Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Proceedings Against Wendell H. Furry for Contempt of the Senate
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1560
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Report
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
I.F. Stone's Weekly
Author: Isidor Feinstein StonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
I.F. Stone's Bi-weekly
Author: I. F. Stones̕ Bi-weekly
Author: Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Preserving the Desert
Author: Lary M. DilsaverPublisher:
ISBN: 9781938086465
Category : Desert conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
National parks are different from other federal lands in the United States. Beginning in 1872 with the establishment of Yellowstone, they were largely set aside to preserve for future generations the most spectacular and inspirational features of the country, seeking the best representative examples of major ecosystems such as Yosemite, geologic forms such as the Grand Canyon, archaeological sites such as Mesa Verde, and scenes of human events such as Gettysburg. But one type of habitat--the desert--fell short of that goal in American eyes until travel writers and the Automobile Age began to change that perception. As the Park Service began to explore the better-known Mojave and Colorado deserts of southern California during the 1920s for a possible desert park, many agency leaders still carried the same negative image of arid lands shared by many Americans--that they are hostile and largely useless. But one wealthy woman--Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, from Pasadena--came forward, believing in the value of the desert, and convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a national monument that would protect the unique and iconic Joshua trees and other desert flora and fauna. Thus was Joshua Tree National Monument officially established in 1936, with the area later expanded in 1994 when it became Joshua Tree National Park. Since 1936, the National Park Service and a growing cadre of environmentalists and recreationalists have fought to block ongoing proposals from miners, ranchers, private landowners, and real estate developers who historically have refused to accept the idea that any desert is suitable for anything other than their consumptive activities. To their dismay, Joshua Tree National Park, even with its often-conflicting land uses, is more popular today than ever, serving more than one million visitors per year who find the desert to be a place worthy of respect and preservation. Distributed for George Thompson Publishing
The Vanishing Vision
Author: James DayPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520309960
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This spirited history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, provides a vivid and often amusing behind-the-screens history. Day tells how a program producer, desperate to locate a family willing to live with television cameras for seven months, borrowed a dime—and a suggestion—from a blind date and telephoned the Louds of Santa Barbara. The result was the mesmerizing twelve-hour documentary An American Family. Day relates how Big Bird and his friends were created to spice up Sesame Street when test runs showed a flagging interest in the program's "live-action" segments. And he describes how Frieda Hennock, the first woman appointed to the FCC, overpowered the resistance of her male colleagues to lay the foundation for public television. Day identifies the particular forces that have shaped public television and produced a Byzantine bureaucracy kept on a leash by an untrusting Congress, with a fragmented leadership that lacks a clearly defined mission in today's multimedia environment. Day calls for a bold rethinking of public television's mission, advocating a system that is adequately funded, independent of government, and capable of countering commercial television's "lowest-common-denominator" approach with a full range of substantive programs, comedy as well as culture, entertainment as well as information. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
The Smoke of the Gods
Author: Eric BurnsPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592134823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.