| 单词 | political |
| 例句 | The political rivalry had never eroded the personal respect between them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And the subsequent political history of the United States then became an oscillation between new versions of the old tension, which broke out in violence only on the occasion of the Civil War. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The progressives of the Stability Research group, regardless of their actual political practices, were certainly open to accusations of subversion for their embrace of “dangerous” ideas like racial integration, civil rights, and equality for women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I then detailed the poor conditions on the island, reiterating once more that we were political prisoners, not criminals, and expected to be treated as such. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the Adams pattern: first to deny his political ambitions, much like Jefferson; then to confront them, feel guilty about them, fidget over them; then grudgingly admit they were part of who he was. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My subject was going to be political change and revolution. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The Soviets did show, though it became evident with their first appearance on the tarmac at Geneva that the State Department’s concerns about their political intentions were well taken. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Although he hadn’t seen Bobby in thirty-two years, Saemi phoned some political and business leaders and several from the chess community who he thought might be able to help Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The charter was in fact a revolutionary document precisely because the changes it envisioned could not be achieved without radically altering the economic and political structure of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The glasses man had told me that Janowska was also for political prisoners as well as Poles, Romanies, and even some Ukrainians. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z All but one of the world’s six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But it was also the political problem with the deepest social and economic roots in the new nation, so that removing it threatened to disrupt the fragile union just as it was congealing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For many of these young men, it was the only political education they had ever received. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The few times Bernabe had tried to break down the political and social situation in town, talking about how little land and money the farmers really had, Carolina had rather consistently observed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The cell steward arranged meetings, organized political classes, and collected dues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first class Teacher Zhang had told us that in order to integrate all aspects of our study with the revolution and to prepare for war, we would learn military and political terms first. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1906, even the best-guarded political bastions had been stormed—twenty-nine seats in Parliament had fallen to the Labour Party—sending spasms of anxiety through English high society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This is die history which, even today, inspires me and my colleagues in our political struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most former slaves voted for the Republicans, Lincoln’s party, with some Black men winning election to political office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Such behavior became an accepted, even expected, feature of the political landscape during the middle third of the nineteenth century and has remained so ever since. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But despite his aversion to money and conspicuous consumption, Chris’s political leanings could not be described as liberal. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The city officials fawn for political reasons over school integration and then build barricades to stop residential integration-what hypocrisy! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This is a journal entry oj what occurred at La 40 on Monday, April 11th, 1960, to me, a female political prisoner. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson spoke for many of the participants caught up in this intensely partisan and nearly scatological political culture when he described it as a fundamental loss of trust between former friends. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He’s not sure how else to respond, reaching into his mental store of political platitudes and finding them all clinical and intolerable. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He was lonely for his wife’s company and political advice: “I want to sit and converse with you about our debates every evening. I sit here alone and brood over political probabilities and conjectures.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "Any agreement would hinge on the Americans reimbursing us for the booster," Zhu Tao said, "and the State Council would likely want political favors from the US government." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were, to be sure, important political and ideological differences between the two men, differences that became the basis for the opposing sides they took in the party wars of the 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z During the Harding administration, in the early 1920s, the Justice Department had been packed with political cronies and unscrupulous officials, among them the head of the bureau: William Burns, the infamous private eye. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was a political trial, an effort by the state to show that it was not soft on the Red Menace. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, Kwang’s political machinery was just beginning to market him in the other quarters of the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Durham’s nervous black elites, loath to push the white power structure too far, were willing to expend considerable political capital over education. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some are economic, some ecological, some are political, and some are spiritual. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Redemption marked a turning point in the quest by dominant whites for a new racial equilibrium, a racial order that would protect their economic, political, and social interests in a world without slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Now, there is simply no possibility of a real change in the Negro’s situation without the most radical and far-reaching changes in the American political and social structure. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Those complex political units are much better able to mount a sustained war of conquest than is an egalitarian band of hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even though it was a political match, it was widely held that if anyone could win Mark Antony’s heart, Octavia could. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z When James Abram Garfield ran for political office, his supporters told voters that he had been born in a log cabin and worked his way from poverty to admirable achievements. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Fourteen hundred delegates from all over the country representing one hundred fifty different religious, social, cultural, and political bodies converged on Pietermaritzburg for the All-in Conference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After cheating death, Burger was assigned to Germany's political division, where he worked on journalism and propaganda for the Nazis. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Senator Trueba continued to live there, but he stopped inviting his friends and political cronies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Iranians who fled the country during the revolution were granted political asylum. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z These were the secret, underground tactics of the political movement of the Communists under the czars of Old Russia! Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The central players in the drama were not the marginal or peripheral figures, whose lives are more typical, but rather the political leaders at the center of the national story who wielded power. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z According to a London-based expert on the insurance industry, North Korea also exploited the geographical ignorance and political naivete of some reinsurers and their brokers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In January 1997, Bayona advised Farmer that if they wanted to get around the political roadblocks in Peru, they had to go to higher authorities. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I began to accept invitations to share my story at churches, synagogues, schools, and political, military, civic, and philanthropic organizations, locally and across the United States and Canada. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Its chief goal was, and is, for the African people to win unity and full political rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had developed a certain affection for our opponent, for despite Pirow’s noxious political views, he was a humane man without the virulent personal racism of the government he was acting for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A cavalry soldier, restless and caged in the tamed and political East, who loves the great plains and the memory of snow. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was very busy with his politics and his business, traveling constantly, financing new political campaigns, buying land and tractors, raising race horses, and speculating on the price of gold, sugar, and paper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Resentment, frustration, and anger expressed by poor and working-class whites was chalked up to racism, leading to a subterranean discourse about race and to implicitly racial political appeals, but little honest dialogue. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The luxury underground fortress remained operational and ready to receive its political guests until a 1992 expose by Washington Post reporter Ted Gup blew the operation’s cover. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At the end of the table, sitting like a great dropsical gray slug, was William Willoughby, the political symbol of everything her father and men like him despised. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Their government bosses considered it too political, and in the summer of 1937, Houseman and Welles were fired. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Although Garfield filled many government jobs from lists provided by Republican political bosses, he didn't please everyone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In return, Guiteau expected to be rewarded with a political job when Garfield won the election. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As had happened before, former allies of African Americans—as much as conservatives—adopted a political strategy that required them to prove how “tough” they could be on “them,” the dark-skinned pariahs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I wasn’t particularly tuned in to the political events unfolding in the nation that summer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Racial purity, political purity—Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Stanton called her “a grand, brave woman, radical alike in political, religious, and social principles.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z To counterbalance the effect of these new political allies, the authorities also put a handful of common-law prisoners in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She's haughty and well-dressed enough to pass as the daughter of a man of middling political success. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z By the mid-twentieth century, the gene—or the denial of its existence—had already emerged as a potent political and cultural tool. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Madison would actually lead the troops and do the necessary political infighting. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He used the emotional force of the occasion, channeled through his rhetoric, to quietly shift the political ground and redefine the casus belli in a way that suited him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The gaps in pay, education, and health have not become a major political issue. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Maybe they cheered for Nzila, who was now a known political prisoner. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm hoping for hours of uninterrupted romantic political discussion, but Didu thwarts that plan. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His theme was the need for “candor” from political leaders about the dangers of nuclear proliferation and the necessity of international disarmament. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This left the suffragists divided over political strategy. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The two men had a long history of mutual respect and friendship in spite of their political struggles. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z In the current political climate, conservatives extol marriage as the solution to many of society’s ills, while liberals argue that it alone cannot compensate for the effects of imperiled neighborhoods and failing schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Various members of the group had concerns about my political ideology and what a South Africa under ANC leadership might look like. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Each glistening eclair is a grenade aimed at Celia’s political beliefs, each strawberry shortcake proof—in butter, cream, and eggs—of Lourdes’s success in America, and a reminder of the ongoing shortages in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, the political unrest wasn't orchestrated by foreign powers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The American journalist threw out questions to El Jefe about his policies regarding political prisoners and the recent OAS charges of human rights abuses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The book was completed after Huygens had returned to Holland in 1691, partly because of his deteriorating health, but also because the political climate in France had shifted once again. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z By the time of the Crusades, the Catholic Church had become a political force that sought to dominate all Europe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure to find solutions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It normally took years for a political prisoner to raise his status from D to C. We disdained the classification system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Winston-Salem’s Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers was a unique organization, with the union hall functioning as the center of a rich cultural and political community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He had read extensively into law and politics and understood that political machines operated on a first principle of power: If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Dasch watched from afar as Hitler established a one-party state and banned all other political parties. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He majored in political science and English and by going year-round he graduated in three years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of entering the White House—a place of power—Paul wanted the suffragists to stand outside, showing that they had been unjustly shut out of the political process. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Together, they create orderly patterns—such as trade networks, mass celebrations and political institutions—that they could never have created in isolation. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The bitter riots were sparked by King’s assassination, but the fuels that kept them burning were the preexisting conditions: illegal but strictly enforced racial segregation, economic contraction, and an unresponsive political system. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Despite his continued admonishments to Oppenheimer to abandon his political “leftwandering,” Oppenheimer found it hard to cease his engagement with liberal causes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I carried two BlackBerrys—one for work, the other for my personal life and political obligations, which were now, for better or worse, deeply entwined. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Communist political parties jostled for position in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and elsewhere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Esteban Trueba and the other landowners in the area gathered in their club to plan political strategy for the upcoming Presidential elections. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was studying political science at St. John’s at night, working afternoons for a caterer and volunteering whenever he could for John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Confined to ghetto areas and lacking political power, the black poor are convenient targets. