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Playing with Fire

The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

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Playing with Fire

The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

The New York Times bestseller! "A thriller-like, propulsive tour through 1968, told by a man who is in love with American politics and who knows how all the dots connect. Brilliant and totally engrossing." -Rachel Maddow "Delightful...brings to life the most fascinating election of modern times." -Walter Isaacson From the celebrated host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, an enthralling account of the presidential election that created American politics as we know it today Long before Lawrence O'Donnell was the anchor of his own political talk show, he was a senior adviser to Senator Patrick Moynihan, one of postwar America’s wisest political minds. The 1968 U.S. presidential election—marked by RFK’s assassination, massive upheaval in the Democratic Party, and the first of Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks—was O’Donnell’s own political coming of age. In the decades since, the election has remained one of his abiding fascinations, as it set the tone for so much of what followed in American politics, all the way through to today. Playing with Fire represents his master class in American electioneering, as well as an extraordinary human drama that captures a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams.

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Penguin

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0399563164

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9780399563164

Plasma Physics and Engineering

By: Alexander Fridman,Lawrence A. Kennedy

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Plasma Physics and Engineering

By: Alexander Fridman,Lawrence A. Kennedy

Plasma engineering is a rapidly expanding area of science and technology with increasing numbers of engineers using plasma processes over a wide range of applications. An essential tool for understanding this dynamic field, Plasma Physics and Engineering provides a clear, fundamental introduction to virtually all aspects of modern plasma science and technology, including plasma chemistry and engineering, combustion, chemical physics, lasers, electronics, methods of material treatment, fuel conversion, and environmental control. The book contains an extensive database on plasma kinetics and thermodynamics, many helpful numerical formulas for practical calculations, and an array of problems and concept questions.

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CRC Press

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1560328487

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9781560328483

Zero Point (Faster than Light Speed)

By: J. Lawrence Parry

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Zero Point (Faster than Light Speed)

By: J. Lawrence Parry

Zero Point - Faster Than Light Speed: is intended for men and women in all walks of life who are striving to understand the UFO phenomenon and recent developments which are about to appear on our near future horizon. We are going to need to know where and how to react to these changes. If you look a little at TV, for example, you can see that 'ETs' are making their way slowly into our lives. Our children's cartoons are a good example. This book will expand your mind and possibly your lives when you fully understand how really far we've come in the last 50 + years. Next time you see a Tic Tac zooming on a news report and you hear the old cliché "We don't have anything that that travels that fast!" Or, "How do they turn like that at such high speeds" You'll realize someone is definitely not telling the truth. In the very near future, you will be able to see, in everyday life, the type of Hover board used by Michael J. Fox in the film "Back to the Future 2". Our cars and trains will even be hovering and super cool electrical like we've only dreamed. No more roads, no more gas, no more heavy trucks or busses tearing up the pavement. We need to start planning on how to take advantage of all the new technology our near future will provide. Think about Zero Point as a simple glimpse of the future, whereby you may master your future instead of allowing the future to dictate to you.Thank you, J. Lawrence Parry

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Lisbon

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9893747775

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9789893747773

Row House to White House

By: Lawrence M. O’Rourke

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Row House to White House

By: Lawrence M. O’Rourke

This memoir reveals information ORourke acquired through conversations with presidents from Johnson to Obama and other national and international fi gures. ORourke is the author of the biography Geno. The memoir covers ORourkes Irish Catholic childhood in Philadelphia, military service in Puerto Rico, marathon running, recovery from prostate cancer and a heart attack. He is married with four children and four grandchildren and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland and Grand Beach, Michigan.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469141280

