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The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive
period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE
Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this
modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the
best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to
future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research.
Featuring many of the top international names in the field, the
handbook is divided into nine key sections: SECTION 1: THE
GLOBALIZED CITY SECTION 2: URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING,
GOVERNANCE SECTION 3: MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE SECTION 4:
SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, SUSTAINABILITY
SECTION 5: DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES SECTION 6: CREATIVE
CITIES SECTION 7: URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES
SECTION 8: NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY SECTION 9: URBAN FUTURES
This is a central resource for researchers and students of
Sociology, Cultural Geography and Urban Studies.
Author John A. Andrews, son of the Caribbean soil, penetrates
inside the belly of the underground. In an environment saturated
with corruption, deception, duplicity, deceit, and inequities of
all kinds, Andrews conceives an international, greed driven fiasco,
embedded within the drug epidemic. Jamaican born, Drug Enforcement
Agent "Rude Boy," is confronted with a massive impasse as three
high ranking members of the Dragon Drug Cartel once assumed dead
re-appear. Allied with the notorious Johnny "Too Bad," they return
in an International face-off. Could Rude Buay survive this
politically disturbing debacle?
What if an ex-convicted Drug Dealer, now clean, was put on trial
for shooting the corrupt Sherriff, who helped to land him in prison
"It's a curious fact of contemporary politics that conservatives
have emerged as keepers of the 1960s flame. Although the '60s-that
great blob of a decade most expansively defined as beginning with
Kennedy's inauguration and ending Nixon hopping a helicopter to San
Clemente-were arguably the high-watermark of liberalism,
contemporary liberals seem content to skip over the period.In this
context, John A. Andrew III's The Other Side of the Sixties is a
particularly interesting act of historical recovery. Not only does
Andrew, a liberal historian at Franklin & Marshall College,
document just what young conservatives were up to in the '60's
(activity largely ignored by previous historians), his
identification of YAF as one of the era's three major student
groups (along with Students for a Democratic Society and the
Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee) suggests a reading of
the decade that provocatively complicates conservative castigations
of student 'radicals.' In recovering an ignored part of an
important decade, The Other Side of the Sixties documents the
tensions that existed at an early stage in the once-strong
alliance; the institutional history of YAF suggests that the
conflict will only become more heated." -Reason "There are good
histories of post-WW II conservative thought such as George H.
Nash's The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, since
1945 (CH, Oct '76), but there has long been a need for more serious
scholarship on postwar American conservative movements. Andrew
(history, Franklin & Marshall College) expertly fills this need
for one movement-Young Americans for Freedom-which, as he points
out, was the most controversial youth movement in US politics in
the first half of the 1960's. Andrew is especially sharp in
providing a rewarding look inside YAF in these years, explaining
its organizational dynamics, its leadership and their interpersonal
conflicts, and the factional struggles over distinguishing YAF from
both liberal Republicans and John Birchers." -Choice "Andrew makes
a significant contribution to sixties' historiography by refocusing
scholarly and public attention on the activities of conservative
youth during that tumultuous decade."-Mary C. Brennan, author of
Turning Right in the Sixties "Professor Andrew's book fills a
gaping hole in the social/political history of the sixties. He
tells us now of the spirited movement of young people that peaked
in the election of Ronald Reagan."-William F. Buckley, Jr. "A
fascinating account of a too long overlooked aspect of the 1960s:
the counterattack of America's young conservatives who battled the
left courageously and ultimately won the war."-William A. Rusher,
Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute What were young
conservatives doing in the 1960s while SDS and SNCC were working to
move the political center to the left? The Other Side of the
Sixties offers a gripping account of Young Americans for Freedom
(YAF), an organization that became a leading force in promoting
conservative ideas and that helped lay the groundwork for today's
conservatism. John Andrew has mined unique archival material to
document YAF's efforts to form a viable organization, define a new
conservatism, attack the liberal establishment, and seize control
of the Republican party, all while battling voter hostility and
internal factionalism. The author also uncovers the Kennedy
administration's use of the IRS to subvert YAF and other right-wing
organizations through tax audits and investigations. By painting a
more balanced portrait of political thinking in the sixties, Andrew
offers a new and much needed look at the ideological atmosphere of
a vibrant decade.
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