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Author : Ryan Cole
Publisher : Regnery History
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621576976

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Light-Horse Harry Lee by Ryan Cole Pdf

"It would be hard to write a dull book on Light-Horse Harry, and Mr. Cole's is far from it.... [The book] contains passages of considerable eloquence."— WALL STREET JOURNAL book review "Light-Horse Harry blazes across the pages of Ryan Cole's narrative like a meteor—and his final crash is as destructive. Cole tells his story with care, sympathy, and where necessary, sternness. This book is a great, and sometimes harrowing read." —Richard Brookhiser, senior editor at National Review and author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington Who was "Light-Horse Harry" Lee? Gallant Revolutionary War hero. Quintessential Virginia cavalryman. George Washington’s trusted subordinate and immortal eulogist. Robert E. Lee’s beloved father. Founding father who shepherded the Constitution through the Virginia Ratifying Convention. But Light-Horse Harry Lee was also a con man. A beachcomber. Imprisoned for debt. Caught up in sordid squabbles over squalid land deals. Maimed for life by an angry political mob. Light-Horse Harry Lee’s life was tragic, glorious, and dramatic, but perhaps because of its sad, ignominious conclusion historians have rarely given him his due—until now. Now historian Ryan Cole presents this soldier and statesman of the founding generation with all the vim and vigor that typified Lee himself. Scouring hundreds of contemporary documents and reading his way into Lee’s life, political philosophy, and character, Cole gives us the most intimate picture to date of this greatly awed but hugely talented man whose influence has reverberated from the founding of the United States to the present day.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000063512830

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The Founding Father's Papers by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Microforms
ISBN : SRLF:D0009647520

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Historical Documentary Editions 1993 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Microforms
ISBN : PURD:32754072640422

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Historical Documentary Editions by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112001096715

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Historical Documentary Editions 2000 by United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission Pdf

Author : William J. Nichols
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793655370

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Defining the Republic by William J. Nichols Pdf

Debate over the meaning and purpose of the grand experiment called the United States has existed since its inception. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison worked closely together to achieve the ratification of the Constitution, which both considered essential for the survival of the United States. However, within just a few years of the Constitution’s ratification, they became bitter political enemies as the pair disagreed about what the United States should be like under the new Constitution, specifically how to interpret the Constitution they both worked to create and support. Defining the Republic: Early Conflicts over the Constitution documents, through presentation of their own words, that these two essential early Americans simply had different expectations all along. Expectations that went unexamined during the frenetic times in which the Constitution was written, debated, and ratified. It is to their differences that Americans today can look in order to better understand the history of the United States, as well as current debates over politics and life in general in the country Hamilton and Madison helped to create.

Author : United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Archives
ISBN : SRLF:A0014370530

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Historical Documentary Editions by United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission Pdf

Author : Patrick Novotny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783111340029

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The Parties in American Presidential Elections, 1789-2020 by Patrick Novotny Pdf

This book offers a timely understanding of the history of the Democratic and Republican Parties and their adaptability, endurance, and importance in presidential elections. Taking the reader from the beginnings of parties as caucuses of members of the First Congress meeting in 1789 through November 2020's presidential election, it provides a fascinating historical account of the debates, events, and personalities behind the beginnings of the nation's political parties. This includes the importance of national party nominating conventions in the nineteenth century, the growing importance of primary elections in nominations beginning in the early twentieth century, and the changes of campaigning for presidential candidates as they started to travel across the United States for the first time in the early twentieth century. The book tells the story of the beginnings of nationally televised presidential debates and any number of other changes in the era of broadcasting and now digital platforms for presidential elections in the twenty-first century. It finishes with a look at political dynamics since the November 2020 election and a study of negative partisanship to define how campaigning for the White House works today.

Author : David Randall
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Conversation
ISBN : 9781474448680

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Conversational Enlightenment by David Randall Pdf

Traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion. The book narrates this triumph of conversational style and thought partly as a succession to the oratorical rhetoric that characterized the Renaissance and partly as the victory of the only mode of speech that recognized women as women, and not as imitation men. It also rewrites Jürgen Habermas' history of the public sphere as the history of rational conversation.

