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Roger Nash Baldwin And The American Civil Liberties Union

by Robert Cottrell

~~86,11€~~ 68,89€ 20% OFF

 Roger Nash Baldwin's thirty-year tenure as director of the ACLU marked the period when the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights came into being. Spearheaded by Baldwin, volunteer attorneys of the caliber of Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Osmond Frankel, and Edward Ennis transformed the constitutional landscape. Company police forces were dismantled. Antievolutionists were discredited (thanks to the Scopes Trial). Censorship of such works as James Joyce's Ulysses was halted. The Scottsboro Boys and Sacco and Vanzetti were defended. The right of free speech for communists and Ku Klux Klansmen alike was upheld, and the foundations were laid for an end to school segregation. Robert Cottrell's magnificent book recaptures the accomplishments and contradictions of the complicated man at the center of these events. Driven, vain, frugal, and tempestuous, America's greatest civil libertarian was initially also a staunch defender of Communist Russia, deferred to the U.S. government over the internment of Japanese Americans, and openly admired J. Edgar Hoover and Douglas MacArthur. His personal relationships were equally complex. Spanning a hundred years from the late 1800s through Baldwin's death in 1981, this riveting biography is an eye-opening view of the development of the American left.
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The Nervous Liberals - Propaganda Anxieties From World War I To The Cold War

by Brett (Steinhardt School Of Culture, Education, And Human Development) Gary

~~43,26€~~ 34,61€ 20% OFF

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 Traces the history of American fears of and attempts to combat propaganda through World War II and up to the Cold War. This book explores how following World War I the social sciences - especially political science and the field of mass communications - identified propaganda as the object of urgent "scientific" study.
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Law And Order - Street Crime, Civil Unrest, And The Crisis Of Liberalism In The 1960s

by Michael W. Flamm

~~45,04€~~ 36,03€ 20% OFF

 Offers a study of the political and social history of the 1960s. This book presents an account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of liberals, and transformed the landscape of American politics.
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Liberal State On Trial - The Cold War And American Politics In The Truman Years

by Jonathan Bell

~~112,61€~~ 90,09€ 20% OFF

 This book explores the role of the Cold War in shifting the center of gravity in American politics sharply to the right in the years immediately following World War II.
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Refuge Of Affections - Family And American Reform Politics, 1900-1920

by Eric Rauchway

~~50,34€~~ 40,27€ 20% OFF

 The Progressives—those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research—have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives—from the challenges of forming a family. Following the lives and careers of Charles and Mary Beard, Wesley Clair and Lucy Sprague Mitchell, and Willard and Dorothy Straight, the book moves from the plains of the Midwest to the plains of Manchuria, from the trade-union halls of industrial Britain to the editorial offices of the New Republic in Manhattan. Rauchway argues that parenting was a kind of elitism that fulfilled itself when it undid itself, and this vision of familial responsibility underlay Progressive approaches to foreign policy, economics, social policy, and education.
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Fall Of The House Of Roosevelt - Brokers Of Ideas And Power From Fdr To Lbj

by Michael Janeway

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% OFF

 In the 1930s, Thomas G Corcoran, Benjamin V Cohen, William O Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the Democratic Party into a coalition whose command over power and ideas invincible. This book shows how they were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law.
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Antitrust And The Formation Of The Postwar World

by Wyatt Wells

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF

 Shows how the United States sought to impose its antitrust policy on other nations. This book chronicles how the attack on cartels and monopoly abroad affected everything from energy policy and trade negotiations to the occupation of Germany and Japan. It shows how the architects of the economy uncoupled political ideology from antitrust policy.
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In His Own Right - The Political Odyssey Of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

