Download or read book Let America Be America Again written by Langston Hughes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes. Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record of a remarkable man talking. In texts ranging from early interviews in the 1920s, when he was a busboy and scribbling out poems on hotel napkins, to major speeches, such as his keynote address at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966, Hughes's words further amplify the international reputation he established over the course of five decades through more widely-published and well-known poems, stories, novels, and plays. In these interviews, speeches, and conversational essays, the writer referred to by admirers as the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race" and the "Dean of Black Letters" articulated some of his most powerful critiques of fascism, economic and racial oppression, and compromised democracy. It was also through these genres that Hughes spoke of the responsibilities of the Black artist, documented the essential contributions of Black people to literature, music, and theatre, and chronicled the substantial challenges that Black artists face in gaining recognition, fair pay, and professional advancement. And it was through these pieces, too, that Hughes built on his celebrated work in other literary genres to craft an original, tragic-comic persona—a Blues poet in exile, forever yearning for and coming back to a home, a nation, that nevertheless continues to disappoint and harm him. A global traveler, Hughes's words, "Let America be America Again" were, throughout his career, always followed by a caveat: "America never was America to me."
Download or read book The Vanishing Voter written by Thomas E. Patterson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote. Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voter investigates why—despite a better educated citizenry, the end of racial barriers to voting, and simplified voter registration procedures—the percentage of voters has steadily decreased to the point that the United States now has nearly the lowest voting rate in the world. Patterson cites the blurring of differences between the political parties, the news media’s negative bias, and flaws in the election system to explain this disturbing trend while suggesting specific reforms intended to bring Americans back to the polls. Astute, far-reaching, and impeccably researched, The Vanishing Voter engages the very meaning of our relationship to our government.
Download or read book Let the People Decide written by Robert Fisher and published by Twayne Pub. This book was released on 1994 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Social Movements Past and Present' offers thorough analyses of the ideas and actions that have changed the way Americans think and live. Each volume is written by a specialist drawing on the insights and methodologies of history, sociology and political
Download or read book Let America Live written by Stella Immanuel and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2021 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against all odds, our fight for freedom is our responsibility, we must RISE! This book will expose you to the hidden realities of the media's silencing and opposition to those against the Left's agenda. You will have an increased confidence to stand strong for your beliefs about your health, faith, and personal life despite what is going on around you. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, Dr. Stella Immanuel started treating her patients with hydroxychloroquine and saw surprising success. To date, she says she has treated more than seven thousand COVID patients with the drug, and only eight have passed away. The rest recovered. Yet Dr. Immanuel has been ripped in the media and even by the medical community, who say the drug not only doesn't work but is harmful--the complete opposite of her experience. Her videos and accounts have been blocked on social media. The backlash has been so intense that she began to wonder if more sinister forces weren't behind the attacks against her and other doctors who advocate using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID. In Let America Live, Dr. Immanuel shares her story--from unassuming Houston physician to one of the Left's favorite punching bags. A minister as well as a physician, Dr. Immanuel also exposes the dark spiritual agenda she believes is behind the medical community's opposition to hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment and the vaccination push. Despite intense opposition, Dr. Immanuel refuses to be silenced. She issues a clarion call to believers and all who love liberty to stand boldly against the spiritual and natural forces that are threatening Americans' health and the future of the nation.
Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Flippin the Script written by Aisha Ford and published by Walk Worthy Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working hard to achieve a promotion in spite of a difficult boss and a budding office romance, talk show producer and Christian Sabrina Bradley accepts an opportunity to produce a television segment involving kept New Year's resolutions, but finds the offer compromised by her own resolution that she would fall in love.
Download or read book Patriots written by A. J. Langguth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With meticulous research and page-turning suspense, Patriots brings to life the American Revolution—the battles, the treacheries, and the dynamic personalities of the men who forged our freedom. George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry—these heroes were men of intellect, passion, and ambition. From the secret meetings of the Sons of Liberty to the final victory at Yorktown and the new Congress, Patriots vividly re-creates one of history's great eras.
Download or read book Official Reports of the Supreme Court written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing the 1996 Election written by John Clifford Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. The 1996 elections revealed that unmistakeable, dramatic changes have occurred in the way federal campaigns are paid for. Through soft money donations, issue advocacy campaigns and other stratagems, parties and candidates have been able to circumvent the regulations put in place after the Watergate scandal. Despite rhetorical condemnations, there is every reason to expect these trends to continue in the future. This study of the 1996 election- the latest in a highly praised series sponsored by the Citizens' Research Foundation- systematically examines the new campaign finance practices and their consequences.
Download or read book America s Battle for Cuba s Freedom written by Gonzalo de Quesada and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book of Poems written by Marjorie M. Woodward and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have spent forty-eight years driving through all forty-eight states, and every Sunday morning, I would find a church somewhere. For years, my truck has been my private time with the Lord, and He gave me much to write about. From "The Jagged Sky," I rolled into Denver, and the first seven verses came faster than I could write. I continued on to Seattle, and when I came back to Denver, the rest of the poem came to me faster than I could write. I was driving through Hartford, Connecticut, when "So Say Goodbye to Johnny O" came to me, and that's the way they come. I may have written three or four poems by just sitting down and putting them on paper, but most came from inspiration. When we found my mother's poems, it was when I decided to put them with my poems and make a book, thus the Book of Poems.
