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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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167

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498586740

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9781498586740

Blue Skies, Black Wings

African American Pioneers of Aviation

By: Samuel L. Broadnax

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Blue Skies, Black Wings

African American Pioneers of Aviation

By: Samuel L. Broadnax

At the age of 17, Samuel L. Broadnax—enamored with flying—enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. Blue Skies, Black Wings recounts the history of African Americans in the skies from the very beginnings of manned flight. From Charles Wesley Peters, who flew his own plane in 1911, and Eugene Bullard, a black American ace with the French in World War I, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies in the Air Corps, Broadnax paints a vivid picture of the people who fought oppression to make the skies their own.

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209

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313083606

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9780313083600

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court

New York Superior Court Reports, Vol. 34- Jones and Spencer's reports, Vol. 2

By: Samuel Jones,James C. Spencer

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court

New York Superior Court Reports, Vol. 34- Jones and Spencer's reports, Vol. 2

By: Samuel Jones,James C. Spencer

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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622

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3368187589

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9783368187583

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V

Appendices and Comprehensive Index

By: Samuel Johnson

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The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V

Appendices and Comprehensive Index

By: Samuel Johnson

With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnson's life, an epistolary endgame that includes the breakup of the friendship with Hester Thrale and a poignant reaching out to new friends and new experiences. Volume V includes not only the comprehensive index but those undated letters that cannot confidently be assigned to a specific year, "ghost" letters (those whose existence is documented in other sources), three letters that have recently been recovered, and translations of Johnson's letters in Latin. Bruce Redford is Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (Chicago). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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191

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Princeton University Press

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1400851564

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9781400851560

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I

1731-1772

By: Samuel Johnson

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The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I

1731-1772

By: Samuel Johnson

It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can," Samuel Johnson declared, according to Boswell. And Boswell answered, "Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities." But Johnson's letters are far more than that. Even at their most cursory and casual, they are never less than precious biographical documents, and many of them mirror, define, and re-create a vivid likeness of the most versatile writer of eighteenth-century England. With these three volumes Princeton University Press inaugurates the first scholarly edition of this remarkable material to appear in forty years--the planned five-volume series The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Known as the Hyde Edition, the project will be completed with the fourth volume, covering the years 1782 through 1784, and the fifth, containing the comprehensive index and appendices. The series as a whole will present fifty-two previously unknown letters or parts of letters that have come to light since the publication of R. W. Chapman's three-volume set (Oxford, 1952). Such "new" letters, however, are scarcely more important than those for which only inferior printed texts or copies of varying reliability had previously been recovered. The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents--a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form. The Hyde Edition is also the first systematically to record substantive deletions, which can yield intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. Furthermore, its ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of postwar Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had previously resisted explanation. The result is a far richer understanding of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and milieu. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400862116

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9781400862115

The Short Line War

By: Samuel Merwin

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The Short Line War

By: Samuel Merwin

Reproduction of the original: The Short Line War by Samuel Merwin

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3732647552

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Book's by Samuel Porter

Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right

Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right

Blue Skies, Black Wings

Blue Skies, Black Wings

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I

The Short Line War

The Short Line War

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