's brilliance as a scholar and as an historian shines through in his final essay, in which he attempts to make sense of the amazing scenes depicted in the previous chapters...