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The Politics of Trust
Florida governor Reubin Askew memorably characterized a
leader as “someone who cares enough to tell the people not
merely what they want to hear, but what they need to know.”
It was a surprising statement for a contemporary politician to
make, and, more surprising still, it worked. In
The Politics of Trust: Reubin Askew and Florida in the
1970s , Gordon E. Harvey traces the life and career of the
man whose public service many still recall as “the Golden
Age” of Florida politics. Askew rose to power on a wave of
“New South” leadership that hoped to advance the
Democratic Party beyond the intransigent torpor of southern
politics since the Civil War. He hoped to replace appeals to
white supremacy with a vision of a more diverse and inclusive
party. Following his election in Florida, other New South leaders
such as Georgia’s Jimmy Carter, Arkansas’s Dale
Bumpers, and South Carolina’s John C. West all came to
power. Audacious and gifted, Askew was one of six children raised
by a single mother in Pensacola. As he worked his way up through
the ranks of the state legislature, few in Florida except his
constituents knew his name when he challenged Republic incumbent
Claude R. Kirk Jr. on a populist platform promising higher
corporate taxes. When he won, he inaugurated a series of reforms,
including a new 5 percent corporate income tax; lower consumer,
property, and school taxes; a review of penal statutes;
environmental protections; higher welfare benefits; and
workers’ compensation to previously uncovered migrant
laborers. Touting honesty, candor, and transparency, Askew dubbed
his administration “government in the sunshine.”
Harvey demonstrates that Askew’s success was not in spite
of his penchant for bold, sometimes unpopular stances, but rather
because his mix of unvarnished candor, sober ethics, and
religious faith won the trust of the diverse peoples of his
state.
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A question of justice
Three trailblazers for education reform in the Sunbelt South. In southern politics, 1970 marked a watershed. A group of southern governors entered office that year and changed both the way the nation looked at the South and the way the constituents of those states viewed themselves. Reubin Askew in Florida, John West in South Carolina, Jimmy Carter in Georgia, and Albert Brewer in Alabama all represented a new breed of progressive moderate politician that helped demolish Jim Crow segregation and the dual economies, societies, and educational systems notorious to the Sunbelt South. Historian Gordon Harvey explores the political lives and legacies of three of these governors, examining the conditions that led to such a radical change in political leadership, the effects their legislative agendas had on the identity of their states, and the aftermath of their terms in elected office. A common thread in each governor's agenda was educational reform. Albert Brewer's short term as Alabama governor resulted in a sweeping education package that still stands as the most progressive the state has seen. Reubin Askew, far more outspoken than Brewer, won the Florida gubernatorial election through a campaign that openly promoted desegregation, busing, and tax reform as a means of equal school funding. John West's commitment to a policy of inclusion helped allay fears of both black and white parents and made South Carolina's one of the smoothest transitions to integrated schools. As members of the first generation of New South governors, Brewer, Askew, and West played the role of trailblazers. Their successful assaults on economic and racial injustice in their states were certainly aided by such landmark events as Brown v. Board of Education, the civil rights movement, and the expansion of voting rights-all of which sounded the death knell for the traditional one-party segregated South. But in this critical detailing of their work for justice, we learn how these reform-minded men made education central to their gubernatorial terms and, in doing so, helped redefine the very character of the place they called home.
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What's Public about Public Higher Ed?
An unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of what citizens really think about their public universities, What's Public about Public Higher Ed? places special emphasis on the events of 2020--including the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst racial unrest seen in half a century--as major inflection points for understanding the implications of the survey's findings.
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Control and security of E-commerce
Explores the components of e-commerce (including EDI).Shows the risks involved when using an e-commerce system.Provides controls for protecting an e-commerce site (e.g., securing financial transactions and confidential transactions).Provides COSO compliant audit approach.Provides risk/control tables and checklists.Technical topics are discussed in simple user-friendly language.
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Man's search for meaning : the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
In 'Man's Search for Meaning', Dr. Frankl offers an account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to the discovery of his theory of logotherapy.
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Mapping Decline
Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. \"Not a typical city,\" as one observer noted in the late 1970s, \"but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form.\"
Mapping Declineexamines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the \"white flight\" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy-and often sheer folly-of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history.
Mapping Declineis the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps-rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records-illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.
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