Author: Walter GrünzweigPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823350231
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Constructing the Eighties
Author: Walter GrünzweigPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823350231
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Other Eighties
Author: Bradford MartinPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142995342X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.
History of the Eighties--lessons for the Future
Author: History of the Eighties
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ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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The Eighties
Author: Tom HarveyPublisher: Just Load the Wagon Publishing
ISBN: 9780982874202
Category : Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The decade of the 1980s has been called the Decade of Decadence. Decadence is defined as "the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay" or my favorite, "unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence." For a decade that brought us Cabbage Patch Kids, Garbage Pail Kids, leg-warmers and New Wave, was it really a state of deterioration?! For one kid growing up in the Central Valley of California, it was a time of self-discovery . . . a transformation from a kid, to a teenager, to a young adult . . . his growing up years. At times utterly hilarious, at times poignant and powerful, Tom relives his teenage years in this true-to-the-last-word memoir. Where were you when John Lennon died? When the Space Shuttle blew up? When Lawrence Taylor ended Joe Theisman's career on live TV? When the Loma Prieta earthquake rocked Game 3 of the 1989 World Series? Tom will tell you where he was and what it meant to him. You'll also hear about first kisses, first loves, a joke about your Uranus, avoiding fistfights, the joys of minimum-wage jobs, college roommates, and WHOLE LOT MORE. If you're one of the 70 million Americans who can claim at least one teen year in the decade, you can relate to the era . . . if your kids can't understand your fondness for your Breakfast Club and Princess Bride DVDs, this book may teach them a thing or two about YOUR growing up years.
Construction Review
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Buildings and Building Management
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Category : Building management
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
The Constructed Mennonite
Author: Hans WernerPublisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler’s German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.
Out of Office
Author: Hilde Therese RemøyPublisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 1607505207
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Fiscal Year 1973 Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, Construction Authorization for the Safeguard ABM, and Active Duty and Selected Reserve Strengths, Hearings ..., 92-2 ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Armed ServicesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description