Republican First Last And Always

Author : Suzanne Bowers
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443820035

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Republican, First, Last, and Always by Suzanne Bowers Pdf

Republican, First, Last, and Always: A Biography of B. Carroll Reece examines the political culture that created an intense fervor of anti-communism in America. From 1920 to 1961, B. Carroll Reece served a then unprecedented thirty-five years in the United States House of Representatives. A close friend of Robert Taft, Reece served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1946–1948 and used his position as chairman to push anti-communism to the forefront of the Republican Party’s national agenda and to help Taft try to win the presidency. His background in finance and economics led him to believe that capitalism remained America’s strongest defense against communism. He worked to eradicate any threat to the capitalist system—from trying to block government development of the Muscle Shoals Dam projects in Alabama in the 1920s to forming a congressional committee that attacked foundations created by the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie families in the 1950s. Reece’s downfall and death represented the demise of Old Guard conservatives within the Republican Party as new leaders and new issues became the center of Republican politics, and his investigation contributed to the animosity towards foundations and large concentrations of wealth that continues today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : New Hampshire
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086342920

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Biographical Sketches of the Delegates to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention for 1889 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Boris Heersink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197695128

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National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics by Boris Heersink Pdf

A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have long debated the role and importance of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American politics. In National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics, Boris Heersink identifies a core DNC and RNC role that has thus far been missed: creating national party brands. Drawing on extensive historical case studies and quantitative analysis, Heersink argues that the DNC and RNC have consistently prioritized their role of using publicity to inform voters about their parties' policies and priorities from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. Both committees invested heavily in political communication tools with the goal of shaping voters' perceptions of their parties. As Heersink shows, the DNC and RNC often have considerable freedom in determining what type of brands to promote, placing them in the center of major intra-party debates in the twentieth century--including Prohibition, civil rights, foreign affairs, and economic policy. Analytically rigorous and marshaling a vast body of research on US elections between 1912 and 2016, this book highlights how important national party organizations are in setting the agenda in American politics.

Author : Earl Black,Merle Black
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674241435

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The Rise of Southern Republicans by Earl Black,Merle Black Pdf

The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of formidable Republican strength in the previously solid Democratic South has generated a novel and highly competitive national battle for control of Congress. Tracing the slow and difficult rise of Republicans in the South over five decades, Earl and Merle Black tell the remarkable story of political upheaval. The Rise of Southern Republicans provides a compelling account of growing competitiveness in Southern party politics and elections. Through extraordinary research and analysis, the authors track Southern voters' shifting economic, cultural, and religious loyalties, black/white conflicts and interests during and after federal civil rights intervention, and the struggles and adaptations of congressional candidates and officials. A newly competitive South, the authors argue, means a newly competitive and revitalized America. The story of how the South became a two-party region is ultimately the story of two-party politics in America at the end of the twentieth century. Earl and Merle Black have written a bible for anyone who wants to understand regional and national congressional politics over the past half-century. Because the South is now at the epicenter of Republican and Democratic strategies to control Congress, The Rise of Southern Republicans is essential to understanding the dynamics of current American politics.

Author : Marc C. Johnson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806193427

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Mansfield and Dirksen by Marc C. Johnson Pdf

The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it’s easy to believe it was always this way. But in the turbulent 1960s, even as battles over civil rights and the war in Vietnam dominated American politics, bipartisanship often prevailed. One key reason: two remarkable leaders who remain giants of the Senate—Republican leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, the longest-serving majority leader in Senate history, so revered for his integrity, fairness, and modesty that the late Washington Post reporter David Broder called him “the greatest American I ever met.” The political and personal relationship of these party leaders, extraordinary by today’s standards, is the lens through which Marc C. Johnson examines the Senate in that tumultuous time. Working together, with the Democrat often ceding public leadership to his Republican counterpart, Mansfield and Dirksen passed landmark civil rights and voting rights legislation, created Medicare, and helped bring about a foundational nuclear arms limitation treaty. The two leaders could not have been more different in personality and style: Mansfield, a laconic, soft-spoken, almost shy college history professor, and Dirksen, an aspiring actor known for his flamboyance and sense of humor, dubbed the “Wizard of Ooze” by reporters. Drawing on extensive Senate archives, Johnson explores the congressional careers of these iconic leaders, their intimate relationships with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and their own close professional friendship based on respect, candor, and mutual affection. A study of politics but also an analysis of different approaches to leadership, this is a portrait of a U.S. Senate that no longer exists—one in which two leaders, while exercising partisan political responsibilities, could still come together to pass groundbreaking legislation—and a reminder of what is possible.

