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This book is a forensic deep-dive into the dark arterial network of the anti-immigrant far-right. The author presents a map-like, chronological expose of the white nationalist origination of restrictionist policy and its comfortable convergence with capitalist political economy. He painstakingly details the methods by which these toxic ideas have enabled opportunists, demagogues, and fascist foot-soldiers to gain entry and influence within the political mainstream. Not to despair, the author also introduces us to the people, organizations, and efforts taking shape to defeat the resurgent far-right.
WHITE NATIONALISM--USA --- CONSERVATISM--USA --- RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS--USA --- USA--EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
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This book which will come as a surprise to many educated observers and historians suggests that Jews and Jewish intellectuals have played a considerable role in the development and shaping of modern American conservatism. The focus is on the rise of a group of Jewish intellectuals and activists known as neoconservatives who began to impact on American public policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union and most recently in the lead up to and invasion of Iraq. It presents a portrait of the life and work of the original and small group of neocons including Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and Sidney Hook. This group has grown into a new generation who operate as columnists in conservative think tanks like The Heritage and The American Enterprise Institute, at colleges and universities, and in government in the second Bush Administration including such lightning rod figures as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Elliot Abrams. The book suggests the neo cons have been so significant in reshaping modern American conservatism and public policy that they constitute a Neoconservative Revolution.
CONSERVATISM--USA --- JEWS--USA--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT --- Jews --- Conservatism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Politics and government. --- History --- Intellectual life --- United States --- Politics and government --- Arts and Humanities
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"It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority," wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding Fathers. And yet, for all that has been written on the topic, we still lack a solid empirical or theoretical justification for Hamilton's proposition. For the first time, William G. Howell, Saul P. Jackman, and Jon C. Rogowski systematically analyze the question. Congress, they show, is more likely to defer to the president's policy preferences when political debates center on national rather than local considerations. Thus, World War II and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq significantly augmented presidential power, allowing the president to enact foreign and domestic policies that would have been unattainable in times of peace. But, contrary to popular belief, there are also times when war has little effect on a president's influence in Congress. The Vietnam and Gulf Wars, for instance, did not nationalize our politics nearly so much, and presidential influence expanded only moderately. Built on groundbreaking research, The Wartime President offers one of the most significant works ever written on the wartime powers presidents wield at home.
Executive power -- United States. --- Politics and war. --- War and emergency powers -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- War and emergency powers. --- War and emergency powers --- Executive power --- Politics and war --- History --- general constitutional law, institutions history, legislative authority, united states congress, us president, american political thought, leadership, the founding fathers, policy preferences, debates, government, emergency powers, warfare, wartime, military power, world war ii, post-9/11, afghanistan, iraq, times of peace, 20th century, spending, stateside attacks, great society, vietnam, conservatism, usa patriot act, pearl harbor.
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