Prelude To Catastrophe

Author : Robert Shogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566638313
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Catastrophe written by Robert Shogan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the relationship Franklin D. Roosevelt had with a variety of influential Jews and examines their actions and inactions regarding the Jewish Holocaust in Euorpe during World War II.

Author : Charles Godfrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weimar written by Charles Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Shogan
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1566639093
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Catastrophe written by Robert Shogan and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. FDR's promise of economic and social justice was consonant with the mainstays of Jewish culture and with the ethos of the Old Testament and the prophets. And of course these themes were especially resonant during the desperate days of the Great Depression. The Jews who so deeply admired Roosevelt made up the richest, most influential Jewish community in the world, leaders in government, commerce, and the arts. Yet by the time Franklin Roosevelt died in office, six million European Jews had been murdered by the Nazis while neither FDR nor American Jews lifted much more than a finger to help them. How did the president, the nation he led, and American Jewry allow this to happen? There is no simple answer, but Robert Shogan seeks a partial explanation by examining the behavior of a handful of Jews, so close to Roosevelt and supposedly so influential that they could be considered "the president's Jews." Most prestigious was Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis. Next was Felix Frankfurter, Harvard law professor and later Supreme Court justice. Sam Rosenman, FDR's chief speechwriter from the time he was governor of New York. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau was an old Dutchess County neighbor of Roosevelt's. Benjamin V. Cohen crafted the major financial reforms of the early New Deal. Their actions, and often inaction, illuminate the strengths and limits of interest-group politics, the system invented by FDR that dominated American politics for the remainder of the century. Taken broadly, the response of the president's Jews to the Nazi threat illustrates with heartbreaking intensity the dilemma of politics—the conflict between conscience and self-interest, between principle and expediency. With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Author : Edward L. Spears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258813574
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prelude to Dunkirk, July, 1939 to May, 1940 written by Edward L. Spears and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Oliphant
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312385668
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utter Incompetents written by Thomas Oliphant and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author, syndicated political columnist, and PBS commentator Oliphant explains how some of the smartest, most experienced, and politically savvy people in Washington ran the Bush administration into the ground.

Author : Edward Spears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assignment to Catastrophe written by Edward Spears and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Brink
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465317627
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invading Paradise written by Andrew Brink and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invading Paradise: Esopus Settlers at War with Natives, 1659, 1663 reopens and redirects debate about causes of the two Esopus Wars in what are now Kingston and Hurley, New York. Historical studies are found inadequate to explain the conflict and its genocidal outcome. If causality is ever to be reliably decided, the principal actors in this colonial drama need study. Records of aboriginals are understandably scant, while those of settlers are full enough to give impressions of their motivations and attitudes to the frontier. This study is the first to introduce as individuals the main European immigrants involved in the wars. Were they prepared for what confronted them upon acquiring native agricultural lands? Readers are invited to consider exactly what happened to bring on violence.

Author : Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628951656
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Neighbor written by Mary E. Stuckey and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR’s administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government; within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president; and internationally, it moved from Europe to the United States. All of these changes required significant effort on the part of the president, who triumphed over fierce opposition and succeeded in remaking the American political system in ways that continue to shape our politics today. Using the metaphor of the good neighbor, Mary E. Stuckey examines the persuasive work that took place to authorize these changes. Through the metaphor, FDR’s administration can be better understood: his emphasis on communal values; the importance of national mobilization in domestic as well as foreign affairs in defense of those values; his use of what he considered a particularly democratic approach to public communication; his treatment of friends and his delineation of enemies; and finally, the ways in which he used this rhetoric to broaden his neighborhood from the limits of the United States to encompass the entire world, laying the groundwork for American ideological dominance in the post–World War II era.

Author : Patricia Grossi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387231293
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe Modeling written by Patricia Grossi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the research that has been conducted at Wharton Risk Management Center over the past five years on catastrophic risk. Covers a hot topic in the light of recent terroristic activities and nature catastrophes. Develops risk management strategies for reducing and spreading the losses from future disasters. Provides glossary of definitions and terms used throughout the book.

Author : Allison Gilbert
Publisher : Bonus Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781566251808
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Covering Catastrophe written by Allison Gilbert and published by Bonus Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells what it was like for TV and radio journalists to report the terrifying story of their lives.