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| alec macgillis wikipedia: The Cynic Alec MacGillis, 2014-12-23 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. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Educated Tara Westover, 2018-02-20 For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school. Westover’s mother proved a marvel at concocting folk remedies for many ailments. As Tara developed her own coping mechanisms, little by little, she started to realize that what her family was offering didn’t have to be her only education. Her first day of university was her first day in school—ever—and she would eventually win an esteemed fellowship from Cambridge and graduate with a PhD in intellectual history and political thought. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: The Obama Phenomenon Charles P. Henry, Robert Allen, Robert Chrisman, 2011-09-28 Barack Obama's campaign and electoral victory demonstrated the dynamic nature of American democracy. This collection shows the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the future of race relations within the United States through readings on Barack Obama's campaign as well as the idealism and pragmatism of the Obama administration. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Day of Perdition Kaelyn Hart, 2008-11 If we knew then, what we know now... Barack Obama would never have won the Presidency of the United States of America. Day of Perdition (336 Pages) reveals the shape of a world that permitted a candidate so far out in the liberal stratosphere to rise to the highest office in a nation that was originally founded on Christian principles. It takes a look at what's on the horizon from a Christian perspective: the New World Order; the Rapture and the rise of the Antichrist. The novel ends with questions as to why we as Christians allowed this to happen and finishes with a call to live a revolutionary Christian life and the hope of our future. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Gun Control in the Third Reich STEPHEN P. HALBROOK, 2025-08-26 Based on secret documents from German archives, diaries, and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. The countless books on the Third Reich and the Holocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms ownership, which rendered political opponents and Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, but the National Socialist regime certainly did not think so-- it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavored groups. Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 through Kristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of pertinent events during World War II regarding the effects of the disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the Nazis decreed the death penalty for possession of a firearm, there developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularly the Warsaw ghetto uprising. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information Alberto Cairo, 2019-10-15 A leading data visualization expert explores the negative—and positive—influences that charts have on our perception of truth. Today, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. While charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us smarter, they can also deceive—intentionally or unintentionally. To be informed citizens, we must all be able to decode and use the visual information that politicians, journalists, and even our employers present us with each day. Demystifying an essential new literacy for our data-driven world, How Charts Lie examines contemporary examples ranging from election result infographics to global GDP maps and box office record charts, as well as an updated afterword on the graphics of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: All the Truth Is Out Matt Bai, 2015-09-15 Now a major motion picture The Front Runner starring Hugh Jackman An NPR Best Book of the Year In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart—a dashing, reform-minded Democrat—seemed a lock for the party’s presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper’s stakeout of Hart’s home resulted in a media frenzy the likes of which had never been seen before. Through the spellbindingly reported story of the Senator’s fall from grace, Matt Bai, Yahoo News columnist and former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, shows the Hart affair to be far more than one man’s tragedy: rather, it marked a crucial turning point in the ethos of political media, and the new norms of life in the public eye. All the Truth Is Out is a tour de force portrait of the American way of politics at the highest level, one that changes our understanding of how we elect our presidents and how the bedrock of American values has shifted under our feet. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Mass Surveillance and State Control Elliot D. Cohen, 2010-10-15 This book details the factors contributing to the degenerative trend of mass, warrantless government surveillance which imperils civil liberties, and specifies recommendations for constructive change. It also provides a platform for grassroots efforts to stop the decline before it is too late. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: American Nations Colin Woodard, 2012-09-25 • A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Earthopolis Carl H. Nightingale, 2022-06-09 A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities. |
