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Category : Kangaroo Ground (Vic.)
Languages : en
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Board Rules to Save the Bush
Author: The Book on Bush
Author: Eric AltermanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101200812
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
When George W. Bush became president in January 2001, he took office with a comfortably familiar surname, bipartisan rhetoric, and the promise of calming a public shaken by the convulsions of impeachment and a contested election. Then nine months later, after the tragedy of 9/11, both the country and the world looked to him for leadership that could unite people behind great common goals. Instead, three years into his term, George W. Bush squandered the goodwill felt toward America, turned allies into adversaries, and ran the most radical and divisive administration in the history of the presidency. The Book On Bush was the first comprehensive critique of a president who governed on a right wing and a prayer. In carefully documented and vivid detail, Eric Alterman and Mark Green, two of the leading progressive authors/advocates in the country, not only trace the guiding ideology that ran through a wide range of W.’s policies but also expose a presidential decision-making process that, rather than weighing facts to arrive at conclusions, began with conclusions and then searched for supporting facts.
The Environmental Case
Author: Judith A. LayzerPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1071870254
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Answers to environmental issues are not black and white. Debates around policy are often among those with fundamentally different values, and the way that problems and solutions are defined plays a central role in shaping how those values are translated into policy. The Environmental Case captures the real-world complexity of creating environmental policy, and this much-anticipated Sixth Edition contains 14 carefully constructed cases, including a new study of the Salton Sea crisis. Through her analysis, Sara Rinfret continues the work of Judith Layzer and explores the background, players, contributing factors, and outcomes of each case, and gives readers insight into some of the most interesting and controversial issues in U.S. environmental policymaking.
West's New York Digest, 4th
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Let the Lord Sort Them
Author: Maurice ChammahPublisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 1524760269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In 1972 the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country's death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment. Amid a larger wave of criminal justice reform came the death penalty's decline, a trend so durable that even in Texas the punishment appears again close to extinction. Chammah charts the rise and fall of capital punishment through the eyes of those it touched. -- adapted from publisher info
Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
Author: E.U.A. National Labor Relations BoardPublisher: Government Printing Office
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
Lessons Learned from Chemical Safety Board Investigations Including Texas City, TX
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water QualityPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
Author: United States. National Labor Relations BoardPublisher:
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
Redemption
Author: Nicholas LemannPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9781429923613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This was the start of an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant'ssupport for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations was to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. Lemann bases his devastating account on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable papers of Adelbert Ames, the war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time. When Ames pleaded with Grant for federal troops who could thwart the white terrorists violently disrupting Republican political activities, Grant wavered, and the result was a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed"—that is, returned to white control. Redemption makes clear that this is what led to the death of Reconstruction—and of the rights encoded in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. We are still living with the consequences.
Author: Queensland