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Dreams of a More Perfect Union

Author : Rogan Kersh
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080147471X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of a More Perfect Union written by Rogan Kersh and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and the late nineteenth century, he shows, "union" was the principal rhetorical means by which Americans expressed shared ideals and a common identity without invoking strong nationalism or centralized governance. Through his exploration of how Americans once succeeded in uniting a diverse and fragmented citizenry, Kersh revives a long-forgotten source of U.S. national identity. Why and how did Americans perceive themselves as one people from the early history of the republic? How did African Americans and others at the margins of U.S. civic culture apply this concept of union? Why did the term disappear from vernacular after the 1880s? In his search for answers, Kersh employs a wide range of methods, including political-theory analysis of writings by James Madison, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln and empirical analysis drawing on his own extensive database of American newspapers. The author's findings are persuasive—and often surprising. One intriguing development, for instance, was a strong resurgence of union feelings among Southerners—including prominent former secessionists—after the Civil War. With its fascinating and novel approach, Dreams of a More Perfect Union offers valuable insights about American political history, especially the rise of nationalism and federalism. Equally important, the author's close retracing of the religious, institutional, and other themes coloring the development of unionist thought unveils new knowledge about the origination and transmittal of ideas in a polity.

A More Perfect Union

Author : Adam Russell Taylor
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
ISBN 13 : 1506464548
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A More Perfect Union written by Adam Russell Taylor and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. A new public narrative is needed to unite Americans around common values and to counter the increasing discord and acrimony in our politics and culture. The process of healing and creating a more perfect union in our nation must start now. The moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Beloved Community, which animated and galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, provides a hopeful way forward. In A More Perfect Union, Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, reimagines a contemporary version of the Beloved Community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings. In the Beloved Community, neither privilege nor punishment is tied to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or economic status, and everyone is able to realize their full potential and thrive. Building the Beloved Community requires living out a series of commitments, such as true equality, radical welcome, transformational interdependence, E Pluribus Unum ("out of many, one"), environmental stewardship, nonviolence, and economic equity. By building the Beloved Community we unify the country around a shared moral vision that transcends ideology and partisanship, tapping into our most sacred civic and religious values, enabling our nation to live up to its best ideals and realize a more perfect union.

A More Perfect Union

Author : Stuart Dunn
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 148174061X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book A More Perfect Union written by Stuart Dunn and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a fiscal plan designed to balance the federal budget without austerity or endangering the entitlement programs. It does this primarily through increasing income taxes on the wealthy by raising rates and eliminating deductions. It calls for significant savings in the cost of health-care delivery without diminishing services and an end to government waste and inefficiency. It largely eliminates poverty through raising the minimum wage, and a full employment program in which the government serves as the employer of last resort. This program is paid for by a new net-worth tax on the wealthiest 1 percent. The plan intends to improve economic equity and preserve political democracy by reducing the income/wealth disparity which exists today. The plan extends Medicare to all, eliminates payroll taxes, and funds entitlements out of the general fund. State and municipal costs are significantly reduced by absorbing Medicaid patients into Medicare, thus freeing up capital for necessary infrastructure repair and the expansion of education funding for preschool through college. Working- and middle-class families will see their first real increase in disposable income in almost thirty years through the elimination of the payroll taxes, the reduction in the personal cost of health care and the increase in the minimum wage. The full employment program and the increase in disposable income for so many will serve to stimulate the economy, bring about business expansion, and increase employment. The cost of doing business in America will be reduced by eliminating company contributions to the payroll tax, ending the need for company-paid health insurance and a reduction in the corporate tax rate. These savings will motivate bringing jobs home from overseas and increase the profit margins for American companies providing capital for research and development, modernization, and expansion.

A More Perfect Union

Author : Hana Schank
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743277376
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book A More Perfect Union written by Hana Schank and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a year in "wedding land" comes this humorous yet poignant memoir--from choosing the perfect gown to balancing advice, from well-intentioned loved ones to avoiding the dreaded label "bridezilla."

