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America Under Fire
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Author : Jim Romeo
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-02-03
America Under Fire written by Jim Romeo and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-03 with Political Science categories.
This book was written to hopefully make people aware of the fact, that there are different ways of looking at thinks. Of courser this does not apply to every situation and circumstance that arises. However, I believe it applies enough, that people should start to consider this different approach to looking at things when certain situations come up. First, is a strategy which could hopefully keep us from getting bogged down in anymore long draw out guerrilla war (Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan). The way we are presently staying in places like this for about 10 years allowing our soldiers, and marines to get picked off one at a time by IEDs, is unacceptable. This sacrifice, is further insulted by the fact, that shortly after our military leaves the country we tried to help, it usually falls apart. Second, I know very little about the economy, however, Ive come up with 2 ideas that I believe will be beneficial for the American people to start to think about and consider. Third, racism in America, there is another side to racism in this country and not being aware of it (weather your white, black, red, or yellow) I believe is more of a negative then a positive.
Under Fire
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Author : Oliver North
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Under Fire written by Oliver North and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With a cast of characters that includes Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Robert "Bud" McFarlane William CAsey and John Poindexter, Oliver North tells for the first time the story of his life and reveals the startling details about top secret hostage negotiations arms sales to Iran, and the covert pipeline of funds to the Nicaraguan contras-all of which erupted before the stunned American public as the "Iran-Contra Affair."
Science Under Fire
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Author : Andrew Jewett
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-09
Science Under Fire written by Andrew Jewett and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-09 with Science categories.
Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture. Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that “tenured radicals” have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science’s celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attachment to Eurocentric and patriarchal values. As we grapple with the implications of climate change and revolutions in fields from biotechnology to robotics to computing, it is crucial to understand how scientific authority functions—and where it has run up against political and cultural barriers. Science under Fire reconstructs a century of battles over the cultural implications of science in the United States. Andrew Jewett reveals a persistent current of criticism which maintains that scientists have injected faulty social philosophies into the nation’s bloodstream under the cover of neutrality. This charge of corruption has taken many forms and appeared among critics with a wide range of social, political, and theological views, but common to all is the argument that an ideologically compromised science has produced an array of social ills. Jewett shows that this suspicion of science has been a major force in American politics and culture by tracking its development, varied expressions, and potent consequences since the 1920s. Looking at today’s battles over science, Jewett argues that citizens and leaders must steer a course between, on the one hand, the naïve image of science as a pristine, value-neutral form of knowledge, and, on the other, the assumption that scientists’ claims are merely ideologies masquerading as truths.
America S Political Class Under Fire
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Author : David A. Horowitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-02
America S Political Class Under Fire written by David A. Horowitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-02 with History categories.
While the clash between what has been called the modern and undeveloped worlds has led to America's military involvement in the Middle East and other places, few people realize the tension between the modern and the traditional within the United States. Beginning in the 1920's, professional intellectuals and academics began influencing the nation's public policy on matters as diverse as education, economics, and public health. In this thoughtful work, David A. Horowitz analyzes the tension between the so-called New Class of knowledge professionals and their critics, who accused them of being out of touch with the common sense of everyday people, strangers to the American Way, even Communists. America's Political Class Under Fire is organized over nine periods of 20th-century history, providing a window into everything from the Scopes evolution trial and McCarthyism to affirmative action and the Clinton health care fiasco. Along the way, the book explores the New Left, populist conservatism, and the mid-90's reaction to political liberalism, which saw Newt Gingrich rise to the top post in the House of Representatives. In telling these stories, Horowitz seeks to encourage a more balanced and fair-minded assessment of the consequences of expertise and applied intellect to democratic existence in the United States.
America On Fire The Untold History Of Police Violence And Black Rebellion Since The 1960s
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Author : Elizabeth Hinton
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-18
America On Fire The Untold History Of Police Violence And Black Rebellion Since The 1960s written by Elizabeth Hinton and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with History categories.
“Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.” —Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding of the post–civil rights era. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire, the events of 2020 had clear precursors—and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Even in the aftermath of Donald Trump, many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of structural racism and one of its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions—explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared, the optimistic story of a post–Jim Crow United States no longer holds. Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Crime,” sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers, plundered local businesses, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities, from York, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, to Stockton, California. The central lesson from these eruptions—that police violence invariably leads to community violence—continues to escape policymakers, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue unless police are no longer called on to manage the consequences of dismal conditions beyond their control, and until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality.
Children Under Fire
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Author : John Woodrow Cox
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-03-30
Children Under Fire written by John Woodrow Cox and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with History categories.
Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction * Winner of the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Based on the acclaimed series—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation’s children, and a call to action for a new way forward In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection—both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava’s best friend had been killed in a campus shooting at her elementary school, and Tyshaun’s father had been shot to death outside of the boy’s elementary school. Ava’s and Tyshaun’s stories are extraordinary, but not unique. In the past decade, 15,000 children have been killed from gunfire, though that number does not account for the kids who weren’t shot and aren’t considered victims but have nevertheless been irreparably harmed by gun violence. In Children Under Fire, John Woodrow Cox investigates the effectiveness of gun safety reforms as well as efforts to manage children’s trauma in the wake of neighborhood shootings and campus massacres, from Columbine to Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Through deep reporting, Cox addresses how we can effect change now, and help children like Ava and Tyshaun. He explores their stories and more, including a couple in South Carolina whose eleven-year-old son shot himself, a Republican politician fighting for gun safety laws, and the charlatans infiltrating the school safety business. In a moment when the country is desperate to better understand and address gun violence, Children Under Fire offers a way to do just that, weaving wrenching personal stories into a critical call for the United States to embrace practical reforms that would save thousands of young lives. *A Newsweek Favorite Book of 2021 *An NPR 2021 "Books We Love" selection *A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction *A Kirkus "2021's Best, Most Urgent Books of Current Affairs" selection
Higher Education Under Fire
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Author : Michael Berube
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-24
Higher Education Under Fire written by Michael Berube and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-24 with Education categories.
The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.
History Of The United States Of America Under The Constitution 1861 1865 The Civil War
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Author : James Schouler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
History Of The United States Of America Under The Constitution 1861 1865 The Civil War written by James Schouler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with United States categories.
Environment Under Fire
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Author : Daniel Faber
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1993
Environment Under Fire written by Daniel Faber and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Coming Out Under Fire
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Author : Allan Bérubé
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2010-09-07
Coming Out Under Fire written by Allan Bérubé and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-07 with Social Science categories.
During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation--not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive interviews with gay veterans, and declassified military documents, Berube thoughtfully constructs a startling history of the two wars gay military men and women fough--one for America and another as homosexuals within the military. Berube's book, the inspiration for the 1995 Peabody Award-winning documentary film of the same name, has become a classic since it was published in 1990, just three years prior to the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which has continued to serve as an uneasy compromise between gays and the military. With a new foreword by historians John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, this book remains a valuable contribution to the history of World War II, as well as to the ongoing debate regarding the role of gays in the U.S. military.