Author: Carlos A. Schwantes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect of the Cold War on the region’s economy. The author has also expanded discussion of the roles of women and minorities and updated statistical information.
The Pacific Northwest
Author: Carlos A. Schwantes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect of the Cold War on the region’s economy. The author has also expanded discussion of the roles of women and minorities and updated statistical information.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect of the Cold War on the region’s economy. The author has also expanded discussion of the roles of women and minorities and updated statistical information.
Tuesday Night Massacre
Author: Marc C. Johnson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169745
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year have garnered far less attention—despite their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night Massacre looks at those races. In examining the defeat in 1980 of Idaho’s Frank Church, South Dakota’s George McGovern, John Culver of Iowa, and Birch Bayh of Indiana, Marc C. Johnson tells the story of the beginnings of the divisive partisanship that has become a constant feature of American politics. The turnover of these seats not only allowed Republicans to gain control of the Senate for the first time since 1954 but also fundamentally altered the conduct of American politics. The incumbents were politicians of national reputation who often worked with members of the other party to accomplish significant legislative objectives—but they were, Johnson suggests, unprepared and ill-equipped to counter nakedly negative emotional appeals to the “politically passive voter.” Such was the campaign of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), the organization founded by several young conservative political activists who targeted these four senators for defeat. Johnson describes how such groups, amassing a great amount of money, could make outrageous and devastating claims about incumbents—“baby killers” who were “soft on communism,” for example—on behalf of a candidate who remained above the fray. Among the key players in this sordid drama are NCPAC chairman Terry Dolan; Washington lobbyist Charles Black, a top GOP advisor to several presidential campaigns and one-time business partner of Paul Manafort; and Roger Stone, self-described “dirty trickster” for Richard Nixon and confidant of Donald Trump. Connecting the dots between the Goldwater era of the 1960s and the ascent of Trump, Tuesday Night Massacre charts the radicalization of the Republican Party and the rise of the independent expenditure campaign, with its divisive, negative techniques, a change that has deeply—and perhaps permanently—warped the culture of bipartisanship that once prevailed in American politics.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169745
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year have garnered far less attention—despite their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night Massacre looks at those races. In examining the defeat in 1980 of Idaho’s Frank Church, South Dakota’s George McGovern, John Culver of Iowa, and Birch Bayh of Indiana, Marc C. Johnson tells the story of the beginnings of the divisive partisanship that has become a constant feature of American politics. The turnover of these seats not only allowed Republicans to gain control of the Senate for the first time since 1954 but also fundamentally altered the conduct of American politics. The incumbents were politicians of national reputation who often worked with members of the other party to accomplish significant legislative objectives—but they were, Johnson suggests, unprepared and ill-equipped to counter nakedly negative emotional appeals to the “politically passive voter.” Such was the campaign of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), the organization founded by several young conservative political activists who targeted these four senators for defeat. Johnson describes how such groups, amassing a great amount of money, could make outrageous and devastating claims about incumbents—“baby killers” who were “soft on communism,” for example—on behalf of a candidate who remained above the fray. Among the key players in this sordid drama are NCPAC chairman Terry Dolan; Washington lobbyist Charles Black, a top GOP advisor to several presidential campaigns and one-time business partner of Paul Manafort; and Roger Stone, self-described “dirty trickster” for Richard Nixon and confidant of Donald Trump. Connecting the dots between the Goldwater era of the 1960s and the ascent of Trump, Tuesday Night Massacre charts the radicalization of the Republican Party and the rise of the independent expenditure campaign, with its divisive, negative techniques, a change that has deeply—and perhaps permanently—warped the culture of bipartisanship that once prevailed in American politics.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West
Author: Steven L. Danver
Publisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1506354912
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1566
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West is an A to Z reference work on the political development of one of America’s most politically distinct, not to mention its fastest growing, region. This work will cover not only the significant events and actors of Western politics, but also deal with key institutional, historical, environmental, and sociopolitical themes and concepts that are important to more fully understanding the politics of the West over the last century.
Publisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1506354912
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1566
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West is an A to Z reference work on the political development of one of America’s most politically distinct, not to mention its fastest growing, region. This work will cover not only the significant events and actors of Western politics, but also deal with key institutional, historical, environmental, and sociopolitical themes and concepts that are important to more fully understanding the politics of the West over the last century.
River of Life, Channel of Death
Author: Keith Petersen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"As hip and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurtis passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling--first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."--The London Times.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"As hip and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurtis passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling--first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."--The London Times.
Index-digest
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Office of Hearings and Appeals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Covers all the published and all the important unpublished decisions and opinions of the Department of the Interior .
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Covers all the published and all the important unpublished decisions and opinions of the Department of the Interior .
Symposium on National Water Policy, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Washington, D.C., May 15, 16 and 17, 1978
Author: Deborah M. Sluyter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Index-digest, Decisions of the United States Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Decisions of the United States Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Westhaven Cove Small Boat Basin Expansion, Grays Harbor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description