Author: Liz Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Presidential Humor is an entertaining, historic, and amusing little volume written by that witty and wise woman with a wealth of Washington wisdom and experience. Drawing upon her White House experience and her command of American history, Liz Carpenter makes humor presidential.
Author: Nancy Isenberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110160848X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Author: Susan Faludi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099301455
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: David P. Szatmary
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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A concise yet comprehensive account of the origins and evolution of rock music, emphasizing its interaction with social change and cultural trends. The narrative begins with ``the birth of the blues'' and proceeds to discuss the major (and mention the minor) performers and to identify the significant styles. These include Fifties rockabilly, folk/protest, the British Invasion, acid rock, punk/New Wave, and Eighties revivalism. Using a lively, anecdotal approach and pertinent quotes, the author examines the appropriate political, economic, technological, or psychological context of each topic, e.g., the relationship between Dylan's music and JFK's New Frontier. A primary focus throughout is on the contributions of blacks and the role of racism. Paul Feehan, Univ. of Miami Lib., Coral Gables, Fla. - Library Journal.
Author: Robert S. Griffin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9780759609334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Counter-terrorist agent Nicodemus Jadey and his siblings follow a lead from Earth to their home planet of Jhoutai. Upon arriving, they find themselves sucked into a dispute between two rival forces, unaware they they have stumbled into a fledgling war between freedom and oppression. Enlisted to help Nicodemus are the Titans, a force of soldiers with an arsenal of skills and abilities which make them far more valuable than any weapon. The biggest question for Nick is, exactly whose side is he on?
Author: Andrew Marr
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 033051329X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge – first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.
Author: Eugene Perry Link
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780781248815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Harry Kalven
Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State U. P
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Based on lectures at the Ohio State Law Forum in April, 1964, showing the impact of the Negro Civil Rights Movement on the U.S. Constitution First Amendment.
Author: Hugh Rawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: James E. Leahy
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, when he was governor of New York, said, the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” This book discusses what the justices of the United States Supreme Court have said about the First Amendment since 1791. The book is also about people–Walter Barnette, Benjamin Gitlow, Ismael Jaffree, and Fred Shuttleworth, to name a few–who during the past 200 years fought “to place [our freedoms] beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by courts” (Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 638 [1943]). And it is about judges and justices who had to make difficult choices between individual freedom and government interests. Also included: Justice Louis D. Brandeis’ description of what the Founders envisioned this country should be.
