An Undercurrent Of Suspicion

Author : George Sirgiovanni
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1412817196

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An Undercurrent of Suspicion by George Sirgiovanni Pdf

The one period that most students of anti-Communism have ignored is the years of the Second World War, when the United States and the Soviet Union briefly stood together as allies against Nazi Germany. During this period, criticizing the Soviet Union and the Communist party abruptly went out of fashion. But even then, there were Americans who chose to be unfashionable. These leaders and opinion-makers are the subject of Sirgiovanni's An Undercurrent of Suspicion. This book demonstrates that the "undercurrent of suspicion" against the Soviet Union, and communism in general, was considerably stronger under World War II than many Americans realize or recall. Many long-time anti-communists refuse to go along with the quasi-official moratorium on criticizing America's Soviet ally, and although the war granted the Communist Party of the United States an unaccustomed degree of legitimacy, this was by no means universally conceded, either. The resilience of such attitudes n what surely were the most auspicious years of the U.S.-Soviet relations contributes to our understanding of why a far more virulent and widespread Cold War mentality of mistrust and hostility burst forth so soon after the Allied victory. Many issues that contributed to the Cold War had been raised during the alliance, such as the political and territorial makeup of Eastern Europe. Those who assumed that the U.S.S.R. could never be trusted to act in a spirit of justice and compassion included conservative politicians, anti-communist labor leaders, right-wing newsmen, Catholics and Protestant fundamentalists, and American Socialists-all of whom Sirigiovani discusses at length. These individuals also insisted that the domestic Communist movement, despite its "patriotic" wartime line, remained in the service of today's ally but tomorrow's probably adversary, Joseph Stalin's U.S.S.R. An Undercurrent of Suspicion will of considerable interest to anyone interested in communism ad anti-communism, American politics, and the history of ideas, especially as they relate to political issues. The general reader will the book provides a new dimension to the war years, and in so doing helps explain the deep background of the Cold War.

Author : Robert Buettner
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618248183

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Undercurrents by Robert Buettner Pdf

Second in the hard-hitting military science fiction Orphan's Legacy series. Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker parachutes into a giant habitat known as Paleozoic on a mission to bring down the local politicos. He quickly realizes he's been handed a near-impossible task. Paleozoic is a politically quarantined nightmare world with a culture confined to iron rivet technology and a ruling regime a bit to the right of Heinrich Himmler. Jazen's inclined to abandon this particular hellhole to its ways¾that is, until he uncovers a plot afoot that will throw a five hundred-planet alliance into the death-throes of anarchy. So the local Nazis must go. Unfortunately, all Jazen's got to work with is a handful of rust-bucket tanks, a retread rebellion, and two strong, beautiful women who love him, but think he's tilting at windmills and is about to get himself killed. What they don't know is, once committed, Jazen Parker is the best there is when it comes to getting the dirty job done on the ground. It's the local bullies who are about to be taught a lesson in losing. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927831

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Blood and Ruins by Richard Overy Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY 'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The Times A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historians Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires. How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms the heart of this new account. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order. Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece from of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War, which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew.

Author : Donald Rutherford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319408088

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Suspicions of Markets by Donald Rutherford Pdf

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging market participants to misbehave for the sake of personal gain, and creating an impersonal new market culture. This book traces how such attacks have become more vociferous in recent centuries, especially with the rise of socialism. Most recently the critique has broadened to include toxic markets and the excessive marketization of activities hitherto external to the market. Analysing these major criticisms, as well as the value of regulation, utopias and virtue ethics as a means of avoiding future suspicions of markets, the author lays the groundwork for the reader’s own assessment of the arguments, and concludes by posing suggestions of how best we might cope with flawed markets in the future.

