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The University Press of Kentucky The Presidency in the Twentyfirst Century
Book SynopsisAs the most prominent figure of the U.S. government, the president is under constant scrutiny from both his colleagues and the American people. The Presidency in the Twenty-first Century explores the growth of presidential power, investigating its social, political, and economic impact on America's present and future.Editor Charles W.
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The University Press of Kentucky Ambition in America Political Power and the
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John Wiley & Sons A Mayor for All the People Kenneth Gibsons Newark
Book SynopsisThis book offers a balanced assessment of the leadership and legacy of Kenneth Gibson, Newark’s first African-American mayor, who took office at a time when the city was plagued by dying industries and soaring crime rates. Weaving together accounts by city employees, politicians, activists, journalists, and educators, it provides a compelling inside look at a city in crisis. Trade Review“Kenneth A. Gibson was a trailblazer who set the stage for every African-American elected official in this state as well as many places around the country...He led our city in a difficult time as Newark tried to recover from the 1967 Rebellion. He will be remembered in his effort to live up to his own words: ‘Wherever the country is going, Newark will get there first....This book brings together many reflections of people who joined him and worked with him to transform Newark. Ken Gibson is an urban American titan, and this book will place him before a greater audience, who will understand and see him in terms of the vision he had and the context he deserves.” -- Ras J. Baraka * Mayor of Newark, New Jersey *"Absolutely fascinating! A Mayor for All the People offers a fine grained, kaleidoscopic portrait of Kenneth A. Gibson as mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Elected in the first generation of black mayors of major American cities at a pivotal historical juncture, Gibson was both individual and symbol, an engineer without political experience as well as an emblematic figure caught in the era's irreconcilable hopes and conflicts. It's all here, as told by thoughtful people who were there.” -- Nell Irvin Painter * author of Creating Black Americans: African American History and its Meanings, 1619 to the Present *"A Mayor for All the People is an extraordinary exploration of the complex legacy of Newark’s first black mayor, Ken Gibson. Resisting the temptation of hagiography, this collection of essays examines Gibson’s achievements and his failures—the hopes invested in his election and the bitter disappointment that followed. Anyone interested in the history of Newark – and of black politics during this period – must read this book." -- Eddie S. Glaude * William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University *"The significance of Kenneth Gibson's election nearly 50 years ago as one of America's first African-American mayors of a major city continues to reverberate today. In Newark and cities like it across the country, empowering the voices of black and brown residents in electoral politics continues as a front-burner issue, epitomized by Newark's current home-grown Mayor, Ras J. Baraka, who followed in Gibson's tradition with the campaign promise that "when I'm mayor, you're the mayor." Here in this masterfully produced volume, we see those voices emerge, powerfully, across time and generations, to contextualize the complexities facing Newark's first black mayor while never losing sight of the extraordinary scale of his accomplishments. In these pages resides wisdom that is not merely historical, but intensely immediate as we consider the work that remains for us to do in transforming our politics to achieve a more just society." -- Nancy Cantor * Chancellor, Rutgers-Newark *"A fascinating exploration of the challenges, defeats and hard-won victories during a remarkable period in the history of Newark, New Jersey's largest city under the leadership of its first black mayor. The diverse vantage points of the essays in this thoughtfully framed volume provide a unique and rich look into the groundbreaking tenure of Kenneth A. Gibson." -- Obery Hendricks * former president, Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio *"The years of Ken Gibson are a testament to the city’s resilience. The voices in this volume recall the good and the bad, the successes and disappointments. A Mayor for All The People is a potent reminder that in times of crisis and disruption, the first prerequisite for recovery is for people to come together." -- Roger J. Cohen * LinkedIn *Table of ContentsForeword by U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson ColemanPreface by Robert C. Holmes Introduction: How Should We Measure the Historical Significance of the Kenneth Gibson Era in Newark? Robert C. Holmes 1 On Being First Mayor David Norman Dinkins Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver Mayor Patricia Sheehan 2 Navigating Racial Politics Fred Means Barbara Kukla Martin Bierbaum Mayor Sharpe James State Senator Ronald Rice Fran Adubato Sheldon Bross, Esq. Elizabeth “Liz” Del Tufo Robert “Bob” Pickett Marie Villani Steve Adubato, Jr. Harold Hodes William Payne Grizel Ubarry Rev. DeForest Soaries