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Author : Ray Thomas Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295950921
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Sons of the Wild Jackass written by Ray Thomas Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Thomas Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sons of the Wild Jackass written by Ray Thomas Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Thomas Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Sons of the Wild Jackass, By Ray Tucker and Frederick R. Barkley. With Fifteen Cartoons by R.G. List written by Ray Thomas Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry I. Shoptaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946163127
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Sons of the Wild Jackass written by Terry I. Shoptaugh and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon Bonaparte once told his courtiers that true leadership required the ability to inspire those who would follow. "A leader is a dealer in hope," he insisted. This kind of leadership inspired farmers of North Dakota to form the Nonpartisan League in 1915. Stirred by charismatic leaders--including a stem-winding speaker who told his lieutenants to lie to the farmers when it helped the cause, a future governor who would survive a series of scandals, and a talented lawyer who was perpetually threatened by debt--the League sparked similar actions in neighboring states. The League's best times were brief, but what the members achieved influenced national legislation and programs that aid American farmers to this day.Drawing upon newspapers, interviews, and collections of private papers, Sons of the Wild Jackass uses ground-level perspectives to tell the story of the League.
Author : Harold F. Bass
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863227
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties written by Harold F. Bass and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The constitution that establishes the institutional framework for American national government makes no mention of political parties. Yet for over two centuries, political parties have competed in encouraging, organizing, and directing political activity in the United States. This volume compiles entries of concepts, terms, labels, and individuals central to identifying and comprehending these key roles political parties have played in American political life. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties addresses the historical development, organization, operation, and leadership of the parties, as well as their broader environment. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries addressing individuals, institutions, and terms.
Author : Marc C. Johnson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163771
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Political Hell-Raiser written by Marc C. Johnson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power—whether economic, military, or executive—he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana’s powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the “Montana scandalmongers,” uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt’s plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor. Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler’s entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history.
Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 2388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1954 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cedric B. Cowing
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087498X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Populists, Plungers, and Progressives written by Cedric B. Cowing and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From market memoirs, newspapers, financial journals, and Congressional records, the author has woven a narrative describing the political, social, and economic adjustment of the American people to the speculative machinery that developed between 1868 and the New Deal. The book begins with the struggle of Populist legislators, representing stable farmers, to win a Congressional ban of future commodity trading. Congress failed to act, but anti-speculation, a characteristic of Populism, remained important. In the Progressive era, the stock market rivaled the commodity exchanges for attention. Criticism of market practices was rampant as stories of Plungers spread, but no halt came until the crash. Then New Deal philosophy favored the Progressive faction of the anti-speculators. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Nathan Masters
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306826151
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Crooked written by Nathan Masters and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film—has long been lost to the annals of history. In Crooked, Nathan Masters restores this story of murderers, con artists, secret lovers, spies, bootleggers, and corrupt politicians to its full, page-turning glory. Newly elected to the Senate on a promise to root out corruption, Burton "Boxcar Burt" Wheeler sets his sights on ousting Attorney General Harry Daugherty, puppet-master behind President Harding’s unlikely rise to power. Daugherty is famous for doing whatever it takes to keep his boss in power, and his cozy relations with bootleggers and other scofflaws have long spawned rumors of impropriety. But when his constant companion and trusted fixer, Jess Smith, is found dead of a gunshot wound in the apartment the two men share, Daugherty is suddenly thrust into the spotlight, exposing the rot consuming the Harding administration to a shocked public. Determined to uncover the truth in the ensuing investigation, Wheeler takes the prosecutorial reins and subpoenas a rogue’s gallery of witnesses—convicted felons, shady detectives, disgraced officials—to expose the attorney general’s treachery and solve the riddle of Jess Smith’s suspicious death. With the muckraking senator hot on his trail, Daugherty turns to his greatest weapon, the nascent Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose eager second-in-command, J. Edgar Hoover, sees opportunity amidst the chaos. Packed with political intrigue, salacious scandal, and no shortage of lessons for our modern era of political discord, Nathan Masters’ thrilling historical narrative shows how this intricate web of inconceivable crookedness set the stage for the next century of American political scandals.
Author : William Guy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796099961
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Lyndoniad written by William Guy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LYNDONIAD is a poem or a succession of poems or a congeries of poems containing history. It treats of Lyndon Johnson in pieces, throws up facet-flashes of his life and of his epoch. The historians have had and will continue having their voluminous say about the throes and the tumult of the 1960s but here is a counter-approach to the same material: the 1960s as a kaleidoscopic epic poem with Lyndon Johnson at the center of it speaking for himself, and others speaking for him and about him and against him. Shards and tatters. The abstract and not so brief chronicles of a time when the nation was breaking.