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| alec macgillis wikipedia: Righting America at the Creation Museum Susan L. Trollinger, William Vance Trollinger Jr., 2016-05-15 What does the popularity of the Creation Museum tell us about the appeal of the Christian right? On May 28, 2007, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky. Aimed at scientifically demonstrating that the universe was created less than ten thousand years ago by a Judeo-Christian god, the museum is hugely popular, attracting millions of visitors over the past eight years. Surrounded by themed topiary gardens and a petting zoo with camel rides, the site conjures up images of a religious Disneyland. Inside, visitors are met by dinosaurs at every turn and by a replica of the Garden of Eden that features the Tree of Life, the serpent, and Adam and Eve. In Righting America at the Creation Museum, Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., take readers on a fascinating tour of the museum. The Trollingers vividly describe and analyze its vast array of exhibits, placards, dioramas, and videos, from the Culture in Crisis Room, where videos depict sinful characters watching pornography or considering abortion, to the Natural Selection Room, where placards argue that natural selection doesn’t lead to evolution. The book also traces the rise of creationism and the history of fundamentalism in America. This compelling book reveals that the Creation Museum is a remarkably complex phenomenon, at once a “natural history” museum at odds with contemporary science, an extended brief for the Bible as the literally true and errorless word of God, and a powerful and unflinching argument on behalf of the Christian right. |
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| alec macgillis wikipedia: Contract with America Newt Gingrich, Richard K. Armey, 1994 The November 1994 midterm elections were a watershed event, making possible a Repbulican majority in Congress for the first time in forty years. Contract with America, by Newt Gingrich, the new Speaker of the House, Dick Armey, the new Majority Leader, and the House Republicans, charts a bold new political strategy for the entire country. The ten-point program, which forms the basis of this book, was announced in late September. It received the signed support of more than 300 GOP canditates. Their pledge: If we break this contract, throw us out. Contract with America fleshes out the vision and provides the details of the program that swept the GOP to victory. Among the pressing issues addressed in this important book are: balancing the budget, stopping crime, reforming welfare, reinforcing families, enhancing fairness for seniors, strengthening national defense, cutting government regulations, promoting legal reform, considering term limits, and reducing taxes. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: The Long Game Mitch McConnell, 2016 A memoir by the Republican Senate Majority Leader traces his childhood battle with polio and discusses the philosophies that have shaped his career and his views on the strained relationship between Congress and the Obama administration. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: On the Clock Emily Guendelsberger, 2020-07-14 Nickled and Dimed for the Amazon age, (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she travelled to North Carolina to work at a call center, a place where even bathroom breaks were timed to the second. And finally, Guendelsberger was hired at a San Francisco McDonald's, narrowly escaping revenge-seeking customers who pelted her with condiments. Across three jobs, and in three different parts of the country, Guendelsberger directly took part in the revolution changing the U.S. workplace. ON THE CLOCK takes us behind the scenes of the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce to understand the future of work in America - and its present. Until robots pack boxes, resolve billing issues, and make fast food, human beings supervised by AI will continue to get the job done. Guendelsberger shows us how workers went from being the most expensive element of production to the cheapest - and how low wage jobs have been remade to serve the ideals of efficiency, at the cost of humanity. ON THE CLOCK explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Unsafe at Any Speed Ralph Nader, 1965 Account of how and why cars kill, and why the automobile manufacturers have failed to make cars safe. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: The Nine Nations of North America Joel Garreau, 1981 North America is really Nine Nations. Each has its capital and its distinctive web of power and influence. A few are allies, but many are adversaries. Several have readily acknowledged national poets, and many have characteristic dialects and mannerisms. Some are close to being raw frontiers; others have four centuries of history. Each has a peculiar economy; each commands a certain emotional allegiance from its citizens. These nations look different, feel different, and sound different from each other, and few of their boundaries match the political lines drawn on current maps. Some are clearly divided topographically by mountains, deserts, and rivers. Others are separated by architecture, music, language, and ways of making a living. Each nation has its own list of desires. Each nation knows how it plans to get what it needs from whoever’s got it. Most important, each nation has a distinct prism through which it views the world. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Good Kids, Bad City Kyle Swenson, 2019-02-12 From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them. In the early 1970s, three African-American men—Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson—were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Cleveland, Ohio. The prosecution’s case, which resulted in a combined 106 years in prison for the three men, rested on the more-than-questionable testimony of a pre-teen, Ed Vernon. The actual murderer was never found. Almost four decades later, Vernon recanted his testimony, and Wiley, Kwame, and Rickey were released. But while their exoneration may have ended one of American history’s most disgraceful miscarriages of justice, the corruption and decay of the city responsible for their imprisonment remain on trial. Interweaving the dramatic details of the case with Cleveland’s history—one that, to this day, is fraught with systemic discrimination and racial tension—Swenson reveals how this outrage occurred and why. Good Kids, Bad City is a work of astonishing empathy and insight: an immersive exploration of race in America, the struggling Midwest, and how lost lives can be recovered. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Fixing Broken Windows George L. Kelling, Catherine M. Coles, 1996 Cites successful examples of community-based policing. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Mass Surveillance and State Control E. Cohen, 2010-10-25 This book details the factors contributing to the degenerative trend of mass, warrantless government surveillance which imperils civil liberties, and specifies recommendations for constructive change. It also provides a platform for grassroots efforts to stop the decline before it is too late. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: You Are Still Here Kyogen Carlson, 2021-08-17 “There’s so much to learn and so much to know. It’s good to keep moving forward. And yet whatever we have is, in a very profound way, absolutely complete and always enough.”—Kyogen Carlson Kyogen Carlson (1948–2014) was a Soto Zen priest whose writings, teachings, and commitment to interfaith dialogue supported and inspired countless Buddhist, Christian, and other spiritual practitioners. Set to the rhythm of the seasons, You Are Still Here is the first published collection of Carlson’s dharma talks. It illuminates key elements of contemporary Zen practice, such as the experience of zazen meditation, the pitfalls and intimacies of the teacher-student relationship and of sangha life, the role of community in personal practice, and the importance of interfaith dialogue reaching across political lines. Carlson’s teachings also underscore his commitment to lay Buddhist practice and women’s lineages, both significant contributions to American Buddhism. The beautifully distilled talks have been carefully edited and introduced by Sallie Jiko Tisdale, a respected writer, teacher, and Dharma heir to Carlson. Her masterful presentation highlights the significance of these illuminating teachings, while preserving Carlson’s distinct style of authenticity, humor, and conviction on the Zen path. |
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| alec macgillis wikipedia: Women Food and God Geneen Roth, 2010-12-21 Embraced by Oprah, the #1 New York Times bestselling guide that explains the connection between eating and emotion from Geneen Roth—noted authority on mindful eating. No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all. After three decades of studying, teaching, and writing about our compulsions with food, bestselling author Geneen Roth adds a powerful new dimension to her work in Women Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: the way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation, and, yes, even God. A timeless and seminal work, Women Food and God shows how going beyond the food and the feelings takes you deeper into realms of spirit and soul—to the bright center of your own life. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Four Trials John Edwards, 2004-08-01 Raised in a small town by parents employed in the local mills, John Edwards worked in those mills himself -- and then went on to become one of America's most successful and respected attorneys. He built a national reputation representing people whose lives had been shattered by corporate recklessness and grievous medical negligence. In landmark cases, Edwards helped people from all walks of life stand up for themselves against tremendous odds. Four Trials provides an electrifying account of four of his cases as it tells the story of the courageous and unmistakably decent people Edwards was privileged to represent in times of tragedy, great loss, and often great joy. And in a deeply moving account, Four Trials also speaks of the tragedies and joys that Senator Edwards has known in his own life -- and how today life and justice are more precious to him than ever. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Ninety Percent of Everything Rose George, 2013-08-13 Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. We buy, so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not work. Freight shipping has been no less revolutionary than the printing press or the Internet, yet it is all but invisible. Away from public scrutiny, shipping revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of flags of convenience. Infesting our waters, poisoning our air, and a prime culprit of acoustic pollution, shipping is environmentally indefensible. And then there are the pirates. Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we would rather ignore, sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the height of Niagara Falls; she patrols the Indian Ocean with an anti-piracy task force; she joins seafaring chaplains, and investigates the harm that ships inflict on endangered whales. Sharply informative and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC Paula C. Austin, 2019-12-10 The fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC, during the 1930s. In contrast to the ways in which young people have been portrayed by researchers, policy makers, law enforcement, and the media, Paula C. Austin draws on previously unstudied archival material to present black poor and working class young people as thinkers, theorists, critics, and commentators as they reckon with the boundaries imposed on them in a Jim Crow city that was also the American emblem of equality. The narratives at the center of this book provide a different understanding of black urban life in the early twentieth century, showing that ordinary people were expert at navigating around the limitations imposed by the District of Columbia’s racially segregated politics. Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC is a fresh take on the New Negro movement, and a vital contribution to the history of race in America. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Union Colin Woodard, 2020 About the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge, for the first time, an American nationhood. Tells the dramatic tale of how the story of America's national origins, identity, and purpose was intentionally created and fought over in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Life Moves Pretty Fast Hadley Freeman, 2016-06-14 From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever—featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics. For Hadley Freeman, movies of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ghostbusters, and Back to the Future; all a teenager needs to know in Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Say Anything, The Breakfast Club, and Mystic Pizza; the ultimate in action from Top Gun, Die Hard, Beverly Hills Cop, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; love and sex in 9 1/2 Weeks, Splash, About Last Night, The Big Chill, and Bull Durham; and family fun in The Little Mermaid, ET, Big, Parenthood, and Lean On Me. In Life Moves Pretty Fast, Hadley puts her obsessive movie geekery to good use, detailing the decade’s key players, genres, and tropes. She looks back on a cinematic world in which bankers are invariably evil, where children are always wiser than adults, where science is embraced with an intense enthusiasm, and the future viewed with giddy excitement. And, she considers how the changes between movies then and movies today say so much about society’s changing expectations of women, young people, and art—and explains why Pretty in Pink should be put on school syllabuses immediately. From how John Hughes discovered Molly Ringwald, to how the friendship between Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi influenced the evolution of comedy, and how Eddie Murphy made America believe that race can be transcended, this is a “highly personal, witty love letter to eighties movies, but also an intellectually vigorous, well-researched take on the changing times of the film industry” (The Guardian). |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Lyda Fernanda Forero, Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford, Ben White, 2021-06-29 The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the world, as well as on the rise of multi-class mobilisation and resistance, alongside wider counter-movements and alternative practices, which together confront authoritarianism and nationalist populism. The book includes 20 chapters written by contributors to the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), a global network of academics and activists committed to both reflective analysis and political engagement. Debates about ‘populism’, ‘nationalism’, ‘authoritarianism’ and more have exploded recently, but relatively little of this has focused on the rural dimensions. Yet, wherever one looks, the rural aspects are key – not just in electoral calculus, but in understanding underlying drivers of authoritarianism and populism, and potential counter-movements to these. Whether because of land grabs, voracious extractivism, infrastructural neglect or lack of services, rural peoples’ disillusionment with the status quo has had deeply troubling consequences and occasionally hopeful ones, as the chapters in this book show. The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction Neal Wyatt, 2007-05-14 Navigating what at she calls the extravagantly rich world of nonfiction, renowned readers' advisor (RA) Wyatt builds readers' advisory bridges from fiction to compelling and increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library's entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports. Within each, she explains the scope, popularity, style, major authors and works, and the subject's position in readers' advisory interviews. Wyatt addresses who is reading nonfiction and why, while providing RAs with the tools and language to incorporate nonfiction into discussions that point readers to what to read next. In easy-to-follow steps, Wyatt Explains the hows and whys of offering fiction and nonfiction suggestions together Illustrates ways to get up to speed fast in nonfiction Shows how to lead readers to a variety of books using her read-around and reading map strategies Provides tools to build nonfiction subject guides for the collection This hands-on guide includes nonfiction bibliography, key authors, benchmark books with annotations, and core collections. It is destined to become the nonfiction 'bible' for readers' advisory and collection development, helping librarians, library workers, and patrons select great reading from the entire library collection! |
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| alec macgillis wikipedia: The 100 Best Business Books of All Time Jack Covert, Todd Sattersten, 2011-11-01 Thousands of business books are published every year— Here are the best of the best After years of reading, evaluating, and selling business books, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten are among the most respected experts on the category. Now they have chosen and reviewed the one hundred best business titles of all time—the ones that deliver the biggest payoff for today’s busy readers. The 100 Best Business Books of All Time puts each book in context so that readers can quickly find solutions to the problems they face, such as how best to spend The First 90 Days in a new job or how to take their company from Good to Great. Many of the choices are surprising—you’ll find reviews of Moneyball and Orbiting the Giant Hairball, but not Jack Welch’s memoir. At the end of each review, Jack and Todd direct readers to other books both inside and outside The 100 Best. And sprinkled throughout are sidebars taking the reader beyond business books, suggesting movies, novels, and even children’s books that offer equally relevant insights. This guide will appeal to anyone, from entry-level to CEO, who wants to cut through the clutter and discover the brilliant books that are truly worth their investment of time and money. |
