Strategy in the Contemporary World or Power and the Presidency

Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies

Author: John Baylis

Completely revised and updated to address changes that have taken place since 9/11, the second edition of this compelling collection takes a sophisticated look at the role of military power in the contemporary world.
In this essential resource, the authors analyze recent conflicts from Afghanistan to the Iraq War, considering the ongoing debates on the lessons that can be learned from these wars. In addition, they examine the controversy surrounding the recent revolution in military affairs--a transformation that has been brought about in response to the phenomenal pace of innovation in electronics and computer systems.

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Power and the Presidency

Author: Michael Beschloss

In this volume, a distinguished group of experts--prize-winning presidential biographers, historians, and journalists examines how an array of twentieth-century presidents have commanded, wielded, and sometimes dissipated the enormous influence conferred upon the nation's highest office.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	ix
	Power and the Presidency: What's Essential Is Invisible	1
	Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Sublime Confidence"	19
	Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy: A Study in Contrasts	45
	Lyndon B. Johnson: The Race for Power	69
	Richard M. Nixon: "I Gave Them a Sword"	93
	Ronald Reagan: Force of Nature	111
	William J. Clinton: Loss, Recovery, and Jujitsu	135
	About the Authors	157
	Index	159

Disuniting of America or Divided America

Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

Author: Arthur M Schlesinger Jr

Setting the American experience against a global backdrop in which one nation after another is tearing itself apart, Schlesinger emphasizes the question: What is it that holds nations together? The classic American image was of the "melting pot," in which differences of race, religion, and nationality were reduced, however unevenly, by common adherence to unifying civic principles. Today that image is challenged by an identity politics that magnifies differences and abandons goals of integration and assimilation. Must we surrender national identity to ethnic lobbies? Is hypersensitivity on the question of language handicapping minority children? Is the purpose of teaching history to make minorities feel good about themselves? Or is it rather to teach an accurate understanding of the world and to protect unifying ideals of tolerance, democracy, and human rights? Strident multiculturalism, Schlesinger contends, is an ill-judged and wrong-headed response to the real problem: the persistence, despite many gains, of racism in the white majority. In a world scarred by ethnic conflict, he writes, it is all the more urgent that the United States set an example of how a highly differentiated society holds itself together. In this new and enlarged edition, more timely than ever, Schlesinger updates the discussion, assesses recent developments, points to factors that promise to defeat the disuniting of America, points also to the dangers of strident monoculturalism on the right, and adds "Schlesinger's syllabus" - an annotated list of a baker's dozen of book essential for understanding the American experience.

Publishers Weekly

In a courageous, important, forcefully argued essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Schlesinger contends that America as melting pot has given way to an "eruption of ethnicity'' that threatens to replace assimilation with fragmentation, and integration with separatism. As a case in point, he critiques Afrocentric curricula in schools and colleges which, in his view, glorify a mythic past and make such highly dubious claims as the notion that black Africa is the birthplace of science, philosophy, religion and technology, and the trendy but totally unsubstantiated theory that ancient Egypt was essentially a black African country. Those who attempt to use the schools for "social and psychological therapy'' to promote minority self-esteem are doomed to failure, asserts Schlesinger, because "feel-good history'' is factually flawed and does not equip students to grapple with their lives. Schools should certainly teach about other cultures and continents, he stresses, while faulting multiculturalists who forget that Europe is the unique source of liberating ideas of individual autonomy, political democracy and cultural freedom to which most of the world today aspires. The book was originally published in 1991 by Whittle Communications for selective distribution.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword to the Second Edition	9
	Foreword	11
1	"A New Race"?	29
2	History the Weapon	51
3	The Battle of the Schools	79
4	The Decomposition of America	105
5	E Pluribus Unum?	125
	Epilogue	149
App	Schlesinger's Syllabus	167
	Notes on Sources	181
	Index	199

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Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics

Author: Earl Black

Now with an updated Afterword—in which the authors show how the 2006 midterm elections and the Democratic takeover of Congress validate their argument about regional divisions and why and how they will dominate the 2008 presidential election—Divided America tells the biggest story in American politics today: how new regional divisions are tearing the country's politics apart, turning both major parties into minority parties and encouraging angry constituencies to wage increasingly nasty wedge-issue campaigns.

The Washington Post - Donna Brazile

Before any of the 2008 candidates start counting their electoral votes, they should read the latest book by Earl and Merle Black.

In their scholarly and ambitious Divided America, the Black brothers -- political scientists who have written extensively on the politics of my native South -- offer a thoughtful, thorough analysis of the undercurrents that have driven our polarized national politics in recent decades. Their clear text, supported by voluminous charts and graphs, illustrates how deeply divided the country has become -- and perhaps not along the lines readers will expect.

Publishers Weekly

Politics by the numbers is the modus operandi of the Black brothers, twins who teach political science (Earl at Rice University, Merle at Emory University). Having focused on politics in the Southern states in three previous academic collaborations, the Blacks now divide the United States into five regions (South, Northeast, Pacific Coast, Midwest, Mountains/Plains), and explain how and why national electoral politics have become a close contest between two parties, Democrats and Republicans, that cannot claim permanent majority status. Most of the election data they examine comes from presidential elections; their analysis of races for the House of Representatives and the Senate come toward the end and are out of kilter with the results of the November 2006 House and Senate elections. Still, the Blacks' generalizations deserve consideration. They believe the Democrats are quite likely to retain advantages in the Northeast and Pacific Coast regions, while the Republicans are quite likely to win the South and Mountains/Plains regions in the 2008 election. That leaves the Midwest as the swing region. (The Blacks define the Midwest as 10 states, including Kentucky and West Virginia.) Though the book will probably fascinate politics junkies, the emphasis on statistics rather than lively anecdotes means rough going for qualitative rather than quantitative minds. 34 charts and tables. (Mar.)

Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Why have recent US national elections been so close? It's the regions, stupid. In an analysis of election data and exit polls of the past five decades, political scientists Earl (Political Science/Rice Univ.) and Merle (Politics and Government/Emory Univ.), twin brothers and coauthors (The Rise of Southern Republicans, 2003, etc.), show that the Democrats and Republicans are now evenly balanced in the national electorate, each having two regional strongholds and battling for voters in the ten-state Midwest swing region. The authors note that this development may be traced back to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, which ended a Democratic advantage among white voters dating to the New Deal. Reagan realigned white voters, with conservative whites going to the Republicans (now redefined as a conservative party emphasizing national security, economic growth, lower taxes and traditional positions on cultural and religious matters) and liberal whites increasingly joining the Democrats. It was the beginning of the end of the party factions once known as liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats. Trends continued gradually, and by 2004, the parties were more polarized than ever, with Republicans now drawing their strength from the South and Mountains/Plains states, the Democrats from the Northeast and Pacific Coast. These sharp regional differences now drive American politics, say the authors, and have ushered in an era of highly competitive, ideologically contentious and close elections. Goodbye, landslides. The Republican Party is now dominated by white Protestants (with evangelicals comprising 59 percent of them in 2004), the Democrats by minorities and non-Christian whites, andneither party can win a national election with only the support of their regional strongholds. Hence, the Midwest battleground will continue to determine the outcome of our elections. Using charts, the authors explore facets of their regional analysis and show how easy it is for national elections to go either way. Bedside reading for Karl Rove wannabes preparing for 2008. Agent: Andrew Wylie/Wylie Agency