Author : Geoffrey Kabaservice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912904
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Rule and Ruin written by Geoffrey Kabaservice and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mounted primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appeared to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise were dirty words in the Republican presidential debates. The GOP, it seemed, had suddenly become a party of ideological purity. Except this development is not new at all. In Rule and Ruin, Geoffrey Kabaservice reveals that the moderate Republicans' downfall began not with the rise of the Tea Party but about the time of President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address. Even in the 1960s, when left-wing radicalism and right-wing backlash commanded headlines, Republican moderates and progressives formed a powerful movement, supporting pro-civil rights politicians like Nelson Rockefeller and William Scranton, battling big-government liberals and conservative extremists alike. But the Republican civil war ended with the overthrow of the moderate ideas, heroes, and causes that had comprised the core of the GOP since its formation. In hindsight, it is today's conservatives who are "Republicans in Name Only." Writing with passionate sympathy for a bygone tradition of moderation, Kabaservice recaptures a time when fiscal restraint was matched with social engagement; when a cohort of leading Republicans opposed the Vietnam war; when George Romney--father of Mitt Romney--conducted a nationwide tour of American poverty, from Appalachia to Watts, calling on society to "listen to the voices from the ghetto." Rule and Ruin is an epic, deeply researched history that reorients our understanding of our political past and present. Today, following the Republicans' loss of the popular vote in five of the last six presidential contests, moderates remain marginalized in the GOP and progressives are all but nonexistent. In this insightful and elegantly argued book, Kabaservice contends that their decline has left Republicans less capable of governing responsibly, with dire consequences for all Americans. He has added a new afterword that considers the fallout from the 2012 elections.
Author : Gerald T. Dunne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067124406X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution written by Gerald T. Dunne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1977 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution is "one of the prime judicial biographies of our time." (Max Lerner) A native of St. Louis, Professor Dunne is a graduate of Georgetown University and St. Louis University Law School. He is the author of Monetary Decisions of the Supreme Court and Justice Joseph Story and The Rise of the Supreme Court.
Author : Michael P. Malone
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260221
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The American West written by Michael P. Malone and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in an updated edition that includes new sections that explore the roles of ethnic groups in the new West, urban developments, western women, and events since the mid-1980s. Original.
Author : Jackson J. Benson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803222866
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Under the Big Sky written by Jackson J. Benson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of The Way West and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories, icon of Western literature A. B. "Bud" Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. That realism came out of the depth of Guthrie's historical research and an acuity that had seldom been seen in the work of Western novelists. The small Montana town that figures in several of Guthrie's books is clearly patterned after the town where he grew up, Choteau, on the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains. Biographer Benson illuminates Guthrie's upbringing and education, the influence of his intellectually inclined father, his work as a newspaperman in Kentucky, and his time at Harvard University. Animated by the observations of friends, family, and fellow authors, this intimate account offers rare insight into the life and work of a remarkable writer and into the making of the literary West.--From publisher description.
Author : Norman D. Brown
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147731945X
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys written by Norman D. Brown and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the venerable historian Norman D. Brown published Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug in 1984, he earned national acclaim for revealing the audacious tactics at play in Texas politics during the Roaring Twenties, detailing the effects of the Ku Klux Klan, newly enfranchised women, and Prohibition. Shortly before his death in 2015, Brown completed Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys, which picks up just as the Democratic Party was poised for a bruising fight in the 1930 primary. Charting the governorships of Dan Moody, Ross Sterling, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson in her second term, and James V. Allred, this engrossing sequel takes its title from the notion that Texas politicians should give voters what they want (“When you cease to deliver the biscuits they will not be for you any longer,” said Jim “Pa” Ferguson) while remaining wary of federal assistance (the dole) in a state where the economy is fueled by oil pump jacks (nodding donkeys). Taking readers to an era when a self-serving group of Texas politicians operated in a system that was closed to anyone outside the state’s white, wealthy echelons, Brown unearths a riveting, little-known history whose impact continues to ripple at the capitol.
Author : Thomas J. McCormick
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299137403
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Behind the Throne written by Thomas J. McCormick and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Conant, in the same era, profoundly affected America's economic relationship with Asia and Latin America. During the Wilson administration, Admiral William Caperton's views influenced foreign policy in the Caribbean and Latin America. Controlling J.P. Morgan's overseas investments, Thomas Lamont had direct access to and considerable influence upon every president in the 1920s and 1930s. Adolf Berle, advisor to Franklin Roosevelt, guided the United States' economic and security policies for the post-World War II era, preparing the way for both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. As members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Senator Gerald P. Nye championed United States isolationist policies in the early years of the cold war. Vandenberg later turned internationalist and used his position as ranking Republican on the Committee to promote President Truman's foreign policies in Congress.
