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How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and
social order After Donald Trump’s rise to power, after the 2020
presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past
the point of no return? New York Times columnist and political
reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that the country may be headed
over a cliff, arguing that the election of Donald Trump was the
most serious threat to the American political system since the
Civil War. In this compelling and illuminating book, Edsall
documents how the Trump years ravaged the nation’s politics,
culture, and social order. He explains the demographic shifts that
helped make Trump’s election possible, and describes the racial
and ethnic conflict, culture wars, rural/urban divide, diverging
economies of red and blue states, and the transformation of both
the Republican and Democratic parties that have left our politics
in a state of permanent hostility. The Point of No Return brings
together a series of Edsall’s columns, bookended by a new
introduction and conclusion, which show how we got to this
dangerous point. These dispatches from our new political landscape
chronicle the emergence of what Edsall calls “the not-so-silent
white majority” and show how Trump deployed fears about race and
immigration to appeal to voters. Edsall examines Trump’s
construction of an alternate reality, discusses why we don’t
always vote according to our own self-interest, and explores the
Democrats’ calibrated response. Considering the 2020 election and
its violent aftermath, Edsall looks at the Capitol insurrection and
warns that American democracy is under siege. The forces behind
Trump’s election, and the “stop the steal” true believers,
have pushed the nation to the brink.
While the idea of total revolution seems anachronistic today, there
is increasing consensus about the importance of new forms of
political, ethical, and aesthetic resistance. In the past,
resistance was often motivated as a form of protest against
specific institutions. Increasingly, dissent has become integrated
into the fabric of modern life. This volume addresses new forms of
resistance at a level that combines a rootedness in the
philosophical tradition and a sensitivity to rethinking the
possibility of emancipation in today's age. The work focuses on
contemporary social and political philosophy from a perspective
informed by critical theory. The text specifically addresses three
challenges. (1) Critical theorists need to investigate in which
ways resistance, conformism, and oppression oppose and constitute
each other. (2) The relationship between the theory and the
practice of resistance needs to be posed anew, given recent protest
movements and media of protest. (3) It needs to be shown in which
ways different areas of society such as the arts, religion and
social media establish divergent practices of resistance. The
chapters are written by scholars from Asia, Europe and North
America. These experts in resistance discourse focus on practices
of dissent ranging from traditional forms of civil disobedience, to
more recent practices such as guerrilla protest, art, and
resistance in digital networks, including social media. What unites
them is a shared concern for the dimensions of political acts of
resistance in an age that is characterized by a tendency to
integrate and thereby neutralize those very acts.
In a time of unspeakable racism, it became the most notorious
lynching in American history. Marion, Indiana, August 7, 1930; two
young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are dragged from
jail, beaten, and hanged by a mob of angry whites. A third, James
Cameron, barely escapes with his life. Shocked by the brutal crime
-- the first in Indiana in some twenty-seven years -- State
Attorney General James Ogden sends his best investigators to Marion
to identify and arrest the mob leaders. In Marion the detectives
find a town seething with fear and anger, in the grip of the
powerful Indiana Ku Klux Klan, a town ready to explode again in
violence at any moment. Walking a tightrope, the detectives arrest
and indict ten men for the lynching, and their job seems to be
done. But one investigator, "colored" Detective-Sergeant Theopolis
Morris, realizes that things just don't add up, and refusing to
back down, pushes the investigation past the limit.
This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
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Libraryocm32186490Includes index.New York: G.W. Dillingham, c1895.
402 p., 47] leaves of plates: ill., ports.; 29 cm.
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valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various
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edition identification: ++++ Professional Criminals Of America,
Volume 3; Library Of American Civilization; Professional Criminals
Of America; Thomas Byrnes Thomas Byrnes Cassell & Company,
Limited, 1886 Crime; Criminals
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
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