Download or read book The Vermont Political Tradition written by William Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised Bicentennial Edition includes the 1990 election in Vermont & the winning campaign of Independent Bernard Saunders, the first Socialist elected to Congress in 50 years. Themes of the book include independence, citizen legislature, political participation, the Vermont Town Meeting, political equality & support for public education & the environment. University of Vermont Professor Sam Hand termed the book "the best short introduction to Vermont politics available." The book has been adopted by many schools & colleges.
Download or read book Vermont Political Tradition written by William T. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised Bicentennial Edition includes the 1990 election in Vermont & the winning campaign of Independent Bernard Saunders, the first Socialist elected to Congress in 50 years. Themes of the book include independence, citizen legislature, political participation, the Vermont Town Meeting, political equality & support for public education & the environment. University of Vermont Professor Sam Hand termed the book "the best short introduction to Vermont politics available." The book has been adopted by many schools & colleges.
Download or read book Ready to Work written by Karen Farnham Madden and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vermont Papers written by Frank Bryan and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philip Hoff written by Samuel B. Hand and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America
Download or read book The Country They Call Vermont written by Wilder Arthur Simpson and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript by W. Arthur Simpson containing a history of the state of Vermont from 1760 to 1960, with emphasis on Vermont's political history. In the prologue Simpson writes: "This is an informal chronicle of the 200 years of political history of the state of Vermont 1760-1960, some seventy years of which I lived and observed...It is also written from the background of four earlier generations of my family...It is also a factual history of the near 200 men who have served in the state as governors, senators, and representatives in Congress and of the times and circumstances which produced them."
Download or read book Real Democracy written by Frank M. Bryan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet in face-to-face assemblies, debate the issues on the agenda, and vote on them. And although these meetings are natural laboratories for democracy, very few scholars have systematically investigated them. A nationally recognized expert on this topic, Bryan has now done just that. Studying 1,500 town meetings in his home state of Vermont, he and his students recorded a staggering amount of data about them—238,603 acts of participation by 63,140 citizens in 210 different towns. Drawing on this evidence as well as on evocative "witness" accounts—from casual observers to no lesser a light than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Bryan paints a vivid picture of how real democracy works. Among the many fascinating questions he explores: why attendance varies sharply with town size, how citizens resolve conflicts in open forums, and how men and women behave differently in town meetings. In the end, Bryan interprets this brand of local government to find evidence for its considerable staying power as the most authentic and meaningful form of direct democracy. Giving us a rare glimpse into how democracy works in the real world, Bryan presents here an unorthodox and definitive book on this most cherished of American institutions.
Download or read book Vermont Political Primer for 1930 written by Wilson-for-Governor Club (Vt.) and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how proverbs and to a lesser extent proverbial expressions, have played a significant role in political life during the 20th century. Takes as major examples the speeches and writings of Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman to show how proverbs can be brought into the service of most any ideology. Also traces the use of proverbs and their cartoon analogues during the five decades of Cold War propaganda, and proverbial slurs against Native Americans and Asian Americans. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The American Political Tradition written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him—Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples—Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.
Download or read book The Vermont Manifesto written by Thomas Naylor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not unlike other states, Vermont's quality of life, political independence, and sustainability are threatened by Corporate America, the U.S. government, the war on terrorism, homeland security, American imperialism, and globalization. This is a call for Vermont to reclaim its soul to return to its rightful status as an independent republic as it once was between 1777 and 1791. In so doing, Vermont can provide a kinder, gentler, more communitarian metaphor for a nation obsessed with money, power, size, speed, greed, and fear of terrorism. Long live the Second Republic of Vermont. Reviews "Vermont Manifesto is a serious examination of our God given right of self governance and that right's implication for secession. Dr. Naylor has made a persuasive case of the identical response to today's "train of abuses" that lead the Founders to secede from King George's tyranny." --Walter E. Williams John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University "In 1991 the Soviet Union was peacefully dissolved by the secession of 15 states. It had become simply too large and centralized. So has the American Union. Thoughtful people from every side of the political spectrum are beginning to realize that the only check to the tyranny, insecurity, and spirit numbing mass culture that continued centralization would bring is to seriously consider breaking the American empire up into alternative unions and/or smaller polities. Professor Naylor is part of this debate, and has made a compelling case that little Vermont would be better off out of the Union than in it." --Donald W. Livingston Professor of Philosophy, Emory University "I must assure you of my pleasure in, and approval of, your views on the Second Vermont Republic. The assertion by Vermonters of a sensible foreign policy is wonderfully to the good. You have my agreement and my admiration." --John Kenneth Galbraith Retired Harvard Economist "In the idea of the three American states' ultimate independence, whether separately or in union, I see nothing fanciful, and nothing towards the realization of which the efforts of enlightened people might not be usefully directed. It is, to my mind, neither fanciful nor unjustified for us to hold in mind at this time the whole problem of the future development of the relationship with the northern parts of this country and their immediate Canadian neighbors." --George F. Kennan Former Ambassador to Russia and Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton "Thomas Naylor makes a powerful case for an independent Vermont. I think folks may soon be ready to consider the kind of wise and humane radicalism he recommends." --Bill Kauffman Author of Dispatches from The Muckdog Gazette "There are very few radical thinkers. Thomas Naylor is one of the most courageous of these. Distinguished, deeply moral, genius wild man." --Carolyn Chute Author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Merry Men and Snow Man "Tom Naylor makes a serious case for an independent Vermont, a Second Vermont Republic that could immediately enter the world of nations and thereby begin the peaceful, democratic, and indeed moral process of disuniting the United States." --Frank Bryan University of Vermont Professor and Author of Real Democracy "From the standpoint of puppeteers and their subversive papiermâché, the Vermont Second Republic sounds like a very good idea to fight the megalomania of the globalizers." --Peter Schumann Founder, Bread & Puppet Theater
Download or read book Yankee Politics in Rural Vermont written by Frank M. Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Principal Officers of Vermont as Connected With Its Political History From 1778 to 1851 written by Leonard Deming and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Principal Officers of Vermont, as Connected With Its Political History, From 1778 to 1851: With Some Biographical Notices, Etc And furthermore, such a bold and fearless body of men as first settled Vermont, and safely car ried her through all her various encounters with her numerous enemies, and safelv landed heron the shores of this glorious Union with peace and plenty, dese1vc to have their names written in letters of gold and handed down to the last man of the last generation that shall inhabit the earth. 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.
Download or read book The Origins of Vermont Political Cohesion written by Joseph W. A. Whitehorne and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteen Two in Vermont written by Mason A. Green and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nineteen-Two in Vermont: The Fight for Local Option; Ten Years After Preliminary Maneuvers; The Bethel Speech; Six Weeks of Stumping; Republican State Convention; Republican Insurgents; Local Optionists in Convention; Call to the Republicans; Ethics of the Republican Call; A Strenuous August; The Legislature Elects; In Conclusion 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.
Download or read book The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America written by Lee Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel it identifies the source of modern liberal, republican and conservative ideas about natural rights and government in the seminal works of the Exclusion Whigs Locke, Sidney, and Tyrrell and their philosophical forebears Hobbes, Grotius, Spinoza, and Pufendorf. This study illuminates how these first Whigs and their diverse eighteenth-century intellectual heirs such as Bolingbroke, Montesquieu, Hume, Blackstone, Otis, Jefferson, Burke, and Paine contributed to the formation of Anglo-American political and constitutional theory in the crucial period from the Glorious Revolution through to the American Revolution and the creation of a distinctly American understanding of rights and government in the first state constitutions.
