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American Business and Public Policy is a study of the politics of
foreign trade. It challenges fifty years of writ-ing on pressure
politics. It includes nine hundred interviews with heads of
corporations, including 166 of the 200 largest corporations;
another 500 interviews with congressmen, lob-byists, journalists,
and opinion leaders; and eight community studies making this book
the most intensive survey in print of the politics of business. It
is a realistic behavioral examination of a major type of economic
decision. The authors introduce their study with a history of the
tariff as a political issue in American politics and a history of
American tariff legislation in the years from Europe's trade
recovery under the Marshall Plan to the challenge of the Common
Market. They examine in succession the changing attitudes of the
general public and the political actions of the business community,
the lobbies, and Congress. American Business and Public Policy is a
contribution to social theory in several of its branches. It is a
contribution to understanding the business community, to the social
psychol-ogy of communication and attitude change, to the study of
political behavior in foreign policy. American Business and Public
Policy is at once a study of a classic issue in American politics
the tariff; decision-making, particularly the relation of economic
to social-psycho-logical theories of behavior; business
communication what businessmen read about world affairs, what
effect foreign travel has on them, where they turn for political
advice, and how they seek political help; pressure politics,
lobbying, and the Congressional process.
This companion volume to The Roots of American Communism brings to
completion what the author describes as the essence of the
relationship of American Communism to Soviet Russia in the first
decade after the Bolsheviks seized power. The outpouring of new
archive materials makes it plain that Draper's premise is direct
and to the point: The communist movement "was transformed from a
new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of
a Russian revolutionary power." Each generation must find this out
for itself, and no better guide exists than the work of master
historian Theodore Draper. American Communism and Soviet Russia is
acknowledged to be the classic, authoritative history of the
critical formative period of the American Communist Party. Based on
confidential minutes of the top party committees, interviews with
party leaders, and public records, this book carefully documents
the influence of the Soviet Union on the fundamental nature of
American Communism. Draper's reflections on that period in this
edition are a fitting capstone to this pioneering effort.
American Business and Public Policy is a study of the politics of
foreign trade. It challenges fifty years of writing on pressure
politics. It includes nine hundred interviews with heads of
corporations, including 166 of the 200 largest corporations;
another 500 interviews with congressmen, lobbyists, journalists,
and opinion leaders; and eight community studies making this book
the most intensive survey in print of the politics of business. It
is a realistic behavioral examination of a major type of economic
decision. The authors introduce their study with a history of the
tariff as a political issue in American politics and a history of
American tariff legislation in the years from Europe's trade
recovery under the Marshall Plan to the challenge of the Common
Market. They examine in succession the changing attitudes of the
general public and the political actions of the business community,
the lobbies, and Congress. American Business and Public Policy is a
contribution to social theory in several of its branches. It is a
contribution to understanding the business community, to the social
psychology of communication and attitude change, to the study of
political behavior in foreign policy. American Business and Public
Policy is at once a study of a classic issue in American
politics--the tariff; decision-making, particularly the relation of
economic to social-psychological theories of behavior; business
communication--what businessmen read about world affairs, what
effect foreign travel has on them, where they turn for political
advice, and how they seek political help; pressure politics,
lobbying, and the Congressional process.
Satire takes as its subject the absurdity of human beings, their
societies, and the institutions they create. For centuries,
satirists themselves, scholars, critics, and psychologists have
speculated about the satirist's reasons for writing, temperament,
and place in society. The conclusions they have reached are
sometimes contradictory, sometimes complementary, sometimes
outlandish. In this volume, Leonard Feinberg brings together the
major theories about the satirist, to provide in one book a summary
of the problems that specialists have examined intensively in
numerous books and articles.
In part 1, Feinberg examines the major theories about the
motivation of the satirist, and then proposes that "adjustment"
comes most closely to answering this question. In his view, the
satirist resolves his ambivalent relation to society through a
playfully critical distortion of the familiar. The personality of
the satirist, the apparently paradoxical elements of his nature,
the problem of why so many great humorists are sad men, and the
contributions of psychoanalysts are explored in part 2, where
Feinberg contends that the satirist is not as abnormal as he has
sometimes been made to seem, and that if he is a neurotic he shares
traits of emotional or social alienation with many others. Part 3
explores the beliefs of satirists and their relation to the
environment within which they function, particularly in the
contexts of politics, religion, and philosophy. Feinberg stresses
the ubiquity of the satirist and suggests that there are a great
many people with satiric temperaments who fail to attain literary
expression.
Ranging with astonishing breadth, both historical and
geographical, The Satirist serves as both an introduction to the
subject and an essential volume for scholars. Brian A. Connery's
introduction provides an overview of Feinberg's career and situates
the volume in the intellectual currents in which it was
written.
