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Over Here
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Over Here

With a new Afterword, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kennedy reveals how the First World War's legacy of Wilsonian idealism is reflected today in President George W. Bush's National Security Strategy.

Don't Shoot
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Don't Shoot

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-07
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have been astonishingly effective across the country. 'If you want to read a book on urban gangs and find out why they exist and why they kill each other, read this ... this is a sociology book, but it's like immersing yourself in The Wire ... When Kennedy says something, you believe him' Scotsman Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of gove...

Freedom from Fear
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1000

Freedom from Fear

The newest volume in the award-winning Oxford History of the United States--a brilliant narrative spanning the Great Depression, FDR's New Deal, and the Second World War. 58 illustrations.

The Library of Congress World War II Companion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1017

The Library of Congress World War II Companion

An indispensable reference on World War II produced by the Library of Congress and edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy. With hundreds of illustrations and quotations from contemporary documents, this will be the most authoritative popular reference on World War II. The noted historian John Keegan called World War II "the largest single event in human history." More than sixty years after it ended, that war continues to shape our world. Going far beyond accounts of the major battles, The Library of Congress World War II Companion examines, in a unique and engaging manner, this devastating conflict, its causes, conduct, and aftermath. It considers the politics that sh...

The Modern American Military
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

The Modern American Military

The Modern American Military is composed of essays surveying the mission and character of the United States armed forces in the twenty-first century.

Birth Control in America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Birth Control in America

Combines a biography of M. Sanger with a social history of the birth control movement.

The American People in the Great Depression
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

The American People in the Great Depression

On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity. Kennedy vividly demonstrates that the economic crisis of the 1930s was more than a reaction to the excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before the Crash, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, consuming capital and inflicting misery on city and countryside alike. Nor was the alleged prosperity of the 1920s as uniformly shared as legend portrays. Countless Americans ek...

Deterrence and Crime Prevention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Deterrence and Crime Prevention

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of state authority, works – it is hoped -- to diminish offending and enhance public safety. And however well we think deterrence works, it clearly often does not work nearly as well as we would like – and often at very great cost. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly literatures and real-world experience, Kennedy argues that we should reframe the ways in which we think about and produce deterrence. He argue...

A World of Struggle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

A World of Struggle

  • Categories: Law

How today's unjust global order is shaped by uncertain expert knowledge—and how to fix it A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. In this provocative book, David Kennedy draws on his experience working with international lawyers, human rights advocates, policy professionals, economic development specialists, military lawyers, and humanitarian strategists to provide a unique insider's perspective on the complexities of global governance. He describes t...

Freedom from Fear
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 936

Freedom from Fear

Examines the forces and people that shaped United States history between the Great Depression and the end of World War II