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| alec macgillis wikipedia: The Hot Zone Richard Preston, 2012-03-14 The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus. Now a mini-series drama starring Julianna Margulies, Topher Grace, Liam Cunningham, James D'Arcy, and Noah Emmerich on National Geographic. A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic hot virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their crashes into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: The Case for Hillary Clinton Susan Estrich, 2009-03-17 With the Bush administration now in its final years, all eyes are turning to the 2008 political season -- especially those of Democratic voters, who are casting about for a galvanizing leader to help them win back the White House. And in that role, argues longtime political strategist Susan Estrich, no candidate even approaches the power and promise of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the senator from New York. She is, by far, not only the most popular Democratic leader in the country, but also one of its most popular and admired politicians, period. Both a passionate spokesperson for progressive values and a strong advocate for our troops overseas, she has used her time in the Senate to establish herself successfully as a genuine political powerhouse. There is no candidate whose election would bring such vitality and lasting change into the White House. And she offers Americans a once-in-a-lifetime chance to break the world's most prominent glass ceiling and elect a female president of the United States. In an atmosphere where conservative Hillary-bashing is still as virulent as ever, Estrich demonstrates all the reasons that this principled leader still blows away any other potential contender in the early polls for 2008. And, with arguments both stirring and sensible, she reminds us that if Hillary should succeed, America and the world would be changed forever and for the better. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: Saving Yellowstone Megan Kate Nelson, 2023-04-25 A narrative of adventure and exploration, Saving Yellowstone is also a story of Indigenous resistance, the expansive reach of railroad, photographic, and publishing technologies, and the struggles of Black southerners to bring racial terrorists to justice. It reveals how the early 1870s were a turning point in the nation's history, as white Americans ultimately abandoned the the higher ideal of equality for all people, creating a much more fragile and divided United States--. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: With All Due Respect Nikki R. Haley, 2019-11-12 The New York Times and USA Today bestseller A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner (“With all due respect, I don’t get confused”), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and her confident representation of America’s interests as our Ambassador to the United Nations during times of crisis and consequence. In this book, Haley offers a first-hand perspective on major national and international matters, as well as a behind-the-scenes account of her tenure in the Trump administration. This book reveals a woman who can hold her own—and better—in domestic and international power politics, a diplomat who is unafraid to take a principled stand even when it is unpopular, and a leader who seeks to bring Americans together in divisive times. |
| alec macgillis wikipedia: I'm Staying with My Boys Jim Proser, Jerry Cutler, 2010-02-02 The authorized biography of the legendary Marine featured in HBO’S The Pacific, a true American hero who gave his life in service during World War II. I’m Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off three thousand Japanese troops at Guadalcanal after his fifteen-member unit was reduced to three men. At Iwo Jima he single-handedly destroyed an enemy blockhouse, allowing his unit to capture an airfield. Minutes later he was killed by an enemy artillery round. He was the only Marine in World War II to have received the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, and a Purple Heart, and is arguably the most famous Marine of all time. I’m Staying with My Boys is the only family-authorized biography of Basilone, and it features photographs never before published. Distinctive among military biographies, the story is told in first person, allowing readers to experience his transformation, forged in the horrors of battle, from aimless youth to war hero known as “Manila John.” Praise for I’m Staying with My Boys “Everyone should read this book, the story of a true American hero. I served with John Basilone and I can hear his voice on every page.” —Thomas O. Nass, 5th Marine Division, World War II “This book about the legendary John Basilone is presented in such a personal style that one would believe that “Manila John” is still alive. Not since William Manchester authored his memoir Goodbye, Darkness twenty-five years ago has a book been written about one man that seems so authentic.” —Col. Ken Jordan, USMC (Ret.) |
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By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 8, 2007; A01 To hear some activists and local officials in Virginia tell it, the key to slowing rampant growth is to follow the …
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Oct 30, 2019 · by Alec MacGillis, May 23, 2018, 6 a.m. EDT. A barge transpor ts co al to Stuar t St ation, one of two power plants in Adams C ounty, Ohio that are scheduled to close . (Philip …
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ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis was in Ohio a few weeks ago to investigate how some private schools are pushing constituents to take vouchers. The attached article is a result of his investigation.
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from a Q & A with Alec MacGillis ’11, who returned to Ann Arbor in September as the speaker for our 32nd annual Graham Hovey Lecture. The ProPublica reporter talks about how his year in …
Alec MacGillis’s history of the tech giant is long- form …
Alec MacGillis weaves together individual stories with economics, politics, and geography to show how Amazon exploited existing trends while injecting its way of doing business into various local …
In Obama's speeches, one favorite phrase: 'Let me be clear'
The Washington Post's Alec MacGillis explains what President Obama means when he uses the phrase "let me be clear." ª LAUNCH VIDEO PLAYER VIDEO TOOLBOX ª Links to this article Resize …
What Is Soft Money In Politics Alec MacGillis (2024) web ...
