Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon, Macgillis Alec

Автор: Macgillis Alec
Название: Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
ISBN: 0374159270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374159276
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Описание: An inquiry into the wealth and poverty of regions, with one company at its core.

Автор: Macgillis Alec
Название: The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell
ISBN: 1501112031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501112034
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: From a dogged political reporter, an investigation into the political education of Mitch McConnell and an argument that this powerful Senator embodies much of this country's political dysfunction.

Based on interviews with more than seventy-five people who have worked alongside Mitch McConnell or otherwise interacted with him over the course of his career, The Cynic is both a comprehensive biography of one of this country's most powerful politicians and a damning diagnosis of this country's eroding political will.

Tracing his rise from a pragmatic local official in Kentucky to the leader of the Republican opposition in Washington, the book tracks McConnell's transformation from a moderate Republican who supported abortion rights and public employee unions to the embodiment of partisan obstructionism and conservative orthodoxy on Capitol Hill. Driven less by a shift in ideological conviction than by a desire to win elections and stay in power at all costs, McConnell's transformation exemplifies the "permanent campaign" mindset that has come to dominate American government.

From his first race for local office in 1977--when the ad crew working on it nicknamed McConnell "love-me-love-me" for his insecurity and desire to please--to his fraught accommodation of the Tea Party, McConnell's political career is a story of ideological calcification and a vital mirror for understanding this country's own political development and what is wrought when politicians serve not at the behest of country, but at the behest of party and personal aggrandizement.

Автор: Macgillis, Alec
Название: Fulfillment
ISBN: 1914484207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781914484209
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: the 80th Anniversary Edtion. In the early hours of 7th December 1941 The Empire of Japan launched a surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, without explicit warning, which crippled the US Fleet. In all 8, US Battleships were lost and 188 US Aircraft were destroyed. 2,403 American citizens were killed by the Japanese. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the immediate cause of Americas entry into World War II and the Pacific theatre which led to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and which ended with the surrender of The Empire of Japan aboard the USS Missouri on 2nd September 1945. This illustrated book takes you through