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Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
CLEAVER, LEROY ELDRIDGE Eldridge Cleaver rose to prominence in the late 1960s as a leading African American intellectual and political revolutionary. As minister of information for the black panther party during tumultuous years of social upheaval, Cleaver became a symbol of rebellion, freedom, and... Read more |
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Political Stability
Political Stability Sources Virginia.Debate among colonial historians has often centered around the question of political stability in the British American colonies. This question has been especially pertinent to Virginia’s history. Historians disagree, for... Read more |
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Denis William Brogan
Denis William Brogan , 1900-1974, British historian and political scientist, b. Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at the Univ. of Glasgow, Oxford, and Harvard and was professor of political science at Cambridge from 1939 to 1968. Brogan was best known as an interpreter of American history and... Read more |
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Nguyen Van Linh
Nguyen Van Linh , 1915-98, Vietnamese political leader, b. near Hanoi as Nguyen Van Cuc. As a young man he was active in organizing Vietnam's Communist party and was twice jailed (1931-36; 1941-45) for his political activities. In the years following Vietnam's independence (1945), Linh rose in the... Read more |
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The Souls of Black Folk
SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, THE. Published originally in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is W. E. B. Du Bois's classic collection of thirteen essays and one short story. Assembled from pieces the young Du Bois wrote between 1897 and 1903 (age twenty-nine to thirty-five), the book... Read more |
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Christian Coalition
Christian Coalition organization founded to advance the agenda of political and social conservatives, mostly comprised of evangelical Protestant Republicans, and to preserve what it deems traditional American values. It was established (1989) by Pat Robertson after he failed to win the 1988... Read more |
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Political correctness
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. Originally used by old-guard communists to mean toeing the party line, the term "politically correct" was resurrected in the 1970s and early 1980s by rightist writers and activists, who used it in an ironic sense to mock the Left's tendency toward... Read more |
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William Scott Vare
William Scott Vare 1867-1934, American political leader, b. Philadelphia. He engaged in machine politics and became (1898) a member of the select council of Philadelphia. He was recorder of deeds (1902-12) and—with his brothers Edward and George—came to control the Republican machine in... Read more |
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Exceptionalism (Political philosophy)
Triumphalism BIBLIOGRAPHY Triumphalism consists of the warrantless assertions that the decline or defeat of an adversary is caused by an antagonist and that the antagonist’s success is a sign of superior virtue. In the post–World War II period, for instance, the political and... Read more |
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
...structure of American government by...Roosevelt relished politics; he was a superb...the navy and lost as the Democratic...African‐Americans that survived almost...undertaken in American history. As he lost support ... |
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Austin, Mary (Hunter)
...marital problems. Lost Borders (1909) is...1914); Love and the Soul Maker (1914), a...1918), a handbook of politics for newly enfranchised women voters; The American Rhythm (1923), studies of American Indian songs, and... |
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nationalism
...national purity, and the soul of a nation. This form of organic...and with popular forms of politics, and thus serves to provide...therefore be acquired and lost. The concept of civic...find in the civic pride of Americans), and the nationalism that...of ... |
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The lost soul of American politics: virtue, self-interest, and the...
In a search for the American soul, D.H. Lawrence once...idealistic clothes off American utterance and see what...of selected aspects of American intellectual history...underpinnings of cold-war politics. George Kennan proclaimed... |
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Love Story Mixes Intrigue, Politics and Lost Souls
...06-04-2003 In "Bay of Souls" (Houghton Mifflin, $25...Michael Ahearn, a professor of American literature at a small college...an expert in Third World politics, is sharp and seductive...possessed, that she has losther soul.Michael follows Lara to ... |
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HAITI-POLITICS: IN SEARCH OF THE ELUSIVE SOUL OF POLITICS
...find a twin political soul on the Caribbean nation...Party (PSOE),which lost the recent general elections...vote." Many lives were lost during protests against...tointervene in Haitian politics, but rather to support...the world and by Latin ... |
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"The Wheel's Worst Illusion": The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul.
...Operation Wandering Soul's main character...anti-elitist politics. Yet beyond the...dares to confront "politics, the Wheel's worst...Operation Wandering Soul"--against the...unsuccessful--to save lost or threatened children...but which every ... |
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"The wheel's worst illusion": The spatial politics of operation wandering soul
...Operation Wandering Soul's main character...anti-elitist politics. Yet beyond the...dares to confront "politics, the Wheel's worst...Operation Wandering Soul"-against the North...unsuccessful-to save lost or threatened children...but which ... |
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James Brown; The Politics of Soul; With James Brown, April 5, 1968
...be. So it is with The Politics of Soul: With James Brown...particularly in the African-American section of Roxbury...who they are. Hardly lost in all the heart-break...only one Godfather of Soul. Photograph (James... |
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"The party has lost its soul"
...workers," she tells me. "The party has lost its soul, and what has replaced it is harsh, American style politics." Like many on the left, she hoped...ambitious Blairite [Stephen Twigg] who had lost his seat in the last election." Mahon... |
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Sound of the soul: Bolivia may lead a Latin American rebellion against the...
...foreign exploitation that is buried deep in the Bolivian soul. Developments in national politics over the past year have played an important role in...was elected with just 22 per cent of the vote) he lost. In a desperate effort to save a |
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FUNKY JUNCTION;On `Soul Train' Black Music Met Black Power
...can be found in African American music. By this maxim...20th Anniversary of Soul Train" package tell...how closely economics, politics and the entertainment...upswing of black power politics, soul music and insurgent...black ... |
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POWELL, IN SPEECH TO EDUCATORS, INSISTS AGAIN HE'S NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS...
...a great deal of soul searching we concluded that for 1996, politics isn't the right...convinced myself that politics was the right calling...same passion to politics that I brought to...43 percent of the American people are very...understood ... |
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