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• Introduction--
• 1. World War I and the New Negro movement--
• 2. 'We return fighting': the first wave of armed resistance--
• 3. Fighting a mob in uniform: armed resistance in Washington, DC--
• 4. Blood in the streets: armed resistance in Chicago--
• 5. Armed resistance to the courthouse mobs--
• 6. Armed resistance to economic exploitation in Arkansas, Indiana, and Louisiana--
• 7. 'It is my only protection': federal and state efforts to disarm African Americans--
• 8. The fight for justice: the arrests and trials of black and white rioters--
• 9. The fight for justice: the death penalty cases--
• 10. Fighting Judge Lynch-- Conclusion: 1919's aftermath and its importance in the black freedom struggle.
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1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black citizens. In city after city - Washington, DC; Chicago; Charleston; and elsewhere - black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage. Refusing to yield, African Americans sought accuracy and fairness in the courts of public opinion and the law. This is the first account of this three-front fight - in the streets, in the press, and in the courts - against mob violence during one of the worst years of racial conflict in US history.
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• List of Illustrations Foreword by Charles C. Alexander Preface Acknowledgments
• Part 1. The Preseason
• 1. Prelude to the World Series
• 2. Baseball Confronts the Black Sox Scandal
• 3. The Shady Side of Baseball's Flagship Franchise
• 4. Ruppert and Huston Arrive, Ready to "Go to the Limit"
• 5. "You can't compare him with anybody else. He's Babe Ruth."
• 6. The Giants Fail to Get Rogers Hornsby
• 7. Ed Barrow Comes to New York
• 8. "We fear only Cleveland"
• 9. "I do not fear any club in the National League"
• Part 2. The Season
• 10. "My job is to knock 'em a mile"
• 11. "This home run business is being carried too far"
• 12. The Trials and Tribulations of John McGraw
• 13. Cobb and Speaker Await as the Yankees Head West
• 14. "The Yanks are the best worst team in either league"
• 15. Setbacks on the Road and in the Commissioner's Office
• 16. The Giants Solidify Their Lineup
• 17. "You can't play your outfielders in the middle of the next block"
• 18. Lay off Huggins and Hope Nothing Happens to the Babe
• 19. A Terrible August for the Giants . . . So Far
• 20. "Let's go get 'em while the getting's good"
• 21. "It is no time in which to count McGraw and his men out of any race"
• 22. Ascent to First and Then a Demoralizing Loss
• 23. "It was the greatest game ever played"
• 24. The Giants Clinch and the Repercussions Get Ugly
• 25. A Pennant for the Yankees, At Last
• Part 3. The Postseason
• 26. Prelude to the World Series,
• Part 2
• 27. Game 1, Wednesday, October
• 5: "Who said the Yanks were slow and clumsy and dull?"
• 28. Game 2, Thursday, October
• 6: The Yankees Again Win with an Inside Game
• 29. Game 3, Friday, October
• 7: The Giants' Offense Comes Alive
• 30. Game 4, Sunday, October
• 9: The Giants Finally Get to Carl Mays, or So It Seems
• 31. Game 5, Monday, October
• 10: Ruth's Gameness and Hoyt's Guts
• 32. Game 6, Tuesday, October
• 11: The Series Is Evened, but without Ruth--Is It Really Even?
• 33. Game 7, Wednesday, October
• 12: "Give me another game against those Yankees, and they'll get even less"
• 34. Game 8, Thursday, October
• 13: "New York and baseball are proud of the Yanks and the Giants" Epilogue
• Appendix 1. 1921 Yankees and Giants Regular Season Batting and Pitching
• Appendix 2. 1921 AL and NL Batting and Pitching Leaders
• Appendix 3. 1921 World Series Box Scores
• Appendix 4. 1921 Yankees and Giants World Series Batting and Pitching Notes Bibliography Index.
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At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, the two teams that emerged to fight for the future of the game were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city dramatically rose to the pinnacle of the baseball world. 1921 tells the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all-New York City World Series. Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg re-create the drama that featured the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun, and with more than fifty photographs, offering a vivid picture of the colorful characters, the crosstown rivalry, and the incomparable performances of this classic season.
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At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city rose in dramatic fashion to the pinnacle of the baseball world. "1921" captures this crucial moment in the history of baseball, telling the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all-New York Series and resulted in the first American League pennant for the now-storied Yankees' franchise. Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg recreate the drama that featured the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun. With more than fifty photographs, the book offers a remarkably vivid picture of the colourful characters, the cross-town rivalry, and the incomparable performances that made this series a classic.
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At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, the two teams that emerged to fight for the future of the game were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city dramatically rose to the pinnacle of the baseball world. 1921 tells the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all New York City World Series. Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg re-create the drama that featured the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun, and with more than fifty photographs, offering a vivid picture of the colourful characters, the cross-town rivalry, and the incomparable performances of this classic season.
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• Introduction Hasia R. Diner and Gennady EstraikhPart I: Global Ties 1 Living Locally, Organizing Nationally, and Thinking Globally: The View from the United StatesHasia R. Diner 2 Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads David Engel 3 The Stalinist "Great Break" in Yiddishland Gennady Estraikh 4 Permanent Transit 5 Polish Jewry, American Jewish Immigrant Philanthropy, and the Crisis of 1929Rebecca Kobrin 6 Jewish American Philanthropy and the Crisis of 1929Rakefet Zalashik 7 Territorialism and the ICOR "American Commission of Scientists and Experts" to the Soviet Far EastHenry SrebrnikPart II: Local Stories 8 From Universal Values to Cultural Representations Avner Ben-Zaken 9 The Struggle over Yiddish in Postimmigrant America Eric L. Goldstein 10 When the Local Trumps the GlobalJeffrey LesserPart III: Literature 11 Patterning a New LifeGabriella Safran 12 David VogelGlenda Abramson 13 Radical Conservatism Joseph Sherman 14 Desire, Destiny, and DeathMikhail KrutikovIndex Contributors.
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Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including its Jewish branches. Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other-from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish-regardless of where they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context.
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In 2010, Hofstra University celebrated its 75th anniversary, inviting scholars to the campus to discuss the world as it was in the year Hofstra was founded. The conference "1935: The Reality and the Promise" provided a wide-ranging exploration of the 1930s with presentations, discussions, and events highlighting the arts, entertainment, society, politics, literature, and science in that momentous decade. This volume encompasses a selection of the most interesting and enlightening papers from this conference, providing both depth and breadth of coverage. By any measure, the 1930s was a pivotal decade in modern history - a time when the reality of current events and the foreshadowing of events to come tempered all promise. The tension between reality and promise is a recurrent theme in the chapters brought together here, as well as in the personalities and faces that came to define this decade.
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• Mystery in the White House
• George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt: duty or ambition?
• Walking on eggs
• Lindbergh and the shrimps
• Isolationists: the war within
• Dark horse
• Home run for the White House
• The Republicans in Philadelphia
• Roosevelt's game
• The Democrats in Chicago
• Willkie runs alone
• An army of citizen soldiers
• Campaigning 101
• Enter Robert Sherwood
• Franklin and Joe
• The fifth column
• Final days, final words
• Safe at third
• Roosevelt and Willkie: almost a team
• Roosevelt and Willkie vs. Lindbergh
• Epilogue: one nation indivisible.