Download or read book No Debate written by George Farah and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the two major parties to seek—and achieve, under the aegis of the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates—tight control through scripting, severe time limits, and the exclusion of third-party candidates. In No Debate, author and lobbyist George Farah argues that these staged recitations make a mockery of free and fair presidential elections. With urgency and clarity, this book reviews the history of presidential debates, the impact of the debates since the advent of television, the role of the League of Women Voters, the antidemocratic activity of the CPD, and the specific ways that the Republicans and Democrats collude to remove all spontaneity from the debates themselves. The author presents the complete text of a previously unreleased secret document between the Republicans and Democrats that reveals the degree to which the two parties—not the CPD—dictate the terms of the debates. In the final chapter, Farah lays out a compelling strategy for restoring the presidential debates as a nonpartisan, unscripted, public events that help citizens—not corporations or campaign managers—decide who is going to run the White House.
Download or read book Campaign Talk written by Roderick P. Hart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters. He also believes that campaigns work. Even as television coverage, political ads, and opinion polls turn elections into field days for marketing professionals, Hart argues convincingly that campaigns do play their role in sustaining democracy, mainly because they bring about a dialogue among candidates, the press, and the people. Here he takes a close look at the exchange of ideas through language used in campaign speeches, political advertising, public debates, print and broadcast news, and a wide variety of letters to the editor. In each case, the participants choose their words differently, and this, according to Hart, can be a frustrating challenge to anyone trying to make sense of the issues. Yet he finds that the process is good for Americans: campaigns inform us about issues, sensitize us to the concerns of others, and either encourage us to vote or at least heighten our sense of the political world. Hart comes to his conclusions by using DICTION, a computer program that has enabled him to unearth substantive data, such as the many subtle shifts found in political language, over the past fifty years. This approach yields a rich variety of insights, including empirically based explanations of impressions created by political candidates. For example, in 1996 Bill Clinton successfully connected with voters by using many human-interest words--"you," "us," "people," "family." Bob Dole, however, alienated the public and even undermined his own claims of optimism by using an abundance of denial words--"can't," "shouldn't," "couldn't." Hart also tracks issue buzzwords such as "Medicare" to show how candidates and voters define and readjust their positions throughout the campaign dialogue. In the midst of today's increased media hype surrounding elections, Americans and the candidates they elect do seem to be listening to each other--as much as they did in years gone by. Hart's wide-ranging, objective investigation upends many of our stereotypes about political life and presents a new, more bracing, understanding of contemporary electoral behavior.
Download or read book Preserve and Defend written by Rick Ferguson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America finds itself in a perilous situation. Years of corrupt leadership, unrestrained and insatiable fiscal policies has led the nation to the brink of economic disaster, and international irrelevancy. An unpopular incumbent President having fought off a primary challenge, now faces a tough general election when rancher, businessman, philanthropist Carl Wesley threatens his second term. Desperate to win, and driven by the Progressive Party, he makes a covert deal that puts Americas national and economic security behind his own interests. After an attack on Christian missionaries, the disappearance of five CIA assets, and the killing of an Ambassador. Matt Hearns begins to unravel the evil plans and leads a remnant in the intelligence community to save the nation while a hard hitting investigative journalist searches for the truth. Caught in the crossfire of international politics is the future of Israel!
Download or read book The Harder Life Kicks You the Higher You Climb written by A. R. McKnight and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His name is Andre Carl Wright and he thinks life owes him something just because he's had a bad few years. But he's about to learn that real men stand up and take responsibility for their actions when he comes to live with his uncles. Ole Pop and Jesse are going to show him the truth about life and surviving. To quote Ole Pop If you dont remember anything else I tell you, remember this. Life is going to kick your butt and theres absolutely nothing you can do about it. But the secret is to never let the negative people or circumstances life brings to you knock you down. If you do lifes going to stomp you, but if you keep standing while life kicks your butt it will always have to kick up at you, and as long as life is kicking up at you, the harder life kicks you the higher youre going to climb.
Download or read book The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette written by Stephen Hess and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some people think that etiquette is fine for tea parties, but there's no room for it when important political business has to be done," writes Miss Manners, otherwise known as Judith Martin. "That's not true. The more controversy you have, the more etiquette you need. You need rules and order." The missing ingredient in efforts to improve campaign discourse is a set of agreed-upon norms and standards for behavior. In this shrewd and amusing series of observations, Stephen Hess provides a political etiquette for campaign behavior on the part of both politicians and journalists. Organized alphabetically under such headings as Advertising, Bias, Cyberpolitics, Disclosure, Families, Lying, Money, Sex Scandals, and Talk Radio, forty-three brief essays examine common practices and places where the system breaks down, then recommend preventive or corrective action through a few clear rules. After discussing the paucity of local television reporting on local and state political campaigns, for example, Hess comments, "the etiquette for local news directors is to ask, 'If we are not reporting local elections, who will?' Then act accordingly." With its broad coverage of campaign-related topics and its sensible suggestions, this book provides a useful corrective for practices that are dishonest, downright illegal, or sometimes just endlessly irksome. The book features illustrations by some of America's foremost political cartoonists, including Herblock, Jim Borgman, Walt Handelsman, Mike Peters, Wayne Stayskal, and Garry Trudeau.
