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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Considers H. Con. Res. 107, H. Con. Res. 108, and related resolutions, calling for a convention of delegates from the NATO countries to explore methods of achieving more effective and democratic unity in advancing their common interest.
Author | : Norman Mailer |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1590175530 |
1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California primary in June. In August, Republicans met in Miami, picking the little-loved Richard Nixon as their candidate, while in September, Democrats in Chicago backed the ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey. TVs across the country showed antiwar protesters filling the streets of Chicago and the police running amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike. In Miami and the Siege of Chicago, Norman Mailer, America’s most protean and provocative writer, brings a novelist’s eye to bear on the events of 1968, a decisive year in modern American politics, from which today’s bitterly divided country arose.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations |
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Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Fish and game laws |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : International Telecommunication Convention |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : International Telecommunication Conference |
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Author | : National Association of Railway Commissioners (U.S.). Convention |
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Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Rebecca J. Scott |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674068408 |
Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. Freed during the Haitian Revolution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisabeth fled to Cuba in 1803. A few years later, Elisabeth departed for New Orleans, where she married a carpenter, Jacques Tinchant. In the 1830s, with tension rising against free persons of color, they left for France. Subsequent generations of Tinchants fought in the Union Army, argued for equal rights at Louisiana's state constitutional convention, and created a transatlantic tobacco network that turned their Creole past into a commercial asset. Yet the fragility of freedom and security became clear when, a century later, Rosalie's great-great-granddaughter Marie-José was arrested by Nazi forces occupying Belgium. Freedom Papers follows the Tinchants as each generation tries to use the power and legitimacy of documents to help secure freedom and respect. The strategies they used to overcome the constraints of slavery, war, and colonialism suggest the contours of the lives of people of color across the Atlantic world during this turbulent epoch.
Author | : Anne Applebaum |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0385545819 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. Elegantly written and urgently argued, Twilight of Democracy is a brilliant dissection of a world-shaking shift and a stirring glimpse of the road back to democratic values.