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The Kissing Sailor

The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II

By: Lawrence Verria,George Galdorisi

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The Kissing Sailor

The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II

By: Lawrence Verria,George Galdorisi

On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world’s dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search for the mysterious couple’s identity took on a dimension of its own. In 1979 Eisenstaedt thought he had found the long lost nurse. And as far as almost everyone could determine, he had. For the next thirty years Edith Shain was known as the woman in the photo of V-J Day, 1945, Times Square. In 1980 LIFE attempted to determine the sailor’s identity. Many aging warriors stepped forward with claims, and experts weighed in to support one candidate over another. Chaos ensued. For almost two decades Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi were intrigued by the controversy surrounding the identity of the two principals in Eisenstaedt’s most famous photograph and collected evidence that began to shed light on this mystery. Unraveling years of misinformation and controversy, their findings propelled one claimant’s case far ahead of the others and, at the same time, dethroned the supposed kissed nurse when another candidate’s claim proved more credible. With this book, the authors solve the 67-year-old mystery by providing irrefutable proof to identify the couple in Eisenstaedt’s photo. It is the first time the whole truth behind the celebrated picture has been revealed. The authors also bring to light the couple’s and the photographer’s brushes with death that nearly prevented their famous spontaneous Times Square meeting in the first place. The sailor, part of Bull Halsey’s famous task force, survived the deadly typhoon that took the lives of hundreds of other sailors. The nurse, an Austrian Jew who lost her mother and father in the Holocaust, barely managed to escape to the United States. Eisenstaedt, a World War I German soldier, was nearly killed at Flanders.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612511279

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9781612511276

Broken Ground

John F Kennedy and the Politics of Education

By: Lawrence J. McAndrews

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Broken Ground

John F Kennedy and the Politics of Education

By: Lawrence J. McAndrews

Throughout United States history, and particularly from the 1930s through the 1960s, education was a sensitive political issue which preoccupied Congresses, Presidents and interest groups. By the time of John F Kennedy's Presidency federal aid to education was all but inevitable but the disproportionate influence of federal aid adversaries on the House Rule Committee would permit the Kennedy Administration no margin of error. There remained in this subject an abundance of complications and contradictions. This volume addresses the central questions of Kennedy versus Congress and Kennedy versus Kennedy, using a wide range of sources to give a comprehensive focus to this area of political education.

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Routledge

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0415675596

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9780415675598

The Kennedys in Hollywood

By: Lawrence J. Quirk

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The Kennedys in Hollywood

By: Lawrence J. Quirk

Long-time Hollywood reporter and writer, Quirk has used his knowledge and friendship with the Kennedys and many film stars to create an engrossing saga of America's most revered dynasty.

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0815412967

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9780815412960

Turning the Page: Helping a Child Cope with the Loss of a Sibling

By: Sue Trace Lawrence, B.S., M.Ed.

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Turning the Page: Helping a Child Cope with the Loss of a Sibling

By: Sue Trace Lawrence, B.S., M.Ed.

This book is designed to offer advice and support for adults who are helping a child cope with the death of a sibling. Both practical and theoretical information is provided, as well as suggestions for additional help.

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Lulu.com

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1312511699

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The Health of Nations

Public Opinion and the Making of American and British Health Policy

By: Lawrence R. Jacobs

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The Health of Nations

Public Opinion and the Making of American and British Health Policy

By: Lawrence R. Jacobs

Uses extensive primary research on the formulation of the American Medicare Act of 1965 and the British National Health Service Act of 1946 to explain the sources of contemporary health policy in each country. The study represents an alternative way of understanding policy making in liberal democracy, i.e. investigation into the sources for the differences in legislation produced by two broadly similar countries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Cornell University Press

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0801427614

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Breastfeeding

A Guide for the Medical Profession

By: Ruth A. Lawrence, MD,Robert M. Lawrence, MD

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Breastfeeding

A Guide for the Medical Profession

By: Ruth A. Lawrence, MD,Robert M. Lawrence, MD

The most authoritative, trusted guide to breastfeeding for the medical profession Stay informed on every aspect of breastfeeding, from basic data on the anatomical, physiological, biochemical, nutritional, immunological, and psychological aspects of human lactation, to the problems of clinical management of breastfeeding. Learn from the award-winning author and co-founder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Dr. Ruth Lawrence, and her son, Dr. Rob Lawrence. Make appropriate drug recommendations, including approved medications, over-the-counter medications, and herbal remedies. Provide thoughtful guidance to the breastfeeding mother according to her circumstances, problems, and lifestyle from integrated coverage of evidence-based data and practical experience. Find what you need quickly with a new, streamlined approach that moves large tables and key references online. Treat conditions associated with breastfeeding and effectively manage the use of medications during lactation thanks to extensive, up-to-date, evidence-based information.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323357768

