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Poison Ivy

How Elite Colleges Divide Us

By: Evan Mandery

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Poison Ivy

How Elite Colleges Divide Us

By: Evan Mandery

The front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Evan Mandery reveals how tacit agreements between exclusive “Ivy-plus” schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. And as a college degree continues to be the surest route to upward mobility, the inequality bred in our broken higher education system is now a principal driver of skyrocketing income inequality everywhere. Mandery—a professor at a public college that serves low- and middle-income students—contrasts the lip service paid to “opportunity” by so many elite colleges and universities with schools that actually walk the walk. Weaving in shocking data and captivating interviews with students and administrators alike, Poison Ivy also synthesizes fascinating insider information on everything from how students are evaluated, unfair tax breaks, and questionable fundraising practices to suburban rituals, testing, tutoring, tuition schemes, and more. This bold, provocative indictment of America’s elite colleges shows us what’s at stake in a faulty system—and what will be possible if we muster the collective will to transform it.

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The New Press

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1620977222

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Eyes On City Hall

A Young Man's Education In New York City Political Warfare

By: Evan Mandery

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Eyes On City Hall

A Young Man's Education In New York City Political Warfare

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The Campaign is a close-up look at the paranoid, frenzied, oppressive, and exhilarating world of modern political campaigns?a universe where truth is fungible and moral conviction a mere asset, like good looks or personal wealth. Corporeal restraints do not exist. People regularly become things they are not.Evan Mandery, research director on Ruth Messinger's doomed challenge to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, offers a behind-the-scenes look at political campaigns in the television era. A day-to-day account of the 1997 New York City mayoral race, it takes us to the real battlegrounds of modern politics: polls, focus groups and television editing studios. With Mandery as our guide, we watch first-hand as political consultants, conceive of the ideal candidate and then attempt to fit their client into that ideal, no matter how uncomfortably.The stars of the story are memorable: Rudy Giuliani, popping his eyes and tweaking the truth; Al Sharpton, the colorful preacher and rising political force; and Ruth Messinger herself, torn between her populist political upbringing and the modern political world where money dominates over all other concerns. Sometimes cynical, often mirthful, and always honest, The Campaign will forever change your view of political campaigns.

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Routledge

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042998023X

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9780429980237

Capital Punishment in America

A Balanced Examination

By: Evan Mandery

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Capital Punishment in America

A Balanced Examination

By: Evan Mandery

This revised and updated second edition is an overview of capital punishment. It offers an examination of the death penalty, supported by statistics and Supreme Court cases, and followed by pro and con discussions. The book addresses every major issue relating to the death penalty including deterrence, racial impact, arbitrariness, its use on special populations, and methods of execution. This text challenges students to evaluate their beliefs and assumptions on each of the various issues surrounding this controversial subject. Each chapter begins with a primer of the issue to be discussed, followed by the data and critical documents necessary to make an educated assessment, and concludes with essays that offer differing viewpoints by some of the best minds in the country. New material added to the second edition includes: updated data on deterrence ; new data and articles on brutalization and cost ; new cases and articles on the death penalty for juveniles ; new case and articles on the death penalty for raping a child ; and a new chapter on methods of execution.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449605982

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Poison Ivy

How Elite Colleges Divide Us

By: Evan Mandery

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How Elite Colleges Divide Us

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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

By: Evan J. Mandery

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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

By: Evan J. Mandery

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history. For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction. A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393240649

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Capital Punishment

A Balanced Examination

By: Evan J. Mandery

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A Balanced Examination

By: Evan J. Mandery

An innovative, comprehensive overview of capital punishment. This book offers an objective, policy-oriented examination of the death penalty as practiced in the United States.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763733083

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9780763733087

Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

By: Evan Mandery

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Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

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A hysterically strange rumination on the meaning of celebrity, hot dogs and Gwen Stefani.

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Ig Publishing

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Capital Punishment

A Balanced Examination

By: Evan J. Mandery

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A Balanced Examination

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An innovative, comprehensive overview of capital punishment. This book offers an objective, policy-oriented examination of the death penalty as practiced in the United States.

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First Contact

Or, It's Later Than You Think

By: Evan Mandery

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First Contact

Or, It's Later Than You Think

By: Evan Mandery

A satirical joyride in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, First Contact introduces us to the hyper-intelligent Rigelians, who admire Woody Allen movies and Bundt cake, and who urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States, a God-fearing, science-doubting fitness fanatic, is skeptical of the evidence presented to him and sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of his young attaché, an alien scam artist, several raccoons, and a scientist who has predicted the end of the universe. Parrot sketch excluded.

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Harper Collins

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0061966185

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Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

By: Evan Mandery

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A hysterically strange rumination on the meaning of celebrity, hot dogs and Gwen Stefani.

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Eyes On City Hall

A Young Man's Education In New York City Political Warfare

By: Evan Mandery

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A Young Man's Education In New York City Political Warfare

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The Campaign is a close-up look at the paranoid, frenzied, oppressive, and exhilarating world of modern political campaigns—a universe where truth is fungible and moral conviction a mere asset, like good looks or personal wealth. Corporeal restraints do not exist. People regularly become things they are not.Evan Mandery, research director on Ruth Messinger's doomed challenge to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, offers a behind-the-scenes look at political campaigns in the television era. A day-to-day account of the 1997 New York City mayoral race, it takes us to the real battlegrounds of modern politics: polls, focus groups and television editing studios. With Mandery as our guide, we watch first-hand as political consultants, conceive of the ideal candidate and then attempt to fit their client into that ideal, no matter how uncomfortably.The stars of the story are memorable: Rudy Giuliani, popping his eyes and tweaking the truth; Al Sharpton, the colorful preacher and rising political force; and Ruth Messinger herself, torn between her populist political upbringing and the modern political world where money dominates over all other concerns. Sometimes cynical, often mirthful, and always honest, The Campaign will forever change your view of political campaigns.

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Westview Press

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0813398150

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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

By: Evan J. Mandery

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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history. For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction. A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time.

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0393239586

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Fiction4theFuture: Free New Fiction

By: Chad Harbach,Darran McCann,Lily Tuck,Will Wiles,Evan Mandery,Nicci Cloke,Bonnie Jo Campbell,Anjali Joseph,Sam Thompson

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Fiction4theFuture: Free New Fiction

By: Chad Harbach,Darran McCann,Lily Tuck,Will Wiles,Evan Mandery,Nicci Cloke,Bonnie Jo Campbell,Anjali Joseph,Sam Thompson

A taster of some of the brightest and best new novels from the rising stars of fiction.

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0007484534

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Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

Eyes On City Hall

Eyes On City Hall

Capital Punishment in America

Capital Punishment in America

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

First Contact

First Contact

Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

Eyes On City Hall

Eyes On City Hall

A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

Fiction4theFuture: Free New Fiction

Fiction4theFuture: Free New Fiction

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