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Insidious Foes

Author : Francis MacDonnell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357752
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Insidious Foes written by Francis MacDonnell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazi Germany's efforts to weaken the United States by subversion failed miserably. Bungling spies were captured and half-hearted efforts at sabotage came to nothing. Yet anyone who lived through WWII remembers the chilling posters warning Americans that "Enemy Agents Have Big Ears" and "Loose Lips Sink Ships." Even Superman joined the struggle against these insidious foes. In 1940, polls showed that 71% of Americans believed a Nazi Fifth Column had penetrated the country. Almost half were convinced that spies, saboteurs, dupes, and rumor-mongers lurked in their own neighborhoods and work-places. These fears extended to the White House and Congress. In this book, Francis MacDonnell explains the origins and consequences of America's Fifth Column panic, arguing that conviction and expedience encouraged President Roosevelt, the FBI, Congressmen, Churchill's government, and Hollywood to legitimate and exacerbate American's fears. Gravely weakening the isolationists, fostering Congress's role in rooting out Un-American activities, and instigating the creation of the modern intelligence establishment, the Fifth Column scare did far more than sell movie tickets, comic books, and pulp fiction. Insidious Foes traces the panic from its origins in the minds of reasonable Americans who saw the vulnerability of their open society in an age of encroaching totalitarianism.

Insidious Foes

Author : Francis MacDonnell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195092686
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Insidious Foes written by Francis MacDonnell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravely weakening the isolationists, fostering Congress's role in rooting out Un-American activities, and instigating the creation of the modern intelligence establishment, the Fifth Column scare did far more than sell movie tickets, comic books, and pulp fiction. Insidious Foes traces the panic from its foundation, as reasonable Americans saw the vulnerability of their open society to encroaching totalitarianism.

Illuminating the Dark Arts of War

Author : David Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441177426
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Illuminating the Dark Arts of War written by David Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 9/11, the dominant view is that we have entered an era of 'new conflict' in which technology has empowered non-state actors who now pose unprecedented and unmanageable threats to U.S. national security. This unique work studies a range of threats, from homegrown and foreign terrorism to the possibility of cyber- or Chinese sabotage and fears of religious subversion to challenge every aspects of this 'new conflict' argument and expose its underlying exaggerations and misunderstandings. Examining such issues as political violence, the role of religion in terrorism, the impact of technology, and the political aspects of homeland security, this unique survey demonstrates how such activities as terrorism are limited by their clandestine nature. It also addresses why we need to switch our strategic focus and increase the role citizens have in dealing with such threats. This historically informed and critical analysis fills a void in the debates on the threats and conflicts that the U.S. confronts at home and abroad and will appeal to anyone interested in national security and terrorism.

FDR and the Jews

Author : Richard Breitman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674073673
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book FDR and the Jews written by Richard Breitman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. FDR and the Jews reveals a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure but whose moral leadership was tempered by the political realities of depression and war.

Re-Constructing the Man of Steel

Author : Martin Lund
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319429604
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Re-Constructing the Man of Steel written by Martin Lund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical investigations of the past, and as such does not stand up to historical scrutiny. In place of these readings, this book offers a new understanding of the Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the mid-1930s, presenting him as an authentically Jewish American character in his own time, for good and ill. On the way to this conclusion, this book questions many popular claims about Superman, including that he is a golem, a Moses-figure, or has a Hebrew name. In place of such notions, Lund offers contextual readings of Superman as he first appeared, touching on, among other ideas, Jewish American affinities with the Roosevelt White House, the whitening effects of popular culture, Jewish gender stereotypes, and the struggles faced by Jewish Americans during the historical peak of American anti-Semitism. In this book, Lund makes a call to stem the diffusion of myth into accepted truth, stressing the importance of contextualizing the Jewish heritage of the creators of Superman. By critically taking into account historical understandings of Jewishness and the comics’ creative contexts, this book challenges reigning assumptions about Superman and other superheroes’ cultural roles, not only for the benefit of Jewish studies, but for American, Cultural, and Comics studies as a whole.

Enemies Among Us

Author : John E. Schmitz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227557
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Enemies Among Us written by John E. Schmitz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have drawn more attention to the United States' treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Few people realize, however, the extent of the country's relocation, internment, and repatriation of German and Italian Americans, who were interned in greater numbers than Japanese Americans. The United States also assisted other countries, especially in Latin America, in expelling "dangerous" aliens, primarily Germans. In Enemies among Us John E. Schmitz examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of America's selective relocation and internment of its own citizens and enemy aliens, as well as the effects of internment on those who experienced it. Looking at German, Italian, and Japanese Americans, Schmitz analyzes the similarities in the U.S. government's procedures for those they perceived to be domestic and hemispheric threats, revealing the consistencies in the government's treatment of these groups, regardless of race. Reframing wartime relocation and internment through a broader chronological perspective and considering policies in the wider Western Hemisphere, Enemies among Us provides new conclusions as to why the United States relocated, interned, and repatriated both aliens and citizens considered enemies.

