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Book Synopsis The Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues by : Meredith A. Moore
Download or read book The Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues written by Meredith A. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edited volume of the first seventy-three Landon Lectures delivered at Kansas State University between 1966 and 1986. The L.L.S. is one of the most prestigious lecture series in the U.S. and has attracted national and international figures to address the public issues of the day. Each lecture is prefaced with bibliographic contextual and critical comments to assist readers in understanding the lecture's contents. The editor's introduction explains the series' history, mission, and unique qualities as well as the function of the lecture as a speech form. Features contributions by: Ronald Reagan, Robert F. Kennedy, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Dan Rather, William F. Buckley, Billy Graham, Gerald R. Ford, Shirley Temple Black, Barry Goldwater, Walter F. Mondale, Mark Hatfield, Patricia Schroeder, Robert Dole, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neil, George Bush, Tom Brokaw, George P. Schultz, and William Bennett.
Book Synopsis Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by :
Download or read book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dastardly Discourse by : Meg Gorzycki
Download or read book Dastardly Discourse written by Meg Gorzycki and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screaming at the television, compulsively firing off tart little tweets, and blogging until we are blue; these signal that we are feeling the effects of dastardly discourse. We live in a world where people feel entitled to use words to hurt, exploit, and publicly degrade humanity. We daily consume rhetoric that makes a mockery of decency and civility. Leaders of key social institutions, including government, news media, and religious organizations, who are supposed to be role models of reasoned and compassionate communication are often the ones with the loudest lies and the hardest hate. We can change the channel. We can unplug. We can even encourage others to do the same. We may not do so, however, until we grasp what is fundamentally at risk in our current norms of communication. Nasty words are just the tip of the dastardly discourse iceberg. What lies beneath is a steady flow of propaganda that aims to control our personal narratives. This book is about that propaganda, the importance of owning our own narratives, and improving our own rhetorical capital--the ability to analyze and evaluate information--for the sake of sustaining human dignity, decency, and civility.
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Book Synopsis Committee Prints by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Download or read book Committee Prints written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility by :
Download or read book National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis "An Empire of Ideals" by : Justin D. Garrison
Download or read book "An Empire of Ideals" written by Justin D. Garrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rigorous examination of Ronald Reagan's intuitive sense of reality as it was expressed chiefly in his presidential speeches. Justin D. Garrison argues that Reagan's chimeric imagination contains many dubious elements that present serious problems for politics.
Book Synopsis Reagan’s Mythical America by : Jan Hanska
Download or read book Reagan’s Mythical America written by Jan Hanska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study into the Reagan presidency with the tools of narratology. It expands the understudied field of research into political narratives as concrete policy tools and provides a new means of understanding the continuing popularity of Reagan as a President.
Book Synopsis Ronald Reagan by : United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)
Download or read book Ronald Reagan written by United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Renewing America’s Civic Compact by : Carol McNamara
Download or read book Renewing America’s Civic Compact written by Carol McNamara and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume address the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. Discussion opens with a diagnostic analysis of what presently ails American public life and then turns to address various tensions. These include meritocracy, multiculturalism, issues of race, technology, and populist nationalism in American democracy today. A number of authors address the condition of civil conversation within the university and across American society. The collection then engages debates over the continued relevance and durability of liberal ideas and institutions; whether we have accessible means and resources to channel digital technology more fruitfully for the sake of human achievement and well-being; and how some have endeavored to revitalize the American civic vocation through both scholarly and practical education. Finally, the volume closes with a call to restore civic friendship, properly understood, as the foundation for renewing America’s civic compact.
