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In January of 1949 the aftershocks of the Second World War were still jarring large parts of the globe although they had greatly diminished in the United States In Asia however turbulence continued to rise as a result of the collapse of Japan the tottering of the European empires after the war and the combustion produced by nationalism mixed with communism Because a segment of American opinion generally represented in the more conservative wing of the Republican party was very sensitive to events in Asia the tremors in the Far East came as harbingers of disturbing political conflict in the United StatesRobert J Donovans Tumultuous Years presents a detailed account of Harry S Trumans presidency from 19491953
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Jesse W Carter served as a justice on the California Supreme Court from 19391959 where he was known as the Lone Dissenter because he wrote so many solo dissents Many of these opinions were in passionate defense of civil rights civil liberties and the rights of labor criminal defendants and personal injury victims Several of the cases were reversed by the United States Supreme Court or by later decisions of the California Supreme Court adopting Justice Carters reasoning This book combines essays on several of those dissents written by faculty and friends of Golden Gate University School of Law where Carter earned his law degree in 1913 as well as an essay on the role of dissenting opinions by another great dissenter Justice William Brennan
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Jesse W Carter served as a justice on the California Supreme Court from 19391959 where he was known as the Lone Dissenter because he wrote so many solo dissents Many of these opinions were in passionate defense of civil rights civil liberties and the rights of labor criminal defendants and personal injury victims Several of the cases were reversed by the United States Supreme Court or by later decisions of the California Supreme Court adopting Justice Carters reasoning This book combines essays on several of those dissents written by faculty and friends of Golden Gate University School of Law where Carter earned his law degree in 1913 as well as an essay on the role of dissenting opinions by another great dissenter Justice William Brennan
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Hardcover with blue boards silver gilt lettering on front board Price clipped photocovered jacket Book is fine appears unread jacket is almost fine except for been clipped The authors own account of his time as City Councillor to Toronto Mayor A look at a career and a city that underwent formidable change during those years 349 pages with index
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TIME magazines awardwinning photographer offers a fascinating array of 130 photographic images that provide a unique glimpse of the public and private sides of six presidential administrations from Jimmy Carter to George W Bush
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Book is in UsedVeryGood condition Pages and cover are clean and intact Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting 06
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Jimmy Carters chief adviser recounts the secret meetings conflicts cloakanddagger exploits divergent affairs of state negotiations and crises that filled Carters final year in the White House
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1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales political military economic social cultural In the United States perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behindthescenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the year of a continuous nightmare Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968 including the Vietnam War the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic and LBJs refusal to seek reelection underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968 As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ LBJs 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level
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1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales political military economic social cultural In the United States perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behindthescenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the year of a continuous nightmare Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968 including the Vietnam War the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic and LBJs refusal to seek reelection underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968 As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ LBJs 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level
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A brilliant authoritative and riveting account of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincolns presidency when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil WarOn July 12 1862 Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves On January 1 1863 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation doing precisely that In between however was perhaps the most tumultuous six months of his presidency an episode during which the sixteenth president fought bitterly with his generals disappointed his cabinet and sank into painful bouts of clinical depression Most surprising the man who would be remembered as The Great Emancipator did not hold firm to his belief in emancipation He agonized over the decision and was wracked by private doubts almost to the moment when he inked the decree that would change a nation Popular myth would have us believe that Lincoln did not suffer from such indecision that he did what he did through moral resolve that he had a commanding belief in equality in the inevitable victory of right over wrong He worked on drafts of the document for months locking it in a drawer in the telegraph room of the War department Ultimately Lincoln chose to act based on his political instincts and knowledge of the war It was a great gamble with the future of the Union of slavery and of the presidency itself hanging in the balance In this compelling narrative Todd Brewster focuses on these critical six months to ask was it through will or by accident intention or coincidence personal achievement or historical determinism that he freed the slaves The clock is always ticking in these pages as Lincoln searches for the right moment to enact his proclamation and simultaneously turn the tide of war Lincolns Gamble portrays the president as an imperfect man with an unshakable determination to save a country he believed in even as the course of the Civil War remained unknown
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The Right Book for the Wrong Time The first history of the 1980s the decade no one should ever forget and no one can A look back at a time some have called the years of laughter years of tears A satire of all that is held dear In words and pictures more than 50 contributors reexamine the events great and small