This companion volume to "The Roots of American Communism" brings
to completion what the author describes as the essence of the
relationship of American Communism to Soviet Russia in the first
decade after the Bolsheviks seized power. The outpouring of new
archive materials makes it plain that Draper's premise is direct
and to the point: The communist movement "was transformed from a
new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of
a Russian revolutionary power." Each generation must find this out
for itself, and no better guide exists than the work of master
historian Theodore Draper. "American Communism and Soviet Russia"
is acknowledged to be the classic, authoritative history of the
critical formative period of the American Communist Party. Based on
confidential minutes of the top party committees, interviews with
party leaders, and public records, this book carefully documents
the influence of the Soviet Union on the fundamental nature of
American Communism. Draper's reflections on that period in this
edition are a fitting capstone to this pioneering effort.
Theodore Draper is one of America's most trenchant and informed
critics. A Present of Things Past gathers together ten of his most
recent and most powerful selected essays, in which Draper, with his
customary acuity and wit, tackles a host of issues that define
America's political culture. A Present of Things Past is concerned
with a reexamination of the Second World War in both its military
and its political aspects; the trajectory of American conservatism
as it manifested itself during the Reagan years; the rise of
Gorbachev and the history of "reform" in the Soviet Union; the
revisionist debate over the origins and history of American
communism; and the persistent mystery of a man named Max Eitingon,
who was, depending on one's reading of the sources, either an
important figure in the history of psychoanalysis or an agent of
the Soviet secret police, or both. In "American Hubris," Draper
illuminates the assumptions that have guided American foreign
policy in the postwar period, and concludes that our costly
misadventures--in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, and elsewhere--cannot be
considered a string of aberrations. They were, he argues, a
consequence of the Truman Doctrine. In "Reagan's Junta," Draper
observes: "This is supposed to have been the era of the imperial
presidency. It has turned out to be the era of presidencies that
have tried to make themselves imperial-and failed." Throughout
these compelling essays, Draper demonstrates the uses and abuses to
which history has been put by ideologues of both the left and the
right. He finds unacceptable, for example, the practice of many
journalists of fictionalizing their sources. The New York Times has
called Draper "one of the clearer-eyed observers of the issues that
torment us." A Present of Things Past enhances that reputation.
Satire takes as its subject the absurdity of human beings, their
societies, and the institutions they create. For centuries,
satirists themselves, scholars, critics, and psychologists have
speculated about the satirist's reasons for writing, temperament,
and place in society. The conclusions they have reached are
sometimes contradictory, sometimes complementary, sometimes
outlandish. In this volume, Leonard Feinberg brings together the
major theories about the satirist, to provide in one book a summary
of the problems that specialists have examined intensively in
numerous books and articles. In part 1, Feinberg examines the major
theories about the motivation of the satirist, and then proposes
that "adjustment" comes most closely to answering this question. In
his view, the satirist resolves his ambivalent relation to society
through a playfully critical distortion of the familiar. The
personality of the satirist, the apparently paradoxical elements of
his nature, the problem of why so many great humorists are sad men,
and the contributions of psychoanalysts are explored in part 2,
where Feinberg contends that the satirist is not as abnormal as he
has sometimes been made to seem, and that if he is a neurotic he
shares traits of emotional or social alienation with many others.
Part 3 explores the beliefs of satirists and their relation to the
environment within which they function, particularly in the
contexts of politics, religion, and philosophy. Feinberg stresses
the ubiquity of the satirist and suggests that there are a great
many people with satiric temperaments who fail to attain literary
expression. Ranging with astonishing breadth, both historical and
geographical, The Satirist serves as both an introduction to the
subject and an essential volume for scholars. Brian A. Connery's
introduction provides an overview of Feinberg's career and situates
the volume in the intellectual currents in which it was written.
Additional Contributor Is Robert E. McHaffie.
Additional Contributor Is Robert E. McHaffie.
The battle of the Ardennes was historic. The lessons of experience
and accomplishments (as well as an opportunity for future forces to
learn) are documented by the 84th Infantry Division- this is a
preservation of that history. Sections detailing the Battle of the
Bulge include the big picture, life in the Ardennes, the turning
point, the capture of Laroche, from Les Tailles to Dinez, Beho to
Gouvy to Ourthe, and a conclusion.
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the
definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American
society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies,
this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public
intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices
can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic
and political climates. At a time when many argue that public
intellectuals are dying out, the book addresses questions such as
who qualifies as a public intellectual? Have their ranks thinned
out and their qualities diminished? What is that special service
that public intellectuals are supposed to render for the body
politic? And, above all, is society being shortchanged?
Public Intellectuals: An Endangered Species? investigates the
definition, role, and decline of public intellectuals in American
society. Drawing from a wide range of commentaries and studies,
this edited volume demonstrates the unique importance of public
intellectuals and probes the timely question of how their voices
can continue to be effective in our ever-changing social, academic
and political climates. At a time when many argue that public
intellectuals are dying out, the book addresses questions such as
who qualifies as a public intellectual? Have their ranks thinned
out and their qualities diminished? What is that special service
that public intellectuals are supposed to render for the body
politic? And, above all, is society being shortchanged?
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