Making Sense of American Liberalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of American Liberalism write by Jonathan Bell. This book was released on 2012-04-15. Making Sense of American Liberalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of thoughtful and timely essays offers refreshing and intelligent new perspectives on postwar American liberalism. Sophisticated yet accessible, Making Sense of American Liberalism challenges popular myths about liberalism in the United States. The volume presents the Democratic Party and liberal reform efforts such as civil rights, feminism, labor, and environmentalism as a more united, more radical force than has been depicted in scholarship and the media emphasizing the decline and disunity of the left. Distinguished contributors assess the problems liberals have confronted in the twentieth century, examine their strategies for reform, and chart the successes and potential for future liberal reform. Contributors are Anthony J. Badger, Jonathan Bell, Lizabeth Cohen, Susan Hartmann, Ella Howard, Bruce Miroff, Nelson Lichtenstein, Doug Rossinow, Timothy Stanley, and Timothy Thurber.
Polarized
Polarized - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polarized write by James E. Campbell. This book was released on 2018-03-27. Polarized available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An eye-opening look at how and why America has become so politically polarized Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened. Polarized presents commonsense benchmarks to measure polarization, draws data from a wide range of historical sources, and carefully assesses the quality of the evidence. Through an innovative and insightful use of circumstantial evidence, it provides a much-needed reality check to claims about polarization. This rigorous yet engaging and accessible book examines how polarization displaced pluralism and how this affected American democracy and civil society. Polarized challenges the widely held belief that polarization is the product of party and media elites, revealing instead how the American public in the 1960s set in motion the increase of polarization. American politics became highly polarized from the bottom up, not the top down, and this began much earlier than often thought. The Democrats and the Republicans are now ideologically distant from each other and about equally distant from the political center. Polarized also explains why the parties are polarized at all, despite their battle for the decisive median voter. No subject is more central to understanding American politics than political polarization, and no other book offers a more in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the subject than this one.
Making Sense of the Americas
Making Sense of the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of the Americas write by Jan Hansen. This book was released on 2015-11-12. Making Sense of the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is often impossible to grasp social protest movements of the 1980s without referring to how they imagined "the Americas". This edited volume is aimed at historicizing the representations of the United States and of Latin America among Western European protesters around that decade. By researching dominant interpretation patterns, practices and symbols within these movements, this book offers a fresh and compelling look at protest in the second half of the 20th century."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes on a Shared Landscape
Notes on a Shared Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notes on a Shared Landscape write by David Bayles. This book was released on 2005. Notes on a Shared Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rich collage of stories and photographs exploring our imperfect love affair with the American West.
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of the Molly Maguires write by Kevin Kenny. This book was released on 1998. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A group of 20 Irish immigrants, suspected of comprising a secret terrorist organization called the "Molly Maguires", were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of 16 men. This work offers a new interpretation of their dramatic story, tracing the origins of the Molly Maguires to Ireland and explaining the growth of a particular structure of meaning.