The Influentials or One Life at a Time Please

The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy

Author: Edward B Keller

One American in ten tells the other nine how to vote, where to eat, and what to buy. They are

The Influentials

Who are they? The most influential Americans -- the ones who tell their neighbors what to buy, which politicians to support, and where to vacation -- are not necessarily the people you'd expect. They're not America's most affluent 10 percent or best-educated 10 percent. They're not the "early adopters," always the first to try everything from Franco-Polynesian fusion cooking to digital cameras. They are, however, the 10 percent of Americans most engaged in their local communities...and they wield a huge amount of influence within those communities. They're the campaigners for open-space initiatives. They're church vestrymen and friends of the local public library. They're the Influentials...and whether or not they are familiar to you, they're very well known to the researchers at RoperASW. For decades, these researchers have been on a quest for marketing's holy grail: that elusive but supremely powerful channel known as word of mouth. What they've learned is that even more important than the "word" -- what is said -- is the "mouth" -- who says it. They've identified, studied, and analyzed influence in America since the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (now Exxon) hired Elmo Roper himself to develop a model for identifying opinion leaders, and in The Influentials, they are finally ready to share their results. A few samples:

• Influentials have been the "early majority" -- leading indicators of what Americans will be buying -- for more than five decades, from choosing energy-efficient carsin the 1970s to owning computers in the 1980s to adopting 401(k)s and IRAs in the 1990s to using the Internet and cell phones today.

• Influentials have led the way in social development as well, from the revival of self-reliance (in managing their own health care, investments, and consumption) to mass skepticism about the marketing claims of everything from breakfast food to politicians.

Although America's Influentials have always been powerful, they've never been more important than now. Today, a fragmented market has made it possible for Influentials to opt out of mass-message advertising, which means that a different route must be taken to capture their hearts and minds. The Influentials is a map for that route, a map that explains who these people are, how they exercise influence, and how they can be targeted. The Influentials features a series of rules and guidelines for marketing to Influentials; case studies of products that have prospered because of Influential marketing (and products that have failed because they lacked it); a history of the phenomenon...and why Influentials are more influential today than ever; and profiles of twelve real-life Influentials.

Both an intellectual adventure and a hands-on marketing manual, The Influentials is an extraordinary gold mine of information and analysis that no business can afford to ignore.

Publishers Weekly

There's a group of people, Keller and Berry posit, who are responsible for driving trends, influencing mass opinion and, most importantly, selling a great many products. These are the Influentials, the early adopters who had a digital camera before everyone else and who were the first to fly again after September 11. Like Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), these authors are keen to point out a common phenomenon and spin it for the edification of marketing executives. Their assertion is that 10% of Americans determine how the rest consume and live by chatting about their likes and dislikes. Keller and Berry spend most of the book bolstering their theory with extensive findings from Roper polls (both authors work for Roper). Following this is a suggested plan of action for capturing Influentials' interest, with suggestions on how to target them, how to sell and even how to treat them in a customer service setting. Being an Influential today is similar to being a Vanderbilt in a bygone era: "[T]he company should invite them in and engage them in a conversation... and keep tabs on them in the weeks that follow." Because its points are so concrete and straightforward, the book should have little trouble finding adherents who want to woo such a powerful consumer base. Keller and Berry's theories are compelling and exceedingly well researched, and should be a boon to anyone looking to promote the next big thing. (Jan. 13) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Veterans of RoperASW, Keller and Berry based their first book on decades of research through the Roper Polls. Their findings suggest that one in ten people affects the way everyone else thinks via word of mouth. Presenting profiles of 12 such "Influentials" along with results of the polls, the authors argue that the most influential people in America are often everyday people, folks in one's own neighborhood who are active in civics, charities, and religious institutions. The premise is that marketers who understand these dynamics can focus their resources on these individuals in order to influence everyone else. Though the authors support their arguments with an impressive array of statistics, provided in minute detail to substantiate the premise, a much more lively discussion of a similar theme can be found in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point. Clearly targeted toward practicing marketing professionals and business executives, this book is appropriate for libraries with specialized collections, such as those in business schools and advertising/PR agencies.-Stephen Turner, Turner & Assocs., San Francisco Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

They are the most influential Americans — the ones who tell their neighbors what to buy, which politician to support and where to vacation. They aren't necessarily who you expect. They aren't the richest 10 percent or the best educated 10 percent. They aren't the early adopters who are always the first to try everything. They are, however, the 10 percent of Americans most engaged in their communities — where they wield a huge amount of influence. They're the Influentials. Together they are the best marketing tool around — using word of mouth to create spirals of influence. They have always been powerful, and they've never been more important than now. Today, a fragmented market has made it possible for Influentials to opt-out of mass-message advertising, which means that you must take a different route to reach them.

Influentials are not waiting for a product or service like a relay runner waiting for a baton. They want what they want when they want it. Influentials are more like marathon runners stopping briefly at a water station. If you want to reach them, you must place your water station along their route. These are the rules of their route:

• They use multiple sources of information.
• They put people first. Word-of-mouth is more important than traditional media.
• They believe in sharing what they know.
• They are voracious readers.
• The companies they buy from must practice continuous meaningful improvements or risk being overtaken by competitors who do.
• Buzz is not guaranteed. Influentials want better products and services but don't always have time to keep up with what's new.
• Influentials trust their instincts.

Influentials have played a dual role in the self-reliance movement. They have led the way in adopting many of the new products and services that enhance self-reliance: computers, the Internet, cell phones and self-directed retirement plans. On the other hand, their basic ideas have not changed much at all. Instead, it seems that it is the general public that has changed to become more like the Influentials. In essence, they have become role models for the national agenda.

Some key dynamics worth watching include:

• A different kind of activism: Americans are doing some things more than they were a decade ago. More are volunteering and more are setting up new community groups to address problems.
• Thinking out of the orthodox box: When getting involved, the emphasis seems to be on being effective and relevant. Influentials don't migrate to old interest groups or charities: They may even form their own.
• Return to values: Influentials appreciate their background and strive to preserve traditions and customs. They also see lack of morals as a major societal problem. To that end, they believe that parents and others in the community have a responsibility to guide children, including businesses that cater to children and youth.
• Levels of confidence: Influentials know being self-reliant doesn't mean knowing everything. People bring different levels of confidence to different subjects. But Influentials seek out knowledge to fill the gaps. Businesses must work hard to reach the right level of communication — not so complicated that customers can't follow, not so simple that they are offended.
• Self-improvement and learning: A major component of the self-reliant mind-set is learning.

