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Author : Richard A. Radoccia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-25
We Are All Americans written by Richard A. Radoccia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-25 with categories.
Join the journey into one of the most captivating and seminal events in all of American history.We Are All Americans is the story of the American Civil War, retold in a 21st century cable news setting, to experience the drama as it occurred.Knowing how a movie or book ends typically ruins the watching or reading experience. This unfortunately applies to history as well because it discourages many from engaging in how it unfolded. This is no truer than for the American Civil War. We know how the Civil War ended. Sadly, precious few today also know how it began. However, it was what happened in between these two mileposts that shaped the world we live in today in general and the United States in particular. The United States in 1865 was a dramatically different country from the one that went to the polls in 1860. It and the world were transformed by the events of the Civil War. The world was watching what would happen to the American experiment in democracy. When the minority - represented by the 9 million southerners (3.5 million of whom were slaves) - left the union to form its own government, it was primarily a reaction to the fear that their "peculiar institution" was threatened by a Lincoln presidency.In 1860, there were only two other democratic countries - Switzerland and New Zealand. The three accounted for less than 3% of the world's population. The rulers and the ruled of the world were watching to see if the people could govern themselves.The U.S. military was little more than local militia, a few sailing ships and archaic weaponry. The war's first fight at Bull Run was a lunchtime spectacle for the Washington elite - until Union soldiers nearly ran over them in retreat. After four years of the most horrific and deadly fighting the world had known, its military emerged as the world's most powerful, its weaponry the most advanced and lethal, and its navy the ruler of the seas.The Civil War witnessed the transformation of "battles" to "total war," the concept of destroying not just armies but the means to make and sustain war. Carl von Clausewitz wrote: "War is merely the continuation of politics by other means." The American Civil War was about the political struggle between the Union without slavery or slavery without the Union. Policy and politics were transformed on both sides of the Potomac as the war raged on. Southern states formed a new government that granted most power to the states. This model, however, gave Jefferson Davis little power to fight the war, leaving him and the central government no choice but to,ironically, enact laws that defied states' rights and individual liberties.In Washington DC, the Republicans had complete authority to rule. Lincoln assembled and supplied a vast army and navy essentially overnight, wired the countryside with telegraph, built the transcontinental railroad while fighting a war that cost $1 million per day. He also maintained a balanced budget thanks to a progressive income tax, immigration, the introduction of "greenbacks" and a rapidly growing economy.We Are All Americans is the story of how the United States was transformed through the words of the three most central figures of the time - Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. The story is communicated and colored by three, contemporary reporters who describe the events as they unfold, in time linear fashion. It is often said the country entered the war as the United States, plural, and emerged a nation, as the United States, singular. Experience this transformation through We Are All Americans.
The Other Americans
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Author : Laila Lalami
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2019-03-26
The Other Americans written by Laila Lalami and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-26 with Fiction categories.
***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*** Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui—father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant—is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora’s and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son’s secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters—deeply divided by race, religion, and class—tell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Driss’s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love—messy and unpredictable—is born. Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
We Are All Americans Pure And Simple
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Author : Leroy G. Dorsey
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2013-08-28
We Are All Americans Pure And Simple written by Leroy G. Dorsey and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The turn of the 20th century represented one of the most chaotic periods in the nation's history, as immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans struggled with their roles as Americans while white America feared their encroachments on national identity. This book examines Theodore Roosevelt’s public rhetoric—speeches, essays, and narrative histories—as he attempted to craft one people out of many. Leroy G. Dorsey observes that Roosevelt's solution to the problem appeared straightforward: everyone could become "Americans, pure and simple" if they embraced his notion of "Americanism." Roosevelt grounded his idea of Americanism in myth, particularly the frontier myth—a heroic combination of individual strength and character. When nonwhites and immigrants demonstrated these traits, they would become true Americans, earning an exalted status that they had heretofore been denied. Dorsey’s analysis illuminates how Roosevelt's rhetoric achieved a number of delicate, if problematic, balancing acts. Roosevelt gave his audiences the opportunity to accept a national identity that allowed "some" room for immigrants and nonwhites, while reinforcing their status as others, thereby reassuring white Americans of their superior place in the nation. Roosevelt’s belief in an ordered and unified nation did not overwhelm his private racist attitudes, Dorsey argues, but certainly competed with them. Despite his private sentiments, he recognized that racist beliefs and rhetoric were divisive and bad for the nation’s progress. The resulting message he chose to propagate was thus one of a rhetorical, if not literal, melting pot. By focusing on Roosevelt’s rhetorical constructions of national identity, as opposed to his personal exploits or his role as a policy maker, We Are All Americans offers new insights into Roosevelt’s use of public discourse to bind the nation together during one of the most polarized periods in its history.
