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The Influence Peddlers

Author : Hédi Kaddour
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300231571
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Influence Peddlers written by Hédi Kaddour and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly awaited English translation of Kaddour’s award-winning novel of clashing cultures during the French colonial years Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a small North African city of the 1920s. Bring a collection of brash American filmmakers and celebrities into the picture. Dangerous cultural collisions are the inevitable result in Hédi Kaddour’s best-selling novel of French colonial rule and its persisting legacy of human chaos and cultural tragedy. In this commanding novel, the author plumbs the contradictions of colonialism and the impact on individual lives. With insight, humor, and a profound sense of irony he introduces Les Prépondérants—“The Preponderants,” an unofficial group of peddlers of influence who operate at every level of colonial society. American “Hollywood” values, Islamic and secular politics, French manners—none of them escapes Kaddour’s skewering wit. Filled with rich irony and wonderful characters, this is a novel that grapples forcefully with colonial relations in the Arabic, North African, and French worlds, while also journeying into the simmering Europe and United States of the Roaring Twenties.

The Lobbyists

Author : Jeffrey Birnbaum
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804152306
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Lobbyists written by Jeffrey Birnbaum and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey H. Birnbaum's The Lobbyists exposes the world of Washington's most influential players -- the more than eighty thousand who descend upon our national government, informing and bartering with Congress and blocking legislation on behalf of the richest business interests in the country. This acclaimed work -- now with a new introduction that analyzes the changes in lobbying in 1990s -- provides a shocking view of how our government really works.

The Lobbyists

Author : Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 9780394582955
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book The Lobbyists written by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and published by Random House. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Influence Peddling

Author : Yo-In Song
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Influence Peddling written by Yo-In Song and published by . This book was released on 1977* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Influence Peddlers

Author : Vic Wilczur
Publisher : Millefleurs
ISBN 13 : 9780809545568
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Influence Peddlers written by Vic Wilczur and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arm agents, influence peddlers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Arm agents, influence peddlers written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roads Taken

Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210191
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Roads Taken written by Hasia R. Diner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of the Jewish men who put packs on their backs and traveled forth, house to house, farm to farm, mining camp to mining camp, to sell their goods to peoples across the world. Persistent and resourceful, these peddlers propelled a mass migration of Jewish families out of central and eastern Europe, north Africa, and the Ottoman Empire to destinations as far-flung as the United States, Great Britain, South Africa, and Latin America. Hasia Diner tells the story of millions of discontented young Jewish men who sought opportunity abroad, leaving parents, wives, and sweethearts behind. Wherever they went, they learned unfamiliar languages and customs, endured loneliness, battled the elements, and proffered goods from the metropolis to people of the hinterlands. In the Irish Midlands, the Adirondacks of New York, the mining camps of New South Wales, and so many other places, these traveling men brought change—to themselves and the families who later followed, to the women whose homes and communities they entered, and ultimately to the geography of Jewish history.

Caps for Sale

Author : Esphyr Slobodkina
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062009117
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Caps for Sale written by Esphyr Slobodkina and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caps for Sale is a timeless classic beloved by millions...one of the most popular picture books ever published! This picture book is an excellent choice to share at home or in the classroom, as children love chanting along with the naughty monkeys. Children will delight in following the peddler’s efforts to outwit the monkeys and will ask to read it again and again. Caps for Sale is an excellent easy-to-read book that includes repetition, patterns, and colors, perfect for early readers. This tale of a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity and also teaches children about problem and resolution. This classic picture book will be appreciated as a birthday, baby shower, or graduation gift! It never fails to get preschoolers chanting along and giggling.

