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Author |
: James Conroy |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2013-12-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493004119 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493004115 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our One Common Country by : James Conroy
Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by many historians, the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865 was a crucial turning point in the War between the States. In this well written and highly documented book, James B. Conroy describes in fascinating detail what happened when leaders from both sides came together to try to end the hostilities. The meeting was meant to end the fighting on peaceful terms. It failed, however, and the war dragged on for two more bloody, destructive months. Through meticulous research of both primary and secondary sources, Conroy tells the story of the doomed peace negotiations through the characters who lived it. With a fresh and immediate perspective, Our One Common Country offers a thrilling and eye-opening look into the inability of our nation’s leaders to find a peaceful solution. The failure of the Hamptons Roads Conference shaped the course of American history and the future of America’s wars to come.
Author |
: Diane Hessan |
Publisher |
: Realclear Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2021-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1637550286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781637550281 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Common Ground: Insights from Four Years of Listening to American Voters by : Diane Hessan
For four years, Diane Hessan has been in weekly conversation with voters across the United States. What she has learned will surprise you, enlighten you, give you hope, and change the way you think about your fellow Americans. Our inability to hear each other, our suspicion, and our impatience is stressing us out and tearing us apart. It's a sickness that permeates the American culture, erodes our collective mental health, and makes us hate each other. To gain insight into how we can move forward, Hessan undertook a massive listening project, conducting an ongoing series of weekly interviews with 500 voters from every state, of every age and ethnicity, and along different points of the political spectrum. The topics ranged from race to guns, from character to party politics, from masks to rallies, from the Supreme Court to the pandemic to immigration and climate change. After more than a million individual communications, two things became clear: We have more common ground than we realize. And we are, sadly, failing at understanding each other. On issue after issue, our "divided" nation isn't nearly as polarized as we imagine. An overwhelming majority of voters believe in commonsense gun licensing and regulation. They are pro-immigration. They believe climate change is real and the coronavirus is deadly. They care deeply about their families and are willing to work hard to make ends meet. And, they believe that Washington is slow, bureaucratic, and not working in their best interests. In dozens of columns on these topics published in The Boston Globe, Hessan has upended common political wisdom. Presented together for the first time as part of this book, they reveal a unique perspective on how Americans actually think, what they value, and how we can move forward. The path to healing our divided nation is both simple and profound. We must turn down the heat. We must begin to listen, to stop presuming, to try to understand, to treat each other with dignity, and to know that most Americans are not crazy radicals. We truly share common ground. If we can pull together, we can have a much better America.
Author |
: Warren Gamaliel Harding |
Publisher |
: University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0826214541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780826214546 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Common Country by : Warren Gamaliel Harding
Also, the domestic economy's boom was turning to a bust and the national debt was expanding. The general consensus of Americans was that "things had gone to hell in a handbasket."" "In an effort to case the minds of troubled and confused Americans, President Harding tried to provide them with inspiration. Addressing different groups of the populace - mothers, veterans, patriots, farmers, businessmen, the press - he sought to send a consistent personal message of reassurance."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Susan Sessions Rugh |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253339103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253339102 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Common Country by : Susan Sessions Rugh
It features a major political conflict at each stage of market expansion - the Mormon troubles, the Civil War, and the Grange protest - to highlight the transformations that took place."--Jacket.
Author |
: Colin Woodard |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2012-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143122029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143122029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Nations by : Colin Woodard
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.
Author |
: William J. Bennett |
Publisher |
: Touchstone |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0671687352 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780671687359 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Children and Our Country by : William J. Bennett
Author |
: Paul Barba |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 653 |
Release |
: 2021-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496229441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496229444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Country of the Cursed and the Driven by : Paul Barba
2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West 2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Southwestern History In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas--a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power--local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. Country of the Cursed and the Driven brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the foundation and the scourge, the panacea and the curse, of life in the borderlands. As scholars have begun to assert more forcefully over the past two decades, slavery was much more diverse and widespread in North America than previously recognized, engulfing the lives of Native, European, and African descended people across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. Paul Barba details the rise of Texas's slaving regimes, spotlighting the ubiquitous, if uneven and evolving, influences of colonialism and anti-Blackness. By weaving together and reframing traditionally disparate historical narratives, Country of the Cursed and the Driven challenges the common assumption that slavery was insignificant to the history of Texas prior to Anglo American colonization, arguing instead that the slavery imported by Stephen F. Austin and his colonial followers in the 1820s found a comfortable home in the slavery-stained borderlands, where for decades Spanish colonists and their Comanche neighbors had already unleashed waves of slaving devastation.
Author |
: Simon Anholt |
Publisher |
: Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2020-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781523089628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1523089628 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Good Country Equation by : Simon Anholt
“Not only does Anholt explain the challenges facing the world with unique clarity, he also provides genuinely new, informative, practical, innovative solutions. . . . The book is a must-read for anyone who cares about humanity's shared future.” —H. E. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmaajo), President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Simon Anholt has spent decades helping countries from Austria to Zambia to improve their international standing. Using colorful descriptions of his experiences—dining with Vladimir Putin at his country home, taking a group of Felipe Calderon's advisors on their first Mexico City subway ride, touring a beautiful new government hospital in Afghanistan that nobody would use because it was in Taliban-controlled territory—he tells how he began finding answers to that question. Ultimately, Anholt hit on the Good Country Equation, a formula for encouraging international cooperation and reinventing education for a globalized era. Anholt even offers a “selfish” argument for cooperation: he shows that it generates goodwill, which in turn translates into increased trade, foreign investment, tourism, talent attraction, and even domestic electoral success. Anholt insists we can change the way countries behave and the way people are educated in a single generation—because that's all the time we have.
Author |
: Richard Rorty |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 159 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674003128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674003125 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Achieving Our Country by : Richard Rorty
One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt Whitman and John Dewey.
Author |
: Isabel Sawhill |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2018-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300241068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300241062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forgotten Americans by : Isabel Sawhill
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.