Summary Book Review Claiming Lincoln by Jason Jividen:
Download or read book Claiming Lincoln written by Jason Jividen and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-1968 by Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.):
Download or read book History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-1968 written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 3959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. President Publisher : Release Date :1965 ISBN 10 :HARVARD:32044121191407 Pages :1024 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by United States. President:
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Summary Book Review Civil Rights and the Reagan Administration by Norman C. Amaker:
Download or read book Civil Rights and the Reagan Administration written by Norman C. Amaker and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very Good,No Highlights or Markup,all pages are intact.
Author :Maris A. Vinovskis Publisher :University of Chicago Press Release Date :2008-11-15 ISBN 10 :9780226856735 Pages :200 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.5/5 (673 users download)
Summary Book Review The Birth of Head Start by Maris A. Vinovskis:
Download or read book The Birth of Head Start written by Maris A. Vinovskis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular and enduring legacies of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs, Project Head Start continues to support young children of low-income families-close to one million annually-by providing a range of developmental and educational services. Yet as Head Start reaches its fortieth anniversary, debates over the function and scope of this federal program persist. Although the program's importance is unquestioned across party lines, the direction of its future—whether toward a greater focus on school readiness and literacy or the continuation of a holistic approach-remains a point of contention. Policymakers proposing to reform Head Start often invoke its origins to justify their position, but until now no comprehensive political history of the program has existed. Maris A. Vinovskis here provides an in-depth look at the nation's largest and best known—yet politically challenged—early education program. The Birth of Head Start sets the record straight on the program's intended aims, documenting key decisions made during its formative years. While previous accounts of Head Start have neglected the contributions of important participants such as federal education officials and members of Congress, Vinovskis's history is the first to consider the relationship between politics and policymaking and how this interaction has shaped the program. This thorough and incisive book will be essential for policymakers and legislators interested in prekindergarten education and will inform future discussions on early intervention services for disadvantaged children.
Summary Book Review Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding by Ronald J. Pestritto:
Download or read book Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding written by Ronald J. Pestritto and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book address how the fundamental tensions between modern liberalism and the ideas of the founders have played out in the context of contemporary thought and practice in American politics.
Summary Book Review The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia by Robert Frank Futrell:
Download or read book The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia written by Robert Frank Futrell and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review In the Shadow of FDR by William Edward Leuchtenburg:
Download or read book In the Shadow of FDR written by William Edward Leuchtenburg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945 -- the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR's formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to understanding the contemporary presidency. This new edition of In the Shadow of FDR has been updated to examine Bill Clinton's presidency, including possible parallels between Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt. Concluding with an analysis of the 2000 presidential campaign, William E. Leuchtenburg assesses the influence FDR's legacy is likely to continue to have in the new century.
Author :Phillip J. Cooper Publisher :Routledge Release Date :2016-09-19 ISBN 10 :9781317516361 Pages :628 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.1/5 (636 users download)
Summary Book Review Civil Rights in Public Service by Phillip J. Cooper:
Download or read book Civil Rights in Public Service written by Phillip J. Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promises of justice and equality made in the U.S. Constitution, numerous Amendments, and decisions of the Supreme Court are hallmarks of American civil rights. Yet the realities of inequality remain facts of modern life for too many Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans, even though state-mandated racial segregation has been outlawed for years. Women still face a variety of forms of discrimination—some subtle and others more overt. There remain many laws that treat people differently because of sexual orientation. People with disabilities are supposed to be protected by a variety of statutes, but many of these policies remain unfulfilled promises. These are just some of the many challenges of civil rights that persist in a nation that proudly points to the words above the entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court that read "Equal Justice Under Law." This text is for current and future public service professionals —whether they are in government agencies, in nonprofit organizations that provide social services for government, or contractors who operate as state actors—who increasingly serve diverse communities with a range of complex challenges, while working and managing within organizations that, fortunately, are themselves more diverse than ever before. For those who work and serve in such settings, civil rights is not an abstract academic study, but a critically important and very practical fact of daily life. This book may also be used on civil rights law, policy, and public administration courses, and each chapter ends with a section on ‘Issues for Policy and Practice’ to guide an examination of key public policy hurdles in the fight for civil rights as well as the implications for public service practice. Through an engaging exploration of edited court cases, legislation, and speeches, the reader is encouraged to think critically about civil rights law and policy pertaining to African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos/Latinas, gender, sexual orientation, and disabilities, to learn what civil rights require, but also to come to a more empathetic understanding of how different groups of people experience civil rights and the unique challenges they face.