Author : Katherine H. Adams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476637174

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Claiming Her Place in Congress by Katherine H. Adams Pdf

 The fall of 2018 saw an unprecedented number of women elected to Congress, changing estimates of how long it might take to achieve equal representation. For the first time, women candidates used techniques honed by America's political families, which have helped women enter politics since 1916. Drawing on extensive research and conversations with successful women politicians, this book offers a history of the political opportunities provided through familial connections. Family networks have a long history of enabling women to run for political office. There is much for the latest group of candidates to emulate.

Author : George W. Liebmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857729286

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The Fall of the House of Speyer by George W. Liebmann Pdf

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It had branches in London, Frankfurt and New York, and the projects it financed included the Southern Pacific Railroad, the London Underground and the infrastructure of the new Cuban republic. Later, it was the first major banking firm to finance Germany's Weimar Republic, as well as providing League of Nations loans to Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria. Yet, the firm was doomed by the nationalist passions aroused by World War I. Its English partner was denaturalised and exiled; its American partner enjoyed reduced standing because of his connection to Germany; and the Frankfurt branch closed with the coming of the Third Reich, its German partner fleeing into exile. The firm was dissolved in 1939, a surprisingly anticlimactic end to one of the great international banking companies of modern times. George W. Liebmann here tells the story of the firm and the family - shedding new light on the protagonists of a remarkable dynasty, who came undone in the dramatic years of the early 20th century.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116493214

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216047612

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American Women Speak [2 volumes] by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

This A-to-Z compendium explores more than 150 American women activists from colonial times to the present, examining their backgrounds and the focus of their activism, and provides examples of their speeches. Throughout history, American women's oratory has crusaded for religious rights, abolitionism, and peace, as well as for Zionism, immigration, and immunization. This text examines more than 150 influential American women activists and their speeches on vital issues. Each entry outlines the speaker's motivation and provides examples of their speeches in context, supplying information about the setting, audience, reception, and lasting historical significance. This collection of women's speeches emphasizes primary sources that underscore the goals of the Common Core Standards. Entries support classroom discussion on a range of topics, from women's suffrage and birth control to civil rights and 20th- and 21st-century labor law. No other reference work compiles examples of female activism and oration across a 400-year span of history along with analysis of the speaker's intent, forum, listeners, and public and media response.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Ionia County (Mich.)
ISBN : UOMDLP:bad0938:0001.001

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Portrait and Biographical Album of Ionia and Montcalm Counties, Mich by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195116960

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Angels in the Machinery by Rebecca Edwards Pdf

Offering an analysis of the centrality of gender to politics in the United States from the days of the Whigs to the early 20th century, the author argues that women in the US participated actively and transformed forever the ideology of American party politics before they got the right to vote.

Author : Kurt F. Stone
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780810877382

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The Jews of Capitol Hill by Kurt F. Stone Pdf

This volume includes entries on every Jewish member of Congress. Each entry identifies the member's political party and the years of service, provides a biographical sketch, often numbering several pages, and includes references for further study. This is the most comprehensive and extensive resource on the legacy of Jewish representation and influence in the United States Congress.

Author : Robert Sherman La Forte
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700631605

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Leaders of Reform by Robert Sherman La Forte Pdf

In this book Robert S. La Forte examines the intricacies of shifting factions within the state majority party over a two decade period, from the Boss-Busters and political machines of the early 1900s through the formation of a new party behind Theodore Roosevelt in 1913. He disucsses the motives, activities, accomplishments, and failures of the progressive Republicans. He provides excellent vignettes of major leaders such as William Allen White, Arthur Capper, Joseph L. Bristow, and Charles Curtis, as well as lesser-known characters such as Walter Roscoe Stubbs, Edward H. Hoch, and Cy Leland, Jr. In providing a detailed analysis of virtually all Kansas progressive Republican leaders during the era, La Forte has made a valuable contribution to both state and national political history.

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Christianity
ISBN : WISC:89092857309

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The Christian Union by Henry Ward Beecher Pdf

Author : Ward S. Just,Ward Just
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395856027

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Jack Gance by Ward S. Just,Ward Just Pdf

Jack Gance is a man on the rise in American politics who takes the reader right inside the political arena, from the wards of Chicago to the Executive Office Building in Washington.