Author : SIKANDAR ADNAN
Publisher : Pencil
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789358833447

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Glamour, Gangsters, and Garland A Modern Mafia Affair by SIKANDAR ADNAN Pdf

Glamour, Gangsters, and Garland: A Modern Mafia Affair" weaves a riveting tale that transcends the boundaries of conventional genres, inviting readers into a world where love, crime, and the unexpected collide in a dance of intrigue and suspense. Authored by the emerging talent Sikandar Adnan, this novel unfolds against the backdrop of a modern cityscape, blurring the lines between the glamorous and the dangerous. Set in the vibrant metropolis of Delhi, India, the story introduces readers to a captivating narrative that explores the intersection of the seemingly disparate worlds of organized crime and the allure of a clandestine affair.

Author : Philip A. Wallach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780197657874

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Why Congress by Philip A. Wallach Pdf

"To achieve legitimate self-government in America's extended Republic, the U.S. Constitution depends on Congress harmonizing the country's factions through a process of conflict and accommodation. Why Congress demonstrates the value of this activity by showing the legislature's distinctive contributions in two crucial moments in the mid-twentieth century: during World War II, when congressional deliberation contributed to national cohesion by balancing interests and ensuring fairness, and during the push to end racial segregation, when a prolonged debate in Congress focused the nation's attention and delivered a decisive victory for the broad coalition united around civil rights. The second part of the book traces the evolution of Congress, which first experimented with radical decentralization in the 1970s and then, beginning in the 1980s, embraced powerful leadership and ideological caucuses that prioritized partisan unity and electoral confrontation. This transformed institution has been unable to work through the country's deep divisions on contemporary issues like immigration or the COVID-19 pandemic. Contemporary policymaking often circumvents Congress entirely. In other instances, Congress is engaged, but it proceeds without any bipartisan cooperation or through leader-broken compromises generated by crises. Each of these patterns creates serious difficulties for legitimating American policy. The book concludes with three scenarios for Congress's future. Without significant change, the institution will sink into decrepitude. But it could still be transformed, either by progressive constitutional reform empowering the president at the legislature's expense, or by a revival of meaningful deliberation and debate facilitated by the renewal of the committee system"--

Author : Rachel Wyatt
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781550507188

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Suspicion by Rachel Wyatt Pdf

Candace Alison Wilson is missing. As the hours since her disappearance build into days, a small town’s certainty that a simple domestic spat has led her to walk out gives way to suspicion. Everyone knows everyone else’s motive; everyone knows who has reason to be guilty. After all, isn’t Candace’s husband Jack the architect of an wildly unpopular multi-million dollar housing development? Didn’t her (younger, prettier) sister lead the opposing protests? Why is her father busier pursuing a new relationship than looking for his daughter? Doesn’t it seem strange that of everyone, her brother-in-law is the one most hell-bent on finding her? And why won’t Jack sit down to a simple supper with the family lawyer? Nothing escapes the notice of ‘Marguerite’, the anonymous chat-room regular who describes the faults and foibles of the townspeople with gleeful and unflinching keystrokes. While the mixed-up stories of blame and distrust threaten to destroy a family and weaken the town itself, ‘Marguerite’ has all the answers. If only someone were listening...

Author : Stephen R. Rock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441113221

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Faith and Foreign Policy by Stephen R. Rock Pdf

The work examines how the attitudes and preferences of various Christian groups in the United States can influence U.S. foreign policy with specific examples.

Author : Davina Junck
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956550081

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Cultivating Suspicion: An Ethnography by Davina Junck Pdf

At the heart of 21st century discourses are questions of whose lives may matter more than others. While the debates themselves are not new, the #hashtags they are linked to and the media through which concerns around moralities of living together are expressed allow for debates to reach large numbers of people in accelerated, individualised and accessible ways. The new media have been powerful in (re)igniting debates and (re)activating demands for social change. Yet, the focus of ubiquitous #hashtags on binary positions may render it easy to neglect their nuances and facets. In recognition of grey-zones, contradictions and ambiguities, this ethnography focuses on a suburb of Cape Town, Observatory, and its recently revived Neighbourhood Watch as an urban renewal project and attempt to decrease notions of vulnerability to crime and violence. In Observatory considered to be liberal and bohemian by its inhabitants the framing of topics within the Neighbourhood Watch group often take on an abstract, intellectualised form. Nevertheless, the group with its rather clashing ideals is grounded in and fuelled by recycled crime stories as well as snapshots of suspected criminals that continue to reappear via various social media channels. Individual experiences, stories and inner conflicts of local Neighbourhood Watch members are at the centre of this exploratory engagement with how fear becomes embodied, everyday practice and the ways in which desires for relationality and spatial exclusivity become entangled in a place where every life matters only in principle.

