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In Still Seeing Red, John Kenneth White explores how the Cold War
molded the internal politics of the United States. In a powerful
narrative backed by a rich treasure trove of polling data, White
takes the reader through the Cold War years, describing its effect
in redrawing the electoral map as we came to know it after World
War II. The primary beneficiaries of the altered landscape were
reinvigorated Republicans who emerged after five successive defeats
to tar the Democrats with the ?soft on communism? epithet. A new
nationalist Republican party?whose Cold War prescription for
winning the White House was copyrighted to Dwight Eisenhower,
Richard M. Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan?attained
primacy in presidential politics because of two contradictory
impulses embedded in the American character: a fanatical
preoccupation with communism and a robust liberalism. From 1952 to
1988 Republicans won the presidency seven times in ten tries. The
rare Democratic victors?John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and
Jimmy Carter?attempted to rearm the Democratic party to fight the
Cold War. Their collective failure says much about the politics of
the period. Even so, the Republican dream of becoming a majority
party became perverted as the Grand Old Party was recast into a
top-down party routinely winning the presidency even as its
electoral base remained relatively stagnant.In the post?Cold War
era, Americans are coming to appreciate how the fifty-year struggle
with the Soviet Union organized thinking in such diverse areas as
civil rights, social welfare, education, and defense policy. At the
same time, Americans are also more aware of how the Cold War shaped
their lives?from the ?duck and cover? drills in the classrooms to
the bomb shelters dug in the backyard when most Baby Boomers were
growing up. Like millions of Baby Boomers, Bill Clinton can
truthfully say, ?I am a child of the Cold War.?With the last gasp
of the Soviet Union, Baby Boomers and others are learning t
The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff
Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with
White on ABC radio. Malpas contacted White, and from there they
exchanged books and ideas. They arranged to meet at White's place
on the Breton coast, where a conversation about poetry and
philosophy developed over four days. Inspired by poets from John
Donne to Hoelderlin, and philosophers from Nietzsche to Heidegger,
they discussed the world, place, narrative, language and politics.
This book records that conversation. The Fundamental Field is made
up of two essays: the first is by White on Malpas; the second is by
Malpas on White. The volume closes with a set of three new
philosophical poems by White.
This comprehensive examination of Soviet air power analyzes the
three branches of the USSR Military Air Forces-Frontal Aviation,
Long-Range Aviation, and Military Air Transport-and Naval Aviation
and the National Air Defense, emphasizing World War II and postwar
developments.
This comprehensive examination of Soviet air power analyzes the
three branches of the USSR Military Air Forces & Frontal
Aviation, Long-Range Aviation, and Military Air Transport and Naval
Aviation and the National Air Defense, emphasizing World War II and
postwar developments.
Three collections of essays whose aim is to express the cartography
and the experience of a live, open world These essays all explore
Scottish subjects and the wider issues of geopetics. This volume
starts with On Scottish Ground by delving into forgotten cultural
resources. Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath explores more
socio-political considerations before opening out to a larger space
of cosmological meditation in The Wanderer and his Charts.
"Second Edition examines in detail the process of evaluating bridge
conditions and offers a thorough study of bridge types - their
origins, elements, and failures. Bridge Maintenance Inspection and
Evaluation, Second Edition presents new and expanded information on
condition ratings, capacity evaluations, load factor analysis, and
the American Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials (AASHTO) suggested guidelines. "
These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical
and exhilarating figures in modern literature Incandescent Limbo
recounts White's years in Paris. Many a writer in the modern era
had made Paris a focal point of his or her activity, but probably
no one made more of it or got more out of it than Kenneth White.
While exploring a labyrinthine underworld, the book is
fundamentally an autoanalysis and traces the birth of the writer as
an intellectual nomad. Letters from Gourgounel takes us from the
city to a wild part of south-eastern France, the Ardeche, where
White undertakes a resourcing in an elementary context. Hailed in
England as a 'fascinating curiosity of literature', this book not
only made White famous overnight in France, it was seen there as a
turning point in the contemporary situation. In the third book,
Travels in the Drifting Dawn, the intellectual nomad begins his
moves across territories and cultures. After passing through the
London underground of the sixties, then delving into the ground of
his native Scotland and neighbouring Ireland, we shift back to the
Continent, accumulating experience on different levels in France,
Spain, Belgium, Holland, before concluding the cycle in North
Africa. The trilogy is not only a summary of White's itinerary in
its initial stages, it opens up a whole intellectual and cultural
programme.
