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Strom Thurmond's America: A History
ISBN: 9780809084340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Do not forget that skill and integrity' are the keys to success." This was the last piece of advice on a list Will Thurmond gave his son Strom in 1923. The younger Thurmond would keep the words in mind throughout his long and colorful career as one of the South's last race-baiting demagogues and as a national power broker who, along with Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, was a major figure in modern conservative politics. But as the historian Joseph Crespino demonstrates in "Strom Thurmond's America," the late South Carolina senator followed only part of his father's counsel. Political... "Do not forget that skill and integrity' are the keys to success." This was the last piece of advice on a list Will Thurmond gave his son Strom in ... |
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In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution
ISBN: 9780691140940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Mississippians, however, had a different vision of themselves and their country, one so persuasive that by 1980 they had become important players in Ronald Reagan's newly ascendant Republican Party. In this ambitious reassessment of racial politics in the deep South, Joseph Crespino reveals how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated... In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of ra... |
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174,38 zł |
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9780195384741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the nation. Has the time come to declare the end of southern history? And how do the stories of American history change if the South is no longer seen as a region apart--as the conservative counterpoint to a liberal national ideal? The Myth of Southern...
More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have chang...
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359,43 zł |
The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9780195384758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the nation. Has the time come to declare the end of southern history? And how do the stories of American history change if the South is no longer seen as a region apart--as the conservative counterpoint to a liberal national ideal? The Myth of Southern...
More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have chang...
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180,36 zł |