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Republicans had been the first to grasp this elemental fact of American political culture in the 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As African Americans obtained political power and began the long march toward greater social and economic equality, whites reacted with panic and outrage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Basner was an excellent boss and as long as I got my work done at the firm he encouraged my political work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For months, the ad played repeatedly on network news stations and was the subject of incessant political commentary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After the July election, the Nazi Party became Germany’s largest political party, earning the Nazis a slight majority of seats in the Reichstag. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It is also that no change of doctrine or in political alignment can ever be admitted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “We are not going to stop demonstrations in this nation until we have good housing and political power. There is something about demonstrating that does something for you, for your dignity; it tells the truth.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a warm, welcoming place and I was often there either to sample a political discussion or MaSisulu’s cooking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty years of continued migration from the South increased blacks’ political muscle on the local level. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z No political gathering managed to attract so many people until half a century later, when the first Marxist candidate attempted, through strictly democratic channels, to become President. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Social alliances and political rivalries were long-term affairs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As political legacies go, the Richards family is one of the most complex bits of history Alex has tried to unravel. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Should we not then be willing to explore vigorously, in every nation, major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental redesign of economic, political, social and religious institutions? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In effect, the fading revolutionary ideology and the growing racial demography were converging to close off the political options. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He paid Tante Heleen for information—stock tips, political pillow talk, anything the Menagerie’s clients blabbed about when drunk or giddy on bliss. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was fond of Cuba, not, I thought, for its political system or ideology, but mainly because of its remarkable health statistics. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He enjoyed the relationships he had formed with the white establishment and did not want to jeopardize them with political action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The political world was no place for good people, I said, explaining how I’d been conflicted about whether Barack should run at all, worried about what the spotlight might do to our family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Everything about me—my face, my fashion—had become political. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In the early 1990s, resistance to the emergence of a new system of racialized social control collapsed across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was a drop in the number of those detained without trial and of deaths of political prisoners while under police custody. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had informed him who we were, or that we were political prisoners, or that I was a lawyer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Working-class men attempting political power took to calling one another ‘brother.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, criminals are the one social group in America that nearly everyone—across political, racial, and class boundaries—feels free to hate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The books were of the most varied kind—history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law—all relating to England and English life and customs and manners. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Even more palpably, the fullest expression of his best energies always occurred when the long-term public interest, as he understood it, clashed with the political imperatives of the moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She wanted them to be religious, and I thought they should be political. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Jefferson-Madison collaboration, Madison was not just responsible for handling the messy particulars; he was also accountable for shielding his chief from the political ambitions throbbing away in his own soul. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Delegates, state senators—the governor. All the political pooh-bahs. And all those media people, too—the newspapers, TV. This is a big issue, Brady!” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z We encouraged our political comrades in the general section to be charged and placed in isolation so that they could retrieve these notes and send replies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Writers would now be free to make their political contributions in the form of their creative work. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Between my underground political work and legal cases, I had not been able to see him for some time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Where were those spellbinding speaking talents and uncanny political instinct being put to use? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As Jefferson had understood from the moment Washington stepped down, the American president must forever after be the head of a political party. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The conference underlined one of the most important and demanding tasks before the ANC: to transform an illegal underground liberation movement to a legal mass political party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The man whose house was targeted was a political activist. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Although they shared resources, there is little evidence that people from one culture visited the other often, or had friendships across the political lines. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Pompey asked to meet with the king to remind him of their long-standing family and political ties and to request a safe harbor and support. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z In addition to their germs and technology, Eurasian and Native American societies differed in their political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Woodhull then grabbed the podium, shouted out a motion to adjourn, and urged everyone to go to the Apollo Hall the next morning for a meeting of a new political party. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They lacked political and social mechanisms, which we take for granted, to achieve peaceful resolution of serious disputes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Adams was distinctive, however, for his tendency to regard even serious political and ideological differences as eminently negotiable once elemental bonds of personal trust and affection were established. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Europe’s barriers were sufficient to prevent political unification, but insufficient to halt the spread of technology and ideas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Saying that colorblindness is the problem may alarm some in the civil rights community, especially the pollsters and political consultants who have become increasingly influential in civil rights advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To Senator Trueba, all political parties except his own were potentially Marxist, and he could not distinguish one ideology from another. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I maintained a code for myself, though, when it came to speaking publicly about anything or anyone in the political sphere: I said only what I absolutely believed and what I absolutely felt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The disagreement, which has ramifying political implications, is encapsulated by Amazonia, the subject to which I will now turn. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After smallpox wiped out much of the political elite, each panaqa tried to move into the vacuum, stoking the passions of the civil war. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Suzman was one of the few, if not the only, members of Parliament who took an interest in the plight of political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, everybody has to write something. You’re no exception. Do you want everyone to think you have a bad political attitude?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as in their encounter with Native Americans, Europeans entering Africa enjoyed the triple advantage of guns and other technology, widespread literacy, and the political organization necessary to sustain expensive programs of exploration and conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We cannot know how many secret meetings and political dinners occurred in New York during the late spring and early summer of 1790. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This line of questioning allowed the authors to feel creative and protected anyone who held an unpopular political opinion. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The antis used the same arguments they had used all along: Suffrage would destroy the home; it was “unwomanly”; mothers would neglect their children, and wives would divorce their husbands over political disagreements. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The social and political application of the ideas of Aristarchus and Copernicus was rejected or ignored. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he was able to compile a mailing list of thousands of rank-and-file Klansmen and other supporters who would eventually become his political base. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z During that time they had weathered the heaviest political storms to sweep the state. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of that, the massive death toll created a political crisis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The silversmith was busy drawing a political cartoon concerning tea and tyranny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is no need for a new political party,” Ms. Wyman states flatly Thursday morning in homeroom. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I did not know that night how little I understood the political party to which I had belonged. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence the real problem in understanding China’s loss of political and technological preeminence to Europe is to understand China’s chronic unity and Europe’s chronic disunity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The more he attempted to focus on the print on the page before him, the more clearly the Prime Minister could see the gloating face of one of his political opponents. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But in this instance, hindsight does not make us clairvoyant so much as blind to the ghosts and goblins that floated above the political landscape in the 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Yes, and been amused by my political stupidity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Building his campaign around reforming the city’s political system and better tending to its neglected neighborhoods, Washington won the election by a hair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The cable news anchors had finally made their way to Iowa and were now singing the praises of this political wunderkind who’d comfortably bested the Clinton machine as well as a former vice presidential nominee. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Many Eurasian states and empires had official religions that contributed to state cohesion, being invoked to legitimize the political leadership and to sanction wars against other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As explained in the preceding section, I inferred that competition between different political entities spurred innovation in geographically fragmented Europe, and that the lack of such competition held innovation back in unified China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer rejected the overture on the spot, though the encounter would create a political problem for him down the line. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That is, they still used stone tools similar to those superseded in Europe by metal tools thousands of years ago, and they dwelt in villages not organized under any centralized political authority. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The poet in me evolved from attending political meetings with my stepfather and his comrades. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In political organization, Polynesian islands ranged from landscapes divided into independent tribal or village units, up to multi-island proto-empires that devoted standing military establishments to invasions of other islands and wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s used to describe political movements that whip up hate and fear against outsiders and try to disguise them as patriotism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “It is particularly a great pity that they are frittering away so much time and energy on political problems, when they could be devoting themselves to scientific pursuits.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thanks to the political patronage system, still in place despite President Hayes’s efforts to fix it, Garfield was expected to fill thousands of government positions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I was astonished and indeed somewhat dismayed to learn that my political mentor Gaur Radebe had joined the PAC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the congregation in the square might have been expecting a parade, or attending a political rally. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The geographic boundaries of the political/social spheres that could usefully be grouped as “Europe” or “China” fluctuated over the centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In only a few weeks he changed from knowing little enough about the political excitement, and caring less, to being an ardent Whig. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The PAC at the time appeared lost; they were a leadership in search of followers, and they had yet to initiate any action that put them on the political map. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We asked her about being arrested and being a political prisoner and a freedom fighter. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We demanded that all political prisoners be in one category. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing empowered European societies by facilitating political administration and economic exchanges, motivating and guiding exploration and conquest, and making available a range of information and human experience extending into remote places and times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune before turning to political consulting and would lead the messaging and media for Barack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Somehow, astonishingly, she managed to use her position of political influence to quietly help out an estimated five thousand people who might otherwise have been victims of Stalin’s purges. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I remember that when I finally met you and challenged your political apathy, you came up with this idea. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A suffragist from Tennessee said, “We burn not the effigy of the President of a free people, but the leader of an autocratic party organization whose tyrannical power holds millions of women in political slavery.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z All over the walls were framed, autographed photographs of major league stars, and also some political and show business celebrities who would come there to eat, bringing friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My bans extended to meetings of all kinds, not just political ones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The students, the sons and daughters of older black residents, started the political and social unrest in Selma,” recalled Annie Lee Cooper. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The majority of them were common criminals, but there were a few political prisoners among them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The offer sounded genuine, and not the product of political posturing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The authorities also moved some young political prisoners from the PAC into the cells opposite ours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "We are making temporary alliances with other political groups and the interests of one group of brothers must be sacrificed to that of the whole." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well then, I don’t care how much political fast-talking you hear, that’s what it’s all about and that’s what them fellers died for, and I tell you, Lawrence, I don’t understand it at all.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, there is the Hamiltonian confidence that the concentration of political and economic power was a dynamic force; it was not a threatening cluster of invasive corruption, but a synergistic fusion of developmental energies. