A leadership for peace; how Edwin Ginn tried to change the world.9780804754552 A leadership for peace; how Edwin Ginn Edwin Ginn (1838 - 1914), American publisher and philanthropist. In 1838, Ginn was born to a poor family who lived on a small farm near Orland, Maine. At age twenty-four he graduated from Tufts University. tried to change the world. Rotberg, Robert I Robert I, duke of Normandy Robert I (Robert the Magnificent), d. 1035, duke of Normandy (1027–35); father of William the Conqueror. He is often identified with the legendary Robert the Devil. . Stanford U. Press 2007 247 pages $50.00 Hardcover JZ5540 Author Rotberg, in addition to serving as director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution The Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution is a program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts. at Harvard U., is also president of the World Peace Foundation. In this work, he profiles the peace work of the founder of that organization, Edwin Ginn (1836- 1914) a wealthy New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. publisher who expended ex·pend tr.v. ex·pend·ed, ex·pend·ing, ex·pends 1. To lay out; spend: expending tax revenues on government operations. See Synonyms at spend. 2. a third of his fortune in the cause of the peaceful settlement of international disputes, an international police force, a world court, and a league of nations. Rotberg explores the causes for Ginn's unlikely conversion to these and other causes and makes the argument that Ginn's efforts, both in his ideas and through the World Peace Foundation, have had significant influence on US foreign policy and in the formation of some of the institutions he foresaw. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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