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Worth fighting for.(books, arts & manners)(Honor: A History)(Book review)
Honor: A History, by James Bowman (Encounter, 265 pp., $25.95)
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AS Robert E. Lee agonized over whether to remain loyal to the government of the United States on the eve of Virginia's secession early in 1861, Virginia's favorite son confided in his wife the solemn standard he would use to make up his mind. "There is no sacrifice I am not ready to make for the preservation of the Union," he wrote her in a letter, "save that of honor." Today we can still feel the oppressive liberation of that sentence. Those were living words. Every one of them was cautiously weighed, and all people with the ability to read at that time would have ...
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- JAMES BOWMAN, 81.(CAPITAL REGION)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 17, 1994 700+ words
WYNANTSKILL James F.G. Bowman, 81, of Church Street died Tuesday in Samaritan Hospital, Troy. He was born in Glasgow and resided in Scotland as a child. He then moved to Toronto for a few years before moving to the Capital Region. He was a graduate of Lansingburgh High School and Hudson Valley
- JAMES BOWMAN, 63 WORKED FOR AP FOR 33 YEARS
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Associated Press September 1, 1988 700+ words
NEW YORK - James D. Bowman, a senior editor in the World Services division of The Associated Press and a former AP foreign correspondent, died Tuesday in Phelps Memorial Hospital in North Tarrytown, New York. He was 63. Born in Manor, Texas, Mr. Bowman, whose AP career spanned 33 years, joined the
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- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Hylden, Jordan October 1, 2007 700+ words
HONOR: A HISTORY by James Bowman Encounter, 382 pages...plea for a recovered sense of honor in Western society. Primarily...Church, which teaches that all honor belongs to God alone, and so properly honors all things in this created...
- Honor: A History.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: California Bookwatch June 1, 2006 700+ words
Honor: A History James Bowman Encounter Books 900 Broadway...encounterbooks.com HONOR could've been featured...and social science. James Bowman, who's written for...describes how the Western honor system is manifested...
Source: HighBeam Research, Worth fighting for.(books, arts & manners)(Honor: A History)(Book...