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Crackup

The Republican Implosion and the Future of Presidential Politics

By: Samuel L. Popkin

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Crackup

The Republican Implosion and the Future of Presidential Politics

By: Samuel L. Popkin

In 2016, a businessman so discredited that he could no longer get a casino license or borrow money from an American bank was elected President of the United States of America. How did this happen? It is easy to mock and ridicule Donald Trump as if he is the problem. In fact, he is a symptom of a much larger issue that has been bedeviling the GOP for nearly two decades: an intraparty crackup of massive proportions. By "crackup," I mean a breakdown of the fragile alliances between coalitions within a party that prevents its leaders from developing goals they can deliver on when they control the White House and majorities in the House and Senate. This introductory chapter explains why party crackups are inevitable in a federal system with national money and local primaries. But this is the first time -- for either party - that no group within the party could create a synthesis of old orthodoxies and new realities that altered the party's direction enough to build a new consensus"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190913827

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9780190913823

Shakespeare and Baseball

Reflections of a Shakespeare Professor and Detroit Tigers Fan

By: Samuel Crowl

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Shakespeare and Baseball

Reflections of a Shakespeare Professor and Detroit Tigers Fan

By: Samuel Crowl

Shakespeare and baseball are monuments of high and popular culture: Shakespeare is the most widely read and staged playwright in the world, and baseball is America’s game. Professor Samuel Crowl, a prize-winning teacher and international scholar of Shakespeare on film, explores his life as a champion of the Bard and a fan of the Detroit Tigers. He saw his first Tigers game in the summer of 1950 (Hal Newhouser beat the Chicago White Sox) and his first Shakespeare play in 1953 (Alec Guinness as Richard III at Ontario’s Stratford Festival) and has spent almost seventy-five years enjoying and writing about the pleasures of play that each provides. Shakespeare and Baseball is an unusual hybrid combining Crowl’s education as a Shakespeare and baseball fan, the resonances he perceives between the playwright and the game, the unexpected pleasures both forms of play have afforded his extended family of children and grandchildren, and a selection from the seventy letters he has written to them about Tigers games he has seen, from old Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, and ballparks in Cleveland. Crowl finds unexpected connections between his twin subjects, including beer, which funded and fueled both the establishment of Major League baseball clubs, like the Yankees and Cardinals, and the creation of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, visited by Shakespeare enthusiasts from around the world. A deeper linkage is that Shakespeare’s festive comedies kept the ideas, rituals, and customs of rural England alive in the dense urban world of Elizabethan London, just as baseball kept the image of the garden—the rural American past in which the game took shape—alive in the twentieth-century American city. The book is written in a style that captures what one reader has called Crowl’s “warm, rich midwestern voice” and will be of interest to fans of the game and of the Bard, from high schoolers on up.

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Ohio University Press

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0821425579

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9780821425572

United States Army In WWII - The Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive

[Illustrated Edition]

By: Samuel Milner

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United States Army In WWII - The Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive

[Illustrated Edition]

By: Samuel Milner

[Includes 3 charts, 36 maps and 107 illustrations] "The successes of the South Pacific Force," wrote Admiral Halsey in 1944, "were not the achievements of separate services or individuals but the result of whole-hearted subordination of self-interest by all in order that one successful ‘fighting team’ could be created." The history of any South Pacific campaign must deal with this "fighting team," with all United States and Allied services. The victory on Guadalcanal can be understood only by an appreciation of the contribution of each service. No one service won the battle. The most decisive engagement of the campaign was the air and naval Battle of Guadalcanal in mid-November 1942, an engagement in which neither Army nor Marine Corps ground troops took any direct part. This volume attempts to show the contribution of all services to the first victory on the long road to Tokyo. It does not describe all ground, air, and naval operations in detail but it does attempt, by summary when necessary, to show the relationship between air, ground, and surface forces in modern warfare.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782893997

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9781782893998

Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right

Barack Obama and the War on Terror

By: Samuel P. Perry

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Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right

Barack Obama and the War on Terror

By: Samuel P. Perry

As the first African American president, Barack Obama faced unique challenges and obstacles when addressing issues of race. While rhetorical attacks on the basis of race directed at Obama were not unexpected, many of the most consistent racially-motivated criticisms of Obama were associated with his religious identity. The Jeremiah Wright controversy gave way to the birther and ‘secret Muslim’ conspiracy theories, while anxieties about Obama’s identity proved particularly potent as modes of political attack in the context of the war on terror. This book examines the ways in which those attacks often originated in the rhetoric of the Christian Right and the ways in which these theories circulated amongst the Christian Right. Perry argues that the intersections of race and religion in American politics produced rhetoric that often caricatured Obama as un-American, anti-Christian, and an enemy of the state. By exploring the arguments used to cultivate these characterizations and tracing the roots of conspiracies that worked to delegitimize Obama’s religious identity through racial claims and stereotypes, a clearer picture emerges of what is at stake when people can no longer separate religious convictions from political arguments.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498586740

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9781498586740

Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

A Practical Guide

By: Robert L. Rhodes,Salvador Hector Ochoa,Samuel O. Ortiz

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Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

A Practical Guide

By: Robert L. Rhodes,Salvador Hector Ochoa,Samuel O. Ortiz

This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English-language learners and culturally diverse students in K-12 settings. It meets a crucial need among practitioners and special educators working in today's schools. Provided are research-based, step-by-step procedures for conducting effective interviews with students, parents, and teachers; making the best use of interpreters; addressing special issues in the prereferral process; and conducting accurate, unbiased assessments of academic achievement, intellectual functioning, language proficiency, and acculturation. Among the book's special features are reproducible worksheets, questionnaires, and checklists--including several in both English and Spanish--in a ready-to-use, large-size format. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series.

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Guilford Press

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1593851413

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9781593851415

Interpretive Quantification

Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Laura Sjoberg

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Interpretive Quantification

Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Laura Sjoberg

Countering the growing divide between positivists who embrace quantitative, numerical approaches and post-positivist scholars who favor qualitative, interpretive approaches, J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg argue that both methods are more widely adaptable than is commonly assumed by either camp. In Interpretive Quantification, ten highly regarded scholars in the field of International Relations apply quantitative methods and formal models to specific constructivist and critical research questions. In this way, each chapter serves not only as evidence that methods can productively be applied across paradigms, but also as a guide as to how this may be done. In sum, the contributors make a compelling case that when researchers cordon off particular methods for merely ideological reasons, they circumscribe their own paradigms and hinder their own research agenda.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472122657

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9780472122653

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Crackup

Crackup

Shakespeare and Baseball

Shakespeare and Baseball

United States Army In WWII - The Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive

United States Army In WWII - The Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive

Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right

Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right

Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Interpretive Quantification

Interpretive Quantification

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