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Author : William Carlson Bishop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621904021
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Pinstripe Nation written by William Carlson Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marty Appel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620406810
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Pinstripe Empire written by Marty Appel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the world's greatest baseball team—with an all new afterword by the author.
Author : Martin Tolchin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317254198
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book PINSTRIPE PATRONAGE written by Martin Tolchin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political patronage - awarding discretionary favors in exchange for political support - is alive and well in 21st century America. This book examines the little understood patronage system, showing how it is used by 'pinstripe' elites to subvert the democratic process. 'Pinstripe patronage' thrives on the billions of dollars distributed by government for the privatisation of public services. Martin and Susan Tolchin introduce us to government grants specified for the use of an individual, corporation, or community and 'hybrid agencies', with high salaries for top executives and board members. In return for this corporate welfare pinstipe partons giving politicians the ever-increasing funds needed to conduct their political campaigns. As budget cuts begin to bite, the authors argue that it is time to clamp down on the corrupt practice of pinstripe patronage.
Author : Darcy G. Richardson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595236995
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book A Nation Divided written by Darcy G. Richardson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-21 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1968 presidential election was like no other campaign in American history. In this lucidly written account of that campaign, Mr. Richardson describes in detail the "Clean for Gene" phenomenon that led to President Lyndon B. Johnson's startling withdrawal from the race and Robert F. Kennedy's opportunistic last-minute candidacy, as well as the campaigns of Republican Richard M. Nixon and third-party candidates George Wallace, Eldridge Cleaver, Dick Gregory and others. From the snows of New Hampshire to the tumultuous Democratic convention in Chicago to the see-saw election night battle between Nixon and Humphrey, this book will fascinate and inform political junkies and serious students of American history alike.
Author : Janice M. Traflet
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140902X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A Nation of Small Shareholders written by Janice M. Traflet and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nation of Small Shareholders puts the role of individual investors in broader, long-term perspective.
Author : Will Geoghegan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496213998
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Summer Baseball Nation written by Will Geoghegan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The college baseball season doesn’t end when the school year is finished. Many of the top NCAA Division I, II, and III baseball players continue to play in one of the game’s most unique environments, the summer wood bat leagues. They swap aluminum bats for wood and play from June through August in more than forty states. The poetry of America’s pastime persists as soon-to-be stars such as Gordon Beckham, Buster Posey, and Aaron Judge crash in spare bedrooms and play for free on city and college ball fields. Summer Baseball Nation chronicles a season in America’s summer collegiate baseball leagues. From the Cape to Alaska and a lot of places in between, Will Geoghegan tells the stories of a summer: eighteen of the best college players in the country playing Wiffle ball on Cape Cod, the Midnight Sun Game in Alaska, a California legend picking up another win, home runs flying into Lake Michigan, and the namesake of an old Minor League club packing the same charming ballpark. At every stop, players chase dreams while players and fans alike savor the moment.
Author : Philip Taubman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503633667
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book In the Nation’s Service written by Philip Taubman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War. Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global problems was the leitmotif of George Pratt Shultz's life. No one at the highest levels of the United States government did it better or with greater consequence in the last half of the 20th century, often against withering resistance. His quiet, effective leadership altered the arc of history. While political, social, and cultural dynamics have changed profoundly since Shultz served at the commanding heights of American power in the 1970s and 1980s, his legacy and the lessons of his career have even greater meaning now that the Shultz brand of conservatism has been almost erased in the modern Republican Party. This book, from longtime New York Times Washington reporter Philip Taubman, restores the modest Shultz to his central place in American history. Taubman reveals Shultz's gift for forging relationships with people and then harnessing the rapport to address national and international challenges, under his motto "trust is the coin of the realm"—as well as his difficulty standing up for his principles, motivated by a powerful sense of loyalty that often trapped him in inaction. Based on exclusive access to Shultz's personal papers, housed in a sealed archive at the Hoover Institution, In the Nation's Service offers a remarkable insider account of the behind-the-scenes struggles of the statesman who played a pivotal role in unwinding the Cold War.
Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453235183
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Margie written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhen a starry-eyed model walks off with a powerful woman’s mink coat and diamond bracelet, New York City’s police race to find her—before gangsters get her first/div DIVMargie Beck has always been a magnet for calamity. When she accidentally walks off with a $17,000 mink coat and the $90,000 bracelet contained within it, she finds herself again at the center of an exciting—and possibly deadly—criminal plot./divDIV /divDIVAs the city’s police search for Margie, its criminal class joins the hunt. With only the help of her boyfriend and a clever dress designer, Margie must outsmart her pursuers before it’s too late. This will be a thrilling day, but it could be Margie’s last./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div
Author : Orrin Schwab
Publisher : Orrin Schwab
ISBN 13 : 1589821904
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Redeemer Nation written by Orrin Schwab and published by Orrin Schwab. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Dr. Orrin Schwab develops the concept of the modern technocratic state as part of a global technocratic culture and civilization. The author argues that technocratic cultural and institutional forms were, and are, part of a collective ?script? for Western culture. The American script, combined the scientific, commercial, and technological aspects of the Enlightenment with the radical 17th century Protestant belief in America as a new Zion. In the twentieth century, the synthesis of mission, along with global technocratic knowledge and institutions, created the Wilsonian liberal technocratic order. As the principal agent and protector of the modern capitalist international system, America, the self-defined Redeemer Nation, has moved through the controlled anarchy of international relations, from one war and crisis to the next, confirmed in its self-defined role and mission.
