Author: Walter Grünzweig
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823350231
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Constructing the Eighties
Author: Walter Grünzweig
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823350231
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823350231
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Other Eighties
Author: Bradford Martin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142995342X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142995342X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.
History of the Eighties
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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History of the Eighties--lessons for the Future
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Category : Bank examination
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
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Category : Bank examination
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
History of the Eighties: An examination of the banking crises of the 1980s and early 1990s
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Category : Bank examination
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A study by the FDIC staff to examine and analyse the banking crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Category : Bank examination
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A study by the FDIC staff to examine and analyse the banking crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.
70-Something
Author: Judy F. Kugel
Publisher: eBook Bakery
ISBN: 9781938517686
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Life in our 70's presents unique challenges as anyone already in or nearing that decade well knows. That's why readers of Judy Kugel's 70-Something: Life, Love and Retirement in the Bonus Years frequently find themselves nodding in recognition.In this book, based on her popular blog that The New York Times described as "quietly dramatic," Kugel offers often tender, inevitably wise, and frequently humorous insights into life during her eighth decade.Kugel shares her sense of loss on leaving her work community after thirty-three years at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and her successful quest for an engaging retirement. Her candid descriptions of married life, parenting, health issues, and friendships offer a sensitive look at how aging shapes our relationships.Kugel's scope is broad. Enjoy her take on travels, food, and exercise. You'll relate to her attempts at wrinkle eradication, to seeing her mother in the mirror and to reminding herself to be grateful for every day of her bonus years."
Publisher: eBook Bakery
ISBN: 9781938517686
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Life in our 70's presents unique challenges as anyone already in or nearing that decade well knows. That's why readers of Judy Kugel's 70-Something: Life, Love and Retirement in the Bonus Years frequently find themselves nodding in recognition.In this book, based on her popular blog that The New York Times described as "quietly dramatic," Kugel offers often tender, inevitably wise, and frequently humorous insights into life during her eighth decade.Kugel shares her sense of loss on leaving her work community after thirty-three years at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and her successful quest for an engaging retirement. Her candid descriptions of married life, parenting, health issues, and friendships offer a sensitive look at how aging shapes our relationships.Kugel's scope is broad. Enjoy her take on travels, food, and exercise. You'll relate to her attempts at wrinkle eradication, to seeing her mother in the mirror and to reminding herself to be grateful for every day of her bonus years."
Construction Review
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Buildings and Building Management
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Vols. for 1933-42 include an annual directory number; for 1959- an annual roster of realtors.
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Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Vols. for 1933-42 include an annual directory number; for 1959- an annual roster of realtors.
The Constructed Mennonite
Author: Hans Werner
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler’s German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler’s German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.
Fiscal Year 1973 Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, Construction Authorization for the Safeguard ABM, and Active Duty and Selected Reserve Strengths, Hearings ..., 92-2 ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
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