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Book Every Citizen a Statesman

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Allen
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2023-01-10
  • ISBN : 0674248988
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Every Citizen a Statesman written by David Allen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As US power grew after WWI, officials and nonprofits joined to promote citizen participation in world affairs. David Allen traces the rise and fall of the Foreign Policy Association, a public-education initiative that retreated in the atomic age, scuttling dreams of democratic foreign policy and solidifying the technocratic national security model.

Book The School for Statesmen

Download or read book The School for Statesmen written by School and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Schools for Statesmen

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  • Author : Andrew H. Browning
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2022-06-16
  • ISBN : 070063309X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Schools for Statesmen written by Andrew H. Browning and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro’ a Man’s whole future Conduct.” —William Livingston, signer of the Constitution Schools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in close detail and argues that their different educations help explain their divergent positions at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Those educations ranged from outlawed Irish “hedge schools” to England’s venerable Inns of Court, from the grammar schools of New England to ambitious new academies springing up on the Carolina frontier. The more traditional schools that focused on Greek and Latin classics (Oxford, Harvard, Yale, William and Mary) were deeply conservative institutions resistant to change. But the Scottish colleges and the newer American schools (Princeton, Philadelphia, King's College) introduced students to a Scottish Enlightenment curriculum that fostered more radical, forward-thinking leaders. Half of the Framers had no college education and were often self-taught or had private tutors; most were quiet at the convention, although a few stubbornly opposed the new ideas they were hearing. Nearly all the delegates who took the lead at the convention had been educated at the newer, innovative colleges, but of the seven who rejected the new Constitution, three had gone to the older traditional schools, while three others had not gone to college at all. Schools for Statesmen is an unprecedented analysis of the sharply divergent educations of the Framers of the Constitution. It reveals the ways in which the Constitutional Convention, rather than being a counterrevolution by conservative elites, was dominated by forward-thinking innovators who had benefited from the educational revolution beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. Andrew Browning offers a new and persuasive explanation of key disagreements among the Framers and the process by which they were able to break through the impasse that threatened the convention; he provides a fresh understanding of the importance of education in what has been called the "Critical Period" of US history. Schools for Statesmen takes a deep dive into the diverse educational world of the eighteenth century and sheds new light on the origins of the US Constitution.

Book Soldiers  Statesmen  and Cold War Crises

Download or read book Soldiers Statesmen and Cold War Crises written by Richard K. Betts and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story, published thirty years ago, remains extremely relevant to this day in that the author envisioned all problems related to the thankless task of nation-building in a multiethnic and multicultural Yugoslavia.

Book The School for Statesmen  or  The Public Man s Manual

Download or read book The School for Statesmen or The Public Man s Manual written by Edmund Carrington and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

Book The school for statesmen  or  The public man s manual  by an old M P

Download or read book The school for statesmen or The public man s manual by an old M P written by Edmund Frederick J. Carrington and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The School for Statesmen  Or  the Public Man s Manual  Being a Complet Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill  By an Old M P   i e  Edmund F  J  Carrington

Download or read book The School for Statesmen Or the Public Man s Manual Being a Complet Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill By an Old M P i e Edmund F J Carrington written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Citizens and Statesmen

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  • Author : Mary P. Nichols
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 1991-12-12
  • ISBN : 0742573559
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Citizens and Statesmen written by Mary P. Nichols and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1991-12-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two important criticisms of contemporary liberalism turn to Aristotle''s political thought for support that which advocates participatory democracy, and that sympathetic to the rule of a virtuous or philosophic elite. In this commentary on Aristotle''s politics the author explores how Aristotle offers political rule as an alternative to both the rule of aristocratic virtue and an unchecked participatory democracy. Writing in lucid prose, she offers an interpretation grounded in a close reading of the text, and combining a respectful and patient attempt to understand Aristotle in his own terms with a wide, sympathetic, and argumentative reading in the secondary literature.

Book Foundations of the American Century

Download or read book Foundations of the American Century written by Inderjeet Parmar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship. Parmar begins in the 1920s with the establishment of these foundations and their system of top-down, elitist, scientific giving, which focused more on managing social, political, and economic change than on solving modern society's structural problems. Consulting rare documents and other archival materials, he recounts how the American intellectuals, academics, and policy makers affiliated with these organizations institutionalized such elitism, which then bled into the machinery of U.S. foreign policy and became regarded as the essence of modernity. America hoped to replace Britain in the role of global hegemon and created the necessary political, ideological, military, and institutional capacity to do so, yet far from being objective, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations often advanced U.S. interests at the expense of other nations. Incorporating case studies of American philanthropy in Nigeria, Chile, and Indonesia, Parmar boldly exposes the knowledge networks underwriting American dominance in the twentieth century.

