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  The Truly Disadvantaged - The...

  William Julius Wilson

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  An assessment of the relationship between race and poverty in the United States, and potential solutions for the issue. 
   
  Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner-city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers essential information and several solutions to policymakers. The Truly Disadvantaged is a wide-ranging examination, looking at the relationship between race, employment, and education from the 1950s onwards, with surprising and provocative findings. This second edition also includes a new afterword from Wilson himself that brings the book up to date and offers fresh insight into its findings. 
   
  Praise for The Truly Disadvantaged 
   
  “The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policymakers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they—as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races—would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson’s incisive analysis.” —Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review 
   
  “The Truly Disadvantaged not only assembles a vast array of data gleamed from the works of specialists, it offers much new information and analysis. Wilson has asked the hard questions, he has done his homework, and he has dared to speak unpopular truths.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review 
   
  “Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass.” —David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World

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  Summary of Michael...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Shellenberger’s San Fransicko 
    
  In San Fransicko (2021), bestselling author Michael Shellenberger tackles the problem of increasing homelessness, especially in the city of San Francisco. He argues that the root cause isn’t the absence of accommodation, money, or social aid programs, but the principles embedded in the minds of some people who acquire them either by experience or by identity. As a result, the values that allow cities and civilizations to exist are diminishing. 
  Progressives always claim to have solutions for the issues of homelessness, crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, and inequality. However, a close examination of faltering cities shows that these social problems have become exceptionally worse under the control of progressives. In response, Shellenberger looks for a different way forward that will help both homeless people and the community around them. 

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  The Beginnings of the American...

  Carl Lotus Becker

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  Professor Becker presents the beginnings, development, and final unity of the people of the United States. He describes the discovery of the New World, analyze the rise of the plantations, illustrates the slow growth of an American culture and clarify the causes and events Revolution of 1776. These are presented as the four key events which led to the formation of the American Nation in a concise and interesting manner. 
  The Beginnings of the American People
  The Discovery of the Old World and the New
  The Partition of the New World
  The English Migration in the Seventeenth Century
  England and her Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  The American People in the Eighteenth Century
  The Winning of Independence

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  Alexander Hamilton:...

  Alexander Hamilton, Emory Speer

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  This edition presents the writings & speeches of Alexander during the Great Debate of the American Constitution. Hamilton was one of the most influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution. He was a leader in seeking to replace the weak national government, and led the Annapolis Convention in 1786, which spurred Congress to call a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. He helped achieve ratification by writing 51 of the 85 installments of The Federalist Papers, which to this day remain the single most important reference for Constitutional interpretation. 
  Contents: 
  The Continentalist 
  Writings and Speeches in Federal Convention
  Writings and Speeches in Convention of New York
  The Federalist Papers 
  Biography of Alexander Hamilton by Emory Speer

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  How this Farming Project Helps...

  PBS NewsHour

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  In the 15 years since the U.S. went into Afghanistan, $1.5 billion has been spent to develop women’s rights in the country. But even with significant improvements, there remain many hardships, including domestic violence and the lack of educational opportunity. Special correspondent Jennifer Glasse visits a farming project that aims to provide women with the power to make their own decisions.

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  Why Civil Resistance Works - The...

  Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan

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  For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results. 
  In this book, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption, and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters. 
  Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence is necessary to achieve certain political goals.

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