Author: Seba Smith
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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My Thirty Years Out of the Senate
Author: Seba Smith
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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My Thirty Years Out of the Senate
Author: Jack Downing
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382300095
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382300095
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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My thirty years out of the Senate. By Major Jack Downing (S. Smith). Illustrated, etc
Author: Seba SMITH
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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A Failed Vision of Empire
Author: Daniel J. Burge
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623166X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Since the early twentieth century, historians have traditionally defined manifest destiny as the belief that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast. This generation of historians has posed manifest destiny as a unifying ideology of the nineteenth century, one that was popular and pervasive and ultimately fulfilled in the late 1840s when the United States acquired the Pacific Coast. However, the story of manifest destiny was never quite that simple. In A Failed Vision of Empire Daniel J. Burge examines the belief in manifest destiny over the nineteenth century by analyzing contested moments in the continental expansion of the United States, arguing that the ideology was ultimately unsuccessful. By examining speeches, plays, letters, diaries, newspapers, and other sources, Burge reveals how Americans debated the wisdom of expansion, challenged expansionists, and disagreed over what the boundaries of the United States should look like. A Failed Vision of Empire is the first work to capture the messy, complicated, and yet far more compelling story of manifest destiny's failure, debunking in the process one of the most pervasive myths of modern American history.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623166X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Since the early twentieth century, historians have traditionally defined manifest destiny as the belief that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast. This generation of historians has posed manifest destiny as a unifying ideology of the nineteenth century, one that was popular and pervasive and ultimately fulfilled in the late 1840s when the United States acquired the Pacific Coast. However, the story of manifest destiny was never quite that simple. In A Failed Vision of Empire Daniel J. Burge examines the belief in manifest destiny over the nineteenth century by analyzing contested moments in the continental expansion of the United States, arguing that the ideology was ultimately unsuccessful. By examining speeches, plays, letters, diaries, newspapers, and other sources, Burge reveals how Americans debated the wisdom of expansion, challenged expansionists, and disagreed over what the boundaries of the United States should look like. A Failed Vision of Empire is the first work to capture the messy, complicated, and yet far more compelling story of manifest destiny's failure, debunking in the process one of the most pervasive myths of modern American history.
Life Among the Cannibals
Author: Sen. Arlen Specter
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429952903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the better During a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to Judiciary Committee chairman, saved and defeated Supreme Court nominees, championed NIH funding, wrote watershed crime laws, always staying defiantly independent, "The Contrarian," as Time magazine billed him in a package of the nation's ten-best Senators. It all ended with one vote, for President Obama's stimulus, when Specter broke with Republicans to provide the margin of victory to prevent another Depression. Shunned by the GOP faithful, Specter changed parties, giving Democrats a sixty-vote supermajority and throwing Washington into a tailspin. He kept charging, taking the first bursts of Tea Party fire at public meetings on Obama's health care--reform plan. Undaunted, Specter cast the key vote for the health plan. In Life Among the Cannibals, Specter candidly describes the battles that led to his party switch, his tough transition, the unexpected struggles and duplicity that he faced, and his tumultuous campaign and eventual defeat in the 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Taking us behind the scenes in the Capitol, the White House, and on the campaign trail, he shows how the rise of extremists---in both parties---has displaced tolerance with purity tests, purging centrists, and precluding moderate, bipartisan consensus.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429952903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the better During a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to Judiciary Committee chairman, saved and defeated Supreme Court nominees, championed NIH funding, wrote watershed crime laws, always staying defiantly independent, "The Contrarian," as Time magazine billed him in a package of the nation's ten-best Senators. It all ended with one vote, for President Obama's stimulus, when Specter broke with Republicans to provide the margin of victory to prevent another Depression. Shunned by the GOP faithful, Specter changed parties, giving Democrats a sixty-vote supermajority and throwing Washington into a tailspin. He kept charging, taking the first bursts of Tea Party fire at public meetings on Obama's health care--reform plan. Undaunted, Specter cast the key vote for the health plan. In Life Among the Cannibals, Specter candidly describes the battles that led to his party switch, his tough transition, the unexpected struggles and duplicity that he faced, and his tumultuous campaign and eventual defeat in the 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Taking us behind the scenes in the Capitol, the White House, and on the campaign trail, he shows how the rise of extremists---in both parties---has displaced tolerance with purity tests, purging centrists, and precluding moderate, bipartisan consensus.
United States Magazine of Science, Art, Manufactures, Agriculture, Commerce, and Trade
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Languages : en
Pages : 662
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United States Magazine
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Emerson's United States Magazine
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Putnam's Monthly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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