Author : Pat Capponi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0140277889
The War at Home
Pat Capponi
War At Home
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War at Home
Brian Glick
Author : Brian Glick
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0896083497
War at Home by Brian Glick Pdf
This is a must handbook for private study and group discussion by all progressive and radical activists. Today's defense depends on our knowledge of yesterday's repression. The message: the political police haven't forgotten us--we can't afford to forget them and their methods.--Philip Agee, former CIA agent
Nixon's War at Home
Daniel S. Chard
Author : Daniel S. Chard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469664514
Nixon's War at Home by Daniel S. Chard Pdf
During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of clandestine action posed a unique challenge. Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel S. Chard shows how America's war with domestic guerrillas prompted a host of new policing measures as the FBI revived illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism. These efforts did little to stop the guerrillas—instead, they led to a bureaucratic struggle between the Nixon administration and the FBI that fueled the Watergate Scandal and brought down Nixon. Yet despite their internal conflicts, FBI and White House officials developed preemptive surveillance practices that would inform U.S. counterterrorism strategies into the twenty-first century, entrenching mass surveillance as a cornerstone of the national security state. Connecting the dots between political violence and "law and order" politics, Chard reveals how American counterterrorism emerged in the 1970s from violent conflicts over racism, imperialism, and policing that remain unresolved today.
My War at Home
Masuda Sultan
Author : Masuda Sultan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416523055
My War at Home by Masuda Sultan Pdf
Born in Kandahar in 1978, Sultan fled to the United States at age five with her family. Raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens, Sultan saw her life change when she was married by arrangement at the young age of seventeen to a virtual stranger fourteen years her senior -- a marriage she struggled to maintain and then hastily fought, eventually (after three years) being granted a divorce. This very divorce would become one of the first in her close-knit Afgan community, where the subject is considered rare and taboo. Sultan went on to graduate from college summa cum laude with a degree in economics, and in July 2001, she returned to Kandahar, to explore her family roots and find herself. There she met her relatives and surveyed the conservative provincial town where she was born. on return visit to afganistan, she discovered the tragic death of her relatives at the hands of American troops and began to seek answers. My War at Home is her memoir of self-discovery, family tradition, and life as a Muslim and feminist with political ideals. It speaks to the younger generation of Muslims in America as they struggle to resolve the ever-present inner conflict about what it means to be an American and a Muslim, while also examining the Muslim-American identity at both personal and political levels.
The War at Home
Rachel Starnes
Author : Rachel Starnes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101992074
The War at Home by Rachel Starnes Pdf
A portrait of the strains of a military marriage and meditation on what it means to be left behind—a brave account of the challenges facing the wife of a Naval fighter pilot. When she fell in love with her brother’s best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family pattern—marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations, and the crippling doubts of early parenthood, Starnes effortlessly weaves together strands from her past with the relentless pace of Navy life in a time of war. Searingly honest and emotionally unflinching—and at times laugh out loud funny—Starnes eloquently evokes the challenges she faces in trying to find and claim a sense of home while struggling to chart a new path and avoid passing on the same legacy to her two young sons. At once a portrait of the devastating strains that military life puts on families and a meditation on what it means to be left behind, The War at Home is a brave portrait of a modern military family and the realities of separation, endurance, and love that overcomes. “Rachel Starnes’s The War at Home navigates the joys, fears, compromises, and casualties that create the terrain of marriage. And if you are a military spouse, her memoir will reveal thoughts you never even knew you had. This is a wise and fearless book.” —Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone “One of the most honest and genuine memoirs I’ve ever read, as well as one of the most finely written. There’s not a false note in these pages. Rachel Starnes’s story is at once both singular and emblematic. . . . The War at Home is that rare thing: a book about the here and now that promises to last well beyond next month or next year.” —Steve Yarbrough, award-winning author of The Realm of Last Chances and Safe from the Neighbors
The War at Home
Mark K. Christ
Author : Mark K. Christ
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610756853
The War at Home by Mark K. Christ Pdf
The War at Home brings together some of the state’s leading historians to examine the connections between Arkansas and World War I. These essays explore how historical entities and important events such as Camp Pike, the Little Rock Picric Acid Plant, and the Elaine Race Massacre were related to the conflict as they investigate the issues of gender, race, and public health. This collection sheds new light on the ways that Arkansas participated in the war as well as the ways the war affected Arkansas then and still does today.
The War at Home
Julie Klam
Author : Julie Klam
Publisher : Black Rabbit Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1583401903
The War at Home by Julie Klam Pdf
This book details how American civilians supported the efforts of their troops overseas.