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Awardwinning author Rosemary Sullivan returns with a revelatory biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva a woman fated to live in the shadow of her father notorious Soviet dictator Josef StalinBorn in 1926 Svetlana Alliluyeva spent her youth inside the Kremlin as her fathers power soared Eightyfive years later she died alone and penniless in rural Wisconsin Revealed here for the first time the many lives of Josef Stalins daughter form a riveting portrait of a woman who fled halfway around the world to escape her birthrightProtected from the mass starvation and murder her father inflicted upon Russian citizens Svetlana was not immune to tragedy She lost her mother to suicide and her fathers merciless purges claimed relatives and her lover who was exiled to SiberiaAfter her fathers death Svetlana shocked the world by defecting to the United States at the height of the Cold Warleaving behind two children There she found only more heartbreak She married Wesley Peters a member of Frank Lloyd Wrights inner circle and they had a child But the marriage disintegrated No matter how much distance she put between her past and her present she could not undo the emotional and psychological damage her father had wroughtWith access to FBI CIA and Russian state archives as well as with the close cooperation of Svetlanas daughter Sullivan has created a masterful biography that is epic in scope yet narrated with remarkable intimacy In this book Sullivan cements her status as the preeminent literary biographer in Canada
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Twenty years after its original publication and one hundred thousand copies later comes a reissued edition of the most comprehensive examination of the Beat movementfeaturing a new preface and afterword by the author Cook objectively analyzes this countercultural movement and its influences today
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For more than twenty years now Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them Terror and Wonder gathers the best of Kamins writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the worlds tallest skyscraper Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as headturning designs by some of the worlds leading architects Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a tumultuous age torn between the conflicting mandates of architectural spectacle and sustainability For Kamin the story of our built environment over the past ten years is in tangible ways the story of the decade itself Terror and Wonder considers how architecture has been central to the main events and crosscurrents in American life since 2001 the devastating and debilitating consequences of 911 and Hurricane Katrina the real estate boom and bust the use of overthetop cultural designs as engines of civic renewal new challenges in saving old buildings the unlikely rise of energysaving green architecture and growing concern over our nations crumbling infrastructure A prominent cast of playersincluding Santiago Calatrava Frank Gehry Helmut Jahn Daniel Libeskind Barack Obama Renzo Piano and Donald Trumpfills the pages of this eyeopening look at the astounding and extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our valuesand shapes our everyday lives
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For nearly two decades this manuscript lay hidden in a Chinese bank vault until a longlost cousin from America inspired 92yearold author Fengxian Chu to unearth it Song of Praise for a Flower traces a century of Chinese history through the experiences of one woman and her family from the dark years of World War II and Chinas civil war to the tragic Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution and beyond It is a window into a faraway world a sweeping epic about Chinas tumultuous transformation and a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting story of a remarkable woman who survives it all and finally finds peace and tranquility Chus story begins in the 1920s in an idyllic home in the heart of Chinas rice country Her life is a struggle from the start At a young age she defies footbinding and an arranged marriage and sneaks away from home to attend school Her young adulthood is thrown into turmoil when the Japanese invade and ransack her village Later her family is driven to starvation when Mao Zedongs Communist Party seizes power and her husband is branded a bad element After Maos death in the 1970s as China picks up the pieces and moves in a new direction Chu eventually finds herself in a glittering city on the sea adjacent to Hong Kong worlds away in both culture and time from the place she came from Fengxian Chus firstperson account of growing up female in feudal rural China is ultimately as uplifting as it is heart wrenching Beautiful and bravely written Bravo Michael J Totten author of Where the West Ends
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Years before Diana Ross Mary Wells was the first Motown solo superstar the internationally popular songstress who sang the megahit My Guy Her songs consistently and repeatedly reached huge audiences in America and England both black and white She captivated the Beatles toured with them and was briefly more popular than they were on the pop chartsnbspBut Wells left Motown at age 21 and spent the rest of her life trying to fight her way back to the top She also had a series of tumultuous affairs and marital attachments with several wellknown singers and songwriters And near the end of her life Wells fought a drawnout and courageous battle with throat cancer giving perhaps her gutsiest performancenbspPeter Benjaminson has spent years interviewing Wellss friends lovers and husbands and obtained an amazingly detailed unreleased taped interview with Wells herself In Mary Wells he tells her whole story complete with neverbefore revealed details about the sex the violence and the drugs in her lifeand about her Motown hits that captivated the worldnbspnbsp
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Featuring never before published excerpts from his unfinished autobiography this book explores the career of John G Kemeny mathematician educator and president of Dartmouth College Nelson presents a portrait of Kemenys presidential leadership during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s exemplifying his resolute commitment to the pursuit of knowledge learning human understanding equity and justice Through this discussion of Kemenys life Nelson identifies the ideal qualities of a leader willingness to ponder consider and achieve the best actions he could conceive compassion understanding and empathy for others absolute belief in the rising generation of college students and courage in the face of challenging public issues contentious and warring opinions and concerns From immigrant roots to college presidency and the national stage this book tells the full story of a genius and giant of the world of academia
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In its more than 200year history the office of the President of the United States has undergone a variety of dramatic changes Because our founding fathers left the privileges and responsibilities of the job constitutionally vague and illdefined each occupant of the officefrom George Washington to Bill Clintonhas tried to set the limits of presidential power as he has seen fit based on the domestic and international circumstances of the day as well as on his own ambition and abilities In The Power of the American Presidency Michael A Genovese one of the best known and respected scholars on the presidency takes students on a journey through the personalities and politics of some of the most fascinating and at times powerful men in American history Organized chronologically the text offers an overview of the evolution and elasticity of presidential power by providing case studies of each presidents personal characteristics and the defining historical events of each administration From Abraham Lincoln who stretched the boundaries of presidential power during the Civil War to nearly forgotten presidents like Van Buren Garfield and Fillmore who led weak administrations with limited power Genovese presents the history of our countrys highest office with insight balanced judgment and humor The Power of the American Presidency will be widely used in undergraduate courses on the American Presidency as well as in courses on American history American studies and political science It will also be of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a keener insight into the workings of the presidency
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