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This collection of scholarly essays examines reality television.
The first show, Survivor, inspired a national craze when it aired
in the summer of 2000. Ever since, successors and copycats have
been on each of the four largest networks. The basics stay the
same: put a group of people into situations bound to cause
conflict, and watch them squirm. Rather than criticize the series'
voyeuristic appeal, this work evaluates what goes on within the
text of such shows and how they reflect or affect our larger
culture. Contributors include researchers from communications,
sociology, political science, and psychology. The contributions
cover such topics as reality television's relationships with
cultural identity, publicity rights, historical perspectives,
trust, decision-making strategies, political rationality, office
politics, and primitivism. Each chapter includes a bibliography.
Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request
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appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
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
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
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
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In the spring and summer of 1956 the Soviet Union invaded Hungary
to reassert control of the country. "The First Domino is the first
full analysis in English drawing on new archival collections from
East-bloc countries to reinterpret decision making during this Cold
War crisis. Johanna Granville selects four key patterns of
misperception as laid out by political scientist Robert Jervis and
shows how these patterns prevailed in the military crackdown and in
other countries' reactions to it. Granville examines the statements
and actions of Soviet Presidium members, the Hungarian leadership,
U.S. policy makers, and even Yugoslav and Polish leaders. She
concludes that the United States bears some responsibility for the
events of 1956, as ill-advised U.S. convert actions may have
convinced Soviet leaders that America was attempting to weaken
Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe. Granville's multi-archival
research tends to confirm the post-revisionists' theory about the
cold war: it was everyone's fault and no one's fault. It resulted
from the emerging bipolar structure of the international system,
the power vacuum in Europe's center, and spiraling misconceptions.
On July 26, 1918, American aviator First Lt. George Puryear shot
down a German observation plane and then, in an act of bravado,
landed to accept the crew's surrender. In fact, by miscalculation
he had landed inside the German lines, and it was the Germans who
accepted his surrender. But Puryear redeemed himself ten weeks
later when he led a mass escape from the prison camp at Villingen,
Germany. Once he was out of prison and safely in the Black Forest,
Puryear "went to a prearranged spot where we were to meet and
waited fifteen minutes. While I waited there were about fifty shots
fired. No one came, so I got down on my knees, prayed for luck and
started off." Five days later he reached Switzerland, the first
American officer to escape from the Germans and return to his unit
during World War I. Early the following morning Edouard Isaacs and
Harold Willis made the hazardous crossing of the Rhine River to
freedom.
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