In "Still Seeing Red, " John Kenneth White explores how the Cold
War molded the internal politics of the United States. In a
powerful narrative backed by a rich treasure trove of polling data,
White takes the reader through the Cold War years, describing its
effect in redrawing the electoral map as we came to know it after
World War II. The primary beneficiaries of the altered landscape
were reinvigorated Republicans who emerged after five successive
defeats to tar the Democrats with the "soft on communism" epithet.
A new nationalist Republican party--whose Cold War prescription for
winning the White House was copyrighted to Dwight Eisenhower,
Richard M. Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan--attained
primacy in presidential politics because of two contradictory
impulses embedded in the American character: a fanatical
preoccupation with communism and a robust liberalism. From 1952 to
1988 Republicans won the presidency seven times in ten tries. The
rare Democratic victors--John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and
Jimmy Carter--attempted to rearm the Democratic party to fight the
Cold War. Their collective failure says much about the politics of
the period. Even so, the Republican dream of becoming a majority
party became perverted as the Grand Old Party was recast into a
top-down party routinely winning the presidency even as its
electoral base remained relatively stagnant.In the post-Cold War
era, Americans are coming to appreciate how the fifty-year struggle
with the Soviet Union organized thinking in such diverse areas as
civil rights, social welfare, education, and defense policy. At the
same time, Americans are also more aware of how the Cold War shaped
their lives--from the "duck and cover" drills in the classrooms to
the bomb shelters dug in the backyard when most Baby Boomers were
growing up. Like millions of Baby Boomers, Bill Clinton can
truthfully say, "I am a child of the Cold War."With the last gasp
of the Soviet Union, Baby Boomers and others are learning that the
politics of the Cold War are hard to shed. As the electoral maps
are being redrawn once more in the Clinton years, landmarks left
behind by the Cold War provide an important reference point. In the
height of the Cold War, voters divided the world into "us"
noncommunists versus "them" communists and reduced contests for the
presidency into battles of which party would be tougher in dealing
with the Evil Empire. But in a convoluted post-Cold War era,
politics defies such simple characteristics and presidents find it
harder to lead. Recalling how John F. Kennedy could so easily rally
public opinion, an exasperated Bill Clinton once lamented, "Gosh, I
miss the Cold War."
These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical
and exhilarating figures in modern literature Incandescent Limbo
recounts White's years in Paris. Many a writer in the modern era
had made Paris a focal point of his or her activity, but probably
no one made more of it or got more out of it than Kenneth White.
While exploring a labyrinthine underworld, the book is
fundamentally an autoanalysis and traces the birth of the writer as
an intellectual nomad. Letters from Gourgounel takes us from the
city to a wild part of south-eastern France, the Ardeche, where
White undertakes a resourcing in an elementary context. Hailed in
England as a 'fascinating curiosity of literature', this book not
only made White famous overnight in France, it was seen there as a
turning point in the contemporary situation. In the third book,
Travels in the Drifting Dawn, the intellectual nomad begins his
moves across territories and cultures. After passing through the
London underground of the sixties, then delving into the ground of
his native Scotland and neighbouring Ireland, we shift back to the
Continent, accumulating experience on different levels in France,
Spain, Belgium, Holland, before concluding the cycle in North
Africa. The trilogy is not only a summary of White's itinerary in
its initial stages, it opens up a whole intellectual and cultural
programme.
Three collections of essays whose aim is to express the cartography
and the experience of a live, open world These essays all explore
Scottish subjects and the wider issues of geopetics. This volume
starts with On Scottish Ground by delving into forgotten cultural
resources. Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath explores more
socio-political considerations before opening out to a larger space
of cosmological meditation in The Wanderer and his Charts.
The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff
Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with
White on ABC radio. Malpas contacted White, and from there they
exchanged books and ideas. They arranged to meet at White's place
on the Breton coast, where a conversation about poetry and
philosophy developed over four days. Inspired by poets from John
Donne to Hoelderlin, and philosophers from Nietzsche to Heidegger,
they discussed the world, place, narrative, language and politics.
