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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 --- Disaster relief --- Emergency management --- Ouragan Katrina, 2005 --- Secours aux victimes --- Gestion des situations d'urgence --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- History --- Aspect social --- Politique gouvernementale --- Histoire --- United States. --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ouragan Katrina (2005) --- Politique sociale --- Aspect social.

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Richard Nixon, 37e président des États-Unis, continue de susciter des sentiments passionnés. Homme d'État visionnaire pour certains, individu sans charisme et malhonnête pour d'autres, il a donné naissance à des interprétations différentes et antagonistes de la part des historiens. Romain Huret détaille le parcours de ce fils de petits commerçants californiens, et permet au lecteur de découvrir un homme à part, à la trajectoire non pas météorique comme celle d'un Kennedy mais laborieuse et obstinée, exemplaire par sa capacité à s'insérer dans le fonctionnement de la démocratie américaine… pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Cette biographie analytique révèle les mutations politiques, sociales et culturelles des États-Unis. Au fil des pages, la carrière nixonienne met au jour les transformations de la sociologie de l'électorat, la permanence des pratiques secrètes au cœur même de l'État et la violence des représentations au sein du débat politique. Richard Nixon n'est en rien « un cas » au sens où l'entendent les psychiatres et les psychohistoriens ; bien au contraire, il nous permet de « penser par cas » l'Amérique du XXe siècle.

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"The American taxpayer"--angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts--has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled efforts to secure social justice through income redistribution for the past 150 years. From the Tea Party to the Koch brothers, the major players in today's anti-tax crusade emerge in Romain Huret's account as the heirs of a formidable--and far from ephemeral--political movement. Diverse coalitions of Americans have rallied around the flag of tax opposition since the Civil War, their grievances fueled by a determination to defend private life against government intrusion and a steadfast belief in the economic benefits and just rewards of untaxed income. Local tax resisters were actively mobilized by business and corporate interests throughout the early twentieth century, undeterred by such setbacks as the Sixteenth Amendment establishing a federal income tax. Zealously petitioning Congress and chipping at the edges of progressive tax policies, they bequeathed hard-won experience to younger generations of conservatives in their pursuit of laissez-faire capitalism. Capturing the decisive moments in U.S. history when tax resisters convinced a majority of Americans to join their crusade, Romain Huret explains how a once marginal ideology became mainstream, elevating economic success and individual entrepreneurialism over social sacrifice and solidarity.

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In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell's translation of Huret's work brings to light for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government, academic institutions, and think tanks. Their efforts to create a policy bureaucracy to support federal socio-economic action spanned from the last days of the New Deal to the late 1960s when President Richard M. Nixon implemented the Family Assistance Plan. Often toiling in obscurity, this cadre of experts waged their own war not only on poverty but on the American political establishment. Their policy recommendations, as Huret clearly shows, often militated against the unscientific prejudices and electoral calculations that ruled Washington D.C. politics.The Experts' War on Poverty highlights the metrics, research, and economic and social facts these social scientists employed in their work, and thereby reveals the unstable institutional foundation of successive executive efforts to grapple with gross social and economic disparities in the United States. Huret argues that this internal war, coming at a time of great disruption due to the Cold War, undermined and fractured the institutional system officially directed at ending poverty. The official War on Poverty, which arguably reached its peak under President Lyndon B. Johnson, was thus fomented and maintained by a group of experts determined to fight poverty in radical ways that outstripped both the operational capacity of the federal government and the political will of a succession of presidents.

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