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The Fixer by Bradley Tusk
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Bradley Tusk

18 Don’t Confuse Ideology with Politics On August 3, 2015, thanks to my friend and PR genius Stu Loeser, the Times ran a story about how Uber’s political adviser was ...
( Category: Finance September 18,2018 )
The Deep State by Jason Chaffetz
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Jason Chaffetz

Even More State Department Shenanigans The second time I encountered a “minder” from the State Department was during a February 2014 visit to the U.S. embassy in Papua New Guinea. ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 18,2018 )
Can Democracy Work? by James Miller
epub |eng | | Author:James Miller

FIVE A HALL OF MIRRORS ON THE EVENING of April 2, 1917, the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, addressed a joint session of the House and Senate. In ...
( Category: World September 18,2018 )
Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

TEN CRISIS MANAGEMENT Theodore Roosevelt and the Coal Strike It is a dreadful thing to come into the Presidency this way; but it would be a far worse thing to ...
( Category: Americas September 18,2018 )
The Other Cold War by Kwon Heonik;
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Kwon, Heonik;

The 4.3 Incident has only recently become a publicly acknowledged historical reality among the islanders, in contrast to past decades during which the subject remained strictly taboo in public discourse.7 ...
( Category: Asia September 18,2018 )
The Peterloo Massacre by Joyce Marlow
epub |eng | | Author:Joyce Marlow

15 THEN YOU SHALL HAVE MILITARY FORCE The thousands attending the meeting were not the only ones up early on August 16th. Lieutenant-Colonel Guy L’Estrange, the officer commanding the Manchester ...
( Category: Sociology September 18,2018 )
Migra! by Hernandez Kelly Lytle;
epub |eng | 2010-09-17 | Author:Hernandez, Kelly Lytle;

THE LOGIC OF RESISTANCE South Texans believed their defiance was justified because the U.S. Border Patrol was attempting to unravel their lives. In places such as Brownsville and Hidalgo, growers ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 18,2018 )
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thoreau Henry David
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David [Thoreau, Henry David]

Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to do this work which he did—that he did not suspect himself ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 16,2018 )
Silent Snow by Marla Cone
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Marla Cone

Balancing risks and benefits of food is not an easy task, which explains all this wavering and hand-wringing by Canadian health officials. Pierre Ayotte, a Canadian expert in human toxicology, ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 16,2018 )
Hubert Humphrey by Arnold A. Offner
epub |eng | | Author:Arnold A. Offner

15 NORTHWEST’S PASSAGE Humphrey’s new year began unhappily. Johnson ordered his staff not to consult the vice president about his January 10, 1967, State of the Union address or show ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 16,2018 )
Battlefield America by Whitehead John. W
epub |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:Whitehead John. W. [John W. Whitehead]

As Bertolt Brecht wrote, “Kafka described with wonderful imaginative power the future concentration camps, the future instability of the law, the future absolutism of the state Apparat.” Josef K.’s plight, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 16,2018 )
Krav Maga by Gershon Ben Keren
epub |eng | | Author:Gershon Ben Keren

“Steaming” and “Steamers” In every aggressive and violent situation you face, you should make three assumptions regarding your assailant: 1. They are armed, even if a weapon isn’t evident—and even ...
( Category: Training September 16,2018 )
Forgotten Americans by Isabel Sawhill
epub |eng | 2018-09-14 | Author:Isabel Sawhill

Paying for the Worker Credit As noted, a modest expansion of the EITC or of its first cousin, a worker credit, combined with a higher minimum wage, need not be ...
( Category: Sociology September 15,2018 )
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh
epub |eng | 2011-08-06 | Author:Nikhil Pal Singh

Reading An American Dilemma By the mid1940s the identification of race with struggles for self-determination around the world posed a clear challenge to U.S. world hegemony. From the end of ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 15,2018 )
Delirium by Nancy Cohen
epub |eng | 2012-01-12 | Author:Nancy Cohen

IN THE TWO years leading up to the 2000 presidential election, Bush had marketed himself as a pragmatic moderate and publicly flaunted his independence from the Right. The Republican establishment ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 15,2018 )

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