OCRACOKE, N.C., May 22, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- An in-depth look at human possibilities of knowing, and post-World War II U.S. foreign policy-making and leadership in the execution of that policy, is all set to begin as Xlibris announces the release of author Leonard C. Meeker's new book Philosophy and Politics.
The first part of the book begins with operation of the five senses. From there it goes on to The Brain's Processing of Nerve Signals, Remembering, States of Feeling, Ideas, Complexities of Mental Process, and Actions. Next it considers large questions that have engaged minds over the course of history: Causation, Pre-determination, The Notion of First Cause, The Place of Science, Immortality, Body and Mind, How Solid Is the World Out There? Free Will, Ethics for the Individual, Ethics for Communities.
The second part of the book, called America on the World Stage, surveys U.S. foreign policy during the first fifty years after World War II. With sections on Collective Security, Indo-China, China, National Self-determination, Democracy and Human Rights, International Adjudication, Disarmament, and Global Environment, this part high-lights the successes and failures that followed on the conduct of American policy.
For your research needs, be sure to order a copy of Leonard C. Meeker's Philosophy and Politics by visiting your nearest book retailer or by shopping online at Xlibris.com today!
About the Author
Leonard C. Meeker was born in Montclair, New Jersey, where his father was a doctor of medicine. He went to Deerfield Academy, Amherst College, and Harvard Law School. He spent the next year in the General Counsel's Office of the Treasury Department and then a year in of the Office of the Solicitor General, which handles the federal government's litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court. The author served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, including service in China. On return to the U.S., Meeker entered on duty as a lawyer in the Legal Adviser's Office of the State Department, and was appointed The Legal Adviser of the Department in 1965. In 1969, the author was named U.S. Ambassador to Romania, serving there until 1973. Subsequently Meeker was a lawyer and director of the International Project at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C. During these years, the author was named a member of the Marine Board of the National Academy of Sciences and a director of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Philosophy and Politics by Leonard C. Meeker
Publication Date: March 9, 2007
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