Author : G. Elliott Morris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393866988

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Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them by G. Elliott Morris Pdf

An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy. Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of polls has focused solely on their ability to predict winners and losers. Polls deserve better. In Strength in Numbers, data journalist G. Elliott Morris argues that the larger purpose of political polls is to improve democracy, not just predict elections. Whether used by interest groups, the press, or politicians, polling serves as a pipeline from the governed to the government, giving citizens influence they would otherwise lack. No one who believes in democracy can afford to give up on polls; they should commit, instead, to understanding them better. In a vibrant history of polling, Morris takes readers from the first semblance of data-gathering in the ancient world through to the development of modern-day scientific polling. He explains how the internet and “big data” have solved many challenges in polling—and created others. He covers the rise of polling aggregation and methods of election forecasting, reveals how data can be distorted and misrepresented, and demystifies the real uncertainty of polling. Candidly acknowledging where polls have gone wrong in the past, Morris charts a path for the industry’s future where it can truly work for the people. Persuasively argued and deeply researched, Strength in Numbers is an essential guide to understanding and embracing one of the most important and overlooked democratic institutions in the United States.

Author : Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108470964

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Thomas Jefferson by Wilson Jeremiah Moses Pdf

Provides a critical and controversial re-assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence by a leading intellectual historian.

Author : James Madison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015014585627

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6 Apr. 1791-16 Mar. 1793 by James Madison Pdf

Author : Cato Institute,Edward H. Crane,David Boaz
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1930865392

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Cato Handbook for Congress by Cato Institute,Edward H. Crane,David Boaz Pdf

Offering policy recommendations supported by brief rationales, this handbook offers the capitalist-libertarian perspective on issues currently facing Congress. Highlights include advice on campaign finance reform, the USA PATRIOT Act, the war on drugs, monetary policy, deregulation, taxes, education.

Author : Ronald P. Formisano
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781421417417

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Plutocracy in America by Ronald P. Formisano Pdf

A hard-hitting analysis of how the disparity between wealth and poverty undermines the common good. The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined—more than almost any other developed nation—by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden, obstructs the great majority in pursuing happiness, living healthy lives, and exercising basic rights. A government dominated by finance, corporate interests, and the wealthy has undermined democracy, stunted social mobility, and changed the character of the nation. In this tough-minded dissection of the gulf between the super-rich and the working and middle classes, Ronald P. Formisano explores how the dramatic rise of income inequality over the past four decades has transformed America from a land of democratic promise into one of diminished opportunity. Since the 1970s, government policies have contributed to the flow of wealth to the top income strata. The United States now is more a plutocracy than a democracy. Formisano surveys the widening circle of inequality’s effects, the exploitation of the poor and the middle class, and the new ways that predators take money out of Americans’ pockets while passive federal and state governments stand by. This data-driven book offers insight into the fallacy of widespread opportunity, the fate of the middle class, and the mechanisms that perpetuate income disparity.

Author : Jonathan Levy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812995015

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Ages of American Capitalism by Jonathan Levy Pdf

A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead. “A monumental achievement, sure to become a classic.”—Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace In this ambitious single-volume history of the United States, economic historian Jonathan Levy reveals how capitalism in America has evolved through four distinct ages and how the country’s economic evolution is inseparable from the nature of American life itself. The Age of Commerce spans the colonial era through the outbreak of the Civil War, and the Age of Capital traces the lasting impact of the industrial revolution. The volatility of the Age of Capital ultimately led to the Great Depression, which sparked the Age of Control, during which the government took on a more active role in the economy, and finally, in the Age of Chaos, deregulation and the growth of the finance industry created a booming economy for some but also striking inequalities and a lack of oversight that led directly to the crash of 2008. In Ages of American Capitalism, Levy proves that capitalism in the United States has never been just one thing. Instead, it has morphed through the country’s history—and it’s likely changing again right now. “A stunning accomplishment . . . an indispensable guide to understanding American history—and what’s happening in today’s economy.”—Christian Science Monitor “The best one-volume history of American capitalism.”—Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton