American Panic

Author : Mark Stein
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137464170

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American Panic by Mark Stein Pdf

In American Panic , New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless of their own personal affiliations. By highlighting the similarities between American political panics from the Salem witch hunt to present-day vehemence over issues such as Latino immigration, gay marriage, and the construction of mosques, Stein closely examines just what it is that causes us as a nation to overreact in the face of widespread and potentially profound change. This book also devotes chapters to African Americans, Native Americans, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Chinese and Japanese peoples, Communists, Capitalists, women, and a highly turbulent but largely forgotten panic over Freemasons. Striking similarities in these diverse episodes are revealed in primary documents Stein has unearthed, in which statements from the past could easily be mistaken for statements today. As these similarities come to light, Stein reveals why some people become panicked over particular issues when others do not.

Author : William M. Isaac
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118473191

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Senseless Panic by William M. Isaac Pdf

The truth about the 2008 economic crisis from a Washington insider The 1980s opened with the prime interest rate at an astonishing 21.5 percent, leading to a severe recession with unemployment reaching nearly 11 percent. Depression-like conditions befell the country, the entire thrift industry was badly insolvent and the major money center banks were loaded with third world debt. Some 3,000 bank and thrifts failed, including nine of Texas’ ten largest, and Continental Illinois, which, at the time, was the seventh largest bank in the nation. These severe conditions were not only handled without creating a panic, the economy actually embarked on the longest peacetime expansion in history. In Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America, William M. Isaac, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during the banking and S&L crises of the 1980s, details what was different about 2008’s meltdown that allowed the failure of a comparative handful of institutions to nearly shut down the world’s financial system. The book also tells the rousing story of Isaac’s time at the FDIC. Details the mistakes that led to the panic of 2008 and 2009 An updated paperback revision of the bestselling book on the 2008 economic crisis, including a fascinating new Epilogue Demystifies the conditions America faced in 2008 Provides a road map for avoiding similar shutdowns and panics in the future Includes a foreword by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker Senseless Panic is a provocative, quick-paced, and thoughtful analysis of what went wrong with the nation's banking system, a blunt indictment of United States policy, and a road map for making sure it doesn’t happen again.

Author : Sarah A. Hughes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030836368

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American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000 by Sarah A. Hughes Pdf

This book examines the “satanic panic” of the 1980s as an essential part of the growing relationship between tabloid media and American conservative politics in the 1980s. It argues that widespread fears of Satanism in a range of cultural institutions was indispensable to the development and success of both infotainment, or tabloid content on television, and the rise of the New Right, a conservative political movement that was heavily guided by a growing coalition of influential televangelists, or evangelical preachers on television. It takes as its particular focus the hundreds of accusations that devil-worshippers were operating America’s white middle-class suburban daycare centers. Dozens of communities around the country became embroiled in trials against center owners, the most publicized of which was the McMartin Preschool trial in Manhattan Beach, California. It remains the longest and most expensive criminal trial in the nation’s history.

Author : Jeffrey S. Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015029949578

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Satanic Panic by Jeffrey S. Victor Pdf

Again and again we are told - by journalists, police, and fundamentalists - that there exists a secret network of criminal fanatics, worshippers of Satan, who are responsible for kidnapping, human sacrifice, sexual abuse and torture of children, drug-dealing, mutilation of animals, desecration of churches and cemeteries, pornography, heavy metal lyrics, and cannibalism. This popular tale is almost entirely without foundation, but the legend continues to gather momentum, in the teeth of evidence and good sense. Networks of 'child advocates', credulous or self-serving social workers, instant-expert police officers, and unscrupulous ministers of religion help to spread the panic, along with fabricated survivors' memoirs passed off as true accounts, and irresponsible broadcast 'investigations'. A classic witch-hunt, comparable to those of medieval Europe, is under way. Innocent victims are smeared and railroaded. Satanic Panic uncovers the truth behind the satanic cult hysteria, and exposes the roots of this malignant mythology, showing in detail how unsubstantiated rumor becomes transformed into publicly-accepted 'fact'.

Author : Roger Bourke White Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468568721

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Science and Insight by Roger Bourke White Jr. Pdf

Good stories are about people Good science fiction stories are about science and people. So how to you put good science into a story that is about people? Thats what this book is about. Its about looking for how science changes peoples lives, and how to make that change an interesting story about people. This is about making Technofictionscience fiction where science matters as much as characters. Welcome to a Tales of Technofiction book.

Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748631469

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Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics by Paul Baker Pdf

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also complement qualitative traditions of enquiry such as interactional sociolinguistics.This text covers a range of different topics within sociolinguistics:*Analysing demographic variation*Comparing language use across different cultures*Examining language change over time*Studying transcripts of spoken interactions*Identifying attitudes or discourses.Written for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociolinguistics, or corpus linguists who wish to use corpora to study social phenomena, this textbook examines how corpora can be drawn on to investigate synchronic variation, diachronic change and the construction of discourses. It refers to several classic corpus-based studies as well as the author's own research. Original analyses of a number of corpora including the British National Corpus, the Survey of English Dialects and the Brown family of corpora are complemented by a new corpus of written British English collected around 2006 for the purposes of writing the book.Techniques of analysis like concordancing, keywords and collocations are discussed, along with corpus annotation and statistical procedures such as chi-squared tests and clustering. Paul Baker takes a critical approach to using corpora in sociolinguistics, outlining the limitations of the approach as well as its advantages.

Author : Thomas Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Slavery
ISBN : UOM:39015009178693

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Slavery in America by Thomas Price Pdf

Author : American Bankers Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : UCAL:B3011999

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Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Bankers' Association by American Bankers Association Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : UIUC:30112055389933

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Minerals Yearbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1740
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022451215

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The Gardeners Dictionary; containing the methods of cultivating ... the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory and vineyard; ... interspersed with the history of the plants, ... the name of ... the ... species in Latin and English; ... together with accounts of the nature and use of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers, ... and of the origin ... of meteors, etc by Philip Miller Pdf

Author : Hannah Catherine Davies
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231546218

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Transatlantic Speculations by Hannah Catherine Davies Pdf

The year 1873 was one of financial crisis. A boom in railway construction had spurred a bull market—but when the boom turned to bust, transatlantic panic quickly became a worldwide economic downturn. In Transatlantic Speculations, Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on the panics of 1873 and nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which contemporaries experienced a tumultuous period that profoundly challenged notions of economic and moral order. Considering the financial crises of 1873 from the vantage points of Berlin, New York, and Vienna, Davies maps what she calls the dual “transatlantic speculations” of the 1870s: the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the interpretative speculations that sprouted in their wake. Drawing on a wide variety of sources—including investment manuals, credit reports, business correspondence, newspapers, and legal treatises—she analyzes how investors were prompted to put their money into faraway enterprises, how journalists and bankers created and spread financial information and disinformation, how her subjects made and experienced financial flows, and how responses ranged from policy reform to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories when these flows suddenly were interrupted. Davies goes beyond national frames of analysis to explore international economic entanglement, using the panics’ interconnectedness to shed light on contemporary notions of the world economy. Blending cultural, intellectual, and legal history, Transatlantic Speculations gives vital transnational and comparative perspective on a crucial moment for financial markets, globalization, and capitalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012088717

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The Westminster Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1754
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023937882

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The Gardeners Dictionary ... Abridged from the Last Folio Edition ... The Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by Philip Miller Pdf

Author : Elaine Nowick
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781609620608

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Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants, with Scientific Names Index: Volume II: Scientific Names Index by Elaine Nowick Pdf

Containing thousands of entries of both vernacular and scientific names of Great Plains plants, the literature that informs this exhaustive listing spans nearly 300 years. Author Elaine Nowick has drawn from sources as diverse as Linnaeus, Lewis and Clark, and local university extension publications to compile the gamut of practical, and often fanciful, common plant names used over the years. Each common name is accompanied by a definitive scientific name with references and authority information. Interspersed with scientifically-correct botanical line drawings, the entries are written in standard ICBN format, making this a useful volume for scholars as well as lay enthusiasts alike. Volume 2 indexes the scientific names of those species, followed by listings of all the common names applied to them. Both volumes refer the common and scientific names back to a list of 190 pertinent authoritative sources.

Author : Kabir Sehgal
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538747964

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Fandango at the Wall by Kabir Sehgal Pdf

Multi-Grammy-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Kabir Sehgal examines the relationship between the US and Mexico, accompanied by music from Grammy-winning musician Arturo O'Farrill and special guests, an extended foreword from historian Douglas Brinkley, and afterword by Ambassador Andrew Young. The US-Mexican relationship has involved periods of great friendship with robust trade and loose immigration policies. But its history has also been beset by wars, drug trade, and human trafficking. With the latest xenophobic turn toward Mexico, this book contextualizes the latest swing in the up-and-down, two-hundred-year history of these two countries. In a lyrical narrative reflecting on Fandango Fronterizo, an annual musical celebration held on both sides of the border wall, Sehgal addresses how the broken US-Mexico relationship has been repaired in the past and continues to adapt today. FANDANGO AT THE WALL provides clarity to the current debate regarding construction of the wall and America's posture toward immigration. Sehgal and his artistic collaborators brought over thirty musicians from various traditions to the San Diego-Tijuana border to record a musical repertoire composed of son jarocho songs from Veracruz, Mexico and Latin jazz. With these tunes accompanying a call-to-action narrative, FANDANGO AT THE WALL demonstrates how music can heal and provide a soundtrack for the US, Mexico, and beyond.