You must find a way to reach the people whom people turn to when they need ideas and information. There are six rules you should use to reach the Influentials. They are:

1. Be Where the Information Is. Getting good information is integral to Influentials' decision process. They value information; businesses that want their attention should begin with offering them good, high-quality information. Place the information in media that are rich in information because that's where Influentials migrate.
2. When Critics Come Knocking, Invite Them In. When someone comes to you with a complaint, he or she is probably an Influential. When a call comes into a consumer complaint center, companies should assume it's from an Influential. Don't shy away from their criticism: Engage it and assess its merit with the individual making the call. Keep tabs on Influential criticism.
3. Get Out Into the Community. One of the best ways to win Influential favor is to become active in a cause that will produce tangible benefits in peoples' lives. Build sports fields, sponsor Girl Scout activities and create or maintain parks. In surveys, Influentials say they would welcome more locally cause-related marketing. They prefer programs with tangible results over softer, feel-good campaigns. While cause-marketing campaigns can't make up for a poor product, they can tip the scale in your favor when price and quality are equal. Influentials are willing to switch brands for a good cause.
4. Make It Easier and Then Make It Easier Still. When Influentials talk about brands, they usually do so in terms of how easy the brand has made their life. Saving money, getting good value for the dollar, and making life easier are the main focus when Influentials go shopping. They are, however, willing to pay extra for making life easier. They aren't impulse buyers either, don't care about "prestigious" brands and often buy brands they know and trust. Your marketing must convey the practical benefits of your products or services.
5. Know the 'Exceptions' and Keep Up With Them. Influentials are utilitarians in many areas, but they make "exceptions to the rule." Their homes are one as are automobiles. They also indulge in travel and personal health. Another frequent exception to the rule that products must be good quality and at a fair price is their penchant to shop locally.
6. Be A Brand and Tell the World. Influentials are skeptical of marketing and demanding of businesses, but they hold a high opinion of brands. They often believe a particular brand is worth paying more for. Don't be afraid to market your brand to Influentials. They likely will stick with it once they're sold on its quality and other benefits.

Copyright © 2003 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1.	Who Are the Influentials?	27
	Demographics Are Not Influence
	Shared Characteristics and Diversity
	The Activists
	Profile: Isabel Milano
	People Who Are Connected
	People with Impact
	Profile: Larry Lee
	People with Active Minds
	A Product That Works: The Cell Phone
	Trendsetters
	A Product That Can Wait: E-Books
	Case Study: The Entrepreneurial Wave
	Are Influentials Born or Made?
2.	The Influential Personality	79
	A Clear Sense That "This Matters"
	Aspirations: The American Dream, the Good Life, and Life's Necessities
	Belief in Growth and Change
	Profile: Shelley Miller
	Balancing Community and Self
	Values: Family and Engagement First
	Where They Are Satisfied and What They're Working On
	Profile: Rick White
	Case Study: Green Marketing--the Influential Balance
	An Idea That Works: The Integrated Home
	Idiosyncrasy
3.	The Influence Spiral: How Influentials Get and Spread Ideas	123
	The Spiral of Influence
	Profile: Sophie Glovier
	The Water Station
	Multiple Sources of Information
	Nothing Beats Word of Mouth
	If You Get It, Share It
	Continuous Provement
	Case Study: Influential "Inflection Points" and "Plateaus"
	Media: In the Beginning Was the Word
	But They Use Other Sources, Too
	Profile: Teresa Graham
	An Idea That Works but Should Work Better: E-Commerce
	They Trust Their Instincts
4.	The Message of Influentials: The Age of Autonomy and the Rise of Self-Reliance	173
	The Self-Reliance Movement
	The New Century: The Changes Come to the Surface
	Older, More Educated, and More Adept
	The Role of Influentials
	Opportunities and Challenges
	A Different Kind of Activism
	Thinking Out of the Orthodox Box
	Profile: Mike Williams
	Return to Values
	Different Levels of Confidence
	"The Best Places to Have Money"
	Implications for Government and Institutions
	Self-Improvement and Learning
	Profile: David Pendergrass
	A Time for Building Up
5.	The Influential Vision: Seven Trends for the Future	227
	A Window onto the Future
	The Legacies Agenda
	Profile: Leonard Pitt
	Global Connections
	High Pace, High Peace
	A PC-Centered World
	Living Longer Stronger
	Profile: Walter Arrowsmith
	No Big Brothers
	The Limits of Convenience
6.	Developing an Influential Strategy: Six Rules for Getting into the Conversation	279
	"Mission Control: We've Got a Problem"
1.	Be Where the Information Is
2.	When Critics Come Knocking, Invite Them In
3.	Get Out into the Community
4.	Make It Easier--Then Make It Easier Still
	A Product That Works: Debit Cards
	Profile: Tim Draper
5.	Know "The Exceptions"--and Keep Up with Them
6.	Be a Brand, and Tell the World
	Profile: Sarah Vokes
	The Good News--and Your Challenge
	Notes on Methodology	339
	Acknowledgments	341
	Index	345

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One Life at a Time, Please

Author: Edward Abbey

From stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.

Library Journal

In this collection of previously published essays, Abbey writes on topics as diverse as immigration law, the nature of femininity, and the philosophy of Emerson. The book is divided into three sections: Politics, Travel, and Books and Art. Marvelous portraits of the Rio Grande and the Salmon rivers showcase Abbey's ability to evoke a feeling for the majesty of these places. His political essays are lively and provocative; those discussing books and art reveal him as one who has thought deeply about his craft. An original writer with strong convictions whose latest book is recommended for most collections. -- Randy Dykhuis, Grand Rapids P.L., Mich.

Twenty Years Crisis 1919 1939 or Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

Author: Edward Hallett Carr

'...this book is a monument to the human power of sane and detached analysis. In its examination of the collapse of the international system, it is utterly devoid of national bias, or that bitter denunciation of governments and men which marks so much recent literature dealing with the crisis...In the development of his thesis, Professor Carr has produced one of the most significant contributions to the systematic study of the theory of international politics that this reviewer has seen in years.' -W.P. Maddox, The American Political Science Review

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Nellie Y McKay

Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and her ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Jacobs' account of her experiences, and her search for her own voice, prefigure the literary and ideological concerns of generations of African-American women writers to come.

