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Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793332106
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793329045
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793330539
Author : H. Edward Flentje,Joseph A. Aistrup
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803220287
The rich history of Kansas politics continues to generate an abundant literature. The state?s beginning as ?Bleeding Kansas? followed by Prohibition, populism, the Progressive Era, and the Dust Bowl, through to the present day, have given local and national writers and scholars an intriguing topic for exploration. While historians and biographers shed light on pieces of this history, journalists focus on current political affairs in the state. Rarely, however, are past and present connected to fully illuminate an understanding of Kansas politics and government. ø This volume uses the prism of political cultures to interpret Kansas politics and disclose the intimate connections between the state?s past and its current politics. The framework of political cultures evolves from underlying political preferences for liberty, order, and equality, and these preferences form the basis for the active political cultures of individualism, hierarchy, and egalitarianism. This comprehensive examination of Kansas political institutions argues that Kansas politics, historically and presently, may best be understood as a clash of political cultures.
Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Picador
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429900324
One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"—the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"—how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union—Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatism—the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combat—and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis—and funny to boot—What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los Angeles Times
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793342815
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793324620
Author : C.J. Janovy
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700628346
Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands at the very center of American stereotypes about red states. In the American imagination, it is a place LGBT people leave. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. The book tells the epic story of how a few disorganized and politically naïve Kansans, realizing they were unfairly under attack, rolled up their sleeves, went looking for fights, and ended up making friends in one of the country’s most hostile states. The LGBT civil rights movement’s history in California and in big cities such as New York and Washington, DC, has been well documented. But what is it like for LGBT activists in a place like Kansas, where they face much stiffer headwinds? How do they win hearts and minds in the shadow of the Westboro Baptist Church (“Christian” motto: “God Hates Fags”)? Traveling the state in search of answers—from city to suburb to farm—journalist C. J. Janovy encounters LGBT activists who have fought, in ways big and small, for the acceptance and respect of their neighbors, their communities, and their government. Her book tells the story of these twenty-first-century citizen activists—the issues that unite them, the actions they take, and the personal and larger consequences of their efforts, however successful they might be. With its close-up view of the lives and work behind LGBT activism in Kansas, No Place Like Home fills a prairie-sized gap in the narrative of civil rights in America. The book also looks forward, as an inspiring guide for progressives concerned about the future of any vilified minority in an increasingly polarized nation.
Author : Rita Napier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056505293
By incorporating voices from history that have too long been lost in the din of tradition--especially the voices of Native Americans and blacks, women and laborers--Kansas and the West provides a provocative and much-needed new view of the state's past.
Author : Janét Eileen Bare
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89031214950
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : Kansas
ISBN : 9780793359240
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793357703
Author : Tracy Seeley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803235014
Sure, there's no place like home--but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer and the betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots--roots she is suddenly determined to search out.My Ruby Slipperstells the story of that search, the tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: to find the meaning of home. Seeley finds herself in a Kansas that defies memory, a place far more complex and elusive than the sum of its cultural myths. On back roads and in her many back years, Seeley also finds unexpected forgiveness for her errant father, and, in the face of mortality, a sense of what it means to be rooted in place, to dwell deeply in the only life we have.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793352722
Author : Pam Grout
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762765799
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Sunflower State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Kansan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Kansas Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Pam Grout takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Sunflower State. Visit the Museum of the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things—and get your own largest ball starter kit. Meet more chainsaw-wielding, glow-in-the-dark-scrap-metal-zoo-building, grapefruit-peel-sculpting, papier-mâché-mixing, porcelain-pig-painting grassroots artists than you can shake a stick at! Get a load of Big Brutus, a sixteen-story coal shovel that has become a popular tourist attraction; and discover the thrill of an indoor hurricane—it’ll blow you away.