Alec MacGillis Life After Reform Michael J. Malbin,2003 Life After Reform is the first serious and dispassionate book about how politics will change under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. It …
Scripps Howard Foundation recognizes excellence
Mar 7, 2017 · Alec MacGillis — “The Breakdown,” ProPublica The Topic of the Year category was the 2016 presidential election. Alec MacGillis spent 2016 visiting the heartland, measuring the …
‘Fulfillment’ Review: Those One-Click Woes - Marc Levinson
Aug 21, 2003 · In “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America,” Alec MacGillis ably catalogs the many ways in which Amazon’s breakneck expansion has left social wreckage in its …
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Amazon? - American Affairs …
Shining a spotlight on those victims and costs is the purpose of Alec MacGillis’s impressive recent work of investigative journalism, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. …
PUBLISHED - United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth …
See Alec MacGillis, The Tragedy of Baltimore, N.Y. Times Magazine, Mar. 17, 2019, at 32. Moreover, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has struggled to respond effectively to this increase in …
Alec MacGillis - planetadelibrosar0.cdnstatics.com
Alec MacGillis es escritor y periodista experto en política. Publica en The New Yorker y en la fundación ProPublica. Trabajó en medios como The Washington Post o The New Republic. El …
2021–22 THE BERLIN JOURNAL - American Academy in Berlin
Journalist Alec MacGillis is a senior reporter at ProPublica and the fall 2021 Holtzbrinck Fellow. Spring 2022 Richard C. Holbrooke Fellow Etel Solingen is the Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney …
How Can Learning Management Systems be Used Effectively …
How Can Learning Management Systems be Used Effectively to Improve Student Engagement? This paper summarizes findings from a consensus panel on using data from learning management …
Baltimore Apartheid Syllabus
23. Alec MacGillis (2016). The Third Rail. Places Journal. Article illuminating transit apartheid in Baltimore. As MacGillis writes: “In Baltimore, public investment — and disinvestment — in …
What is the common good? AY 2020-21 Core sources
What is the common good? AY 2020-21 Core sources. The term “common good” raises immediate questions: How do we define what is good for society as a whole? What happens when collective …
THE IVY BOOKSHOP - assets.noviams.com
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La desigualdad como realidad histórica y vivencia social y
2 La desigualdad como realidad histórica y vivencia social y humana: De Thomas Piketty a Alec MacGillis y Matt Taibi. Thomas Piketty: “El capital en el siglo XXI” En 2013, se publica la …
Alec MacGillis
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Chessie Trail Marathon
Chessie Trail Marathon Place Bib # Name Time Pace Type Age(Sex) Place Bib # Name Time Pace Type Age(Sex) 1 10 JONATHAN ANNIS 03:04:35.95 07:02 RUNNER 43(M) Split …
dossier lignes d’attac #131
du traitement des marchandises » rapporte MacGillis. Modelage des territoires et déni de démocratie Dans son livre, Alec MacGillis se penche également sur l’impact de la progression …
Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre …
Alec Radford OpenAI alec@openai.com Karthik Narasimhan OpenAI karthikn@openai.com Tim Salimans OpenAI tim@openai.com Ilya Sutskever OpenAI ilyasu@openai.com Abstract …
In Obama's speeches, one favorite phrase: 'Let me be clear'
The Washington Post's Alec MacGillis explains what President Obama means when he uses the phrase "let me be clear." ª LAUNCH VIDEO PLAYER VIDEO TOOLBOX ª Links to this article …
WALLACE HOUSE JOURNAL
from a Q & A with Alec MacGillis ’11, who returned to Ann Arbor in September as the speaker for our 32nd annual Graham Hovey Lecture. The ProPublica reporter talks about how his year in …
PUBLISHED - United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth …
See Alec MacGillis, The Tragedy of Baltimore, N.Y. Times Magazine, Mar. 17, 2019, at 32. Moreover, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has struggled to respond effectively to this …
Judging Judges: Empathy as the Litmus Test for Impartiality
See, e.g., Williams, supra note 3; MacGillis, supra note 3. See also discussion infra Part III.A. 6. See generally SONIA SOTOMAYOR, MY BELOVED WORLD (2013) (sharing aspects of her …
Scripps Howard Foundation recognizes excellence