Library Journal

Published in 1861, this was one of the first personal narratives by a slave and one of the few written by a woman. Jacobs (1813-97) was a slave in North Carolina and suffered terribly, along with her family, at the hands of a ruthless owner. She made several failed attempts to escape before successfully making her way North, though it took years of hiding and slow progress. Eventually, she was reunited with her children. For all biography and history collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Childhood	8
	The New Master and Mistress	11
	The Slaves' New Year's Day	16
	The Slave who dared to feel like a Man	17
	The Trials of Girlhood	26
	The Jealous Mistress	28
	The Lover	33
	What Slaves are taught to think of the North	39
	Sketches of neighboring Slaveholders	41
	A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life	47
	The new Tie to Life	51
	Fear of Insurrection	55
	The Church and Slavery	59
	Another Link to Life	65
	Continued Persecutions	68
	Scenes at the Plantation	73
	The Flight	80
	Months of Peril	83
	The Children Sold	88
	New Perils	92
	The Loophole of Retreat	95
	Christmas Festivities	98
	Still in Prison	100
	The Candidate for Congress	103
	Competition in Cunning	105
	Important Era in my Brother's Life	109
	New Destination for the Children	113
	Aunt Nancy	118
	Preparations for Escape	122
	Northward Bound	129
	Incidents in Philadelphia	132
	The Meeting of Mother and Daughter	135
	A Home Found	138
	The Old Enemy again	140
	Prejudice Against Color	143
	The Hairbreadth Escape	145
	A Visit to England	149
	Renewed Invitations to go South	151
	The Confession	153
	The Fugitive Slave Law	154
	Free at Last	159
	Appendix	165

Doing Anti Oppressive Practice or Maconochies Gentlemen

Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice: Building Transformative, Politicized Social Work

Author: Donna Baines

Rather than a book of theory, this collection of essays focuses on practical strategies for integrating antioppressive theory into politicized, transformative social work. The authors draw on practice vignettes, personal experiences, and casework examples to assert that everyday interactions with clients from disadvantaged groups can challenge injustice and ultimately transform larger systems of oppression.

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Maconochie's Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform

Author: Norval Morris

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen".

Here Norval Morris, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a unique combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most standard academic accounts.

In an era of "mass incarceration" that rivals that of the settlement of Australia, Morris injects the question of humane treatment back into the debate over prison reform. Maconochie and his "Marks system" played an influential role in the development of prisons; but for the last thirty years prison reform has been dominated by punitive and retributive sentiments, the conventional wisdom holding that we need 'supermax' prisons to control the 'worst of the worst' in solitary and harsh conditions. Norval Morris argues to the contrary, holding up the example of Alexander Maconochie as a clear-cut alternative to the "living hell" of prison systems today.

Publishers Weekly

In this unique narrative of 19th-century penal reform, Morris, a law professor at the University of Chicago and editor of The Oxford History of the Prison, relates penal history to contemporary prison controversies. Morris gleans trenchant lessons from the work of Royal Navy Capt. Alexander Maconochie, superintendent of Norfolk Island, an Australian coastal settlement that in 1840 was a prison for the "worst of the worst." Maconochie, a man of unbending compassion, tested reform theories, combining scientific measurement of each prisoner's progress with increased privileges to elicit good behavior. All available accounts indicate that Maconochie transformed a hellish prison into a safe, well-run environment. Morris engagingly recounts Maconochie's four-year administration via four fictionalized voices: those of Maconochie himself, two better-adjusted prisoners (the prison librarian and a musician who formed an orchestra) and Maconochie's daughter, who became smitten with the musician-prisoner. Morris wonders whether Maconochie's success may have been due less to the marks system than to his honest communications with the prisoners; still, his system of privileges-for-conformity paid great dividends. While Maconochie's tenure allowed civil relations between prisoners and their soldier-keepers, his successors reverted to policies of gratuitous cruelty, resulting in deadly riots, shortly before the prison was closed. Unfortunately, Morris's deft re-creations of his principal characters' likely recollections overshadow three brief essays relating Maconochie's experiment to the perpetual penological clash between rehabilitation and punishment, a crucial component of the book given thepro-punishment camp's current successes. This lucid, novel (and novelistic) approach to a nearly forgotten chapter in penology deserves attention. 3 halftones and 3 maps. (Nov.) Forecasts: Scholars, prison activists and open-minded law enforcement professionals will appreciate this unusual book. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

This slim volume is a partly fictionalized account of a unique experiment in prison reform. In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a retired British naval captain, was elected to become superintendent of Norfolk Island, a prison colony off the coast of Australia. Using humane methods and a "mark system" that allowed prisoners to shorten their sentences by good behavior, Maconochie ameliorated the brutal conditions on the island and transformed many of the men into "gentlemen." Sadly, the British authorities did not approve of his methods and replaced him in 1844. Law professor Morris (The Oxford History of Prisons) uses diaries ostensibly written by Maconochie and his family to recount what went on during his four years on Norfolk. The most poignant entries are by Maconochie's daughter Mary Ann, whose love for a convict forms a charming subplot. The book concludes with "Contemporary Lessons from Maconochie's Experiment" in which Morris discusses the need for modern prison reform as an alternative to the "supermax prisons" now widely used in this country. If Maconochie's methods worked under such extreme conditions, wouldn't they work today in our supposedly enlightened times? Highly recommended for crime collections in public and academic libraries. Frances Sandiford, Green Haven Correctional Facility Lib., Stormville, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

In a volume with a highly misleading, unsuitable title, a criminologist fictionalizes the experiences of Alexander Maconochie, the crusading superintendent of the prison on Norfolk Island in the early 1840s. Morris (ed., The Oxford History of the Prison, not reviewed) had a terrific tale to tell-the story of a man who believed that humanizing the conditions of prisons would improve the lives of the men who would ultimately return to society. He believed his theories so fervently that he convinced the authorities to allow an experiment on Norfolk Island (1,000 miles east of Australia) where resided 2,000 of the most intractable convicts. And in 1840-with his wife and six children-he arrived at the island and proceeded to implement his ideas. Within four years, he had profoundly transformed the place-instituting what he called his "Marks System," by which convicts earned points to reduce the length of their sentences. Convicts worked farms, ran a library, organized a band, performed a scene from Richard II, and generally confirmed Maconochie's faith in them. But instead of writing biography or history, Morris decided to write a . . . well, novel. The first 159 pages contain a dreadful fictionalized version of Maconochie's tenure, told in silly, ill-written monologues by Maconochie, his nubile daughter Minnie (who falls in love with her convict piano teacher), and two fictitious prisoners (one is the librarian, the other the pianist). Maconochie tells us about one of his nocturnal emissions; we hear Minnie complain, "It was just so monstrously unfair"; the librarian tells the pianist: "Quit thinking with your penis and realise what a narrow ledge we walk on." Following this fecklessfiction are brief accounts of what happened to Maconochie and Norfolk Island and then two mildly interesting (and awkwardly written) essays on prison conditions and on lessons we can learn from Maconochie. With neither index nor bibliography, the volume is useless for the scholarly or the curious. An important story that deserves far better treatment. (3 halftones, 3 maps)

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments	vii
Author's Note	ix
About the Author	xiii
Maps	xiv
Part 1 Norfolk Island, 1840-1844	1
Part 2 Maconochie and Norfolk Island after 1844	161
Part 3 Why Do Prison Conditions Matter?	171
Part 4 Contemporary Lessons from Maconochie's Experiment	177
Fixed or Indeterminate Sentences and "Good Time"	178
Graduated Release Procedures and Aftercare	195
"The Worst of the Worst"	197
Punishment and the Mentally Ill	203
Deterrence, Rehabilitation, and Prison Conditions	208

