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Author: Joseph B. Parker Publisher: Pelican Publishing ISBN: 9781455609017 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 176
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This book traces the career of Lesseps S. Morrison, mayor of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961, and his political organization, the Crescent City Democratic Association (CCDA). The author, Joseph B. Parker, examines Morrison's time in office as an example of the reform politics movement that was sweeping the country at that time. Parker believes that few reform leaders were realistic in their approach to using political machines to accomplish their objectives. Morrison, Parker claims, belongs to a select group of realistic reformers that also includes Robert M. La Follette, Hiram Johnson, and Fiorello La Guardia. Morrison and New Orleans are not Parker's only concerns, however. Parker also focuses on reform politics and its influence on American cities everywhere. He examines the rise of political machines and their positive and negative effects on major cities across the country. Morrison Era traces not only the period of Morrison's mayoral term, but the entire reform politics movement in New Orleans. Parker gives an overview of the major machines and reformers in American cities before focusing on New Orleans, including a history of New Orleans and its politics from Reconstruction to 1926. He also provides a brief political history of New Orleans from 1926 to 1946, before turning to the structure of the CCDA. He traces the functions of the CCDA, examining it as a political machine that helped Morrison control most aspects of New Orleans government, and concludes with the gradual decline and fall of the CCDA.
Author: Joseph B. Parker Publisher: Pelican Publishing ISBN: 9781455609017 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
This book traces the career of Lesseps S. Morrison, mayor of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961, and his political organization, the Crescent City Democratic Association (CCDA). The author, Joseph B. Parker, examines Morrison's time in office as an example of the reform politics movement that was sweeping the country at that time. Parker believes that few reform leaders were realistic in their approach to using political machines to accomplish their objectives. Morrison, Parker claims, belongs to a select group of realistic reformers that also includes Robert M. La Follette, Hiram Johnson, and Fiorello La Guardia. Morrison and New Orleans are not Parker's only concerns, however. Parker also focuses on reform politics and its influence on American cities everywhere. He examines the rise of political machines and their positive and negative effects on major cities across the country. Morrison Era traces not only the period of Morrison's mayoral term, but the entire reform politics movement in New Orleans. Parker gives an overview of the major machines and reformers in American cities before focusing on New Orleans, including a history of New Orleans and its politics from Reconstruction to 1926. He also provides a brief political history of New Orleans from 1926 to 1946, before turning to the structure of the CCDA. He traces the functions of the CCDA, examining it as a political machine that helped Morrison control most aspects of New Orleans government, and concludes with the gradual decline and fall of the CCDA.
Author: Ryan H. Walsh Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735221367 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
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A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory--along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, Walsh's book follows a criss-crossing cast of musicians and visionaries, artists and hippie entrepreneurs, from a young Tufts English professor who walks into a job as a host for TV's wildest show (one episode required two sets, each tuned to a different channel) to the mystically inclined owner of radio station WBCN, who believed he was the reincarnation of a scientist from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of all is Mel Lyman, the folk-music star who decided he was God, then controlled the lives of his many followers via acid, astrology, and an underground newspaper called Avatar. A mesmerizing group of boldface names pops to life in Astral Weeks: James Brown quells tensions the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated; the real-life crimes of the Boston Strangler come to the movie screen via Tony Curtis; Howard Zinn testifies for Avatar in the courtroom. From life-changing concerts and chilling crimes, to acid experiments and film shoots, Astral Weeks is the secret, wild history of a unique time and place. One of LitHub's 15 Books You Should Read This March
Author: Robert Morrison Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0393249050 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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A surprising and lively history of an overlooked era that brought the modern world of art, culture, and science decisively into view. The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811–1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales—the future king George IV—replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain’s ruler. Around the regent surged a society steeped in contrasts: evangelicalism and hedonism, elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. The arts flourished at this time with a showcase of extraordinary writers and painters such as Jane Austen, Lord Byron, the Shelleys, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner. Science burgeoned during this decade, too, giving us the steam locomotive and the blueprint for the modern computer. Yet the dark side of the era was visible in poverty, slavery, pornography, opium, and the gothic imaginings that birthed the novel Frankenstein. With the British military in foreign lands, fighting the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the War of 1812 in the United States, the desire for empire and an expanding colonial enterprise gained unstoppable momentum. Exploring these crosscurrents, Robert Morrison illuminates the profound ways this period shaped and indelibly marked the modern world.
