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Some poet once said, There is beauty in destruction too. behind. The beautiful mushroom cloud that slowly climbs into the air, leaving death and horror in its wake, and yet against the sunset... it is awe-inspiring. interest in the unfolding plot. The final and tragic members of the cast that used Estasia as a stage were just as mysterious, and just as difficult to penetrate as the baffling island once was, but is no more. Each one of them had led legendary lives, but little could they know that a small and eery island on the cusp of the continental shelf would bring them together for the climax of their individual stories, and no one could be assured of survival. for destruction. Nothing could compare to its seductive lure, and in their drive to control it, these small men of envy and ambition, stupefied by the tyrannical might they exerted over their own followers, threatened to unleash the maximum expression of power toward catastrophic ends... and finally did so in the name of vengeance. histories of each one of these villains making up the gallery of rogues before we delve into the details of events, which occurred during those final, fateful days when destiny revealed its purpose over the hills... on the Island of Estasia. agents once knew about, and in secrecy swore never to reveal? In fact, it was little more than a small island shrouded in mystery.

Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Democratic Party, 1945-1976 is about ideology and politics. It focuses on the civil rights issue in Democratic party politics from 1945 to 1976 but glances at a longer history to describe American liberalism.

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This book is an interpretation of our recent political past. It offers an explanation of the rise and decline of postwar liberalism, a creed that was vitally concerned with civil rights. Partly because of such special concern, liberalism inspired in many a daring vision of social justice and, by the end of the 1960s, inspired in many more a reaction of loathing and contempt. To explain the rise of this ideology, John Frederick Martin has drawn from numerous archives and interviews and assessed the contributions of Truman, Stevenson, Kefauver, Harriman, Kennedy, and Johnson. To explain its decline, he has analyzed the reaction to the liberals' government-the sentiments aroused by busing, affirmative action, Model Cities, and the militance of blacks, Democrats, and white ethnics. Though varying in their intent, these responses shared a dislike of the liberals' treatment of minorities and a dread of government power-a dread made stronger by the antiwar movement and the Watergate scandal-and thereby discredited the very ends and means of the liberal program. By the early 1970s, Martin argues, it was no surprise that a politics of consumerism-pivoting on the rights of the average citizen, not of the deprived citizen, and eschewing government power-had replaced the liberal ideology. Placing this narrative in a larger context, Martin explains the importance of the race issue in previous liberal movements and composes an interpretation of the whole of American liberalism as well as of its latest stage and the Democrats' recent ordeal.