Gandhi or American Social Welfare Policy

Gandhi: Hind Swaraj and Other Writings

Author: Anthony J Parel

Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work, and a key to the understanding both of his life and thought, and South Asian politics in the twentieth century. This volume presents for the first time the original 1910 edition of this work, including Gandhi's Preface and Foreword, not found in other editions. This is the first fully annotated edition of the work, and the volume also includes Gandhi's correspondence with Tolstoy, Nehru and others. Anthony Parel's introduction sets the work in its historical and intellectual contexts. Short bibliographical notes on prominent figures mentioned in the text and a chronology of important events are also included as aids to the reader.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Editor's introduction
	A note on the history of the text
	Principal events in Gandhi's life
	Biographical synopses
	Guide to further reading
	Glossary and list of abbreviations
	Hind Swaraj	1
	Supplementary Writings	127
	Gandhi's letter to H. S. L. Polak	129
	Gandhi's letter to Lord Ampthill	133
	Preface to Gandhi's edition of the English translation of Leo Tolstoy's Letter to a Hindoo	136
	Gandhi-Tolstoy letters	138
	Gandhi-Wybergh letters	139
	Gandhi-Nehru letters	149
	Economic development and moral development (1916)	156
	Gandhi on machinery, 1919-47	164
	Constructive programme: its meaning and place (1941), 1945	170
	Gandhi's 'Quit India' speech, 1942	181
	Gandhi's message to the nation issued before his arrest on 9 August 1942	188
	Gandhi's political vision: the Pyramid vs the Oceanic Circle (1946)	188
	Draft Constitution of Congress, 1948	191
	Bibliography	194
	Index	200

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American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach

Author: Howard Jacob Karger

Basic Approach
This Research Navigator Edition highlights important questions raised in social welfare policy debates since 2005. This new material, located in the frontmatter, is followed by questions and activities that stimulate critical thinking skills. In addition, access to Research Navigator has been provided so that students may conduct further research on their own. By engaging with current issues and research, they may become more than an interested observer. They may become active participants.
Highlights of this Research Navigator Edition
• An access code for Research Navigator has been included on the inside front cover.
• This text has been updated with important policy issues that have occurred since 2005.
• A chapter on Religion and Social Welfare Policy examines the religious roots of the
welfare state, and how changes in religious thought and expression have been
reflected in social welfare polices.
• A discussion on the impact of the Bush tax cuts on social welfare policy has
been included.
• A comprehensive companion website that includes practice tests, flashcards, web
links and more is available! Please visit: ablongman.com/karger5e
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“[American Social Welfare Policy] provides an excellent and important balance between the many different views and approaches to social welfarepolicy.”
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Nat Turner or The Veterans Survival Guide

Nat Turner

Author: Kyle Baker

The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known among school children and adults. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the civil rights movement; to others he is monster—a murderer whose name is never uttered.

In Nat Turner, acclaimed author and illustrator Kyle Baker depicts the evils of slavery in this moving and historically accurate story of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion. Told nearly wordlessly, every image resonates with the reader as the brutal story unfolds.

This graphic novel collects all four issues of Kyle Baker’s critically acclaimed miniseries together for the first time in hardcover and paperback. The book also includes a new afterword by Baker.

“A hauntingly beautiful historical spotlight. A-” —Entertainment Weekly

“Baker’s storytelling is magnificent.” —Variety

“Intricately expressive faces and trenchant dramatic pacing evoke the diabolic slave trade’s real horrors.” —The Washington Post

“Baker’s drawings are worthy of a critic’s attention.”—Los Angeles Times

“Baker’s suspenseful and violent work documents the slave trade’s atrocities as no textbook can, with an emotional power approaching that of Maus.”—Library Journal, starred review

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The Veteran's Survival Guide

Author: John D Roch

"Claim denied!" All too often millions of veterans have received this response to their legitimate claims for federal benefits. In most cases, writes veterans' advocate John D. Roche, the claimant didn't understand the procedures needed to meet the myriad requirements of the Department of Veterans Affairs. With the appeals process requiring years to resolve disputes, deserving veterans and their dependents are left confused and frustrated by the agency and a system that was created to serve them. The answer is to submit a well-grounded claim initially, which The Veteran's Survival Guide, now in a revised, second edition, analyzes in detail. This unique book, written in an accessible self-help style, will be required reading for any veteran or veteran's dependent who wishes to obtain his or her well-earned benefits and for those officials of veterans' service organizations who assist veterans with their claims.

Library Journal

The author, a former claims adjudication specialist for the Veteran's Administration (VA), assembles the information veterans and their dependents need to file a claim for their federal benefits. According to Roche, the process is slow and complicated, and the VA is not helpful to those pursuing their rights. Roche concentrates on instructing readers in the key elements for securing benefits: constructing a "well-grounded claim" and complying with claims procedures. In plain language, he provides detailed descriptions of the steps involved and illustrates the discussion with examples and cautions. The author pulls no punches regarding the difficulties claimants encounter and succeeds in providing them with the information they need to work through a tangled system. Highly recommended for public libraries.-Joan Pedzich, Harris Beach LLP, Rochester, NY Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Facilitators Fieldbook or For Liberty and Glory

Facilitator's Fieldbook: Step-by-Step Procedures Checklists and Guidelines, Samples and Templates

Author: Tom Justic

Getting teams and groups to function productively is a challenge. For years The Facilitator's Fieldbook has been giving group leaders what they need to make everything run more smoothly. Now fully updated, the Second Edition is truly jam-packed with step-by-step procedures, checklists and guidelines, samples and templates, and more. Perfect for rookies and seasoned facilitators alike, the book covers key areas including:

• establishing ground rules for groups
• planning meetings and agendas
• brainstorming
• making decisions
• conflict resolution
• making the most of electronic meetings
• using groups to drive change
• helping groups hit sales targets
• and much more

For managers, trainers, and group leaders in any industry, The Facilitator's Fieldbook is a practical, powerful book that will keep teams and groups humming along and getting results.

T+D

. . . perfect for novices or seasoned veterans.

Table of Contents:

Sect. I	Phase I : preparation
Sect. II	Phase II : working with the group
Sect. III	Phase III : Implementation
Sect. IV	Special meetings
Sect. V	Facilitating in a virtual world

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For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions

Author: James R Gaines

They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals.

On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find and kicked it into a gallop.

So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single, thrilling narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions and shows just how deeply intertwined they actually were. Their leaders, George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, were often seen as father and son, but their relationship, while close, was every bit as complex as the long, fraught history of the French-American alliance. Vain, tough, ambitious, they strove to shape their characters and records into the form they wanted history to remember. James R. Gaines provides fascinating insights into these personal transformations and is equally brilliant at showing the extraordinary effect of the two "freedom fighters" on subsequent history. 8 pages of color and 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations; 2 maps.

