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Book Synopsis The Agitator and the Politician by : Robert Macdougall
Download or read book The Agitator and the Politician written by Robert Macdougall and published by . This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Robert MacDougall invites any reader who is interested in the anti-slavery movement and the American Civil War to analyze the reasons for the differing perspectives of these two men, and to appreciate the ironies that lay in the process through which each arrived at the momentous climax of both of their efforts-the abolition of American slavery.
Book Synopsis The Agitators by : Dorothy Wickenden
Download or read book The Agitators written by Dorothy Wickenden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York-the "agitators" of the title-acclaimed author Dorothy Wickenden tells the fascinating and crucially American stories of abolition, the Underground Railroad, the early women's rights movement, and the Civil War. Harriet Tubman-no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant-was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances Seward, wife of Governor, then Senator, then Secretary of State William H. Seward. Harriet worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and took part in a river raid in which 750 enslaved people were freed from rice plantations. Martha, a "dangerous woman" in the eyes of her neighbors and a harsh critic of Lincoln's policy on slavery, organized women's rights and abolitionist conventions with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Frances gave freedom seekers money and referrals and aided in their education. The most conventional of the three friends, she hid her radicalism in public; behind the scenes, she argued strenuously with her husband about the urgency of immediate abolition. Many of the most prominent figures in the history books-Lincoln, Seward, Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison-are seen through the discerning eyes of the protagonists. So are the most explosive political debates: about women's roles and rights during the abolition crusade, emancipation, and the arming of Black troops; and about the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Beginning two decades before the Civil War, when Harriet Tubman was still enslaved and Martha and Frances were young women bound by law and tradition, The Agitators ends two decades after the war, in a radically changed United States. Wickenden brings this extraordinary period of our history to life through the richly detailed letters her characters wrote several times a week. Like Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals and David McCullough's John Adams, Wickenden's The Agitators is revelatory, riveting, and profoundly relevant to our own time"--
Book Synopsis The Politics of History by : Howard Zinn
Download or read book The Politics of History written by Howard Zinn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of case studies and essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction to this edition (first was 1970), Zinn (emeritus political science, Boston U.) responds to critics of his original work. -- Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, LLC.
Book Synopsis The politician's guide, by J. Byland by : John Byland
Download or read book The politician's guide, by J. Byland written by John Byland and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prophets of Deceit by : Leo Lowenthal
Download or read book Prophets of Deceit written by Leo Lowenthal and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1949 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Politics of Unreason by : Lars Rensmann
Download or read book The Politics of Unreason written by Lars Rensmann and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt Schools research and theorizing on modern antisemitism. Although the Frankfurt School represents one of the most influential intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, its multifaceted work on modern antisemitism has so far largely been neglected. The Politics of Unreason fills this gap, providing the first systematic study of the Frankfurt Schools philosophical, psychological, political, and social research and theorizing on the problem of antisemitism. Examining the full range of these critical theorists contributions, from major studies and prominent essays to seemingly marginal pieces and aphorisms, Lars Rensmann reconstructs how the Frankfurt School, faced with the catastrophe of the genocide against the European Jews, explains forms and causes of anti-Jewish politics of hate. The book also pays special attention to research on coded and secondary antisemitism after the Holocaust, and how resentments are politically mobilized under conditions of democracy. By revisiting and rereading the Frankfurt Schools original work, this book challenges several misperceptions about critical theorys research, making the case that it provides an important source to better understand the social origins and politics of antisemitism, racism, and hate speech in the modern world. The Frankfurt Schools analysis of antisemitism, pathbreaking in so many respects, has been a curiously neglected aspect of its legacy. In his lucid and insightful book, Lars Rensmann helps to remedy this gap in critical theorys reception history. Thereby, he has produced a pioneering study, demonstrating convincingly how the theoretical and methodological framework developed by Adorno, Horkheimer, et al., remains, in many respects, more relevant than ever. Richard Wolin, author of The Frankfurt School Revisited: And Other Essays on Politics and Society The Politics of Unreason is fascinating and richly written. Rensmann digs deeply into critical theory and its arguments. These arguments are spelled out in detail and with precision. He gives real insights into how critical theory approaches the whole issue of hate and unreason, and what critical theory develops as a critique of unreason and its pathological consequences. James M. Glass, coeditor of Re-Imagining Public Space: The Frankfurt School in the 21st Century
Download or read book A Time to Stir written by Paul Cronin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university’s unresponsive attitude toward their concerns. Exhilarating to some and deeply troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world’s attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion. With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students’ Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, “outside agitators,” and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement’s white leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were grappling with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who began to question their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes, while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf the left. Taken together, these reflections present a nuanced and moving portrait that reflects the sense of possibility and excess that characterized the 1960s.
Book Synopsis A Revolt Against Liberalism by : A.A.M. van der Linden
Download or read book A Revolt Against Liberalism written by A.A.M. van der Linden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to provide a comprehensive picture of the revolt brought about by American radical historians in the 1960s and 1970s. With the turbulent sixties as a backdrop, the work of radical luminaries like Eugene Genovese, Herbert Gutman, Staughton Lynd, William Appleman Williams and Howard Zinn is discussed. These historians made a significant contribution to present-day notions about slavery, working-class history, the New Deal, the Cold War and a wealth of other subjects. Their main target was American liberalism. Radical criticism centered on the liberal concepts of the division of power and of the nature of man. The acrimonious debate which ensued tore the historical profession apart. Therefore most historians have stressed the disagreements between liberals and radicals. Yet, in this study it will be argued that in some respects the radicals were part and parcel of mainstream historiography, though they presented a radical version of it.