Junius Williams, Esq. Charles I. Auffant, Esq. 3 Friends and Family Elton Hill Harold Gibson Camille Savocca Gibson 4 Trying to Make City Government Work Rev. James A. Scott Diane Johnson James “Jack” Krauskopf Dennis Cherot Phillip Elberg, Esq. Robert C. Holmes, Esq. Richard W. Roper Jerome Harris Thomas Massaro Lawrence “Larry” Hamm Vicki Donaldson Hubert Williams, Esq. Alan Zalkind Roger Lowenstein, Esq. 5 An In-Depth Look inside City Government: Mayor Gibson’s Right-Hand Man David Dennison 6 Working with the Anchor Institutions Al Koeppe Vincente Perez Richard Cammarieri Monsignor William Linder Saul Fenster Zachary “Zach” Yamba Gene Vincenti Frank Askin, Esq. George Hampton 7 Forces beyond a Mayor’s Control Brendan “Dan” O’Flaherty Jon Dubin, Esq. 8 Mayor Gibson Reflects Conclusion: Gibson’s Legacy—The Man, the Time, and the Place, 1970–1986 Richard W. Roper Afterword by Robert S. Holmes and William M. TierstenNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Ohio State University Press Comparing PostSoviet Legislatures A Theory of
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Ohio State University Press Theory and Inquiry in American Politics Evolution
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University of Arizona Press Understanding the Arizona Constitution
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing The Obama
Book SynopsisTaking a critical look at the realities that have shaped the first stage of Barack Obama's presidency, Morton Keller offers a history-focused examination of Obama's developing style of governing, with particular attention to his signature policies of the stimulus, financial, and health care reforms.Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Governing Chapter Two: Fixing the Economy Chapter Three: Into the Maze: Health Care Chapter Four: Contexts: Analogy and Ideology Chapter Five: Unfinished Business: Policy and Politics Notes About the Author Index
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. State of Disrepair Fixing the Culture and
Book SynopsisConventional wisdom in Washington in recent years has maintained that the US State Department is dramatically undernourished for the work required of US civilian power. Developed in reaction to the proposition that America's civilian agencies could not be made as successful as the military, State of Disrepair: Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department shows how the deficiencies in focus, education, and programmatic proficiency impede the work of the State Department and suggests how investing in those areas could make the agency significantly more successful at building stable and prosperous democratic governments around the world.Kori Schake explains why, instead of burdening the US military with yet another inherently civilian function, work should focus on bringing those agencies of the government whose job it is to provide development assistance up to the standard of success that our military has achieved. Schake presents a vision of what a successful State DepartmenTable of Contents Foreword by Charles A. O’Reilly III Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Nature of the Problem 3 Atrophy of Diplomatic Power 4 Missed Opportunity 5 Possibilities 6 Program 7 Conclusion Notes Bibliography About the Author Index
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. TwoFer
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Constitutional Conservatism Liberty
Book SynopsisSocial conservatives and libertarians: Is a meeting of the minds possible?Feuding among US conservatives for the title True Conservative is nothing new. Underlying the feud has been a failure to grasp that conservatism in America forms a family of principles that require accommodation: to each other, to the exigencies of the moment, and to the changing habits and opinions of the American people. In Constitutional Conservatism, Peter Berkowitz identifies the political principles social conservatives and libertarians share, or should share, and sketches the common ground on which they can and should join forces. Drawing on the writings of Edmund Burke, The Federalist, and the high points of post-War II American conservatism, Berkowitz argues that the top political priority for social conservatives and libertarians should be to rally around the principles of liberty crystallized in the US Constitution and pursue reform in light of them. He shows that this task depends on the cultivatioTrade Review“Peter Berkowitz makes a match between Edmund Burke and the American Founders to give 'political moderation' a good name on our partisan battlefield. A short, effectual book with shining prose, a telling argument, and a lasting message.” — Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University“Peter Berkowitz is among America's wisest and best political philosophers. He proves again why in Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation. In it he covers a significant amount of intellectual terrain—from Burke and the American Founders through Buckley and Reagan to the here and now—in a manner that is lively, informed, accessible and timely.Conservatism is now engaged in a period of reflection that may lead to recalibration. One of the best things that could happen is for those on the right to listen to the counsel of Professor Berkowitz as he helps us to recover the constitutional connection between liberty, self-government, and political moderation rightly understood. Constitutional Conservatism is a wonderful and necessary book. In looking back, Peter Berkowitz helps us to see our way forward.” — Peter Wehner, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, member of the Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. How Public Policy Became War
Book SynopsisAs a response to the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is widely understood as a turning point in American history. David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd go even further, calling the New Deal America's French Revolution, refashioning American government and public policy in ways that have grown to epic proportions today.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Managing American Hegemony
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Beaufort Books Obamas Globe
Book SynopsisTrade Review...it is definitely a must read for anyone wishing to understand why America seems more alone in the world now than it has ever been. -- ConservativeHQHerschensohn was once a former deputy special assistant to President Nixon, who hailed him as 'particularly well qualified in an area I find important, foreign policy. He is an expert in that area.' To have been called an expert in foreign policy by Richard Nixon is like having Pavarotti say you're a great singer. Nixon often dazzled audiences with tours d'horizon of international affairs, and Herschensohn does the same.... -- Human EventsIn the first presidential debate of the 2012 election, Republican challenger Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama handily in a takedown of the President's devastating domestic policies. Foreign policy wasn't addressed, but all Romney need do to to brush up for a victory in that arena is study Bruce Herschensohn's new book. -- FrontPage MagazineBruce Herschensohn calmly makes a devastating case against the foreign policy of President Barack Hussein Obama and, more importantly, offers readers a foundation on which they can build their own ability to assess American international relations going forward. -- The American SpectatorIt's truly a critical book... Brief and powerful... It's something that the Romney campaign ought to memorize... The Dean, in my opinion, of observers of foreign policy - Bruce Herschensohn... My favorite analyst of world affairs, Bruce Herschensohn. And I mean that quite literally. -- Dennis Prager, best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio show host (taken from the Sept 27 interview)
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Wisconsin Historical Society,US Ratification of the Constitution by the States
Book SynopsisDocuments New York State's public and private debates about the Constitution and the calling of New York's ratifying convention. This book features numerous newspaper items and letters, New York ratification chronologies, lists of New York officeholders, biographies of major figures, and many other important documents and editors' notes.Trade Review"The most important editorial project in the nation." Leonard W. Levy"
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press The Documentary History of the Ratification of
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Prince
Book SynopsisWhat makes this well-annotated translation stand out from others is an insightful introduction by editor Thomas G. Bergin especially helpful for achieving a better understanding of the times and the political scene in which Machiavelli worked, lived, and wrote.Table of ContentsIntroduction vii To the magnificent Lorenzo, son of piero de’ medici xiii 1.Types of Monarchy and How They Are Acquired 1 II. Hereditary Monarchies 1 III. Mixed Monarchies 2 IV. Why the Kingdom of Darius, Occupied by Alexander, Did Not Rebel Against Alexander’s Successors after His Death 10 V. How Cities or States Previously Independent Must Be Governed after Occupation 12 VI. Of New Monarchies Acquired by One’s Arms and Ability 13 VII. New Monarchies Acquired by the Power of Others or by Fortune 16 VIII. On Those Who Have Become Princes by Crime 23 IX. Civil Monarchy 26 X. How the Strength of All Monarchies Should Be Measured 29 XI. Eccelesiastical Monarchies 31 XII. Various Kinds of Troops with Special Discussion of Mercenaries 33 XIII. Auxiliaries, Mixed, and Native Troops 38 XIV. The Prince’s Duty in Military Matters 41 XV. On Things for Which Men, and Particularly Princes, Are Praised or Blamed 44 XVI. Generosity and Meanness 45 XVII. Cruelty and Clemency and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared 47 XVIII. In What Manner Princes Should Keep Their Word 50 XIX. Essential to Avoid Being Hated or Despised 52 XX. Whether the Building of Fortresses or Other Measures Taken by Princes Are Useful or Dangerous 61 XXI. How a Prince Should Conduct Himself in Order to Acquire Prestige 65 XXII. The Prince’s Ministers 68 XXIII. How to Avoid Flatterers 69 XXIV. Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States 71 XXV. The Influence of Fortune on Human Affairs and How It May Be Countered 72 XXVI. Exhortation to Free Italy from the Barbarians 75 Bibliography 79 Index of Proper Names 80
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The Library of America The Debate on the Constitution Part 2 Federalist