In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency-Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie-found themselves on the defensive against American isolationists and their charismatic spokesman Charles Lindbergh, who called for surrender to Hitler's demands. In this dramatic account of that turbulent and consequential election, historian Susan Dunn brings to life the debates, the high-powered players, and the dawning awareness of the Nazi threat as the presidential candidates engaged in their own battle for supremacy. 1940 not only explores the contest between FDR and Willkie but also examines the key preparations for war that went forward, even in the midst of that divisive election season. The book tells an inspiring story of the triumph of American democracy in a world reeling from fascist barbarism, and it offers a compelling alternative scenario to today's hyperpartisan political arena, where common ground seems unattainable.
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Journey back fifty years to explore the decade of baby boomers, the Red scare, and the birth of rock and roll with Robert Rodriguez's The 1950s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities. America was revving its engines when the fifties came along, and its citizens more than ready for everything the historic decade had to offer. Rodriguez takes you on a spin down memory lane with dozens of top-ten lists filled with amazing, amusing, and even astonishing trivia from the 1950s. Television exploded into the mainstream in the 1950s, and in this book you'll find kids'television, shows that were immensely popular then but forgotten now, and potential series that never got off the ground. Film and music history are also well represented, with lists highlighting the fathers of rock and roll and some unlikely recording artists, plus catchphrases from contemporary films and first roles of future stars. Relive the most notorious crimes of the decade, such as the one that inspired the TV show and film The Fugitive, and its big scandals, such as the quiz show debacle and the deportation of Charlie Chaplin. You'll read about politicians, celebrities, fashion, toys, fads, and disasters. Relearn the hip slang of the time while finding out which tales from the fifties were really tall tales or urban legends that are now debunked. Rodriguez gives you a whole decade's worth of fun, facts, and all-important memories. It may have been half a century ago, but with The 1950s' Most Wanted (TM), it'll seem like just yesterday.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: On the Eve of 1968
• Chapter 2: The President Withdraws
• Chapter 3: The Violent Spring
• Chapter 4: Nixon's the One
• Chapter 5: Democratic Disaster at Chicago
• Chapter 6: October Surprises Recommended Reading.
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The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they brought to Richard Nixon's campaign to create a generation-long ascendancy in presidential politics; and how Democrats, divided and torn after 1968, emerged as only crippled challengers for the White House throughout most of the years until the early twenty-first century. Bitterness over racial issues and the Vietnam War that marked the 1968 election continued to shape national affairs and to rile American society for years afterward. And the election accelerated an erosion of confidence in American institutions that has not yet reached a conclusion. In his lucid account, now revised and updated, Mr. Gould emphasizes the importance of race as the campaign's key issue and examines the now infamous "October surprises" of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon as he describes the extraordinary events of what Eugene McCarthy later called the "Hard Year.".
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• List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1
• Chapter 1: Crosscurrents of Crisis in 1970s America 19 Trouble Abroad 22 Corruption at Home 36 Conservatism and the Distrust of Government 45 Economic Insecurity 53 Turning Inward 63
• Chapter 2: The Rising Tide of Equality and Democratic Reform 73 Women in the Public Sphere 76 Women in the Private Sphere 88 The Many Frontiers of Equality 96 Political Reform 108 Resistance 114
• Chapter 3: The Spread of Market Values 122 A Sea Change of Principles 126 The Economy Goes South 133 Globalization's Gathering Speed 137 From Citizenship to Deregulation 144 Market Solutions for Every Problem 153 A Freer Market, A Coarser Culture 162
• Chapter 4: The Retreat of Empires and the Global Advance of the Market 175 The Emergence of Human Rights 179 European Empires and Southern Africa 186 The Soviet Empire 193 The American Empire 201 The Israeli Exception 208 The Retreat of the State 214 China and the Hollowing Out of Socialism 220
• Chapter 5: Resistance to the New Hyper-Individualism 227 The Environmentalist Challenge 231 Religious Resurgence at Home 247 Religious Resurgence in Israel 258 Religious Resurgence in the Muslim World 263 Jimmy Carter as a Man of His Times 270
• Chapter 6: More and Less Equal since the 1970s 279 Evidence to the Contrary 280 Inclusiveness Ascending 287 Markets Persisting 295 Unrestrained Consumption 299 Inequality Rising 306 Conclusion 312 Notes 319 Index 371.
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The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. He demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. As a result, American culture and much of the rest of the world became more--and less--equal. Borstelmann explores how the 1970s forged the contours of contemporary America. Military, political, and economic crises undercut citizens' confidence in government. Free market enthusiasm led to lower taxes, a volunteer army, individual 401(k) retirement plans, free agency in sports, deregulated airlines, and expansions in gambling and pornography. At the same time, the movement for civil rights grew, promoting changes for women, gays, immigrants, and the disabled. And developments were not limited to the United States. Many countries gave up colonial and racial hierarchies to develop a new formal commitment to human rights, while economic deregulation spread to other parts of the world, from Chile and the United Kingdom to China. Placing a tempestuous political culture within a global perspective, The 1970s shows that the decade wrought irrevocable transformations upon American society and the broader world that continue to resonate today.
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• List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1
• Chapter 1: Crosscurrents of Crisis in 1970s America 19 Trouble Abroad 22 Corruption at Home 36 Conservatism and the Distrust of Government 45 Economic Insecurity 53 Turning Inward 63
• Chapter 2: The Rising Tide of Equality and Democratic Reform 73 Women in the Public Sphere 76 Women in the Private Sphere 88 The Many Frontiers of Equality 96 Political Reform 108 Resistance 114
• Chapter 3: The Spread of Market Values 122 A Sea Change of Principles 126 The Economy Goes South 133 Globalization's Gathering Speed 137 From Citizenship to Deregulation 144 Market Solutions for Every Problem 153 A Freer Market, A Coarser Culture 162
• Chapter 4: The Retreat of Empires and the Global Advance of the Market 175 The Emergence of Human Rights 179 European Empires and Southern Africa 186 The Soviet Empire 193 The American Empire 201 The Israeli Exception 208 The Retreat of the State 214 China and the Hollowing Out of Socialism 220
• Chapter 5: Resistance to the New Hyper-Individualism 227 The Environmentalist Challenge 231 Religious Resurgence at Home 247 Religious Resurgence in Israel 258 Religious Resurgence in the Muslim World 263 Jimmy Carter as a Man of His Times 270
• Chapter 6: More and Less Equal since the 1970s 279 Evidence to the Contrary 280 Inclusiveness Ascending 287 Markets Persisting 295 Unrestrained Consumption 299 Inequality Rising 306 Conclusion 312 Notes 319 Index 371.
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"The 1970s" looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. He demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. As a result, American culture and much of the rest of the world became more - and less - equal. Borstelmann explores how the 1970s forged the contours of contemporary America. Military, political, and economic crises undercut citizens' confidence in government. Free market enthusiasm led to lower taxes, a volunteer army, individual 401(k) retirement plans, free agency in sports, deregulated airlines, and expansions in gambling and pornography. At the same time, the movement for civil rights grew, promoting changes for women, gays, immigrants, and the disabled. And developments were not limited to the United States. Many countries gave up colonial and racial hierarchies to develop a new formal commitment to human rights, while economic deregulation spread to other parts of the world, from Chile and the United Kingdom to China. Placing a tempestuous political culture within a global perspective, "The 1970s" shows that the decade wrought irrevocable transformations upon American society and the broader world that continue to resonate today.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction to an Improbable Year 1 * The Year of the Internet 2 * Terror in the Heartland, and a Wary America 3 * O.J., DNA, and the "Trial of the Century" 4 * Peace at Dayton and the "Hubris Bubble" 5 * Clinton Meets Lewinsky Conclusion: The Long Reach of 1995 The Timeline of a Watershed Year: 1995 Notes Select Bibliography Index.
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A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, memoirs, archival collections, and news reports, W. Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those memorable twelve months. This book offers fresh interpretations of the decisive moments of 1995, including the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in mainstream American life; the bombing at Oklahoma City, the deadliest attack of domestic terrorism in U.S. history; the sensational Trial of the Century, " at which O.J. Simpson faced charges of double murder; the U.S.-brokered negotiations at Dayton, Ohio, which ended the Bosnian War, Europe's most vicious conflict since the Nazi era; and the first encounters at the White House between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a liaison that culminated in a stunning scandal and the spectacle of the president's impeachment and trial. As Campbell demonstrates in this absorbing chronicle, 1995 was a year of extraordinary events, a watershed at the turn of the millennium. The effects of that pivotal year reverberate still, marking the close of one century and the dawning of another.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction to an Improbable Year 1 * The Year of the Internet 2 * Terror in the Heartland, and a Wary America 3 * O.J., DNA, and the "Trial of the Century" 4 * Peace at Dayton and the "Hubris Bubble" 5 * Clinton Meets Lewinsky Conclusion: The Long Reach of 1995 The Timeline of a Watershed Year: 1995 Notes Select Bibliography Index.
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A hinge moment in recent American history, 1995 was an exceptional year. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, memoirs, archival collections, and news reports, W. Joseph Campbell presents a vivid, detail-rich portrait of those memorable twelve months. This book offers fresh interpretations of the decisive moments of 1995, including the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in mainstream American life; the bombing at Oklahoma City, the deadliest attack of domestic terrorism in U.S. history; the sensational Trial of the Century, " at which O.J. Simpson faced charges of double murder; the U.S.-brokered negotiations at Dayton, Ohio, which ended the Bosnian War, Europe's most vicious conflict since the Nazi era; and the first encounters at the White House between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a liaison that culminated in a stunning scandal and the spectacle of the president's impeachment and trial. As Campbell demonstrates in this absorbing chronicle, 1995 was a year of extraordinary events, a watershed at the turn of the millennium. The effects of that pivotal year reverberate still, marking the close of one century and the dawning of another.
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Site consists of a selection of documents from American sources on U.S.-Iran relations since World War II currently available at the National Security Archive, with commentary and analysis.

• Introduction: below the surface of naval history
• Marching to the sound of guns
• Historical foundations for adaptation
• The ethos of American naval command
• Forgetting the lessons of history
• The Navy as peacemaker
• A special relationship
• Root problems in joint doctrine
• Conclusion: fighting for history.

Leadership within the context of a given profession requires an informed understanding of a particular field of specialization. In maritime affairs, U.S. Navy Commodore Dudley Wright Knox provided a singular example of leadership in his chosen profession. Having graduated with the Naval Academy Class of 1897, he proceeded to command a variety of warships in peacetime. He also served in combat operations during the 1898 Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion, and the counterinsurgency in the Philippines. Knox gained perspective on the higher levels of command as a staff officer during two world wars. Ultimately, conditioning in the American naval service inspired Knox to envision an American Navy second to none. He also developed a mature understanding of the nexus between peace and war. Crafting a distinctly maritime approach to address questions of strategy and policy in global affairs, Knox argued that navies provided means, ""not to make war but to preserve peace, not to be predatory but to shield the free development of commerce, not to unsettle the world but to stabilize it through the promotion of law and order.
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• Introduction: the gun doctor
• Professional debate and military innovation
• A proper military mindset
• Preparing for command and preparing for war
• The forces of the status quo
• The peace dividend and the professional
• A century-old promotion system
• Conclusion: mentorship from a century ago.

For more than two decades at the beginning of the 20th century William S. Sims was at the forefront of naval affairs. From the revolution in naval gunnery that he led as a junior officer, to his advocacy for the Dreadnaught style all-big-gun battleship, to his development of torpedo boat and destroyer operations, he was a central figure in helping to prepare the U.S. Navy for World War I. During the war he served as the senior naval commander in Europe and was instrumental in the establishment of the convoy system that won the Battle of the Atlantic. Following the war his leadership as President of the Naval War College established the foundations of the creative and innovative Navy that would develop the operating concepts for submarines and aircraft carriers which would lead to success in World War II. Despite his dramatic impact on the U.S. Navy in the first half of the 20th century, Sims is a relatively unknown figure today. Overshadowed in our memory by the World War II generation of strategic Admirals, like Chester Nimitz and Raymond Spruance, he receives little attention from historians or professional naval officers. Despite the fact that he won a Pulitzer Prize for history, hardly anyone reads the books or articles he left as his legacy. This collection of six essays written by Sims illustrates why his thinking and leadership are relevant to the challenges faced in the 21st century. From the perils of military conservatism, to the responsibilities of the professional officer, to military downsizing and reform, he helped lay the foundations of the modern Navy. Armstrong's introductions and analysis of these essays links them directly to the issues of innovation, professional education, and leadership that are as important at the start of this century as they were at the start of the last.
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• Chapter 1. Between the Wars
• Chapter 2. Ramp-Up
• Chapter 3. Management
• Chapter 4. Employees
• Chapter 5. Methods
• Chapter 6. Metrics
• Chapter 7. Transformations.

Established on 12 June 1800 during the administration of President John Adams, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is the oldest continuously operating shipyard in the United States Navy. It is situated on a cluster of conjoined islands called Seavey's Island in the Piscataqua River, whose swift tidal current prevents ice from blocking navigation to the Atlantic Ocean. After averaging the completion of less than two submarines a year in the 1930s, the Portsmouth Navy Yard completed an astonishing thirty-two submarines in 1944 including the simultaneous launching of three submarines. The yard built seventy-nine submarines between 1941 and 1945, a fleet that collectively represented thirty-seven percent of the United States submarines built during the war and that was responsible for sinking over one third of the Japanese shipping sunk by United States submarines. 32 in`44 analyses the factors behind the yard's record setting submarine production that made such a significant contribution to the winning of the war. About the Author Rodney Watterson is a graduate of the US Naval Academy (BS), MIT (MS Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and a Naval Engineer), and the University of New Hampshire (PhD History). During his thirty-year naval career he was involved with shipyards and the design, construction, and maintenance of submarines. Following his naval career, he worked for Textron Automotive Company for ten years in various management positions including plant manager. In retirement he has been pursuing his lifelong love of history, a path that has led to this work that marries that love with his extensive submarine, shipyard, and industrial management experience.
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• 3rd Marine Division.--3rd Marine Regiment.--4th Marine Regiment.--9th Marine Regiment.--12th Marine Regiment.--In supplement: 21st Marine Regiment.--26th Marine Regiment.

• Landmark Achievements of Ocean Sciences
• Creating Institutions to Make Scientific Discoveries Possible
• Large and Small Science Programs: A Delicate Balance
• Ocean Sciences Today and Tomorrow.

This book describes the development of ocean sciences over the past 50 years, highlighting the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the field's progress. Many of the individuals who participated in the exciting discoveries in biological oceanography, chemical oceanography, physical oceanography, and marine geology and geophysics describe in the book how the discoveries were made possible by combinations of insightful individuals, new technology, and in some cases, serendipity. In addition to describing the advance of ocean science, the book examines the institutional structures and technology that made the advances possible and presents visions of the field's future. This book is the first-ever documentation of the history of NSFa (TM)s Division of Ocean Sciences, how the structure of the division evolved to its present form, and the individuals who have been responsible for ocean sciences at NSF as a /rotatorsa and career staff over the past 50 years.
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• 1 Front Matter-- 2 Keynote Lecture The Emergence of the National Science Foundation as a Supporter of Ocean Sciences in the United States-- 3 Landmark Achievements of Ocean Sciences Achievements in Biological Oceanography-- 4 Achievements in Chemical Oceanography-- 5 Achievements in Physical Oceanography-- 6 Achievements in Marine Geology and Geophysics-- 7 Deep Submergence: The Beginnings of Alvin as a Tool of Basic Research-- 8 The History of Woods Hole's Deep Submergence Program-- 9 Creating Institutions to Make Scientific Discoveries Possible A Chronology of the Early Development of Ocean Sciences at NSF-- 10 Ocean Sciences at the National Sciences Foundation: Early Revolution-- 11 Ocean Sciences at the National Sciences Foundation: An Administrative History-- 12 Two Years of Turbulence Leading to a Quarter Century of Cooperation: The Birth of UNOLS-- 13 Scientific Ocean Drilling, from AMSOC to COMPOST-- 14 Technology Development for Ocean Sciences at NSF-- 15 Large and Small Science Programs: A Delicate Balance The Great Importance of "Small" Science Programs-- 16 The Role of NSF in "Big" Ocean Science: 1950 to 1980-- 17 Major Physical Oceanography Programs at NSF: IDOE Through Global Change-- 18 Major International Programs in Ocean Sciences: Ocean Chemistry-- 19 Ocean Sciences Today and Tomorrow The Future of Physical Oceanography-- 20 The Future of Ocean Chemistry in the United States-- 21 The Future of Marine Geology and Geophysics: A Summary-- 22 Out Far and In Deep: Shifting Perspectives in Ocean Ecology-- 23 Global Ocean Science: Toward an Integrated Approach-- 24 Education in Oceanography: History, Purpose, and Prognosis-- 25 Evolving Institutional Arrangements for U.S. Ocean Sciences-- 26 NSF's Commitment to the Deep-- 27 Fifty Years of Ocean Discovery-- 28 Argo to ARGO-- 29 The Importance of Ocean Sciences to Society-- 30 Appendix A: Symposium Program-- 31 Appendix B: Symposium Participants-- 32 Appendix C: Poster Session-- 33 Appendix D: NSF Division of Ocean Sciences: Senior Science Staff, Rotators, IPAs, and Visiting Sciences-- 34 Appendix E: Support of Ocean Sciences at NSF from 1966 to 1999-- 35 Appendix F: Organizational Charts-- 36 Appendix G: NRC Project Oversight-- 37 Appendix H: Acronyms-- 38 Index-- 39 Supplementary Pictures.
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This book describes the development of ocean sciences over the past 50 years, highlighting the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the field's progress. Many of the individuals who participated in the exciting discoveries in biological oceanography, chemical oceanography, physical oceanography, and marine geology and geophysics describe in the book how the discoveries were made possible by combinations of insightful individuals, new technology, and in some cases, serendipity. In addition to describing the advance of ocean science, the book examines the institutional structures and technology that made the advances possible and presents visions of the field's future. This book is the first-ever documentation of the history of NSFa (TM)s Division of Ocean Sciences, how the structure of the division evolved to its present form, and the individuals who have been responsible for ocean sciences at NSF as a /rotatorsa and career staff over the past 50 years.
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• Dedication; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; The 1960s; Pete Townshend; Woodstock; The Groupies and Other Girls; American Revolution 1969; The 1970s; Finding Patty Hearst; The Death of Karen Silkwood; The Family: A Photo Portfolio by Richard Avedon; John Lennon; Charles Manson; Sex Pistols; Hunter S. Thompson; Ralph Steadman; The 1980s; Guns N' Roses; Keith Richards; Tom Wolfe; The Devil and John Holmes; Inside the AIDS Epidemic; David Letterman; Michael Jackson; The 1990s; Eminem; Jerry Garcia; Mick Jagger; P.J. O'Rourke on Government Waste; Marilyn Manson; Kurt Cobain.

• Madonna's Flesh and Fantasy: A Photo Portfolio by Steven MeiselFast Food Nation; Mandatory Minimums; The 2000s; Bono; Matt Taibbi's "Great Vampire Squid"; The Osbournes; Bob Dylan; David Foster Wallace; Inside Scientology; The Genesis Project: A Photo Portfolio by Sebastião Salgado; The 2010s; Kendrick Lamar; Taylor Swift; The Downfall of Gen. Stanley McChrystal; Goodbye, Miami; Lady Gaga; Bruce Springsteen; Photo Credits; Copyright Page.

For the past fifty years, --has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and--above all--music. This landmark book documents the magazine's rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography. From the 1960s to the present day, the book offers a decade-by-decade exploration of American music and history. Interviews with rock legends--Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Kurt Cobain, Bruce Springsteen, and more--appear alongside iconic photographs by Baron Wolman, Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger, and other leading image-makers. With feature articles, excerpts, and expose?s by such quintessential writers as Hunter S. Thompson, Matt Taibbi, and David Harris, this book is an irresistible and essential keepsake of the magazine that has defined American music for generations of readers.

• It never snows
• Shadows of the plantation
• Garlands of straw
• Pulpit and pew
• Politics as a major sport
• Fascism: Southern style
• Black figures in the sun
• The machine's last frontier
• They are not all monsters
• The philosopher's stone.

• Defining A&R : interwar record company officials and their work
• Finding and securing talent
• Contracts and copyrights : the dark heart of A&R
• Choosing songs and building repertoires
• In the studio : creating and recording sounds
• Post-production : defining and defying genre boundaries
• The bottom line : selling records
• Nowhere near total eclipse : A&R work after World War II.

A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and, at times, shockingly unscrupulous, they scouted and signed many of the singers and musicians who came to define American roots music between the two world wars. They also shaped the repertoires and musical styles of their discoveries, supervised recording sessions, and then devised marketing campaigns to sell the resulting records. By World War II, they had helped redefine the canons of American popular music and established the basic structure and practices of the modern recording industry. Moreover, though their musical interests, talents, and sensibilities varied enormously, these A&R pioneers created the template for the job that would subsequently become known as ""record producer."" Without Ralph Peer, Art Satherley, Frank Walker, Polk C. Brockman, Eli Oberstein, Don Law, Lester Melrose, J. Mayo Williams, John Hammond, Helen Oakley Dance, and a whole army of lesser known but often hugely influential A&R representatives, the music of Bessie Smith and Bob Wills, of the Carter Family and Count Basie, of Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers may never have found its way onto commercial records and into the heart of America's musical heritage. This is their story.
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A. Philip Randolph's career as a trade unionist and civil rights activist fundamentally shaped the course of black protest in the mid-twentieth century. Standing alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and others at the centre of the cultural renaissance and political radicalism that shaped communities such as Harlem in the 1920s and into the 1930s, Randolph fashioned an understanding of social justice that reflected a deep awareness of how race complicated class concerns, especially among black labourers. Examining Randolph's work in lobbying for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatening to lead a march on Washington in 1941, and establishing the Fair Employment Practice Committee, Cornelius L. Bynum shows that Randolph's push for African American equality took place within a broader progressive program of industrial reform. Bynum interweaves biographical information with details on how Randolph gradually shifted his thinking about race and class, full citizenship rights, industrial organization, trade unionism, and civil rights protest throughout his activist career. Cornelius L. Bynum is an assistant professor of history at Purdue University.
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• A. Philip Randolph, racial identity, and family relations : tracing the development of a racial self-concept
• Religious faith and black empowerment : the AME Church and Randolph's racial identity and view of social justice
• Black radicalism in Harlem : Randolph's racial and political consciousness
• Crossing the color line : Randolph's transition from race to class consciousness
• A new crowd, a new Negro : the Messenger and new Negro ideology in the 1920s
• Black and white unite : Randolph and the divide between class theory and the race problem
• Ridin' the rails : Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' struggle for union recognition
• Where class consciousness falls short : Randolph and the Brotherhood's standing in the House of Labor
• Marching toward fair employment : Randolph, the race/class connection, and the March on Washington movement
• Epilogue : A. Philip Randolph's reconciliation of race and class in African American protest politics.

A. Philip Randolph's career as a trade unionist and civil rights activist fundamentally shaped the course of black protest in the mid-twentieth century. Standing alongside individuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey at the center of the cultural renaissance and political radicalism that shaped communities such as Harlem in the 1920s and into the 1930s, Randolph fashioned an understanding of social justice that reflected a deep awareness of how race complicated class concerns, especially among black laborers. Examining Randolph's work in lobbying for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatening to lead a march on Washington in 1941, and establishing the Fair Employment Practice Committee, Cornelius L. Bynum shows that Randolph's push for African American equality took place within a broader progressive program of industrial reform. Some of Randolph's pioneering plans for engineering change--which served as foundational strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s--included direct mass action, nonviolent civil disobedience, and purposeful coalitions between black and white workers. Bynum interweaves biographical information on Randolph with details on how he gradually shifted his thinking about race and class, full citizenship rights, industrial organization, trade unionism, and civil rights protest throughout his activist career.
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• Introduction Mahler and Copland in New York Mahler in Nadia Boulanger's Studio and Beyond Copland in Defense of Mahler Mahler in Copland's Jewish Romanticism Mahler's Idiom in Copland's "American" Sound Copland, Koussevitzky, Mahler, and the Canon Copland's Role in Bernstein's Mahler Advocacy Conclusion Bibliography.
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The iconic American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is often credited with creating an unmistakably American musical style, a style free from the powerful sway of the European classics that long dominated the art-music scene in the United States. Yet Copland was strongly attracted to the music of the late-romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), whose monumental symphonies and powerful songs have captivated and challenged American audiences for more than a century. Drawing extensively on archival and musical materials, Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler offers the first detailed exploration of Copland's multifaceted relationship with Mahler's music and its lasting consequences for music in America. Matthew Mugmon demonstrates that Copland, inspired by Mahler's example, blended modernism and romanticism in shaping a vision for American music in the twentieth century, and that he did so through his multiple roles as composer, teacher, critic, and orchestral tastemaker. Copland's career-long engagement with Mahler's music, as Mugmon compellingly illustrates, intersected with Copland's own Jewish identity and with his links to such towering figures in American music as Nadia Boulanger, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. MATTHEW MUGMON is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Arizona.
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• As for Me and My House
• Memories of Conversion
• A Good and Faithful Servant
• Shepherding the Flock
• Parting of the Company
• New Wine, Fresh Wineskins
• Mysteries of the Gospel
• To the Ends of the Earth
• When the Day of Pentecost Came
• Defending and Innovating the Faith
• A Race Run.

A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century. Daryn Henry presents Simpson's life and ministry as a vivid, fascinating, and paradigmatic study in evangelical religious culture, during a time when the conservative wing of the movement has often been overlooked. Simpson's ministry, Henry explains, fused the classic evangelical emphasis on revivalist conversion with the intensification of that sensibility in the quest for the deeper Christian life of holiness. Recovering the practice of divine healing, Simpson emphasized a dynamically empowered and supernaturally animated Christianity that would spill over into nascent Pentecostalism. His encouragement of cross-cultural missions was part of a trend that unleashed the dramatic rise of world Christianity across the Global South. All the while, his Biblical literalism, antagonism to modernist theology, campaigns against evolution, and views on premillennialism, Biblical prophecy, and the role of Israel in the end times made Simpson a precursor of the fundamentalist melees of subsequent decades. From his upbringing in rural Canada and confessional Scottish Presbyterianism, Simpson journeyed into the heart of American evangelicalism revolving around his base in New York City. Against most previous writing on Simpson, Henry's biography presents both continuities and discontinuities in the development of modern interdenominational evangelicalism out of the denominational evangelicalism of the nineteenth century.
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In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash telegrams reporting alarming activity on U.S. bases. In response, the Soviets began planning for a countdown to a nuclear first strike by NATO on Eastern Europe. And then Able Archer 83, a vast NATO war game exercise that modeled a Soviet attack on NATO allies, ended. What the West didn't know at the time was that the Soviets thought Operation Able Archer 83 was real and were actively preparing for a surprise missile attack from NATO. This close scrape with Armageddon was largely unknown until last October when the U.S. government released a ninety-four-page presidential analysis of Able Archer that the National Security Archive had spent over a decade trying to declassify. Able Archer 83 is based upon more than a thousand pages of declassified documents that archive staffer Nate Jones has pried loose from several U.S. government agencies and British archives, as well as from formerly classified Soviet Politburo and KGB files, vividly recreating the atmosphere that nearly unleashed nuclear war.

• Ascension : Lincoln in the Great Depression
• Apex : Lincoln in the Second World War
• Transition : Cold War, racial conflict, and contested images of Lincoln
• Transfiguration : civil rights movement, vanishing savior of the Union
• Erosion : fading prestige, benign ridicule
• Post-heroic era : acids of equality and the waning of greatness
• Inertia : the enduring Lincoln.

By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in the North and South alike. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked as a reminder of America's strength and wisdom, a commanding ideal against which weary citizens could see their own hardships in perspective.But as Barry Schwartz reveals in "Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era", those years represent the apogee of Lincoln's prestige. The decades following World War II brought radical changes to American culture, changes that led to the diminishing of all heroes - Lincoln not least among them. As Schwartz explains, growing sympathy for the plight of racial minorities, disenchantment with the American state, and an intensifying celebration of diversity all contributed to a culture in which neither Lincoln nor any single person could be a heroic symbol for all Americans. Paradoxically, however, the very culture that made Lincoln an object of indifference, questioning, criticism, and even ridicule was a culture of unprecedented beneficence and inclusion, where racial, ethnic, and religious groups treated one another more fairly and justly than ever before. Thus, as the prestige of the Great Emancipator shrank, his legacy of equality continued to flourish.Schwartz documents the decline of Lincoln's public standing, asking throughout whether there is any path back from this post-heroic era. Can a new generation of Americans embrace again their epic past, including great leaders whom they know to be flawed? As the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial approaches, readers will discover here a stirring reminder that Lincoln, as a man, still has much to say to us - about our past, our present, and our possible futures.
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• Ascension : Lincoln in the Great Depression
• Apex : Lincoln in the Second World War
• Transition : Cold War, racial conflict, and contested images of Lincoln
• Transfiguration : civil rights movement, vanishing savior of the Union
• Erosion : fading prestige, benign ridicule
• Post-heroic era : acids of equality and the waning of greatness
• Inertia : the enduring Lincoln.

By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in the North and South alike. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked as a reminder of America's strength and wisdom, a commanding ideal against which weary citizens could see their own hardships in perspective.But as Barry Schwartz reveals in "Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era", those years represent the apogee of Lincoln's prestige. The decades following World War II brought radical changes to American culture, changes that led to the diminishing of all heroes - Lincoln not least among them. As Schwartz explains, growing sympathy for the plight of racial minorities, disenchantment with the American state, and an intensifying celebration of diversity all contributed to a culture in which neither Lincoln nor any single person could be a heroic symbol for all Americans. Paradoxically, however, the very culture that made Lincoln an object of indifference, questioning, criticism, and even ridicule was a culture of unprecedented beneficence and inclusion, where racial, ethnic, and religious groups treated one another more fairly and justly than ever before. Thus, as the prestige of the Great Emancipator shrank, his legacy of equality continued to flourish.Schwartz documents the decline of Lincoln's public standing, asking throughout whether there is any path back from this post-heroic era. Can a new generation of Americans embrace again their epic past, including great leaders whom they know to be flawed? As the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial approaches, readers will discover here a stirring reminder that Lincoln, as a man, still has much to say to us - about our past, our present, and our possible futures.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Emergencies
• 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942 1947
• 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency
• 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949 1959 Part Two: Love and Longing
• 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942 1964
• 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957 1964
• 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love Part Three: Decisive Measures
• 7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias(Intermediary Women), 1958 1964
• 8. Ejemplar y sin Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942 1964
• 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947 1964 Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically Notes Bibliography Index.
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Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across national borders, interpersonal relationships were transformed. The prolonged absences of Mexican workers, mostly men, forced women and children at home to inhabit new roles, create new identities, and cope with long-distance communication from fathers, brothers, and sons. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Intimate and personal experiences are revealed to show how Mexican immigrants and their families were not passive victims but instead found ways to embrace the spirit (abrazando el espiritu) of making and implementing difficult decisions concerning their family situations creating new forms of affection, gender roles, and economic survival strategies with long-term consequences.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Emergencies
• 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942--1947
• 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency
• 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949--1959 Part Two: Love and Longing
• 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942--1964
• 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957--1964
• 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love Part Three: Decisive Measures
• 7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias(Intermediary Women), 1958--1964
• 8. Ejemplar y sin Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942--1964
• 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947--1964 Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically Notes Bibliography Index.
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Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed across national borders, interpersonal relationships were transformed. The prolonged absences of Mexican workers, mostly men, forced women and children at home to inhabit new roles, create new identities, and cope with long-distance communication from fathers, brothers, and sons. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Ana Elizabeth Rosas uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life. Intimate and personal experiences are revealed to show how Mexican immigrants and their families were not passive victims but instead found ways to embrace the spirit (abrazando el espiritu) of making and implementing difficult decisions concerning their family situations creating new forms of affection, gender roles, and economic survival strategies with long-term consequences.
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The forced imprisonment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II was an unparalleled act in the history of the United States. Yet despite the fact that this internment has been the single most widely-reported and studied episode in the history of Asian Americans in the US, Caroline Chung Simpson argues that the shaping power this event has had in national and Cold War history has still not been recognized. Caroline Simpson looks at a number of provocative aspects of the United States government's treatment of Japanese Americans to make the case for the unrecognized saliency this relationship has had in Cold War history. She examines, for instance, the practice of sending anthropologists to the internment camps - as "community analysts" - to study the Japanese and to develop theories of Japanese behaviour that would be useful after the war. She then looks at the trial of the alleged Tokyo Rose - Iva Toguri d'Aquino - who, despite the fact that all reliable sources conceded "there was no Tokyo Rose", was convicted in an expensive and much ballyhooed trial that, Simpson argues, set the stage for the hysteria of McCarthyism. She revisits the Hiroshima Maidens project, an undertaking to bring young Japanese women disfigured by the atomic bombing to the United States for corrective surgery. Their treatments paid for by donations, the girls lived with American families in an experiment designed to celebrate the healing capacities of domestic life in the United States. Finally, she considers the experience of Japanese war brides of the 1950s, and the ways in which their treatment in the United States disguised racial hostility in a discourse of cultural pluralism.
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This text offers a thoughtful summary of modern economic thought. It presents the story of economics through the lives of 12 major modern economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall and concluding with Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. The book picks up where Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers" leaves off, and brings the story of modern American and British economic theory up to the 1980s. It presents a summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into the "dismal science" of economics.
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• SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION: "EVERY KIND OF MIXING"
• 1. Reinventing vox Americana
• LANGUAGE, HYGIENE, AND NATIONAL SECURITY
• MENCKEN AND THE CULTURAL WORK OF POLEMICAL PHILOLOGY
• CONTEMPORARY "AMERICAN" AS STANDARD VERNACULAR
• 2. Documenting "American"
• "A STANDARDIZATION NOT IMPOSED BUT VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTED"
• 3. Foreignizing "english"
• THE MAKING OF AMERICANS' SPEECH: STEIN'S AURAL "ENGLISH"
• MULTILINGUAL FUSION AND THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITAN EXPRESSION: DOS PASSOS'S U.S.A.
• LOCUTIONS OF DISLOCATION AND THE POLITICAL USES OF DESPAIR
• 4. Vernacularizing Silence
• "FLESH OF THEIR LANGUAGE"
• "BEEN SHAPIN WORDS T FIT M SOUL": TOOMER'S CANE
• 5. Translating "Englitch"
• "KENT'CHA TUCK ENGLITCH?": LINGUISTIC DISSONANCE IN CALL IT SLEEP
• "THE PURPOSE OF JEWISH LIFE IS CULTURAL, IS IT NOT?": THE POLITICS OF TRILLING'S STYLE
• THE RETURN OF THE DEPRESSED
• 6. Spanglicizing Modernism
• U.S. EMPIRE AND IMPOSED SYNTAX
• "BORN A FOREIGNER IN HIS NATIVE LAND": PAREDES AND BINATIONAL SPEECH
• "CITIZENSHIP, THEN, IS THE BASIS OF ALL THIS MISUNDERSTANDING?": BULOSAN'S AMERICA
• IDIOMS OF ANNEXATION
• CONCLUSION: "SAY SOMETHING AMERICAN IF YOU DARE".
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Accented America is a sweeping study of U.S. literature between 1890-1950 that reveals a long history of English-Only nationalism: the political claim that U.S. citizens must speak a nationally distinctive form of English. This perspective presents U.S. literary works written between the 1890s and 1940s as playfully, painfully, and ambivalently engaged with language politics, thereby rewiring both narrative form and national identity. The United States has always been a densely polyglot nation, but efforts to prove the existence of a nationally specific form of English turn out to be a development of particular importance to interwar modernism. If the concept of a singular, coherent, and autonomous 'American language' seemed merely provocative or ironic in 1919 when H.L. Mencken emblazoned the phrase on his philological study, within a short period of time it would come to seem simultaneously obvious and impossible. Considering the continuing presence of fierce public debates over U.S. English and domestic multilingualisms demonstrates the symbolic and material implications of such debates in naturalization and citizenship law, presidential rhetoric, academic language studies, and the artistic renderings of novelists. Against the backdrop of the period's massive demographic changes, Accented America brings a broadly multi-ethnic set of writers into conversation, including Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Henry Roth, Nella Larsen, John Dos Passos, Lionel Trilling, Americo Paredes, and Carlos Bulosan. These authors shared an acute sense of linguistic standardization during the interwar era and contend with the defamiliarizing sway of radical experimentation with invented and improper literary vernaculars. Mixing languages, these authors spurn expectations for phonological exactitude to develop multilingual literary aesthetics. Rather than confirming the powerfully seductive subtext of monolingualism-that those who speak alike are ethically and politically likeminded-multilingual modernists composed interwar novels that were characteristically American because, not in spite, of their synthetic syntaxes and enduring strangeness.
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• Introduction : writing the accident
• The insurance of the real : William Dean Howells
• Aimless battles : Stephen Crane
• Detecting "absolute chance" : Charles Peirce, Anna Katharine Green
• The feminization of chance : Edith Wharton, Crystal Eastman
• Performing the accident on purpose : Theodore Dreiser, James Cain.