Download or read book Troubled Harvest written by Joseph Cotter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both, revolutionaries promised to address the problems of rural poverty and underdevelopment. The Mexican Revolution led to a significant agrarian reform and created the State and elite that governed Mexico since the 1920s. The Green Revolution helped increase Mexican agricultural production substantially, and in 1970 it won a Nobel Peace Prize for Norman Borlaug, who bred dwarf hybrid wheat. Mexican agronomists played significant roles in both revolutions, but neither revolution brought prosperity to peasant farmers. This book examines the history of Mexican agronomy and agronomists to shed new light on the role of science in the Mexican Revolution, the origins of the worldwide Green Revolution, and general issues about the nature of the professions, the impact of professionals' ties to politics and the state, and discourses between members of Mexico's urban middle class and peasantry. Cotter also analyzes the impact of foreign models of science in Mexico, the history of U.S.-Mexican cooperation in the agricultural sciences, and the factors that led Mexico to seek scientific assistance from the United States. In a broad way, he reveals new aspects of the ongoing struggle for the right to define modernity and progress in rural Mexico, and offers new explanations for the failure of many of the State's efforts to assist peasant farmers.
Book Synopsis The Ends of Justice by : Alan Greeley Misenheimer
Download or read book The Ends of Justice written by Alan Greeley Misenheimer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US forces have been engaged around the globe since World War II, and "endless" war has become the backdrop of American life. This militarized status quo is rife with contradiction. The Constitution requires a congressional declaration of war, yet the executive branch routinely acts alone to dispatch forces and launch attacks. The norms of republican self-governance stipulate alignment between popular will and public policy, yet our post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere have proceeded without public support and often despite public opposition. These wars became endless precisely because they lacked declared ends. Like the mythical Cyclops, the United States has embraced perpetual conflict as an end in itself. This is unacceptable, and un-American. Our history and our values demand a national security policy that recognizes the hard-wired human longing for justice as the key to decisions of peace and war. As citizens of a self-governing republic, we must ensure that US wars are fought with discrimination and proportionality, undertaken for legitimate, significant, transparent, and achievable goals, and entered as a last resort in the pursuit of justice.
Book Synopsis The American Newsroom by : Will Mari
Download or read book The American Newsroom written by Will Mari and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field, one in which journalism was produced in “news factories” by news workers with dozens of different roles, and not just once a day, but hourly, using the latest technology and setting the stage for the emergence later in the century of the information economy. During this time, the newsroom was more than a physical place—it symbolically represented all that was good and bad in journalism, from the shift from blue- to white-collar work to the flexing of journalism’s power as a watchdog on government and an advocate for social reform. Told from an empathetic, omnivorous, ground-up point of view, The American Newsroom: A History, 1920–1960 uses memoirs, trade journals, textbooks, and archival material to show how the newsroom expanded our ideas of what journalism could and should be.
Book Synopsis Rhymes with Fighter by : Joseph Weber
Download or read book Rhymes with Fighter written by Joseph Weber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a hardscrabble childhood in the Great Depression on the dusty plains of rural Nebraska, Clayton Yeutter (1930-2017) rose to work for four U.S. presidents, serving in the cabinets of two of them. His challenge, posed by one of President Ronald Reagan's aides, was this: go and change the world. As U.S. trade representative he did just that, opening the global trading arena with bold efforts that led to NAFTA, the creation of the World Trade Organization, and extraordinary growth in cross-border business. Today's global trading regime began with Yeutter. A distinguished lawyer with a doctorate in economics, Yeutter also had deep business experience leading the giant futures trading organization the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, now called the CME Group. But he never forgot his family's farm roots, and those roots led him to another top job as President George H. W. Bush's secretary of agriculture. Yeutter's intellectual firepower, paired with an engaging personality and a midwesterner's beaming smile, made friends and found common ground with leaders and trade officials worldwide. Although a loyal GOP leader who served as counselor to a president and head of the Republican National Committee, Yeutter was a moderate who had admirers on both sides of the aisle. This is his life story.
Book Synopsis Welfare for the Rich by : Phil Harvey
Download or read book Welfare for the Rich written by Phil Harvey and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare for the Rich is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts—subsidies, grants, tax credits, loan guarantees, price supports, and many other payouts—to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run. Many journalists, scholars, and activists have focused on one or more of these dysfunctional programs. A few of the most egregious examples have even become famous. But Welfare for the Rich is the first attempt to paint a comprehensive, easily accessible picture of a system largely designed by the richest Americans—through lobbyists, lawyers, political action committees, special interest groups, and other powerful influencers—with the specific goal of making sure the government keeps wealth and power flowing from the many to the few.
