Spring Forward

Spring Forward
Author: Michael Downing
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-02-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1582434956

Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrialist, Woodrow Wilson, a man on a horse in London, a Manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin, one of the Caesars, or the anonymous makers of ancient Chinese and Japanese water clocks. Spring Forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time–zone boundaries. It is a true–to–life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers, labor leaders, sports fanatics, and railroad execs.

Seize the Daylight

Seize the Daylight
Author: David Prerau
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 078673695X

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy crisis with it. For several months every year, for better or worse, daylight savings time affects vast numbers of people throughout the world. And from Ben Franklin's era to today, its story has been an intriguing and sometimes-bizarre amalgam of colorful personalities and serious technical issues, purported costs and perceived benefits, conflicts between interest groups and government policymakers. It impacts diverse and unexpected areas, including agricultural practices, street crime, the reporting of sports scores, traffic accidents, the inheritance rights of twins, and voter turnout. Illustrated with a popular look at science and history, Seize the Daylight presents an intriguing and surprisingly entertaining story of our attempt to regulate the sunlight hours.

Extension of Daylight Saving Time

Extension of Daylight Saving Time
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1983
Genre: Daylight saving
ISBN:

Extended Daylight Saving Time

Extended Daylight Saving Time
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1982
Genre: Daylight saving
ISBN:

Daylight Savings Extension Act of 1985

Daylight Savings Extension Act of 1985
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1986
Genre: Daylight saving
ISBN:

Daylight Savings Time

Daylight Savings Time
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1981
Genre: Daylight saving
ISBN:

Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1974
Genre: Daylight saving
ISBN:

Our Fight Has Just Begun

Our Fight Has Just Begun
Author: Cheryl Redhorse Bennett
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816545219

Our Fight Has Just Begun is a timely and urgent work. The result of more than a decade of research, it revises history, documents anti-Indianism, and gives voice to victims of racial violence. Navajo scholar Cheryl Redhorse Bennett reveals a lesser-known story of Navajo activism and the courageous organizers that confronted racial injustice and inspired generations. Illuminating largely untold stories of hate crimes committed against Native Americans in the Four Corners region of the United States, this work places these stories within a larger history, connecting historical violence in the United States to present-day hate crimes. Bennett contends that hate crimes committed against Native Americans have persisted as an extension of an “Indian hating” ideology that has existed since colonization, exposing how the justice system has failed Native American victims and families. While this book looks deeply at multiple generations of unnecessary and ongoing pain and violence, it also recognizes that this is a time of uncertainty and hope. The movement to abolish racial injustice and racially motivated violence has gained fierce momentum. Our Fight Has Just Begun shows that racism, hate speech, and hate crimes are ever present and offers recommendations for racial justice.