Political Science
epub |eng | 2019-04-10 | Author:Robert A Caro

* * * — BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN was over—in that single month, October, 1940—Lyndon Johnson had raised from Texas and had distributed to congressional candidates, campaign funds on a scale ...
( Category: Political Science April 29,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-02-08 | Author:Chris Miller

Reforming the Soviet Safety Net Russia did not inherit from the Soviet Union what we would call a “welfare state.” The system of retirement security, subsidized health care, education, antipoverty ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cohen, Jared

The Dying President Roosevelt was a sick and dying man when he ran for a fourth term in 1944. He must have had some sense of this as early as ...
( Category: History & Theory April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Mike Lee

PHILADELPHIA April 23, 1775 News had just reached Philadelphia that British troops and colonial militias had exchanged fire at Lexington and Concord, a several days’ ride away. The skirmish left ...
( Category: Political Science April 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-26 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Based on a Noam Chomsky interview with Erik Siljak and The A-Infos Radio Project, April 19, 1999. Notes 1Chomsky refers here to the assassination of Óscar Romero, archbishop of San ...
( Category: History & Theory April 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Mike Lee

PHILADELPHIA April 23, 1775 News had just reached Philadelphia that British troops and colonial militias had exchanged fire at Lexington and Concord, a several days’ ride away. The skirmish left ...
( Category: Political Science April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-17 | Author:Roderick MacFarquhar;Michael Schoenhals [Schoenhals, Roderick MacFarquhar;Michael]

In the light of later events, it is legitimate to wonder if Mao hoped that the abolition of the office of head of state might be an issue with which ...
( Category: Comparative Politics April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-21 | Author:Estulin, Daniel

Chapter Twenty-One GAME OF MONOPOLY "TW "T" owhere,” writes Gary Allen in Chapter Nine of The I I Rockefeller File, “do we find any policy determinations JL 1 [of the ...
( Category: History & Theory April 22,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Sirvent Roberto

US leaders profess a dedication to democracy. Yet over the past five decades, democratically elected reformist governments—guilty of introducing redistributive economic programs—in Guatemala, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, ...
( Category: Elections April 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Edward W. Said & Moustafa Bayoumi & Andrew Rubin

* * * — The dynastic sense, the feeling for one’s immediate past, the effort of placing ourselves in a living continuum: there is little help to be gotten for ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christian Goeschel

III In public, both leaders thus maintained their closed ranks to project the Axis. This did not go unnoticed by the international press. On 7 August 1941, Mussolini’s son Bruno ...
( Category: History & Theory April 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark T. Gilderhus,David C. LaFevor,Michael J. LaRosa & David C. LaFevor & Michael J. LaRosa

NOTES 1. Irwin F. Gellman, Good Neighbor Diplomacy: United States Policies in Latin America, 1933–1945 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), 179; Gellman, Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 12,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Greg Grandin

* * * At the end of World War II, an ascendant United States, its dust storms behind it, had a claim to being a different kind of world power. ...
( Category: History & Theory April 9,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Szpiro, George; Szpiro, George G. G.; Szpiro, George G.

Elector 2: Alex > Dick > Carl > Bob Elector 3: Alex > Bob > Dick > Carl Elector 4: Alex > Bob > Dick > Carl Elector 5: Bob ...
( Category: Elections April 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:george j. mitchell, alon sachar

9 ISRATINE T he day after Barack Obama’s first inauguration Muammar Gaddafi, then the undisputed leader of Libya, published an op-ed in the New York Times denigrating years of “desperate ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 30,2019 )