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
Andrew L. Johns,Mitchell B. Lerner
Author : Andrew L. Johns,Mitchell B. Lerner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813175751
The Cold War at Home and Abroad by Andrew L. Johns,Mitchell B. Lerner Pdf
From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics stops at the water's edge," but the reality is that parochial political interests often play a critical role in shaping the nation's interactions with the outside world. In The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945, editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner bring together eleven essays that reflect the growing methodological diversity that has transformed the field of diplomatic history over the past twenty years. The contributors examine a spectrum of diverse domestic factors ranging from traditional issues like elections and Congressional influence to less frequently studied factors like the role of religion and regionalism, and trace their influence on the history of US foreign relations since 1945. In doing so, they highlight influences and ideas that expand our understanding of the history of American foreign relations, and provide guidance and direction for both contemporary observers and those who shape the United States' role in the world. This expansive volume contains many lessons for politicians, policy makers, and engaged citizens as they struggle to implement a cohesive international strategy in the face of hyper-partisanship at home and uncertainty abroad.
The War at Home
Mark K. Christ
Author : Mark K. Christ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682261262
The War at Home by Mark K. Christ Pdf
The War at Home brings together some of the state's leading historians to examine the connections between Arkansas and World War I. These essays explore how historical entities and important events such as Camp Pike, the Little Rock Picric Acid Plant, and the Elaine Race Massacre were related to the conflict as they investigate the issues of gender, race, and public health. This collection sheds new light on the ways that Arkansas participated in the war as well as the ways the war affected Arkansas then and still does today.
Labor'S War At Home
Nelson Lichtenstein
Author : Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1592131964
Labor'S War At Home by Nelson Lichtenstein Pdf
Annotation A new edition of a classic book on how World War II changed the face of labor in the US.
The War Come Home
Deborah Cohen
Author : Deborah Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520220089
The War Come Home by Deborah Cohen Pdf
"Based on a breathtaking range of research in British and German archives, The War Come Home is written in an engaging, immediately accessible style and filled with rich anecdotes that are excellently told. This impressive book offers a powerful set of insights into the lasting effects of the First World War and the different ways in which belligerent states came to terms with the war's consequences."—Robert Moeller, author of War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany "With verve, compassion, and above all else, clarity, The War Come Home makes the dismal story of the failed reconstructions of disabled veterans in interwar Britain and German into engaging and provocative reading. Cohen moves from astute analysis of the interventions of high level bureaucrats to sensitive interpretations of how disabled veterans wrote and talked about their lives and the treatment they received at the hands of public and private agencies. She beautifully interweaves histories from below and above, showing how the two shaped -- but also collided with -- one another in profoundly consequential ways for the history of the 20th century."—Seth Koven, coeditor (with Sonya Michel) of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States
The War at Home
Frances Fox Piven
Author : Frances Fox Piven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1595580921
The War at Home by Frances Fox Piven Pdf
While numerous analysts have discussed, and decried, the geopolitical ambitions of the Bush administration and its neoconservative allies, the attention to America's imperial posture overseas has turned eyes away from a crucial dimension of belligerent foreign policy: the domestic politics of war. Frances Fox Piven, one of the most celebrated US social scientists, raises questions others have not. She examines the ways the War on Terror served to reinforce the Bush administration's political base and analyzes the manner in which flag-waving politicians used the emotional fog of war to further their regressive social and economic agendas. Always in the past, US governments that made war sooner or later tried to reward their peoples for the blood and wealth they were forced to sacrifice. During World War II, tax rates on the wealthy rose to 90 percent; toward the end of the Vietnam War, 18-year-olds were given the right to vote.
Army at Home
Judith Giesberg
Author : Judith Giesberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807895601
Army at Home by Judith Giesberg Pdf
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America's Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.
Secrets
Angus MacKenzie
Author : Angus MacKenzie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0520219554
Secrets by Angus MacKenzie Pdf
This eye-opening expose, the result of fifteen years of investigative work, uncovers the CIA's systematic efforts over several decades to suppress and censor information. Angus Mackenzie, an award-winning yournalist, filed and won a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, and in the process became an expert on government censorship and domestic spying. Mackenzie lays bare a complex narrative of intrigue among federal agencies and their senior staff, including the Department of Defense, the executive branch, and the CIA. From cover-ups and secrecy oaths, to scandals over leaks and exposure, to the government's often insidious attempts to monitor and control public access to information, Mackenzie tracks the evolution of a policy of suppression, repression, spying, and harassment.
The Cold War at Home
Philip Jenkins
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469619651
The Cold War at Home by Philip Jenkins Pdf
One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States. Philip Jenkins examines the political and social impact of the Cold War across the state, tracing the Red Scare's reverberations in party politics, the labor movement, ethnic organizations, schools and universities, and religious organizations. Among Jenkins's most provocative findings is the revelation that, although their absolute numbers were not large, Communists were very well positioned in crucial Pennsylvania regions and constituencies, particularly in labor unions, the educational system, and major ethnic organizations. Instead of focusing on Pennsylvania's right-wing politicians (the sort represented nationally by Senator Joseph McCarthy), Jenkins emphasizes the anti-Communist activities of liberal politicians, labor leaders, and ethnic community figures who were terrified of Communist encroachments on their respective power bases. He also stresses the deep roots of the state's militant anti-Communism, which can be traced back at least into the 1930s.