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Author : Frank J. Donner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003894453
Author : Joseph Litvak
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822390848
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC’s) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls “comic cosmopolitanism,” an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the “uncooperative” witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to “name names.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.
Author : Alvah Cecil Bessie
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0353057304
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frank J. Donner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:nuc87437860
Author : Molly Antopol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393241136
Traces the experiences of protagonists from a range of cultures, including a blacklisted Hollywood actor who struggles to connect with his son, and a dissenting gallery worker who begins smuggling and curating underground art.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434971456
Author : A. Bessie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:847298027
Author : Erik Edstrom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781635573756
"Eloquent, devastating . . . packed with gimlet-eyed analysis - cultural, economic, historical - of how American life came to look the way it does . . . Edstrom's keen observational powers encompass both the physical world and social nuance." -Los Angeles Review of Books A manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from an Afghanistan veteran and new kind of military hero. Before engaging in war, Erik Edstrom asks us to imagine three, rarely imagined scenarios: First, imagine your own death. Second, imagine war from “the other side.” Third: Imagine what might have been if the war had never been fought. Pursuing these realities through his own combat experience, Erik reaches the unavoidable conclusion about America at war. But that realization came too late-the damage had been done. Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban Massachusetts with an idealistic desire to make an impact, ultimately leading him to the gates of West Point. Five years later, he was deployed to Afghanistan as an infantry lieutenant. Throughout his military career, he confronted atrocities, buried his friends, wrestled with depression, and struggled with an understanding that the war he fought in, and the youth he traded to prepare for it, was in contribution to a bitter truth: The War on Terror is not just a tragedy, but a crime. The deeper tragedy is that our country lacks the courage and conviction to say so. Un-American is a hybrid of social commentary and memoir that exposes how blind support for war exacerbates the problems it's intended to resolve, devastates the people allegedly being helped, and diverts assets from far larger threats like climate change. Un-American is a revolutionary act, offering a blueprint for redressing America's relationship with patriotism, the military, and military spending.
Author : Michael Spencer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781504952095
While the problems of democracy have been experienced since Greek and Roman times, their true nature is not yet understood even by a society as enlightened as America. The book presents a formidable challenge to President Obama and Americans at large about the destruction of the letter and spirit of the Constitution evidenced by the domestic and foreign actions of the United States over the last century. The book introduces several new ideas including how a republic erodes into a democracy, how democracy is a fertile ground for moral degeneration and the inevitability of nurturing a vote block by distributing freebies (led by Democrats), followed by a vote block based on war-mongering (led by Republicans). Individualist Americans will be aghast when they read the description of a typical president and how cheaply their country is being destroyed! The book challenges Americans to disprove the inference that once the greatest emancipator in mankind’s history, today America has become the perpetrator of the biggest crimes against humanity because of her support to the United Nations. While America’s apparent enemies are quite impotent, the real enemy could turn out to be the resistance of individualists to accept new ideas in place of their unshakeable American beliefs. The book goes beyond the fashionable issues of the moment and provides answers to such questions as the following: Why are elected US presidents of the twentieth century considered midgets compared to the founding generation? In spite of numerous well-funded libertarian groups and vociferous movements, why are intellectuals and individualist Americans unable to halt the decline of America? After diagnosing problems hidden so far, the book also introduces areas of work and directions for solutions. The content will provide powerful ammunition for individuals and groups in the eternal fight for freedom.
Author : Kenneth Anderson
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780817913441
International legal scholar Kenneth Anderson analyzes US-UN relations in each major aspect of the United Nations' work-security, human rights and universal values, and development--and offers workable, practical principles for US policy toward the United Nations. He addresses the crucial question of whether, when, and how the United States should engage or not engage with the United Nations in each of its many different organs and activities, giving workable, pragmatic meaning to "multilateral engagement" across the full range of the United Nations' work.
Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754070282706
Author : Scott Anderson
Publisher : Signal
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771009150
From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences which still affect the world today At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed CIA. The Quiet Americans chronicles the exploits of four spies--Michael Burke, a charming former football star fallen on hard times; Frank Wisner, the scion of a wealthy Southern family; Peter Sichel, a sophisticated German Jew who escaped the Nazis; and Edward Lansdale, a brilliant ad executive. The four ran covert operations across the globe, trying to outwit the ruthless KGB in Berlin, parachuting commandos into Eastern Europe, plotting coups, and directing wars against Communist insurgents in Asia. But time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by a combination of stupidity and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government--and more profoundly, the decision to abandon American ideals. By the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union had a stranglehold on Eastern Europe, the U.S. had begun its disastrous intervention in Vietnam, and America, the beacon of democracy, was overthrowing democratically-elected governments and earning the hatred of much of the world. All of this culminated in an act of betrayal and cowardice that would lock the Cold War into place for decades to come. Anderson brings to the telling of this story all the narrative brio, deep research, skeptical eye, and lively prose that made Lawrence in Arabia a major international bestseller. The intertwined lives of these men began in a common purpose of defending freedom, but the ravages of the Cold War led them to different fates. Two would quit the CIA in despair, stricken by the moral compromises they had to make; one became the archetype of the duplicitous and destructive American spy; and one would be so heartbroken he would take his own life. The Quiet Americans is the story of these four men. It is also the story of how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110103590
Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 1598 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781665543729
The contribution to the development and culture of America by the immigrants from the territory of former Czechoslovakia, be they Czechs or Slovaks, or Bohemians, as they used to be called, has been enormous. Yet little has been written about the subject. This compendium is part of an effort to correct this glaring deficiency. In this compendium, the focus is on religion, law and jurisprudence, business and entrepreneurship and the notable people in the government, with the narration and assessment about the Czechoslovak American explorers, adventurers and pioneers who paved the way for the colonists and settlers who followed them. An important role among them played the social movement activists. some of whose ideas won the respect and ultimately acceptance by general population, to which subject an entire section has been devoted. Among other, you will find among them abolitionists, freethinkers. suffragists, civil & human rights activists, environmentalists and conservationists, climate change activists, philanthropists, inventors and even futurists or futurologists. Their innovative ideas, inevitably, led to the rise of the plethora of Czech and Slovak American leaders, encompassing, practically, every aspect of human endeavor. As stated in the Foreword, this reference will serve as a powerful research tool for many years to come for scholars and all Czechs and Slovaks on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author : R. P. Dore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134707102
Japan has enormous economic power and yet is a minor player in international politics. In part this has been due to the partnership with US, but now with the end of cold war there is a fierce debate going on in Japan regarding the international political role for the nation. This book is a response to the issues raised and was originally published in Japanese for a Japanese audience. Ronald Dore provides a full analysis of Japan's post war international position and in particular its role within the UN, the use of armed force and constitution. Japan, Internationalism and the UN provides a unique insight into Japan's foreign policy and its related domestic politics. It is the product of nearly half a century of study and discussion with the Japanese themselves about their place in the world.