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Boss Simon: Joseph Simon: The First Jewish Republican Senator
Political devil. The Judas Iscariot of Oregon politics. Little Napoleon. Those are among the terms used to describe Joseph Simon, the nation's first Jewish Republican senator. Oregon's Boss Simon was a machine politician who hobnobbed with U.S. presidents. But he had an ugly falling out with Teddy Roosevelt, accusing the president of discriminating against him because he was Jewish. The author had heard about his famous relative. But no one in the family knew much about Senator Simon. So, Richard Simon, a former congressional correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, looked into Senator Simon's life. What he discovered was a man described as "worse than a Southern Pacific train robber." Joe Simon's election to the U.S. Senate was called "one of the greatest political surprises ever.'' Simon, an attorney for powerful railroads, played a critical role in the development of the Pacific Northwest.
A Companion to the History of Science
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars. Provides a single-volume overview of current scholarship in the history of science edited by one of the leading figures in the field Features forty essays by leading international scholars providing an overview of the key debates and developments in the history of science Reflects the shift towards deeper historical contextualization within the field Helps communicate and integrate perspectives from the history of science with other areas of historical inquiry Includes discussion of non-Western themes which are integrated throughout the chapters Divided into four sections based on key analytic categories that reflect new approaches in the field
Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000
The vast majority of European countries have never had a Newton, Pasteur or Einstein. Therefore a historical analysis of their scientific culture must be more than the search for great luminaries. Studies of the ways science and technology were communicated to the public in countries of the European periphery can provide a valuable insight into the mechanisms of the appropriation of scientific ideas and technological practices across the continent. The contributors to this volume each take as their focus the popularization of science in countries on the margins of Europe, who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries may be perceived to have had a weak scientific culture. A variety of scient...
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KAPO KURTZ'S GOLD BOY
The story is about six million dollars in gold coins. The protagonist, Joe Wolfe, is a Jewish adolescent in Poland at the beginning of World War II. The story follows him through interment in Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the eventual reunion with his father, who has stolen the gold from the Nazis. They migrate to America, where Joe makes a new best friend in Jimmy Shea. Both men enlist to fight in the Korean War. They finally return home and purchase the marina from the widow of the marina owner. The story continues through building the marina during the Cold War while waiting for conditions in Europe to open the Iron Curtain and retrieve the gold. Joe also suffers from alcoholism in his early life.
How Knowledge Moves
Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational movement of knowledge is a social accomplishment, requiring negotiation, accommodation, and adaptation to the specificities of local contexts. This volume of essays by historians of science and technology breaks the national framework in which histories are often written. Instead, How Knowledge Moves takes knowledge as its central object, with the goal of unraveling the relationships among people, ideas, and things that arise when they cross nationa...