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9780323357760

Bricklayer Bill

The Untold Story of the Workingman's Boston Marathon

By: Patrick L. Kennedy,Lawrence W. Kennedy

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Bricklayer Bill

The Untold Story of the Workingman's Boston Marathon

By: Patrick L. Kennedy,Lawrence W. Kennedy

Two weeks after the United States officially entered World War I, Irish American "Bricklayer Bill" Kennedy won the Boston Marathon wearing his stars-and-stripes bandana, rallying the crowd of patriotic spectators. Kennedy became an American hero and, with outrageous stories of his riding the rails and sleeping on pool tables, a racing legend whose name has since appeared in almost every book written on the Boston Marathon. When journalist Patrick Kennedy and historian Lawrence Kennedy unearthed their uncle's unpublished memoir, they discovered a colorful character who lived a tumultuous life, beyond his multiple marathons. The bricklayer survived typhoid fever, a five-story fall, auto and train accidents, World War action, Depression-era bankruptcy, decades of back-breaking work, and his own tendency to tipple. In many ways, Bill typified the colorful, newly emerging culture and working-class ethic of competitive long-distance running before it became a professionalized sport. Bricklayer Bill takes us back to another time, when bricklayers, plumbers, and printers could take the stage as star athletes.

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1613765436

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9781613765432

Mayday 1971

A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

By: Lawrence Roberts

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Mayday 1971

A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest

By: Lawrence Roberts

A cinematic history of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington."--

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Houghton Mifflin

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1328766721

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9781328766724

The Kennedys in the World

How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire

By: Lawrence J. Haas

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The Kennedys in the World

How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire

By: Lawrence J. Haas

Lawrence J. Haas explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America's empire for more than six decades after World War II.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124454

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9781640124455

Identity's Architect

A Biography of Erik H. Erikson

By: Lawrence Jacob Friedman

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Identity's Architect

A Biography of Erik H. Erikson

By: Lawrence Jacob Friedman

Drawing on private materials and extensive interviews, historian Lawrence J. Friedman illuminates the relationship between Erik Erikson's personal life and his notion of the life cycle and the identity crisis. --From publisher's description.

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Harvard University Press

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067400437X

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9780674004375

Health Care Reform and American Politics

What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Lawrence R. Jacobs,Theda Skocpol

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Health Care Reform and American Politics

What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Lawrence R. Jacobs,Theda Skocpol

In this updated edition of Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol provide a concise and accessible overview of the politics of health care policy.

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Oxford University Press

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0190262044

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9780190262044

The Company They Keep

How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court

By: Neal Devins,Lawrence Baum

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The Company They Keep

How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court

By: Neal Devins,Lawrence Baum

Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them? Most people think "yes," and they point to the influence of the general public and the other branches of government on the Court. It is not that simple, however. As the eminent law and politics scholars Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum show in The Company They Keep, justices today are reacting far more to subtle social forces in their own elite legal world than to pressure from the other branches of government or mass public opinion. In particular, the authors draw from social psychology research to show why Justices are apt to follow the lead of the elite social networks that they are a part of. The evidence is strong: Justices take cues primarily from the people who are closest to them and whose approval they care most about: political, social, and professional elites. In an era of strong partisan polarization, elite social networks are largely bifurcated by partisan and ideological loyalties, and the Justices reflect that division. The result is a Court in which the Justices' ideological stances reflect the dominant views in the appointing president's party. Justices such as Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg live largely in a milieu populated by like-minded elites. Today's partisanship on the Court also stems from the emergence of conservative legal networks such as the Federalist Society, that reinforce the conservative leanings of Republican appointees. For the Warren and Burger Courts, elite social networks were dominated by liberal elites and not divided by political party or ideology. A fascinating examination of the factors that shape decision-making, The Company They Keep will reshape our understanding of how political polarization occurs on the contemporary Supreme Court.