Bryan Craig - Library Journal

The famous relationship between George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette was forged in battle in the American Revolution. Gaines (former editor, Timemagazine; Evening in the Palace of Reason) presents an engrossing book about their complex friendship. He effectively argues that theirs was not a father-son relationship of pure devotion and that the two did end up on opposites sides on occasions. For example, although Washington supported the principles of liberty within the French Revolution, he did not support the export of those liberties beyond French borders when France then waged war with Prussia and Austria-Hungary. However, Lafayette commanded one of those French armies. Gaines's book is much broader than David Clary's recent Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolutionbecause Gaines includes more about Lafayette's role during the French Revolution and his life after Washington's death in 1799. He uses a good balance of primary and secondary sources and includes recent works as well. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries.

Kirkus Reviews

Exciting, well-wrought narrative strikes a terrific balance between George Washington's stoic endeavors to galvanize a new American republic and the Marquis de Lafayette's efforts to foment ideas of liberty and equality in despotic France. The pair enjoyed a close, lifelong relationship, notes Gaines (Evening in the Palace of Reason, 2005, etc.). The elder general of the ragtag colonial forces first met the effusive, wild-eyed and very rich 19-year-old Frenchman in 1777 and had to figure out what to do with him. Steeped in Enlightenment ideals, each would be profoundly changed by the American war for liberty. Washington, the taciturn man of honor, lent his immense gravity and dignity to the founding years of the new republic. Lafayette fought courageously for the patriots, most notably at the siege of Yorktown, and he aggressively foisted on Louis XVI's moribund court the ideals of inalienable human rights and self-government. Indeed, the French became necessary allies in the war against England, and Gaines notes that numerous first- and second-rank leaders of the French Revolution besides Lafayette were veterans of the American revolt and "carried home to their tottering monarchy the ideal of an Arcadian society free from want and despotism." The author also stresses the importance of playwright and royal spy Beaumarchais, who pushed Louis to help arm the American rebels by setting up a secret trading house funded by the French government. Gaines maneuvers deftly between developments in America and France, from Washington's camp at Valley Forge and reluctant first presidency to Lafayette's intervention at the French court and the monstrous violence unleashed by the revolution. Amarvelous reliving of history through the lives of two key players who were also devoted friends.

Megacommunities or Great Risk Shift

Megacommunities: How Business, Government and Civil Society Leaders Can Master This Century's Global Challenges--Together

Author: Mark Gerencser

A hurricane strikes a city; terrorists attack a nation; global warming threatens the environment--such problems are too large for any one authority to solve alone. Our increasingly globalized and interconnected world calls for a new type of tri-sector leadership in which business, government and nonprofits work together in a state of permanent negotiation. To be effective, tomorrow’s leaders will need to reach across national and sector divisions to form a collaborative “megacommunity.”

 

Based on interviews with over 100 leaders from around the world including Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Kenneth Chenault and Richard Parsons, MEGACOMMUNITIES: How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today's Global Challenges Together introduces a radically new framework for reaching solutions to today’s thorniest problems.  Written by four senior consultants from global consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, and with a Foreword by Walter Isaacson, this important book explains how a megacommunity approach is:

 

COUNTERING AIDS, ALZHEIMER’S AND GLOBAL PANDEMICS 
In India, a megacommunity battles HIV/AIDS by bringing together both public, private, and civil-sector organizations, including PepsiCo, the Gates Foundation, U.S. healthcare experts, UN development programs, and local NGOs.

 

CONSERVING THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
In saving the world's rainforests, providers, distributors, sellers, and consumers of lumber team up with local communities, the World Wildlife Fund, and Goldman Sachs.

 

HELPING COMMUNITIES GROW In changing neighborhoods like Harlem, the megacommunityincludes local small businesses, community groups, global companies, and foundations like Bill Clinton's.

 

“What is required are leaders who know how to identify the vital interests they share with others, who are prepared to seek the benefits from which all can gain,” write the authors.

 

Visit their website at: megacommunities.com

 

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Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement and how You Can Fight Back

Author: Jacob S Hacker

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of the American family.
In The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic climate, showing how it has come about, what it is doing to our families, and how we can fight back. Behind this shift, he contends, is the Personal Responsibility Crusade, eagerly embraced by corporate leaders and Republican politicians who speak of a nirvana of economic empowerment, an "ownership society" in which Americans are free to choose. But as Hacker reveals, the result has been quite different: a harsh new world of economic insecurity, in which far too many Americans are free to lose.
The book documents how two great pillars of economic security--the family and the workplace--guarantee far less financial stability than they once did. The final leg of economic support--the public and private benefits that workers and families get when economic disaster strikes--has dangerously eroded as political leaders and corporations increasingly cut back protections of our health care, our income security, and our retirement pensions.
Blending powerful human stories, big-picture analysis, and compelling ideas for reform, this remarkable volume will hit a nerve, serving as a rallying point in the vital struggle for economic security in an increasingly uncertain world.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction: On the Edge

1. The New Economic Insecurity

2. Risking it All

3. Risky Jobs

4. Risky Families

5. Risky Retirement

6. Risky Health Care

Conclusion: Securing the Future

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index

Everything for Sale or The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets

Author: Robert Kuttner

In this highly acclaimed, provocative book, Robert Kuttner disputes the laissez-faire direction of both economic theory and practice that has been gaining in prominence since the mid-1970s. Dissenting voices, Kuttner argues, have been drowned out by a stream of circular arguments and complex mathematical models that ignore real-world conditions and disregard values that can't easily be turned into commodities. With its brilliant explanation of how some sectors of the economy require a blend of market, regulation, and social outlay, and a new preface addressing the current global economic crisis, Kuttner's study will play an important role in policy-making for the twenty-first century.
"The best survey of the limits of free markets that we have. . . . A much needed plea for pragmatism: Take from free markets what is good and do not hesitate to recognize what is bad."—Jeff Madrick, Los Angeles Times
"It ought to be compulsory reading for all politicians—fortunately for them and us, it is an elegant read."—The Economist
"Demonstrating an impressive mastery of a vast range of material, Mr. Kuttner lays out the case for the market's insufficiency in field after field: employment, medicine, banking, securities, telecommunications, electric power."—Nicholas Lemann, New York Times Book Review
"A powerful empirical broadside. One by one, he lays on cases where governments have outdone markets, or at least performed well."—Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
"To understand the economic policy debates that will take place in the next few years, you can't do better than to read this book."—Suzanne Garment,Washington Post Book World

Publishers Weekly

Challenging the prevailing conservative doctrine that an unregulated, self-correcting, free-market economy is the ideal, Kuttner (The End of Laissez-Faire) argues that in a humane society, whole realms of activity necessarily depart from pure market principles because market norms drive out nonmarket norms-civility, commitment to the public good, personal economic security and liberty. In the workplace, a growing tendency to treat human labor purely as a commodity has led to an increasing polarization of wages, erosion of standards of fairness and greater worker insecurity, he maintains. Overreliance on market mechanisms is ruining the health care system, contends Kuttner, a contributing columnist to Business Week, because of enormous hidden costs engendered by opportunism, fragmentation, underinvestment in public health and prevention, and inefficient use of home care and nursing care. Arguing that deregulation of financial markets leads to offsetting inefficiencies, he casts a skeptical eye on hostile takeovers, junk bonds and derivatives and advocates "stakeholder capitalism" to make shareholders more accountable to employees. In a benchmark for future debate, Kuttner brings, clear, pragmatic thinking to complex, thorny issues, reclaiming a middle ground between champions of laissez-faire capitalism and statism. (Jan.)

