Harry White And The American Creed

Author : James M. Boughton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300262650

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Harry White and the American Creed by James M. Boughton Pdf

The life of a major figure in twentieth‑century economic history whose impact has long been clouded by dubious allegations Although Harry Dexter White (1892–1948) was arguably the most important U.S. government economist of the twentieth century, he is remembered more for having been accused of being a Soviet agent. During the Second World War, he became chief advisor on international financial policy to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, a role that would take him to Bretton Woods, where he would make a lasting impact on the architecture of postwar international finance. However, charges of espionage, followed by his dramatic testimony before the House Un‑American Activities Committee and death from a heart attack a few days later, obscured his importance in setting the terms for the modern global economy. In this book, James Boughton rehabilitates White, delving into his life and work and returning him to a central role as the architect of the world’s financial system.

Author : Tamar Gutner
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544374635

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International Organizations in World Politics by Tamar Gutner Pdf

This book analyzes the most influential international organizations, including the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the European Union, and the key role they play in global governance.

Author : International Monetary,International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513596778

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Finance & Development, March 2022 by International Monetary,International Monetary Fund. Communications Department Pdf

Finance and Development, March 2022

Author : R. Bruce Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCSC:32106015983049

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Treasonable Doubt by R. Bruce Craig Pdf

Armed with a wealth of new information, Craig examines the controversial 1948 allegations that Communist spies had penetrated the American government, and explores the "ambiguities" that have haunted it for more than half a century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Marine engineering
ISBN : UIUC:30112076163168

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The American Marine Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik S. Gellman,Jarod Roll
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252093333

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The Gospel of the Working Class by Erik S. Gellman,Jarod Roll Pdf

In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen Whitfield and Claude Williams, along with their wives Zella Whitfield and Joyce Williams, drew on their bedrock religious beliefs to stir ordinary men and women to demand social and economic justice in the eras of the Great Depression, New Deal, and Second World War. Williams and Whitfield preached a working-class gospel rooted in the American creed that hard, productive work entitled people to a decent standard of living. Gellman and Roll detail how the two preachers galvanized thousands of farm and industrial workers for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. They also link the activism of the 1930s and 1940s to that of the 1960s and emphasize the central role of the ministers' wives, with whom they established the People's Institute for Applied Religion. This detailed narrative illuminates a cast of characters who became the two couples' closest allies in coordinating a complex network of activists that transcended Jim Crow racial divisions, blurring conventional categories and boundaries to help black and white workers make better lives. In chronicling the shifting contexts of the actions of Whitfield and Williams, The Gospel of the Working Class situates Christian theology within the struggles of some of America's most downtrodden workers, transforming the dominant narratives of the era and offering a fresh view of the promise and instability of religion and civil rights unionism.

Author : Sandra M. Anglund
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028615784

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Small Business Policy and the American Creed by Sandra M. Anglund Pdf

In this study Sandra Anglund traces the heritage of the Small Business Act in the USA and argues that American core values, those often referred to as "The American Creed" are crucial to an understanding of this policy and the widespread support it received.

Author : Petros C. Mavroidis,Andre Sapir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691206592

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China and the WTO by Petros C. Mavroidis,Andre Sapir Pdf

"China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 was hailed as the natural conclusion of a long march that started with the reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO since joining has been anything but smooth, and its self-proclaimed "socialist market economy" system has alienated many of its global trading partners - as recent tensions with the United States exemplify. Prevailing diplomatic attitudes tend to focus on two diametrically opposing approaches to dealing with the emerging problems: the first is to demand that China completely overhaul its economic regime; the second is to stay idle and accept that the WTO must accommodate different economic regimes, no matter how idiosyncratic and incompatible. In this book, Mavroidis and Sapir propose a third approach. They point out that, while the WTO (as well as its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT]) has previously managed the accession of socialist countries or of big trading nations, it has never before dealt with a country as large or as powerful as China. Therefore, in order to simultaneously uphold its core principles and accommodate China's unique geopolitical position, the authors argue that the WTO needs to translate some of its implicit legal understanding into explicit treaty language. Focusing on two core complaints - that Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) benefit from unfair trade advantages, and that domestic companies (both private as well as SOEs) impose forced technology transfer on foreign companies as a condition for accessing the Chinese market - they lay out their specific proposals for successful legislative amendment"--.