We Are All Americans
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Author : Joy Masoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-08
We Are All Americans written by Joy Masoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08 with Social Science categories.
A thoughtful, balanced, and timely book. The lively prose and vivid illustrations, capture the excitement of America's multicultural history in a way that is accessible and appealing to children.
The Real All Americans
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Author : Sally Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2007-05-08
The Real All Americans written by Sally Jenkins and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle’s first students. Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing the way the game was played. Sally Jenkins gives this story of unlikely champions a breathtaking immediacy. We see the legendary Jim Thorpe kicking a winning field goal, watch an injured Dwight D. Eisenhower limping off the field, and follow the glorious rise of Coach Glenn “Pop” Warner as well as his unexpected fall from grace. The Real All Americans is about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations. It is an inspiring reminder of the extraordinary things that can be achieved when we set aside our differences and embrace a common purpose.
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.
We Are Americans
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Author : William Perez
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-03
We Are Americans written by William Perez and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-03 with Education categories.
Winner of the CEP Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary ScholarshipAbout 2.4 million children and young adults under 24 years of age are undocumented. Brought by their parents to the US as minors—many before they had reached their teens—they account for about one-sixth of the total undocumented population. Illegal through no fault of their own, some 65,000 undocumented students graduate from the nation's high schools each year. They cannot get a legal job, and face enormous barriers trying to enter college to better themselves—and yet America is the only country they know and, for many, English is the only language they speak. What future do they have? Why are we not capitalizing, as a nation, on this pool of talent that has so much to contribute? What should we be doing?Through the inspiring stories of 16 students—from seniors in high school to graduate students—William Perez gives voice to the estimated 2.4 million undocumented students in the United States, and draws attention to their plight. These stories reveal how—despite financial hardship, the unpredictability of living with the daily threat of deportation, restrictions of all sorts, and often in the face of discrimination by their teachers—so many are not just persisting in the American educational system, but achieving academically, and moreover often participating in service to their local communities. Perez reveals what drives these young people, and the visions they have for contributing to the country they call home.Through these stories, this book draws attention to these students’ predicament, to stimulate the debate about putting right a wrong not of their making, and to motivate more people to call for legislation, like the stalled Dream Act, that would offer undocumented students who participate in the economy and civil life a path to citizenship. Perez goes beyond this to discuss the social and policy issues of immigration reform. He dispels myths about illegal immigrants’ supposed drain on state and federal resources, providing authoritative evidence to the contrary. He cogently makes the case—on economic, social, and constitutional and moral grounds—for more flexible policies towards undocumented immigrants. If today’s immigrants, like those of past generations, are a positive force for our society, how much truer is that where undocumented students are concerned?
The Quiet Americans
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Author : Scott Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-02-18
The Quiet Americans written by Scott Anderson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-18 with History categories.
