Ambition And Division

Author : Steven Schier
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822973652

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Ambition and Division by Steven Schier Pdf

The presidency of George W. Bush is notable for the grand scale of its ambitions, the controversy that these ambitions generated, and the risks he regularly courted in the spheres of politics, economics, and foreign policy. Bush's ultimate goal was indeed ambitious: the completion of the conservative “regime change” first heralded by the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. But ironically this effort sewed the very discord that ultimately took root and emerged to frustrate Bush's plans, and may even have begun to unravel aspects of the Reagan revolution he sought to institutionalize. Politically, the Bush White House sought the entrenchment of consistent Republican electoral majorities. Institutionally, the Bush administration sought to preserve control of Congress by maintaining reliable partisan Republican majorities, and to influence the federal courts with a steady stream of conservative judicial appointees. The administration also sought increased autonomy over the executive branch by the aggressive use of executive orders and bureaucratic reorganizations in response to 9/11. Many of these efforts were at least partially successful. But ultimately the fate of the Bush presidency was tied to its greatest single gamble, the Iraq War. The flawed prosecution of that conflict, combined with other White House management failures and finally a slumping economy, left Bush and the Republican Party deeply unpopular and the victim of strong electoral reversals in 2006 and the election victory of Barack Obama in 2008. The American public had turned against the Bush agenda in great part because of the negative outcomes resulting from the administration's pursuit of that agenda. This book assembles prominent presidential scholars to measure the trajectory of Bush's aspirations, his accomplishments, and his failures. By examining presidential leadership, popular politics and policymaking in this context, the contributors begin the work of understanding the unique historical legacy of the Bush presidency.

Author : Richard Bruce Meixsel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806160771

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Frustrated Ambition by Richard Bruce Meixsel Pdf

Vicente Podico Lim (1888–1944) was once his country’s best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Lim figured in every significant military development in the Philippines during his thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition is the first in-depth biography of this forgotten figure, whose career paralleled the early-twentieth-century history of the Philippine military. As independence seemed increasingly likely for the Philippines in the 1930s, Lim positioned himself to take a leading role in developing armed forces for a sovereign nation. But as Lim maneuvered behind the scenes, Manuel L. Quezon, soon to be the commonwealth president, revealed that he had invited General Douglas MacArthur to serve as military adviser to the Philippines. Frustrated Ambition corrects the conventional historical narrative of events thereafter—one that emphasizes the failure of the nascent Philippine military under MacArthur and inflates the general’s heroic role in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor. Richard Bruce Meixsel restores Lim as the then-recognized leader of the opposition to MacArthur’s mission, and shows how Lim took the Philippine Army in a more tenable direction as MacArthur’s military system foundered. World War II brought Lim to the fore. While MacArthur directed his troops from Corregidor, Lim commanded a division on Bataan that may have suffered more combat losses at the battle of Abucay than did all American units on Bataan during the entire campaign. When the U.S. high command turned its efforts to evacuating the Philippine Islands, Lim began to prepare for the ensuing underground struggle against the Japanese—a fight that cost him his life. By recounting Vicente Lim’s career, Frustrated Ambition illuminates forgotten episodes in Philippine history, offers new perspectives on military affairs during the American occupation, and recovers the story of Filipino soldiers whose service changed the course of their country’s military history.

Author : Hugh Latimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Reformation
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000029577

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Sermons and Remains by Hugh Latimer Pdf

Author : Jeffrey A. Becker
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813145068

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Ambition in America by Jeffrey A. Becker Pdf

One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American voters. Black Memphians sought reform at the ballot box, formed clubs, ran for office, and engaged in voter registration and education activities from the end of the Civil War through the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Gritter examines how and why black Memphians mobilized politically in the period between Reconstruction and the beginning of the civil rights movement. Gritter illuminates, in particular, the efforts and influence of Robert R. Church Jr., an affluent Republican and founder of the Lincoln League, and the notorious Memphis political boss Edward H. Crump. Using these two men as lenses through which to view African American political engagement, this volume explores how black voters and their leaders both worked with and opposed the white political machine at the ballot box. River of Hope challenges persisting notions of a "Solid South" of white Democratic control by arguing that the small but significant number of black southerners who retained the right to vote had more influence than scholars have heretofore assumed. Gritter's nuanced study presents a fascinating view of the complex nature of political power during the Jim Crow era and provides fresh insight into the efforts of the individuals who laid the foundation for civil rights victories in the 1950s and '60s.