Book SynopsisHere, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, is the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign: During the secret proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a fundamentally new national plan to replace the Articles of Confederation and then submitted it to conventions in each state for ratification. Immediately, a fierce storm of argument broke. Federalist supporters, Antifederalist opponents, and seekers of a middle ground strove to balance public order and personal liberty as they praised, condemned, challenged, and analyzed the new Constitution Gathering hundreds of original texts by Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, Washington, and Patrick Henry—as well as many others less well known today—this unrivaled collection allows readers to experience firsthand the intense year-long struggle that created what remains the world’s oldest working national charter. Assembled here in chronologTrade Review"The best resource for understanding the morning headlines I've seen in a long time." — Bill Moyers"An easily accessible set of sacred writings for America's civil religion, these two books are composed of the very stuff of history." — The Chicago Tribune"Not only is it wonderful writing, it is wonderful thinking." — Nina Totenberg, NPR
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Colonial Press L.P. Under God George Washington and the Question of
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CQ Press Judicial Process in America
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CQ Press Keeping the Republic
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Roaring Brook Press Re Constitutions
Book SynopsisThe latest volume in our World Citizen Comics series, Re: Constitutions explains the role constitutions play in how government is structured and provides context for the modern issues that arise from these documents.
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Picador USA Degrade and Destroy
Book SynopsisThis is the ultimate insider's view of perhaps the darkest chapter of the Forever Wars. Michael R. Gordon knows everyone, was seemingly everywhere, and brings a lifetime of brilliant reporting to telling this crucial story. Retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, Sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and author of To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of DecisionAn essential account of the struggle against ISISand of how Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden have waged war.In the summer of 2014, President Barack Obama faced an unwelcome surprise: insurgents from the Islamic State had seized the Iraqi city of Mosul and proclaimed a new caliphate, which they were ruling with an iron fist and using to launch terrorist attacks abroad. After considerable deliberation, President Obama sent American troops back to Iraq. The new mission was to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS, primarily by advising Iraqi and Syrian partners who would do
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Thomas Nelson Publishers The Freedom Answer Book
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Johns Hopkins University Press Torture and State Violence in the United States
Book SynopsisS.Trade ReviewTorture and State Violence in the United States is a very useful bit of research, bringing together many resources that readers would require hours or days to assemble on their own. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [Pallitto] tries to demonstrate that the cruelty manifest in American state violence-the genus of which torture is a species-has been a constant in the 400 years of American history. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of DocumentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Colonial North America and the Early Republic2. Slavery and the Frontier3. Imperialism, Jim Crow, and World War4. The Cold War, Vietnam, and Torture by the Police5. The War on TerrorConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ex Oriente Lex
Book SynopsisA preface by editors Deborah Lyons and Kurt Raaflaub details the importance of Westbrook's work for the field of classics, while Sophie Demare-Lafont's incisive introduction places Westbrook's ideas within the wider context of ancient law.Trade ReviewIndividually and cumulatively (his) essays encourage a re-examination of shared cultural heritage often fiercely resisted by classicist. -- Rockwell CJ It is the singular admiration for his diagnostic skills which attracts readers of ancient Near Eastern law to his scholarship, and as a result he will not be forgotten... The Ds CommentaryTable of ContentsEditors' NotePrefaceIntroduction1. The Trial Scene in the Iliad2. Penelope's Dowry and Odysseus' Kingship3. Drakon's Homicide Law4. Barbarians at the Gates5. The Nature and Origins of the Twelve Tables6. Restrictions on Alienation of Property in Early Roman Law7. The Coherence of the Lex Aquilia8. Vitae Necisque Potestas9. The Origin of Laesio Enormis10. Codification and Canonization11. Reflections on the Law of Homicide in the Ancient World12. The Early History of LawAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Bureaucracy and SelfGovernment
