Junte-se a nós em uma viagem ao mundo dos livros!
Adicionar este livro à prateleira
Grey
Deixe um novo comentário Default profile 50px
Grey
Assine para ler o livro completo ou leia as primeiras páginas de graça!
All characters reduced
Red Scare - cover
LER

Red Scare

Michael Davies

Tradutor A AI

Editora: Publifye

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Sinopse

"Red Scare" explores the intense period of anti-communism in the United States, examining how a nation founded on freedom became gripped by fear. The book delves into the rise of McCarthyism, the policies implemented to combat perceived communist threats, and their enduring impact on American life. It reveals how fear was weaponized in political arenas, leading to the suppression of individual rights in the name of national security.

 
A key insight is how the Red Scare, fueled by genuine security concerns and political opportunism, significantly infringed upon civil liberties and stifled dissent.

 
The book's structure provides a clear narrative, starting with the historical context and ideological underpinnings of communism and anti-communism. It progresses by detailing McCarthy's tactics and the impact of his accusations, analyzing legislative actions like the Smith Act, and assessing the Red Scare's lasting legacy on political discourse.

 
By drawing upon government documents, congressional records, and personal papers, "Red Scare" adopts a balanced approach to provide a comprehensive understanding of this pivotal period in American history.
Disponível desde: 21/03/2025.
Comprimento de impressão: 56 páginas.

Outros livros que poderiam interessá-lo

  • Believe-In-You Money - What Would It Look Like If the Economy Loved Black People? - cover

    Believe-In-You Money - What...

    Jessica Norwood

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    There is a huge racial wealth gap in America today. Owning a business is one of the best ways to build wealth—but entrepreneurs need capital. And investing in Black companies is obstructed by systemic racism and implicit biases that continue to create barriers to success. 
     
     
     
    Merging historical information and data, along with tactical examples and explanations, this practical guide shows us what needs to be done in order to change the way we support Black companies and how we think about wealth. 
     
     
     
    Norwood calls for investors to move away from extractive, individualistic, exploitative approaches to capital and entrepreneurship. She asks us to move toward transformational, restorative, regenerative, and interdependent relationships to repair the impacts of systemic racism. Investors, large and small, need to say to Black business owners, "we believe in you." 
     
     
     
    With an entrepreneur-centric approach, Believe-In-You Money challenges the system failure surrounding Black companies. It's a guide on how Black entrepreneurs can be supported in sustainable ways and offers a shift in the way we think about who can be an investor, while aiming to change our personal relationships with money.
    Ver livro
  • Nothing but Wickedness - The Delusions of Our Culture - cover

    Nothing but Wickedness - The...

    Theodore Dalrymple

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Nothing But Wickedness delves into society's subtle—and some not so subtle—transgressions that contribute to the decline of our culture. Theodore Dalrymple, drawing on his extensive experience as an inner-city GP and prison psychiatrist, examines the underlying factors that drive societal behaviours and self-deception. The book covers a range of thought-provoking topics, including what drives doctors to work for dictators, the benefits of idleness, understanding the mindset of Hitler, why doctors collect body parts, the true meaning of illness, and how war can paradoxically advance medicine. This wide-ranging exploration is a compelling read for the intelligent reader and the Theodore Dalrymple fan. Dalrymple's insights offer a unique perspective on the complexities of human behaviour and cultural decline. Whether you are intrigued by the benefits of idleness, fascinated by the darker side of human nature, or interested in historical and psychological analyses, Nothing But Wickedness promises to be an enlightening and engaging read ranging across many genres.
    Ver livro
  • Beyond Good and Evil - A New Translation - cover

    Beyond Good and Evil - A New...

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." 
     
    Published in 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil shattered the foundations of Western moral philosophy. In this audacious work, Nietzsche declares war on two thousand years of philosophical tradition, exposing how concepts of "good" and "evil" have been used to suppress human vitality, creativity, and the will to power. 
     