Library Journal

In this thorough, scholarly approach to current economics relative to the political scene, journalist Kuttner (End of Laissez-Faire, LJ 2/15/91), who writes columns for BusinessWeek and the Washington Post, examines in great detail the free-market economy. The free market he intends is that envisioned by libertarian thought, with less government intervention and deregulation. Kuttner offers comparisons with the mixed economy of previous decades back to the Roosevelt era. He demonstrates how government regulation, intervention, and other actions have affected the economy in the past and how they still do. The serious student of economic history and policy will glean from his work many thought-provoking and controversial ideas that reveal how the free market has changed in the areas of labor, healthcare, sports, and business practices, to name a few. Kuttner's research has produced a well-written tome that certainly has a place on the shelves of academic and large public libraries.-Steven J. Mayover, Free Lib. of Philadelphia

Los Angeles Times - Jeff Madrick

The best survey of the limits of free markets that we have....A much-needed plea for pragmatism: Take from free markets what is good and do not hesitate to recognize what is bad.

Newsweek - Michael Hirsh

A powerful empirical broadside. One by one, he lays on cases where governments have outdone markets, or at least performed well.

Kirkus Reviews

An exhaustive but tendentious critique of market economics from the liberal commentator who first addressed this issue in The End of Laissez-Faire (1991).

In his three-part audit, Business Week columnist Kuttner first provides an overview that effectively damns markets with faint praise. For instance, while commending their role in facilitating commerce, setting prices for goods and services, and allocating resources, he cites a lengthy list of instances in which markets fail to measure up. By way of example, the author notes that there is no good market reason for free public libraries, which most polities rightly value. Sniping away at utopian ideologues who view the market as a panacea for whatever ails society, Kuttner reviews the putative shortcomings of labor, health-care, and capital markets, arguing that intervention is required to avert the sometimes calamitous or undesirable results of overly free enterprise. He does not face up to such unpleasant matters as the fact that the burden of government-mandated benefits has stalled job growth in the European Union, whose mixed economy he much admires. In like vein, the author offers kind words for Japan's bureaucratically guided approach to capitalism without dwelling on that nation's consumers, who are obliged to pay artificially high prices at retail as a result of the system. By contrast, Kuttner includes a wealth of scenarios spelling out ways in which prosperity might be advanced by riding closer herd on competition in any number of private-sector industries (airlines, electric utilities, telecommunications, et al.), giving federal regulatory agencies appreciably greater powers, and implementing economic/trade policies that could enhance the common weal.

A "yes . . . but" analysis that accentuates the negative aspects of laissez-faire and promotes a decidedly progressive political/socioeconomic agenda. The text has a notably belligerent foreword by Richard C . Leone, president of the Twentieth Century Fund

What People Are Saying

Robert Heilbroner
The most readable and important book about the economy I have read in a long time....I have never seen the market system better described, more intelligently appreciated, and more trenchantly criticized than in Everything for Sale.

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The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Author: Risa L Goluboff

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In this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American civil rights law. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education has long dominated that history. Since 1954, generations of judges, lawyers, and ordinary people have viewed civil rights as a project of breaking down formal legal barriers to integration, especially in the context of public education. Goluboff recovers a world before Brown, a world in which civil rights was legally, conceptually, and constitutionally up for grabs. Then, the petitions of black agricultural workers in the American South and industrial workers across the nation called for a civil rights law that would redress economic as well as legal inequalities. Lawyers in the new Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice and in the NAACP took the workers' cases and viewed them as crucial to attacking Jim Crow. By the time NAACP lawyers set out on the path to Brown, however, they had eliminated workers' economic concerns from their litigation agenda. When the lawyers succeeded in Brown, they simultaneously marginalized the host of other harms—economic inequality chief among them—that afflicted the majority of African Americans during the mid-twentieth century. By uncovering the lost challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, Goluboff shows how Brown only partially fulfilled the promise of civil rights.

Table of Contents:

Abbreviation Used in the Text     vii
Introduction     1
Transition, Uncertainty, and the Conditions for a New Civil Rights     16
Claiming Rights in the Agricultural South     51
Claiming Rights in the Industrial Economy     81
The Work of Civil Rights in the Department of Justice     111
A New Deal for Civil Rights     141
Work and Workers in the NAACP     174
Litigating Labor in the Wartime NAACP     198
Eliminating Work from the NAACP's Legal Strategy     217
Brown and the Remaking of Civil Rights     238
Notes     273
Acknowledgments     361
Index     365

The Name of War or Live from Death Row

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

Author: Jill Lepor

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."

It all began when Philip (called Metacom by his own people), the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in the colony of Plymouth. The war spread quickly, pitting a loose confederation of southeastern Algonquians against a coalition of English colonists. While it raged, colonial armies pursued enemy Indians through the swamps and woods of New England, and Indians attacked English farms and towns from Narragansett Bay to the Connecticut River Valley. Both sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives, and mutilating the dead. The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676.

The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war--and because of it--that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indians and Anglos. She shows how, as late as the nineteenth century, memories of the war were instrumental injustifying Indian removals--and how in our own century that same war has inspired Indian attempts to preserve "Indianness" as fiercely as the early settlers once struggled to preserve their Englishness.

Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.

The Boston Globe - Barry O'Connell

A remarkable book. . .shaped by a transformative and original imagination. . .About what cultures see, what they remember, and what they forget.

Publishers Weekly

In King Philip's War of 1675, Algonquian Indians decimated more than half of the towns in New England, while the British massacred Indian settlements and shipped thousands of Algonquians out of the colonies as slaves. Though academic in style, this engrossing study by a Boston University history professor sheds new light on what is widely considered the most brutal and vicious war in American history (named after the Wampanoag leader Metacom, or Philip, who attacked Plymouth Colony). Analyzing colonists' diaries, letters and chronicles as well as captives' narratives, Lepore probes the deep-seated anxieties of the English settlers, who measured themselves not only against the "barbarian" Indians but also against the Spanish, whom the English self-righteously condemned for cruelty to Mexico's natives and to Protestants during the Inquisition. Memories of the war, kept alive for two centuries in plays, epic poems and histories, nurtured racist attitudes about Indians, according to the author. This study is full of valuable material on early English-Native contacts, on the widespread sale of Indians into foreign slavery and on relations between England and the elite of Christian Indians who mistakenly believed they would be spared from slavery. (Feb.)

