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Book Synopsis Twilight of Liberty by : William A. Donohue
Download or read book Twilight of Liberty written by William A. Donohue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight of Liberty is a sequel to Donohue's highly regarded The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union, but with a marked change in emphasis. Instead of challenging the ACLU's nonpartisan reputation, as he did in the earlier volume, Donohue now seeks to demonstrate why and how recent ACLU policy undermines the process of liberty. He argues that the ACLU, by relentlessly warring with mediating institutions, and by pushing a radical individualism in its policies, is not making us more, but less free. Two conceptions of liberty are discussed. The first considers the social context in which the struggle for freedom takes place. It maintains that freedom is best achieved through a delicate balancing of individual rights with the legitimate needs of the social order. The other conception of liberty is atomistic, exclusively concerned with the rights of the individual. According to Donohue, such a definition assures the triumph of the state over the mediating institutions of society, thus reducing prospects for freedom. This is the first book to critically analyze contemporary ACLU policy and to challenge its reputation as the preeminent voice of freedom in the United States. It aims to move beyond the idea that freedom is best served by pushing individual rights to extremes. Twilight of Liberty will appeal to scholars in the fields of law, social policy, and culture. Students in civil liberties courses will also find this book a valuable resource.
Book Synopsis Twilight of Liberty by : William A. Donohue
Download or read book Twilight of Liberty written by William A. Donohue and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the sequel to the author's The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union, but with a change in emphasis. Instead of challenging the ACLU's nonpartisan reputation as in the earlier work, Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, seeks to demonstrate how and why recent ACLU policy undermines the process of liberty. He compares a conception of liberty which maintains that freedom is best achieved when individual rights and the needs of the social order are balanced, with a conception of liberty which is concerned solely with the rights of the individual. The original edition was published in 1994. This revised edition contains a new afterword by the author. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Twilight of Authority by : Robert A. Nisbet
Download or read book Twilight of Authority written by Robert A. Nisbet and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We had thought, or our forefathers had, that modern liberal democracy would be spared the kind of erosion and decay that both Plato and Aristotle declared endemic in all forms of state. Now we are not so sure." So wrote Robert Nisbet in the first edition of Twilight of Authority, published by Oxford University Press in 1975. "The centralization and, increasingly, individualization of power is matched in the social and cultural spheres by a combined hedonism and egalitarianism, each in its own way a reflection of the destructive impact of power on the hierarchy that is native to the social bond," he writes. Robert Nisbet (1913-1996) taught at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and the University of Bologna. Robert G. Perrin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Book Synopsis In the Twilight of Liberty by : Rachel Gramann
Download or read book In the Twilight of Liberty written by Rachel Gramann and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of politics and self-interest have produced a divided and bitter country, the government finally pushes too far. The country erupts into civil war and citizens struggle to survive as the world they know is completely turned upside down. In a time when nothing is certain, Rebecca Holzmann does everything she can to protect the lives of her family, but is the war too big for one small family to survive?
Book Synopsis Illusions of Emancipation by : Joseph P. Reidy
Download or read book Illusions of Emancipation written by Joseph P. Reidy and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life whose implications stretched well beyond the former slave states. Slavery did not die quietly or quickly, nor did freedom fulfill every dream of the enslaved or their allies. The process unfolded unevenly. In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery's end during the Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space, and individuals' sense of personal and social belonging to understand how participants and witnesses coped with drastic change, its erratic pace, and its unforeseeable consequences. Emancipation disrupted everyday habits, causing sensations of disorientation that sometimes intensified the experience of reality and sometimes muddled it. While these illusions of emancipation often mixed disappointment with hope, through periods of even intense frustration they sustained the promise that the struggle for freedom would result in victory.
Book Synopsis Twilight of Democracy by : Anne Applebaum
Download or read book Twilight of Democracy written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values.
Book Synopsis Twilight of Individual Liberty by : Hamilton Vreeland
Download or read book Twilight of Individual Liberty written by Hamilton Vreeland and published by Ayer Company Pub. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a conservative lawyer, examines the powers of government which in his opinion were increasing past the limits imposed by the Constitution. He concludes that the government acted illegally during the time period encompassing the Animal Industries Act of 1884 through the New Deal of the 1930's.
Book Synopsis Twilight of Liberty by : Joseph A. Alvarez
Download or read book Twilight of Liberty written by Joseph A. Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twilight of Abundance by : David Archibald
Download or read book Twilight of Abundance written by David Archibald and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years. The party is over—prepare for the twilight of abundance.
Download or read book Twilight of Individual Liberty written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Twilight of Liberty by : Roscoe Pound
Download or read book The Twilight of Liberty written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Twilight of Freedom by : William Ralph Inge
Download or read book The Twilight of Freedom written by William Ralph Inge and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twilight of Individual Liberty by : Hamilton Vreeland
Download or read book Twilight of Individual Liberty written by Hamilton Vreeland and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twilight of Liberty by : Watson Kirkconnell
Download or read book Twilight of Liberty written by Watson Kirkconnell and published by London ; Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1941 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Twilight of Liberty by : S. Keith Allen
Download or read book The Twilight of Liberty written by S. Keith Allen and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unemployment rate is 10 percent. Taxes consume a huge portion of the working peoples paychecks. Corruption dominates every level of the Government. The highest levels seek to turn control of the country over to the United Nations through the creation of a National Police force of the power-hungry Homeland Security, and it strips basic rights from the populace. David, an automotive technician, is a family man whose life seems to get worse by the day when he is placed in prison for a crime he did not commit. James is a Petty Officer on the aircraft carrier USS Jefferson. He longs for his childhood home in Alaska when times were more laidback and peaceful. His life becomes complicated when he discovers a spy aboard the ship. Benjamin, a divorced man with grown children, has been stockpiling supplies in an underground bunker in his home in Alaska. He senses something momentous is on the horizon but knows not what. The situation in the United States worsens beyond imagination, chaos ensues, and the three men race against time to find safety for themselves and their families in a world gone mad.
Download or read book Liberty Power written by Corey M. Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American politics and society were transformed by the antislavery movement. But as Corey M. Brooks shows, it was the antislavery third parties not the Democrats or Whigs that had the largest and least-understood impact. Third-party abolitionists exploited opportunities to achieve outsized influence and shaping the national debate. Political abolitionists key contribution was the elaboration and dissemination of the notion of the Slave Power the claim that slaveholders wielded disproportionate political power and therefore threatened the liberties and political power of northern whites. By convincing northerners of the Slave Power menace, abolitionists paved the way for broader coalitions, and ultimately for Abraham Lincoln s Republican Party."
Book Synopsis The Twilight of the American Enlightenment by : George Marsden
Download or read book The Twilight of the American Enlightenment written by George Marsden and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular, liberal elites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course. Their failure lost them the faith of their constituents, paving the way for a Christian revival that offered America a firm new moral vision -- one rooted in the Protestant values of the founders. A groundbreaking reappraisal of the country's spiritual reawakening, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment shows how America found new purpose at the dawn of the Cold War.