Book Synopsis We Win, They Lose by : Matthew Kroenig
Download or read book We Win, They Lose written by Matthew Kroenig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977, then presidential candidate Ronald Reagan was discussing foreign affairs when he said, "My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic. It is this: We win, and they lose." Three years later, Reagan was elected president; by the time he left office, the United States had won the First Cold War. Today, a New Cold War has started, this time with the People's Republic of China (PRC). While Beijing challenged the United States for many years, Washington only awoke to this reality in 2017 when President Donald J. Trump declared "great power competition" with China and Russia as the greatest threat facing the nation. We are in the early days of the New Cold War, and Washington is still struggling to define a clear China strategy. Inspired by Trump and Reagan, this book proposes a straightforward goal for the struggle with China: we win, and they lose. Brilliant and engagingly written, this book provides a conservative foreign policy strategy—A Trump-Reagan fusion—for winning the New Cold War with China. We Win, They Lose explains why a conservative worldview is best suited for the coming confrontation with China and provides a comprehensive strategy for tackling every major foreign policy issue facing the United States, including: defense, trade, and values; Russia, Iran, and North Korea; allies and institutions; border security and immigration; energy and the environment, and more. With this strategy in hand, the GOP and the United States can spring to action. It is time to win the New Cold War.
Book Synopsis Empowering Women by : Julia A. Spiker
Download or read book Empowering Women written by Julia A. Spiker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering Women: Global Voices of Rhetorical Influence explores the topic of women’s empowerment, offers a theoretical foundation to understand empowerment, and addresses the value of applying a rhetorical analysis to understand women’s rights. In each chapter, Julia A. Spiker explores the rhetoric surrounding women’s empowerment by analyzing elite female political leaders from around the world, with each analysis incorporating a rhetorical empowerment framework to unveil key issues surrounding women’s empowerment. Spiker then links the rhetorical findings from each case to highlight similarities and differences in the challenges to women’s empowerment outlined by world leaders. The conclusion to Empowering Women synthesizes these findings to present an overarching, global picture of women’s empowerment. Scholars of gender studies, women’s studies, communication, rhetoric, international relations, and political science will find this volume especially useful.
Book Synopsis Graduate Programs in Engineering & Applied Sciences 2011 (Grad 5) by : Peterson's
Download or read book Graduate Programs in Engineering & Applied Sciences 2011 (Grad 5) written by Peterson's and published by Peterson's. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peterson's Graduate Programs in Engineering & Applied Sciences contains a wealth of information on colleges and universities that offer graduate degrees in the fields of Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering; Agricultural Engineering & Bioengineering; Architectural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology; Chemical Engineering; Civil & Environmental Engineering; Computer Science & Information Technology; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Energy & Power engineering; Engineering Design; Engineering Physics; Geological, Mineral/Mining, and Petroleum Engineering; Industrial Engineering; Management of Engineering & Technology; Materials Sciences & Engineering; Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics; Ocean Engineering; Paper & Textile Engineering; and Telecommunications. Up-to-date data, collected through Peterson's Annual Survey of Graduate and Professional Institutions, provides valuable information on degree offerings, professional accreditation, jointly offered degrees, part-time and evening/weekend programs, postbaccalaureate distance degrees, faculty, students, degree requirements, entrance requirements, expenses, financial support, faculty research, and unit head and application contact information. As an added bonus, readers will find a helpful "See Close-Up" link to in-depth program descriptions written by some of these institutions. These Close-Ups offer detailed information about the specific program or department, faculty members and their research, and links to the program Web site. In addition, there are valuable articles on financial assistance and support at the graduate level and the graduate admissions process, with special advice for international and minority students. Another article discusses important facts about accreditation and provides a current list of accrediting agencies.
