THE ROAD FROM MOSCOW
Western understandings of the Second World War validated the template inherited from accounts, such as Tolstoy's War and Peace of Napoleon’s downfall in Russia - both Napoleon and Hitler had the hubris to attempt to conquer all of Europe, but they were defeated by the freedom loving peoples of the West and the snowstorms in the East. Dominic Lieven’s Russia Against Napoleon makes the two central arguments that the real reason Napoleon lost was that the Bear's was better, this superiority related to retrograde features of Russian society and politics.
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How Sarah Palin Has Become a Singular National Industry -- New York Magazine
ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK
Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America, a position that pays well.Over the past year, Palin has amassed a $12 million fortune. Her memoir has so far sold more than 2.2 million copies, and Palin is planning a second book with HarperCollins. This January, she signed a three-year contributor deal with Fox News worth $1 million a year. In March, Palin sold her cable show to TLC for a reported $1 million per episode, of which Palin is said to take in about $250,000 for each of the eight installments.
(NEW YORK MAGAZINE, suggested by MEDIA BISTRO)
Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America, a position that pays well.Over the past year, Palin has amassed a $12 million fortune. Her memoir has so far sold more than 2.2 million copies, and Palin is planning a second book with HarperCollins. This January, she signed a three-year contributor deal with Fox News worth $1 million a year. In March, Palin sold her cable show to TLC for a reported $1 million per episode, of which Palin is said to take in about $250,000 for each of the eight installments.
(NEW YORK MAGAZINE, suggested by MEDIA BISTRO)
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