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While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year have garnered far less attention—despite their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night Massacre looks at those races. In examining the defeat in 1980 of Idaho’s Frank Church, South Dakota’s George McGovern, John Culver of Iowa, and Birch Bayh of Indiana, Marc C. Johnson tells the story of the beginnings of the divisive partisanship that has become a constant feature of American politics. The turnover of these seats not only allowed Republicans to gain control of the Senate for the first time since 1954 but also fundamentally alt...
Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power—whether economic, military, or executive—he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of...
It is 1944, the peak of World War II. The Allies are bombing Axis fuel depots in Romania to sap the Germans of precious energy resources, but the 15th Air Force is paying a heavy cost. Dozens of bombers are shot down over Yugoslavia, and many of the air crew are forced to bail out behind enemy lines. Nobody knows how many have survived, if they are in prisoners of war, or who is holding them. In Italy, a small cadre of men from the Office of Strategic Services learns that Serbian Chetnik forces, led by General Dragoljub 'Draza' Mihailovich, are sheltering dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Allied men in their homes and farms. It is up to the tiny O.S.S. team, codenamed HALYARD, to find a way get them back. 'HALYARD' is a fictionalized account of a true, but largely unknown, operation. It tells the story of how three men - 'Guv' Musulin, Mike Rajachich, and Arthur 'Jibby' Jibilian - parachuted behind enemy lines and, with the help of the Serbian Chetniks, pulled off one of the most daring military rescue operations in American history.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump’s presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that chronicles his life and its impact, from his rise in New York City to his tortured postpresidency. All of Trump’s behavior as president had echoes in what came before. In this revelatory and news-making book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of one of the most norms-shattering and consequential eras in American political history.
A guide to modern scanning electron microscopy instrumentation, methodology and techniques, highlighting novel applications to cell and molecular biology.
A major history of America's political parties from the Founding to our embittered present America’s political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes readers from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today’s parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the Founding. Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld paint unforgettable portraits of figures such as Martin Van Buren, whose pioneering Democrats invented the machinery of the mass po...
Brings together the areas of law affecting the travelling community. This guide covers accommodation needs such as planning, site provision, homelessness and eviction as well as other issues impacting on the day to day lives of Gypsies and Travellers such as education, healthcare and race discrimination.