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English
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Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Running from Office is the first analysis of young people's political ambition, based on a national poll of over 4000 high school and college students. It has been well-documented that political socialization begins early in life, but this will be the first consideration of the way that political socialization influences political ambition among youth. In it, the authors delve into how young people view political figures, what traits they see as...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 476 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A group biography of seven remarkable men and women who arrived in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to join the freedom movement and struggle for a country and people other than their own.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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She sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her fame to oppose American intervention in WWI. She spoke out against Hitler the month he took power in 1933. But who was this revolutionary figure? She was Helen Keller. Most mainstream portrayals of Keller focus heavily on her struggles as a deafblind child, portraying her teacher, Annie Sullivan, as a miracle worker. This...
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 308 pages : illlustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women's (and...
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Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (6 pages)
Language
English
Description
It's disingenuous for companies to pretend they are passive observers of regulations, laws, or the political climate. Corporate political responsibility is a new variation of corporate social responsibility, describing the ideal ways in which businesses should engage with the key systems of society. It requires companies to manage conflicting views about when and how to use their voices and their political influence.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 236 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence--especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws allowing for conscientious objection to war, did nonbelief...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The inside story of the rise of women in elected office over the past quarter-century, from the pioneering founder of three-million-member EMILY's List. In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen Malcolm launched EMILY's List, a powerhouse political organization that seeks to ignite change by getting women elected to office. The rest is history: from 1986, when there were 12 Democratic women in the House and none in the Senate,...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In this trenchant analysis, Traister explores the "nexus of women's anger and American politics," in which "noncompliant, insistent, furious women have shaped our history and our present." This emotion, she writes, "has often ignited movements for social change and progress." Yet it often goes unacknowledged in a culture in which women in politics are "not lauded for their fury." At the core of this analysis is the idea female political activism by...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and trying to work with a broken system, they laid out a vision...
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Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A political biography of Will Rogers; argues that not only was Rogers the nation's most popular humorist, he was also his era's foremost political critic. Presents Rogers in a previously unexplored light: that of a true political insider with the power to shape public opinion and ultimately alter public policy"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
℗2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (10 hr., 32 min.)
Language
English
Description
Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's Politics at Work explains why mobilization of workers has become an appealing corporate political strategy in recent decades. The book also assesses...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Cold War, American intelligence caught three high-profiles Russian spies: Aldrich Ames, Edward Lee Howard, and Robert Hanssen. However, rumors have long swirled of another mole, often referred to as the Fourth Man. Former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the full story of the CIA investigation launched after the Ames arrest to make sure there wasn't another mole in their ranks.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Nancy Pelosi became the first woman Speaker of the House, she made history. She gavelled the House to order that day on behalf of all of America's children and said, "We have made history, now let us make progress." Now she continues to inspire women everywhere in this thought-provoking collection of wise words--her own and those of the important people who played pivotal roles in her journey.--From publisher description.
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvii, 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A road map, tool kit, workbook, and organizer, Represent is chock-full of the essential knowledge that any potential woman candidate needs to know. Covers all the nuts and bolts of running for office, from filing and signature-gathering, to fundraising, managing social media, and harnessing the power of your supporters. With checklists, infographics, profiles of well-known women politicians, plus wisdom and advice from elected women across the United...
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