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Oxford University Press

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0190278064

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Charlotte's War

By: J. Lawrence Graham

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Charlotte's War

By: J. Lawrence Graham

This epic novel follows one extraordinary American woman as she grieves and triumphs through the horrific realities of three wars that threaten the men she loves. Charlotte Fletcher is in the fight of her life to save her firstborn son from facing a truth she knows all too well—the dreadful impact of war. First, she watched her own brother suffer the destructive consequences of youthful bravado in WWII. Then, she waved goodbye to her husband, a decorated hero, who sailed into harm’s way a second time in the Korean conflict. Now, with her son headed to Vietnam, Charlotte is using all the arrows in her quiver to stop the conflict. As Charlotte weaves through major world events, her remarkable will and intelligence position her to offer key insights to leaders negotiating peace in Vietnam. After being raised in China by missionary parents, Charlotte completed her studies at Radcliffe and Harvard and received a Berkeley PhD in anthropology, giving her unique expertise to persuade the renowned decision makers she encounters. The formidable connections Charlotte forges over the years—including visionaries such as JFK, two U.S. Secretaries of State, and even Ho Chi Minh—culminate in a surprising and captivating convergence of personalities, power, and politics.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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Jackie as Editor

The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By: Greg Lawrence

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Jackie as Editor

The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By: Greg Lawrence

An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life—her nineteen-year editorial career History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the millionaire's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over an equally important stage in her life: her nearly twenty year long career as a book editor. Jackie as Editor is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman's editorial career. At the age of forty-six, one of the most famous women in the world went to work for the first time in twenty-two years. Greg Lawrence, who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than 125 of her former collaborators and acquaintances in the publishing world to examine one of the twentieth century's most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle: her previously untouted skill in the career she chose. Over the last third of her life, Jackie would master a new industry, weather a very public professional scandal, and shepherd more than a hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of Viking and Doubleday, publishing authors as diverse as Diana Vreeland, Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton, Bill Moyers, Dorothy West, Naguib Mahfouz, and even Michael Jackson. Jackie as Editor gives intimate new insights into the life of a complex and enigmatic woman who found fulfillment through her creative career during book publishing's legendary Golden Age, and, away from the public eye, quietly defined life on her own terms.

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Macmillan

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1429975180

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9781429975186

Kennedy's Wars: Liberal Anti Communism; 2 Beyond Massive Retaliation; 3 The Third World Alternative; 4 Policies and People. Section 2 Berlin and Nuclear Statagy: 5 The New Strategy; 6 To Vienna and Back; 7 The Berlin Anomaly; 8 A Contest of Resolve; 9 The Wall; 10 Tests and Tension; 11 Flexible Resp

By: Lawrence Freedman

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Kennedy's Wars: Liberal Anti Communism; 2 Beyond Massive Retaliation; 3 The Third World Alternative; 4 Policies and People. Section 2 Berlin and Nuclear Statagy: 5 The New Strategy; 6 To Vienna and Back; 7 The Berlin Anomaly; 8 A Contest of Resolve; 9 The Wall; 10 Tests and Tension; 11 Flexible Resp

By: Lawrence Freedman

In 'Kennedy's Wars' noted historian Lawrence Freedman draws on the best of Cold War scholarship and newly released government documents to illuminate Kennedy's approach to war and his efforts for peace.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195152433

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Leadership in Committee

A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Behavior in the U.S. Senate

By: C. Lawrence Evans

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Leadership in Committee

A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Behavior in the U.S. Senate

By: C. Lawrence Evans

How does the leadership of a Senate committee influence the outcome of bills? In Leadership in Committee C. Lawrence Evans delves into the behavior of legislative leaders and the effects of what they do, how their tactics vary, and why. Using evidence gleaned from personal interviews with a large number of U.S. senators and Senate staff, the author compares the leadership styles of eight committee chairs and ranking minority members in the U.S. Senate. The result is a significant contribution to the literature on American politics, the first book-length, comparative analysis of legislative leadership behavior in the modern Senate. ". . . .this book is highly recommended reading for those interested in both legislative politics and political leadership. . . .Leadership in Committee establishes Evans as one of the handful of political scientists who have done justice to the subtleties of politics in the modern Senate." ---Randall Strahan, Journal of Politics "Larry Evans has significantly influenced my own work over the years, and Leadership in Committee is one reason why. It is a model of great scholarship, the best work on committee leadership ever written. It has the discriminatory sense of context that appears only when the author truly knows his subject. It is theoretical without being reductionist or vacuously abstract. Its principal claims are general yet sufficiently concrete to be testable, and Evans provides systematic, comparative evidence to support (or qualify) each of them. Larger issues of agenda-setting, institutional structure, partisanship, anticipated reactions, participation, committee-floor bargaining, and strategic action of various kinds receive thoughtful and insightful examination. And the book is simply a terrific read. Too long in coming, the publication of Leadership in Committee in paperback ought to spark a well-deserved revival of interest in this work." ---Richard L. Hall, University of Michigan

