Author: Publisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine
Author: The Proletarian
Author: The Republican War on Science
Author: Chris MooneyPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465003869
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time since the Eisenhower administration. In the White House and Congress today, findings are reported in a politicized manner; spun or distorted to fit the speaker's agenda; or, when they're too inconvenient, ignored entirely. On a broad array of issues-stem cell research, climate change, missile defense, abstinence education, product safety, environmental regulation, and many others-the Bush administration's positions fly in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus. Federal science agencies, once fiercely independent under both Republican and Democratic presidents, are increasingly staffed by political appointees and fringe theorists who know industry lobbyists and evangelical activists far better than they know the science. This is not unique to the Bush administration, but it is largely a Republican phenomenon, born of a conservative dislike of environmental, health, and safety regulation, and at the extremes, of evolution and legalized abortion. In The Republican War on Science , Chris Mooney ties together the disparate strands of the attack on science into a compelling and frightening account of our government's increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience.
Frame-up
Author: Curt GentryPublisher: New York : Norton
ISBN:
Category : Anarchists
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
"One of the most infamous, calculated miscarriages of justice in American history, the Tom Mooney-Warren Billings case, told in full for the first time"--Cover.
The Leather Worker's Journal
Author: Proceedings of The...constitutional Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
Author: United Mine Workers of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Coal miners
Languages : en
Pages : 1720
Book Description
Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I
Author: Eric Thomas ChesterPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583678700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the National Civil Liberties Bureau's role in the anti-war movement during the First World War World War I, given all the rousing “Over-There” songs and in-the-trenches films it inspired, was, at its outset, surprisingly unpopular with the American public. As opposition increased, Woodrow Wilson’s presidential administration became intent on stifling antiwar dissent. Wilson effectively silenced the National Civil Liberties Bureau, forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union. Presidential candidate Eugene Debs was jailed, and Deb’s Socialist Party became a prime target of surveillance operations, both covert and overt. Drastic as these measures were, more draconian measures were to come. In his absorbing new book, Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I, Eric Chester reveals that out of this turmoil came a heated public discussion on the theory of civil liberties – the basic freedoms that are, theoretically, untouchable by any of the three branches of the U.S. government. The famous “clear and present danger” argument of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the “balance of conflicting interest” theory of law professor Zechariah Chafee, for example, evolved to provide a rationale for courts to act as a limited restraint on autocratic actions of the government. But Chester goes further, to examine an alternative theory: civil liberties exist as absolute rights, rather than being dependent on the specific circumstances of each case. Over the years, the debate about the right to dissent has intensified and become more necessary. This fascinating book explains why, a century after the First World War – and in the era of Trump – we need to know about this.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The American Flint
Author: To Reconcile Naturalization Procedures with the Bill of Rights
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and NaturalizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description