Book SynopsisRevisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions of politics, government, and public administration, the author offers a novel way of thinking constitutionally about public administration that transcends debates about big government.Trade ReviewUseful for advanced students and faculty... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionSeries Editor's ForewordPreface to the First EditionAcknowledgments to the First Edition1. Public Administration as Instrument and Institution2. Preserving the Chain of Dependence: The Ideas of the Founding and Early Republic3. Restoring Republican Virtue: The Impact of Jacksonian Ideals4. Perfecting the Neutral Instrument: Transformations of the Second State and Progressive Reforms5. Serving the Liberal State: Administration and the Rise of the New Deal Political Order6. Politics and Administration after the New Deal: Liberal Orthodoxy and Its Challenges7. The Constitutive Dimension of Public Administration: Appreciating Consequences8. Bureaucracy and the Future of American Self-GovernmentReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Fate of the Revolution
Book SynopsisThis engaging book harnesses the uncertainty and excitement of the Constitutional debates to show readers the clear departure the Constitution marked, the powerful reasons people had to view it warily, and the persuasive claims that Madison and his allies finally made with success.Trade Review... This work provides a fresh and informative account, despite slighting portions of the story. Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. Choice Readers unfamiliar with the basic outline of the arguments in Richmond will understand them clearly after reading Glover's text. Virginia Magazine of History and BiographyTable of ContentsPrologue1. Fall 1787, First Reactions2. Winter 1787–1788, Jockeying for Power3. Spring 1788, Electing the Delegates4. Summer 1788, Debating in Richmond5. Summer 1788, Deciding the Question and the FutureEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Fate of the Revolution
Book SynopsisThis engaging book harnesses the uncertainty and excitement of the Constitutional debates to show readers the clear departure the Constitution marked, the powerful reasons people had to view it warily, and the persuasive claims that Madison and his allies finally made with success.Trade Review... This work provides a fresh and informative account, despite slighting portions of the story. Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. Choice Readers unfamiliar with the basic outline of the arguments in Richmond will understand them clearly after reading Glover's text. Virginia Magazine of History and BiographyTable of ContentsPrologue1. Fall 1787, First Reactions2. Winter 1787–1788, Jockeying for Power3. Spring 1788, Electing the Delegates4. Summer 1788, Debating in Richmond5. Summer 1788, Deciding the Question and the FutureEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy
Book SynopsisEmergent Strategy and Grand Strategy thus offers both scholars and practitioners of foreign policy an original theoretical framework to explain strategic success.Trade ReviewThis well-written book is highly recommended.—ChoicePopescu's analysis raises a number of interesting points, particularly regarding the limitations of grand strategy planning in the Cold War.—PassportPopescu should be lauded for moving beyond the current debate over which grand strategy the United States should adopt to successfully challenge the grand strategy paradigm itself.—Alexander Kirss, Air and Space Power JournalExamining eight US presidential administrations, Popescu considers whether the criticism of policymakers who deviate from grand strategy in the service of short-term considerations is warranted. According to the author, such deviations may develop into a new strategy over time, particularly if leaders focus on learning from their mistakes.—International Institute for Strategic StudiesEmergent Strategy and Grand Strategy is a significant contribution to the literature. This book marks the entrance of an insightful new voice into the ongoing debate about the theory and practice of American grand strategy—a debate certain to intensify in coming years.—Christopher Layne, Texas A&M University, Perspectives on Politics[Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy] stands as the first political science contribution to test this emergent approach as an alternative explanation for successful national security strategizing . . . Popescu's book provides an original and counterintuitive way of thinking about the history of post–World War II US national security strategies. It is also timely—as we reflect on Donald Trump's foreign policy, his unorthodox decisionmaking style, and the different ways in which the president could harness his erratic approach in international affairs.—Vincent Boucher, University of Quebec at Montreal, International Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface1. Grand Strategy, Emergent Strategy, and Foreign Policy Success2. George Kennan, Containment, and the Beginning of the Cold War3. Globalizing Containment4. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Project Solarium, and the New Look5. Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Détente6. Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War7. George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and the Post–Cold War Era8. George W. Bush and the War on Terror9. Shape or Adapt?EpilogueAppendixNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The WebsterHayne Debate