Author : Yingyi Ma
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231545563

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Ambitious and Anxious by Yingyi Ma Pdf

Over the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students—mostly self-funded—has swept across American higher education. From 2005 to 2015, undergraduate enrollment from China rose from under 10,000 to over 135,000. This privileged yet diverse group of young people from a changing China must navigate the complications and confusions of their formative years while bridging the two most powerful countries in the world. How do these students come to study in the United States? What does this experience mean to them? What does American higher education need to know and do in order to continue attracting these students and to provide sufficient support for them? In Ambitious and Anxious, the sociologist Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of this new wave of Chinese students based on research in both Chinese high schools and American higher-education institutions. Ma argues that these students’ experiences embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that arises from transformative social changes in China. These students and their families have the ambition to navigate two very different educational systems and societies. Yet the intricacy and pressure of these systems generate a great deal of anxiety, from applying to colleges before arriving, to studying and socializing on campus, and to looking ahead upon graduation. Ambitious and Anxious also considers policy implications for American colleges and universities, including recruitment, student experiences, faculty support, and career services.

Author : Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197538333

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Ambition by Deborah L. Rhode Pdf

"Ambition is a dominant force in for human civilization, driving its greatest achievements and most horrific abuses. Our striving has brought art, airplanes, and antibiotics, as well as wars, genocide, and despotism. This mixed record raises obvious concerns about how we can channel ambition in the most productive directions. To that end, the book begins by exploring three central focuses of ambition: recognition, power, and money,. It argues that an excessive preoccupation with these external markers for success can be self defeating for individuals and toxic for society. Discussion then shifts to the obstacles to constructive ambition and the consequences when ambitions are skewed or blocked by inequality and identity-related characteristics such as gender, race, class, and national origin. Attention also centers on the ways that families, schools, and colleges might play a more effective role in developing positive ambition. The book concludes with an exploration of what sorts of ambitions contribute to sustained well being. Contemporary research makes clear that that, even from a purely self -interested perspective, individuals would do well to strive for some goals that transcend the self. Pursuing objectives that have intrinsic value, such as building relationships and contributing to society, generally brings greater fulfilment than chasing extrinsic rewards such as wealth, power, and fame. And society benefits when ambitions for self advancement do not crowd out efforts for the common good. The hope is to prompt readers to reconsider where their ambitions are leading and whether that destination reflects their deepest needs and highest aspirations"

Author : Steven Forde
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501745782

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The Ambition to Rule by Steven Forde Pdf

This book is a fresh examination of Thucydides' treatment of Alcibiades in his History of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades' significance in the History, and his relation to Thucydides' political themes.

Author : Ian Atherton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 071905091X

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Ambition and Failure in Stuart England by Ian Atherton Pdf

The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year - Irène Némirovsky's Suite française and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both rapidly translated into English, offer just two examples of this significant phenomenon. Gathering within one volume studies of genres, visual cultures, chronology, narrative theory, and a wealth of narratives in fiction and film, Framing narratives of the Second World War and occupation in France 1939-2009 brings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area. Now available in paperback, the book includes contributions by William Cloonan, Richard J Golsan, Leah Hewitt, Colin Nettelbeck and Gisèle Sapiro

Author : Hugh Latimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Sermons, English
ISBN : PRNC:32101060111935

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The Sermons and Life of ... Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester by Hugh Latimer Pdf

Author : Patrik Öhberg
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700624232

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Ambitious Politicians by Patrik Öhberg Pdf

“[T]hose people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.” This is how writer Douglas Adams neatly expressed the common view of political ambition. And yet, it’s hard to imagine any politician getting far without it. Ambitious Politicians brings a welcome study and insight to this conundrum. Focusing first on the party-centered politics of European democracies, where career ambitions are necessarily different than those in the United States, Patrik Öhberg looks closely at what motivates those aiming at the highest level of the political hierarchy, how these motivators differ between more and less equalitarian societies, and how such ambitions play out. His book, which draws upon a uniquely extensive survey conducted by the Swedish National Election Study Program, is the first thorough study of elite politicians who aspire to the top echelons of the parliamentary system. Politicians with career ambitions have a distinct idea of representation, Öhberg finds; they display a higher degree of political self-regard and are more responsive to the wishes of the party elite in developing strategies. These findings vary among European democracies, and they differ from the traits and trajectories of political ambition in the United States. By identifying the subtleties and charting the differences, Öhberg offers a valuable lesson on whether and how representative democracies are served by politicians driven by personal ambition, or by those subverting such ambitions to the needs of party or state. Ambition, this timely book reminds us, has been crucial for political thinkers from Aristotle through the Founding Fathers to the latest candidate for higher office. Informed by history and social science theory, and grounded in a wealth of data, Ambitious Politicians expands our understanding of the important and changing role of such ambition in collective decision-making in our day.

Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199875221

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Radio's Civic Ambition by David Goodman Pdf

In its golden age, American radio both entertained and also fostered programs meant to produce self-governing and opinion-forming individuals, promoting openness to change and tolerance of diversity, familiarity with classical music, and knowledge of world affairs. As author David Goodman argues, the ambitions of radio's golden age have strong significance today as evidence that media regulation in the public interest can have significant and often positive effects.

Author : Shawn R. Hutchinson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781665541633

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The Secret of the Ambitious Mind by Shawn R. Hutchinson Pdf

Shawn’s desire to help others achieve success in life is deeply rooted in his approach to life, and his own success. Shawn’s message of making an impact through personal transformation inspired his latest book, The Secrets of the Ambitious Mind. This book challenges all people to activate their ambitious mind, cultivate change, and elevate their future. Often times the path to ones dream or life goal is not map out and presented to them. The Secret of The Ambitious Mind will serve as a powerful reminder that the only guarantee in life for your success is you. And so you must “ Make your mark, by creating your own path”.

Author : Michael Beer,Russell A. Eisenstat,Nathaniel Foote,Tobias Fredberg,Flemming Norrgren
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422142325

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Higher Ambition by Michael Beer,Russell A. Eisenstat,Nathaniel Foote,Tobias Fredberg,Flemming Norrgren Pdf

Meeting the new standard for leadership. Higher Ambition is required reading for every leader who refuses to compromise between people and performance. Choosing one or the other may have worked in the past, but it won’t work now. As global competition stiffens and businesses face increased public scrutiny and renewed government regulation, leaders must win on all fronts—with their people, their customers, their communities, and their shareholders. In short, they must deliver superior economic and social value. Brimming with powerful stories and thoughtful advice from CEOs themselves, Higher Ambition equips leaders with the practical insights they need to meet this new and higher standard. The authors, an international team of experts from leading business schools and consultancies, offer a unique view into the minds of some of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time: CEOs from vanguard companies around the world that have demonstrated the distinctive ability to do good while also doing well. These organizations are as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Volvo, Cummins, IKEA, the Tata Group, and Campbell’s Soup. Readers will learn the principles and practices these pioneering leaders are using to: • Build enduring enterprises that simultaneously solve for people and profits • Forge winning strategies that leverage their companies’ unique cultural and human capabilities • Dramatically raise the aspirations and ambitions of their people • Energize and align their diverse global firms • Relentlessly upgrade leadership capabilities throughout their organizations Drawing on the author team’s extensive research and in-depth interviews with successful leaders from around the globe, this provocative new book is poised to become a management classic in the tradition of In Search of Excellence and Built to Last.

Author : Mrs. Moneypenny
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101566916

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Mrs. Moneypenny's Career Advice for Ambitious Women by Mrs. Moneypenny Pdf

Mrs. Moneypenny—star Financial Times columnist, TV personality, wife, mother, and owner of a successful small business—is worried about women. She understands that although women can’t have it all, they’re expected to do it all. From maintaining a beautiful house and happy children to staying late at work and keeping up with the boys, Mrs. Moneypenny is honest about the difficult choices that working women face. Time is scarce and no woman can manage to excel both at work and at home—but that’s okay. Mrs. Moneypenny distills her own experiences and shares observations of other successful working women in this incisive, practical, no-holds-barred guide. All women, from those at the start of their careers to high-level executives, will discover a helping hand and a laugh along the way.

Author : Simon V. Mayall
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788146695

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Turkey: Thwarted Ambition by Simon V. Mayall Pdf

Assesses Turkey's post-Cold War security policy to the present day, based on an examination of the foundations and exercise of both Turkey's defense and foreign policies. From this, the report assesses how far Turkey's security policy has changed since the end of the Cold War, and the implications for its relationship with the West. Contents: historical influences on modern Turkey; the state foundations of Turkish security policy; the exercise of Turkish foreign policy: Ataturk to Ozal; the mold breaks; thwarted ambition? bridge or barrier? facing the future. Map.