Arguing that language and literature actively produced chance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by categorising injuries and losses as innocent of design, this book reveals the extent to which American collectivity has depended on the literary production of chance.

• Introduction : writing the accident
• The insurance of the real : William Dean Howells
• Aimless battles : Stephen Crane
• Detecting "absolute chance" : Charles Peirce, Anna Katharine Green
• The feminization of chance : Edith Wharton, Crystal Eastman
• Performing the accident on purpose : Theodore Dreiser, James Cain.

This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became "car accidents" and "industrial accidents." During the post-Civil War period of racial, ethnic, and class-based hostility, chance was an abstract enemy against which society might unite. By producing chance, novels by William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, Anna Katharine Green, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and James Cain documented and helped establish new modes of collective interdependence. Chance here is connected not with the competitive individualism of the Gilded Age, but with important progressive and social democratic reforms, including developments in insurance, which had long employed accident narratives to shape its own "mutual society." Accident Society reveals the extent to which American collectivity has depended - and continues to depend - on the literary production of chance.
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• Prologue: West Java, December 1996
• The accidental guerrilla
• "The crazies will kill them" : Afghanistan, 2006-2008
• "The twenty-first day" : Iraq during the surge, 2007
• "Terrain, tribes, and terrorists" : conflicts from Indonesia to Europe
• "Turning an elephant into a mouse" : beyond the War on Terrorism.

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge, " now recognized as a dramatic success. In The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. Kilcullen takes us "on the ground" to uncover the face of modern warfare, illuminating both the big global war (the "War on Terrorism") and its relation to the associated "small wars" across the globe: Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Pakistani tribal zones, East Timor and the horn of Africa. Kilcullen sees today's conflicts as a complex interweaving of contrasting trends--local insurgencies seeking autonomy caught up in a broader pan-Islamic campaign--small wars in the midst of a big one. He warns that America's actions in the war on terrorism have tended to conflate these trends, blurring the distinction between local and global struggles and thus enormously complicating our challenges. Indeed, the US had done a poor job of applying different tactics to these very different situations, continually misidentifying insurgents with limited aims and legitimate grievances--whom he calls "accidental guerrillas"--as part of a coordinated worldwide terror network. We must learn how to disentangle these strands, develop strategies that deal with global threats, avoid local conflicts where possible, and win them where necessary. Colored with gripping battlefield experiences that range from the jungles and highlands of Southeast Asia to the mountains of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the dusty towns of the Middle East, The Accidental Guerrilla will, quite simply, change the way we think about war. This book is a must read for everyone concerned about the war on terror.
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• Prologue: West Java, December 1996
• The accidental guerrilla
• "The crazies will kill them" : Afghanistan, 2006-2008
• "The twenty-first day" : Iraq during the "surge, " 2007
• "Terrain, tribes, and terrorists" : conflicts from Indonesia to Europe
• "Turning an elephant into a mouse" : beyond the War on Terrorism.

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge, " now recognized as a dramatic success. In The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. Kilcullen takes us "on the ground" to uncover the face of modern warfare, illuminating both the big global war (the "War on Terrorism") and its relation to the associated "small wars" across the globe: Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Pakistani tribal zones, East Timor and the horn of Africa. Kilcullen sees today's conflicts as a complex interweaving of contrasting trends--local insurgencies seeking autonomy caught up in a broader pan-Islamic campaign--small wars in the midst of a big one. He warns that America's actions in the war on terrorism have tended to conflate these trends, blurring the distinction between local and global struggles and thus enormously complicating our challenges. Indeed, the US had done a poor job of applying different tactics to these very different situations, continually misidentifying insurgents with limited aims and legitimate grievances--whom he calls "accidental guerrillas"--as part of a coordinated worldwide terror network. We must learn how to disentangle these strands, develop strategies that deal with global threats, avoid local conflicts where possible, and win them where necessary. Colored with gripping battlefield experiences that range from the jungles and highlands of Southeast Asia to the mountains of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the dusty towns of the Middle East, The Accidental Guerrilla will, quite simply, change the way we think about war. This book is a must read for everyone concerned about the war on terror.
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• Machine generated contents note: 1. Champion of Empire
• 2. Special Relationship
• 3. Bonds of Loyalty
• 4. Ulster Connection
• 5. Kashmir Connection
• 6. Iran Connection
• 7. Egypt Connection
• 8. Epilogue.

Acheson and Empire offers a compelling reassessment of Dean Acheson's policies toward the former colonial world during his period as secretary of state from 1949 to 1953. John T. McNay argues that Acheson inherited through his own personal history a way of understanding the world that encouraged imperial-style international relationships. This worldview represented a well-developed belief system rooted in his Ulster Protestant heritage that remained consistent throughout his life. By exploring relationships of the United States with Britain and countries formerly or then controlled by Britain, such as India, Ireland, Iran, and Egypt, McNay shows the significance of Acheson's beliefs. McNay argues that Acheson's support of existing imperial relationships was so steadfast that it often led other nations to perceive that the United States was nothing more than a front for British interests. He believes this approach to foreign policy damaged American relations with emerging countries and misled the British regarding possibilities of an Anglo-American partnership. Acheson and Empire contends that the widely accepted view of Acheson as a foreign policy realist is misleading and that historians should acknowledge that his affinity for the British Empire went beyond his clothing and mannerisms. McNay maintains that the widely accepted view of Acheson as one of a group of ""wise men"" who shaped the Cold War world by basing their decisions on cold calculation of American interests should be reconsidered. Drawing from extensive research in archival sources, including the Truman Library, the National Archives, the Public Record Office in London, and Acheson's personal papers at Yale, Acheson and Empire offers a fresh look at Dean Acheson that runs counter to previous biographies and many histories of the Cold War.
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• Early Childhood-- The Formative UBC Years-- Exciting Graduate Years with Oppenheimer-- First Marriage to Dagmar von Lieven-- The Very First Nuclear Reactor-- Designing the First Atomic Bomb-- Becoming Oppenheimer's Successor at Caltech-- Opposing Nuclear Proliferation-- Contributions to Physics at Caltech-- Pioneering Work in Astrophysics: Variable Stars-- Achieving Robert's Dreams for Caltech-- Second Marriage to Ingrid Julianna Sackmann-- Daughters Late in Life-- Acting President of Caltech-- Later Years - Teaching and Research-- Radiation Dosimetry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki-- The Spring Valley Ranch: Fulfilling a Dream-- Robert's Health Struggles and Successes-- An Innate Grace.
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Robert F Christy was a legendary physicist, one of the key players in some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. He was a student of Oppenheimer, who called him "one of the best in the world." He was a crucial member of Fermi's team when they first unleashed the unheard-of energies of nuclear power, creating the world's first nuclear reactor on December 2, 1942. On the Manhattan Project he was the key physicist in the successful test of the world's first atomic bomb, the "Christy Gadget", at Alamogordo on July 16, 1945. Almost immediately he turned his talents to promoting the peaceful uses of atomic energy. He successfully opposed atmospheric testing of atomic bombs and fought nuclear proliferation, a campaign that eventually led to the SALT talks with the Soviet Union. His favorite subject was astrophysics where he made fundamental contributions to the understanding of Cepheids, variable stars that are crucial distance indicators in the universe.Robert was equally fascinating as a man. In his mid-50's he became irresistably attracted to an astrophysicist, but they were a continent and a generation apart. Near his 60's they started a happy and fulfilling life together. He remained vigorous both mentally and physically into his 90's: he was still galloping his horse at age 93.Robert's story is one of overcoming obstacles, of hope, and of fulfillment.
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• Early Childhood-- The Formative UBC Years-- Exciting Graduate Years with Oppenheimer-- First Marriage to Dagmar von Lieven-- The Very First Nuclear Reactor-- Designing the First Atomic Bomb-- Becoming Oppenheimer's Successor at Caltech-- Opposing Nuclear Proliferation-- Contributions to Physics at Caltech-- Pioneering Work in Astrophysics: Variable Stars-- Achieving Robert's Dreams for Caltech-- Second Marriage to Ingrid Julianna Sackmann-- Daughters Late in Life-- Acting President of Caltech-- Later Years - Teaching and Research-- Radiation Dosimetry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki-- The Spring Valley Ranch: Fulfilling a Dream-- Robert's Health Struggles and Successes-- An Innate Grace.
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Robert F Christy was a legendary physicist, one of the key players in some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. He was a student of Oppenheimer, who called him "one of the best in the world." He was a crucial member of Fermi's team when they first unleashed the unheard-of energies of nuclear power, creating the world's first nuclear reactor on December 2, 1942. On the Manhattan Project he was the key physicist in the successful test of the world's first atomic bomb, the "Christy Gadget", at Alamogordo on July 16, 1945. Almost immediately he turned his talents to promoting the peaceful uses of atomic energy. He successfully opposed atmospheric testing of atomic bombs and fought nuclear proliferation, a campaign that eventually led to the SALT talks with the Soviet Union. His favorite subject was astrophysics where he made fundamental contributions to the understanding of Cepheids, variable stars that are crucial distance indicators in the universe.Robert was equally fascinating as a man. In his mid-50's he became irresistably attracted to an astrophysicist, but they were a continent and a generation apart. Near his 60's they started a happy and fulfilling life together. He remained vigorous both mentally and physically into his 90's: he was still galloping his horse at age 93.Robert's story is one of overcoming obstacles, of hope, and of fulfillment.
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• Introduction: Midcentury Media's Trip with LSD
• Early Restrictions on Drug Speech, 1900-1956
• Introducing LSD, 1953-1956
• Creating a Psychedelic Past, 1954-1960
• Research at the Intersection of Media and Medicine, 1957-1962
• Luce, Leary, and LSD, 1963-1965
• Moral Panic and Media Hype, 1966-1968
• Postscript: Psychedelic Media.

Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while outlets across the media landscape piggybacked on their coverage with stories by turns sensationalized and glowing. Acid Hype offers the untold tale of LSD's wild journey from Brylcreem and Ivory soap to incense and peppermints. As Stephen Siff shows, the early attention lavished on the drug by the news media glorified its use in treatments for mental illness but also its status as a mystical--yet legitimate--gateway to exploring the unconscious mind. Siff's history takes readers to the center of how popular media hyped psychedelic drugs in a constantly shifting legal and social environment, producing an intricate relationship between drugs and media experience that came to define contemporary pop culture. It also traces how the breathless coverage of LSD gave way to a textbook moral panic, transforming yesterday's refined seeker of truths into an acid casualty splayed out beyond the fringe of polite society.
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Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while outlets across the media landscape piggybacked on their coverage with stories by turns sensationalized and glowing. Acid Hype offers the untold tale of LSD's wild journey from Brylcreem and Ivory soap to incense and peppermints. As Stephen Siff shows, the early attention lavished on the drug by the news media glorified its use in treatments for mental illness but also its status as a mystical--yet legitimate--gateway to exploring the unconscious mind. Siff's history takes readers to the center of how popular media hyped psychedelic drugs in a constantly shifting legal and social environment, producing an intricate relationship between drugs and media experience that came to define contemporary pop culture. It also traces how the breathless coverage of LSD gave way to a textbook moral panic, transforming yesterday's refined seeker of truths into an acid casualty splayed out beyond the fringe of polite society.
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• Preface : Wireless cultures
• Introduction : Learning to listen
• Part I. The New (Deal) acoustics. "On the national hookup" : radio, character networks, and U.S.A
• The sound of the good neighbor : radio, realism, and real estate
• Struggling words : public housing, sound technologies, and the position of speech
• Part II. Occupying the airwaves. Tears in the ether : the rise of the radionovela
• Radio's revolutions
• Part III. Hand-to-hand speech. House taken over : listening, writing and the politics of the commonplace in Manuel Puig's fiction
• The ends of radio : tape, property, and popular voice

Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines both the coevolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the various populist political climates in which the emerging medium of radio became the chosen means to produce the voice of the people. Based on original archival research in Buenos Aires, Havana, Paris, and the United States, the book develops a literary media theory that understands sound as a transmedial phenomenon and radio as a transnational medium. Analyzing the construction of new social and political relations in the wake of the United States' 1930s Good Neighbor Policy, Acoustic Properties challenges standard narratives of hemispheric influence through new readings of Richard Wright's cinematic work in Argentina, Severo Sarduy's radio plays in France, and novels by John Dos Passos, Manuel Puig, Raymond Chandler, and Carson McCullers. Alongside these writers, the book also explores Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's Radio Rebelde, FDR's fireside chats, Felix Caignet's invention of the radionovela in Cuba, Evita Peron's populist melodramas in Argentina, Orson Welles's experimental New Deal radio, Cuban and U.S. ""radio wars, "" and the 1960s African American activist Robert F. Williams's proto-black power Radio Free Dixie. From the doldrums of the Great Depression to the tumult of the Cuban Revolution, Acoustic Properties illuminates how novelists in the radio age converted writing into a practice of listening, transforming realism as they struggled to channel and shape popular power.
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• East is East and West is West? Towards a comparative socio-cultural history of the Cold War / Patrick Major and Rana Mitter
• 'The man who invented truth' : the tenure of Edward R. Murrow as director of the United States information agency during the Kennedy years / Nicholas Call
• Soviet cinema in the Early Cold War : Pudovkin's Admiral Nakhimov in context / Sarah Davies
• Future perfect? Communist science fiction in the Cold War / Patrick Major
• The education of dissent : the reception of the voice of free Hungary, 1951-56 / Mark Pittaway
• The debate over nuclear refuge / David Seed
• Some writers are more equal than others' : George Orwell, the state and Cold War privilege / Tony Shaw.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Introduction: At the Border of U.S.â#x80; #x93; French Broadcasting
• Part I: The Rise of U.S.â#x80; #x93; French Broadcasting, 1925â#x80; #x93; 44
• 1 At the Speed of Sound: Techno-Aesthetic Paradigms in U.S.â#x80; #x93; French Broadcasting, 1925â#x80; #x93; 39
• 2 We Wonâ#x80; #x99; t Always Have Paris: U.S. Networks in France and Europe, 1932â#x80; #x93; 41
• 3 Voices of the Occupation: U.S. Broadcasting to France during World War II
• Part II: Shaping a U.S.â#x80; #x93; French Radio Imaginary, 1945â#x80; #x93; 74

• 4 Served on a Platter: How French Radio Cracked the U.S. Airwaves5 The Air of Paris: Womenâ#x80; #x99; s Talk Radio, Gender, and the Art of Self-Fashioning
• 6 The Drama of Broadcast History after May 1968
• Afterword: Radios at the Heart of Nations
• Appendix: U.S.â#x80; #x93; French Radio Time Line
• Notes
• Selected Resources

In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting's political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting governmental and other institutions shaping international radio's use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of cooperation between America and France as they shaped a new media environment. Throughout, Vaillant explains how radio's power as an instantaneous mass communications tool produced, legitimized, and circulated various notions of states, cultures, ideologies, and peoples as superior or inferior.
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In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting's political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting governmental and other institutions shaping international radio's use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of cooperation between America and France as they shaped a new media environment. Throughout, Vaillant explains how radio's power as an instantaneous mass communications tool produced, legitimized, and circulated various notions of states, cultures, ideologies, and peoples as superior or inferior.
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This book examines how notions of Jewishness have been conveyed in a range of television, stage, and film productions since the end of World War II. The history of the American entertainment industry and the history of the Jewish people in the United States are inextricably intertwined. Jews have provided Broadway and Hollywood with some of their most enduring talent, from writers like Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein, and Tony Kushner to directors like Jerome Robbins and Woody Allen, to performers like Gertrude Berg, John Garfield, Lenny Bruce, and Barbra Streisand. Conversely, show business provided Jews with a means of upward mobility, a model for how to "become American, " and a source of cultural pride. "Acting Jewish" documents this history, looking at the work of Jewish writers, directors and actors in the American entertainment industry with particular attention to the ways in which these artists offer behavioral models for Jewish-American audiences. Beginning in 1947, the book covers some of America's favorite plays ("Death of a Salesman", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Angels in America"), films ("Gentleman's Agreement", "Annie Hall") and television shows ("The Goldbergs", "Seinfeld"), identifying a double-coding by which performers enact, and spectators read, Jewishness in contemporary performance - and, by extension, enact and read other minority identities. Henry Bial draws on the lively discipline of performance studies to explore the ever-changing relationship between Jews and mainstream American culture.
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This book traces Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' within an experimental continuum across the arts.""Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form"" connects the personal and creative development of the Beat generation's famous icon with cultural changes in postwar America. Michael Hrebeniak asserts that Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' - self-organizing narratives free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions - moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process. ""Action Writing"" highlights how Kerouac made concrete his 1952 intimation of 'something beyond the novel' by assembling ideas from Beat America, modernist poetics, action painting, bebop, and subterranean oral traditions.Geared to scholars and students of American literature, Beat studies, and creative writing, ""Action Writing"" places Kerouac's writing within the context of the American art scene at midcentury. Reframing the work of Kerouac and the Beat generation within the experimental modernist and postmodernist literary tradition, this probing inquiry offers a direct engagement with the social and cultural history at the foreground of Kerouac's career from the 1940s to the late 1960s.
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• Introduction: Searching for relations
• Reconstituting the public sphere
• Spiritual temporalities and histories: Cristina Garcia and Leanne Howe
• Rewriting America's exceptionalism: Toni Morrison
• Post-civil rights community: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ana Castillo
• Indigenous sovereignties: Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich
• Conclusion: Toward a literary activism.

Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and oppression. In her examination of contemporary fiction by women of color--including Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Toni Cade Bambara, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko--Channette Romero considers the way these novels newly engage with Vodun, Santer a, Candombl , and American Indian traditions. Critical of a widespread disengagement from civic participation and of the contemporary novel's disconnection from politics, this fiction attempts to transform the novel and the practice of reading into a means of political engagement and an inspiration for social change.
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• Introduction: Searching for relations
• Reconstituting the public sphere
• Spiritual temporalities and histories: Cristina Garcia and Leanne Howe
• Rewriting America's exceptionalism: Toni Morrison
• Post-civil rights community: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ana Castillo
• Indigenous sovereignties: Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich
• Conclusion: Toward a literary activism.

Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and oppression. In her examination of contemporary fiction by women of color--including Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Toni Cade Bambara, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko--Channette Romero considers the way these novels newly engage with Vodun, Santeria, Candomble, and American Indian traditions. Critical of a widespread disengagement from civic participation and of the contemporary novel's disconnection from politics, this fiction attempts to transform the novel and the practice of reading into a means of political engagement and an inspiration for social change.
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Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X. The FBI has always kept tabs on political activists. During the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover, it was a Bureau-wide obsession. Did you see that guy who didn't quite look like a journalist, taking pictures at a demonstration? He was probably FBI. Did you say something mildly subversive in a radio interview? It went in your file. Did you attend a meeting of a left-leaning organization? The attendee who didn't contribute but took copious notes was possibly an informant. This third volume of selected FBI files liberated by MuckRock documents the FBI's pursuit of activists and dissenters ranging from Margaret Sanger to Malcolm X. Despite the absence of evidence, Hoover suspected Communist influence in every political protest. He grilled Martin Luther King, Jr., about Communist sympathizers in the civil rights movement (while offering reporters off-the-record hints about King's extramarital affairs). The Bureau investigated the supposed threat posed by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers but not threats to them, even after the detonation of a bomb in their office. The Bureau persevered: files on Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein cover six decades, from unfounded rumors of Communist connections to her participation in a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Recently, we hoped against hope that a former FBI director would save us from our current political predicament. These documents remind us of the FBI's troubling history. The Activists Roger Nash Baldwin, Cesar Chavez, Hedy Epstein, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Betty Friedan, Thelma Glass, Fred Hampton, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Harvey Milk, Bayard Rustin, Margaret Sanger, Aaron Swartz, John Trudell, Malcolm X, Howard Zinn.
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• List of Illustrations-- Foreword-- Preface-- Acknowledgements-- I. The Search for a Film Style-- II. Realism in Film and Theatre-- III. Theatrical Realism: The Genesis of a Film Style-- IV. The Actors Studio and Hollywood-- V. Five Representative Theatrical Realism Films: The Rose Tattoo, The Bachelor Party, Edge of the City, A Face in the Crowd, and The Pawnbroker-- VI. The Iconography of Theatrical Realism-- VII. Summary and Conclusions-- Appendices A and B-- Selected Bibliography-- Index.
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Theatrical Realism is an American film movement of the 1950s noted for its high aspirations - to create a significant 'art' cinema. Ironically, the films that comprise this movement are virtually forgotten today. Theatrical Realism is Hollywood's continuation of the Italian Neo-Realist movement. It was a direct result of the confluence of "Method Acting" as taught by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, the screen adaptations of plays by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and William Inge, and the Golden Age of Television.
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• "Work of national importance under civilian direction"
• "Religious training and belief"
• "An experiment in democracy"
• "A significant epoch in your life"
• "Detached units"
• "A working compromise between church and state"
• "Out of sight, out of mind"
• "A mind that found itself"
• "They asked for a hard job"
• "Bughousers" and "conchies"
• "The exposé as a progressive tool"
• "They were fighting everybody"
• "Mental hospitals are again under fire"
• "Another growing pain"
• "Scandal results in real reforms."

