Download or read book Step Forward America a Case for a National Service Program Second Edition written by Ted Hollander and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Time for Each American to Contribute! Everyone agrees that America is in crisis, and that urgent action is needed if we are to maintain our status as the role model for the free world. However, it seems that nobody can agree on how to save our failing nation. Step Forward America! makes a compelling case for a National Service program, which would benefit America as a country by motivating and educating our youth to become engaged citizens of our nation and of the world. With clear reasoning, supported by nationally recognized political journalists and government and military officials, this book outlines the logistics, potential protocols, and vast benefits of a National Service program that includes both military and civilian options. Step Forward America! is an invaluable tool for supporters of National Service...and if you're a skeptic, this book may very well change your opinion. Step forward with an open mind, and learn how each citizen of America can contribute to the healthy future of our country.
Download or read book Step Forward America a Case for a National Service Program written by Ted Hollander and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone agrees that America is in crisis, and that urgent action is needed if we are to maintain our status as the world's greatest superpower. However, it seems that nobody can agree on how to save our failing nation. Step Forward America! makes a compelling case for a National Service program, which would benefit America as a country by motivating and educating our youth to become engaged citizens of our nation and of the world. With clear reasoning, supported by nationally recognized political journalists and government and military officials, this book outlines the logistics, potential protocols, and vast benefits of a National Service program that includes both military and civilian options. Step Forward America! is an invaluable tool for supporters of National Service...and if you're a skeptic, this book may very well change your opinion. Step forward with an open mind, and learn how each citizen of America can contribute to the healthy future of our country.
Download or read book Renewing America Through National Service and Volunteerism written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bachelors of Citizenship written by Ted Hollander and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us feel that America has lost its way and suffers from a variety of illnesses, social and economic inequality, failure of our justice system and other institutions, and attacks on our democracy from both home and abroad. Our ability to meet these challenges - once our greatest strength - has eroded. Individually and collectively, we are paralyzed by partisan politics and unable to reach compromises and take any action whatsoever on national and global issues. Both our allies and adversaries see this, the former having lost faith in our ability to lead, and the latter no longer fearing confrontation with us. When we look at our shortcomings, if there is one common root cause that we all see, it is in education. In Mr. Hollander's previous book Step Forward America!, he made a case for a universal national service program that would get everyone involved in meeting our challenges. Now in Bachelors of Citizenship, he addresses and expands upon the importance of education, specifically certain "lessons in living" that he identifies, in enlightening us and leading us down a path to becoming better citizens more able to meet our challenges.
Download or read book U S Draft Policy and Its Impact written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American National Security and Civil Liberties in an Era of Terrorism written by D. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the ongoing war against terrorism, can the United States maintain its dedication to protecting civil liberties without compromising security? At stake is nothing less than the survival of ideas associated with the modern period of political philosophy: the freedom of conscience, the inviolable rights of the individual to privacy, the constitutionally limited state, as well as the more recent refinement of late modern liberalism, multiculturalism. Contributors evaluate the need to reassess the nation's public policies, institutions, as well as its very identity. The struggle to persist as an open society in the age of terrorism will be the defining test of democracy in the Twenty-first-century.
Download or read book The National Service Trust Act of 1993 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Way to Change written by Shirley Sagawa and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ordinary citizens dedicated to service can change the face of America's most critical issues What if the nation were able to capitalize on the energy of Americans willing to serve and volunteer for a year or more? This inspirational book tells the stories of real people who have dedicated themselves to service and the nonprofits that engaged them. It shows how selflessness and service have transformed lives and communities, and can address similar problems throughout the country. The author profiles successes, demonstrates measurable effects, and shows how impact is made. This book describes how we can achieve change, through action at both the community and organizational level. Filled with illustrative examples and key lessons Highlights programs such as Teach for America, City Year, and Community Health Corps Shows how nonprofits can create successful service programs to tackle different issues The book shows what America would look like if programs like these operated at scale across the country not just in one or two neighborhoods, but wherever they were needed.
Download or read book The Timberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overground Railroad written by Candacy A. Taylor and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical exploration of the Green Book offers “a fascinating [and] sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades” (The New York Times Book Review). Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. It took courage to be listed in the Green Book, and Overground Railroad celebrates the stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. Author Candacy A. Taylor shows the history of the Green Book, how we arrived at our present historical moment, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in America. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
Download or read book White House Warriors How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War written by John Gans and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory history of the elusive National Security Council shows how staffers operating in the shadows have driven foreign policy clandestinely for decades. When Michael Flynn resigned in disgrace as the Trump administration’s national security advisor the New York Times referred to the National Security Council as “the traditional center of management for a president’s dealings with an uncertain world.” Indeed, no institution or individual in the last seventy years has exerted more influence on the Oval Office or on the nation’s wars than the NSC, yet until the explosive Trump presidency, few Americans could even name a member. With key analysis, John Gans traces the NSC’s rise from a collection of administrative clerks in 1947 to what one recent commander-in-chief called the president’s “personal band of warriors.” A former Obama administration speechwriter, Gans weaves extensive archival research with dozens of news-making interviews to reveal the NSC’s unmatched power, which has resulted in an escalation of hawkishness and polarization, both in Washington and the nation at large.
Download or read book Straight America a call to national service written by Frances Kellor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Tyranny Comes Home written by Christopher J. Coyne and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms. But Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall urge engaged citizens to think again. Overseas, our government takes actions in the name of defense that would not be permissible within national borders. Emboldened by the relative weakness of governance abroad, the U.S. government is able to experiment with a broader range of social controls. Under certain conditions, these policies, tactics, and technologies are then re-imported to America, changing the national landscape and increasing the extent to which we live in a police state. Coyne and Hall examine this pattern—which they dub "the boomerang effect"—considering a variety of rich cases that include the rise of state surveillance, the militarization of domestic law enforcement, the expanding use of drones, and torture in U.S. prisons. Synthesizing research and applying an economic lens, they develop a generalizable theory to predict and explain a startling trend. Tyranny Comes Home unveils a new aspect of the symbiotic relationship between foreign interventions and domestic politics. It gives us alarming insight into incidents like the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the Snowden case—which tell a common story about contemporary foreign policy and its impact on our civil liberties.
Download or read book American Practitioner and News written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Disabled American Veterans 2014 National Convention House Document 113 175 August 9 12 2014 113 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evicted written by Matthew Desmond and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama • The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • The Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • The New Yorker • Bloomberg • Esquire • BuzzFeed • Fortune • San Francisco Chronicle • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Politico • The Week • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Booklist • Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE “Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth “Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones “Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book National Service written by W. A. Bruette and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
