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Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Sandra Day O'Connor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-03-15
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

On July 1, 1981, President Ronald Reagan interviewed Sandra Day O'Connor as a candidate for the United States Supreme Court. A few days later, he called her. "Sandra, I'd like to announce your nomination to the Court tomorrow. Is that all right with you?" Scared and wondering if this was a mistake, the little-known judge from Arizona was on her way to becoming the first woman justice and one of the most powerful women in the nation. Born in El Paso, Texas, O'Connor grew up on the Lazy B, a cattle ranch that spanned the Arizona-New Mexico border. There she learned lifelong lessons about self-reliance, hard work, and the joy of the outdoors. Ann Carey McFeatters sketches O'Connor's formative y...

In Search of the City on a Hill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

In Search of the City on a Hill

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-31
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.

Not in My Backyard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Not in My Backyard

How a woman-led citizens' group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unchecked economic development This social history of local political activism tells the story of the decades-long fight to save Green Springs, Virginia, illuminating the economic tradeoffs of protecting the environment, the origins of NIMBYism, the changing nature of local control, and the surprising power of history to advance public policy. Rae Ely faced long odds when she launched a campaign in 1970 to stop a prison, then a strip mine, in Green Springs. The local political machine supported both projects, promising jobs for impoverished Louisa C...

Sunbelt Capitalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Sunbelt Capitalism

Few Sunbelt cities burned brighter or contributed more to the conservative movement than Phoenix. In 1910, eleven thousand people called Phoenix home; now, over four million reside in this metropolitan region. In Sunbelt Capitalism, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer tells the story of the city's expansion and its impact on the nation. The dramatic growth of Phoenix speaks not only to the character and history of the Sunbelt but also to the evolution in American capitalism that sustained it. In the 1930s, Barry Goldwater and other members of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce feared the influence of New Deal planners, small businessmen, and Arizona trade unionists. While Phoenix's business elite detested ...

Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Sandra Day O'Connor

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, Sandra Day O�Connor was the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. This book celebrates the pioneering force Ms. O'Connor had during her service in the Supreme Court between 1981 - 2006. In 2009, her accomplishments were honored when President Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A native Texan, Ms. O'Connor is considered to be a tough moderate conservative. This book examines all aspects of Sandra Day O�Connor's life including her childhood, education, and early influences. A timeline of events is included along with a glossary of terms which defines history-specific terms. This bright and engaging volume includes primary source photos, quote and excerpts which round out his must-have book about this highly important and worldly individual.

Preparing for Reentry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Preparing for Reentry

More and more lawyers are opting to take time out to raise a family, or take advantage of many of the leave acts that have come about in the last few years. This practical book explains how you can quickly and effectively get up to speed and reenter the filed of law after a prolonged absence. The book also discusses how to effectively balance the work/home relationship once you return to work.

Official Congressional Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1632

Official Congressional Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape

Nearly four million Americans worked on Barry Goldwater’s behalf in the presidential election of 1964. These citizens were as dedicated to their cause as those who fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. Arguably, the conservative agenda that began with Goldwater has had effects on American politics and society as profound and far reaching as the liberalism of the 1960s. According to the essays in this volume, it’s high time for a reconsideration of Barry Goldwater’s legacy. Since Goldwater’s death in 1998, politicians, pundits, and academics have been assessing his achievements and his shortcomings. The twelve essays in this volume thoroughly examine the life, times, an...

Mother Jones
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Mother Jones

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-09
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones into a force to be reckoned with. Radicalized in a brutal era of repeated violence against hard-working men and women, Mother Jones crisscrossed the country to demand higher wages and safer working conditions. Her activism in support of American workers began after the age of sixty. The grandmotherly persona s...

Symposium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Symposium

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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