Book SynopsisA crucial senatorial debate on the question of the states' relationship to the federal government. Two generations after the founding, Americans still disagreed on the nature of the Union. Was it a confederation of sovereign states or a nation headed by a central government? To South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne and others of his mindset, only the vigilant protection of states' rights could hold off an attack on the southern way of life, which was undergirded by slavery. Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster, on the other hand, believed that the political and economic ascendancy of New Englandand the nationrequired a strong, activist national government. In The Webster-Hayne Debate, Christopher Childers focuses on the sharp dispute that engaged Webster and Hayne in January 1830. During Senate discussion of western land policy, Childers explains, the senators' exchanges grew first earnest and then heated, finally landing on the question of unionits nature and its value in a federalTrade ReviewIn The Webster-Hayne Debate, Christopher Childers examines the context of the debate between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and his Senate colleague Robert S. Hayne of South Carolina in January 1830 . . . Readers will finish the book with a clear idea of the reason Webster's "Reply" became so influential in its own day. They will also better understand the debate's political context.—Asaf Almog, University of Virginia, Western Historical QuarterlyChristopher Childers's contribution to Johns Hopkins University Press's highly regarded Witness to History series reminds us that the [Webster-Hayne] debate remains a subject well worth considering, both for its oratorical power and, perhaps even more importantly, for what it reveals about the complex and intricately nuanced nature of the nation's Jacksonian political culture. The chief strength of Childers's work is its ability to provide readers with a sophisticated overview of the shifting political landscape that inspired this highly charged and symbolically rich exchange.—Martin Hershock, University of Michigan–Dearborn, Journal of American HistoryThe Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic is an excellent fit for the undergraduate classroom and will surely spark conversation about the relationship between the states and the Union . . . this work serves as an introduction to this pivotal moment and to the politics of early antebellum America.—Thomas Blake Earle, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Prologue. We the States or We the People? 1. New England’s March toward Nationalism 2. The South’s March toward Sectionalism3. The West Asserts Its Power4. The Great Debate5. Nullification and NationhoodEpilogue. The Webster-Hayne Debate in Historical MemoryNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Basic Books To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment
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University of Arkansas Press Divided Power: The Presidency, Congress, and the
Book SynopsisDivided Power is a collection of eight original essays written for the Fulbright Institute of International Relations that focuses on timely yet unanswerable questions about the relationship between the executive and legislative branches in the formation of American foreign policy.In trying to answer questions about what the nation's foreign policy is, and who has the upper hand in making it, these essays examine the struggle between the constant of the division of powers mandated by the Constitution (ambiguous though it may be) and the ever-changing political realities and conventional wisdoms of the day. Within that context, the authors also examine the society and culture in which those realities and wisdoms are nested.The goal of these essays is to offer a snapshot in time of the interaction of the executive and legislative branches in the shaping of our foreign policy, framed and informed by the intellectual and political realities that characterize the post–Cold War, post–September 11 world.
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University of Arkansas Press The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle
Book SynopsisIn The Blood of Abraham, originally published in 1985 with updates to the afterword in 1993 and 2007, President Carter explains his understanding of the Middle East and seeks to provide an enlightening and reconciling vision for greater peace in the region.Trade ReviewThe book's main lesson is one that Carter taught so well at Camp David: that adversaries in the Middle East can make giant steps toward peace if America's president acts as a 'trusted mediator' and an 'unwavering, enthusiastic' partner in the process." —Newsweek"A caring, well-researched and closely informed book . . . can be read by the non-expert without fear of arcane overload, yet can be read profitably by experts for its clearness of thought." —Atlanta Journal and Constitution
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Thunder's Mouth Press Genocide of the Mind
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Triumph Books 1001 Ways to Celebrate America
Book SynopsisComplementing the many tributes to victims and heroes of the 9/11 tragedy, this book connects readers to their heritage by showing what makes the United States such a unique culture by highlighting the best, quirky, and abiding about being an American.
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