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Running to Make a Difference

By: Leonard W. Levine

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In Running To Make A Difference, Leonard Levine reveals what brought this grandson of Russian and Polish immigrants from modest beginnings on the Lower West Side of St. Paul to impressive achievements in public service and in business. A record-breaking track star in college, and an award-winning high school teacher and coach, Levine was drawn into a career in city and state government that was marked by a determined and ongoing fight for the underdog. Inspired by his father's outgoing personality and his mother's kindliness, along with his own genuine respect for people from all walks of life, Levine developed a reputation for his ability to find consensus among the most contentious of forces. His inside view of his campaigns and goals demonstrates that he is a natural builder of bridges. Regardless of the role in life, Leonard Levine's profound gratitude and deep love for his family shines above all else.

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1935098985

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9781935098980

Antisemitism in America

By: Leonard Dinnerstein

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Antisemitism in America

By: Leonard Dinnerstein

Is antisemitism on the rise in America? Did the "hymietown" comment by Jesse Jackson and the Crown Heights riot signal a resurgence of antisemitism among blacks? The surprising answer to both questions, according to Leonard Dinnerstein, is no--Jews have never been more at home in America. But what we are seeing today, he writes, are the well-publicized results of a long tradition of prejudice, suspicion, and hatred against Jews--the direct product of the Christian teachings underlying so much of America's national heritage. In Antisemitism in America, Leonard Dinnerstein provides a landmark work--the first comprehensive history of prejudice against Jews in the United States, from colonial times to the present. His richly documented book traces American antisemitism from its roots in the dawn of the Christian era and arrival of the first European settlers, to its peak during World War II and its present day permutations--with separate chapters on antisemititsm in the South and among African-Americans, showing that prejudice among both whites and blacks flowed from the same stream of Southern evangelical Christianity. He shows, for example, that non-Christians were excluded from voting (in Rhode Island until 1842, North Carolina until 1868, and in New Hampshire until 1877), and demonstrates how the Civil War brought a new wave of antisemitism as both sides assumed that Jews supported with the enemy. We see how the decades that followed marked the emergence of a full-fledged antisemitic society, as Christian Americans excluded Jews from their social circles, and how antisemetic fervor climbed higher after the turn of the century, accelerated by eugenicists, fear of Bolshevism, the publications of Henry Ford, and the Depression. Dinnerstein goes on to explain that just before our entry into World War II, antisemitism reached a climax, as Father Coughlin attacked Jews over the airwaves (with the support of much of the Catholic clergy) and Charles Lindbergh delivered an openly antisemitic speech to an isolationist meeting. After the war, Dinnerstein tells us, with fresh economic opportunities and increased activities by civil rights advocates, antisemititsm went into sharp decline--though it frequently appeared in shockingly high places, including statements by Nixon and his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It must also be emphasized," Dinnerstein writes, "that in no Christian country has antisemitism been weaker than it has been in the United States," with its traditions of tolerance, diversity, and a secular national government. This book, however, reveals in disturbing detail the resilience, and vehemence, of this ugly prejudice. Penetrating, authoritative, and frequently alarming, this is the definitive account of a plague that refuses to go away.

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401

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Oxford University Press

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0190282827

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9780190282820

Vernacular Religion

Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano

By: Deborah Dash Moore

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Vernacular Religion

Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano

By: Deborah Dash Moore

This book reveals contemporary vernacular religion expressed in gay Catholic spirituality, Father Divine's International Peace Mission movement, and material culture"--

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352

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NYU Press

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1479818666

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9781479818662

Uneasy at Home

Antisemitism and the American Jewish Experience

By: Leonard Dinnerstein

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Uneasy at Home

Antisemitism and the American Jewish Experience

By: Leonard Dinnerstein

Uneasy At Home

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310

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Columbia University Press

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0231515758

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9780231515757

A Philosophy of Struggle

The Leonard Harris Reader

By: Leonard Harris

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A Philosophy of Struggle

The Leonard Harris Reader

By: Leonard Harris

Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought. Harris' writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His timely and urgent responses to structural racism and structural violence mark him out as a bold cultural commentator and a deft theoretician. The wealth and depth of Harris' writings are brought to the fore in this collection and the incisive introduction by Lee McBride serves to orient, contextualize, and frame an oeuvre that spans four decades. In his prolegomenon, Harris eschews the classical meaning of “philosophy,” supplanting it with an idiosyncratic conception of philosophy-philosophia nata ex conatu-that features an avowedly value-laden dimension. As well as serving as an introduction to Harris' philosophy, A Philosophy of Struggle provides new insights into how we ought conceptualize philosophy, race, tradition, and insurrection in the 21st century.

