Author: Alexander Cockburn
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 9781904859031
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
For all who dare look, this timely book shows how voting for the lesser evil candidate still leaves the American people with evil. It calls on progressives to begin a new movement outside the death-embrace of the Democratic Party.
Dime's Worth of Difference
Author: Alexander Cockburn
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 9781904859031
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
For all who dare look, this timely book shows how voting for the lesser evil candidate still leaves the American people with evil. It calls on progressives to begin a new movement outside the death-embrace of the Democratic Party.
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 9781904859031
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
For all who dare look, this timely book shows how voting for the lesser evil candidate still leaves the American people with evil. It calls on progressives to begin a new movement outside the death-embrace of the Democratic Party.
The Ten Things You Can't Say in America
Author: Larry Elder
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312266608
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Offers insights on the too-often-undiscussed truths of life in contemporary America, probing such subjects as the differences between Democrats and Republicans, the health care crisis, and racism.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312266608
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Offers insights on the too-often-undiscussed truths of life in contemporary America, probing such subjects as the differences between Democrats and Republicans, the health care crisis, and racism.
Nickel and Dimed
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429926643
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429926643
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
The Decline of American Political Parties, 1952-1996
Author: Martin P. Wattenberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674044968
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The major theme of Chapter 12, new to this edition, is the missed opportunities for the parties in the 1996 elections. The year started with a highly visible confrontation over the budget that could have revitalized the party coalitions if the issues had been carried over to the election. However, the candidate-centered campaign of 1996 ultimately did little to resolve these issues or to reinvigorate partisanship in the electorate. In spite of the opportunities for getting new voters to the polls created by the Motor Voter Act, voter turnout in 1996 was the lowest since 1924. Turning out the vote is one of the most crucial functions of political parties, and their inability to mobalize more than half of the eligible electorate strongly indicates their future decline in importance to voters. Until citizens support the parties more by showing up to cast votes for their candidates, the decline of American political parties must be considered to be an ongoing phenomenon. --From the preface
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674044968
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The major theme of Chapter 12, new to this edition, is the missed opportunities for the parties in the 1996 elections. The year started with a highly visible confrontation over the budget that could have revitalized the party coalitions if the issues had been carried over to the election. However, the candidate-centered campaign of 1996 ultimately did little to resolve these issues or to reinvigorate partisanship in the electorate. In spite of the opportunities for getting new voters to the polls created by the Motor Voter Act, voter turnout in 1996 was the lowest since 1924. Turning out the vote is one of the most crucial functions of political parties, and their inability to mobalize more than half of the eligible electorate strongly indicates their future decline in importance to voters. Until citizens support the parties more by showing up to cast votes for their candidates, the decline of American political parties must be considered to be an ongoing phenomenon. --From the preface
A Guide Book of United States Coins 2008
Author: RICHARD S. YEOMAN
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, American
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, American
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Nickels, Dimes, and Dollars Book
Author: Ellen Sabin
Publisher: Watering Can Press
ISBN: 9780975986899
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Learn to make smart decisions about how to spend, share, save, earn, and grow your money.
Publisher: Watering Can Press
ISBN: 9780975986899
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Learn to make smart decisions about how to spend, share, save, earn, and grow your money.
Me + You
Author: Maureen Bowes
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412083079
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
At last a book that makes practical sense of emotional intelligence. Hands on, accessible suggestions that get to the heart of self-development and successful relationships.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412083079
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
At last a book that makes practical sense of emotional intelligence. Hands on, accessible suggestions that get to the heart of self-development and successful relationships.
The Complete Book of Fussing and Nagging
Author: Ben Watford
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467833894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
I am of the opinion, that at some point in a marriage, all wives fuss and nag their husbands. My mother fussed and nagged my father and my wife is an expert at fussing and nagging. My wife has developed fussing and nagging into a beautiful art form. I enjoy her comments about my bad habits and me. I have quite a few bad habits. We have been married for almost sixty years and I would not have it any other way. There are a few things in the past that I would change. However, I would not change my wife as she is a beautiful specimen of womanhood.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467833894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
I am of the opinion, that at some point in a marriage, all wives fuss and nag their husbands. My mother fussed and nagged my father and my wife is an expert at fussing and nagging. My wife has developed fussing and nagging into a beautiful art form. I enjoy her comments about my bad habits and me. I have quite a few bad habits. We have been married for almost sixty years and I would not have it any other way. There are a few things in the past that I would change. However, I would not change my wife as she is a beautiful specimen of womanhood.
As an American Rights and Responsibilities
Author: William N. Spencer
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984518275
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Rights and responsibilitieswhat a strange collection and connection of words. But words do mean things, and according to our great American Constitution and quite contrary to todays popular liberal democrat beliefs, we citizens really do have very many actual responsibilities (how dare we insinuate such mindless drivel?) and very few actual rights. Among those are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessnot the right to happiness but only the freedom of opportunity to pursue happiness and only if one chooses to do so or so chooses not to do so. Unfortunately, since the onset of modern-day liberal progressivism, a great majority of American citizens no longer accept the obligation of any national responsibility.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984518275
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Rights and responsibilitieswhat a strange collection and connection of words. But words do mean things, and according to our great American Constitution and quite contrary to todays popular liberal democrat beliefs, we citizens really do have very many actual responsibilities (how dare we insinuate such mindless drivel?) and very few actual rights. Among those are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessnot the right to happiness but only the freedom of opportunity to pursue happiness and only if one chooses to do so or so chooses not to do so. Unfortunately, since the onset of modern-day liberal progressivism, a great majority of American citizens no longer accept the obligation of any national responsibility.
Centers for Faith-based and Community Initiatives
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description