by Joseph Palermo

~~124,37€~~ 99,50€ 20% OFF

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 Based on never-before-seen documents, this book chronicles RFK's extraordinary transformation from Cold Warrior to grass roots activist. Palermo focuses on the crucial nexus between '60s social activism and Kennedy's role as national leader, demonstrating how civic groups and individual activists educated him about the conflict in Southeast Asia and racial and class injustice at home.
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Education Of Ronald Reagan - The General Electric Years And The Untold Story Of His Conversion To Conservatism

by Thomas W. Evans

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% OFF

 Based on a newly discovered collection of private papers as well as interviews and corporate documents, Thomas W. Evans links the eight years (1954-1962) in which Reagan worked for General Electric-acting as host of its television program, GE Theater, and traveling the country as the company's public-relations envoy-to his conversion to conservatism. Evans particularly focuses on the profound influence of GE executive Lemuel Boulware, who would become Reagan's political and ideological mentor. Known for his innovative corporate strategies to win over workers and his tough stance against the "excesses" of union officials, Boulware championed the core tenets of modern American conservatism-free-market fundamentalism, anticommunism, lower taxes, and limited government. Building on the ideas and influence of Boulware, Reagan would soon begin his rise as a national political figure and an icon of the American conservative movement.
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Tough Liberal - Albert Shanker And The Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, And Democracy

by Richard D. Kahlenberg

~~52,99€~~ 42,39€ 20% OFF

 Albert Shanker (1928-1997) lived the lives of several men bound into one. In his early years, he helped to found modern teacher unionism. During the 1980s, as head of the American Federation of Teachers, he became the nation's leading education reformer. Shanker supported initiatives for high education standards and accountability, teacher-led charter schools, and a system of "peer review" to weed out inadequate teachers. He also fought for "tough liberalism," an ideology favoring public education and trade unions but also colorblind policies and a robust anticommunism--all of which, Shanker believed, were vital to a commitment to democracy. Richard D. Kahlenberg is the first to offer a complete narrative of one of the most important voices in public education and American politics in the last half century.
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World Safe For Capitalism - Dollar Diplomacy And America''S Rise To Global Power

by Cyrus Veeser

~~42,39€~~ 33,91€ 20% OFF

 Offers a view on how America began to intervene in world affairs. By proposing an economic remedy to a political problem, this book anticipates policies embodied in the Marshall Plan, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
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Acts Of Conscience - Christian Nonviolence And Modern American Democracy

by Joseph Kip Kosek

~~50,34€~~ 40,27€ 20% OFF

 In response to the massive bloodshed that defined the twentieth century, American religious radicals developed a modern form of nonviolent protest, one that combined Christian principles with new uses of mass media. Greatly influenced by the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi, these "acts of conscience" included sit-ins, boycotts, labor strikes, and conscientious objection to war. Beginning with World War I and ending with the ascendance of Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph Kip Kosek traces the impact of A. J. Muste, Richard Gregg, and other radical Christian pacifists on American democratic theory and practice. These dissenters found little hope in the secular ideologies of Wilsonian Progressivism, revolutionary Marxism, and Cold War liberalism, all of which embraced organized killing at one time or another. The example of Jesus, they believed, demonstrated the immorality and futility of such violence under any circumstance and for any cause. Tracing the rise of militant nonviolence across a century of industrial conflict, imperialism, racial terror, and international warfare, Kosek recovers radical Christians' remarkable stance against the use of deadly force, even during World War II and other seemingly just causes. His research sheds new light on an interracial and transnational movement that posed a fundamental, and still relevant, challenge to America's political and religious mainstream.
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A World Safe For Capitalism - Dollar Diplomacy And America'S Rise To Global Power

by Cyrus Veeser

~~37,85€~~ 30,28€ 20% OFF

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 Offers a view on how America began to intervene in world affairs. By proposing an economic remedy to a political problem, this book anticipates policies embodied in the Marshall Plan, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.
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2021 Daily Planner

by Adil Daisy

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Communicate Student'S Coursebook Level 2

