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Leaving Bayberry House
Two sisters, Liz and Angie, meet at their deceased parents country house to prepare it for sale. The sisters have never been close, but both are besieged by memories of their childhood and their parents. They are haunted by this house, where their father, a pacifist Unitarian minister, committed suicide. In the end, the sisters reconcile with each other and with the past. The novel takes place during one week in August 1973, when the sisters are middle-aged, but each chapter ends in a flashback to the years of World War II, when they were adolescents and the family was in turmoil, the father wrestling with his conscience over his pacifism and an affair with a Polish refugee, a son killed in the war, and one daughter sinking into bipolar disorder.
Eyes on Spies
Amy Zegart examines the weaknesses of US intelligence oversight and why those deficiencies have persisted, despite the unprecedented importance of intelligence in today's environment. She argues that many of the biggest oversight problems lie with Congress—the institution, not the parties or personalities—showing how Congress has collectively and persistently tied its own hands in overseeing intelligence.
The Politics of Women's Studies
How women's studies was born--in the words of its founders.
Report of the Clerk of the House from ...
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
Liberation and the Cosmos
The rich legacy of black critical thought, creative expression, and religious reflection come together in these creatively imagined conversations between the elders about the shape and conditions of Black liberation. Barbara A. Holmes has defined key issues of freedom and identity, hypothesizing a meeting of the ancestors assembled "on the other side" to discuss them. Imagine a conversation between Barbara Jordan and Thurgood Marshall on what freedom looks like in relation to law and politics. Or, between Tupac Shakur, Nina Simone, and James Baldwin on art, culture, and liberation. Malcolm X and Harriet Tubman discuss freedom and wholeness, while Audre Lorde, Fannie Lou Hamer, and George Washington Carver talk about liberated bodies. These imagined dialogues open up rich reflection and insight and offer a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation down through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.
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Blue & Gold and Black
During the twentieth century, the U.S. Naval Academy evolved from a racist institution to one that ranked equal opportunity among its fundamental tenets. This transformation was not without its social cost, however, and black midshipmen bore the brunt of it. Blue & Gold and Black is the history of integration of African Americans into the Naval Academy. The book examines how civil rights advocates? demands for equal opportunity shaped the Naval Academy?s evolution. Author Robert J. Schneller Jr. analyzes how changes in the Academy?s policies and culture affected the lives of black midshipmen, as well as how black midshipmen effected change in the Academy?s policies and culture. Most institut...
The Decline of Comity in Congress
What is the nature of representation? Why do some legislators pursue their own policy agendas while others only vote according to the wishes of a majority in their district? In The Movers and the Shirkers, Eric M. Uslaner sheds new light on these intriguing questions. Uslaner demonstrates that current notions of representation are too narrow and that members of Congress pursue their own policy agendas as well as represent their constituents' interests. Uslaner explains that most senators do not choose between their ideal policies or their constituency preferences because voters usually elect public officials who are in tune with their beliefs. Moreover, because the constituency is a complex group, some of whom are more critical to a legislator than others, the legislator is able to form alliances with those who support his or her policy preferences. In short, the author argues that politics is both local and ideological. This work illuminates one of the central issues of representative democracy and will appeal to those who study or follow legislative politics as well as those interested in democratic theory.
The Contender
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 The Prerequisites for a Congressional Candidate -- 2 Nixon's First Primary -- 3 Nixon Versus Voorhis -- 4 Learning the Congressional Routine -- 5 Nixon and HUAC -- 6 The Herter Committee -- 7 Sharpening Foreign and Domestic Priorities -- 8 Running for Reelection -- 9 Moving Onto the National Stage -- 10 Nixon: Chambers Versus Hiss -- 11 The Pumpkin, Father Cronin, the FBI, and Duggan -- 12 Nixon, Communism, and the Truman Triumph -- 13 Stepping Sideways to Move Up -- 14 The 1950 Primary -- 15 Douglas Versus Nixon: The Issues -- 16 Fifty-one Days in the Fall: Nixon Versus Douglas-Reality and Legend -- 17 Communism and Korea -- 18 Corruption in the Highest Places -- 19 "Electability" and Other Issues -- 20 The 1952 Convention -- Epilogue: Nixon and His Detractors-Whom Should We Believe? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Characters -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
