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A Not So Foreign Affair

Author : Andrea Slane
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380846
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Not So Foreign Affair written by Andrea Slane and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Not So Foreign Affair Andrea Slane investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. By analyzing an array of films, journalism, scholarly theories, melodrama, video, and propaganda literature, Slane describes a common rhetoric that emerged during the 1930s and 1940s as a means of distinguishing “democratic sexuality” from that ascribed to Nazi Germany. World War II marked a turning point in the cultural rhetoric of democracy, Slane claims, because it intensified a preoccupation with the political role of private life and pushed sexuality to the center of democratic discourse. Having created tremendous anxiety—and fascination—in American culture, Nazism became associated with promiscuity, sexual perversionand the destruction of the family. Slane reveals how this particular imprint of fascism is used in progressive as well as conservative imagery and language to further their domestic agendas and shows how our cultural engagement with Nazism reflects the inherent tension in democracy between the value of diversity, individual freedoms national identity, and notions of the common good. Finally, she applies her analysis of wartime narratives to contemporary texts, examining anti-abortion, anti-gay, and anti-federal rhetoric, as well as the psychic life of skinheads, censorship debates, and the contemporary fascination with incest. An invaluable resource for understanding the language we use—both visual and narrative—to describe and debate democracy in the United States today, A Not So Foreign Affair will appeal to those interested in cultural studies, film and video studies, American studies, twentieth century history, German studies, rhetoric, and sexuality studies.

Foreign Affairs

Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480422495
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Affairs written by Alison Lurie and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s folk rhymes—earns little respect from her fellow scholars. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would never have viewed as a potential romantic partner. In a Western-cut suit and a rawhide tie, he is a sanitary engineer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a group tour. He’s the very opposite of her type, but before Vinnie knows it, she’s spending more and more time with him. Also in London is Vinnie’s colleague, a young, handsome English professor whose marriage and self-esteem are both on the rocks. But Fred Turner is also about to find consolation—in the arms of the most beautiful actress in England. Stylish and highborn, she introduces Fred to a glamorous, yet eccentric, London scene that he never expected to encounter. The course of these two relationships makes up the story of Foreign Affairs—a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner, and an entertaining, poignant tale from the author of The War Between the Tates and The Last Resort, “one of this country’s most able and witty novelists” (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

A Foreign Affair

Author : Valerie Barnes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781469993393
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book A Foreign Affair written by Valerie Barnes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback. Reprint. Originally published in Australia and New Zealand, imprint: Bantam, by Random House Australia in 2004. 'Walking along the drab, grey streets past bomb craters and piles of rubble, I daydreamed about a more romantic world where people spoke exotic languages, played music, sang and danced with passion.' Trapped in the austerity of post-war London, 20-year-old Valerie Barnes yearned for the good times promised by the wartime songs. Then two chance meetings catapulted her into a high-flying career at the newly formed United Nations in Geneva and the arms of a glamorous Frenchman... Joining an elite breed of independent women who travelled the world in the 1950s and 1960s, Valerie lived a jet-setting life as one of the first simultaneous interpreters, working in exotic locales and rubbing shoulders with prime ministers and presidents. In those days, United Nations was new and its staff were convinced that if they got everything right there would be no more war. There were no precedents, no protocols in place - everything had to made up as they went along. Valerie worked long hours, sometimes starting at 9 a.m. and not finishing work until 3 o'clock the following morning but it was in the interest of getting agreement on a resolution so it was worth the effort. At the same time she was juggling a Swiss chalet home, three children and an unfaithful husband. But whatever Valerie did, she threw herself into it with zest. From dancing the flamenco to being kidnapped in Cairo, wooed by an African President who wanted her to become his fourteenth wife or falling for a passionate Slav, Valerie's gift for storytelling makes this book a lively, funny, utterly delightful memoir. Her marriage started with a wedding in Geneva on a cold, dismal, rainy morning, the French family, in muddy, damp clothes trying to pull their coat collars up and their hats down to hide their bruises - the bridegroom had driven them from their home in France to Geneva at high speed causing a collision so that they had all ended up in a muddy beetroot field - and ended with a wild summer evening divorce garden party complete with a jazz band, the planting of a tree, a firework display and a midnight balloon release. Vogue: 'Oh, to have had Valerie Barnes' life!'

A Foreign Affair

Author : Gerd Gemünden
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857450661
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book A Foreign Affair written by Gerd Gemünden and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture and the avant-garde, features that lead to productive and often highly original confrontations between high and low.

