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Author : William Stull
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Food Crisis and Americanism written by William Stull and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Stull
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Food Crisis and Americanism written by William Stull and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374718385
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Russian Job written by Douglas Smith and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent. In 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoover’s brainchild, to save communist Russia from ruin. For two years, a small, daring band of Americans fed more than ten million men, women, and children across a million square miles of territory. It was the largest humanitarian operation in history—preventing the loss of countless lives, social unrest on a massive scale, and, quite possibly, the collapse of the communist state. Now, almost a hundred years later, few in either America or Russia have heard of the ARA. The Soviet government quickly began to erase the memory of American charity. In America, fanatical anti-communism would eclipse this historic cooperation with the Soviet Union. Smith resurrects the American relief mission from obscurity, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey from the heights of human altruism to the depths of human depravity. The story of the ARA is filled with political intrigue, espionage, the clash of ideologies, violence, adventure, and romance, and features some of the great historical figures of the twentieth century. In a time of cynicism and despair about the world’s ability to confront international crises, The Russian Job is a riveting account of a cooperative effort unmatched before or since.
Author : Justyna Kociatkiewicz
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631646625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability written by Justyna Kociatkiewicz and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis, both literal and metaphorical, in American literature, film, television series, the visual arts, various manifestations of popular culture, lifestyles, history and ecology. Among the issues discussed are the ethics and aesthetics of food, and sustenance in times of crisis.
Author : Matthew Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982114207
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The 9.9 Percent written by Matthew Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves. In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What’s left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country—and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system. They log insane hours at the office and then turn their leisure time into an excuse for more career-building, even as they rely on an underpaid servant class to power their economic success and satisfy their personal needs. They have segregated themselves into zip codes designed to exclude as many people as possible. They have made fitness a national obsession even as swaths of the population lose healthcare and grow sicker. They have created an unprecedented demand for admission to elite schools and helped to fuel the dramatic cost of higher education. They channel their political energy into symbolic conflicts over identity in order to avoid acknowledging the economic roots of their privilege. And they have created an ethos of “merit” to justify their advantages. They are all around us. In fact, they are us—or what we are supposed to want to be. In this “captivating account” (Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone), Matthew Stewart argues that a new aristocracy is emerging in American society and it is repeating the mistakes of history. It is entrenching inequality, warping our culture, eroding democracy, and transforming an abundant economy into a source of misery. He calls for a regrounding of American culture and politics on a foundation closer to the original promise of America.
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Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American economic review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Berlinski
Publisher : Crown Forum
ISBN 13 : 1400097703
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Menace in Europe written by Claire Berlinski and published by Crown Forum. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative study of the critical problems that are crippling Europe and causing an increasing anti-Americanism looks at the return of the ethnic hatred, class divisions, and war that previously wreaked havoc on Europe, as well as the rise of such new issues as declining birthrates, growing Islamic fundamentalism, and an unsustainable economic model. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Author : James G. Blight
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461642205
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Sad and Luminous Days written by James G. Blight and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous moment in modern history and resulted in a changed worldview for the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. In tracing the developments of the missile crisis and beyond, Sad and Luminous Days presents and interprets a heretofore unavailable (and largely unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968. In it, Castro reflects on the crisis and reveals the distrust and bitterness that characterized Cuban-Soviet relations in 1968. Blight and Brenner frame the annotated speech with an examination of the missile crisis itself, and an analysis of Cuban-Soviet relations between 1962–1968, ending with an epilogue that highlights the lessons the missile crisis offers us in the current search for security and a stable world order. Sad and Luminous Days sheds new light on Cuban-Soviet relations and should be required reading not only for Cold-War scholars and historians, but also for anyone intrigued by the drama of the thirteen momentous days in October 1962.
Author : Louis Freeland Post
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Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Public written by Louis Freeland Post and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Steinfels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743261449
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (614 download)
Download or read book A People Adrift written by Peter Steinfels and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this national bestseller, the most influential layman in the United States reports that the Roman Catholic Church in America must either profoundly reform or lapse into permanent irrelevance.
Author : Stuart Croft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113945918X
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror written by Stuart Croft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the infamous events of 9/11, the fear of terrorism and the determination to strike back against it has become a topic of enormous public debate. The 'war on terror' discourse has developed not only through American politics but via other channels including the media, the church, music, novels, films and television, and therefore permeates many aspects of American life. Stuart Croft suggests that the process of this production of knowledge has created a very particular form of common sense which shapes relationships, jokes and even forms of tattoos. Understanding how a social process of crisis can be mapped out and how that process creates assumptions allows policy-making in America's war on terror to be examined from new perspectives. Using IR approaches together with insights from cultural studies, this book develops a dynamic model of crisis which seeks to understand the war on terror as a cultural phenomenon.
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Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Farber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826209
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Taken Hostage written by David Farber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds of recently declassified government documents, historian David Farber takes the first in-depth look at the hostage crisis, examining its lessons for America's contemporary War on Terrorism. Unlike other histories of the subject, Farber's vivid and fast-paced narrative looks beyond the day-to-day circumstances of the crisis, using the events leading up to the ordeal as a means for understanding it. The book paints a portrait of the 1970s in the United States as an era of failed expectations in a nation plagued by uncertainty and anxiety. It reveals an American government ill prepared for the fall of the Shah of Iran and unable to reckon with the Ayatollah Khomeini and his militant Islamic followers. Farber's account is filled with fresh insights regarding the central players in the crisis: Khomeini emerges as an astute strategist, single-mindedly dedicated to creating an Islamic state. The Americans' student-captors appear as less-than-organized youths, having prepared for only a symbolic sit-in with just a three-day supply of food. ABC news chief Roone Arledge, newly installed and eager for ratings, is cited as a critical catalyst in elevating the hostages to cause célèbre status. Throughout the book there emerge eerie parallels to the current terrorism crisis. Then as now, Farber demonstrates, politicians failed to grasp the depth of anger that Islamic fundamentalists harbored toward the United States, and Americans dismissed threats from terrorist groups as the crusades of ineffectual madmen. Taken Hostage is a timely and revealing history of America's first engagement with terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, one that provides a chilling reminder that the past is only prologue.
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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Cookery written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hastings Grant
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The American City written by Arthur Hastings Grant and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473545684
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book And the Weak Suffer What They Must? written by Yanis Varoufakis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that currently fails it weakest citizens. In this startling account of Europe’s economic rise and catastrophic fall, Varoufakis pinpoints the flaws in the European Union’s design – a design thought up after the Second World War, and one responsible for Europe’s fragmentation and resurgence of racist extremism. When the financial crisis struck in 2008, the political elite’s response ensured it would be the weakest citizens of the weakest nations that paid the price for the bankers’ mistakes. Drawing on his personal experience of negotiations with the eurozone’s financiers, and offering concrete policies to reform Europe, the former finance minister of Greece shows how we concocted this mess and points our way out of it. And The Weak Suffer What They Must? highlights our history to tell us what we must do to save European capitalism and democracy from the abyss. With the future of Europe under intense scrutiny after Brexit, this is the must-read book to explain Europe's structural flaws and how to fix them. 'If you ever doubt what is at stake in Europe - read Varoufakis's account' Guardian