Author : Forrest Church
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429972048

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The American Creed by Forrest Church Pdf

What makes us all Americans--whatever our differences--is adherence to a creed, a creed based upon cornerstone truths the founders believed "self-evident." From the earliest days, the survival of the new republic hinged not merely upon the expression of these grand principles of liberty and equality but upon their spiritual underpinnings. Freedom and faith were intertwined. America, as a foreign observer once put it, is a nation with the soul of a church. In this stirring and timely book, Forrest Church charts the progress of this creed from the America's beginnings to the present day by evoking those whose words-whether in declarations, songs, inaugural addresses, speeches, or prayers-have expressed its letter and captured its spirit. What emerges is our shared destiny. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream that this country might someday "rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed," echoes Thomas Jefferson's belief that "equal and exact justice to all" is the "creed of our political faith." Our connection with the past represents our commitment to the future and vice versa. A "spiritual and patriotic primer," The American Creed distills the essence of American history while also matching its sweep. Church lets the story of the Declaration of Independence unfold before our eyes, giving us both the big picture and the details that place it into brilliant focus. Those steeped in our nation's heritage will find fresh insight and renewed purpose. Those still discovering its riches could have no finer introduction. In its scope and embrace, this is a book for us all.

Author : Tara Watson,Kalee Thompson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226270227

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The Border Within by Tara Watson,Kalee Thompson Pdf

"Today the United States is home to more unauthorized immigrants than at any time in the country's history. As scrutiny around immigration has intensified, border enforcement has tightened. The result is a population of new Americans who are more entrenched than ever before. Crossing harsher, less porous borders makes entry to the US a permanent, costly enterprise. And the challenges don't end once they're here. In The Border Within, journalist Kalee Thompson and economist Tara Watson examine the costs and ends of America's immigration-enforcement complex, particularly its practices of internal enforcement: the policies and agencies, including ICE, aimed at removing unauthorized immigrants living in the US. Thompson and Watson's economic appraisal of immigration's costs and benefits is interlaid with first-person reporting of families who personify America's policies in a time of scapegoating and fear. The result is at once enlightening and devastating. Thomspon and Watson examine immigration's impact on every aspect of American life, from the labor force to social welfare programs to tax revenue. The results paint an overwhelmingly positive picture of what non-native Americans bring to the country, including immigration's tendency to elevate the wages and skills of those who are native born. Their research also finds a stark gap between the realities of America's immigrant population and the policies meant to uproot them: America's internal enforcements are grounded in shock and awe more than any reality of where and how immigrants live. The objective, it seems, is to deploy "chilling effects" -- performative displays aimed at producing upstream effects on economic behaviors and decision-making among immigrants. The ramifications of these fear-based policies extends beyond immigrants themselves; they have impacts on American citizens living in immigrant families as well as on the broader society"--

Author : Janine di Giovanni
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871403834

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The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni Pdf

A New York Post Best Book of 2016 Winner of the 2016 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award Winner of the 2016 Hay Festival Medal for Prose "Destined to become a classic." —Lisa Shea, Elle A masterpiece of war reportage, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front page of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni chronicles a nation on the brink of disintegration, all written through the perspective of ordinary people. With a new epilogue, what emerges is an unflinching picture of the horrific consequences of armed conflict, one that charts an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war zone. The result is an unforgettable testament to resilience in the face of nihilistic human debasement.

Author : Charles Clover
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300269253

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Black Wind, White Snow by Charles Clover Pdf

A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin’s government in Russia “Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery . . . Black Wind, White Snow traces the background to Putin’s ideas with verve and clarity.”—Geoffrey Hosking, Financial Times “Required reading. This is a vivid, panoramic history of bad ideas, chasing the metastasis of the doctrine known as Eurasianism. . . . Reading Charles Clover will help you understand the world of lies and delusions that is Eurasia.”—Ben Judah, Standpoint Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyzes the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of white Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism’s place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, and the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin’s sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin’s close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia’s past century, and its future.

Author : Ruchir Sharma
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393083835

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Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles by Ruchir Sharma Pdf

International Bestseller One of Foreign Policy's "21 Books to Read in 2012" A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book “The best book on global economic trends I’ve read in a while.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN GPS To identify the economic stars of the future we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. After years of rapid growth, the most celebrated emerging markets—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—are about to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? In his best-selling book, writer and investor Ruchir Sharma identifies which countries are most likely to leap ahead and why, drawing insights from time spent on the ground and detailed demographic, political, and economic analysis. With a new chapter on America’s future economic prospects, Breakout Nations offers a captivating picture of the shifting balance of global economic power among emerging nations and the West.

Author : Harry Stein
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Race discrimination
ISBN : 9781594036002

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No Matter What-- They'll Call this Book Racist by Harry Stein Pdf

Stein attacks the rigid prohibitions that have long governed the conversation about race, not to offend or shock but to provoke the serious thinking that liberal enforcers have until now rendered impossible. Stein examines the ways in which the regime of racial preferences has sown division, corruption, and resentment in this country.

Author : Herbert David Croly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UCBK:B000542030

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The New Republic by Herbert David Croly Pdf