Book The School for Statesmen  Or  the Public Man s Manual  by an Old M P

Download or read book The School for Statesmen Or the Public Man s Manual by an Old M P written by Edmund Frederick J Carrington and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The School for Statesmen  Or  the Public Man s Manual  Being a Complete Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill

Download or read book The School for Statesmen Or the Public Man s Manual Being a Complete Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...The Aula Regia was composed of the barons of parliament, who delegated to the justiciars, or justices, the cases brought before their court. The appeal from these decisions remaining with the barons. Hence, on the dissolution of the 2' Aula Regia, as an original court, it still retained its fea' 1 applied to the Court of Common Pleas for a haheas corpus; but being found in the wrong, the privileges of the house were maintained, and they were remanded to the Tower till the house liberated them. These cases of imprisonment for breach of privilege, together with that of Sir F. Burdett for the same cause, in 1810, March 6 to 9, are the most interesting in modern times. Breach of privilege is the principle of the proceedings. This is often asserted in calling printers to the bar of the House, for mis representing debates. Every offence, in fact, whether committed by a member or a stranger, comes under the denomination of breach of privilege.--(See Hatsell.) Blackstone, vol. iii. chap. iv. p. 37. 57. H 146 CHARLES THE rrrcsr. ture of a court of appeal, and such is the present House of Lords;--not a court for original causes, but merely for appeals; and its decision is final. Such is the main characteristic difference between_ the Upper House of Parliament and the Lower. The characteristic which distinguishes the last, is one which places the real power of government in its i hands, and illustrates the law of the constitution. It consists in the privilege of originating all supplies, of exerting the tremendous power of stopping them.-I This last step can only be resorted to on a great state emergency, and when the power of the prerogative encroaches dangerously on the liberties of the people. An instance...

Book A Miracle of Virginia

Download or read book A Miracle of Virginia written by Dumas Malone and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldiers  Spies  and Statesmen

Download or read book Soldiers Spies and Statesmen written by Hazem Kandil and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutions are difficult to understand and almost impossible to predict. Egypt’s 2011 revolt was no exception. The military’s abandonment of Mubarak—a turning point for the revolt—confounded many observers, who assumed that the leader and the generals stood or fell together. The officers, it was thought, ruled from behind the scenes and simply swapped the figures in the spotlight to preserve the status quo. In a challenge to this conventional view, Hazem Kandil presents the revolution as the latest episode in an ongoing power struggle between the three components of Egypt’s authoritarian regime: the military, the security services, and the political apparatus. A detailed study of the interactions within this invidious triangle over six decades of war, conspiracy, and sociopolitical transformation, Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen is the first systematic analysis of how Egypt metamorphosed from a military into a police state—and what that means for the future of its revolution.

Book The School for Statesmen  Or the Public Man s Manual

Download or read book The School for Statesmen Or the Public Man s Manual written by Edmund Frederick J. Carrington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The School for Statesmen, or the Public Man's Manual: Being a Complete Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill Letters, with a view to adding, perhaps, to his interest from its more dramatic character. Every precept, moral or political, which an aspirant entering on the arena of Public Life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The School for Statesmen

Download or read book The School for Statesmen written by School and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supreme Command

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  • Author : Eliot A. Cohen
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-04-17
  • ISBN : 074324222X
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Supreme Command written by Eliot A. Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent, vividly written” (The Washington Post) account of leadership in wartime that explores how four great democratic statesmen—Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion—worked with the military leaders who served them during warfare. The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show—the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot A. Cohen expertly argues that great statesmen do not turn their wars over to their generals, and then stay out of their way. Great statesmen make better generals of their generals. They question and drive their military men, and at key times they overrule their advice. The generals may think they know how to win, but the statesmen are the ones who see the big picture. Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion led four very different kinds of democracy, under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. They came from four very different backgrounds—backwoods lawyer, dueling French doctor, rogue aristocrat, and impoverished Jewish socialist. Yet they faced similar challenges. Each exhibited mastery of detail and fascination with technology. All four were great learners, who studied war as if it were their own profession, and in many ways mastered it as well as did their generals. All found themselves locked in conflict with military men. All four triumphed. The powerful lessons of this “brilliant” (National Review) book will touch and inspire anyone who faces intense adversity and is the perfect gift for history buffs of all backgrounds.

Book How Statesmen Think

Download or read book How Statesmen Think written by Robert Jervis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies his pathbreaking work. The result is an indispensable book for students and scholars of international relations. How Statesmen Think demonstrates that expectations and political and psychological needs are the major drivers of perceptions in international politics, as well as in other arenas. Drawing on the increasing attention psychology is paying to emotions, the book discusses how emotional needs help structure beliefs. It also shows how decision-makers use multiple shortcuts to seek and process information when making foreign policy and national security judgments. For example, the desire to conserve cognitive resources can cause decision-makers to look at misleading indicators of military strength, and psychological pressures can lead them to run particularly high risks. The book also looks at how deterrent threats and counterpart promises often fail because they are misperceived. How Statesmen Think examines how these processes play out in many situations that arise in foreign and security policy, including the threat of inadvertent war, the development of domino beliefs, the formation and role of national identities, and conflicts between intelligence organizations and policymakers.