The Politics Of Upheaval

Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0618340874

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The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR's critics to denounce "that man in the White house." To his left were demagogues -- Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order -- ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933 -- a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936.

Author : Arthur M. Schlesinger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547524252

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The Politics of Upheaval by Arthur M. Schlesinger Pdf

In the third volume of his series on Franklin Roosevelt, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian focuses on the turbulent final years of FDR’s first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened Roosevelt’s critics to denounce “that man in the White house.” To his left were demagogues—Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order—ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933—a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936. “One of the most important historical enterprises of our time.”—Saturday Review “Vividly portrays…the concluding years of Roosevelt’s first term…[and] the sweep and excitement of an era more historically dramatic than most.”—Time

Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Crisis económica - Estados Unidos
ISBN : OCLC:1025081212

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The Politics of Upheaval by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Pdf

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316409155

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Upheaval by Jared Diamond Pdf

A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past? Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal yet.

Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : United States
ISBN : LCCN:56010293

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The Politics of Upheaval by Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) Pdf

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719036968

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The Age of Upheaval by David Brooks Pdf

A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions: Free Trade, the new Poor Law, the House of Lords, the Irish Union - all were under attack, while organized labour and the feminist movement displayed an unprecedented assertiveness and aggression. Drawing on a variety of sources, this work examines what made these years the most politically turbulent between the Chartist era and today. It emphasizes the long shadow cast by the South African War, and the challenges to national identity posed by imperialism and by the Irish nationalist movement. Consideration is also given to the 1906 Liberal landslide victory and the way in which this aroused expectations that could not always be fulfilled. The author offers his own perspectives on the leading figures of the day - Chamberlain, Balfour, Lloyd George, Asquith and Churchill. While the emphasis of the book is on political thought, the author also sets his discussion within the broader context of social and economic change. This study is designed for A' level and undergraduate students of Edwardian history.

Author : Leon Fink,Brian Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015014627320

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Upheaval in the Quiet Zone by Leon Fink,Brian Greenberg Pdf

Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : LCCN:56010293

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The Politics of Upheaval. (1. Publ.) by Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Kyle Longley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107193031

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LBJ's 1968 by Kyle Longley Pdf

Examines President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his response to the year that he characterized as a 'year of a continuous nightmare'.

Author : Lou Dobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781476728872

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Upheaval by Lou Dobbs Pdf

Bestselling author and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight offers his illuminating views on some of our nation’s most intractable problems. In 2012, Lou Dobbs Tonight celebrated its one-year anniversary and a steadily growing viewership. Now, expanding on the “Chalk Talks” segment from his popular program, Dobbs gives his take on some of the country’s most pressing problems—including provocative topics no one is talking about—and what might be done to address them. Covering our challenges in the areas of debt, the failure of our transportation infrastructure, the encroachment of the federal government, the power and size of public sector unions, the problems of business, big banks, big government, and more, Axis of Upheaval arms us with valuable information, as only Lou Dobbs can deliver it: with his frank, intelligent, and witty style.

Author : Allen Wells,Gilbert Michael Joseph
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0804726566

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Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval by Allen Wells,Gilbert Michael Joseph Pdf

This book addresses a central problem often ignored by students of twentieth-century Mexico: the breakdown of the old order during the first years of the revolutionary era. That process was more contested and gradual in Yucatan than in any other Mexican region, and this close examination of the Yucatan experience sheds light on an issue of particular relevance to students of Central America, South America’s southern cone, and other postcolonial societies: the capacity of national oligarchies to “hang on” in the face of escalating social change, the outbreak of local rebellions, and the mobilization of multiclass coalitions. Latin American historiography has generally failed to integrate the study of popular movements and rebellions with examinations of the determined efforts of elite establishments to prevent, contain, crush, and, ultimately, ideologically appropriate such rebellions. Most often, these problems are treated separately. This volume seeks to redress this imbalance by probing a set of linkages that is central to the study of Mexico’s modern past: the complex, reciprocal relationship between modes of contestation and structures and discourses of power.

Author : Arthur M. Schlesinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:928651639

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“The” Age of Roosevelt by Arthur M. Schlesinger Pdf

Author : Daniel Ian Rubin,Faith Agostinone Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004500013

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A Time of Covidiocy: Media, Politics, and Social Upheaval by Daniel Ian Rubin,Faith Agostinone Wilson Pdf

This book provides a critical media analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, using the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel to reveal the deliberate practices of those that have weaponized a deadly, serious disease against the most vulnerable members of society.

Author : Arthur Levine,Scott J. Van Pelt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421442587

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The Great Upheaval by Arthur Levine,Scott J. Van Pelt Pdf

How will America's colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic, and demographic change? The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological innovation, globalization, and demographic change create vast new challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties. In this great upheaval, the nation's most enduring social institutions are at a crossroads. In The Great Upheaval, Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt examine higher and postsecondary education to see how it has changed to become what it is today—and how it might be refitted for an uncertain future. Taking a unique historical, cross-industry perspective, Levine and Van Pelt perform a 360-degree survey of American higher education. Combining historical, trend, and comparative analyses of other business sectors, they ask • how much will colleges and universities change, what will change, and how will these changes occur? • will institutions of higher learning be able to adapt to the challenges they face, or will they be disrupted by them? • will the industrial model of higher education be repaired or replaced? • why is higher education more important than ever? The book is neither an attempt to advocate for a particular future direction nor a warning about that future. Rather, it looks objectively at the contexts in which higher education has operated—and will continue to operate. It also seeks to identify likely developments that will aid those involved in steering higher education forward, as well as the many millions of Americans who have a stake in its future. Concluding with a detailed agenda for action, The Great Upheaval is aimed at policy makers, college administrators, faculty, trustees, and students, as well as general readers and people who work for nonprofits facing the same big changes.

Author : Darrell M. West
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815729228

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Megachange by Darrell M. West Pdf

Big, unexpected changes are here to stay. Slow, incremental change has become a relic of the past. Today's shifts come fast and big, what Darrell West calls megachanges, in which dramatic disruptions in trends and policies occur on a regular basis. Domestically, we see megachange at work in the new attitudes and policies toward same-sex marriage, health care, smoking, and the widespread legalization of marijuana use. Globally, we have seen the extraordinary rise and then collapse of the Arab Spring, the emergence of religious zealotry, the growing influence of nonstate actors, the spread of ISIS-fomented terrorism, the rise of new economic and political powers in Asia, and the fracturing of once-stable international alliances. Long-held assumptions have been shattered, and the proliferation of unexpected events is confounding experts in the United States and around the globe. Many of the social and political institutions that used to anchor domestic and international politics have grown weak or are in need of dramatic reform. What to do? West says that we should alter our expectations about the speed and magnitude of political and social change. We also need to recognize that many of our current governing processes are geared to slow deliberation and promote incremental change, not large-scale transformation. With megachange becoming the new normal, our domestic and global institutions must develop the ability to tackle the massive economic, political, and social shifts that we face.