Book Synopsis The Politics of the Soviet Cinema 1917-1929 by : Richard Taylor
Download or read book The Politics of the Soviet Cinema 1917-1929 written by Richard Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an illuminating background of the political history of the Soviet cinema in the twenties.
Book Synopsis Barack Obama and the Politics of Redemption by : Stanley A. Renshon
Download or read book Barack Obama and the Politics of Redemption written by Stanley A. Renshon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he raised more questions than most. Would he prove to be a pragmatic centrist or would his politics of hope ultimately flounder on the rocky shoals of America’s deep political divisions? What of his leadership style? How would the uncommonly calm character he demonstrated on the campaign trail shape Obama’s political style as commander-in-chief? Based on extensive biographical, psychological, and political research and analysis, noted political psychologist Stanley Renshon follows Obama’s presidency through the first two years. He digs into the question of who is the real Obama and assesses the advantages and limitations that he brings to the presidency. These questions cannot be answered without recourse to psychological analysis. And they cannot be answered without psychological knowledge of presidential leadership and the presidency itself. Renshon explains that Obama’s ambition has been fueled by a desire for redemption—his own, that of his parents, and ultimately for the country he now leads, which has enormous consequences for his choices as president of a politically divided America.
Book Synopsis Political Science and Political Sociology in Brief by : Dr. Muhammad Hussein Noure Elahi
Download or read book Political Science and Political Sociology in Brief written by Dr. Muhammad Hussein Noure Elahi and published by Osmora Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS work is the outcome of a demand for a short text-book that would contain in essence a clear and concise statement of the field of political science and political sociology, its scientific basis and its principles as far as these are at present known, and its purposes. In the preparation of this book emphasis has been placed on three points: first, on the social forces as the dynamic agent working unconsciously toward natural individual ends and consciously toward collective achievement under the direction of the intellect; second, on the importance of material achievement as the basis of psychical development, and on the necessity of systematic general instruction in the fundamental principles of knowledge as a basis for right social life culture; and third, on the arrangement of the material so as to facilitate its use for purposes of reading universities and classes. The work is based fundamentally on Political Science and Political Sociology, but is in no respect a mere condensation of it. Using this precise and complete work as a basis, and supplementing it by numerous references to other sociological and political writings, an attempt has been made to prepare a sort of handbook containing in epitome the essential elements of a system of political science and political sociology.
Book Synopsis American Dreamers by : Michael Kazin
Download or read book American Dreamers written by Michael Kazin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—tells a new history of the movements that, while not fully succeeding on their own terms, nonetheless made lasting contributions to American society. Among these culture shaping events are the fight for equal opportunity for women, racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure; the inclusion of multiculturalism in the media and school curricula; and the creation of books and films with altruistic and anti-authoritarian messages. Deeply informed, judicious and impassioned, and superbly written, this is an essential book for our times and for anyone seeking to understand our political history and the people who made it.
Book Synopsis The American Political Tradition by : Richard Hofstadter
Download or read book The American Political Tradition written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him—Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples—Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.
Download or read book Hope & Scorn written by Michael J. Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectuals “have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn,” writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American life: Are intellectual public figures essential voices of knowledge and wisdom, or out-of-touch elites? Hope and Scorn investigates the role of high-profile experts and thinkers in American life and their ever-fluctuating relationship with the political and public spheres. From Eisenhower’s era to Obama’s, the intellectual’s role in modern democracy has been up for debate. What makes an intellectual, and who can claim that privileged title? What are intellectuals’ obligations to society, and how, if at all, are their contributions compatible with democracy? For some, intellectuals were models of civic engagement. For others, the rise of the intellectual signaled the fall of the citizen. Carrying us through six key moments in this debate, Brown expertly untangles the shifting anxieties and aspirations for democracy in America in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Hope and Scorn begins with “egghead” politicians like Adlai Stevenson; profiles scholars like Richard Hofstadter and scholars-turned-politicians like H. Stuart Hughes; and ends with the rise of public intellectuals such as bell hooks and Cornel West. In clear and unburdened prose, Brown explicates issues of power, authority, political backlash, and more. Hope and Scorn is an essential guide to American concerns about intellectuals, their myriad shortcomings, and their formidable abilities.
Book Synopsis Political Priests and Irish Ruin: Paraguay on Shannon Up to Date by : Frank Hugh O'Donnell
Download or read book Political Priests and Irish Ruin: Paraguay on Shannon Up to Date written by Frank Hugh O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Publication by : American Sociological Society
Download or read book Publication written by American Sociological Society and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Papers and Proceedings by : American Sociological Society. Annual Meeting
Download or read book Papers and Proceedings written by American Sociological Society. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Index to the Sociological papers and reports of the American Sociological Society, 1906-1930;" v. 25, p. 226-258.
