The Stranger at Our Gate
Author | : Hubert Horatio Humphrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hubert Horatio Humphrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mel White |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1995-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0452273811 |
“Compelling...eloquent and compassionate...We learn as much about growing up in the Christian right as we do about gay life in Mel White’s heartfelt and revealing memoir.”—San Francisco Examiner Until Christmas Eve 1991, Mel White was regarded by the leaders of the religious right as one of their most talented and productive supporters. He penned the speeches of Ollie North. He was a ghostwriter for Jerry Falwell, worked with Jim Bakker, flew in Pat Robertson's private jet, walked sandy beaches with Billy Graham. What these men didn't know was that Mel White—evangelical minister, committed Christian, family man—was gay. In this remarkable book, Mel White details his twenty-five years of being counseled, exorcised, electric-shocked, prayed for, and nearly driven to suicide because his church said homosexuality was wrong. But his salvation—to be openly gay and Christian—is more than a unique coming-out story. It is a chilling exposé that goes right into the secret meetings and hidden agendas of the religious right. Told by an eyewitness and sure to anger those Mel White once knew best, Stranger at the Gate is a warning about where the politics of hate may lead America...a brave book by a good man whose words can make us richer in spirit and much wiser too.
Author | : Adam Gopnik |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101947500 |
From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, first arrived in 1980, New York City was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a place where both life’s consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Strangers’ Gate is a vivid portrait of this time, told through the story of one couple’s journey—from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Through a series of comic mini-anthropologies that capture the fashion, publishing, and art worlds of the era, Adam Gopnik transports us from his tiny basement room on the Upper East Side to a SoHo loft, from his time as a graduate student-cum-library-clerk to the galleries of MoMA. Filled with tender and humorous reminiscences—including affectionate reflections on Richard Avedon, Robert Hughes, and Jeff Koons, among many others—At the Strangers’ Gate is an ode to New York striving.
Author | : Valerie Knowles |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1997-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1550022695 |
Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians' perception of themselves as a country and as a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped to define the character of Canadian immigrants over the centuries. Key policymakers and moulders of public opinion figure prominently in this colourful story, as does the role played by racism.This new and revised edition contains additional material which focuses on significant developments in the immigration and refugee field since 1992. Special attention is paid to Bill C86 and its significance.
Author | : Sidney Tarrow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107009383 |
This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France, and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events and cycles of collective action. Sidney Tarrow places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics, in relation to states, political parties, and other actors. From peasants and communists in 1960s Italy, to movements and politics in contemporary western polities, to the global justice movement in the new century, the book argues that contentious actors are neither outside of nor completely within politics, but rather they occupy the uncertain territory between total opposition and integration into policy.
Author | : Ikenna Nzimiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Igbo (African people) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederic Wakeman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520212398 |
First published in 1966, and now available once more, this pioneering work examines the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion--one of the most calamitous events in Chinese history. The book explores the various factors that led to the progression of rebellion and the inevitability of revolution.
Author | : Catriona McPherson |
Publisher | : Constable |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : Haunted places |
ISBN | : 9781472127815 |
Author | : Mary Antin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Aliens |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hubert H. Humphrey Jr |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780260498878 |
Excerpt from The Stranger at Our Gate: America's Immigration Policy At first Chinese alone were excluded. But the categories of ex cludables were swiftly expandedj In 1917, after three different Presidents had vetoed a similar measure, Congress enacted a literacy test for admission aimed at shutting 011 entry of the so-called new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. The 1917 law also established the notorious Barred Zone provision, sealing ofi' im migration from most of the Orient. When, in turn, these devices were found insufficiently restrictive, they were supplemented by the rigid quota plans of 1921 and 1924 which represented the final hardening of a national anti-immigration mood into a national policy. The basic principles of the 1924 law without the Oriental exclusion provisions were re-enacted in the mccarran-walter Immi gration Act of 1952. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.