Author: Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick in the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Yearbook of the Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick in the City of New York
Author: Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick in the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: White Ethnic New York
Author: Joshua M. ZeitzPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807872806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive impact on the shape of liberal politics long before black-white racial identity politics entered the political lexicon. Understanding ethnicity as an intersection of class, national origins, and religion, Zeitz demonstrates that the white ethnic populations of New York had significantly diverging views on authority and dissent, community and individuality, secularism and spirituality, and obligation and entitlement. New York Jews came from Eastern European traditions that valued dissent and encouraged political agitation; their Irish and Italian Catholic neighbors tended to value commitment to order, deference to authority, and allegiance to church and community. Zeitz argues that these distinctions ultimately helped fracture the liberal coalition of the Roosevelt era, as many Catholics bolted a Democratic Party increasingly focused on individual liberties, and many dissent-minded Jews moved on to the antiliberal New Left.
NGS Newsletter
Author: Who's who in the East
Author: Supplement to Who's who in America
Author: Yearbook of International Organizations
Author: Union of International AssociationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9783598239991
Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Charter, Constitution, By-laws, Officers, Committees, Roll of Members, & C., of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of New York ...
Author: Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick in the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The New American Story
Author: Bill BradleyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 158836626X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
“Politics is stuck,” writes Bill Bradley, in this insightful, informative, and provocative book about America at a crossroads, but “idealism isn’t dead. It can be reawakened.” What will it take to make America a better, stronger, truer country? asks the bestselling author, former Knicks star, and onetime presidential candidate. Bill Bradley believes that America is at a teachable moment when we are compelled to reevaluate our political system, our leadership, our agenda as a nation, and ourselves as citizens. With clarity and urgency, Bradley shows why the story we are being told now about who we are as a people is not true. He then offers a new story about our nation, based on America’s rich heritage and his belief in the character of the American people. Bradley explores what changes need to be made in our parties, in our politics, and in citizen activism to ensure America’s future. He asserts that the American people are ready for the truth and suggests that the party that chooses to embrace this new story will be in power for a generation. Writing from his own experience in politics and drawing on his knowledge of history, Bradley shows how the Republican Party has built a solid pyramid structure since the 1970s, at the base of which are money, ideas, and media, whereas the Democratic Party’s structure is an inverted pyramid, with too much emphasis put on the need for a charismatic leader to hold the pyramid up. Each party, for different reasons, fails to deal with the real issues that now confront America. This informed and inspiring call to action is addressed not only to the parties and elected leaders, but to citizens as well. Bradley proposes things every American can do to shape our nation’s future. He points out that if eighty percent of the electorate voted, instead of fifty percent, it would be the most important change in American politics since women got the vote. Now more than ever, he says, we need to embrace an “ethic of connectedness,” a combination of collective action and individual responsibility, to solve our nation’s most pressing problems, and he argues that the fate of all countries is bound together as never before. Writing today with the freedom of a private citizen, Bradley provides this transformative and eye-opening book about the danger and the promise of America’s choice at this crucial moment in the nation’s history.