Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR Jun 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197577830 ISBN 13: 9780197577837
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The nail-biting story of when the hardhats of downtown Manhattan beat scores of hippies bloody in May 1970, four days after Kent State, and how the nation reacted.In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protestors bloody. As hardhats clashed with hippies, it soon became clear that something larger was happening; Democrats were at war with themselves. In The Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn tells the fateful story-how chaotic it was, when it began, when the white working class first turned against liberalism, when Richard Nixon seized the breach, and America was forever changed. It was unthinkable one generation before: FDR's 'forgotten man' siding with the party of Big Business and, ultimately, paving the way for presidencies from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.In the shadow of the half-built Twin Towers, on the same day the Knicks rallied against the odds and won their first championship, we relive the schism that tore liberalism apart. We experience the tumult of Nixon's America and John Lindsay's New York City, as festering division explodes into violence. Nixon's advisors realize that this tragic turn is their chance, that the Democratic coalition has collapsed and that 'these, quite candidly, are our people now.'In this nail-biting story, Kuhn delivers on meticulous research and reporting, drawing from thousands of pages of never-before-seen records. We go back to a harrowing day that explains the politics of today. We experience the battle between two tribes fighting different wars, soon to become different Americas, ultimately reliving a liberal war that maimed both sides. We come to see how it all was laid bare one brutal day, when the Democratic Party's future was bludgeoned by its past, as if it was a last gasp to say that we once mattered too.
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR Jun 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190707895 ISBN 13: 9780190707897
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book attempts to critically study the education policies in Pakistan in a holistic manner. The rationale for the education policy and its planning process are discussed in detail. Each theme is tracked through policies set in motion from 1947 up to policy documents presented till the first quarter of 2021.
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR Jun 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190707291 ISBN 13: 9780190707293
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book relates the personal experiences of the author and looks at East Pakistan from his perspective. The author served in East Pakistan for two years during the crucial period of 1969 to 1971. The book also includes an account of a cyclone that hit East Pakistan in 1970. He has analysed the roles of the three major players in the game viz. General Yahya Khan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Mujibur Rehman and the role of the US, which has been involved in Pakistan right from the time of independence in 1947.