In Order to Form a More Perfect Union

Author : T. J. Beitelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982876695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book In Order to Form a More Perfect Union written by T. J. Beitelman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is spectacular to watch his poems upend everything. In this book, the paint squeezes its artist from the tube. The facts are not to be believed, but you will ardently believe that they are facts."--Darcie Dennigan, author of 'Corinna A-maying the Apocalypse' This loosely federated republic of curses, verses, and fractured mythic narratives holds a single truth to be self-evident: our genius for disorder is our truest gift. TJ Beitelman teaches writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts.

A More Perfect Union

Author : Jesse L. Jackson Jr.
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665704632
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book A More Perfect Union written by Jesse L. Jackson Jr. and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, from the beginning and more than any other element, has shaped America's institutions, its economics, politics, laws, social structures, and political attitudes. Congressman Jackson considers race to be the focal point of America through the language of the economy because "the economy is the hearing aid through which Americans hear all political dialogue." In this thought provoking work, Jackson provides ample documentation and insightful analysis of the inextricable link between race and economics. More important Jackson proposes a radical economic strategy and program of new human rights that would build A More Perfect Union for all Americans and put them in a better position to come to grips with this enduring American legacy.

Dreams of a More Perfect Union

Author : Rogan Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804740807
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of a More Perfect Union written by Rogan Kersh and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Speech

Author : T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191494
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Speech written by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Senator Barack Obama delivered his celebrated speech, "A More Perfect Union," on March 18, 2008, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd noted that only Barack Obama "could alchemize a nuanced 40-minute speech on race into must-see YouTube viewing for 20-year-olds." Pundits established the speech's historical eminence with comparisons to Abraham Lincoln's "A House Divided" and Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream." The future president had addressed one of the biggest issues facing his campaign-and our country-with an eloquence and honesty rarely before heard on a national stage. The Speech brings together a distinguished lineup of writers and thinkers-among them Adam Mansbach, Alice Randall, Connie Schultz, and William Julius Wilson -in a multifaceted exploration of Obama's address. Their original essays examine every aspect of the speech-literary, political, social, and cultural-and are punctuated by Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson's reportage on the issue of race in the now historic 2008 campaign. The Speech memorializes and gives full due to a speech that propelled Obama toward the White House, and prompted a nation to evaluate our imperfect but hopeful union.

President Barack Obama

Author : John K. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317253558
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book President Barack Obama written by John K. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama's "improbable quest" has become a fact of American life and a benchmark in American history. Striving now toward "a more perfect union," Obama and the nation confront obstacles unforeseen at the outset of the 2008 electoral campaign. John K. Wilson tracks the sweep of this progress from the beginning of Obama's political career through his move into the White House. With his critical journalistic eye and his sympathetic "native son" perspective, Wilson shows us a side of Obama we haven't seen as well as a view of the media we need to understand-even more now as the Obama administration begins to govern. The paperback edition of this popular book includes a new introduction, updates throughout, and two new chapters on the electoral victory and the transition from campaigning into governing. New photos and new insights include a focus on the continued importance of race in American politics.

Forging a More Perfect Union

Author : Kenneth R Schneider
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595338178
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Forging a More Perfect Union written by Kenneth R Schneider and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities today are the weakest link of both democracy and modern affluence. Their explosive sprawl wastes land that promotes both urban social crises and environmental decay through mass auto movement on outrageously costly freeways--contradicting the inherent role of cities to minimize even the need to travel. The immense sprawl unnecessarily assures human isolation (with the consequent dependence upon television), undermines sustainable ecology, and abandons huge areas of the old inner city. Consequently cities are waste-generating environments that arbitrarily promote production and consumption for purposeless and endless economic growth that can never satisfy human "needs". As basic organizers of life in society, cities can become inspired environments of human development. But they must be built compactly to preserve large, accessible open spaces for recreation, parks, and natural areas. Then they can underwrite an unprecedented human efficiency comparable to productive efficiency. To build such cities, a major shift is required to control their structure and eliminate urban development as merely a promotional waste by real estate speculation. Urban development authorities are required to build cities through principles of land conservation, urban spaciousness, minimal need for transportation, human efficiency, and highly congenial human spaces.