Summary Book Review In the Shadow of FDR by William E. Leuchtenburg:
Download or read book In the Shadow of FDR written by William E. Leuchtenburg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating and original survey of the political impact of FDR's image on his successors in the White House.--Foreign Affairs
Summary Book Review The Advisory Years to 1965 by Robert Frank Futrell:
Download or read book The Advisory Years to 1965 written by Robert Frank Futrell and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first of a series titled The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia. It tells the story of the Air Force's involvement in the region from the end of the second World War until the major infusion of American troops into Vietnam in 1965. During these years, and most noticeably after 1961, the Air Force's principal role in Southeast Asia was to advise the Vietnamese Air Force in its struggle against insurgents seeking the collapse of the Saigon Government. This story includes some issues of universal applicability to the Air Force: the role of air power in an insurgency, the most effective way to advise a foreign ally, and how to coordinate with other American agencies (both military and civilian) which are doing the same thing. It also deals iwth issues unique to the Vietnamese conflict: how to coordinate a centralized, technological modern air force with a feudal, decentralized, indigenous one without overwhelming it, and how best to adapt fighter, reconnaissance, airlift, and liaison planes to a jungle environment. Additional volumes in this series will tell the story of the Air Force in South Vietnam, in Laos, and over North Vietnam until the cessation of the Air Force's direct role in 1973, (Author).
Summary Book Review A Review of the United States Role in International Biomedical Research and Communications by Mary E. Corning:
Download or read book A Review of the United States Role in International Biomedical Research and Communications written by Mary E. Corning and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Launching the War on Poverty by Michael L. Gillette:
Download or read book Launching the War on Poverty written by Michael L. Gillette and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring idealism of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, an offensive spearheaded by a controversial new government agency. Within months, the Office of Economic Opportunity created an array of unconventional initiatives that empowered the poor, challenged the established order, and ultimately transformed the nation's attitudes toward poverty. In Launching the War on Poverty, historian Michael L. Gillette weaves together oral history interviews with the architects of the Great Society's boldest experiment. Forty-nine former poverty warriors, including Sargent Shriver, Adam Yarmolinsky, and Lawrence F. O'Brien, recount this inside story of unprecedented governmental innovation. The interviews capture the excitement and heady optimism of Americans in the 1960s along with their conflicts and disillusionment. This new edition of Launching the War on Poverty adds the voice of Lyndon Johnson to the story with excerpts from his recently-released White House telephone conversations. In these colorful and brutally candid conversations, LBJ exercises his full arsenal of presidential powers, political leverage, and legendary persuasiveness to win one of his most difficult legislative battles. The second edition also documents how the OEO's offspring survived their volatile origins to become broadly supported features of domestic policy.
Author :United States. Department of State Publisher : Release Date :1992 ISBN 10 :WISC:89068455021 Pages :648 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968 by United States. Department of State:
Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968 written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :John W Johnson Publisher :Greenwood Release Date :2009-05-19 ISBN 10 :9780313081323 Pages :216 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.8/5 (132 users download)
Summary Book Review Affirmative Action by John W Johnson:
Download or read book Affirmative Action written by John W Johnson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affirmative Action recounts the fascinating history of a civil rights provision considered vital to protecting and promoting equality, but still bitterly contested in the courts—and in the court of public opinion.
Summary Book Review LBJ’s American Promise by Garth E. Pauley:
Download or read book LBJ’s American Promise written by Garth E. Pauley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Lyndon Johnson developed a reputation as a rough-hewn, arm-twisting deal-maker with a drawl, at a crucial moment in history he delivered an address to Congress that moved Martin Luther King Jr. to tears and earned praise from the media as the best presidential speech in American history. Even today, his voting rights address of 1965 ranks high not only in political significance, but also as an example of leadership through oratory. Garth E. Pauley carefully analyzes both the content and the context of this historic speech. He begins with an analysis of the less-than-linear path of voting rights in the United States, and highlights the failures and limited successes of previous legislation. Many commentators have seen Johnson’s voting rights speech as a response to the escalating protests in Selma, and Pauley explores that connection. Did Johnson wait too long to address the issue? Would he have championed voting rights without the protests? Pauley traces the development of the speech and the policy with these questions in mind. He situates the speech not only within its immediate context but also within Johnson’s ideology and value system, tracing the influences on Johnson’s racial attitudes and describing the complex of policies he developed to address issues of inequality. Having set the stage for the address, Pauley then carefully analyzes the text itself. He charts the “authorship” of the speech through several drafts by aides, traces the purposefulness of the allusions, and recounts the extemporizing Johnson introduced when he actually delivered the address. He notes the idealistic, even mythic dimensions of the speech, which contrast with its plainspoken style. Finally, Pauley gauges the effectiveness of the speech. He reports the response to the address in the media, among civil rights leaders, and in the general population. Pauley concludes with some reservations about the effectiveness not only of this address but also of the Johnson program for racial justice. Nonetheless, he believes that “Lyndon Johnson’s ‘We Shall Overcome’ speech remains a remarkable achievement,” combining principle with rhetorical leadership.
Summary Book Review The United States and the Vietnam War: Leadership and diplomacy in the Vietnam War by Walter L. Hixson:
Download or read book The United States and the Vietnam War: Leadership and diplomacy in the Vietnam War written by Walter L. Hixson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These six volumes focus on the history and legacies of the Vietnam War on the basis of the best scholarly articles. The six volumes analyze, respectively, the origins of the Indochina wars; military strategy; the role of prominent individuals; the antiwar movement; the lessons of Vietnam; and representations of the war in popular culture. A brief introduction accompanies each volume."--V.1. Series Introduction.
