The Autobiography of Leverett Saltonstall - 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 The Autobiography of Leverett Saltonstall write by Leverett Saltonstall. This book was released on 2015-09-17. The Autobiography of Leverett Saltonstall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this fascinating autobiography, the late Massachusetts Governor and Senator Leverett Saltonstall shares stories from a political career that spanned nearly five decades—from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the chambers of the U.S. Senate. Few politicians in the history of the Republic have experienced such a successful career as this Yankee from Massachusetts. Saltonstall takes us behind the scenes, beginning with that day in 1923 when Governor Channing Cox swore him in as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. We get the insider’s perspective on the Boston Police strike and its aftermath, the controversial Sacco-Vanzetti case comes to life once again, and we are treated to the remarkable details of Saltonstall's battles with James Michael Curley, Dan Coakley, and William F. Callahan. His story of the "hush-hush" Senate committee that was charged with overseeing the CIA is still intriguing today as is his portrayal of Senators caught in a bind by Joe McCarthy. The stories of Saltonstall’s life are told with humility and warmth—from his close working relationship with John F. Kennedy while they served in the Senate to together to the strong bond between him and his wife of sixty years to the impact "Uncle Cotty" and Henry Shattuck had on his political education and development.
Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall ... Reprinted from the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Etc
Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall ... Reprinted from the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Etc - 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 Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall ... Reprinted from the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Etc write by Joseph Hodges CHOATE. This book was released on 1899. Memoir of Leverett Saltonstall ... Reprinted from the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Etc available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Leviathan 2.0
Leviathan 2.0 - 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 Leviathan 2.0 write by Charles S. Maier. This book was released on 2014-04-21. Leviathan 2.0 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today. Modern states were far from immune to the modernizing forces of war, technology, and ideology. From 1845 to 1880, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina were all reconstituted through territorial violence. Europe witnessed the unification of Germany and Italy, while Asian nations such as Japan tried to mitigate foreign incursions through state-building reforms. A global wave of revolution at the turn of the century pushed the modernization process further in China, Russia, Iran, and Ottoman Turkey. By the late 1930s, with the rise of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the momentum of history seemed to shift toward war-glorifying totalitarian states. But several variants of the modern state survived World War II: the welfare states of Western democracies; single-party socialist governments; and governments dominated by the military, especially prevalent in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Toward the end of the twentieth century, all of these forms stood in growing tension with the transformative influences of globalized capitalism. Modern statehood recreated itself in many ways, Charles S. Maier concludes, but finally had to adopt a precarious equilibrium with ever more powerful economic forces.
Once Within Borders
Once Within Borders - 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 Once Within Borders write by Charles S. Maier. This book was released on 2016-10-17. Once Within Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice of human societies. Master historian Charles S. Maier tracks the epochal changes that have defined territories over five centuries and draws attention to ideas and technologies that contribute to territoriality’s remarkable resilience. Territorial boundaries transform geography into history by providing a framework for organizing political and economic life. But properties of territory—their meanings and applications—have changed considerably across space and time. In the West, modern territoriality developed in tandem with ideas of sovereignty in the seventeenth century. Sovereign rulers took steps to fortify their borders, map and privatize the land, and centralize their sway over the populations and resources within their domain. The arrival of railroads and the telegraph enabled territorial expansion at home and abroad as well as the extension of control over large spaces. By the late nineteenth century, the extent of a nation’s territory had become an index of its power, with overseas colonial possessions augmenting prestige and wealth and redefining territoriality. Turning to the geopolitical crises of the twentieth century, Maier pays close attention to our present moment, asking in what ways modern nations and economies still live within borders and to what degree our societies have moved toward a post-territiorial world.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story - 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 Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story write by R. Kent Newmyer. This book was released on 2004-01-21. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story's greatest objective was to fashion a national jurisprudence that would carry the American people into the modern age without losing those values.
