Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental StudiesPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Defining Americans
Author: Mary E. StuckeyPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700635203
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Andrew Jackson spoke to Americans in ways that reflected the concerns of a young nation. Grover Cleveland helped citizens redefine themselves after the havoc of the Civil War era. FDR confronted widespread hardship with hope and determination, while Eisenhower spoke to our fears of the Communist menace. Throughout our history, presidents by their very utterances have shaped our sense of who we are as Americans. As Mary Stuckey observes, presidents embrace, articulate, and reinvigorate our sense of national identity. They define who Americans are—often by declaring who they aren’t. In this book, she shows how presidential speech has served to broaden the American political community over the past two centuries while at the same time excluding others. Ranging broadly from Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Stuckey demonstrates how presidents accomplish the dual enactment of inclusion and exclusion through their rhetorical and political choices. Our early leaders were preoccupied with balancing the growing nation; later presidents were concerned with the nature and definitions of citizenship. By examining the political speeches of presidents exemplifying distinctly different circumstances, she presents a series of snapshots which, when taken together, reveal both the continuity and the changes in our national self-understanding. Ambitious and sweeping, Stuckey’s work documents the tactics that have naturalized and legitimated inclusion and exclusion, tracing the progress of groups such as women and African Americans from political invisibility to partial visibility and eventual inclusion. She also shows how the terms of inclusion have varied with changing political winds, helping us understand how depictions of the powerless by the powerful reflect and influence the status of various groups. Stuckey’s analysis shows how presidents use language rooted in their times and circumstances to frame and influence contemporary definitions of citizenship. A provocative book that documents the changes in our understanding of who is and who isn’t one of “us,” Defining Americans reveals that all presidents draw upon the same set of national ideals, values, and events—but not all use those ideas in precisely the same ways.
Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers of Luther Hartwell Hodges, Governor of North Carolina, 1954-1961
Author: Luther Hartwell HodgesPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Editor & Publisher
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 2288
Book Description
The fourth estate.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting His Annual Report on the State of the Finances
Author: United States. Department of the TreasuryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Tennessee River Navigation System
Author: Tennessee Valley AuthorityPublisher:
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Category : Inland water transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Tennessee River Navigation System is one of the planned series of special technical reports recording the experience of TVA in planning and carrying out one of its major program. The report presents a comprehensive picture of the river's development for navigation including commercial, industrial, and recreational uses. The discussions are preceded by a historical outline tracing the use of the Tennessee River and its tributaries for navigation from the days of DeSoto to the inception of the TVA; they conclude with a summary of navigation investment costs. Appendixes provide supplemental data.