    Through brilliantly crafted aphorisms and essays, Nietzsche dismantles the comfortable certainties of traditional morality. He reveals how Christianity and Enlightenment philosophy have created a "slave morality" that celebrates weakness, conformity, and mediocrity while condemning strength, independence, and excellence. Against this, he envisions a new breed of philosopher—the "free spirit" who dares to create values rather than inherit them, who embraces life's complexity rather than reducing it to simplistic moral categories. 
     
    Nietzsche challenges everything: the pursuit of objective truth, the foundations of democracy, the nature of free will, the separation of body and mind, and the very possibility of selfless action. With devastating wit and psychological penetration, he exposes the hidden motives behind our most cherished beliefs, revealing how power dynamics shape what we call "truth" and "morality." 
     
    Provocative, dangerous, and exhilarating—a philosophical masterwork that remains as radical today as when it scandalized Victorian Europe. Essential reading for anyone willing to question everything they thought they knew about right and wrong.
    Ver livro
  • Finding Mac - A journey of adoption love and loss - cover

    Finding Mac - A journey of...

    Rev. Richard Sutcliffe

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    This is a warm and life-affirming account, honest but never whimsical. Despite some of the difficult subjects, this memoir is overwhelmingly positive and a tribute to love. 
    Modern families come together in all sorts of ways – one parent, two parents; same sex, opposite sex; planned, unplanned; biological, adopted. There are examples of different sorts of families all around us. 
    Finding Mac tells the story of how one family came together, as Richard and his wife Swee welcome eight-year-old Mac into their lives. It recounts the highs and lows as they get to know and love each other becoming a successful family unit. Along the way it shares their experience of adoption, and particularly the experience of adopting an older child. From joining a local school, figuring out your family’s new traditions, going on holiday for the first time, and navigating the bureaucracy of the social care system. 
    But all that changed when Mac was killed on his motorbike, just a few months after his sixteenth birthday. Finding Mac deals honestly with the feelings of a parent who faces the death of his child, and coping with the aftermath.
    Ver livro
  • It Should Be Easy to Fix - cover

    It Should Be Easy to Fix

    Bonnie Robichaud

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In 1977, Bonnie Robichaud accepted a job at the Department of Defence military base in North Bay, Ontario. After a string of dead-end jobs, with five young children at home, Robichaud was ecstatic to have found a unionized job with steady pay, benefits, and vacation time.
    		 
    After her supervisor began to sexually harass and intimidate her, her story could have followed the same course as countless women before her: endure, stay silent, and eventually quit. Instead, Robichaud filed a complaint after her probation period was up. When a high-ranking officer said she was the only one who had ever complained, Robichaud said, “Good. Then it should be easy to fix.”
    		 
    This timely and revelatory memoir follows her gruelling eleven-year fight for justice, which was won in the Supreme Court of Canada. The unanimous decision set a historic legal precedent that employers are responsible for maintaining a respectful and harassment-free workplace. Robichaud’s story is a landmark piece of Canadian labour history—one that is more relevant today than ever.
    Ver livro
  • Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War - cover

    Hell With the Fire Out: A...

    Arthur Quinn

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Written by Arthur Quinn 
    Read by Ed Quinn (with an introduction written and read by Julia Whelan) 
    The final book from esteemed Berkeley historian Arthur Quinn, Hell With the Fire Out is both a complex chronicle of a forgotten chapter in American Indian history and a vivid detailing of human foible, folly, and failure. With a novelistic flair, Quinn outlines the sad inevitability of America's westward expansion in its post-Civil War era. Wrangling all the inherent contradictions — Quaker Peace Policy vs Grant and Sherman's War Department; inter- and inner-tribal conflicts; the opposing attitudes of the region's White settlers — Quinn gives us a battle story not merely between nations and governments, but within the hearts of the very individuals at its center. 
    This is the first time an audio version of this book has been available and it is read by none other than the author's son, actor Ed Quinn (Two Broke Girls, One Day at a Time, Tyler Perry's The Oval).
    Ver livro