Mar 7, 2017 · Alec MacGillis — “The Breakdown,” ProPublica The Topic of the Year category was the 2016 presidential election. Alec MacGillis spent 2016 visiting the heartland, measuring the …
PUBLISHED - Courthouse News Service
See Alec MacGillis, The Tragedy of Baltimore, N.Y. Times Magazine, Mar. 17, 2019, at 32. Moreover, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has struggled to respond effectively to this …
Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners - OpenAI
Alec Radford * 1Jeffrey Wu Rewon Child David Luan 1Dario Amodei ** Ilya Sutskever ** 1 Abstract Natural language processing tasks, such as ques-tion answering, machine …
2017 ANNUAL REPORT The Next Frontier Is Local
of Doubt” with This American Life and The Marshall Project, and Alec MacGillis’ work on politics was honored with a George Polk Award for national reporting. Local focus Award winning …
Black Transit: When Public Transportation Decision-Making …
4. MacGillis, supra note 1 (making the connection that this project was long awaited as a way “to reconnect the long segregated city and re duce the isolation of its poorest neighborhoods”). 5. …
Community Forced to Choose B etween a Job — and a - House
Oct 30, 2019 · by Alec MacGillis, May 23, 2018, 6 a.m. EDT. A barge transpor ts co al to Stuar t St ation, one of two power plants in Adams C ounty, Ohio that are scheduled to close . (Philip …
How to Preach A Justice Sermon - prcli.org
Alec MacGillis, a political reporter for ... In his essay, MacGillis asked why parts of the country that depend on safety-net programs supported by Democrats are increasingly voting for …
Fulfillment - gbv.de
Contents Introduction: The Basement 3 1. Community—Seattle 13 2. Cardboard—dayton, ohio 35 3. Security—Washington, d.c.67 Break: Drop Zone 9, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 93 4. …
THE Colby ECHo
Alec MacGillis accepts Colby’s prestigious Lovejoy Award Courtesy of Peg Schreiner MacGillis also participated in the Goldfarb Center’s student Journalism Conference Community pg.2 …
Area Officials Struggle To Fit Lid on Growth - Cecil Land Use
By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 8, 2007; A01 To hear some activists and local officials in Virginia tell it, the key to slowing rampant growth is to follow the …
2021–22 THE BERLIN JOURNAL - American Academy in Berlin
Journalist Alec MacGillis is a senior reporter at ProPublica and the fall 2021 Holtzbrinck Fellow. Spring 2022 Richard C. Holbrooke Fellow Etel Solingen is the Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. …
Technology Access during COVID-19 and Beyond - Legal …
4232 Forest Park Avenue, • St. Louis, Missouri 63108 • 314.534.4200 1.800.444.0514 • www.lsem.org. TECHNOLOGY ACCESS DURING COVID-19 AND BEYOND. An Education …
A Reformation in Public Education: School Choice in Theory …
operated by a Roman Catholic diocese, which would make it the first religious charter school in the nation. 1 This summer, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered the school board to rescind …
PUBLISHED - American Civil Liberties Union
See Alec MacGillis, The Tragedy of Baltimore, N.Y. Times Magazine, Mar. 17, 2019, at 32. Moreover, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has struggled to respond effectively to this …
Territoires du capitalisme numérique : Amazon : Internet des …
manque parmi les références locales d’Alec MacGillis, auteur d’un livre ma-gistral sur cette transformation sans retour (MacGillis 2021). J’accompagne de longue date les études …
PUBLISHED - ACLU of Maryland
See Alec MacGillis, The Tragedy of Baltimore, N.Y. Times Magazine, Mar. 17, 2019, at 32. Moreover, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has struggled to respond effectively to this …
PUBLISHED - cases.justia.com
Nov 5, 2020 · See Alec MacGillis, The Tragedy of Baltimore, N.Y. Times Magazine, Mar. 17, 2019, at 32. Moreover, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has struggled to respond …
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION Murray Energy Corporation …
* Alec MacGillis, Coal Miner's Donor, THE NEW REPUBLIC (Oct. 4,2012) {found in Compl., Ex. A at 2, MUR 6661 (Murray Energy) (Oct. 9, 2012)). ' Id. at 3. ® Id. Statement of Reasons MUR …
A Generative Approach for Wikipedia-Scale Visual Entity …
generated caption to one of the Wikipedia entity texts [34]. Inspired by these recent explorations, we propose a GenerativeEntityRecognition(GER)framework(illustrated inFig.1)tofacilitateend …
A New Racial Disparity in Tra c Fatalities - Maxim Massenkoff