Report

Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Revolving Door Lobbying

Author : Timothy LaPira
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700624503
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Revolving Door Lobbying written by Timothy LaPira and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of "revolving door lobbyists"—politicians and officials cashing in on their government experience to become influence peddlers on K Street. These lobbyists, popular wisdom suggests, sell access to the highest bidder. Revolving Door Lobbying tells a different, more nuanced story. As an insider interviewed in the book observes, where the general public has the "impression that lobbyists actually get things done, I would say 90 percent of what lobbyists do is prevent harm to their client from the government." Drawing on extensive new data on lobbyists’ biographies and interviews with dozens of experts, authors Timothy M. LaPira and Herschel F. Thomas establish the facts of the revolving door phenomenon—facts that suggest that, contrary to widespread assumptions about insider access, special interests hire these lobbyists as political insurance against an increasingly dysfunctional, unpredictable government. With their insider experience, revolving door lobbyists offer insight into the political process, irrespective of their connections to current policymakers. What they provide to their clients is useful and marketable political risk-reduction. Exploring this claim, LaPira and Thomas present a systematic analysis of who revolving door lobbyists are, how they differ from other lobbyists, what interests they represent, and how they seek to influence public policy. The first book to marshal comprehensive evidence of revolving door lobbying, LaPira and Thomas revise the notion that lobbyists are inherently and institutionally corrupt. Rather, the authors draw a complex and sobering picture of the revolving door as a consequence of the eroding capacity of government to solve the public’s problems.

Top Down Policymaking

Author : Thomas R. Dye
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Top Down Policymaking written by Thomas R. Dye and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his eye-opening work, Dye explodes the myth that public policy represents the “demands of the people” and that the making of public policy flows upward from the masses. In reality, Dye argues, public policy in America, as in all nations, reflects the values, interests, and preferences of a governing elite. Top Down Policymaking is a close examination of the process by which the nation’s elite goes about the task of making public policy. Focusing on the behind-the-scenes activities of money foundations, policy planning organizations, think tanks, political campaign contributors, special-interest groups, lobbyists, law firms, influence-peddlers, and the national news media, Dye concludes that public policy is made from the top down.

The Peddler's Road

Author : Matthew Cody
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385755228
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Peddler's Road written by Matthew Cody and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in Germany with their father, who is researching the Pied Piper legend, Max, nearly thirteen, and her brother Carter, ten, are spirited away to the magical land where the stolen children of Hamelin have been hidden since the thirteenth century.

The Swamp Peddlers

Author : Jason Vuic
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469663163
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Swamp Peddlers written by Jason Vuic and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build. The result was Cape Coral, Port St. Lucie, Deltona, Port Charlotte, Palm Coast, and Spring Hill, among many others—sprawling communities with no downtowns, little industry, and millions of residential lots. In The Swamp Peddlers, Jason Vuic tells the raucous tale of the sale of residential lots in postwar Florida. Initially selling cheap homes to retirees with disposable income, by the mid-1950s developers realized that they could make more money selling parcels of land on installment to their customers. These "swamp peddlers" completely transformed the landscape and demographics of Florida, devastating the state environmentally by felling forests, draining wetlands, digging canals, and chopping up at least one million acres into grid-like subdivisions crisscrossed by thousands of miles of roads. Generations of northerners moved to Florida cheaply, but at a huge price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; poorly-regulated development begat environmental destruction, culminating in the perfect storm of the 21st-century subprime mortgage crisis.

Washington and the World

Author : Llewellyn King
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761834908
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Washington and the World written by Llewellyn King and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has better covered the momentous events of 2001--2005 more intently than syndicated columnist Llewellyn King. As White House correspondent, broadcaster, and leading journalist for more than three decades, King has delighted and informed millions in America and world-wide. This enlightening and entertaining collection of his columns and commentaries is a detailed, shrewd, and informed account of the times we have so recently lived through. With King's distinctive voice and delightful eye for the absurd, Washington and the World is a fascinating, insightful, and informative read.

Merchants of Doubt

Author : Naomi Oreskes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408828774
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Merchants of Doubt written by Naomi Oreskes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.

FBI Undercover Operations

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FBI Undercover Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fit to be Citizens?

Author : Natalia Molina
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520246485
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Fit to be Citizens? written by Natalia Molina and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, this book illustrates the ways health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and define racial groups.