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Author |
: Jeffrey A. Becker |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2014-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813145051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813145058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ambition in America by : Jeffrey A. Becker
Most Americans admire the determination and drive of artists, athletes, and CEOs, but they seem to despise similar ambition in their elected officials. The structure of political representation and the separation of powers detailed in the United States Co
Author |
: Lawrence R. Samuel |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2020-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527554177 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527554171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Failure of Success by : Lawrence R. Samuel
This history of success in the United States illustrates the degree to which personal and professional accomplishments have determined overall life satisfaction. Beyond serving as a guide to the past, present, and future of success in America, especially that found in the business world, this book poses a provocative argument: the standard practice of employing outer-directed measures of success, notably wealth, power, and fame, has worked to the psychological disadvantage of many Americans. More specifically, it shows that a comparative and competitive view of success has made a significant number of individuals feel less successful than if more inner-directed measures were used. Ironically then, the traditional model of success in the United States has been largely a failure. This work offers historians, practitioners, and general readers of non-fiction a blueprint for how to adopt a more meaningful and positive model of success in their everyday lives.
Author |
: Alan Ehrenhalt |
Publisher |
: Three Rivers Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000022769947 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The United States of Ambition by : Alan Ehrenhalt
The provocative and acclaimed book that explains why America's politicians are continually disappointing. Americans' disappointment with politics and politicians will be a recurring theme in this election year, and Ehrenhalt's book will continue to be the touchstone for much of the debate.C.
Author |
: Mark Atwood Lawrence |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2024-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691264608 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691264600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The End of Ambition by : Mark Atwood Lawrence
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. With U.S. power, resources, and expertise, almost anything seemed possible in the countries of the Cold War’s “Third World”—developing, postcolonial nations unaligned with the United States or Soviet Union. Yet by the end of the decade, this vision lay in ruins. What happened? In The End of Ambition, Mark Atwood Lawrence offers a groundbreaking new history of America’s most consequential decade. He reveals how the Vietnam War, combined with dizzying social and political changes in the United States, led to a collapse of American liberal ambition in the Third World—and how this transformation was connected to shrinking aspirations back home in America. By the middle and late 1960s, democracy had given way to dictatorship in many Third World countries, while poverty and inequality remained pervasive. As America’s costly war in Vietnam dragged on and as the Kennedy years gave way to the administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, America became increasingly risk averse and embraced a new policy of promoting mere stability in the Third World. Paying special attention to the U.S. relationships with Brazil, India, Iran, Indonesia, and southern Africa, The End of Ambition tells the story of this momentous change and of how international and U.S. events intertwined. The result is an original new perspective on a war that continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy today.
Author |
: LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 152755211X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781527552111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Failure of Success by : LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL
This history of success in the United States illustrates the degree to which personal and professional accomplishments have determined overall life satisfaction. Beyond serving as a guide to the past, present, and future of success in America, especially that found in the business world, this book poses a provocative argument: the standard practice of employing outer-directed measures of success, notably wealth, power, and fame, has worked to the psychological disadvantage of many Americans. More specifically, it shows that a comparative and competitive view of success has made a significant number of individuals feel less successful than if more inner-directed measures were used. Ironically then, the traditional model of success in the United States has been largely a failure. This work offers historians, practitioners, and general readers of non-fiction a blueprint for how to adopt a more meaningful and positive model of success in their everyday lives.
Author |
: Dan Geary |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2009-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520943449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520943445 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Radical Ambition by : Dan Geary
Sociologist, social critic, and political radical C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading public intellectuals in twentieth century America. Offering an important new understanding of Mills and the times in which he lived, Radical Ambition challenges the captivating caricature that has prevailed of him as a lone rebel critic of 1950s complacency. Instead, it places Mills within broader trends in American politics, thought, and culture. Indeed, Daniel Geary reveals that Mills shared key assumptions about American society even with those liberal intellectuals who were his primary opponents. The book also sets Mills firmly within the history of American sociology and traces his political trajectory from committed supporter of the Old Left labor movement to influential herald of an international New Left. More than just a biography, Radical Ambition illuminates the career of a brilliant thinker whose life and works illustrate both the promise and the dilemmas of left-wing social thought in the United States.
