My Thirty Years Out of the Senate

My Thirty Years Out of the Senate PDF 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

My Thirty Years Out of the Senate PDF 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

My Thirty Years Out of the Senate PDF Author: Jack Downing
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

My thirty years out of the Senate. By Major Jack Downing (S. Smith). Illustrated, etc PDF Author: Seba SMITH
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Languages : en
Pages : 474

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A Failed Vision of Empire

A Failed Vision of Empire PDF Author: Daniel J. Burge
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623166X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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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

Life Among the Cannibals PDF Author: Sen. Arlen Specter
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429952903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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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

United States Magazine of Science, Art, Manufactures, Agriculture, Commerce, and Trade PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 662

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United States Magazine

United States Magazine PDF Author:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Emerson's United States Magazine

Emerson's United States Magazine PDF Author:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly

Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Putnam's Monthly

Putnam's Monthly PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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