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Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of the figures who have shaped our country have receded from public memory. In order to celebrate and call attention to these lives, Oxford University Press asked fifty accomplished personalities from a diverse range of interests to each select a person from the 24-volume American National Biography that they felt deserved more attention. In Invisible Giants, the biographies of these forgotten figures appear alongside the often-personal comments of their selectors. We discover the man who inspired Sherwin Nuland to become a doctor, the writer Jacques Barzun considers America's first cultural critic, and the woman who taught Tina Brown to bare her teeth. We learn of the poetry recited to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a boy, the magazine Helen Gurley Brown required every one of her editors to subscribe to, and the book Andy Rooney deems "better than the Bible and easier to understand." Edited by Mark C. Carnes and published with the American Council of Learned Societies, Invisible Giants presents the architects of our country's past through the eyes of the architects of its future.
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Comment expliquer les paradoxes – vus d'Europe, du moins – d'un pays où coexistent une civilité cordiale et l'application de la peine de mort, l'excellence scientifique et la pratique religieuse instituée (In God We Trust), un pays où l'usage de la cigarette est plus souvent interdit que la détention d'armes à feu et où des inégalités croissantes contredisent une égalité pourtant revendiquée comme un trait distinctif ? Comment comprendre, encore, que cet État relativement faible au sein de ses propres frontières se soit néanmoins imposé comme la seule superpuissance au niveau mondial ?Mobilisant et prolongeant la théorie des processus de civilisation de Norbert Elias, Stephen Mennell retrace les dynamiques constitutives du développement des États-Unis depuis la colonisation de l'Amérique, et décrypte leurs mythes fondateurs, de la " destinée manifeste " au " rêve américain ".Un grand livre d'histoire et de sociologie.
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Faire l’histoire des États-Unis : le projet permet de lever un premier préjugé, celui d’un pays si "jeune" qu’il n’aurait pas d’histoire. Du jour de l’indépendance à la guerre de Sécession, de la conquête de l’Ouest à celle de la Lune, de la crise de 1929 aux attentats du 11 septembre 2001, cet ouvrage raconte le roman vrai de l’Amérique. Au-delà d’un simple récit chronologique, François Durpaire montre combien les États-Unis résistent à toute compréhension simpliste. Il nous invite à lire l’histoire de ce pays comme celle d’un dialogue ininterrompu entre l’unité et la diversité, qui sont les deux valeurs inscrites dans la devise originelle des États-Unis d’Amérique : e pluribus unum – "de plusieurs, un".
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This 2023 Article IV Consultation highlights that the US economy has proven resilient in the face of the significant policy tightening that took place in 2022. Consumer demand has held up particularly well, boosted initially by a drawdown of pent-up savings and, more recently, by solid growth in real disposable incomes. The strength of demand and in labor market outcomes has contributed to a persistent inflation problem. While goods inflation has moderated and shelter price growth is expected to slow in coming months, nominal wage increases are feeding into non-shelter services prices. Fiscal policy is expected to be procyclical in 2023 on a general government basis, following a significant fiscal contraction in 2022 due to the unwinding of major pandemic related fiscal measures and higher tax receipts. The Federal Reserve provided systemic liquidity support, including a new facility to reduce the need for banks to liquidate assets in times of stress. These actions have stabilized deposit outflows and restored confidence to the banking system.
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To so many Americans, Congress seems obsolete or useless. Why do we even bother with it? Why Congress offers a defense of Congress as the indispensable branch of government, alongside a compelling account of how the institution has become so dysfunctional. At its best in the mid-20th century, Congress solved immense challenges like civil rights, but Wallach's history shows how the subsequent rise of powerful leadership and the decline of committees have left Congress divided and decrepit. As society feels divided and politics feels gridlocked, Why Congress argues that only a revival of legislative deliberation can resolve our most pressing challenges.
United States. --- United States --- Politics and government.
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C’est avec ce court essai que Chomsky fait irruption, en 1967, sur la scène politique américaine comme principal critique de l’impérialisme américain. Décrit comme « la pièce la plus influente de la littérature anti-guerre », ce texte pose les jalons de ce qui sera le combat de tout une vie et de toute une génération. Fondateur dans la pensée de l’auteur et cardinal pour toute analyse du statut d’intellectuel, cet essai reste dérangeante actualité : celles et ceux qui se mettent au service du pouvoir (États et multinationales) choque d’autant plus qu’ils jouissent de plusieurs privilèges notoires, ceux d’avoir eu « le loisir, les infrastructures et la formation nécessaires pour rechercher la vérité qui se cache derrière le voile de distorsion et d’altération, d’idéologie et d’intérêt de classe à travers lequel les événements de l’histoire en cours sont présentés » Parce que ces privilèges donne aux intellectuels des possibilités inaccessibles au commun, celles-ci leur imposent des responsabilités impérieuse et une mission : éclairer ses lecteurs, et d’abord ses contemporains. L’article fondateur (inédit en français) est complété dans notre édition par les commentaires et actualisations que l’auteur a donnés à l’occasion de son cinquantenaire.
Intellectuals --- Political ethics --- United States --- United States
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Geopolitics --- United States --- China --- United States --- China
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"Ideal for introductory courses, Current Debates in American Government, Third Edition presents dozens of lively readings drawn from major news sources including: The Economist, The Washington Post, NPR News, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. The authors selected these readings to introduce students to key debates in American politics and to help them better understand how these issues and debates affect their own lives. The new edition will feature articles from the same spread of academic journals and news publications, plus more "classic" readings from political scientists"--
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This all-encompassing volume addresses every critical aspect of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) regulations and demonstrates effective strategies for implementation in a variety of laboratory settings.
Drug factories. --- United States. --- United States --- History.
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Chronicling the polarized partisan environment during the President Donald Trump's term, Congress and the Nation 2017-2020, Vol. XV will be the most authoritative reference on congressional lawmaking and trends during the 115th and 116th Congresses. Congress and the Nation is a unique reference product, rivaled only by the annual editions of the CQ Almanac in its coverage of the legislative and policymaking activities of the U.S. national legislature. After its original publication in the mid-1960s in a one-volume work covering 20 years (1945-1965) of lawmaking, the succeeding editions (vols. II - XIII) have been focused on 4 years of lawmaking activity under succeeding presidential administrations. Each new quadrennial edition is organized into 14 policy-centered chapters (economy, homeland security [since vol. XI], foreign policy, defense policy, energy and environment, health, etc.) and two chapters that cover matters internal to Congress and the presidential administration. The policy chapters cover the major legislative activities in the two numbered congresses convened during the four year period. The result is a narrative and analytical account of the lawmaking by the U.S. Congress that provides students, scholars and journalists with a digestible and accurate retrospective accounts difficult to find or reconstruct from news media, as well as longer term historical perspective of congressional lawmaking. This is a landmark series for CQ Press that has proven its value among librarians for decades.
United States --- United States --- History --- Civilization
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