Library Journal

Shortly before his death in 1675, John Sassamon warned the governor of Plymouth Colony that Philip, a Wampanoag Indian leader, was about to attack English settlers. When Sassamon was found dead, indications pointed to murder. Three Wampanoag Indians were tried, convicted, and executed. Days later, Philip and his followers began attacking and destroying one English settlement after another. Colonial armies retaliated, killing Indian warriors on the battlefield and their families in the villages. Rather than providing a battle-by-battle description, Lepore (history, Boston Univ.) presents the war through the diaries, books, articles, and dramas written about it. Her major theme is that wars and their histories cannot be separated. Wars generate their own narratives, serving to define the geographical, political, cultural, and national boundaries between warring peoples. A unique approach to historical interpretation, this book will appeal to academic libraries and those that specialize in early American history. (Illustrations not seen.)Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora

New York Review of Books - Gordon S. Wood

A product [of] imaginative, and wide-ranging scholarship. . .a fascinating book. . .A meditation on the war . . .on what the war meant, not only for the English and the Indians of the 17th century but also for their heirs in the 19th and 20th centuries. . . A history [rich] in imagination, in moral ruminations about the meaning and justice of the war, and in literary and cultural theory.

The Boston Globe - Barry O'Connell

A remarkable book. . .shaped by a transformative and original imagination. . .About what cultures see, what they remember, and what they forget.

The New York Times Book Review - Edward Countryman

A fine narrative of the war's outbreak, process, denouement, and aftermath. But Lepore's contribution to a developing literature on historical American identity lies with her elucidation of how people attached meanings to the war's gruesome events. . .She captures the experience of war, for whites and Indians alike.

Atlanta Journal Constitution

A unique work.

Edward Countryman

A fine narrative of the war's outbreak, process, denouement, and aftermath. But Lepore's contribution to a developing literature on historical American identity lies with her elcidation of how people attached meanings to the war's gruesome events...She captures the experience of war, for whites and Indians alike. -- New York Times Book Review

New York Review of Books - Gordon S. Wood

...[A] meditation on the war ...on what the war meant, not only for the English and the Indians of the seventeenth century but also for their heirs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...A history [rich] in imagination, in moral ruminations about the meaning and justice of war, and in literary and cultural theory.

Kirkus Reviews

A superb study of an all-but-forgotten war that, in the author's view, had a profound effect on Anglo-American perceptions of the Indian. First-time author Lepore (History/Boston Univ.) offers an account of the bloody war in 1675 between English settlers and Algonquian Indians in New England, a "short, vicious" conflict that, by proportion of population, "inflicted greater casualties than any other war in American history." Her account is peppered with more than the usual atrocities: Men, women, even children are tortured and murdered, whole cities burned. It is also riddled with mysteries; as Lepore notes, the war began thanks to rumor, an unsolved murder, and pent-up but vague hatreds among peoples who had become more and more like one another. The English, far from home, had adopted Native American customs and cuisine, had stopped attending church, had moved farther and farther inland and away from European settlements. The Indians, for their part, had taken to wearing Western clothes, living in houses, and reading the Bible. With identities thus confused, each side waged a war that the other condemned as brutal and savage, and thousands died in the bargain. Lepore's account of the war has the immediacy of journalism, as well as learned asides about anthropological theories of conflict, the effect of literacy on hitherto preliterate populations, the nature of ethnic strife, and, most important, the memory of King Philip's War in New England. That grim memory, she suggests, tempered later policies of war and removal. The war itself continues to resonate today as Native Americans press their claims for land first lost in the conflict's aftermath. "In the end, this book is justanother story about just another war," Lepore writes, with wholly undue modesty. Vivid and thoughtful, it is much more than that, and it holds the promise of much good work to come.

What People Are Saying

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A Midwife's Tale
Jill Lepore shows how language shaped as well as reflected the horror we know as 'King Philip's War.' Finding Algonquian voices within, behind, and beside the classic English narrative, she forces new engagement with the invasions, celebrations, and violence of New England history.

Michael Kammen
A profound and rewarding book that illuminates the social psychology of war in the American experience. . .It adds wonderfully rich new dimensions to the history of white-Indian relations in the United States.

William Cronon
A brilliant study of the different ways Americans have understood and told stories agout one of the great conflicts of their colonial past.
— Author of Changes in the Land

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Live from Death Row

Author: Mumia Abu Jamal

Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. Live From Death Row is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech.

Publishers Weekly

Sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a police officer, after a trial that has since attracted considerable criticism, African American journalist Abu-Jamal presents a collection of his prison writings. (June)

Booknews

A collection of the prison writings of Abu-Jamal, including the unreleased NPR commentaries that were abruptly cancelled after public outcry. Since his conviction in 1982 for the murder of a police officer, Abu-Jamal, a well-known journalist prior to his conviction, has been fighting against racism and political bias in the American judicial system through commentaries and articles. No index or bibliography. 5x8". Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Introduction
	Teetering on the brink between life and death	3
	Descent into hell	22
	The visit	25
	"On tilt" by state design	28
	On death row: fade to black	32
	From an echo in darkness, a step into light	40
	Nightraiders meet rage	44
	Actin' like life's a ball game	49
	Legal outlaws: Bobby's battle for justice	52
	Manny's attempted murder	56
	A toxic shock	60
	Spirit death	64
	A return to death	67
	Days of pain - night of death	71
	Relatives decry "camp hell"	75
	B-block days and nightmares	79
	Human waste camps	89
	Black march to death	92
	Slavery daze II	95
	Skeleton bay	99
	No law, no rights	103
	Two bites of the apple in dixie	106
	Blackmun bows out of the death game	112
	Jury of peers?	116
	Expert witness from hell	119
	The demand for death	122
	Already out of the game	125
	A bill that is a crime	128
	Musings on Malcolm	133
	Deadly deja vu	137
	Rodney wasn't the only one	140
	L.A. outlaw	143
	Absence of power	146
	Clinton guillotines Guinier	149
	Another side of Glory	152
	What, to a prisoner, is the Fourth of July?	156
	A house is not a home	160
	The lost generation	163
	Blues for Huey	166
	Philly daze: an impressionistic memoir	171
	Afterword	193

George W Bushisms V or People Themselves

George W. Bushisms V: New Ways to Harm Our Country

Author: Jacob Weisberg

"I can only speak to myself."

True -- and yet we must listen. Sometimes his accidental wit speaks louder than any prepared statement.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere. And they say, 'Man, you're looking pretty.'"

"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."

Thanks to the faithful work of Jacob Weisberg, the wisdom of George W. Bush -- America's Malapropist in Chief -- has been carefully preserved for the ages in annual editions. Now that the president is armed with a new (and unprecedented!) popular electoral victory, America can breathe a sigh of relief -- or, as the president once put it, we can "thank our blessings." The language experiments will continue. Stand-up comedians will enjoy full employment.

With George W. Bushisms V, the second term truly begins.

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People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

Author: Larry D Kramer

In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some historical abstraction, and the notion of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical device invoked on the campaign trail. Questions of constitutional meaning provoked vigorous public debate and the actions of government officials were greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or riotous resistance. Americans treated the Constitution as part of the lived reality of their daily existence. Their self-sovereignty in law as much as politics was active not abstract.