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Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency
ISBN: 9780813336954 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is an account of Roosevelt's secret deal to provide the destroyers Churchill needed in 1940. Their complex negotiation ignored precedents for conducting foreign policy. Shogan charges Roosevelt with flouting the Constitution, hoodwinking the public and distorting the political process.
This is an account of Roosevelt's secret deal to provide the destroyers Churchill needed in 1940. Their complex negotiation ignored precedents for con...
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Harry Truman and the Struggle for Racial Justice
ISBN: 9780700619115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many believed that Truman, born and raised in former slave-holding Missouri, was a step back on civil rights from Henry Wallace, the liberal incumbent vice president. But by the end of his own presidency, black newspaper publishers cited Truman for having "awakened the conscience of America and given new strength to our democracy by his courageous efforts on behalf of freedom and equality." In this first full-scale account of Truman's evolving views on...
When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many believe...
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Constant Conflict: Politics, Culture, and the Struggle for America's Future
ISBN: 9780813342214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Seeks to identify how the cultural upheavals of the 1960s has affected the balance of political power in America, covering such topics as the Vietnam War, economic imbalance, morality in political behavior, and the 2000 presidential election. Originally published as War Without End. Reprint. 10,000
Seeks to identify how the cultural upheavals of the 1960s has affected the balance of political power in America, covering such topics as the Vietnam ...
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No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics
ISBN: 9781566637701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" asked attorney Robert Welch in a climactic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political establishment. What made the confrontation unprecedented and magnified its impact was its gavel-to-gavel coverage by television. Thirty-six days of hearings transfixed the nation. With a journalist's eye for revealing detail, Robert Shogan traces the phenomenon and analyzes television's impact on government. Despite McCarthy's fall, Mr. Shogan points out, the...
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" asked attorney Robert Welch in a climactic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy agai...
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The Double Edged Sword
ISBN: 9780813367774 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ever since the Founding Fathers' faith in George Washington led them to create the presidency, the issue of character has been inextricably linked to the Oval Office. The American people have always expected their presidents to serve not only as political leaders but also role models of personal behavior, setting standards for raising their children. But as the new millennium nears, character and values have taken on a significance never contemplated by Washington and the Founding Fathers. In the second half of the twentieth century, with the enfeeblement of traditional political...
Ever since the Founding Fathers' faith in George Washington led them to create the presidency, the issue of character has been inextricably linked to ...
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148,54 |
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The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
ISBN: 9780465077731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners-- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-- picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle against an opposing legion of deputies, state police, and makeshift militia. Only the intervention of a Federal expeditionary force ended this undeclared war. In The Battle of Blair Mountain, Robert Shogan shows this long-neglected slice of American history to be a saga of the conflicting political, economic, and...
In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners-- outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-- picked up their Winchesters and marched against t...
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The Fate of the Union: America's Rocky Road to Political Stalemate
ISBN: 9780813342375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The dreary presidential campaign of 1996 and Clinton's disillusioning presidency matched the convulsive pattern of events which yanked the nation in every direction except forward throughout the final decades of the twentieth century. The swings of the previous decade with the Republican ascension in Congress and the Democratic presence in the White House, were less an aberration than a continuation of the disruptions that haunted the post-depression American political system.The Fate of the Union: America's Rocky Road to Political Stalemate illustrates how the circumstances of each...
The dreary presidential campaign of 1996 and Clinton's disillusioning presidency matched the convulsive pattern of events which yanked the nation in e...
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