The Pursuit of Happiness in a More Perfect Union

Author : Robert G. Bill
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524550434
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Happiness in a More Perfect Union written by Robert G. Bill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict between conservatives and liberals over public economic policy appears to have become a permanent feature of the American political landscape. Conservatives seek economic solutions with the market as virtually the sole organizing economic principle, invoking individualism inspired by the Declaration of Independences right to the pursuit of happiness. Liberals look to an important economic role for a federal government established by the Constitution to promote the general welfare. In addition to the disagreement among the political class, there is also no agreement among economists, with no model reliably predicting the economic crises of recent decades. Under these circumstances, the author believes individualism and the concern for the common good may only be reconciled through policies which promote equality of opportunity or, as Abraham Lincoln expressed it, equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human aspirations. The reconciliation of individualism and the common good is developed through reviews of the meaning of liberty, happiness, and their economic implications. The historical performance of the American economy is described in the context of the evolution of American federal government from one of limited economic scope, supporting laissez-faire capitalism, to the current mixed government. The more expansive role of government is described in terms of taxation policy and spending, including concerns over the national debt and its significance. With this background, the general reader is invited to follow the authors path to a policy of equality of opportunity with specific proposals for an end to poverty, assistance to children, assistance to postsecondary education and training, and commitments to social and medical security. A specific taxation policy is proposed to fund these programs while maintaining a prudent and manageable national debt. Associated with these proposals are reforms to make the federal government more representative of the people.

Dreams from our Forefathers

Author : Peter Podruchny, Jr.
Publisher : Peter Podruchny
ISBN 13 : 0988270110
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Dreams from our Forefathers written by Peter Podruchny, Jr. and published by Peter Podruchny. This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A More Perfect Union

Author : Steven Burgauer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440130191
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A More Perfect Union written by Steven Burgauer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where asteroids are being actively mined and comets are being intentionally crashed into the Venusian atmosphere to cool the planet down for eventual colonization, a violent civil war breaks out in America over repeal of the Second Amendment. On one side is a fanatical religious right, on the other a spineless liberal administration. Caught inbetween are space-travelers returning home from a stint on Mars. Among them is one Butch Hogan, a spacejockey in the employ of Transcomet Industries. Butch works atop the highest of all steels, orbiting electromagnetic mass drivers crucial to the asteroid trade. Upon landing, he must choose up sides in the ever-widening war.

Metaphorical Stories in Discourse

Author : L. David Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107168309
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Metaphorical Stories in Discourse written by L. David Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines and explains, in straightforward language, metaphorical stories using examples from sources such as conversations, speeches, and editorial cartoons.

A More Perfect Union

Author : Linda Sargent Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199922888
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book A More Perfect Union written by Linda Sargent Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers a holistic sensibility in post-World War II American culture that challenged Cold War logic and fed some of the century's most powerful social movements. This impulse is illustrated by focusing on Rachel Carson, Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Maslow, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Esalen Institute.

The Union of Their Dreams

Author : Miriam Pawel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608190994
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Union of Their Dreams written by Miriam Pawel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Books of 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle A Los Angeles Times Notable Book

Representing the Race

Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814743870
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Representing the Race written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop an innovative political history of African American literature. Jarrett examines texts of every sortOCopamphlets, autobiographies, cultural criticism, poems, short stories, and novelsOCoto parse the myths of authenticity, popular culture, nationalism, and militancy that have come to define African American political activism in recent decades. He argues that unless we show the diverse and complex ways that African American literature has transformed society, political myths will continue to limit our understanding of this intellectual tradition. Cultural forums ranging from the printing press, schools, and conventions, to parlors, railroad cars, and courtrooms provide the backdrop to this African American literary history, while the foreground is replete with compelling stories, from the debate over racial genius in early American history and the intellectual culture of racial politics after slavery, to the tension between copyright law and free speech in contemporary African American culture, to the political audacity of Barack ObamaOCOs creative writing. Erudite yet accessible, Representing the Race is a bold explanation of whatOCOs at stake in continuing to politicize African American literature in the new millennium."