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Author : Wilbur Wallace White
Publisher : Cleveland : World Publishing Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011247999
Author : Jeffrey M. Elliot,Sheikh R. Ali
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434492340
When you want to know what's happening in the White House or on Capitol Hill, turn to this objective, comprehensive resource for concise answers to your questions.
Author : William Safire
Publisher : Random House Reference
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015026820806
Provides information on terms and expressions, catchwords and slogans of American politics and government.
Author : William Safire
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199711116
When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics, which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work has been revised and updated and scores of completely new entries have been added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today. Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. From Axis of Evil, Blame Game, Bridge to Nowhere, Triangulation, and Compassionate Conservatism to Islamofascism, Netroots, Earmark, Wingnuts and Moonbats, Slam Dunk, Doughnut Hole, and many others, this language maven explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance. For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship.
Author : William Safire
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195343342
Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
Author : William Safire
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195340617
Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.
Author : Jeffrey M. Elliot,Sheikh R. Ali
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434491404
When you want to know what's happening in the White House or on Capitol Hill, turn to this objective, comprehensive resource for concise answers to your questions.
Author : Jack C. Plano,Milton Greenberg
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020748524
This classic textbook has been a vital supplement in American government classes for 35 years. Much more than a dictionary, the comprehensive information provided for each term qualifies The American Political Dictionary, Tenth Edition, as a reference book. Professor Plano's extensive experience in writing political dictionaries is evident in this scholarly, interpretive, current edition. Appropriate as a supplement in the introductory course in American government. This textbook could also supplement various texts in such courses as Legislative Process, The American Executive, Constitutional Law, and Foreign Policy.
Author : Jeffrey M. Elliot,Sheikh R. Ali
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781434490506
An objective, comprehensive resource for concise answers to questions about state and local government. Complete with "A Note on How to Use This Book," a detailed Appendix, Notes, and Index. A must-have reference guide for students, librarians, professors, and citizens with an interest in our government and how it works.
Author : Grant Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195304470
Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.
Author : Jack C. Plano,Milton Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : 0030167361
Author : Jeffrey Raffel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313007736
Throughout the nation's history, from before the Civil War through Reconstruction, across the years of lynchings and segregation to the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the battles over busing, no issue has divided the American people more than race, and at the heart of the race issue has been the conflict over school segregation and desegregation. Prior to the Civil War, South Carolina enacted the first compulsory illiteracy law, which made it a crime to teach slaves to write, and other Southern states soon followed South Carolina's example. After the Civil War, schools for blacks were founded throughout the South, including many Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision established the principle of separate but equal education, which led to decades of segregation. With the 1954 Brown decision, the Supreme Court overturned the separate but equal principle, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 empowered the federal government to affect school desegregation. The process of desegregation continues to this day, with much debate and mixed results. Through more than 260 alphabetically arranged entries, this comprehensive reference book describes persons, court decisions, terms and concepts, legislation, reports and books, types of plans, and organizations central to the struggle for educational equality. The volume covers topics ranging from emotionally laden terms such as busing to complex legal concepts such as de facto and de jure segregation. Each entry includes factual information, a summary of different viewpoints, and a brief bibliography. The book includes an introduction, which outlines the history of school segregation and desegregation, along with a chronology and extensive bibliographic material. Thus this reference is a complete guide to school segregation and desegregation in elementary, secondary, and higher education in the United States.
Author : John William Smith,John S. Klemanski
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015018333933
Three components per entry (definition, "see also," and significance) offer thorough reference to some 600 terms pertinent to urban politics and those involved. A suggested reading list is also included for most terms--the more controversial and complicated entries, not the self- evident ones. Includes a subject index (unlike many works in the dictionary format). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Political dictionary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555059098
Author : Charles PIGOTT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023040280