by Kate Pickering

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 The Communicate Coursebook builds speaking and listening skills through a variety of activities aimed at B1 level students. The vocabulary, speaking and listening sections are carefully staged with a final task that brings all the learning aims together.
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Teacher'S Cd-Rom + Dvd Pack Level 2

by Kate Pickering

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 This teacher's pack contains editable tests, teacher's notes, answer keys, audioscripts as PDFs, and test audio files which are the same that are found on the teacher's Multi-ROM. In addition it also includes the Class Audio material. All the audio files are formatted for use on a computer.
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Communicate Teacher'S Cd-Rom + Dvd Pack Level 1

by Kate Pickering

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 This teacher's pack contains editable tests, teacher's notes, answer keys, audioscripts as PDFs, and test audio files which are the same that are found on the teacher's Multi-ROM. In addition it also includes the Class Audio material. All the audio files are formatted for use on a computer.
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Communicate Student'S Coursebook Level 1

by Kate Pickering

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 The Communicate Coursebook builds speaking and listening skills through a variety of activities aimed at B1 level students. The vocabulary, speaking and listening sections are carefully staged with a final task that brings all the learning aims together.
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The Refuge Of Affections - Family And American Reform Politics, 1900â€“1920

by Eric Rauchway

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 American progressives - those middle-class citizens who support fundamental change in American life - have always presented a mystery. This work investigates the lives of such reformers as Charles and Mary Beard and Wesley Clair, to investigate their influences and inspiration.
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In His Own Right - The Political Odyssey Of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

by Joseph Palermo

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 Based on never-before-seen documents, this book chronicles RFK's extraordinary transformation from Cold Warrior to grass roots activist. Palermo focuses on the crucial nexus between '60s social activism and Kennedy's role as national leader, demonstrating how civic groups and individual activists educated him about the conflict in Southeast Asia and racial and class injustice at home.
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Acts Of Conscience - Christian Nonviolence And Modern American Democracy

by Joseph Kosek

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 In response to the massive bloodshed that defined the twentieth century, American religious radicals developed a modern form of nonviolent protest, one that combined Christian principles with new uses of mass media. Greatly influenced by the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi, these "acts of conscience" included sit-ins, boycotts, labor strikes, and conscientious objection to war. Beginning with World War I and ending with the ascendance of Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph Kip Kosek traces the impact of A. J. Muste, Richard Gregg, and other radical Christian pacifists on American democratic theory and practice. These dissenters found little hope in the secular ideologies of Wilsonian Progressivism, revolutionary Marxism, and Cold War liberalism, all of which embraced organized killing at one time or another. The example of Jesus, they believed, demonstrated the immorality and futility of such violence under any circumstance and for any cause. Tracing the rise of militant nonviolence across a century of industrial conflict, imperialism, racial terror, and international warfare, Kosek recovers radical Christians' remarkable stance against the use of deadly force, even during World War II and other seemingly just causes. His research sheds new light on an interracial and transnational movement that posed a fundamental, and still relevant, challenge to America's political and religious mainstream.
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Roger Nash Baldwin And The American Civil Liberties Union

by Robert Cottrell

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 This work presents the accomplishments of Roger Nash Baldwin, who - in his 30-year tenure as director of the ACLU - marked the period when the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights came into being. Spearheaded by Baldwin, volunteer attorneys transformed the constitutional landscape.
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The Liberal State On Trial - The Cold War And American Politics In The Truman Years

by Jonathan Bell

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 This book explores the role of the Cold War in shifting the center of gravity in American politics sharply to the right in the years immediately following World War II.
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Jews Against Prejudice - American Jews And The Fight For Civil Liberties

by Stuart (Torys Llp) Svonkin

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 This vital contribution to the story of civil rights in modern America traces the political evolution of Jewish defense organizations from their initial incarnations as groups concerned primarily with defending American Jews against the virulent anti-Semitism of the 1920s and 1930s to their leading role in the fight against all forms of prejudice during the middle half of this century.
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