4 Politics, Sociology eBooks

Bye Bye, Miss American Empire: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Polit
American History & Donald Trump
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Luciano Canfora, L'uso politico dei paradigmi storici

Bye Bye, Miss American Empire: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Polit
ISBN: 1933392800 | 2010 | EPUB | 336 Pages | 876 KB
It's been almost a century and a half since a critical mass of Americans believed that secession was an American birthright. But breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the nation. From Vermont to Alaska, activists driven by all manner of motives want to form new states-and even new nations. So, just what's happening out there? The American Empire is dying, says Bill Kauffman in this incisive, eye-opening investigation into modern-day secession-the next radical idea poised to enter mainstream discourse. And those rising up to topple that empire are a surprising mix of conservatives, liberals, regionalists, and independents who-from movement to movement-may share few political beliefs but who have one thing in common: a sense that our nation has grown too large, and too powerfully centralized, to stay true to its founding principles.
Bye Bye, Miss American Empire traces the historical roots of the secessionist spirit, and introduces us to the often radical, sometimes quixotic, and highly charged movements that want to decentralize and re-localize power. During the George W. Bush administration, frustrated liberals talked secession back to within hailing distance of the margins of national debate, a place it had not occupied since 1861. Now, secessionist voices on the left and right and everywhere in between are amplifying. Writes Kauffman, "The noise is the sweet hum of revolution, of subjects learning how to be citizens, of people shaking off . . . their Wall Street and Pentagon overlords and taking charge of their lives once more."
Engaging, illuminating, even sometimes troubling, Bye Bye, Miss American Empire is a must-read for those taking the pulse of the nation.

American History & Donald Trump
English | 2016 | ASIN: B01B312ZZC | 188 Pages | ePUB, MOBI | 1.3 MB
Donald Trump is not the first political candidate of his kind. While nobody has ever his level of celebrity or combover, Trump is part of a populist strain in American politics that is centuries old. In fact many historians and political aficionados think candidates like him are as old as the United States itself.
In this book you will learn about other Donald Trumps in American history, such as Andrew Jackson, who fought over 100 duels and was as hated by elite society as he was loved by common folk; William Jennings Bryan, the fiery populist who threatened to overturn America's financial system; and Huey Long, the eccentric governor who promised socialism and gave his best speeches drunk.
This book explains the reasons for Trump's campaign success and finds other politicians in American history who fit that mold. By looking at their political fates, we will be able to better guess the future of the Donald Trump campaign.

Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War
ISBN: 0316305170 | 2015 | EPUB | 256 Pages | 745 KB
Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages. On August 19, 2014, the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled "Message to America," the clip depicted the final moments of American journalist James Foley's life-Cand the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley's murder-Cand the choreographed killings that would follow-Ccaptured the world's attention, and the Islamic State's kidnapping campaign exploded into war. Hunting Season is a riveting account of how the world's newest and most powerful terror franchise came to target Western hostages, who was behind it, and why almost no one knew about it until it was too late.

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1476716560 | 352 Pages | EPUB | 1,5 MB
A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America, this "singularly triumphant work" (Los Angeles Times) by Rebecca Traister "the most brilliant voice on feminism in the country" (Anne Lamott) is "sure to be vigorously discussed" (Booklist, starred review).
In 2009, the award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies-a book she thought would be a work of contemporary journalism-about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890-1980), had risen dramatically to twenty-seven. But over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change-temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a "dramatic reversal." All the Single Ladies is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman. Covering class, race, sexual orientation, and filled with vivid anecdotes from fascinating contemporary and historical figures, All the Single Ladies is destined to be a classic work of social history and journalism. Exhaustively researched, brilliantly balanced, and told with Traister's signature wit and insight, this book should be shelved alongside Gail Collins's When Everything Changed.

Luciano Canfora, L'uso politico dei paradigmi storici
Publisher: Laterza | 2014 | ISBN: 8842092088 | Italian | EPUB | 140 Pages | 0.2 MB