This book records that conversation. The Fundamental Field is made
up of two essays: the first is by White on Malpas; the second is by
Malpas on White. The volume closes with a set of three new
philosophical poems by White.
The political content of The Simpsons, the effects of that content
on viewers, and the relationship between humor and public opinion
have long been sources of curiosity. When America's favorite
animated family first aired, conservative Republicans criticized
The Simpsons as a corrupting influence, which caused some people to
believe the show favors the political left. Scholars, critics, and
fans have argued over the partisan content of the show and its
effects on viewers for years with scant empirical data to guide the
debate. This book speaks to this lack of evidence by addressing
systematically the questions of partisan bias, the effects of the
show on viewers, and how such effects compare to the effects of
traditional situation comedy programming. Utilizing a content
analysis, an experimental design, and a secondary analysis of
national survey data in the United States, this book sheds light on
the politics of The Simpsons and the role of humor in a democratic
society in a way that should be especially useful to any fan of the
Springfield universe.
American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties
in the United States that places the US party system into a
framework designed around the disagreements between Alexander
Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. White and Kerbel argue that the
two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement
on the key values of freedom, individual rights, and equality of
opportunity but that Hamilton and Jefferson disagreed-often
vehemently-over how to translate these ideals into an acceptable
form of governance. This text develops a unique historical
perspective of US party development using the disagreements between
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson as a framework for
analysis. While Hamilton wanted to marry freedom to a strong,
active federal government with an energetic president who would act
on behalf of all citizens, Jefferson believed that freedom should
be allied to local civic virtue, with governmental responsibilities
placed primarily at the local level. Today, Hamiltonian nationalism
finds its home in the Democratic Party, while Republicans have
espoused Jeffersonian localism since 1964. Using this historical
framework, American Political Parties examines a range of topics
including marketing and social media, campaign finance, reforms in
the presidential nominating process, political demography, and
third parties. In this new edition (previously published as Party
On!), the authors describe four possible futures in the wake of the
2020 election and why Americans believed it was "the most
important" election in their lifetimes. The unique history of US
political parties as set forth by the disagreements between
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson is at an inflection point.
Republicans have become an insurgent party fully under the control
of Donald Trump while Democrats have an opportunity to create a new
majority coalition. This juncture poses unique challenges to our
democracy and constitutional framework, and the book describes four
possible outcomes, postulating where American political parties are
headed in this decade.
Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 describes how FGF23 was initially
identified as a bone-derived factor targeting the kidney. As such,
sections in this comprehensive book cover exciting research that
shows that different FGF23 effects require distinct signaling
receptors and mediators that differ among target tissues, cover
FGF23 initially identified as a bone-derived factor targeting the
kidney, look at FGF23 as a regulator of phosphate metabolism and
beyond, and cover research on novel concepts of FGF receptor
signaling. Additional sections cover biochemistry, pharmacology and
nephrology, making this book an ideal reference source on FGF23.
In choosing candidates for political office, values (both those
held by voters and those of prospective officeholders) have
overtaken economics to become key determinants in the voting
choice. Since the 1960s the American public has wrestled with
changes in public and private values. Typical family life no longer
involves a husband, a wife, and the prototypical two children. The
idealized Cleaver, Nelson, and Huxtable families once portrayed on
television now mirror a minority of the American electorate. "The
Values Divide," John White's fascinating new book, explores the
increasingly dominant role values play in today's public and
private life, concluding that a serious rift in political and
cultural values actually produced the astounding tie between George
W. Bush and Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. White argues
that while politically important, the present values "divide" goes
much deeper than cultural conflicts between Republicans and
Democrats. Today, citizens are reexamining their own intimate
values including how they work, live, and interact with each other
in a country whose population is rapidly changing. Collectively,
the answers to these value questions have remade both American
politics and the popular culture. Reflecting upon these divergent
personal choices, White concludes that one further question
remains: "What does it mean to be an American?" Features: Compiles
extensive current public opinion polling data from The Roper Center
at the University of Connecticut at key moments in recent American
history including during the Columbine tragedy, the
Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Clinton's impeachment, and the Election
of 2000 to present a snapshot of American valuesas we enter the
21st century. Provides a compelling explanation for the outcome of
Election 2000 and the prospects for the Republican and Democratic
political agenda over the long-term.
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