Dark Borders

Author : Jonathan Auerbach
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350068
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Dark Borders written by Jonathan Auerbach and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film noir

The Legislative Assembly Debates (official Report)

Author : India. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Legislative Assembly Debates (official Report) written by India. Legislature. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of Exhibits of Insect Enemies of Forests and Forest Products at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904

Author : American Association of Economic Entomologists
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Exhibits of Insect Enemies of Forests and Forest Products at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904 written by American Association of Economic Entomologists and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parameters

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Parameters written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Advising the President

Author : William R. Casto
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700627081
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Advising the President written by William R. Casto and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President George W. Bush authorized the use of torture. President Barack Obama directed the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen in Yemen. What President Donald Trump will do remains to be seen, but it is broadly understood that a president might test the limits of the law in extraordinary circumstances—and does so with advice from legal counsel. Advising the President is an exploration of this process, viewed through the experience of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert H. Jackson on the eve of World War II. The book directly and honestly grapples with the ethical problems inherent in advising a president on actions of doubtful legality; eschewing partisan politics, it presents a practical, realistic model for rendering—and judging the propriety of—such advice. Jackson, who would go on to be the chief US prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, was the US solicitor general from 1938–1940, US attorney general from 1940–1941, and Supreme Court justice from 1941–1954. William R. Casto uses his skill and insight as a legal historian to examine the legal arguments advanced by Roosevelt for controversial wartime policies such as illegal wiretapping and unlawful assistance to Great Britain, all of which were related to important issues of national security. Putting these episodes in political and legal context, Casto makes clear distinctions between what the adviser tells the president and what he tells others, including the public, and between advising the president and subsequently facilitating the president’s decision. Based upon the real-life experiences of a great attorney general advising a great president, Casto’s timely work presents a pragmatic yet ethically powerful approach to giving legal counsel to a president faced with momentous, controversial decisions.

Theosophy

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Theosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hollywood’s Spies

Author : Laura B Rosenzweig
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147988247X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood’s Spies written by Laura B Rosenzweig and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s. Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies The 1939 film Confessions of a Nazi Spy may have been the first cinematic shot fired by Hollywood against Nazis in America, but it by no means marked the political awakening of the film industry’s Jewish executives to the problem. Hollywood’s Spies tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who paid private investigators to infiltrate Nazi groups operating in Los Angeles, establishing the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country—the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee (LAJCC). Drawing on more than 15,000 pages of archival documents, Laura B. Rosenzweig offers a compelling narrative illuminating the role that Jewish Americans played in combating insurgent Nazism in the United States in the 1930s. Forced undercover by the anti-Semitic climate of the decade, the LAJCC partnered with organizations whose Americanism was unimpeachable, such as the American Legion, to channel information regarding seditious Nazi plots to Congress, the Justice Department, the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department. Hollywood’s Spies corrects the decades-long belief that American Jews lacked the political organization and leadership to assert their political interests during this period in our history and reveals that the LAJCC was one of many covert “fact finding” operations funded by Jewish Americans designed to root out Nazism in the United States. “A remarkable tale.” —The Wall Street Journal “Expose[s] a buried story about underground plots waged by Nazis against major Hollywood figures.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

The Brotherhood

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brotherhood written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Real Enemies

Author : Kathryn S. Olmsted
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190908572
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Real Enemies written by Kathryn S. Olmsted and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies Kathryn Olmsted shows that it was only in the twentieth century that strange and unlikely conspiracy theories became central to American politics. In particular, she posits World War I as a critical turning point and shows that as the federal bureaucracy expanded, Americans grew more fearful of the government itself--the military, the intelligence community, and even the President. Analyzing the wide-spread suspicions surrounding such events as Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, Watergate, and 9/11, Olmsted sheds light on why so many Americans believe that their government conspires against them, why more people believe these theories over time, and how real conspiracies--such as the infamous Northwoods plan--have fueled our paranoia about the governments we ourselves elect. This 10th Anniversary Edition includes a new epilogue on conspiracy theories and the 2016 election and its aftermath.

The Fifth Column in World War II

Author : Robert Loeffel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137506679
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Column in World War II written by Robert Loeffel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepared an army of subversives a Fifth Column to undermine the war effort. These suspicions plagued the Australian home front for much of the war.

Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture

Author : Benjamin L. Alpers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861227
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture written by Benjamin L. Alpers and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the early years of the Cold War. During the early 1930s, most Americans' conception of dictatorship focused on the dictator. Whether viewed as heroic or horrific, the dictator was represented as a figure of great, masculine power and effectiveness. As the Great Depression gripped the United States, a few people--including conservative members of the press and some Hollywood filmmakers--even dared to suggest that dictatorship might be the answer to America's social problems. In the late 1930s, American explanations of dictatorship shifted focus from individual leaders to the movements that empowered them. Totalitarianism became the image against which a view of democracy emphasizing tolerance and pluralism and disparaging mass movements developed. First used to describe dictatorships of both right and left, the term "totalitarianism" fell out of use upon the U.S. entry into World War II. With the war's end and the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet alliance, however, concerns about totalitarianism lay the foundation for the emerging Cold War.