Author : S.W. Squyres
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780444522504
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Sedimentary Geology at Meridiani Planum, Mars written by S.W. Squyres and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January of 2004, twin robotic explorers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on Mars. Expected to last for 90 days, the two rovers explored the Martian surface for nearly two years. Their objective was to search for evidence of ancient water on Mars, and to determine if Mars ever had conditions that would have been suitable for life. Opportunity, landed on Meridiani Planum, a smooth plateau near the Martian equator, coming to rest in a small impact feature named Eagle Crater. After leaving Eagle Crater, Opportunity drove eastward to Endurance Crater, a much larger carter that allowed access to deeper and older rocks. At these locations, Opportunity, found strong evidence for ancient water on Mars. This evidence includes "blueberries,” small concretions rich in hematite that precipitated from water. Other evidence includes rocks that ware made largely of sulphate salts, deposited when water evaporated, and rocks that preserve ancient ripples that formed billions of years ago as water flowed over sand on Mars. The conditions long ago at Meridiani Planum could have been suitable for some simple forms of life. Whether life could have developed there, however, is a more difficult question.
Author : Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110655497
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa written by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical consciousness and the production of public memory. In particular, how and why societies remember and forget, what should serve as symbols of collective memory, and whether there exists space for multiple memory cultures are questions being vigorously debated once again. These discussions present particular challenges not only to official memory bound to ideological constructions of nationhood but also to the teaching of history and its links to social justice movements. The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics of historical memory in Africa will have relevance for contemporary politics globally and for understanding how memories can be mobilised for political ends.
Author : David Niose
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137279249
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Fighting Back the Right written by David Niose and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines an unlikely new alliance in the making—a coalition of liberal believers and nonbelievers—committed to fighting for rational, progressive public policy in America and reversing the damage inflicted by decades of conservative dominance.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Advisory Commission on National Commemorative Events written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Papernick
Publisher : Fig Tree Books
ISBN 13 : 194149305X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (414 download)
Download or read book The Book of Stone written by Jonathan Papernick and published by Fig Tree Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Stone examines the evolution of the terrorist mentality and the complexities of religious extremism, as well as how easily a vulnerable mind can be exploited for dark purposes. Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant father—who is also a disgraced judge. After his father’s death, Matthew is a young man alone. He turns to his father’s beloved books for comfort, perceiving within them guidance that leads him to connect with a group of religious extremists. As Matthew immerses himself in this unfamiliar world, the FBI seeks his assistance to foil the group’s violent plot. Caught between these powerful forces, haunted by losses past and present, and desperate for redemption, Matthew charts a course of increasing peril—for himself and for everyone around him. Lyrical and incendiary, The Book of Stone is a masterfully crafted novel that reveals the ambiguities of “good” and “evil”.
Author : James Gaitis
Publisher : James Gaitis
ISBN 13 : 1601641729
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Nation's Highest Honor written by James Gaitis and published by James Gaitis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an unspecified time in the near future, the world has enjoyed decades of peace and prosperity thanks to the world-wide dissemination of an anti-violence vaccine that was invented by a ruthless industrialist named Nolebody. When scientists discover that the vaccine has a half-life -- and that this half-life has already been reached -- the administration is not prepared to keep order, since the military has been disbanded and no one knows how to operate the obsolete weaponry. In a cynical plot to restore stability, the government's leaders resolve to award the nation's highest honour, the Nolebody Award, on a reclusive, somewhat dim-witted man who lives in a shack in the desert and fashions sculptures from feathers, dead lizards, and other found objects. Leonard Bentwood's simple life and values are touted as the epitome of good citizenship and national pride. The unwitting Bentwood accepts, and travels to the capital to accept the award. In a staggering example of the power of unintended consequences, his acceptance speech triggers a revolution that sweeps the government from power. This wise and thoughtful fable entertains as it lampoons governments of every stripe.
Author : Ross J. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317087690
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book New York and the First World War written by Ross J. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its pre-eminent position as a financial and trading centre, its role in the conflict was realised far sooner than elsewhere in the United States. This book uses city, state and federal archives, newspaper reports, publications, leaflets and the well-established ethnic press in the city at the turn of the century to explore how the city and its citizens responded to their role in the First World War, from the outbreak in August 1914, through the official entry of the United States in to the war in 1917, and after the cessation of hostilities in the memorials and monuments to the conflict. The war and its aftermath forever altered politics, economics and social identities within the city, but its import is largely obscured in the history of the twentieth century. This book therefore fills an important gap in the histories of New York and the First World War.
Author : Larry M. Roth
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480948527
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Lawyer in Pinstripes written by Larry M. Roth and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lawyer in Pinstripes By: Larry M. Roth When Larry M. Roth receives a trip to New York Yankees Fantasy Camp for his birthday, a humorous and touching journey begins for the 59½-year-old lawyer as he tries to get back into baseball shape after a 40-year layoff. Readers will find themselves laughing out loud when following along with the author’s attempts to sharpen his baseball skills with the young bartender at his favorite bar, his trip to Shopping Mall Hell to stock up on his necessary sports equipment, and his late-night trek to the drug store to buy all the pain medication he believes he’ll need at fantasy camp. This autobiographical account also takes a nostalgic turn as the author looks back at his time in Little League and sees how it provided an important escape from difficult family issues. By the end, A Lawyer in Pinstripes: A Fantasy Journey will leave readers thinking one thing: be careful what you wish for.
