Dr. Benjamin Spock is known for how he revolutionized mainstream American family life with his book Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, for the controversy caused by his psychological advice, and for his early and courageous opposition to the war in Vietnam. But, as award-winning biographer Thomas Maier uncovered through extensive interviews with Spock and his family, his personal life was filled with tragic ironies and contradictions. His family suffered through alcoholism, substance abuse, divorce, mental illness, suicide, sexual tensions, and emotional indifference. His childhood, which so...

For 150 years, the story of the Kennedy family has been inextricably linked to their heritage as Irish-Catholic immigrants--from Patrick Kennedy's 1848 arrival in Brahmin Boston from Country Wexford Ireland, to Joseph Kennedy's Vatican ties and Jackie's thoughts on faith and sorrow, to Kennedy-confidante Father McSorley's religious counsel following the assassination of JFK. Through groundbreaking interviews with Senator Edward Kennedy and other Kennedy family and friends, acclaimed journalist Thomas Maier casts the Kennedy saga in an entirely new light, showing how their Irish catholic...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Lander - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 1,1, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald (Institut fur Slawistik), Veranstaltung: Abschlussarbeit, 53 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gegenstand dieser Arbeit soll die Ortsnamenpolitik in dem heute in Polen gelegenen Gebiet Posen sein, in welchem als "Raum nationaler Konfrontation" im Wechsel zwischen deutschen und polnischen Machthabern seit 1815 viermal Ortsnamen geandert wurden. Dabei geht es um die Ideologien und deren Durchfuhrung seitens der...