Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1114 |
Release | 1933 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
A Failure of Initiative
Title | A Failure of Initiative PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina |
Publisher | |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Disaster relief |
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New Orleans City Guide
Title | New Orleans City Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Works Progress Administration |
Publisher | Garrett County Press |
Pages | 519 |
Release | 2011-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 189105340X |
In 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration produced this delightfully detailed portrait of New Orleans. Containing recipes, photographs and folklore, it is consistently hailed as one of the best books produced about the city. Remarkably, many of the sites and attractions the WPA chronicled in 1938 are still around today.
Gumbo ya-ya
Title | Gumbo ya-ya PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Saxon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 581 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | |
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The Life and Death of the Solid South
Title | The Life and Death of the Solid South PDF eBook |
Author | Dewey W. Grantham |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0813148723 |
Southern-style politics was one of those peculiar institutions that differentiated the South from other American regions. This system—long referred to as the Solid South—embodied a distinctive regional culture and was perpetuated through an undemocratic distribution of power and a structure based on disfranchisement, malapportioned legislatures, and one-party politics. It was the mechanism that determined who would govern in the states and localities, and in national politics it was the means through which the South's politicians defended their region's special interests and political autonomy. The history of this remarkable institution can be traced in the gradual rise, long persistence, and ultimate decline of the Democratic Party dominance in the land below the Potomac and the Ohio. This is the story that Dewey W. Grantham tells in his fresh and authoritative account of the South's modern political experience. The distillation of many years of research and reflection, is both a synthesis of the extensive literature on politics in the recent South and a challenging reinterpretation of the region's political history.
Our Enemies in Blue
Title | Our Enemies in Blue PDF eBook |
Author | Kristian Williams |
Publisher | AK Press |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 2015-08-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1849352151 |
Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.
To Promote the Welfare of American Seamen
Title | To Promote the Welfare of American Seamen PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Merchant mariners |
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