"In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation⁰́₉s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities."

• "Work of national importance under civilian direction"
• "Religious training and belief"
• "An experiment in democracy"
• "A significant epoch in your life"
• "Detached units"
• "A working compromise between church and state"
• "Out of sight, out of mind"
• "A mind that found itself"
• "They asked for a hard job"
• "Bughousers" and "conchies"
• "The expos as a progressive tool"
• "They were fighting everybody"
• "Mental hospitals are again under fire"
• "Another growing pain"
• "Scandal results in real reforms".

In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation's mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public attitudes and to improve the training and status of institutional staff. Prominent Americans, including Eleanor Roosevelt, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, author Pearl S. Buck, actress Helen Hayes, and African-American activist Mary McLeod Bethune, supported the efforts of the young men. These young men were among the 12,000 World War II conscientious objectors who chose to perform civilian public service as an alternative to fighting in what is widely regarded as America's 'good war.' Three thousand of these men volunteered to work at state institutions, where they found conditions appalling. Acting on conscience a second time, they challenged America's treatment of its citizens with severe disabilities. "Acts of Conscience" brings to light the extraordinary efforts of these courageous men, drawing upon extensive archival research, interviews, and personal correspondence. The World War II conscientious objectors were not the first to expose public institutions, and they would not be the last. What distinguishes them from reformers of other eras is that their activities have faded from professional and popular memory. Steven J. Taylor's moving account is an indispensable contribution to the historical record.
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Professor Leahy recounts the academic tensions between religious beliefs and intellectual inquiry, and explores the social changes that have affected higher education and American Catholicism throughout this century. He attempts to explain why the significant growth of Catholic colleges and universities was not always matched by concomitant academic esteem in the larger world of American higher education.
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Professor Leahy recounts the academic tensions between religious beliefs and intellectual inquiry, and explores the social changes that have affected higher education and American Catholicism throughout this century. He attempts to explain why the significant growth of Catholic colleges and universities was not always matched by concomitant academic esteem in the larger world of American higher education.
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• Foreword to the 1989 Edition by Claude Brown; Acknowledgments; Alphabetical Table of Narratives; Introduction: The Classic Era of Narcotic Control; Part One: Becoming an Addict;
• 1. Turned On;
• 2. Hooked;
• 3. Hop;
• 4. The Needle; Part Two: In the Life;
• 5. Scoring;
• 6. Hustling;
• 7. Hooking;
• 8. Dealing;
• 9. Working;
• 10. Creating;
• 11. Busted; Part Three: Treatment;
• 12. The Clinics;
• 13. Lexington and Its Discontents;
• 14. Methadone Maintenance; Epilogue to the 1989 Edition: From Methadone to the Drug War; Epilogue to the 2012 Paperback Edition: America's Longest War; Appendix: The Interviews.

The authors employ the techniques of oral history to penetrate the nether world of the drug user, giving us an engrossing portrait of life in the drug subculture during the "classic" era of strict narcotic control. Praise for the hardcover edition: "A momentous book which I feel is destined to become a classic in the category of scholarly narcotic books."--Claude Brown, author of the bestseller, Manchild in the Promised Land. "The drug literature is filled with the stereotyped opinions of non-addicted, middle-class pundits who have had little direct contact with addicts. These stories are reality. Narcotic addicts of the inner cities are both tough and gentle, deceptive when necessary and yet often generous--above all, shrewd judges of character. While judging them, the clinician is also being judged."--Vincent P. Dole, M.D., The Rockefeller Institute. "What was it like to be a narcotic addict during the Anslinger era? No book will probably ever appear that gives a better picture than this one. ... a singularly readable and informative work on a subject ordinarily buried in clich & eacute; s and stereotypes."--Donald W. Goodwin, Journal of the American Medical Association " ... an important contribution to the growing body of literature that attempts to more clearly define the nature of drug addiction. ... [This book] will appeal to a diverse audience. Academicians, politicians, and the general reader will find this approach to drug addiction extremely beneficial, insightful, and instructive. ... Without qualification anyone wishing to acquire a better understanding of drug addicts and addiction will benefit from reading this book."--John C. McWilliams, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "This study has much to say to a general audience, as well as those involved in drug control." --Publishers Weekly "The authors' comments are perceptive and the interviews make interesting reading." --John Duffy, Journal of American History "This book adds a vital and often compelling human dimension to the story of drug use and law enforcement. The material will be of great value to other specialists, such as those interested in the history of organized crime and of outsiders in general." --H. Wayne Morgan, Journal of Southern History "This book represents a significant and valuable addition to the contemporary substance abuse literature. ... this book presents findings from a novel and remarkably imaginative research approach in a cogent and exceptionally informative manner." --William M. Harvey, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs "This is a good and important book filled with new information containing provocative elements usually brought forth through the touching details of personal experience. ... There isn't a recollection which isn't of intrinsic value and many point to issues hardly ever broached in more conventional studies." --Alan Block, Journal of Social History.

• Foreword to the Paperback Edition ; Foreword ; Preface ; Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations ;
• 1. OPINTEL and Its Origins ;
• 2. The Postwar Years: Demobilization and Rebirth ;
• 3. The 1960s: Laying the Foundation for OSIS ;
• 4. OSIS Comes of Age: FOSIFs, FOSICs, and Fusion in the Electronic Age ;
• 5. ""High OPINTEL"" in the Era of the ""Maritime Strategy"" ;
• 6. Transition, Refocus, and the Future ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

This analytic and historical study provides a revealing look at naval operational intelligence by embracing the fundamental question of what OPINTEL is and how it answers the fundamental question ""Where is the enemy, in what strength, and disposition, and what is he doing right now?"" It is primarily the result of an Operational Intelligence Lessons-Learned Symposium held at the National Maritime Intelligence Training Center in Dam Neck, Virginia, 12-13 September 1998. The participants included senior intelligence professionals whose mandate was to explore the ramifications of the evolution of naval operational intelligence since World War II. Current practices were also explored with inputs from current practitioners as represented by various fleet and shore commands. Additional sources for the study were oral interviews and correspondence with senior members of the intelligence community. The authors have scrupulously taken the work as close to the edge of security classification as is possible to enhance its value without being damaging to national security.
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• I. The Comandante, the Rafts, and International Diplomacy
• II. An Old Tugboat Sinks
• III. The Malecon in Flames
• IV. On the High Seas
• V. The Craziest Month Ever
• VI. The Sea of Lost Rafts
• VII. Guantanamera
• VIII. Panamena, Panamena
• IX. Undertow
• X. Cessna 337 Is Not Responding
• XI. The Golden Child.

Fernandez surveys the turbulence produced by the collapse of the USSR and concludes that the greatest collateral damage has been inflicted not on the regime of Fidel Castro, but rather upon the men, women and children seeking to flee his dictatorship.

