The Freedoms We Lost
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The Freedoms We Lost
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Author : Barbara Clark Smith
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2010-11-09
The Freedoms We Lost written by Barbara Clark Smith and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-09 with Political Science categories.
A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history. The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in “freedom” as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith charts the largely unknown territory of the unique freedoms enjoyed by colonial American subjects of the British king—that is, American freedom before the Revolution. The Freedoms We Lost recovers a world of common people regularly serving on juries, joining crowds that enforced (or opposed) the king’s edicts, and supplying community enforcement of laws in an era when there were no professional police. The Freedoms We Lost challenges the unquestioned assumption that the American patriots simply introduced freedom where the king had once reigned. Rather, Smith shows that they relied on colonial-era traditions of political participation to drive the Revolution forward—and eventually, betrayed these same traditions as leading patriots gravitated toward “monied men” and elites who would limit the role of common men in the new democracy. By the end of the 1780s, she shows, Americans discovered that forms of participation once proper to subjects of Britain were inappropriate—even impermissible—to citizens of the United States. In a narrative that counters nearly every textbook account of America’s founding era, The Freedoms We Lost challenges us to think about what it means to be free.
Freedom
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Author : Nathan Law
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-11-04
Freedom written by Nathan Law and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Political Science categories.
'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow 'In Freedom, Nathan Law paints a deeply personal portrait of sheer courage... An essential and timely read.' - Speaker Nancy Pelosi What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are? Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind. He remembers what it is like to lack freedom - and his father's precarious three-day escape from China in a small rowing boat. When authoritarianism makes gains around the world, demanding our silence as the price of doing business, it poses a challenge to democracy everywhere. In this passionate rallying cry, Law argues that we must defend our freedom now or face losing it for ever. 'Now we all need to stand firm to defend our freedoms, to ensure truth is not determined by dictators. We are born free and as equals. As long as we believe in that, no one can take it away from us.'
What We Ve Lost
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Author : Graydon Carter
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2004
What We Ve Lost written by Graydon Carter and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Vanity Fair" editor Carter addresses the fragile state of U.S. democracy with a critical review of the Bush administration in regard to the invasion of Iraq, personal rights, women's rights, the economy, and the environment.
Freedom For Sale
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Author : John Kampfner
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-09-03
Freedom For Sale written by John Kampfner and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-03 with Social Science categories.
Why is it that so many people around the world appear willing to give up freedoms in return for either security or prosperity? For the past 60 years it had been assumed that capitalism was intertwined with liberal democracy, that the two not just thrived together but needed each other to survive. But what happens when both are undermined? Governments around the world -- whether they fall into the authoritarian or the democratic camp -- have drawn up a new pact with their peoples. These are its terms: repression is selective, confined to those who openly challenge the status quo, who publicly go out of their way to 'cause trouble'. The number of people who fall into that category is actually very few. The rest of the population can enjoy freedom to travel, to live more or less as they wish, and to make and spend their money. This is the difference between public freedoms and privatefreedoms. We choose different freedoms we are prepared to cede. We all do it. Freedom for Sale will set a new agenda. Mixing narrative from different countries around the world, it breaks new ground in revealing the extent to which the old assumptions and securities have died. It will crucially ask why so many intelligent and ambitious citizens around the world, particularly among the young, seemed prepared to sacrifice freedom of the press and freedom of speech in their quest for wealth. A new world order may well be upon us, and in this gripping and devastating book John Kampfner reveals how it may just be too late to stop it.
What Price Liberty
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Author : Ben Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2009-06-04
What Price Liberty written by Ben Wilson and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-04 with History categories.
Individual liberty will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, while fear of terrorism, crime and social chaos has put our ideas of liberty into retreat in recent years. It is clear that there is not just a crisis of liberty, but a crisis in the way people talk about liberty. How do we, as individuals, negotiate the maximum amount of freedom in such a complex world? How can we resist the growth of intrusive authoritarianism without exposing ourselves to crime, terrorism and other risks? Even those who instinctively support social freedoms are losing confidence when confronted with such hard truths. History provides a guide to answering these questions. We have a rich legacy to draw upon to help define our approach to current problems. Yet it is a history which we are in danger of forgetting or misreading. In What Price Liberty? Ben Wilson travels through four centuries of British, American and European history, elaborating not just how civil liberties were constructed in the past, but how they were continually re-thought -and re-fought - in response to modernity. The last chapters put into context the controversies of the last decade or so-the threat of terrorism and the rise of the database nation. If liberty is to survive now it must, like it did in the past, adapt to new circumstances. But to do this we need to agree about the value we place on liberty.
Lost Freedom
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Author : Mathew Thomson
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-11-28
Lost Freedom written by Mathew Thomson and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-28 with History categories.
