The Democratic Digest, June 1945
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Page : 35 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Presidents
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Page : 35 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Presidents
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Page : 990 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Law
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : Frederick A. O. Schwarz
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 162097052X
“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post). From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the US Church Committee on Intelligence—which uncovered the FBI’s effort to push Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide; the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA’s thirty-year program to get copies of all telegrams leaving the United States—uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran–Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: How much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden. Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz’s Unchecked and Unbalanced, cowritten with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch—a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy. “[An] important new book . . . Carefully researched, engagingly written stories of government secrecy gone amiss.” —The American Prospect
Author : Public Archives of Canada. Library
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Canada
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Author : Marjorie Millace Whiteman
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Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 1963
Category : International law
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Author : Takashi Fujitani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2013-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520280210
Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers—on film, in literature, and in archival documents—to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.
Author : Jonathan Scott Holloway
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 146961071X
How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade, Holloway explores the stories black Americans have told about their past and why these stories are vital to understanding a modern black identity. In the process, Holloway asks much larger questions about the value of history and facts when memories do violence to both. Making discoveries about his own past while researching this book, Holloway weaves first-person and family memories into the traditional third-person historian's perspective. The result is a highly readable, rich, and deeply personal narrative that will be familiar to some, shocking to others, and thought-provoking to everyone.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
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Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1950
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Author : Robert Rodgers Korstad
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807854549
Recovering an important moment in early civil rights activism, Korstad chronicles the rise and fall of the union that represented thousands of African American tobacco factory workers in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the first half of the 20th century.