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321

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350084220

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9781350084223

Hemingway and His Conspirators

Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture

By: Leonard J. Leff

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Hemingway and His Conspirators

Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture

By: Leonard J. Leff

Based on revealing letters and other documents from archives, Hemingway and His Conspirators has the dramatic personae of a Hollywood production--with a cast starring not only Hemingway and Perkins, but F. Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Hayes, David O. Selznick, and Gary Cooper. Set in an endlessly fascinating age, the 1920s. It tells a backstage story of the tangle of literature, publishing, and motion pictures in the formative years of a time when the possibilities of a new mass audience challenged and changed culture and literature forever.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847685454

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9780847685455

The Greater Generation

In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy

By: Leonard Steinhorn

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The Greater Generation

In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy

By: Leonard Steinhorn

It's fashionable to mock Boomers as self-involved and materialistic, but what really is their true legacy? To understand how the Boomers have changed America, think back to the 1950s, but without the nostalgia: women were kept at home, minorities were denied their dignity, homosexuality was a crime, and anyone who marched to a different drummer was labeled un-American. Today we live in a far more open, inclusive, tolerant, and equal America. That's because Baby Boomers fought a great cultural war to free America from its prejudices, inequalities, and fears. This book tells the story of their accomplishments.--From publisher description.

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340

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Macmillan

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0312326416

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9780312326418

Self-exposure

Human-interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940

By: Charles Leonard Ponce de Leon

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Self-exposure

Human-interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940

By: Charles Leonard Ponce de Leon

Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807854034

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9780807854037

Jazz

Myth and Religion

By: Chairman of the Department of American Civilization Neil Leonard,Neil Leonard

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Jazz

Myth and Religion

By: Chairman of the Department of American Civilization Neil Leonard,Neil Leonard

Early critics condemned jazz as profane--even diabolic--labelling it "the Devil's music" which threatened the very fabric of not only American life but also Western civilization as a whole. Simultaneously, however, other people discovered meanings in jazz more significant than those in any other music or art form. For them, jazz provided ecstatic experiences not found in any concert hall or church. These experiences--along with the charismatic personalities of such jazz heroes as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane--generated strong communal feelings and sect-like groupings which created rituals and myths to uphold the jazz mystique. In this study of the relationship between music and religion, Neil Leonard uses the work of Max Weber and his followers in order to explore how listeners have come to regard jazz as sacred or magical and have created myths and rituals to sustain this belief. Leonard argues that in a time when conventional religions have fallen into a state of flux, jazz has provided a focus for spiritual impulses tempered by the anxieties and alienations of the twentieth century. Leonard's Jazz tells us not only about music and society but also about religious behavior in a secular time.

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246

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195059247

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9780195059243

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

By: Robert J. Means, Jr.,George Rodgers,Bertil Glader,Daniel A. Arber,Frederick R. Appelbaum,Angela Dispenzieri,Todd A. Fehniger,Laura Michaelis,John P. Leonard

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Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

By: Robert J. Means, Jr.,George Rodgers,Bertil Glader,Daniel A. Arber,Frederick R. Appelbaum,Angela Dispenzieri,Todd A. Fehniger,Laura Michaelis,John P. Leonard

Comprehensive in scope and thoroughly up to date, Wintrobe’s Clinical Hematology, 15th Edition, combines the biology and pathophysiology of hematology as well as the diagnosis and treatment of commonly encountered hematological disorders. Editor-in-chief Dr. Robert T. Means, Jr., along with a team of expert section editors and contributing authors, provide authoritative, in-depth information on the biology and pathophysiology of lymphomas, leukemias, platelet destruction, and other hematological disorders as well as the procedures for diagnosing and treating them. Packed with more than 1,500 tables and figures throughout, this trusted text is an indispensable reference for hematologists, oncologists, residents, nurse practitioners, and pathologists.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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197518470X

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9781975184704

Running to Make a Difference

By: Leonard W. Levine

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Running to Make a Difference

By: Leonard W. Levine

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Book's by Leonard W. Levine

Running to Make a Difference

Running to Make a Difference

Antisemitism in America

Antisemitism in America

Vernacular Religion

Vernacular Religion

Uneasy at Home

Uneasy at Home

A Philosophy of Struggle

A Philosophy of Struggle

Hemingway and His Conspirators

Hemingway and His Conspirators

The Greater Generation

The Greater Generation

Self-exposure

Self-exposure

Jazz

Jazz

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

Running to Make a Difference

Running to Make a Difference

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