Inside the Klavern

Inside the Klavern
Author: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ...)
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780809322480

An exploration of Klan activity in LaGrande, Oregon during the mid-twenties.

Godfrey and Mary Cline and Their Descendants

Godfrey and Mary Cline and Their Descendants
Author: Charlotte Gonser Russell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1984
Genre: Pennsylvania
ISBN:

Godfrey Cline (ca. 1778-1855) married Mary Gebhard and moved about 1822 from Northumberland County to Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado, Nevada, Washington and elsewhere. Includes search for ancestry in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and elsewhere.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Total Pages: 2006
Release: 1961
Genre: Copyright
ISBN:

Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)

The Shadow President

The Shadow President
Author: Michael D'Antonio
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250301203

"It presents an entirely damning portrait of Pence. You've seen his colors before, but not so vividly and in this detail." —Frank Bruni, The New York Times "Producing a biography of a living, controversial politician is always difficult. D'Antonio and Eisner have succeeded in this well-documented, damning book. Cue the outrage from Sean Hannity et al."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In this well-rounded, deeply-investigated biography, the first full look at the vice president, two award-winning journalists unmask the real Mike Pence. Little-known outside his home state until Donald Trump made him his running mate, Mike Pence—who proclaims himself a Christian first, a conservative second, and a Republican third—has long worn a carefully-constructed mask of Midwestern nice. Behind his self-proclaimed humility and self-abasing deference, however, hides a man whose own presidential ambitions have blazed since high school. Pence’s drive for power, perhaps inspired by his belief that God might have big plans for him, explains why he shocked his allies by lending Christian credibility to a scandal-plagued candidate like Trump. In this landmark biography, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael D’Antonio and Emmy-nominated journalist Peter Eisner follow the path Pence followed from Catholic Democrat to conservative evangelical Republican. They reveal how he used his time as rightwing radio star to build connections with powerful donors; how he was a lackluster lawmaker in Congress but a prodigious fundraiser from the GOP’s billionaire benefactors; and how, once he locked in his views on the issues—anti-gay, pro-gun, anti-abortion, pro big-business—he became laser-focused on his own pursuit of power. As THE SHADOW PRESIDENT reveals, Mike Pence is the most important and powerful Christian Right politician America has ever seen. Driven as much by theology as personal ambition, Pence is now positioned to seize the big prize—the presidency—and use it to fashion a nation more pleasing to his god and corporate sponsors.

The Leopard's Spots

The Leopard's Spots
Author: Jr. Thomas Dixon
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Leopard's Spots is a novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. It depicts the conclusion of the civil war and the atrocities committed against blacks by lynching.

The Leopard's Spots

The Leopard's Spots
Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1902
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

Dixon offers an account of Reconstruction in which he portrays a Reconstruction leader (and former slave driver), Northern carpetbaggers, and emancipated slaves as the villains; Ku Klux Klan members are heroes.

The Leopard's Spots

The Leopard's Spots
Author: Thomas Dixon (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1903
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

Dixon offers an account of Reconstruction in which he portrays a Reconstruction leader (and former slave driver), Northern carpetbaggers, and emancipated slaves as the villains; Ku Klux Klan members are anti-heroes. While the playbills and program for The Birth of a Nation claimed The Leopard's Spots as a source in addition to The Clansman, recent scholars do not accept this.

From the Courtroom to the Boardroom

From the Courtroom to the Boardroom
Author: Deena Varner
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2024-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0700636595

The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of “law and order,” referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system has been and remains to be, there has been a shift in recent years shaped by neoliberalism—the political, economic, and sociocultural program that has supplanted liberal democratic legal frameworks, subordinating them to operations of the market and mandating that private entities intervene in the creation, interpretation, and enforcement of law. While courts and legislatures play a significant role in shaping legal personhood in the neoliberal United States, private, profit-driven institutions are increasingly responsible for determining the post-sentence consequences that people with criminal convictions face. The result has been a move from the courtroom to the boardroom, from a law-and-order society to a policy-and-order society. From the Courtroom to the Boardroom is an interdisciplinary cultural studies project that examines the role of the criminal justice system in implementing neoliberal restructuring in the United States, including the partial transfer of quasi-judicial authority to employers, landlords, lenders, social media companies, and other businesses. In this important study, Deena Varner examines the way the consumer background report industry has privatized the surveillance and punishment of individuals, conflating crime with bad credit and eviction history. She positions Airbnb’s 2018 policy of banning people convicted of crimes as an example of the way corporate entities are increasingly vested with the authority to determine things like the seriousness or severity of crimes. Varner also tackles the phenomenon of “cancel culture,” arguing that this is best understood not as a feature of the culture wars but rather as a partial return to what Foucault described as the punitive model of infamy, in which the responsibility for punishing has been transferred from the state to individuals.