Author: William Jefferson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 1497550769 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 199
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Is Toni Morrison's writing as politically progressive as is widely assumed? In this eye-opening study, critic William Jefferson argues that it is not. Analyzing Morrison's major texts from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, Jefferson argues that Morrison's writing has advanced problematic conceptions of racial essentialism, sexuality, and agency that would not be identified as in any way progressive if issued from the pen of a white writer. More than merely showing readers underappreciated aspects of African-American history, Morrison's fiction has actively intervened in the politics of her era--and in ways politically reactionary and disturbing. Stepping back from Morrison's fiction, Jefferson asks why scholars have not recognized these political aspects of Morrison's writing. What he finds is a purportedly left-wing academy focused predominantly on recognizing the indisputably black aspects of Morrison's work. This "politics of recognition," unfortunately, also naturalizes Morrison's representations in the same manner liberal humanist criticism naturalized the representations of the pre-1970 literary canon.
Author: Simon Morrison Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199830983 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 504
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Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries. Indeed, Morrison was the first scholar to gain access to the composer's sealed files in the Russian State Archives, where he uncovered a wealth of previously unknown scores, writings, correspondence, and unopened journals and diaries. The story he found in these documents is one of lofty hopes and disillusionment, of personal and creative upheavals. Morrison shows that Prokofiev seemed to thrive on uncertainty during his Paris years, stashing scores in suitcases, and ultimately stunning his fellow emigrés by returning to Stalin's Russia. At first, Stalin's regime treated him as a celebrity, but Morrison details how the bureaucratic machine ground him down with corrections and censorship (forcing rewrites of such major works as Romeo and Juliet), until it finally censured him in 1948, ending his career and breaking his health.
Author: Toni Morrison Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618397402 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 88
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The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.
Author: Publisher: Marvel ISBN: 9781302917418 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 0
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A mysterious new player enters the Marvel Universe...and the X-Men are square in the center of his crosshairs! What is the mission of Major X - and what does it have to do with the time-traveler known as Cable? It's a race against time to save mutantkind from certain devastation, but will Cable try to stop the deadly soldier and his far-reaching goals - or will he forge a tentative union with the mysterious military man? Writer/artist Rob Liefeld introduces a new wrinkle into the saga of Marvel's Mightiest Mutants! Join the X-Men as they ask the question that will soon be on everyone's lips: who is Major X?! COLLECTING: MAJOR X #1-6
Author: William A. Jefferson Publisher: Vivian Eastwood ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 79
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Jefferson questions whether Morrison is as politically progressive as has been widely assumed and probes why politically-minded literary critics have not noted the reactionary elements in her work. He sees scholars as following Morrison's own theory of her work--that is, that it must be analyzed according to African American "structures" and linguistic forms to uncover Afro-American "values." This approach, he argues, simply rehabilitates the tenets of pre-1970s liberal humanism: that Morrison's text is a transparent window into these apparently timeless and universal black values. Contains the introduction and first essay of the book Toni Morrison and the Limits of a Politics of Recognition. Also includes excerpts from the remainder of the book. FREE!
Author: Valerie Smith Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118917693 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 183
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This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate’s aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels. Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly original contribution to the scholarship of one of the most important contemporary American writers Analyzes the celebrated fiction of Morrison in relation to her critical writing about the process of reading and writing literature, the relationship between readers and writers, and the cultural contributions of African-American literature Features extended analyses of Morrison’s lesser-known works, most recent novels, and books for children as well as the key texts
Author: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000213676 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy— a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a “novel-tragedy” (Kliger)—and a novel of objects. Its many things—literary, conceptual, linguistic— are viewed as vessels carrying the (hi)story and the political concerns. From this, a third conclusion is drawn: Fadem argues for a view of Beloved as a case for reparations. That status is founded on two outstanding object lessons: the character of Beloved as embodiment of the subject-object relations defining the slave state and the grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The rest is...” on the novel’s final page. This intertextual reference places Beloved in a comparative link with Hamlet and Oresteia. Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of scholarship on the novel. Few critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form. This scholar posits Morrison’s tragedy as constituting a searing critique of modernity, as composed through meaningful intertextualities and as crafted by profound “thingly” objects (Brown). Altogether, Fadem has divined a fascinating singular treatment of Beloved exploring the connections between form and craft together with critical historical and political implications. The book argues, finally, that this novel’s first concern is justice, and its chief aim to serve as a clarion call for material— and not merely symbolic—reparations. This book is freely available to read at https://taylorandfrancis.com/socialjustice/?c=language-literature-arts#
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