Spoiling For A Fight

Author : Micah L. Sifry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136059223

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Spoiling for a Fight by Micah L. Sifry Pdf

More Americans now identify as political independents than as either Democrats or Republicans. Tired of the two-party gridlock, the pandering, and the lack of vision, they've turned in increasing numbers to independent and third-party candidates. In 1998, for the first time in decades, a third-party candidate who was not a refugee from one of the two major parties, Jesse Ventura, won election to state-wide office, as the governor of Minnesota. In 2000, the public was riveted by the Reform Party's implosion over Patrick Buchanan's presidential candidacy and by Ralph Nader's Green Party run, which infuriated many Democrats but energized hundreds of thousands of disaffected voters in stadium-sized super-rallies.What are the prospects for new third-party efforts? Combining the close-in, personal reporting and learned analysis one can only get by covering this beat for years, Micah L. Sifry's. Spoiling for a Fight exposes both the unfair obstacles and the viable opportunities facing today's leading independent parties. Third-party candidates continue be denied a fighting chance by discriminatory ballot access, unequal campaign financing, winner-take-all races, and derisive media coverage. Yet, after years of grassroots organizing, third parties are making major inroads. At the local level, efforts like Chicago's New Party and New York's Working Families Party have upset urban political machines while gaining positions on county councils and school boards. Third-party activists are true believers in democracy, and if America's closed two-party system is ever to be reformed, it will be thanks to their efforts

Author : Jonathan Evan Hudson
Publisher : Black Fang Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Spoiling for Another Fight by Jonathan Evan Hudson Pdf

Demigods and monsters fight to the death. Only to get reborn again. And fight to the death again. At a gym but not a gym: a monster hotspot! The demigod Jason hates hunting monster girls. Stuck hunting monster girls again. And his simple mission proves far worse than he ever imagined. And the stakes: world-changing. Once again join Jason in this exciting urban fantasy novel. Grab this conclusion of this amazing duology and you’ll never look at Greek Myth the same again!

Author : Cornelis Stoffel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z338601002

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Studies in English by Cornelis Stoffel Pdf

Author : Brooke A. Masters
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429900676

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Spoiling for a Fight by Brooke A. Masters Pdf

The rise to power of Eliot Spitzer, the scourge of Wall Street and one of America's most controversial politicians, by the reporter who knows his crusade best Few politicians have burst onto the American scene with as much impact as Eliot Spitzer. He has exposed wrongdoing by stock analysts, mutual fund managers, and insurance brokers, and he has investigated corporations that have misled or defrauded investors and consumers. When federal regulators have fallen down on their responsibilities, Spitzer has stepped in to protect ordinary, middle-class Americans. His actions as the New York State attorney general have made companies change the way they do business, which in turn affects every American with a retirement plan, an insurance policy, or a prescription to fill. No reporter has had better or more complete behind-the-scenes access to Spitzer's operation—and to the strategies that have underpinned his crusade against these powerful forces in the American economy—than Brooke A. Masters of The Washington Post. In Spoiling for a Fight, she presents a portrait that is at once dramatic and revealing, raising the question of whether Spitzer's way of conducting government business is good or bad for America. Combining passion and zeal with a savvy understanding of the press, Spitzer has brought down some of the biggest names in American finance and now has his sights set on higher office. This revelatory book shows Americans how Spitzer has transformed their lives and what his crusade could mean for the future.

Author : Silke Andris,Ursula K. Frederick
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443804769

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Women Willing to Fight by Silke Andris,Ursula K. Frederick Pdf

Women Willing to Fight is a collection of essays that explores the presence of the fighting woman in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Drawn from a variety of genres, the authors examine the changing role, image and position of this figure in film over recent decades. The increasing dominance of this character and her repositioning as a protagonist reinvigorates discussion concerning the dynamics of film narrative and spectacle. Each contribution takes as its focus a central character from the Hollywood blockbuster era, examining in detail the motivations and implications of the fighting female. In doing so the collection raises significant questions about the place of the fighting woman in contemporary media and the relationships she forges on and off-screen. With a strong appreciation of the mixed messages inherent in images of fighting women, Women Willing to Fight seeks to draw attention to the embodied forms - physical, intellectual and emotional - through which female fighters are represented. The anthology places particular emphasis on the emergence of the physically empowered woman, a character for whom the body has become a weapon and a target. While early cinematic representations allowed women to voice their fury and frustration, today’s female fighters not only ‘speak up’ but ‘muscle up’. Putting aside the supernatural powers of many action heroines, this volume focuses on the kinds of fighting skills, abilities and desires that are engendered in characterisations of mortal women. To this end the volume implicitly addresses complex and cross-cultural notions of ‘extra-ordinary’ power. By examining the embodied arsenal that these characters possess and develop - through training, conditioning, and life experience - it considers the representation of motivation and metamorphoses into ‘the fighting woman’: how a woman fights holds implicit meaning and inevitably urges us to consider why and what she is fighting for.

Author : Jonathan Evan Hudson
Publisher : Black Fang Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Spoiling for a Fight by Jonathan Evan Hudson Pdf

Meet the greek demigod Jason. Hates hunting monster girls. Stuck hunting monster girls. On yet another training mission. What could go wrong? What he never imagined. And the cost: more than he could ever imagine. Grab the first spellbinding urban fantasy novel of a stunning duology and you’ll never look at Greek Mythology the same again!

Author : Jonathan Evan Hudson
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798681841227

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Spoiling for a Fight by Jonathan Evan Hudson Pdf

Meet the greek demigod Jason. Hates hunting monster girls. Stuck hunting monster girls. On yet another training mission. What could go wrong? What he never imagined. And the cost: more than he could ever imagine. Grab the spellbinding urban fantasy and you'll never look at Greek Myth the same again!

Author : Emma Darwin
Publisher : Headline
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755372492

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A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin Pdf

Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death... The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years. In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses: the power struggles and passion that lay behind their birth, the danger into which they fell, the profoundly moving days before their imprisonment, and the ultimate betrayal of their innocence. In A Secret Alchemy, three voices speak: that of Elizabeth Woodville, the beautiful widow of King Edward IV; of her brother Anthony, surrogate father to the doomed Prince Edward and his brother Dickon; and that of present-day historian Una Pryor. Orphaned, and herself brought up in a family where secrets and rivalries threaten her world, Una's experience of tragedy, betrayal and lost love help her unlock the long-buried secrets that led to the princes' deaths. Weaving their stories together, Emma Darwin brilliantly evokes how the violence and glamour of past ages live on within our present.

Author : Jack Ross
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612344911

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The Socialist Party of America by Jack Ross Pdf

At a time when the word “socialist” is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America’s political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America’s most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From the party’s origins in the labor and populist movements at the end of the nineteenth century, to its heyday with the charismatic Eugene V. Debs, and to its persistence through the Depression and the Second World War under the steady leadership of “America’s conscience,” Norman Thomas, The Socialist Party of America guides readers through the party’s twilight, ultimate demise, and the successor groups that arose following its collapse. Based on archival research, Jack Ross’s study challenges the orthodoxies of both sides of the historiographical debate as well as assumptions about the Socialist Party in historical memory. Ross similarly covers the related emergence of neoconservatism and other facets of contemporary American politics and assesses some of the more sensational charges from the right about contemporary liberalism and the “radicalism” of Barack Obama.

Author : Patrick Lee Plaisance
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134596218

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Virtue in Media by Patrick Lee Plaisance Pdf

This work establishes a contemporary profile of virtue in professional media practice. Author Patrick Lee Plaisance examines the experiences, perspectives, moral stances, and demographic data of two dozen professional exemplars in journalism and public relations. Plaisance conducted extensive personal "life story" interviews and collected survey data to assess the exemplars’ personality traits, ethical ideologies, moral reasoning skills and perceived workplace climate. The chosen professionals span the geographic United States, and include Pulitzer Prize winners and trendsetting PR corporate executives, ranging from rising stars to established veterans. Their thoughts, opinions, and experiences provide readers with an insider’s perspective on the thought process of decision makers in media. The unique observations in this volume will be stimulating reading for practitioners, researchers, and students in journalism and public relations. Virtue in Media establishes a key benchmark, and sets an agenda for future research into the moral psychology of media professionals.

Author : J. M. Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015012185792

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Dictionary of Idiomatic Phrases... by J. M. Dixon Pdf

Author : James Main Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013645973

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Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases by James Main Dixon Pdf

This is a classical text of a dictionary of English idioms and phrases. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105243661

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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: Bull Run-Ball's Bluff by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War Pdf

Author : Brian Hocking
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349107858

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Australia Towards 2000 by Brian Hocking Pdf

This book sets out to explore contemporary life in Australia, looking also at the future of the continent, and covering topics ranging from its history, culture, religion, values and ecological perspectives to its economy and politics.

Author : Anthony F. Greco
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826503466

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Chomsky's Challenge to American Power by Anthony F. Greco Pdf

Noam Chomsky is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, but he is better known as a public intellectual: an iconoclastic, radical critic of US politics and foreign policy. Chomsky's Challenge examines most of the major subjects Chomsky has dealt with in his nearly half century of intellectual activism--the Vietnam War, America's broader international role (especially its interventions in the Third World), the structure of power in American politics, the role of the media and of intellectuals in forming public opinion, and American foreign policy in the post-Cold War world. Chomsky is as controversial as he is influential. Admirers see him as a courageous teller of unpleasant truths about political power and those who wield it in the United States. Critics view him as a propagandist and ideologue who sees only black and white where there are multiple shades of gray. While Chomsky's fans tend to view him uncritically, his critics often don't take him seriously. Unlike any previous work, this book takes Chomsky seriously while treating him critically. The author gives Chomsky credit for valuable contributions to our understanding of the contemporary political world, but spares no criticism of the serious deficiencies he sees in Chomsky's political analyses.