The Battle for Morningside Heights
Author | : Roger Kahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Roger Kahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Andrew S. Dolkart |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2001-03-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780231078511 |
Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
Author | : Roger Kahn |
Publisher | : New York : W. Morrow |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Radicalism |
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Author | : Joshua Henkin |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2022-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525566635 |
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Book • When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn’t have anticipated. Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. The Great Man can’t concentrate; he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. Meanwhile, Spence’s estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father’s last, best hope. Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. It’s about the love between women and men, and children and parents; about the things we give up in the face of adversity; and about how to survive when life turns out differently from what we thought we signed up for.
Author | : Christiane Collins |
Publisher | : eBook Bakery |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2015-09-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781938517488 |
A Storm Foretold: Columbia University and Morningside Heights, 1968 offers an eyewitness account of the famous confrontation between Columbia and its surrounding community, one of the pivotal civil rights battles that characterized the sixties. Focused from the point of view of urban planning, author and urban historian Christiane Crasemann Collins provides firsthand insight into a preeminent institution's racially motivated tactics. With extensive research, architectural maps, and photos of the protests, A Storm Foretold shows how the university pursued the goal of creating an exclusive white acropolis on the Hudson, justified as a "need for expansion." Beginning with a plan to acquire properties on Morningside Heights, and then to empty them of "undesirable" tenants, a planned cordon sanitaire was intended to blockade the campus against the presumed alien territory of the surrounding neighborhoods, including areas in West Harlem and Morningside Park. In 1968, ignoring growing community opposition, Columbia began construction of a gymnasium next to an athletic field the university had shared with the community since the 1950s at the southern end of the scenic park. Collins' story might be titled, "Morningside Park: A Civil Rights Battle Ground" as grassroots opposition by the multi-racial community grew vigorous. Long angered by an intentionally decimating housing policy, and using "Gym Crow" as the symbol of Columbia's racist policy, community residents, students, and African-American organizations united to call for an end to the gymnasium's "invasion" of public open space. A Storm Foretold brings alive the institutional insensitivity and arrogance that ignited the civil rights movement in Morningside Heights, and the issues Collins presents are as relevant today as they were in the sixties.
Author | : American-Irish Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Irish |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Addis Emmet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Harlem Heights, Battle of, N.Y., 1776 |
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Author | : Henry Phelps Johnston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Harlem Heights, Battle of, N.Y., 1776 |
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Author | : American-Irish Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Irish |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Addis Emmet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1911 |
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