‘A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washington’s fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate today.’ New York Times At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing – seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear – to some – that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed CIA. The Quiet Americans chronicles the exploits of four spies – Michael Burke, a charming former football star fallen on hard times, Frank Wisner, the scion of a wealthy Southern family, Peter Sichel, a sophisticated German Jew who escaped the Nazis, and Edward Lansdale, a brilliant ad executive. The four ran covert operations across the globe, trying to outwit the ruthless KGB in Berlin, parachuting commandos into Eastern Europe, plotting coups, and directing wars against Communist insurgents in Asia. But time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by a combination of stupidity and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government – and more profoundly, the decision to abandon American ideals. By the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union had a stranglehold on Eastern Europe, the US had begun its disastrous intervention in Vietnam, and America, the beacon of democracy, was overthrowing democratically elected governments and earning the hatred of much of the world. All of this culminated in an act of betrayal and cowardice that would lock the Cold War into place for decades to come. Anderson brings to the telling of this story all the narrative brio, deep research, sceptical eye, and lively prose that made Lawrence in Arabia a major international bestseller. The intertwined lives of these men began in a common purpose of defending freedom, but the ravages of the Cold War led them to different fates. Two would quit the CIA in despair, stricken by the moral compromises they had to make; one became the archetype of the duplicitous and destructive American spy; and one would be so heartbroken he would take his own life. Scott Anderson’s The Quiet Americans is the story of these four men. It is also the story of how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world.
Science For All Americans
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Author : F. James Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1991-02-14
Science For All Americans written by F. James Rutherford and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-02-14 with Education categories.
In order to compete in the modern world, any society today must rank education in science, mathematics, and technology as one of its highest priorities. It's a sad but true fact, however, that most Americans are not scientifically literate. International studies of educational performance reveal that U.S. students consistently rank near the bottom in science and mathematics. The latest study of the National Assessment of Educational Progress has found that despite some small gains recently, the average performance of seventeen-year-olds in 1986 remained substantially lower than it had been in 1969. As the world approaches the twenty-first century, American schools-- when it comes to the advancement of scientific knowledge-- seem to be stuck in the Victorian age. In Science for All Americans, F. James Rutherford and Andrew Ahlgren brilliantly tackle this devastating problem. Based on Project 2061, a scientific literacy initiative sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this wide-ranging, important volume explores what constitutes scientific literacy in a modern society; the knowledge, skills, and attitudes all students should acquire from their total school experience from kindergarten through high school; and what steps this country must take to begin reforming its system of education in science, mathematics, and technology. Science for All Americans describes the scientifically literate person as one who knows that science, mathematics, and technology are interdependent enterprises with strengths and limitations; who understands key concepts and principles of science; who recognizes both the diversity and unity of the natural world; and who uses scientific knowledge and scientific ways of thinking for personal and social purposes. Its recommendations for educational reform downplay traditional subject categories and instead highlight the connections between them. It also emphasizes ideas and thinking skills over the memorization of specialized vocabulary. For instance, basic scientific literacy means knowing that the chief function of living cells is assembling protein molecules according to the instructions coded in DNA molecules, but does not mean necessarily knowing the terms "ribosome" or "deoxyribonucleic acid." Science, mathematics, and technology will be at the center of the radical changes in the nature of human existence that will occur during the next life span; therefore, preparing today's children for tomorrow's world must entail a solid education in these areas. Science for All Americans will help pave the way for the necessary reforms in America's schools.
America Again
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Author : Stephen Colbert
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-02
America Again written by Stephen Colbert and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Humor categories.
Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around--we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours just to bow before foreign leaders. Worse, the L.A. Four Seasons Hotel doesn't even have a dedicated phone button for the Spa. You have to dial an extension! Where did we lose our way?! It's high time we restored America to the greatness it never lost! Luckily, America Again will singlebookedly pull this country back from the brink. It features everything from chapters, to page numbers, to fonts. Covering subject's ranging from healthcare ("I shudder to think where we'd be without the wide variety of prescription drugs to treat our maladies, such as think-shuddering") to the economy ("Life is giving us lemons, and we're shipping them to the Chinese to make our lemon-flavored leadonade") to food ("Feel free to deep fry this book-it's a rich source of fiber"), Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track.