Resultados da pesquisa - "White House"

Catholics and politics the dynamic tension between faith and power /

Sumário: “...Streb and Brian Frederick -- Latino Catholics in U.S. politics / Adrian Pantoja, Matthew Barreto, and Richard Anderson -- Catholics and the federal government -- Catholics in congress : abortion and the emergence of the culture wars / William D'Antonio, Steven Tuch, and John Kenneth White -- Catholics and the Supreme Court : from the Catholic seat to the new majority / Barbara A. Perry -- White House outreach to Catholics / Thomas J. Carty -- International policy and the Vatican -- The United States Vatican relationship : parallel endeavors for peace, competing visions of justice / Paul Christopher Manuel -- Reforming the Vatican : the tradition of best practices / Thomas J. ...”
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Finding allies, building alliances 8 elements that bring-- and keep-- people together / Por Leavitt, Michael O. (Michael Okerlund), 1951-

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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute the memoirs of George A. Cowan / Por Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012

Sumário: “...Joint Working Group for Radiochemistry -- International symposium, heavy ion physics, Dubna, Russia -- Photo gallery II -- A trip to the North Pole -- Down the Aleutian Islands to Amchitka -- The Oklo natural reactor -- Disposal of high-level radioactive wastes -- The solar neutrino program -- Atmospheric dynamics around Antarctica -- The White House Science Council -- Simplicity and complexity -- Photo gallery III -- The Santa Fe Institute : its intellectual origins -- SFI becomes operational -- Behavioral science -- My interest in early mental development -- What have I learned? ...”
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Fashionable queens : body, power, gender /

Sumário: “...Introduction -- Queen Victoria and political self-fashioning : clothing careers / Birgit Neumann-- From princess bride to fashion queen : wedding gowns as a strategy and spatial and physical staging act / Lioba Keller-Drescher -- Jacqueline Kennedy : White House queen and enduring style icon / Stella Bruzzi -- Fashionable gender trouble in politics / -- The queen stripped bare : Louise of Prussia, nudity, fashion, andpolitical iconography -- Productive illegibility : gender, monarchy and self-creation in the histories, images and fictions of Queen Christina Vasa of Sweden -- Sisi & sisters : on stars & style Barbara Vinken fashion victim Marie Antoinette (1755 Vienna, 1793 Paris) / Michaela Lindinger -- Let them go shopping : Marie Antoinette moves from page to screen -- A column with a slit : the diva and her dress / Annette Geiger -- Irene Castle : Ragtime dance and fashion icon / Patricia A. ...”
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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith / Por Hammer, Peter J.

Sumário: “...Keith -- College life: West Virginia State College -- "The finest man I've ever known" -- 1943: war in the streets/war overseas -- Howard University School of Law: the West Point of civil rights -- Leaping the bar -- Rachel -- Taking a chance: life as a young lawyer -- A room on the second floor: rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- "Get out on your own": how Damon Keith became his own start-up -- A leader emerges: from Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- Detroit 1967: the fire this time -- Approaching the bench: the long and winding politics of becoming a judge -- Into the maelstrom: busing in Pontiac -- Housing in Hamtramck and discrimination at Detroit Edison -- Taking on the Nixon White House: the Keith case -- Affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department -- "Tell him Thurgood's on the line" -- "Here, boy, park this car" -- Strange bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- Swimming upstream: ideological and political shifts in the courts -- "Democracies die behind closed doors" -- The Keith law clerk family -- Friends along the way: from Rosa to Russia -- "I don't work on your plantation!"...”
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Meet me with your black drawers on my life in music / Por Cheatham, Jeannie

Sumário: “...-- Effluvia and euphoria -- From slavery to the White House -- Tears of sorrow -- Blues like Jay McShann -- Abc : around the world, beyond betrayal, celebrations -- Livin' in the nineties -- Making history in a small hotel -- Back to Bina Avenue....”
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Independent Man : The Life of Senator James Couzens / Por Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982

Sumário: “...The Bank Crisis -- 34. The White House Conference -- 35. The Climax -- 36. A Hell of a Mess -- 37. ...”
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The view from the helm leading the American university during an era of change / Por Duderstadt, James J., 1942-

Sumário: “...The path to the presidency -- The leaders and best -- Institutional saga -- The Michigan saga -- A heritage of leadership -- Michigan's character as a trailblazer -- The role of institutional saga in presidential leadership -- The "what," "how," and "who" of the university presidency -- The path to the presidency -- Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor; rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief . . . and university president -- The academic leadership ladder -- The path to the Michigan White House -- On to Michigan -- Trapped in the gravitational pull of academic administration -- On the brink -- The presidential search -- The search process -- The presidential search : a victim's perspective -- A postmortem -- Some advice for presidential search committees and university governing boards -- Some advice for candidates for university presidencies -- So what are we supposed to do now? ...”
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The indomitable Don Plusquellic : how a controversial mayor quarterbacked Akron's comeback / Por Love, Steve, 1946-

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