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The Weil conjectures : on math and the pursuit of the unknown
\"A biography of Simone Weil's brilliant mathematician brother, Andrâe, and a memoir of the author's own fascination with math.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A feminist becoming? Louise Thompson Patterson’s and Dorothy West’s sojourn in the Soviet Union
This article follows the socialist activist Louise Thompson (later Patterson) and the writer Dorothy West on their infamous journey to Soviet Russia to shoot a film about North American anti-Black racism in 1932. The film about the US history of racial oppression was ultimately never made, but the women stayed in the Soviet Union for several months, travelling to the Soviet republics, meeting famous Soviets, and experiencing Soviet modernization. Looking at the travel writings, correspondence, and memoirs of Thompson and West through the lens of intersectionality, this article analyses the women’s distinctly gendered experiences and their experience of socialist women’s liberation movements. It argues that a close reading of the literary writing, travel notes, letters, and memoirs and their biographical trajectories after they returned to the United States reveals how their experiences in the Soviet Union created a feminist consciousness within the two women that crucially altered their political and personal views of Black women’s agency and significantly altered their life trajectories.
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Counterblasting Canada : Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson
\"In 1914, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis--the founders of Vorticism--undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of Vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building on the initial accomplishment of Blast, McLuhan's subsequent Counterblast, and the network of artistic and intellectual relationships that flourished in Canadian Vorticism, the contributors offer groundbreaking examinations of postwar Canadian literary culture, particularly the legacies of Sheila and Wilfred Watson. Intended primarily for scholars of literature and communications, Counterblasting Canada explores a crucial and long-overlooked strand in Canadian cultural and literary history. Contributors: Gregory Betts, Adam Hammond, Dean Irvine, Elena Lamberti, Philip Monk, Linda Morra, Kristine Smitka, Leon Surette, Paul Tiessen, Adam Welch, Darren Wershler.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape
Nearly four million Americans worked on Barry Goldwater's behalf in the presidential election of 1964. These citizens were as dedicated to their cause as those who fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. Arguably, the conservative agenda that began with Goldwater has had effects on American politics and society as profound and far reaching as the liberalism of the 1960s. According to the essays in this volume, it's high time for a reconsideration of Barry Goldwater's legacy.Since Goldwater's death in 1998, politicians, pundits, and academics have been assessing his achievements and his shortcomings. The twelve essays in this volume thoroughly examine the life, times, and impact of \"Mr. Conservative.\" Scrutinizing the transformation of a Phoenix department store owner into a politician, de facto political philosopher, and five-time US senator, contributors highlight the importance of power, showcasing the relationship between the nascent conservative movement's cadre of elite businessmen, newsmen, and intellectuals and their followers at the grassroots-or sagebrush-level.Goldwater, who was born in the Arizona Territory in 1909, was deeply influenced by his Western upbringing. With his appearance on the national stage in 1964, he not only articulated a new brand of conservatism but gave a voice to many Americans who were not enamored with the social and political changes of the era. He may have lost the battle for the presidency, but he energized a coalition of journalists, publishers, women's groups, and Southerners to band together in a movement that reshaped the nation.
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Potomac Fever
After a highly successful career in investment banking with his own firm and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, J. William Middendorf became restive and looked for new challenges. Having \"learned how to make money,\" he writes in this memoir, he \"wanted to learn how to make a difference.\" Thus he became actively involved in politics, first at the local level in Connecticut and then with the presidential campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964 and as treasurer of the Republican National Committee. There followed a series of challenging public service appointments: ambassador to the Netherlands, Under Secretary and later Secretary of the Navy, ambassador to the Organization of American States, and ambassador to the European Community. Middendorf is a first-rate storyteller and has many tales to share--from his World War II Navy service, to his first job wearing a string of pearls in a bank vault, to a failed effort to bring a U.S.-style constitution to post-Soviet Russia. He recounts tales of villains and heroes, of narrow legislative victories on vital programs, of efforts to forestall war in the Falklands and to counter growing Communist control of the island of Grenada, as well as how the Navy won narrow but vital victories on such important programs as the Aegis missile system and the Trident submarine. Writing with the authority of someone who held a number of key government positions, his lively and revealing memoir is filled with many behind-the-scenes stories of critical events of the Cold War.
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Flying high : remembering Barry Goldwater
In Flying High, William F. Buckley Jr. offers his lyrical remembrance of a singular era in American politics, and a tribute to the modern Conservative movement's first presidential standard-bearer, Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was in many ways the perfect candidate: self-reliant, unpretentious, unshakably honest, and dashingly handsome. And although he lost the election, he electrified millions of voters with his integrity and a sense of decencyqualities that made him a natural spokesman for Conservative ideals and an inspiration for decades to come. In an era when Republicans are looking for a leader, Flying High is a reminder of how real political visionaries inspire devotion.
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The Domestic Figure in African American Literature of the Non-South 1880-1995
“The Domestic Figure in African American Literature of the Non-South 1880-1995” uses the lens of selected short fiction to examine the life of the female African American domestic worker in the U.S. North, West, and Midwest. This dissertation presents a realistic picture of the domestic worker as the short fiction writers herein are participants in an ongoing literary tradition intended to debunk negative stereotypes of African Americans. The writers present her as an ordinary, yet complex woman, tasked with navigating an oppressive environment. Thus, this paper helps nullify the lingering Aunt Jemima stereotype of the African American domestic worker. The project explores how the domestic, in the face of racial and cultural barriers, manages to maintain agency over her life. Chapter One examines her practice of masking as a tool of survival. Chapter Two debunks the notion that the African American domestic loves her employers’ children more than she loves her own children. Chapter Three explores the different modes of resistance the domestic employs in the face of workplace exploitation. Finally, Chapter Four examines how the domestic copes with sexual predation in her workplace, made more difficult because she is not placed on the pedestal of respected womanhood in American society. Overall, this dissertation reveals the African American domestic worker as a woman, who in the face of daunting challenges, persists for the sake of those coming along after her, who hopefully, will have better opportunities than she.
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