Author: Alan Brinkley
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307803228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. *Winner of the American Book Award for History*
Voices of Protest
Author: Alan Brinkley
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307803228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. *Winner of the American Book Award for History*
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307803228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. *Winner of the American Book Award for History*
The Rich Don't Always Win
Author: Sam Pizzigati
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 160980435X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way. Except they don't. A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen. Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now. This lively popular history will speak directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century--and how plutocracy came back-- The Rich Don't Always Win will outfit Occupy Wall Street America with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 160980435X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned themselves to believing that the rich simply always get their way. Except they don't. A century ago, the United States hosted a super-rich even more domineering than ours today. Yet fifty years later, that super-rich had almost entirely disappeared. Their majestic mansions and estates had become museums and college campuses, and America had become a vibrant, mass middle class nation, the first and finest the world had ever seen. Americans today ought to be taking no small inspiration from this stunning change. After all, if our forbears successfully beat back grand fortune, why can't we? But this transformation is inspiring virtually no one. Why? Because the story behind it has remained almost totally unknown, until now. This lively popular history will speak directly to the political hopelessness so many Americans feel. By tracing how average Americans took down plutocracy over the first half of the 20th Century--and how plutocracy came back-- The Rich Don't Always Win will outfit Occupy Wall Street America with a deeper understanding of what we need to do to get the United States back on track to the American dream.
Current Opinion
Author: Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Voices of Protest
Author: Alan Brinkley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780075444503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780075444503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Parliamentary Debates
Author: New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Four Dead in Ohio
Author: Johanna Solomon
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1800718098
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the shooting of student activists protesting against the US wars in SE Asia at Kent State University providing the needed space for the narratives of those who have fought, and continue to fight, for change.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1800718098
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the shooting of student activists protesting against the US wars in SE Asia at Kent State University providing the needed space for the narratives of those who have fought, and continue to fight, for change.
A Book of Common Praise
Author: Robert Boyers
Publisher: Ausable Press
ISBN: 9781931337038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In clear, interesting, lively prose, Boyers offers superb models for the very short critical essay.
Publisher: Ausable Press
ISBN: 9781931337038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In clear, interesting, lively prose, Boyers offers superb models for the very short critical essay.
The Bible Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Special and administrative provisions
Author: United States. Bureau of Customs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Speaker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description