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0472023594

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Conversations in American Literature

Language, Rhetoric, Culture

By: Robin Dissin Aufses,Renee H. Shea,Lawrence Scanlon

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Conversations in American Literature

Language, Rhetoric, Culture

By: Robin Dissin Aufses,Renee H. Shea,Lawrence Scanlon

Teachers have struggled for years to balance the competing demands of American Literature and AP English Language. Now, the team that brought you the bestselling Language of Composition is here to help. Conversations in American Literature: Language ∙ Rhetoric ∙ Culture is a new kind of American Literature anthology—putting nonfiction on equal footing with the traditional fiction and poetry, and emphasizing the skills of rhetoric, close reading, argument, and synthesis. To spark critical thinking, the book includes TalkBack pairings and synthesis Conversations that let students explore how issues and texts from the past continue to impact the present. Whether you’re teaching AP English Language, or gearing up for Common Core, Conversations in American Literature will help you revolutionize the way American literature is taught.

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1457654571

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Politics and Health Care Organization

HMOs as Federal Policy

By: Lawrence Brown

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Politics and Health Care Organization

HMOs as Federal Policy

By: Lawrence Brown

Among various health cost containment strategies proposed during the 1970s, none has held more sustained fascination than the health maintenance organization (HMO). For many years, policy analysts in search of market- and incentive-based alternatives to “command and control” regulation have argued that medical groups combining prepayment and group practice, and offering comprehensive medical services within a fixed budget, would hold down costs both by their own efficient operations and by the competitive pressures they would apply to the conventional systems. During the 1970s, three presidents and five Congresses worked to formulate and implement legislation to increase the HMO presence nationwide, with very modest results. Some observers concluded that but for the well-intended but counterproductive efforts of the federal government, HMOs might thrive. Indeed, the Reagan administration has called for an end to direct federal financial involvement in building HMOs—though it has also promised legislation to promote HMOs and a newly competitive health care system based on revamped financial incentives and reinvigorated markets. In this book, Lawrence D. Brown, a senior fellow in the Brookings Governmental Studies program, examines the interplay between politics and policy in the federal HMO development effort between 1970 and 1980. He argues that the basic explanation for the disappointments of the policy analysts and federal supporters of HMOs lies not in a political miscarriage but in the overambitious promises of the policy strategy itself. Tracing the poor fit between policy and politics revealed by federal efforts to translate the attractive HMO idea into a workable strategy, Brown concludes that the episode augurs poorly for the competitive reforms frequently offered as a nonregulatory solution to rising health care costs in the 1980s.

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0815717156

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Developing Cultures

Essays on Cultural Change

By: Lawrence E. Harrison,Jerome Kagan

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Developing Cultures

Essays on Cultural Change

By: Lawrence E. Harrison,Jerome Kagan

Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington and Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for cultural change that can accelerate development in the Third World. The essays in this volume cover child rearing, several aspects of education, the world's major religions, the media, political leadership, and development projects. The book is companion volume to Developing Cultures: Case Studies.(0415952808).

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Routledge

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1135440565

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In the New World

Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties

By: Lawrence Wright

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In the New World

Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties

By: Lawrence Wright

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes an intimate memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades. • "A wonderfully readable, thoroughly absorbing memoir of a twenty-five-year span of wrenching change." —The Philadelphia Inquirer We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades—the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, the crisis of Watergate, and the emergence of Ronald Reagan—we relive the pivotal and shocking events of those crowded years. Lawrence Wright has written the autobiography of a generation, giving back to us with stunning force the feelings of those turbulent times when the euphoria of Kennedy’s America would come to its shocking end.

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