Author : John Monaghan
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806131926

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The Covenants with Earth and Rain by John Monaghan Pdf

In this book, John Monaghan explores the culture of the Mixtecs, today one of the largest Native American groups in Mexico. Focusing on the community of Santiago Nuyoo, located in the mountainous Mixteca Alta region, he describes Nuyooteco marriage practices, gift exchange, kinship systems, land tenure, cosmology, ritual, and feasting.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3566434

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Richard A. Falk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781400868247

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The Vietnam War and International Law, Volume 3 by Richard A. Falk Pdf

Issues of the war that have provoked public controversy and legal debate over the last two years—the Cambodian invasion of May-June 1970, the disclosure in November 1969 of the My Lai massacre, and the question of war crimes—are the focus of Volume 3. As in the previous volumes, the Civil War Panel of the American Society of International Law has endeavored to select the most significant legal writing on the subject and to provide, to the extent possible, a balanced presentation of opposing points of view. Parts I and II deal directly with the Cambodian, My Lai, and war crimes debates. Related questions are treated in the rest of the volume: constitutional debate on the war; the distribution of functions among coordinate branches of the government; the legal status of the insurgent regime in the struggle for control of South Vietnam; prospects for settlement without a clear-cut victory; and Vietnam's role in general world order. The articles reflect the views of some forty contributors: among them, Jean Lacouture, Henry Kissinger, John Norton Moore, Quincy Wright, William H. Rhenquist, and Richard A. Falk. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015020459429

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Committee Prints by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045329765

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Documents Relating to the War Power of Congress, the President's Authority as Comander-in-chief and the War in Indochina by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Provides primary sources on whether the President exceeded his Constitutional authority in declaring war in Vietnam and Cambodia and commiting forces to combat and ordering the attack on the Cambodian sanctuaries.

Author : P R G
Publisher : Param Publications
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SILENT OB'SESSION by P R G Pdf

In a city where the echoes of the past whispered through every alley and hidden corner, three souls found themselves entangled in a story woven by the fires of passion and the shadows of betrayal. Little did they know that their destinies were eternally bound, and the choices they made would set in motion a journey of redemption that transcended the boundaries of time. The studio, perched atop the bustling city, served as a witness to their unfolding drama. It was a place where art became the silent confidant, capturing the hues of love, turmoil, and transformation on its canvases. In this sanctuary, Sita, a passionate artist; kiran, a man with a mysterious past; and poorni, a figure veiled in enigma, will confront the complexities of their interconnected hearts. As the trio navigated the intricacies of their shared history, the canvas became a mirror reflecting the dance of emotions that unfolded within them. The bonfire in the hidden garden, a symbol of both destruction and renewal, marked the stages of their journey—each flame a testament to the fires of passion that threatened to consume and the redemptive embrace that offered a chance at healing. In the whispers of destiny, they discovered a path that led beyond the shadows of betrayal. The phoenix, with its wings outstretched, emerged as a symbol of their collective resilience—a beacon guiding them through the challenges that lay ahead. As the trio stood at the precipice of a new chapter, the city lights below mirrored the infinite possibilities that awaited. This is the prologue of their story, where embers of a forgotten tale come alive, and the fires of passion set the stage for a journey that will unravel the intricacies of love, betrayal, and the eternal bonds that transcend the boundaries of time. Little did they know that their destinies were intertwined in ways they could never have imagined, and the echoes of their shared history would resonate through the pages of a tale yet to be written.