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Author : Clarence Darrow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ordeal of Prohibition written by Clarence Darrow and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Tinker Buckingham
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ordeal written by Joseph Tinker Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence Darrow
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821416324
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Closing Arguments written by Clarence Darrow and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society collects, for the first time, Darrow's thoughts on his three main preoccupations. The effect reveals a carefully conceived philosophy, expressed with delightful pungency and clarity. The provocative content of these writings still challenges us. His thoughts on social issues, especially on the dangers of religious fundamentalism, are uncannily prescient. A dry and even misanthropic humor lightens his essays, and his reflections on himself and his philosophy reveal a quiet dignity at the core of a man better known for provoking Americans during an era of unprecedented tumult. From the wry "Is the Human Race Getting Anywhere," to the scornful "Patriotism," and his elegaic summing up, "At Seventy-Two," Darrow's writing still stimulates and pleases. Darrow, son of a village undertaker and coffinmaker, rose to become one of America's greatest attorneys—and surely its most famous. The Ohio native gained fame for being at the center of momentous trials, including his 1924 defense of Leopold and Loeb and his defense of Darwinian principles in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial." Some have traced Darrow's lifelong campaign against capital punishment to his boyhood terror at seeing a Civil War soldier buried—and no client of Darrow's was ever executed, not even black men who were charged with murder for defending themselves against a white mob. A rebel who always sided intellectually and emotionally with the minority, Darrow remains a figure to contend with sixty-seven years after his death. "Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet," Darrow once said. Closing Arguments demonstrates that, in his case, that statement is true.
Author : Henry Charles Lea
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151281749X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Ordeal written by Henry Charles Lea and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use what would later be termed comparative and anthropological approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval ordeal becomes a study in cultural history. Reprinted here from the fourth revised edition of 1892, the book begins by tracing the role of the ordeal in non-Western and ancient societies, showing the mental world to which it belongs: a limited trust in the public order and purely human methods of inquiry, and a larger faith in divine intervention and immanent justice. The work then describes the uses of the institution through the European Middle Ages to its final abolition, and in the process offers a rich typology of ordeals. Additional documents included in this edition present formulas and descriptions of some of the ordeals most frequently used: the ordeal by boiling water, by hot water, by cold water, by hot iron and water, by glowing plowshares, by fire, and the ordeal of the cross.
Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173037
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Prohibition’s Greatest Myths written by Michael Lewis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word “prohibition” tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted in the Washington Post, confirm that Americans’ “common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on folklore than fact.” Popular culture has given us a very strong, and very wrong, picture of what the period was like. Prohibition’s Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America’s Anti-Alcohol Crusade aims to correct common misperceptions with ten essays by scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of the era. Each contributor unravels one myth, revealing the historical evidence that supports, complicates, or refutes our long-held beliefs about the Eighteenth Amendment. H. Paul Thompson Jr., Joe L. Coker, Lisa M. F. Andersen, and Ann Marie E. Szymanski examine the political and religious factors in early twentieth-century America that led to the push for prohibition, including the temperance movement, the influences of religious conservatism and liberalism, the legislation of individual behavior, and the lingering effects of World War I. From there, several contributors analyze how the laws of prohibition were enforced. Michael Lewis discredits the idea that alcohol consumption increased during the era, while Richard F. Hamm clarifies the connections between prohibition and organized crime, and Thomas R. Pegram demonstrates that issues other than the failure of prohibition contributed to the amendment’s repeal. Finally, contributors turn to prohibition’s legacy. Mark Lawrence Schrad, Garrett Peck, and Bob L. Beach discuss the reach of prohibition beyond the United States, the influence of anti-alcohol legislation on Americans’ longterm drinking habits, and efforts to link prohibition with today’s debates over the legalization of marijuana. Together, these essays debunk many of the myths surrounding “the Noble Experiment,” not only providing a more in-depth analysis of prohibition but also allowing readers to engage more meaningfully in contemporary debates about alcohol and drug policy.
Author : David E. Kyvig
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700622292
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Explicit and Authentic Acts written by David E. Kyvig and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution. The Afterword discusses the many amendments, such those requiring a balanced federal budget or limiting the terms of members of Congress, that have been proposed since the book was originally published and why they failed of passage. At a time when prominent scholars and other public figures have called for a constitutional convention to write a new constitution, arguing that our current system of governance is unsustainable Kyvig reminds us of the high hurdles the founders created to amending the constitution and how they have served the country well, preventing the amendment process from being used by one faction to serve the passions of the moment. In his farewell address, President Washington reminded his audience that the Constitution, "till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all." He regarded the Constitution as a binding document worthy of devout allegiance, but also believed that it contains a clear and appropriate procedure for its own reform. David Kyvig's illuminating study provides the most complete and insightful history of that amendment process and its fundamental importance for American political life. Over the course of the past two centuries, more than 10,000 amendments have been proposed by the method stipulated in Article V of the Constitution. Amazingly, only 33 have garnered the required two-thirds approval from both houses of Congress, and only 27 were ultimately ratified into law by the states. Despite their small number, those amendments have revolutionized American government while simultaneously legitimizing and preserving its continued existence. Indeed, they have dramatically altered the relationship between state and federal authority, as well as between government and private citizens. Kyvig reexamines the creation and operation of Article V, illuminating the process and substance of each major successful and failed effort to change the formal structure, duties, and limits of the federal government. He analyzes in detail the Founders' intentions; the periods of great amendment activity during the 1790s, 1860s, 1910s, and 1960s; and the considerable consequences of amendment failure involving slavery, alcohol prohibition, child labor, New Deal programs, school prayer, equal rights for women, abortion, balanced budgets, term limits, and flag desecration.
Author : Arthur Charles Howland
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Ordeals, Compurgation, Excommunication, and Interdict written by Arthur Charles Howland and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Pennsylvania. Department of History
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History written by University of Pennsylvania. Department of History and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : English history
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Half hours of English history, selected and illustr. by C. Knight written by English history and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873386722
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Repealing National Prohibition written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.
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Author : University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of [European] History written by University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Okrent
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171696
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Last Call written by Daniel Okrent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.) It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology. Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Half Hours of English History written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 700 pages
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Download or read book Half Hours of English History written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
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Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The American Mercury written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bradley P. Tolppanen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615047
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Churchill in North America, 1929 written by Bradley P. Tolppanen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churchill took a three-month vacation to North America in the summer and fall of 1929, a little known event in his long career. In the company of his son Randolph, his brother Jack and his nephew Johnny, he toured Canada and the United States. Notable are Churchill's meetings with political, business, newspaper and entertainment figures (President Hoover, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Bernard Baruch, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies and Charlie Chaplin) as well as his visits to such landmarks as the Grand Canyon, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls and Yosemite. The Churchills also visited a lumber camp, slaughterhouse and steel factory, went fishing on the Pacific Ocean and inspected the battlefields in Quebec and Virginia. They evaded Prohibition and gambled on the stock market (about to crash). It was on this trip that Churchill gained an understanding of the two countries firsthand and deepened his feelings for Canada and the United States.
