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The Forgotten Americans
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Author : Isabel Sawhill
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
The Forgotten Americans written by Isabel Sawhill and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. Although many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and the federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
The Forgotten Americans
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Author : John E. Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1993
The Forgotten Americans written by John E. Schwarz and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Family & Relationships categories.
"John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy have joined forces to produce an incisive analysis of the nation's economic problems, illustrated their book with real people, and linked their material to the political process. This is a major contribution to the most important debate taking place in America. --Thomas B. Edsall
Forgotten Americans
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Author : Willard Sterne Randall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Forgotten Americans written by Willard Sterne Randall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with United States categories.
The Forgotten History Of America
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Author : Cormac O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The Forgotten History Of America written by Cormac O'Brien and has been published by Quarto Publishing Group USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with History categories.
“Introduces us to extraordinary men and women and landmark events that shaped the American character and the future of the nation.” —Thomas J. Craughwell, author of Failures of the Presidents and Stealing Lincoln’s Body Today Americans remember 1776 as the beginning of an era. A nation was born, commencing a story that continues to this day. But the War of Independence also marked the end of another era—one in which many nations, Native American and European, had struggled for control of a vast and formidable wilderness. This book returns to that long-ago age in which the clash between America’s first peoples and the newcomers from Europe was still new. Author Cormac O’Brien’s masterful storytelling reveals how actors as diverse as Spanish conquistadores, Puritan ministers, Amerindian sachems, mercenary soldiers, and ordinary farmers traded and clashed across a landscape of constant, often violent, change—and how these dramatic moments helped to shape the world around us. From the founding of the first permanent European settlement in North America (1565) to the bloody chaos of the British frontier in Pontiac’s War (1763), this vividly written narrative spans the two centuries of American history before the Revolutionary War. These lesser-known conflicts of the past are brought brilliantly to life, showing us a world of heroism, brutality, and tenacity—and also showing us how deep the roots of our own time truly run. Illustrated with more than 100 archival images. “Set against a grand landscape that inspires both awe and terror, The Forgotten History of America depicts a continent emerging as both a bloody battleground between Native Americans and Europeans and a place where alien cultures began to mesh.” —Joseph Cummins, author of The World’s Bloodiest History
America S Forgotten Holiday
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Author : Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009
America S Forgotten Holiday written by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists, and communists around the world. Yet American workers and radicals also used May Day to advance alternative definitions of what it meant to be an American and what America should be as a nation. Mining contemporary newspapers, party and union records, oral histories, photographs, and rare film footage, America’s Forgotten Holiday explains how May Days celebrants, through their colorful parades and mass meetings, both contributed to the construction of their own radical American identities and publicized alternative social and political models for the nation. This fascinating story of May Day in America reveals how many contours of American nationalism developed in dialogue with political radicals and workers, and uncovers the cultural history of those who considered themselves both patriotic and dissenting Americans.
America S Forgotten Pandemic
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Author : Alfred W. Crosby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-21
America S Forgotten Pandemic written by Alfred W. Crosby and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-21 with History categories.
Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. This 2003 edition includes a preface discussing the then recent outbreaks of diseases, including the Asian flu and the SARS epidemic.
The Forgotten Americans
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Author : John E. Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 1992
The Forgotten Americans written by John E. Schwarz and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Poor categories.
Is the American Dream dead? Millions of Americans work in respectable jobs and spend money frugally, yet nevertheless live in poverty, unable to afford basic necessities for their families. Now two political scientists explore why this kind of poverty is so widespread and offer solutions necessary to eliminate working poverty.
Forgotten Patriots
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Author : Edwin G. Burrows
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-11-11
Forgotten Patriots written by Edwin G. Burrows and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-11 with History categories.
Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons -- more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed -- those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence -- and how much we have forgotten.
Vigo
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Author : Bruno Roselli
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-21
Vigo written by Bruno Roselli and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-21 with History categories.
Excerpt from Vigo: A Forgotten Builder of the American Republic They may challenge or even destroy the fibre of his character, but they will never fully fathom the venturesome depths of a soul who, in the name of America, knew how to be all things to all people, from the most exalted to the openly questionable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
That S Not In My American History Book
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Author : Thomas Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Release Date : 2004-04-27
That S Not In My American History Book written by Thomas Ayres and has been published by Taylor Trade Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-27 with United States categories.
This book tackles the messy details, reclaims disregarded heroes, and sets the record straight. It also explains why July 4th isn't really Independence Day.