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Author | : Dodge Morgan |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1990-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780395564042 |
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Dodge Morgan, at age 53, sailed around the world nonstop in 150 days, the fastest solo circumnavigation ever made. This book tells the story of that incredible voyage, painting a portrait of a hardheaded, warmhearted individualist and the people who helped make Morgan's dream a reality.
Author | : Jeffrey D. Clements |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1609941071 |
Download Corporations Are Not People Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision marked a culminating victory for the bizarre doctrine that corporations are people with free speech and other rights. Now, Americans cannot stop corporations from spending billions of dollars to dominate elections and keep our elected representatives on a tight leash. Jeffrey Clements reveals the far-reaching effects of this strange and destructive idea, which flies in the face of not only all common sense but most of American legal history as well. Most importantly, he offers solutions—including a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United—and tools to help readers join a grassroots drive to implement them. Ending corporate control of our Constitution and government is not about a triumph of one political ideology over another—it’s about restoring the republican principles of American democracy.
Author | : James L. Roark |
Publisher | : Bedford Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-06-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781319292782 |
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The American Promise has long been a course favorite. Students value The American Promise for its readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordinary Americans, while instructors rely upon the rich content, the many documents and features, and the overall support for teaching their class their way. The American Promise provides superior formats for every use--the print book allows for a seamless reading experience while LaunchPad provides the right space for active learning assignments and dynamic course management tools that measure and analyze student progress. LaunchPad comes with a wealth of primary sources and special critical thinking activities to help students progress toward achieving learning outcomes; LearningCurve, the adaptive learning tool that students love to use to test their understanding of the text and instructors love to assign to prepare students for class; and a suite of instructor resources from videos to test banks that make teaching simpler and more effective.
Author | : W. J. Rorabaugh |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742511910 |
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America's Promise is a concise, highly readable introduction to American History. Designed to clearly explain major themes and events, it also captures the rich and often amusing character of the American people. The strong narrative emphasizes public life and how individuals constructed public structures in which they lived and worked. Including the latest scholarship in social, cultural, and political history, the work integrates the history and importance of women and minorities. To aid students in learning and reviewing, each chapter begins with a preview of the main ideas that will be discussed and ends with a conclusion that reinforces the key concepts. Rather than being simply declaratory signposts, section headings highlight main ideas and help carry along the narrative. A glossary defines main terms, and a timeline helps students keep track of events. Selected readings are also included to encourage further reading and study. Finally, carefully selected illustrations and maps portray, pinpoint, and illuminate important episodes in American history. The most concise and competitively priced book available, America's Promise is a breath of fresh air in the introductory market.
Author | : Christopher McKnight Nichols |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2011-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674061187 |
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Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationalism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.
Author | : Theodore R. Johnson |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802157874 |
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A “persuasive . . . heartfelt and vividly written” call to counter systemic racism and build national solidarity in America (Publishers Weekly). The American Promise enshrined in our Constitution states that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Theodore Johnson argues, the promise that made America unique on Earth will have died. In When the Stars Begin to Fall, Johnson presents a compelling blueprint for the kind of national solidarity necessary to mitigate racism. Weaving together history, personal memories, and his family’s multi-generational experiences with racism, Johnson posits that solutions can be found in the exceptional citizenship long practiced in Black America. Understanding that racism is a structural crime of the state, he argues that overcoming it requires us to recognize that a color-conscious society—not a color-blind one—is the true fulfillment of the American Promise. Fueled by Johnson’s ultimate faith in the American project, grounded in his family’s longstanding optimism and his own military service, When the Stars Begin to Fall is an urgent call to undertake the process of overcoming what has long seemed intractable.
Author | : Claire Goldstene |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1626741352 |
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In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents of equal opportunity seek to promote upward financial mobility by permitting more people to participate in the economic sphere thereby rewarding merit over inherited wealth. Others use opportunity as a mechanism to maintain economic inequality. This tension, embedded with the idea of equal opportunity itself and continually reaffirmed by immigrant populations, animated social dissent among urban workers while simultaneously serving efforts by business elites to counter such dissent. Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity. She considers the efforts of Booker T. Washington in a post-Civil War South to ground opportunity in landownership as an attempt to confront the intersection of race and class. She also explores the determination of the Knights of Labor to define opportunity in terms of controlling one's own labor. She looks at the attempts by Samuel Gompers through the American Federation of Labor as well as by business elites through the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Civic Federation to shift the focus of opportunity to leisure and consumption. The Struggle for America's Promise also includes such radical figures as Edward Bellamy and Emma Goldman, who were more willing to step beyond the boundaries of the discourse about opportunity and question economic competition itself.
Author | : Herbert David Croly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert M. Kaplan |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-02-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0674975901 |
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American science produces the best medical treatments in the world. Yet U.S. citizens lag behind in life expectancy and quality of life. Robert Kaplan marshals extensive data to make the case that U.S. health care priorities are sorely misplaced—invested in attacking disease, not in solving social problems that engender disease in the first place.
Author | : James L. Roark |
Publisher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2014-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131900427X |
Download The American Promise, Value Edition, Volume 1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordinary Americans, all in a portable format. Instructors have long valued the full narrative accompanied by a 2-color map program and the rich instructor resources of the parent text made available at an affordable price.