Author |
: Yingyi Ma |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 395 |
Release |
: 2020-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231545563 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231545568 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ambitious and Anxious by : Yingyi Ma
Winner, 2021 Best Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Winner, 2021 Best Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society Study Abroad and International Studies Special Interest Group Honorable Mention, 2021 Pierre Bourdieu Award for the Best Book in Sociology of Education, Section on the Sociology of Education, American Sociological Association Over the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students—mostly self-funded—has swept across American higher education. From 2005 to 2015, undergraduate enrollment from China rose from under 10,000 to over 135,000. This privileged yet diverse group of young people from a changing China must navigate the complications and confusions of their formative years while bridging the two most powerful countries in the world. How do these students come to study in the United States? What does this experience mean to them? What does American higher education need to know and do in order to continue attracting these students and to provide sufficient support for them? In Ambitious and Anxious, the sociologist Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of this new wave of Chinese students based on research in both Chinese high schools and American higher-education institutions. Ma argues that these students’ experiences embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that arises from transformative social changes in China. These students and their families have the ambition to navigate two very different educational systems and societies. Yet the intricacy and pressure of these systems generate a great deal of anxiety, from applying to colleges before arriving, to studying and socializing on campus, and to looking ahead upon graduation. Ambitious and Anxious also considers policy implications for American colleges and universities, including recruitment, student experiences, faculty support, and career services.
Author |
: James Lee Ray |
Publisher |
: CQ Press |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2013-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781483321004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1483321002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Foreign Policy and Political Ambition by : James Lee Ray
In his eagerly-awaited second edition of American Foreign Policy and Political Ambition, James Ray revisits his deceptively simple premise that the highest priority of leaders is to stay in power. Looking at how political ambition and domestic pressures impact foreign policymaking is the key to understanding how and why foreign policy decisions are made. The text begins by using this analytic approach to look at the history of foreign policymaking and then examines how various parties inside and outside government influence decision making. In a unique third section, the book takes a regional approach, not only covering trends other books tend to miss, but giving students the opportunity to think comprehensively about how issues intersect around the globe—from human security and democratization, to globalization and pollution. Guided by input from adopters and reviewers, Ray has thoroughly re-organized the book and streamlined some coverage to better consolidate the historical, institutional, regional, and topical chapters and focus the thematic lens of the book. Ray has also brought the book fully up-to-date, addressing the latest events in American foreign policy, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the killing of Bin Laden, the WikiLeaks scandal and its aftermath, the impact of social media on foreign policy and world affairs, nuclear proliferation, developments in U.S.-Russian relations, climate change, and more.
Author |
: Randall Bennett Woods |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1040 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674026993 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674026995 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis LBJ by : Randall Bennett Woods
A dramatic reappraisal of one of the most significant and least understood presidents in American history, based on extraordinary interviews and documents - this is LBJ as he has never been seen before.
Author |
: Gregory Pardlo |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2018-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524731779 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524731773 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Air Traffic by : Gregory Pardlo
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition. Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the family's money on more and more ostentatious whims. In the face of this troubling model and disillusioned presence in the household, young Gregory rebels. Struggling to distinguish himself on his own terms, he hustles off to Marine Corps boot camp. He moves across the world, returning to the United States only to take a job as a manager-cum-barfly at his family's jazz club. Air Traffic follows Gregory as he builds a life that honors his history without allowing it to define his future. Slowly, he embraces the challenges of being a poet, a son, and a father as he enters recovery for alcoholism and tends to his family. In this memoir, written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Gregory tries to free himself from the overwhelming expectations of race and class, and from the tempting yet ruinous legacy of American masculinity. Air Traffic is a richly realized, deeply felt ode to one man's remarkable father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating yet redemptive ties of family. It is also a scrupulous, searing examination of how manhood can be fashioned in our cultural landscape.