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Modern Republican

Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years

By: David L. Stebenne

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Modern Republican

Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years

By: David L. Stebenne

This book is an original, important, and interesting contribution to the literature on President Eisenhower and on American history in the years before and after World War II. It will make a difference in the way historians and political scientists think about a critical period of national history. Too few books have that sort of impact...." -- Michael A. McGerr, author of A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870--1920 Arthur Larson was the chief architect of moderate conservatism -- one of the most influential and least studied political forces in U.S. history. During the Eisenhower administration, Larson held three major posts: Under Secretary of Labor, Director of the United States Information Agency, and chief presidential speechwriter. In each of these roles, Larson's most important achievement was to explain clearly and cogently what the administration stood for on matters foreign and domestic. Larson's views were put forth most forcefully in A Republican Looks at His Party, published in 1956. Larson and his book provided the Eisenhower administration with "the vision thing." His limitations and disappointments also help explain Eisenhower-era conservatism. They illuminate the extent to which there was a gap between what the "Modern Republicans" believed and what they said and were able to accomplish, and why those beliefs, values, and achievements did not always mesh. Larson's ultimately unsuccessful efforts to prevent the rise of the New Right are especially enlightening, for they help to clarify why the party of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s gradually became the party of the more conservative Ronald Reagan by the 1980s. Modern Republican will enlighten readers who want to understand more fully the historical context of today's divisive political arena.

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386

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Indiana University Press

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025311232X

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9780253112323

New City Upon a Hill

A History of Columbia, Maryland

By: Joseph Rocco Mitchell,David L. Stebenne

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New City Upon a Hill

A History of Columbia, Maryland

By: Joseph Rocco Mitchell,David L. Stebenne

Published in anticipation of Columbias fortieth anniversary in 2007, this book showcases the history of one of the nations leading new towns. Built from the brilliant plan developed by visionary designer James Rouse, Columbias innovative design is the foundation for a unique community that has thrived for decades and flourishes today.

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252

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614230994

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9781614230991

Promised Land

How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968

By: David Stebenne

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Promised Land

How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968

By: David Stebenne

Explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end"--

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336

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Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

1982102713

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9781982102715

Arthur J. Goldberg

New Deal Liberal

By: David Stebenne

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Arthur J. Goldberg

New Deal Liberal

By: David Stebenne

This is a solid, well-detailed account of the political career of Arthur J. Goldberg. A prominent and defining figure in the American labor movement, Goldberg served as Secratary of Labor under the Kennedy Administration before being named a justice to the Supreme Court. He was also ambassador to the United Nations during Johnson's presidency. Goldberg was considered one of the most important liberals in American public life in the 1960s and was a major force for reform both on and off the judicial bench. This book places Goldberg's career and its significance in relation to the social and political events of the time.

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570

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195071050

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9780195071054

Murder in the Garment District

The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States

By: David Witwer,Catherine Rios

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Murder in the Garment District

The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States

By: David Witwer,Catherine Rios

The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day In 1949, in New York City's crowded Garment District, a union organizer named William Lurye was stabbed to death by a mob assassin. Through the lens of this murder case, prize-winning authors David Witwer and Catherine Rios explore American labor history at its critical turning point, drawing on FBI case files and the private papers of investigative journalists who first broke the story. A narrative that originates in the garment industry of mid-century New York, which produced over 80 percent of the nation's dresses at the time, Murder in the Garment District quickly moves to a national stage, where congressional anti-corruption hearings gripped the nation and forever tainted the reputation of American unions. Replete with elements of a true-crime thriller, Murder in the Garment District includes a riveting cast of characters, from wheeling and dealing union president David Dubinsky to the notorious gangster Abe Chait and the crusading Robert F. Kennedy, whose public duel with Jimmy Hoffa became front-page news. Deeply researched and grounded in the street-level events that put people's lives and livelihoods at stake, Murder in the Garment District is destined to become a classic work of history—one that also explains the current troubled state of unions in America.

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303

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The New Press

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1620974649

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9781620974643

A Stone of Hope

Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

By: David L. Chappell

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A Stone of Hope

Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

By: David L. Chappell

The author of Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement revisits this monumental period in American history, revealing the power of religious fervor as a force of change that managed to succeed where liberal rationalism could not. Reprint.

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364

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807856606

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9780807856604

A Matter of Justice

Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution

By: David A. Nichols

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A Matter of Justice

Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution

By: David A. Nichols

Fifty years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce a federal court order desegregating the city's Central High School, a leading authority on Eisenhower presents an original and engrossing narrative that places Ike and his civil rights policies in dramatically new light. Historians such as Stephen Ambrose and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., have portrayed Eisenhower as aloof, if not outwardly hostile, to the plight of African-Americans in the 1950s. It is still widely assumed that he opposed the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision mandating the desegregation of public schools, that he deeply regretted appointing Earl Warren as the Court's chief justice because of his role in molding Brown, that he was a bystander in Congress's passage of the civil rights acts of 1957 and 1960, and that he so mishandled the Little Rock crisis that he was forced to dispatch troops to rescue a failed policy. In this sweeping narrative, David A. Nichols demonstrates that these assumptions are wrong. Drawing on archival documents neglected by biographers and scholars, including thousands of pages newly available from the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Nichols takes us inside the Oval Office to look over Ike's shoulder as he worked behind the scenes, prior to Brown, to desegregate the District of Columbia and complete the desegregation of the armed forces. We watch as Eisenhower, assisted by his close collaborator, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., sifted through candidates for federal judgeships and appointed five pro-civil rights justices to the Supreme Court and progressive judges to lower courts. We witness Eisenhower crafting civil rights legislation, deftly building a congressional coalition that passed the first civil rights act in eighty-two years, and maneuvering to avoid a showdown with Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas, over desegregation of Little Rock's Central High. Nichols demonstrates that Eisenhower, though he was a product of his time and its backward racial attitudes, was actually more progressive on civil rights in the 1950s than his predecessor, Harry Truman, and his successors, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Eisenhower was more a man of deeds than of words and preferred quiet action over grandstanding. His cautious public rhetoric -- especially his legalistic response to Brown -- gave a misleading impression that he was not committed to the cause of civil rights. In fact, Eisenhower's actions laid the legal and political groundwork for the more familiar breakthroughs in civil rights achieved in the 1960s. Fair, judicious, and exhaustively researched, A Matter of Justice is the definitive book on Eisenhower's civil rights policies that every presidential historian and future biographer of Ike will have to contend with.

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Simon & Schuster

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1416541519

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9781416541516

Book's by David L. Stebenne

Modern Republican

Modern Republican

New City Upon a Hill

New City Upon a Hill

Promised Land

Promised Land

Arthur J. Goldberg

Arthur J. Goldberg

Murder in the Garment District

Murder in the Garment District

A Stone of Hope

A Stone of Hope

A Matter of Justice

A Matter of Justice

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