This Foreign Affair

Author : Harper Bliss
Publisher : Ladylit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 988149107X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book This Foreign Affair written by Harper Bliss and published by Ladylit Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can passion bridge ten thousand miles? Television presenter Zoya Das is reeling from a painful breakup. When she's called to solve a problem at a rental flat she owns, sparks fly between her and French guest Camille Rousseau. A short holiday fling before Camille flies back to Paris could be just the thing to help Zoya's recovery from heartbreak. But what happens when Zoya and Camille develop deeper feelings for each other and are faced with the prospect of being in love on opposite sides of the world? Don't miss this world-spanning instalment of best-selling lesbian romance author Harper Bliss' much-loved Pink Bean series. Every book in this series can be read as a stand-alone without having read the other instalments. A 2018 GCLS ‘GOLDIES’ FINALIST! ★★★★★ "A magnificent romance novel!" THE PINK BEAN SERIES: 1. No Strings Attached 2. Beneath the Surface 3. Everything Between Us 4. This Foreign Affair 5. Water Under Bridges 6. No Other Love 7. Love Without Limits 8. Crazy For You 9. More Than Words

Foreign Affairs Federalism

Author : Michael J. Glennon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199355908
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Affairs Federalism written by Michael J. Glennon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the myth that the federal government exercises exclusive control over U.S. foreign-policymaking, Michael J. Glennon and Robert D. Sloane propose that we recognize the prominent role that states and cities now play in that realm. Foreign Affairs Federalism provides the first comprehensive study of the constitutional law and practice of federalism in the conduct of U.S. foreign relations. It could hardly be timelier. States and cities recently have limited greenhouse gas emissions, declared nuclear free zones and sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants, established thousands of sister-city relationships, set up informal diplomatic offices abroad, and sanctioned oppressive foreign governments. Exploring the implications of these and other initiatives, this book argues that the national interest cannot be advanced internationally by Washington alone. Glennon and Sloane examine in detail the considerable foreign affairs powers retained by the states under the Constitution and question the need for Congress or the president to step in to provide "one voice" in foreign affairs. They present concrete, realistic ways that the courts can update antiquated federalism precepts and untangle interwoven strands of international law, federal law, and state law. The result is a lucid, incisive, and up-to-date analysis of the rules that empower-and limit-states and cities abroad.

Foreign Affairs

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698195027
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Affairs written by Stuart Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone Barrington’s trip to Europe turns into an international incident in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods. When he’s apprised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure. But from the start the trip seems to be cursed, plagued by suspicious “accidents” and unfortunate events, and some of Stone’s plans go up in flames—literally. Stone sets out to learn the true source of his curious misfortune and finds that what appeared to be bad luck may, in fact, have been a warning. From the chic streets of Paris to Italy's spectacular Amalfi Coast, Stone is pursued from all sides. But when the tables turn, the hunted may become the hunter...

Journal of the British Institute of International Affairs

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the British Institute of International Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Faith and Foreign Affairs in the American Century

Author : Mark Thomas Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498570127
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Foreign Affairs in the American Century written by Mark Thomas Edwards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has led the world in almost every way since World War I. In 1941, Life magazine publisher Henry Luce dubbed his country’s preponderant power “the American Century.” His editorial was a statement of fact but also an aspiration for countrymen to unite in promotion of a world order friendly to American interests. Faith and Foreign Affairs in the American Century examines the nature of public involvement in American diplomacy. As a concept decades in the making, the American Century was conceived by those connected through the country’s leading foreign policy think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations. The missionary couple and Washington insiders Francis and Helen Miller, who fought to make the American empire a radically democratic one, figured prominently in that work. The Millers’ many partnerships embodied the conflicts as well as the cooperation of Christianity and secularism in the long reimagining of the United States as a global state. Mark Thomas Edwards offers in this study a genealogy of the concept of the American Century. Readers will encounter moments of Protestant Christian power and marginalization in the making of modern American foreign relations.

The Deane Papers ... 1774-[1790

Author : Silas Deane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deane Papers ... 1774-[1790 written by Silas Deane and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Not Always Diplomatic

Author : Sue Boyd
Publisher : University of Western Australia Press
ISBN 13 : 9781760801496
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Not Always Diplomatic written by Sue Boyd and published by University of Western Australia Press. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer for women in international diplomacy, Sue Boyd shares this account of her life in foreign service. 'An engaging account of life at the coalface by one of Australia's most active and effective diplomats - and real pathfinder in leading our diplomatic establishment out of its sexist dark age' -- Gareth Evans, Foreign Minister 1988-96 'A thoroughly engaging read. Sue's book took me for a walk down memory lane, remembering the tumultuous events of 2000 in Fiji and the fall out thereafter. Sue has a rare understanding of the Pacific Islands and its peoples. An enjoyable read. Part of it made me laugh out loud. From a gender perspective, it offers intuitions into the difficulties faced by women attempting to pierce the glass ceiling. Sue faced those difficulties with good humour and common sense, partly explaining why she has had such a successful career.' -- Imrana Jalal, The World Bank

Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs

Author : Thomas Knecht
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271056681
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs written by Thomas Knecht and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do American presidents consider public opinion when making foreign policy decisions? In a democracy, it is generally assumed that citizen preferences inform public policy. For a variety of reasons, however, foreign policy has always posed a difficult challenge for democratic governance. In Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs, Thomas Knecht offers new insights into the relationship between public opinion and U.S. foreign policy. He does so by shifting our focus away from the opinions that Americans hold and toward the issues that grab the public’s attention. Policy making under the glare of public scrutiny differs from policy making when no one is looking. As public interest in foreign policy increases, the political stakes also rise. A highly attentive public can then force presidents to choose foreign policies that are less politically risky but usually less effective. By tracking the ebb and flow of public attention to foreign policy, this book offers a method of predicting when presidents are likely to lead, follow, or simply ignore the American public.

The New Europe

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The New Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Republic

Author : Herbert David Croly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The New Republic written by Herbert David Croly and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current History

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy: 1626-1628

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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy: 1626-1628 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: