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Breaking through : my life in science
\"A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 1985 with $1,200 sewn into her toddler's teddy bear and a dream to remake medicine. Karikó worked in obscurity, battled cockroaches in a windowless lab, and faced outright derision and even deportation threats from her bosses and colleagues. She balked as prestigious research institutions increasingly conflated science and money. Despite setbacks, she never wavered in her belief that an ephemeral and underappreciated molecule called messenger RNA could change the world. Karikó believed that someday mRNA would transform ordinary cells into tiny factories capable of producing their own medicines on demand. She sacrificed nearly everything for this dream, but the obstacles she faced only motivated her, and eventually she succeeded. Karikó's three-decades-long investigation into mRNA would lead to a staggering achievement: vaccines that protected millions of people from the most dire consequences of COVID-19. These vaccines are just the beginning of mRNA's potential. Today, the medical community eagerly awaits more mRNA vaccines-for the flu, HIV, and other emerging infectious diseases. Breaking Through isn't just the story of an extraordinary woman-it's an indictment of closed-minded thinking and a testament to one woman's commitment to laboring intensely in obscurity-knowing she might never be recognized in a culture that is more driven by prestige, power, and privilege-because she believed her work would save lives\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Patton's Tactician
Nineteen months after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and forced the United States to enter World War II, boats carrying the 7th US Army landed on the shores of southern Sicily.
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Hungarian Separatist Orthodoxy and the Migration of Its Legacy to America: The Greenwald-Hirschenson Debate
Amid the myriad Jewish efforts to accommodate modern Europe’s novel realities, Hungarian Orthodoxy stood out, according to Jacob Katz, in promoting “enhancement of the tradition…limitation of contact with the outside world…[and] exclusion of the recalcitrants.” Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent disciples of this stream spread its influence to other parts of the Jewish world. Although the Orthodox rabbinic elite that initially arose in America was dominated by Polish and Lithuanian figures, there were a few conspicuous early twentieth century immigrant rabbis in America, whose outlooks and policies were shaped or inspired by their exposures to Hungarian Orthodoxy. The current study engages two of them, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehudah “Leopold” Greenwald (1889-1955) and Rabbi Hayyim Hirschenson (1857-1935). The divergent ways their respective early encounters with Hungarian Orthodoxy were reflected in their subsequent paths, impart vivid evidence of the multiple legacies that Hungarian Orthodoxy nurtured beyond its original borders. Through exploring these variant manifestations of the Hungarian worldview within the American Jewish landscape, this article offers novel perspectives on the way immigrant religious figures navigated the Americanization process that ostensibly was at odds with their European roots.
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Jeremiah Smith, jr. and Hungary, 1924-1926
Zoltán Peterecz presents in this monograph the personality and work of Jeremiah Smith, Jr. (1870–1935), the League of Nations Commissioner-General for the 1924 loan to Hungary. He deals also in extenso with the economic and political problems associated with the financial reconstruction of Hungary – both on the domestic and international scene. In his multidimensional presentation, Zoltán Peterecz gives a vivid insight into the official and unofficial trends in the foreign policy of the United States after World War I. The author skilfully interweaves the diplomatic and economic history against the background of international events, and supports the narrative with an impressive body of diverse sources, which include archival materials, contemporary newspaper citations from a number of countries, and an extensive range of secondary sources. The final result is a valuable, well-executed and well-written work that will be welcomed not only by students of the interwar period, but also among non-specialist readers. Zoltán Peterecz was awarded his PhD by the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, in 2010. He specialises in American foreign policy and American-Hungarian relations in the 20th century. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of American Studies, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary.
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Last Rites
20 years ago, Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs in 'Confessions of an Original Sinner'. Now, in this book, he continues and expands his reflections, this time integrating his conception of history and human knowledge with private memories of his wives and loves.
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Discussing Hitler
This book promises to illuminate the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration during the rise of Hitler's Germany. It is based on the heretofore unpublished notes of J. F. Montgomery (1878-1954), U.S. ambassador (Minister) to Hungary before World War II. In Budapest, Montgomery quickly made friends with nearly everyone who mattered in the critical years of Hitler's takeover and preparation for World War II. His circle included Admiral Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, subsequent prime ministers, foreign ministers, members of both houses of parliament, as well as fellow diplomats from all over Europe. In addition, as an avid player of golf and bridge, he had an active social life that was interconnected with a large circle of influential friends in the United States.
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Thinking through a Life: Reconsidering the Origins of Ralph J. Bunche
This essay draws primarily upon Ralph Bunche's personal papers and the two most recent scholarly biographies of him (Henry, 1999; Urquhart, 1993) to analyze his formative years and what they might illuminate about the formation of character. It also places this chapter of Bunche's life within its larger historical context. Special attention is given to Bunche's years in Los Angeles, because it was during this time that Bunche first became a respected public figure and a leader of his generation.
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The American Communist party, a retrospective
Draper offers an overview of books written about the American Communist Party over the past 50 years, including two books of his own, The Roots of American Communism and American Communism and Soviet Russia. It was clear to him then that Russia controlled the American Communist Party, and it is still clear to him today.
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Rose Cohen and Bella Spewack: The Ethnic Child Speaks to You Who Never Were There
Muir examines the autobiographical works of immigrant writers Rose Cohen and Bella Cohen Spewack. Both women wrote about their own confusions with the concept of ethnicity they felt America had imposed on them.
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Milton Meltzer: A Voice for Justice
Presents a profile of the children's author Milton Meltzer. Considers how although the focus of many of Meltzer's books has been on American history and society, some of his work has foreshadowed another trend in publishing, an emphasis on global interactions and connections. (SG)
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