Lost Freedom addresses the widespread feeling that there has been a fundamental change in the social life of children in recent decades: the loss of childhood freedom, and in particular, the loss of freedom to roam beyond the safety of home. Mathew Thomson explores this phenomenon, concentrating on the period from the Second World War until the 1970s, and considering the roles of psychological theory, traffic, safety consciousness, anxiety about sexual danger, and television in the erosion of freedom. Thomson argues that the Second World War has an important place in this story, with war-borne anxieties encouraging an emphasis on the central importance of a landscape of home. War also encouraged the development of specially designed spaces for the cultivation of the child, including the adventure playground, and the virtual landscape of children's television. However, before the 1970s, British children still had much more physical freedom than they do today. Lost Freedom explores why this situation has changed. The volume pays particular attention to the 1970s as a period of transition, and one which saw radical visions of child liberation, but with anxieties about child protection also escalating in response. This is strikingly demonstrated in the story of how the paedophile emerged as a figure of major public concern. Thomson argues that this crisis of concern over child freedom is indicative of some of the broader problems of the social settlements that had been forged out of the Second World War.
The Frog Principle
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Author : Walter A. Ascher
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2005-04-07
The Frog Principle written by Walter A. Ascher and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-07 with Education categories.
George Orwell is laughing in his grave. We call ourselves the Land of the Free but our freedom has been slowly taken from us beginning in the sixties. Since 9-11 the pace of loss of freedom has accelerated beyond the wildest dream in all aspects of our lives. We gave the government the right to take away our freedoms. Our children will ever know what freedom really was in the United States. We have lost our rights over our children, our property and we have citizens spying on each other. Under the guise of War on Terror the government can arrest a U.S. citizen without a cause, prevent us from traveling, listen to our phone conversations and often banking records without a court order. The War on Drugs allows the government to seize our assets without a trial. Our court system, the death penalty and laws on obscenity are amusing and frightful to people of other nations. This book covers in twenty chapters examples of how we have lost our freedoms. We have become the frogs who are being boiled to death.
Freedom Lost
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Author : Mark A. Handy
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2015-04-07
Freedom Lost written by Mark A. Handy and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Fiction categories.
The conspiracy theorists were right! Who knew? A renegade president has used FEMA and government loopholes to rescind the Constitution, dismiss Congress, and all but appoint himself King Lording I. He rules with an iron fist and a callous disregard for human life. Oppose him and die. But true American nature begins to bleed through and dissent leads to rebellion. At the core of the resistance is Mace Wallace, lone survivor of the Cochise Stronghold Massacre. The Arizona militia SASS, Sout
Liberty Lost
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Author : Harold Phillips
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-13
Liberty Lost written by Harold Phillips and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-13 with Religion categories.
Liberty Lost In the mid-1600s an author named John Milton wrote a classic book called Paradise Lost. In this book he explained how Satan lost his place in heaven and Adam and Eve were so careless as to lose the Garden of Eden (paradise). This is a book called Liberty Lost, because we Americans do not even know it, but we too are carelessly losing paradise! Americans are experiencing the fruit of stolen foundations. America has been called the big experiment by some. For over 200 years the United States of America has been "The Shining Light on the Hill." What is not known is that the American Experience is the act of building a country on the principles of God and His truths. Historical statements like, "In God We Trust," or "Endowed by our Creator..." declare these facts. In this book, the author is pointing out three disappearing foundations that are being quietly removed, and the freedoms that rest on these pillars are disappearing as well. The erosion of creation by evolution The erasing of Christian history in America The "watering down'" of the precious Word of God Discovering how these tragedies have stolen our foundation for freedom is vital if there is any possibility of a return to liberty. Just 50 years ago, one could walk the streets in America without fear; but now we cannot do so without putting our lives in despair. We could leave our doors open and experience sweet sleep, but not today. Liberty is being stolen from us, and this author explains why. Reading this book is a must for every freedom-loving American. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Psalms 11: 3
Freedom Lost
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Author : Edward Kleinschmidt
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2003-07-14
Freedom Lost written by Edward Kleinschmidt and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-14 with categories.
Freedom Lost is set in America where the freedoms we hold dear are but a memory. Karen and her sister Tara are catapulted into a hostile world of Gun Ships and Storm Troopers. Facing imminent arrest or death, their mother Shelly sneaks Karen and Tara onboard a bus bound for Arizona. They arrive in Arizona only to discover a wanted poster with their pictures on it. Rather than be taken prisoner, they brave the high desert with nothing but a pocketknife, a survival book, and a Bible. Soon after they set out across the desert they meet up with a large dog called Rex. With the dogA[a¬a[s help they struggle to reach a band of mountains hoping to find water, shelter, and food. They manage to elude Gun Ships, natural dangers, and even criminals only to discover the cold months of winter are settling over the high country.