In Adrift: The Cuban Raft People, Alfredo Fernandez surveys the turbulence produced an entire hemisphere away by the collapse of the USSR and concludes that the greatest collateral damage has been inflicted not on the regime of Fidel Castro but rather upon the men, women, and children seeking to flee his dictatorship. For though U.S. immigration policy changed soon after, Castro's grip on the Cuban people has remained unyielding, even as extraordinary economic crises have wracked the island. As a result, countless refugees seeking freedom have disappeared without a trace into the churning waters of the Florida Straits.
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• 1. Baltimore Love
• 2. An Idea's Origin
• 3. Superior Performance, Inferior Opportunities
• 4. Enter the Godfather
• 5. The Rooney Rule
• 6. The Coaching Carousel
• 7. Millen, Mooch, and the Great Detroit Hiring Debate
• 8. Birth of an Alliance
• 9. A Season of Dreams
• 10. Digging New Wells
• 11. Road to Super Bowl.
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Two days before Super Bowl XLI in 2007, the game's two opposing head coaches posed with the trophy one of them would hoist after the contest. It was a fairly unremarkable event, except that both coaches were African American-a fact that was as much of a story as the game itself. As Jeremi Duru reveals in Advancing the Ball, this unique milestone resulted from the work of a determined group of people whose struggles to expand head coaching opportunities for African Americans ultimately changed the National Football League. Since the league's desegregation in 1946, opportunities had grown plentiful for African Americans as players but not as head coaches-the byproduct of the NFL's Old Boy's network and lingering stereotypes of blacks' intellectual inferiority. Although Major League Baseball and the NBA had, over the years, made progress in this regard, the NFL's head coaches were almost exclusively white up until the mid-1990s. Advancing the Ball chronicles the campaign of former Cleveland Browns offensive lineman John Wooten to right this wrong and undo decades of discriminatory head coach hiring practices-an initiative that finally bore fruit when he joined forces with attorneys Cyrus Mehri and Johnnie Cochran. Together with a few allies, the triumvirate galvanized the NFL's African American assistant coaches to stand together for equal opportunity and convinced the league to enact the "Rooney Rule, " which stipulates that every team must interview at least one minority candidate when searching for a new head coach. In doing so, they spurred a movement that would substantially impact the NFL and, potentially, the nation. Featuring an impassioned foreword by Coach Tony Dungy, Advancing the Ball offers an eye-opening, first-hand look at how a few committed individuals initiated a sea change in America's most popular sport and added an extraordinary new chapter to the civil rights story.
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• 1. Baltimore Love
• 2. An Idea's Origin
• 3. Superior Performance, Inferior Opportunities
• 4. Enter the Godfather
• 5. The Rooney Rule
• 6. The Coaching Carousel
• 7. Millen, Mooch, and the Great Detroit Hiring Debate
• 8. Birth of an Alliance
• 9. A Season of Dreams
• 10. Digging New Wells
• 11. Road to Super Bowl.
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Two days before Super Bowl XLI in 2007, the game's two opposing head coaches posed with the trophy one of them would hoist after the contest. It was a fairly unremarkable event, except that both coaches were African American-a fact that was as much of a story as the game itself. As Jeremi Duru reveals in Advancing the Ball, this unique milestone resulted from the work of a determined group of people whose struggles to expand head coaching opportunities for African Americans ultimately changed the National Football League. Since the league's desegregation in 1946, opportunities had grown plentiful for African Americans as players but not as head coaches-the byproduct of the NFL's Old Boy's network and lingering stereotypes of blacks' intellectual inferiority. Although Major League Baseball and the NBA had, over the years, made progress in this regard, the NFL's head coaches were almost exclusively white up until the mid-1990s. Advancing the Ball chronicles the campaign of former Cleveland Browns offensive lineman John Wooten to right this wrong and undo decades of discriminatory head coach hiring practices-an initiative that finally bore fruit when he joined forces with attorneys Cyrus Mehri and Johnnie Cochran. Together with a few allies, the triumvirate galvanized the NFL's African American assistant coaches to stand together for equal opportunity and convinced the league to enact the "Rooney Rule, " which stipulates that every team must interview at least one minority candidate when searching for a new head coach. In doing so, they spurred a movement that would substantially impact the NFL and, potentially, the nation. Featuring an impassioned foreword by Coach Tony Dungy, Advancing the Ball offers an eye-opening, first-hand look at how a few committed individuals initiated a sea change in America's most popular sport and added an extraordinary new chapter to the civil rights story.
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• Prologue: Nathan the Wise PART ONE. LEG SHOWS AND LONGHAIRS
• 1. Immigrant Passages
• 2. The Pittsburgh Troubles
• 3. To Victor Belong the Spoils PART TWO. A RIVER OF NICKELS
• 4. Tin Pan Alley
• 5. Canned Music
• 6. Mr. Burkan Goes to Washington
• 7. The Two-Cent Solution PART THREE. BENDING THE FIRMAMENT
• 8. Entr'acte
• 9. The Lone Star
• 10. Charlie in the Harem
• 11. The Price of a Good Time PART FOUR. FLEETING, EPHEMERAL, AND FUGITIVE
• 12. The Gospel of Performing Rights
• 13. Shanley's Cabaret Extraordinaire
• 14. The Music Tax
• 15. The Ether Toy PART FIVE. CHIEF OF JUSTICE OF CELLULOIDIA
• 16. The Silent Screen
• 17. The Jazz Singer PART SIX. TWENTY DAYS IN JANUARY 1927
• 18. Rumrunners
• 19. The Bindlestiff
• 20. New York's Spotlight Lawyer PART SEVEN. THE NAKED CITY
• 21. Love's Undertaker
• 22. Nightstick Censorship
• 23. The Big Bankroll and the Little Flower PART EIGHT. MODERN TIMES
• 24. New Deal Days
• 25. Gloria
• 26. Blue Bloods Meet the Hoi Polloi
• 27. Twilight of the Music Trust
• 28. Exeunt Acknowledgments Chronology Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. With a client list that included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Costello, Victor Herbert, Mae West, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Arnold Rothstein, and Samuel Goldwyn, Burkan was "New York's Spotlight Lawyer" for more than three decades. He was one of the principal authors of the epochal Copyright Act of 1909 and the guiding spirit behind the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (Ascap), which provided the first practical means for songwriters to collect royalties for public performances of their works, revolutionizing the music business and the sound of popular music. While the entertainment world adapted to the disruptive technologies of recorded sound, motion pictures, and broadcasting, Burkan's groundbreaking work laid the legal foundation for the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it continues to influence popular culture today. Gary A. Rosen tells stories of dramatic and uproarious courtroom confrontations, scandalous escapades of the rich and famous, and momentous clashes of powerful political, economic, and cultural forces. Out of these conflicts, the United States emerged as the world's leading exporter of creative energy. Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is an engaging look at the life of Nathan Burkan, a captivating history of entertainment and intellectual property law in the early twentieth century, and a rich source of new discoveries for anyone interested in the spirit of the Jazz Age.
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For the first half of the twentieth century, Texas literature, culture, and folklore were dominated by J. Frank Dobie, the man Lon Tinkle called ""Mr. Texas."" Dobie's Texas was a land of exuberance and romance, a time when Texas was proud of itself and not loath to let the world know it. But the culture of the state changed in the 1960s, and the figure who replaced Dobie as the dominant Texas writer and literary icon was Larry McMurtry. The Texas of Larry McMurtry is a far different landscape. The old certainties were replaced by irony and cultural revolution. The high, wide, and handsome posture of Texans was muted by politics, student unrest, and war. In the first two essays in this volume - ""The Age of Dobie"" and ""The Age of McMurtry"" - James Ward Lee places the writers, the politicians, and the cultural leaders in the context of each age. Subsequent chapters discuss writers and trends in Texas literature. Lee discusses long-standing arguments about Texas literature and surveys bodies of work that have had an impact on it. Another part of the book looks at Texas folklore and culture. ""The Uses of Folklore, "" ""The Folkways of the Arklatex, "" ""Texas: Land of Legends and Myths, "" and ""The Texas Sidekick"" all study the way Texans live and work and see the world. The final section of the book is made up of some personal essays by a man whose ideas and attitudes are sometimes odd but always humorous. Lee writes of the life he has led in Texas as a college professor and takes a backward look at his life from boyhood to service in the U. S. Navy.
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• Prelude to war
• Advertising navigates the defense economy
• The initial year of the Advertising Council
• The consumer movement's return
• Advertising, Washington, and the renamed War Advertising Council
• The increasing role of the War Advertising Council
• Peace and the reconversion of the Advertising Council.

Inger L. Stole challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, the result of more than a decade of campaigning to regulate the advertising industry. She suggests that the war experience, even more than the legislative battles of the 1930s, defined the role of advertising in U.S. postwar political economy and the nation's cultural firmament. Using archival sources, newspapers accounts, and trade publications, Stole demonstrates that the postwar climate of political intolerance and reverence for free enterprise quashed critical investigations into the advertising industry. While advertising could be criticized or lampooned, the institution itself became inviolable.

• Prelude to war
• Advertising navigates the defense economy
• The initial year of the Advertising Council
• The consumer movement's return
• Advertising, Washington, and the renamed War Advertising Council
• The increasing role of the War Advertising Council
• Peace and the reconversion of the Advertising Council.

Inger L. Stole challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, the result of more than a decade of campaigning to regulate the advertising industry. She suggests that the war experience, even more than the legislative battles of the 1930s, defined the role of advertising in U.S. post-war political economy and the nation's cultural firmament. Using archival sources, newspapers accounts, and trade publications, Stole demonstrates that the post-war climate of political intolerance and reverence for free enterprise quashed critical investigations into the advertising industry. While advertising could be criticized or lampooned, the institution itself became inviolable. Inger L. Stole is an associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone.
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• [v]. 1 The early years, 1941-1960.

• Acknowledgments-- Introduction--
• 1. Doctrine, dogma, and development in the AEF--
• 2. The 1st division: training for and waging trench warfare--
• 3. The 1st division: the search for a 'sufficiently powerful fire'--
• 4. The 26th 'Yankee' division: doctrine, discipline, and discrimination--
• 5. The 26th 'Yankee' division: doctrine, demoralization, and disintegration--
• 6. The 2nd division: bloody lessons in 'open warfare'--
• 7. The 2nd division: the rise of set-piece battle--
• 8. The 77th 'Liberty' division: training for the trenches and fighting on the Vesle--
• 9. The 77th 'Liberty' division: dogma, delegation, and discretion--
• 10. Conclusions-- References-- Index.
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This 2007 book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published. It shows how AEF combat units actually fought on the Western Front in World War I. It describes how four AEF divisions (the 1st, 2nd, 26th, and 77th) planned and conducted their battles and how they adapted their doctrine, tactics, and other operational methods during the war. General John Pershing and other AEF leaders promulgated an inadequate prewar doctrine, with only minor modification, as the official doctrine of the AEF. Many early American attacks suffered from these unrealistic ideas that retained too much faith in the infantry rifleman on the modern battlefield. However, many AEF divisions adjusted their doctrine and operational methods as they fought, preparing more comprehensive attack plans, employing flexible infantry formations, and maximizing firepower to seize limited objectives.
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The essays collected in this volume examine the multidisciplinary and multicultural nature of the subject of aesthetics. The contributors, who include Amelia Jones, Satya Mohanty, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, address the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to contemporary social, political, and cultural issues of ethnicity, race, class, and gender in the United States today. These essays aim to resolve some of the issues of the so-called "culture wars" by bridging the gap that has existed for two decades between scholars and critics who generally hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism. Accordingly, this volume provides a serious assessment of aesthetic theory and practices within the arts and letters of our multicultural society.
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• Can our values be objective? On ethics, aesthetics, and progressive politics / Satya P. Mohanty
• The pragmatics of the aesthetic / Giles Gunn
• Aesthetics and cultural studies / Winfried Fluck
• The resistance to cultural studies / John Carlos Rowe
• Desegregating American literary studies / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
• Difference and disciplinarity / Robyn Wiegman
• Doing justice to C.L.R. James's Mariners, renegades and castaways / Donald E. Pease
• Mumbo jumbo, theory, and the aesthetics of wholeness / Johnnella E. Butler
• Aesthetics again? The pleasures and the dangers / Paul Lauter
• "Every man knows where and how beauty gives him pleasure": beauty discourse and the logic of aesthetics / Amelia Jones
• The aesthetics of wounding: trauma, self-representation, and the critical voice / Kathleen McHugh
• Beautiful identities: when history turns state's evidence / Chon A. Noriega
• Toward a pluralist aesthetics / Heinz Ickstadt.

The essays collected in this volume examine the multidisciplinary and multicultural nature of the subject of aesthetics. The contributors, who include Amelia Jones, Satya Mohanty, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe, address the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to contemporary social, political, and cultural issues of ethnicity, race, class, and gender in the United States today. These essays aim to resolve some of the issues of the so-called "culture wars" by bridging the gap that has existed for two decades between scholars and critics who generally hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism. Accordingly, this volume provides a serious assessment of aesthetic theory and practices within the arts and letters of our multicultural society.
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The essays collected in this volume examine the multidisciplinary and multicultural nature of the subject of aesthetics. The contributed articles address the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to contemporary social, political, and cultural issues of ethnicity, race, class, and gender in the United States today. These essays aim to resolve some of the issues of the so-called "culture wars" by bridging the gap that has existed for two decades between scholars and critics who generally hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism. Accordingly, this volume provides a serious assessment of aesthetic theory and practices within the arts and letters of our multicultural society.
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• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock
• 2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism
• 3. Rechnitz's Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed
• 4. The Biblical Ethnographies of "Edo and Enam" and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue Forevermore AppendixNotesBibliography Index.
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In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp'o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences in a village with no electricity, running water, or telephone shows Brandt's attempts to adapt to a traditional, preindustrial existence in a small, almost completely self-sufficient community. This vivid account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that most of the villagers themselves despised, illuminates a social world that has almost completely disappeared.
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• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock
• 2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism
• 3. Rechnitz's Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed
• 4. The Biblical Ethnographies of "Edo and Enam" and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue Forevermore AppendixNotesBibliography Index.
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In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp'o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences in a village with no electricity, running water, or telephone shows Brandt's attempts to adapt to a traditional, preindustrial existence in a small, almost completely self-sufficient community. This vivid account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that most of the villagers themselves despised, illuminates a social world that has almost completely disappeared.
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• 1. Personal and impersonal: two forms of the neoliberal novel--
• 2. Affect and aesthetics in 9/11 fiction--
• 3. Reading like an entrepreneur: neoliberal agency and textual systems--
• 4. Ecology, feeling, and form in neoliberal literature.
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Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in contemporary fiction emphasizes the personal lives of characters at a time when there is an unprecedented, and often damaging, focus on the individual in American life. Through readings of works by Paul Auster, Karen Tei Yamashita, Ben Marcus, Lydia Millet, and others who stage experiments in the relationship between feeling and form, Smith argues for the centrality of a counter-tradition in contemporary literature concerned with impersonal feelings: feelings that challenge the neoliberal notion that emotions are the property of the self.
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