ments and suggestions, we thank Monica Deza, Tom Hogan, Alec MacGillis, Deepak Premkumar, Evan Rose, Aartik Sarma, and Nathan Wilmers. All errors are our own. 1 Introduction Motor …
NOTHING. EVERYTHING. - SSRN
One-click America, by Alec MacGillis BOOK REVIEW BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL DANIEL E. SCHOENI Fulfillment covers a lot of ground, but it is a book about the tertiary effects of e …
We the PeoPle - perfectionlearning.com
in Power, Alec MacGillis SB: p. 120 Q2 & Q3 SB: p. 120 Q3 SB: p. 120 Q3 SB: p. 120 Q1 to Q4 Latinos Remake the Electoral Map, Henry Flores SB: p. 120 Q4 TG: p. 47 SB: p. 120 Q1 to Q4 …
An Exploration of Trends and Changes - REVCOM.US
63. See Alec MacGillis, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021. 64. Krugman, Regional Economics. 65. Bob Avakian, The New …
Policy Outlook Under Democratic Control Jake Siewert
Jan 20, 2021 · Sachs Research. Alec, welcome back to the program. Alec Phillips: Thanks. Jake Siewert: Before we dive into the policy outlook, talk a little bit about the sentiment in …
We the PeoPle - perfectionlearning.com
Alec MacGillis SB: p. 120 Q2 & Q3 SB: p. 120 Q3 SB: p. 120 Q3 SB: p. 120 Q1 to Q4 Latinos Remake the Electoral Map, Henry Flores SB: p. 120 Q4 TG: p. 47 SB: p. 120 Q1 to Q4 SB: p. …
We the PeoPle - perfectionlearning.com
Power, Alec MacGillis SB: p. 120 Q2 & Q3 SB: p. 120 Q3 TG: p. 46 SB: p. 120 Q3 SB: p. 120 Q1 to Q4 Latinos Remake the Electoral Map, Henry Flores SB: p. 120 Q4 TG: p. 47 SB: p. 120 Q1 …
Nonfiction # of titles: 338 Physical Titles: 97 Pub. Title Author …
Click America Alec MacGillis 2021 HC106.84 M334 2021 United States - Economic conditions/regional disparities; Equality - Economic aspects Between the World and Me Ta …
Baltimore Apartheid Syllabus
23. Alec MacGillis (2016). The Third Rail. Places Journal. Article illuminating transit apartheid in Baltimore. As MacGillis writes: “In Baltimore, public investment — and disinvestment — in …
Supreme Court of the United States
nos. 20-1530, 20-1531, 20-1778, 20-1780 . in the . supreme court of the united states . west virginia, et al.. v. environmental protection agency, et al.. the north american coal corporation. …
John Alexander Motyer 1924 - 2016. - J. Richard Middleton
Alec Motyer was born in Dublin in August 1924. Interestingly the most significant influence in his life as a child was not so much his parents as his maternal grandmother, Catherine Nelson, …
Markets Update: Election Outlook JAKE SIEWERT: ALEC …
Oct 22, 2020 · Alec, welcome back to the program. ALEC PHILLIPS: Thanks a lot. JAKE SIEWERT: So, we're within two weeks of election day, Alec, and there's obviously a lot going …
PUBLISHED - American Civil Liberties Union
See Alec MacGillis, The Tragedy of Baltimore, N.Y. Times Magazine, Mar. 17, 2019, at 32. Moreover, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has struggled to respond effectively to this …
THE FIRST WORLD WAR: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND …
5 Boyd, William. “Why World War I Resonates.” New York Times, January 21, 2012, Sunday Review, p.8. Bridge, F.R., and Roger Bullen. The Great Powers and the ...
GTCC The Greater Timonium Community Council - gtccinc.org
2 as BCPS, affordable housing so long as those units would submit to a binding agreement to limit rents for 15 years, construction in enterprise zones and construction for religious purposes.
Territoires du capitalisme numérique : amazon : Internet des …
manque parmi les références locales d’Alec MacGillis, auteur d’un livre ma-gistral sur cette transformation sans retour (MacGillis 2021). J’accompagne de longue date les études …
PUBLISHED - American Civil Liberties Union
See Alec MacGillis, The Tragedy of Baltimore, N.Y. Times Magazine, Mar. 17, 2019, at 32. Moreover, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has struggled to respond effectively to this …
Pegasus September 2021 - cauxroundtable.org
One Click America, by Alec MacGillis and An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, co-written by Sheera Frankel and Cecilia Kang. Both reviews present a common, yet little …
Our New President-Timothy C. Wang, MD - Gastroenterology
Photo 3.Timothy Wang with (from left to right) his son Alec, wife Gregg, and son Ned (right). May 2016 AGA Section 1233 AGA SECTION. undertook a clinical study with Drs Julie Parsonnet …
h O W S Away - The Atlantic
By Alec MacGillis 18 VIEWFINDER A Monument to Contingency Photographs by Robert Smithson ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGETTE SMITH On the Cover SEPTEMBER 2023 …