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Is it just doodling, or is it political commentary, an act of aggression? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The Klan had neither the economic clout nor the political savvy to manipulate social institutions, and so it depended on overt violence of the most basic type: the fist, the rope, or the gun. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The economic, political, and social forces that unloosed themselves on the streets of Petrograd and launched the Russian Revolution were vastly more complex than Alexei’s hemophilia or Rasputin’s machinations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The uproar among the gallery made me forget for a moment that I would be going to prison to serve what was then the stiffest sentence yet imposed in South Africa for a political offense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence “black is beautiful” and “gay pride”—slogans and anthems of political movements aimed at ending not only legal discrimination, but the stigma that justified it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Violence in the country was worsening; the death toll of 1990 was already over fifteen hundred, more than all the political deaths of the previous year. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After working on the project for a few months, I was made acting supervisor of essays and straightway I ran into political difficulties. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What Hamilton seemed to see in Burr, then, was a man very much like himself in several respects: ambitious, energetic, possessing an instinctive strategic antenna and a willingness to take political risks. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When he broached the topic, he found that legal and political leaders were largely sympathetic to his ideas. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The radicals of the late nineteenth century, who later formed the Populist Party, viewed the privileged classes as conspiring to keep poor whites and blacks locked into a subordinate political and economic position. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But behind the scenes there was a growing political uproar. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Congress had moved gradual emancipation off its political agenda; its decision in the spring of 1790 became a precedent with the force of common law. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The primary issue discussed was the definition of political pris-oners and political exiles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z George's white court-appointed attorney, a tax lawyer with political aspirations, called no witnesses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “And the Liberal Party will go to hell,” Severo added, anticipating the damage to his political career that could be caused by having a bewitched child in the family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not simply about how governments, business, and people communicate, not just about how organizations interact, but is about the emergence of completely new social, political, and business models. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z If I had returned, my political evolution would have been stunted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Why do anything else when your lifestyle feeds you amply and supports a rich world of social structures, religious beliefs and political dynamics? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Liszt’s fifth innovation was a product of the particular political geography into which he was born. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The political deal Jefferson described would never go down in Virginia, where assumption was regarded as a “fatal poison” and the Potomac location “of but little importance” in comparison. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As one who had helped to make those political revolutions happen, he claimed to be completely comfortable in stormy weather. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Adams had somehow managed to miss the political rewards due him and catch the criticism that properly belonged to others. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Adams had written them much earlier and had described Jefferson as a duplicitous political partisan. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Ulster Scots had a key role in shaping not just the geography of the United States but also its political leadership. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Assumption was not a plot to destroy the political integrity of the states; it was a plan to consolidate their debts and nationalize the economy for the benefit of all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then, in folksy tones, he went on to use the business of political expenses—he argued that the slush fund actually saved the American taxpayer money—as the basis for a roaring ethos appeal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was corrupt and demeaning, another way of repressing prisoners in general and political prisoners in particular. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By selecting the Potomac location, the Congress had implicitly decided to separate the political and financial capitals of the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, as civil rights advocates converted a grassroots movement into a legal campaign, and as civil rights leaders became political insiders, many civil rights organizations became top-heavy with lawyers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While all this was going on, the political situation in Styria deteriorated. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As a result of the raid, more than four hundred other youth groups—mostly political and religious groups—vanished. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Why didn't they immediately apply for political asylum? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Our appearances in court became the occasion for exuberant political rallies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The National Research Council, which had been founded in 1916 as a conduit of government funds to academic institutions but had been hobbled by political infighting and academic mistrust, became revivified in the postwar years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Who were we to question the decisions of political bodies so highly placed? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been confined to Johannesburg for two years, chained to my legal and political work, and had neglected Mandela family affairs in the Transkei. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Denial is facilitated by persistent racial segregation in housing and schools, by political demagoguery, by racialized media imagery, and by the ease of changing one’s perception of reality simply by changing television channels. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If there was a silver lining, it was that the earthquake brought new funding and world attention to a country that had suffered in obscurity through too many natural, political, and health disasters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But the leaders of this political Klan defended their tactics by claiming that tough “law-and-order” measures would end social turmoil. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He declined, saying that he intended to make the name of Cicero as famous as those of Scaurus and Catulus, political giants of previous generations. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A large political meeting was going on there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Or if one wished to think biologically rather than architecturally, the body politic had yet to develop its immunities to the political diseases afflicting all new nations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I get the feeling he’s as serious about this whole political party thing as I am. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Learning from its lessons in Peru, Haiti, and Russia, PIH works closely with governments and their agencies to minimize political misunderstandings and to deploy their complementary resources. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Her only political ambition was to “reign in the heart of my husband. That is my throne and there I aspire to be absolute.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Would that mean that a higher degree of political fragmentation than Europe’s would be even better? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I tried to convince them, using every argument I could think of along with gifts and pressure, even bringing my political power to bear, but it was all in vain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When Hailey’s Comet reappears in 1986,1 wonder what political leaders will fear the apparition, what other silliness will then be upon us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Garfield's Ohio political friends had been working toward winning him a seat in the U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They spent a few hours in this formal visit, speaking of the opera season, trips to Europe, the political situation, and the winter chills, while they drank sweet wine and ate puff pastries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “All prisoners, political or otherwise,” says the second, “are forced to do labor, even if they have not been sentenced to it.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And the other great idea she had was why didn’t the editorial board of the Voice write a best-selling political sex novel.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This does not mean that the political history of the early republic can be understood as a polite forensic exercise conducted by a marvelously well-behaved collection of demigods. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A spy from Karhide, a pervert, an agent, a sorry little political Unit like themselves. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Evenings were often taken up with political work and meetings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “My own feeling is that this political activity of many of our atomic scientists is unfortunate in many ways,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The more his parents climbed the political ranks, the more he started to reckon with the fact that soon the world would know who he was. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I advocated that we should remain seated, as it was demeaning to have to recognize the enemy when he did not recognize us as political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For all the reasons that we discussed in Chapters 13 and 14, the farmers and the fishing peoples were the ones to develop more-complex technology, societies, and political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She believed that if Woodhull wanted to start a political party, she should hire her own hall and call her own meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But the talks proved too abstract and bloodless, and far too disengaged from the social and political issues of the day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps a final reason to accept the credibility of Jefferson’s version of the story, then, is that he was not boasting about his political influence, but confessing his profound regret. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For a political leader to rally his country during wartime is one of the ultimate tests of the ethos appeal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Though they’d been political rivals only months earlier, Barack and Joe had a natural rapport, both of them able to slide with ease between the seriousness of their work and the lightness of family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was among white and Indian intellectuals of my own generation, young men who would form the vanguard of the most important political movements of the next few years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The word that captured the essence of the Virginians’ political mentality was consolidation, as in “the dreaded consolidation that was denied by the friends of the new government, when it was under consideration.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Whereas Hamilton’s central charge against Jefferson was that he was a utopian visionary with a misguided set of political principles, hiscore criticism of Burr was that he was wholly devoid of any principles at all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As the political upheaval settled down, the mamas would take care of him alongside the other nursery bonobos — but it was only because he’d bonded with me that he’d pulled through and survived. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They were political prisoners who formed the camp's underground resistance. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Hamilton’s distinction between personal and political criticism was designed to change the dispute with Burr from an affair of honor to a political difference of opinion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Social distinctions and chiefly powers increased on high-density islands with large political units, being especially marked on Tonga and the Societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I had been young, the people of Qunu were not political at all; they were unaware of the struggle for African rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s life during this period was not all theological, political, or philosophical, however. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Miguel put off his thesis and his political meetings, because he and Alba wanted to be together every hour of the day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Europeans routinely lost when they could not take advantage of disease and political fragmentation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But Frank would not shed his political beliefs; nor was he as willing as Robert to suppress them in the name of career advancement. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The birth of mass incarceration can be traced to a similar political dynamic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Judge overrides are an incredibly potent political tool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I asked for a definition of what was expected from the writers, books or political activity. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In a sense, or at least in one important—the most important—area, they had more political power than the governor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We made a distinction between academic studies, which were official, and political studies, which were not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Women, patronized for millennia, traditionally denied real political and economic power, are gradually becoming, even in the most backward societies, equal partners with men. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the next hour a few ministers and political leaders arrived, and telephone negotiations with the insurgents were begun in order to gauge the magnitude of the insurrection and to find a peaceful settlement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The structure and organization of early African societies in this country fascinated me very much and greatly influenced the evolution of my political outlook. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is marvellous how political Plants grow in the shade.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Among the papers were news clippings, a letter to the press, and the unsent letter he had written on June 16 in which he justified his actions to the American people as “a political necessity.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Earlier in the year, Comrade Pillai’s political ambitions had been given an unexpected boost. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But in Norway and Sweden, we were greeted with open arms, and given assistance and scholarships and money for legal defense and humanitarian aid for political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Madison in 1790, he wanted slavery off the American political agenda. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Over the next two years the political discord, fueled by the Congress Party and the Church, slid into anarchy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He worried that his wife’s taking such a radical stand could harm his political future, so he encouraged Elizabeth to drop the proposal and threatened to leave town if she read the resolution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Reducing ways for others to interfere with the political system gave Caesar more control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z My inclination was to explain the political situation as truthfully and objectively as possible and not omit the accomplishments of the PAC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack had lost his mother at the very genesis of his political career, two months after announcing his run for state senate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But this will never happen while political organizations retain the slightest power to reward or to punish. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded more like a political point of view than a therapeutic strategy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer, completely aware of the encounter’s political and cultural implications, accepted the extra layer of significance as his own responsibility. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “It is time for Illinois to recognize the colored women as a political equal,” said the president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z For the moment, the American public and its political leadership were indifferent to these concerns. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Black “welfare cheats” and their dangerous offspring emerged, for the first time, in the political discourse and media imagery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When he returned from his first political posting, as quaestor in Sicily, for instance, he imagined his fame would have spread far and wide. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Inventing a uniquely German form of opera, therefore, for Wagner, was a political choice. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Bateson was acutely aware of the potential social and political impact of the newborn science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Since his inauguration as vice president, Arthur had had little contact with Garfield except to lobby for political appointments that the Stalwarts wanted. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z What no British bullet could do in the revolutionary war, the opposition press had managed to do in the political battles during his second term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We asked for contact with other prisoners, and in general made the same basic complaint that we always had: to be treated as political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat in a chair between his political advisers and, wrapped in his woolen blanket, he listened in silence to the brief proposals of the emissaries. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Yet it was at that moment of maximum affluence that the Roman political order collapsed into a series of deadly civil wars. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson had recently ensconced himself at Monticello, relishing his retirement, and Madison was returning to the political wars in Philadelphia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z One morning, after breakfast, Kathy, Walter, Eddie Daniels, and I drifted over to the garden at the southern end of the courtyard where we appeared to be having a political discussion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To some, it was a liberating assertion of racial pride; to others, it announced the increasing importance of political rather than social goals in the ever-evolving battle for black progress. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Net hysteria, a staple of modem journalistic and political life, flares up whenever there’s a killing, sex assault, new vims, hacking incident, or other problem even remotely connected to the Internet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Provision was also made for house arrest, the most well-known use of which was imposed on the white political activist Helen Joseph. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The authorities were in the process of finishing an entirely separate maximum- security structure for political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This is not much of a coincidence, since most of the royal houses of Europe at the time were interconnected by a web of political marriages. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the 1968 election, race eclipsed class as the organizing principle of American politics, and by 1972, attitudes on racial issues rather than socioeconomic status were the primary determinant of voters’ political self-identification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But my suspicions and fears for the doctor were keen, not so much because of his political activities but from my simple fondness for him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What Adams could never quite fathom, and Jefferson understood intuitively, was that the very word “aristocracy” had become an epithet in the political culture of postrevolutionary America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Even among those who signed, the experience of being forced to affirm one’s political loyalty was so repugnant that the real issue became whether to stay at Berkeley at all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He believed that a young lawyer had more political opportunities in a small-town practice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A kindly, educated old man with a big white Panama hat who worried mostly about his digestion, my grandfather entertained no political ambitions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Raising the issue of class was likely to get you tagged as a Communist, a designation which killed your political effectiveness, not to mention your ability to put food on the family table. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He has proved the point that a man can, after all, stand up for justice and constitutional law and still not sacrifice his political career. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve heard that if a political complains, the guards in charge of that cell will be in very hot water indeed—maybe even shot! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From these items I drew my first political conclusions about Bigger: I felt that Bigger, an American product, a native son of this land, carried within him the potentialities of either Communism or Fascism. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Mustafa counseled us not to neglect the political side of war while planning the military effort. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, just two people other than Shin are known to have escaped from any political prison camp in North Korea and made it to the West. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Conversely, Europe, in its rush toward political and economic unity today, will have to devote much thought to how to avoid dismantling the underlying reason behind its successes of the last five centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a condition to real negotiations, I said, the government must immediately end the State of Emergency and free all political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From the moment she arrived at the District Jail, Alice Paul asked for political prisoner status. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Since the 1913 procession, they had tried lobbying, meeting with President Wilson, and holding additional parades, but nothing seemed to generate political support for women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was the secret, no doubt, of the extraordinary political career he threw away for my sake; it was also the explanation of his belief in me and devotion to my mission. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Because nothing like the full-blooded machinery of a modern political party system existed, Adams conveyed his tentative scheme for a bipartisan initiative informally through letters and conversations sure to be picked up by the press. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Indeed, not long after the drug war was ramped up in the media and political discourse, almost no one imagined that “drug criminals” could be anything other than black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Although some men are segregationists merely for reasons of political expediency and political gain, not all of the resistance to integration is the rear-guard of professional bigots. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Alex knows it’ll probably leave a mark, which is against rule number one of clandestine hookups for political offspring—and probably royals too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At the same time, the SS was ordered to kill several other political opponents and anyone whom Hitler believed had betrayed the Nazi movement. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The shift in focus served to align the goals of the Civil Rights Movement with key political goals of poor and working-class whites, who were also demanding economic reforms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If Hamilton had presented his distinction between personal and political criticism earlier, the affair would most probably have ended before it began. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z No one in the political leadership of the early American republic needed to be reminded who Catiline was. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Whatever was written on the paper, it must have some kind of political meaning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The law set up the Civil Service Commission to fill thousands of federal government jobs based on applicants' experience and ability, not their political connections. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For much of the summer of 1932, she was a regular presence at Darlington Hall, she and his lordship often spending hour after hour deep in conversation, typically of a social or political nature. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She showed me how, in the country’s entire social, political and economic structure, the criminal, the law, and the politicians were actually inseparable partners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In this sense the place was like modern purpose-built political capitals, such as Washington, D.C., or Canberra, Australia, with sanctifying civic monuments to compensate for a lack of real history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Since it was a political season, and Senators Kennedy and Humphrey were crisscrossing the state running for president, the glare of national scrutiny was settling on West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With Nazario leading the fight for political, social, and economic power, anything was possible. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Optics governed more or less everything in the political world, and I factored this into every outfit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Such a thing as an independent political movement was outside her imagination; and in any case the Party was invincible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Although it never seemed to be part of the conscious intention of either Jefferson or Madison at the time, the isolated location and de novo character of the national capital had even deeper political implications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Things are going well on the political front. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Many professors were fired, arrested, or simply disappeared, in accordance with a blacklist in the hands of the political police. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And more: that it was the only legitimate object of not just political but religious fervor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, he thought it inappropriate for scientists to engage in political activity of any kind—“political fiddling around,” as he called it in a conversation with Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Shortly after we started working at the quarry, we were joined in Section B by a number of other prominent political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But at least his evil didn’t involve the widespread manipulation of an entire faction and the systematic murder of every political leader we have.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He wasn’t just concerned about the political disaster if a servant of the elves drowned within sight of the palace. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Within the state's political leadership, however, acceptance of desegregation was short-lived. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He had recently been taken to the dentist in Cape Town and discovered that the dentist himself was related by marriage to a well-known political prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our so-called colorblind society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure—the structure of racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Some wrote to further their careers; others, to score political points. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She was born in Virginia in the 1880s, after federal troops had been withdrawn and a reign of violence and terror had begun, designed to deny any political or social rights for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I hated sometimes how the lines had blurred between family life and political life for us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But it is a mark of maize’s social, cultural, and even political centrality that it was the first—and for centuries the only—phenomenon to pass from Mexico to the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Until the emergence of Napoleon as dictator, the French government, eventually called the Directory, was a misnamed coalition of ever-shifting political factions inherently incapable of either coherence or direction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was this story about a kid in Idaho—two hours away, and in so many ways Utah’s cultural and political sibling. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What one historian has called “the perishability of revolutionary time” meant that the political will to act was also racing against the clock. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z By the eleventh century CE, Christianity in the form of Catholicism was the dominant religion in Europe, and church leaders held a great deal of political power. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And some have charged that the claims advance the political agenda of those who seek to discredit European culture, because the high numbers seem to inflate the scale of native loss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I check the rest of our political contributions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediate reasons for Pizarro’s success included military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses; infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia; European maritime technology; the centralized political organization of European states; and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We were just talking about how I’ve decimated my reputation and killed my own political career.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Powers's new prison cell, which he shared with a political prisoner from Latvia, was even smaller than his previous one. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Today, the political fanfare and the vehement, racialized rhetoric regarding crime and drugs are no longer necessary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had risked everything on this political adventure. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His central theme was that no new African nation, trying to decolonize itself, needed any political system that would permit division and bickering. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The movie reminded me once again that on the day I did walk out of prison, I did not want to appear to be a political fossil from an age long past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wish that you would let me alone. I am addressing a political meeting tonight, and I must organize my thoughts.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The union leaders were either in jail or dead, political parties had been indefinitely recessed, and all student-worker organizations, and even professional associations, had been dismantled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the buildup of super-tall skyscrapers along the Asian rim in our own time, architectural gigantism followed the accumulation of sufficient money and political confidence to make such gestures. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It was the conflation of blackness and crime in the media and political discourse that made the drug war and the sudden, massive expansion of our prison system possible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hirohito’s father was what Sister Mukumbu called a “freedom fighter” and a “political prisoner.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year that same number of Europeans—Irish and Germans mostly, fleeing famine and political unpleasantness—streamed into the harbors of Boston, New York, Philadelphia. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On September 23, 1949, a news flash turned up the political heat in the debate over nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If colorblindness is such a bad idea, though, why have people across the political spectrum become so attached to it? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Have you people considered forming a political party and running a candidate?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work out fairly and equitably. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Undoubtedly, the political and cultural context of the drug war—particularly in the early years—encouraged the roundup. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the short run this practice created political tensions that the Inka manipulated to control both groups. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Burr’s facile shift in his allegiance, the first in what would be several similarly agile switches during his career, captured Hamilton’s attention and produced his first recorded anti-Burr remarks, questioning Burr’s lack of political principle. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Among the resulting proximate factors behind the conquest, the most important included differences in germs, technology, political organization, and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I know the Nazis have rounded up homosexuals and political prisoners. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Despite recent efforts to locate the title in the twentieth century, they comprised, by any informed and fair-minded standard, the greatest generation of political talent in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She was beginning to form her own political views, which she often wrote about in her diary and letters. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z After this astonishing political loss, Conkling and fellow New York senator and Stalwart ally Thomas Pratt dramatically resigned their Senate seats in mid-May. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Take away the seat of national political power. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The capstone of the Jefferson-Madison collaboration occurred at this volatile political moment—namely, their joint authorship of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But judging by the political rhetoric and the legal rules employed in the War on Drugs, this result is no freak accident. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I’ve thought it over. I think you are the best one. Jiang Ji-li, this is an important political assignment. I hope you will accept it and try to win honor for our class. All right?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence, even though terrified of political commitments, Bloom had gone out on a limb and it had cost them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Depending on which way the political winds are blowing, the public and the government in Seoul swing between blinkered conciliation and careful confrontation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The rebellions that were to shake music, however, were almost entirely divorced from political realities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was a remarkable achievement that Japan, unlike so many other non-European countries, preserved its political independence and culture while emerging from isolation and creating an industrialized society in the late 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While the field of government is often termed “political science” and the Nobel Prize in economics refers to “economic science,” history departments rarely if ever label themselves “Department of Historical Science.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That same year, another event forced me to recast my whole approach to political work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Luigi Cherubini was one such composer, born in Florence but able to flourish in Paris by tiptoeing deftly between opposing camps as political power changed hands before, during and after the Revolution. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Lincoln set a new standard for political oratory, but he didn’t abolish what went before—and the high style is still visible in Lincoln’s successors. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z His amiable North Country personality cloaked a sharp legal mind and soaring political ambition. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Madison, who knew him better than any man alive, fully realized that there was an invisible line somewhere in Jefferson’s mind above which lay his most cherished personal and political ideals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In a country that preaches the virtues of democracy, one could reasonably assume that being stripped of basic political rights would be treated by judges and court personnel as a serious matter indeed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It took some time, and a great deal of political turmoil, but these incentives were eventually curtailed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Albertina, Walter’s wife, was a wise and wonderful presence, and a strong supporter of Walter’s political work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some children were rejected if their parents were not good enough Nazis or if they had “objectionable political attitudes.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the very core of the revolutionary legacy, however, was a virulent hatred of monarchy and an inveterate suspicion of any consolidated version of political authority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She was one of my favorite teachers, a tiny dark passionate woman with circles under her eyes who taught political science. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Even with an entire political party conspiring to see Barack fail, we had no choice but to stay positive and carry on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Alba helped decorate the new apartment, hanging curtains and political posters everywhere she could and even suggesting that she might move in with him, but on this point Miguel was unyielding. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His attack was on those who wrote history to ratify and glorify the present, particularly present political arrangements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Madison produced six reasons why Jefferson’s gesture of support might create unacceptable political risks. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “There are more important requirements, political considerations ...” “Oh, Dad, that’s no problem.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the long run, the evolution of an independent American nation, gradually developing its political and economic strength over the nineteenth century within the protective constraints of the British Empire, was probably inevitable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We must be willing to challenge courageously the conventional social, political, economic and religious wisdom. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If I indulge in personal political history, it is because I think my experience may not be unique. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At first you tell yourself that it's all a dirty joke, or that it's due to the "political situation." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Some considered the federal amendment a challenge to states’ rights to make their own choices and laws, and others worried that expanding African American suffrage to include women could threaten white political control. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It had happened before, and it had cost a territorial governor his head a hundred years ago, and it had cost another governor his political career only twenty years ago. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Goebbels—a particularly vicious anti-Semite who had engineered much of Hitler’s political rise—was now systematically dismantling what remained of a free press in Germany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This was vintage Adams bravado, shouting his denial at political advice he knew to be sound, refusing to listen because it was patently political and merely self-protective. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Bell was being argued in the Supreme Court in 1927, the rhetoric of genetics and eugenics penetrated social, political, and personal discourses in the United States. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions and counterrevolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Because he came from Boston and rode for the Observer, he was often questioned about the political thinking at the capital. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z George had a close relationship with an Egyptian cousin, Henri Curiel, a leading Communist organizer who later moved to France and was assassinated in 1978, most likely for his political activities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It is worthy of note, however, that the exclusion of black voters from polling booths is not the only way in which black political power has been suppressed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I then summarized our complaints, beginning with the central and most important one, that we were political prisoners, not criminals, and that we should be treated as such. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Hoover had avoided the stain of Teapot Dome, he had overseen the bureau’s rogue intelligence division, which had spied on individuals merely because of their political beliefs. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While Galileo was contemplating major changes in his personal life, and also gathering together the material from his years of experimental work for a planned book, the political situation in Italy changed dramatically. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I would certainly be criticized for letting my family relationships interfere with my political principles. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was no doubt taking the political wind into account, navigating Soviet affairs of state as carefully as she navigated the skies. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z While Madison was probably stretching the truth for his Potomac-driven political purposes, it was nevertheless a truth that he and many Virginians sincerely believed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Another thing I wish to stress is that the Crusades were an unholy muddle of political motives, greed, savage brutality, and religious fervor. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z But there was relief from these shadowy political bouts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Third, and finally, Adams derived deep personal satisfaction from singular acts of principle that defied the agendas of both political parties. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Among its regional leaders were five former Confederate generals; its staunchest supporters were the plantation owners for whom Reconstruction posed an economic and political nightmare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For small isolated islands without strong barriers to internal communication, the entire island constituted the political unit—as in the case of Anuta, with its 160 people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We want to be regarded as human beings in the land of our birth. And the present political system denies us that right.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In many communities in Natal and on the Reef around Johannesburg, a poisonous mixture of crime, political rivalries, police brutality, and shadowy death squads made life brutish and untenable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Barriers to re-entry, specifically the myriad laws that operate to discriminate against people with criminal records in every aspect of their social, economic, and political lives, must be eliminated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This was both a matter of personal pride and a crucial political precedent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As we saw in Chapter 2, though, Polynesian political and social organization and economies underwent great diversification in different environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Here, we must turn to archaeology for evidence of the technological, political, and agricultural advantages that some Asians evidently gained over other Asians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In other words, if he did not answer Burr’s challenge, he would be repudiating his well-known convictions, and in so doing, he would lose the respect of those political colleagues on whom his reputation depended. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This wasn’t the last time I’d see the Africans’ almost fanatic expression of their political emotions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z While he tended to defer to Adams on the basis of age and political experience, Jefferson dominated his relationship with Madison for the same reasons. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Military training, I said, must go hand in hand with political training, for a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair and just society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z White reaction was swift and stern: white legislators sent back a message instructing blacks to end “the assertion of impractical claims for social and political rights.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead, a group known as the Big Six—the country’s three top political and three top military leaders—met to argue and hammer out decisions. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The authorities began a crackdown against political prisoners as though we had held the knife that stabbed Verwoerd. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The political dialogue within the highest echelon of the revolutionary generation was a decade-long shouting match. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I wasn’t interested in following the tenets of the political world or appearing on Sunday morning news shows. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the early 1620s, as the Thirty Years War temporarily shifted in favour of the Catholic side, the political situation in Italy changed in ways that would affect Galileo dramatically. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Washington, he said, was wrong in telling whites that blacks didn’t want or need political and social equality or higher education. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z To hear him describe it, what we were about to do—kill a bunch of chickens in the backyard—was nothing less than a political act. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Confederate flags were proudly displayed throughout the region, boldly and defiantly marking the cultural, social, and political landscape. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z An Osage leader said that Hale “should have been hanged for his crimes,” and members of the tribe were convinced that the board’s decision was the last vestige of Hale’s political influence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Law enforcement officials, no less than the rest of us, have been exposed to the racially charged political rhetoric and media imagery associated with the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While your country was in a political crisis and young people were getting shot at by the police, I was essentially passing for white. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z All its energies, it seemed, were absorbed in factional fights, hair-splitting political definitions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re going to need you to focus. Best not to waste your time on any political movements or whatever is going on over there,” he said, nodding in Stephanie’s direction. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The society, active in the preservation and marking of historic sites, was known for its conservative social and political policies. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z And the state didn’t exercise a monopoly on prosecutions, either: any citizen could bring a case against any other citizen—thus giving rise to a succession of nakedly political or grudge-motivated trials. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Above all, both political revolutions and the Scientific Revolution have had unintended, not intended, outcomes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I'm not too political, but my parents are Democrats, and my cousin Anu is becoming so far left she can't see center. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He’d paired up with two other veterans, both former military officers who had extensive political and military connections. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On one occasion on the eve of the elections, Don Apolinar Moscote returned from one of his frequent trips worried about the political situation in the country. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Indeed, because of their historical and rhetorical association with the successful war against British imperialism, they were the most potent forces in the entire political culture. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Henry wasn’t around much, because he spent most of his time working and trying to launch a political career. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The agreement also set forth target dates for the release of political prisoners and the granting of certain types of indemnity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no doubt that Europeans developed a big advantage in weaponry, technology, and political organization over most of the non-European peoples that they conquered. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d held many divisive meetings with his advisors about the political and military situation in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t keep you from medical care. But you know very well”—he looked straight at me—“that Delia Santos is on the political list. The rules clearly state, no contact with politicals.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The year of Chopin’s final concert, 1848, was one of huge political upheaval across Europe; it was a year of revolutions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But the prison authorities wielded the classification system as a weapon against political prisoners, threatening to lower our hard-won classifications in order to control our behavior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize that I am a Catholic, moreover, when I listen skeptically to a political thinker describe with enthusiasm a scheme for lasting political change. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The promotion of superstition was not considered a political necessity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although some semblance of the routinized mechanisms for political parties had begun to congeal during the debate over Jay's Treaty, nothing remotely resembling the organized campaign structure of modern political parties yet existed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “They planted a bomb that killed innocent people to make a political point,” he said. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She and her political supporters went to the states where women had won the right to vote, and they campaigned against Democrats—Democrats, even those who supported suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “You might actually be interested in him. He was known for his political cartoons.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He did have an ideological alternative to free- market capitalism—political Islam. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z All this political reading made me think the island was ripe for an all-out race riot and political revolution just like the Haiti Graham Greene had written about in The Comedians. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Drug use, once considered a private, public-health matter, was reframed through political rhetoric and media imagery as a grave threat to the national order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer started going to political meetings and discussion groups. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But in fact, from its genesis Olympia was a political and ideological production. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Writing marched together with weapons, microbes, and centralized political organization as a modern agent of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the dizzying sequence of events that comprises the political history of the 1790s, the full range of their disagreement was exposed and their different agenda for the United States collided head-on. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Jefferson and Madison claimed to share their apprehensions and their political principles, but not their secessionist impulses. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A study indicates that whether or not a department has a mathematics or a statistics requirement is the most important single determinant of where a woman will attend graduate school to study political science. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Disease not only shattered the family bonds that were the underlying foundation of Indian societies, it wiped out the political superstructure at the top. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Eventually the committee became known as Ulundi, and acted as a disciplinary committee for all political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a small reminder that Indians were neither the peaceful, love-thy- neighbor types envisioned by some apologists or the brutal, ceaselessly aggressive warriors decried by some political critics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some observers considered Garfield’s assassination to be the tragic result of vicious political quarrels. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Was this Jefferson’s roundabout way of suggesting that he and Adams had in effect been acting out a timeless political argument? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z From legal and political standpoints, what happened to Emmett Till was all but swept under the rug for almost fifty years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “If you’re in DC for work all the time, beginning your meteoric rise to the political stratosphere?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Klan's growth caused South Dakota governor Ben Olcott to complain in 1922 that “we woke up one morning and found that the Klan had about gained political control of the state.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z No one had ever accused Root of political correctness. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I had let it get away from me, had been unable to bring in the political issues. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The most pressing political question—for a few more weeks, at least—was what President Clinton would name his new dog. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There were also probably personal or political issues going on that we don’t know about. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z My grandmother’s parents were deeply embittered by how the promise of freedom and equality following slavery ended when white Southern Democrats reclaimed political power through violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The common version of leadership that bound this distinguished constellation together was a keen appreciation of the political threat that any direct consideration of slavery represented in the still-fragile American republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The authorities were concerned we might “infect” the other prisoners with our political views. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We must come to see, too, how our economic insecurities and racial resentments have been exploited for political gain, and how this manipulation has caused suffering for people of all colors. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This offer was extended to all political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they cheered for Nzila, who was now a known political prisoner. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, during Teddy Roosevelt’s era, much remaining communal territory was designated National Forest in which a rancher could only run his animals providing he had the money and political pull to obtain grazing permits. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Washington, so his defenders might have argued, Burr refused to place his own political convictions at the service of any party. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z All political prisoners, or what the authorities called “security prisoners,” were automatically classified as D on admission. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Abigail’s accusations, on the other hand, were private and personal, came from someone whom he respected as an intimate friend, and went beyond mere matters of political partisanship to questions of honor and trust. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “And I discovered that Madoc is going to make a political move, one that involves Oak.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But he was truly rare within the political elite of Virginia in leaving this question open. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I am authorized by my companions to say that we wish to be treated as political prisoners.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Instead, they felt that “a splinter terrorist cell, or a lone actor...would be more likely to exploit a hurricane on site. This includes persons pursuing a political agenda, religious extremists, or other disgruntled individuals.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Theirs was the Cadillac of clubhouses, sporting several parlors and a poolroom, a bounty of boxing gloves, baseball team jerseys, bats, and cleats, all paid for by their political patron, Frank Ragen. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even allowing for the traditional plea of composers to be immune from political events irrelevant to their art, Haydn’s symphonies sound as if they were written in a vacuum. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I soon became involved in mediating a bitter political dispute right in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its claims of public-spiritedness and moral rectitude obscured its essential nature as a terrorist organization seeking economic, social, and political power. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Republican press denounced his warnings against political divisions at home and diplomatic involvement abroad as “the loathings of a sick mind.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As the political scientist John J. Dilulio Jr. later commented, “Apparently, it takes a Ph.D. in criminology to doubt that keeping dangerous criminals incarcerated cuts crime.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Newspapers were more valuable to political prisoners than gold or diamonds, more hungered for than food or tobacco; they were the most precious contraband on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bloom had created an imaginative and effective defense, something few lawyers would have dared, considering the political overtones of Pacheco’s involvements, not to mention the fact that he had stabbed a cop. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me,” Luke said politely to Theodora, “since you are a princess, tell me about the political situation in your country.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z A few would decline, possibly because they weren’t feeling well enough or maybe for political reasons. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My political views were beginning to take shape, and the more I learned about America, the more liberal I became. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Republicans and Democrats alike had tackled the problem at state and local levels, investing in healthy living, building more sidewalks and community gardens—a proof point that there was common political ground to be explored. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Visits were a maximum of thirty minutes long, and political prisoners were not permitted contact visits, in which the visitor and prisoner were in the same room. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With no traditions of organized political activity behind them and nobody to look to for help since the New Deal, they live in apathy and despair. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “These developments,” I wrote, “require the evolution of new forms of political struggle. The old methods,” I said, were now “suicidal.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The tour, which drew enormous audiences, was a huge success and was, in the opinion of many political experts, one of the final determining factors in the passage by Congress of the Nineteenth Amendment. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The political empowerment of the working class, Galton believed, would just provoke their genetic empowerment: they would produce bushels of children, dominate the gene pool, and drag the nation toward profound mediocrity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One should bear in mind that there is nothing more difficult to execute, nor more dubious of success, nor more dangerous to administer, than to introduce new political orders. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z When he returned to Haiti, however, the political tensions and violence had worsened, and his mood turned somber again. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It is the merit of European political scientists and sociologists to give a high priority to the power of ideas in a social struggle. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In barely a decade, the War on Drugs went from being a political slogan to an actual war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The rumors were in fact true, though on all constitutional questions Jefferson deferred to Madison’s superior judgment, so he could accept the offer to become America's first secretary of state without political reservations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They accused the ANC of retreating from the Harare Declaration demand for an unconditional, blanket amnesty covering political prisoners and exiles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She came to meetings and political discussions; I was both courting her and politicizing her. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was telling the boy that according to Plato, man is delined,” he said, smiling affably and gesturing to the cart, “as a featherless biped with broad nails, receptive of political philosophy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Brother Jack's private description of wealthy members who, he said, sought political salvation by contributing financially to the Brotherhood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew for certain now that I wanted to be a political leader. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Once political prisoners were in the kitchen, our diet improved dramatically. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And in a sense she would be right: the poor have disappeared from the culture at large, from its political rhetoric and intellectual endeavors as well as from its daily entertainment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember the black political activists who have argued in favor of using black English in schools. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither man had much of a political future. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Lincoln’s speech was a political as well as a literary tour de force, and what was really clever about it—not to mention cheeky—was that he used it, in effect, to game the Constitution. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I have great respect for British political institutions, and for the country’s system of justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in an era when newspapers often attacked political enemies ruthlessly, Cobbett’s attacks were particularly vicious and personal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Integration by its nature was a political act, but the get-togethers themselves weren’t political at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I scrupulously avoided discussing with him any matters of a political or sensitive nature on the grounds that he might also have been an informer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Time and again, the most ardent proponents of racial hierarchy have succeeded in creating new caste systems by triggering a collapse of resistance across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And Madison, who had a justifiable reputation for making himself the calm center in the midst of all political storms, was being buffeted by shrill accusations from both sides. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In his Defence, Adams had written three volumes of relentless and seemingly endless prose to show that political power invariably rested in the hands of a few prominent individuals and families. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At my age I was not interested in political power. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As his leg mended and he became ambulatory, he also confronted growing political violence when he traveled to Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With many different islands, there was a variety of political systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All the major European capitals—Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Vienna—were metropolitan centers that gathered together the political, economic, and cultural energies of their respective populations in one place. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The political, economic, and social institutions most familiar to us today are those of states, which now rule all of the world’s land area except for Antarctica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of the next few weeks Adams and Jefferson developed two equally cogent but wholly incompatible political strategies in response to their somewhat awkward reunion as a political pair. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In 1939 she was just beginning to use her “My Day” newspaper column as her own political forum, where she could express her personal ideas and convictions. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z It also led the world in political power, navigation, and control of the seas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They recited a long list of political offenses of which they alleged that he was guilty. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was geography which was the cause—political geography. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z To the consternation of his many political enemies, and certainly Auburn’s guards, Osborne used his charisma and the credibility earned as an “inmate” to put this system into effect. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Board of Education ruling, Senator Harry Byrd’s antipathy toward the law had swelled into a countering movement—Massive Resistance—and he marshaled every resource at his political organization’s disposal to build a firebreak against integration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Instead of holding political criminals for life, these camps briefly incarcerated— and occasionally tortured—traders who failed to pay bribes to security officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The reasons and justifications change over time, as each new caste system reflects and adapts to changes in the social, political, and economic context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, Jefferson, rather than Burr, was Hamilton’s chief political enemy, followed closely behind by Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Some think it is fundamentally a political commitment to multiculturalism, a commitment that needs re-examination when cultures clash. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The column announcing her resignation from the DAR triggered a worldwide reaction and demonstrated the powerful impact Mrs. Roosevelt could have when she spoke out on a political or social issue. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z In order to allay any fears his clients might have about his political leanings, he had altered his name slightly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of blacks back in their place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The most ardent proponents of racial hierarchy have consistently succeeded in implementing new racial caste systems by triggering a collapse of resistance across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Distressed by the political disarray in the state governments in the 1780s and the congenital weakness of the Articles of Confederation, Madison had helped mobilize the movement for the Constitutional Convention. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For the Compromise of 1790 signaled the resumption of their political partnership after five years of separation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The state of unrest and political violence was reaching new heights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The outcome clearly illustrates how environments can affect economy, technology, political organization, and fighting skills within a short time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he played the race card for his own political gain, setting back by years, if not decades, black aspirations for equality. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, he claimed to feel “no ill-will to Col. Burr, distinct from political opposition, which, as I trust, has proceeded from pure and upright motives.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Jefferson, she explained, was like a willow who bent with every political breeze. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Taking on Washington was the fastest way to commit political suicide in the revolutionary era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The only North Koreans considered trustworthy enough to become guards in political prison camps were men like An Myeong Chul, the son of a North Korean intelligence officer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The people responded by withdrawal into political quietism and/or private vices. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The regional variation in pottery styles suggests little progress toward political centralization and unification. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They exchanged members, hunted together, traded rare luxuries, cemented political alliances and celebrated religious festivals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It may not occur to you how very important a matter this Seal is,” he wrote in a December 8, 1890, letter to George R. Davis, the fair’s director-general, its chief political officer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That month, I had another homecoming: I returned to Robben Island in order to persuade twenty-five MK political prisoners to accept the government’s offer of amnesty and leave the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was yet another level of reality in Bigger’s life: the impliedly political. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Maybe Dad thought of himself as a political prisoner, but Mom thought he was being a selfish jerk. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Johnson had an unerring instinct for political betrayal and knew something was going on. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Malia, meanwhile, was in South America on a gap-year adventure, feeling the freedom of being as far away from the political intensity as she could. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, there’s deep political analysis. He’s leading a demonstration for striking sanitation workers, so he must be a Communist.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “They boycotted my business because of my political activities,” he said. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The general rise in affluence had obscured the traditional class markers and distorted the old class-based political alignments. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Could Sputnik signal the end of the country’s global political dominance? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She was an elegant woman, and a political activist in her own right, a founder of Women in Action for the Prevention of Violence, an interracial Durham organization dedicated to working for peaceful integration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z According to Himmler, a third type of dangerous young person was the “political oppositional” type. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, there is evidence that she encouraged Mark Antony’s military ambition and never lost sight of his political strength and his ultimate goals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z When Khalil and One-Fifteen are mentioned, the volume lowers a whole lot and doesn’t go back up until a political story comes on. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z China consisted then of kingdoms with rich elites and poorer commoners, living in walled towns, and on the verge of political unification to become the world’s largest empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While dramatic progress was apparent in the political and social realms, civil rights activists became increasingly concerned that, without major economic reforms, the vast majority of blacks would remain locked in poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Here is the only occasion within the revolutionary generation when political differences ended in violence and death rather than in ongoing argument. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then came speeches on various aspects of the economic and political situation. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the notion that he was supposed to manage the political factions in the Congress or in his cabinet never even occurred to him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z On the one hand, islands near one another might become combined into a single political unit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Under the circumstances, scientists’ fealty to military and political orthodoxy trumped their honest scientific judgment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Powerful grassroots political movements were being formed inside the country that had firm links to the ANC, the principal one being the United Democratic Front, of which I was named a patron. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All the plans for gradual emancipation assumed that slavery was a moral and economic problem that demanded a political solution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z By the mid-1990s, no serious alternatives to the War on Drugs and “get-tough” movement were being entertained in mainstream political discourse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was the Machiavelli of Ohio politics, the classic behind-the-scenes fixer, a shrewd and insightful judge of character or, at least, political opportunity. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Any attempt to write political messages in public was punished with a burst of machine-gun fire on the spot. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It had become disturbingly clear that in the supercharged political atmosphere of the time, scientists could be placed on trial for their personal views, with their careers and reputations hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The leadership of the National American Woman Suffrage Association strongly objected to this political strategy, but Paul remained unyielding. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "Cops? Don't worry. Tonight they're ordered to protect us. This meeting is of great political consequence!" he said, turning away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You may not have shared political views with Beck, but you would share my pride in seeing how he has handled this. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He toured the country, mesmerizing crowds with thundering calls for black people to shake off the undermining ghetto stereotypes and claim their long-denied political power. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Nooses, racial slurs, and overt bigotry are widely condemned by people across the political spectrum; they are understood to be remnants of the past, no longer reflective of the prevailing public consensus about race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was just about to forbid him to set foot on the property when Clara convinced him that this was hardly the time to place his political enmities before the peasants’ Christian fervor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence the area of the political unit varied not only with an island’s area but also with its fragmentation and isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The social and political advantages I enjoy as a man result from the day that I came to believe that my name, indeed, is Rich- heard Road-ree-guess. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I said that our disagreement had been in terms of political direction and involvement in the extra-religious straggle for human rights. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was no political unity whatsoever among villages of the Foré language group. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was especially predisposed to forgive or ignore political differences when the other person had been one of the “band of brothers” in 1776. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Prisons are big business and have become deeply entrenched in America’s economic and political system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He made contact with the young people in the town, who lacked political knowledge, and he embarked on a stealthy campaign of instigation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I recounted in detail the numerous times the government had used the law to hamper my life, career, and political work, through bannings, restrictions, and trials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hold up a book that’s on my nightstand that has some of the best of the New York Times political cartoons. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z In many ways, Daliwonga still regarded me as his junior, both in terms of my rank in the Thembu hierarchy and in my own political development. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And I happen not to be a political person. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I said that just as the American Jew is in political, economic, and cultural harmony with world Jewry, I was convinced that it was time for all Afro-Americans to join the world’s Pan-Africanists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The agricultural depression, taken together with a series of failed reforms and broken political promises, had pyramided to a climax of social tensions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Of course, those technological and political differences as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Were you ever a member of any other political group?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, political power was like a new toy to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The multicultural perspective tends to cast Indigenous peoples in general as an oppressed racial group without considering important political differences between the Native nations and other oppressed populations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to this, Verdi became a political as well as a cultural icon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The same traits of character might be seen in Colonel Lloyd’s slaves, as are seen in the slaves of the political parties. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z The “people” had replaced the “public” as the sovereign source of political wisdom. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z White leaders—former planters—were clearly fighting to regain their antebellum positions of political and economic privilege. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z During her time in England, Alice Paul had learned the British suffragists’ political approach to their cause, which involved holding the party in power responsible for not passing the suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It also makes community healing and collective political action next to impossible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Jefferson, in fact, was on record as making one of the strongest statements of the era against the influence of political parties. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The coverage immediately turned political, but at the heart of the story was this boy’s grief-stricken parents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It’s been distressing to see how the behavior and the political agenda of the current president have caused many Americans to doubt themselves and to doubt and fear one another. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Such exchanges in the Andes, Alps, and Himalayas not only increased population densities in those areas, by providing people at all altitudes with a more balanced diet, but also promoted regional economic and political integration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He also understood that the radio was a powerful political tool because it brought his voice into the homes of ordinary people, making them feel close and connected to him. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But it took thousands of years to build such huge and effective political structures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke lightly, but Johnson was brilliant at political maneuvers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The political consensus that had held together during Washington’s first term, and had then begun to fragment into Federalist and Republican camps over the Whiskey Rebellion and Jay’s Treaty, broke down completely in 1797. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Along with John Adams, Madison was America's most astute student of the role of the passions as a political force. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Jaime continued working fourteen hours a day, including Sundays, and took no part in the political process. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jones organized his people into the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, which Jones referred to as the “great party of freedom,” to make them a political force. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It seemed an exaggeration to him that for the elections his father-in-law had them send six soldiers armed with rifles under the command of a sergeant to a town with no political passions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He told no one that he was an escapee from a political labor camp, fearing that it might tempt someone to turn him over to the police. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Korean languages may have been even more diverse in 400 B.C., before political unification had reached the stage of three kingdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Inca Empire also had a centralized political organization, but that actually worked to its disadvantage, because Pizarro seized the Inca chain of command intact by capturing Atahuallpa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It introduced a regulation permitting Zulus to carry so-called traditional weapons to political rallies and meetings in Natal and elsewhere. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Federalism—the division of power between the states and the federal government—was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After political activity had been forbidden, he had more time for his business matters, and he calculated that, against all his predictions, he was going to die a very rich man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "A political paper! Too bad the war will soon be over. The army could use soldiers like you. With your mind, you'd make a smashing officer. It's too bad you will have missed it." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Abigail spied him in the field that July of 1801, working alongside the hired hands, swinging his sickle and murmuring obscenities at his political opponents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I looked at the doll, thinking, The political equivalent of such entertainment is death. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z August was in the dry season of Bas-Congo, and normally we’d go months without a drop, but it was like the weather had decided to join in the political upheaval. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The challenge for every prisoner, particularly every political prisoner, is how to survive prison intact, how to emerge from prison undiminished, how to conserve and even replenish one’s beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem with Hamilton’s distinction, however, was that the putative barrier between personal and political criticism, or private and public behavior, kept getting overwhelmed by real choices. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I knew that it was a reactionary project, but it at least showed that you were developing some political consciousness. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler took over as chancellor of Germany in 1933 and started arresting political opponents and tossing them into concentration camps. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I am not a political person, so I’m not going to attempt to offer an analysis of the results. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z During the rule of the junta, he had been expelled from the country for his political views. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I mentioned that my new accommodations were superior, and maybe this would set a precedent for all political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This question, raised by political theorists from Plato to Marx, is raised anew by voters in every modern election. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The nice part was that we could step away for a romantic evening the way we used to, years earlier, before his political life took over. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Some of them married French people or came here for work, but none of them viewed the move as a political act. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The board was meant to assess our behavior in terms of prison regulations, but we found that it preferred to act as a political tribunal rather than a mere evaluator of behavior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the National Executive Committee stated, “Our emphasis still remains mass political action,” Umkhonto was referred to as the “military wing of our struggle.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The unity was not merely political: the Inka wanted to meld together the area’s religion, economics, and arts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One senses Madison's matchless political savvy at work throughout the process, but also a preview of Jefferson’s defiantly bold behavior thirteen years later in pushing through the Louisiana Purchase. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That conversation, as Hamilton now remembered it, “consisted of comments on the political principles and views of Col. Bur...without reference to any instance of past conduct, or to private character.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z FBI agents also infiltrated black community and activist organizations, sought to undermine political education efforts, and illegally and legally surveilled, targeted, jailed, and killed activists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It is a set of structural arrangements that locks a racially distinct group into a subordinate political, social, and economic position, effectively creating a second-class citizenship. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Buried in textbooks and scientific papers, these insights would be ignored by powerful political forces that would soon embark on the most perverse forms of human genetic manipulations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What did worry him to no end was the ominous fit between Burr’s political skills and the opportunities for mischief so clearly available in a nation whose laws and institutions were still congealing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I don’t imagine that your sociological or political ideas are getting any more progressive either. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom starts playing an episode of one of her political podcasts, the familiar intro music flowing through the sedan’s speakers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In principle I heartily agreed with this, for I knew that it was impossible for working people to forge instruments of political power until they had achieved unity of action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Following the Civil War, the economic and political infrastructure of the South was in shambles. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The fact that the decision to send the delegation rendered him unpopular, that it struck most observers as an act of political suicide, only confirmed for him that it must be right. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Prisoners from all different political stripes sought my help. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not true. I asked that my membership be dropped. I raised no political issues.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, thought Parliament, the Americans were yokels and farmers—not political thinkers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Burr extended his demands to cover their entire public careers, and then also refused to recognize the traditional distinction between personal and political criticism, Hamilton was truly trapped. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Her husband was just as welcoming, possessing a magnanimous Texas spirit that seemed to override any political hard feelings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They’d been at a few political meetings together over the years. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The government’s immense financial sway over research funding gave its interests—including its political interests—immense weight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Working behind the scenes, a group of influential political figures had found an appropriate concert space for Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “A lot of people in history have taken risks to make social and political statements...” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I asked Mr. Botha to release unconditionally all political prisoners, including myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Many French intellectuals were already discussing the possibility of a political revolution in the years preceding 1789, and after 1776 the American Revolution presented them with a model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The political dynamic between these two groups was very complicated, but the simplest way to understand it is as a proxy war between Zulu and Xhosa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z There were long dissertations written in long hand; some were political and others dealt with the history of art. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His judgment in the case completely upheld our claim that I had a right to campaign for my political beliefs even though they were opposed to the government, and he dismissed the Law Society’s application. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the minority student the political activists shouted about at noontime rallies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Our conversation began with a subject then on every New Guinean’s mind—the rapid pace of political developments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d studied political history and girded himself with the context it provided. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Did Bobby fully comprehend the political implications of the match? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The band is the political, economic, and social organization that we inherited from our millions of years of evolutionary history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In my opinion, the central events and achievements of the revolutionary era and the early republic were political. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s exposure to the high-level deliberations in Schenectady impressed upon him, more directly than Lawrence’s scolding, the wisdom of shedding his political entanglements. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Other institutions—the nation’s political parties, the industries of mass entertainment and communications, the companies that employed them—have all treated my parents with condescension. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was exceedingly odd that a convicted prisoner like Dinath was permitted to stay together with a political prisoner awaiting trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon arrival on the New York side, he was carried to the nearby home of James Bayard, a longtime friend and political disciple, where Hosack administered liberal doses of laudanum and waited for the end. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Yet even as the themes of Counterfeit Paradise spread to the worlds of natural science and political activism, Meggers’s ideas exerted ever- diminishing influence in archaeology itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Burger, who was better versed in the political intricacies of the Nazi regime than the others, explained the infighting among the organizations for power and dominance. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The biggest political units could assemble large labor forces to construct irrigation systems and fishponds that intensified food production even further. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Especially when the current political party has been in charge that whole time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Every day, Vuyisile Mini, who years later was hanged by the government for political crimes, led the group in singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, political prisoners were recruited to work in the kitchen for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was thinking of a chat about the political situation— just a little chat.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Hammond claimed he was innocent, the victim of a political setup. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In Chicago, meanwhile, the political chatter was starting to kick up again. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The political future of East Asia depends in large part on their success in rediscovering those ancient bonds between them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry. Guzzled too much Lemonberry Fizz while I was recharging my batteries. Yertle the Turtle has also been banned because of its political messages.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z This visible evidence of political centralization that the kofun provide reinforces the accounts of Kofun era Japanese emperors written down much later in Japanese and Korean chronicles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Until the 1950s, when it became a civil service post, the job was a political appointment, often bestowed on men who knew nothing whatsoever about running a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it was a police state ruthlessly run by Joseph Stalin, a dictator who arrested and executed his political rivals, just like Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Young unrolled a sheaf of papers and declaimed a list of political charges that excelled in viciousness his previous charges. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my Communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of Marxist philosophy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The key strategic insight was that the residency question must never again be allowed to come before Congress, where it was certain to fall victim to the political version of death by a thousand cuts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Ferdinand or Ida or both were often to be found planning strategy or making speeches in churches, associations, and political backrooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “We have turned from pursuing the phantom of political spoils,” it proclaimed, “and are settling down to development along safe lines.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That is, political centralization arose for some other reason and then permitted construction of complex irrigation systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course an expert, whether a women’s health advocate or a political advisor or an advertising executive, tends to have different incentives than the rest of us. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was the widest cross section of political groups ever gathered in one place in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Autonomous tribal towns made decisions about trade and relations with other groups, but in some political and social matters, the towns worked together as a confederacy to make decisions that affected all of their members. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this chapter, I mentioned the failure of some food-producing societies with complex political organization to develop or adopt writing before modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The recurrent pattern in Burr’s political behavior that caught Hamilton’s eye, however, made him eminently vulnerable to the Catiline charge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Starting in the 1980s, the Soviet Union was facing economic and political upheaval. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the eldest child of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the firebrand Baptist preacher and increasingly powerful political leader. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Conventional big classes have become so diverse—in income, lifestyle, political views—that they have ceased to be classes at all, said Paul W. Kingston, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And since Las Casas historians, clerics, and political activists have debated whether Europeans and their descendants in the Americas are morally culpable for the enormous Indian losses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were using the negotiations not to achieve peace, but to score their own petty political gains. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time of Hawaii’s “discovery” by Europeans in 1778, political unification had already taken place within each Hawaiian island, and some political fusion between islands had begun. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the first national women’s political organization in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Then, too, the particular political moment favors what almost looks like a “conspiracy of silence” on the subject of poverty and the poor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Third, they managed to take the most threatening and divisive issue off the political agenda. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z From my very first press conference I noticed that journalists were as eager to learn about my personal feelings and relationships as my political thoughts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A political utopia would develop as a consequence of genetic utopia. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Analogy, in political rhetoric, is the whiff of that burp. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z By the mid-1930s, as Hitler ascended to power in Germany, droves of scientists sensed the rising menace of the Nazi political agenda and left the country. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He had spent a great deal of time working with the Liberty Party, an antislavery political party, but he was never able to launch his own political career. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Clausewitz, a child of Aristotle, went no further than to say that a political animal is a warmaking animal. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Labor owns one of Washington’s largest non-govemment buildings—situated where they can literally watch the White House—and no political move is made that doesn’t involve how Labor feels about it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not thirst for freedom or political rights. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My “landlady” no longer showed people my room, but rather complained about being badgered by “people from the Palace,” and treated me less as an honored sideshow than as a political suspect. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z As much as he wanted to tackle the country's problems, he found himself coping daily with bickering in his cabinet, skirmishes with Congress, and endless political appointments. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She studied history written by Herodotus and Thucydides, which included political and military events of the past, and memorized the speeches of Demosthenes to learn the fine points of public speaking and debate. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z One of the most common arguments espoused by the antisuffrage forces was that women were not emotionally strong enough to handle the responsibility of voting and were thus incapable of making sound political decisions. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z For the first time in a decade, over half a million black voters in Chicago went to the polls, proving that they had the collective power to shape political outcomes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Penkovsky also gave the CIA and MI6 a wealth of information about the Soviet leadership, including both rumors and concrete information about political squabbles inside the Kremlin and the Soviet military hierarchy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But I am less certain about their complete lack of enthusiasm for political issues. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Their mutual affection “accompanied us thro’ long and important scenes,” he wrote, and “the different conclusions we had drawn from our political reading and reflections were not permitted to lessen mutual esteem.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Adams team, then, was charging Jefferson with two serious offenses against the unwritten code of political honor purportedly binding on the leadership class of the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His radical politics and left-wing activities in South Africa had made him persona non grata there and he was seeking political asylum in Ghana. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Actually it would create a large political problem. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But it should also be remembered that the balance among the relatively small powers around the Aegean could not last forever; history has a way of alternating periods of political fission and accretion. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “Stimela” is not a political song, but in the context, it became one, for the implication was that the train contained guerrillas coming down to fight the South African army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These were not only Britons and Germans, but also Belgians, French, Italians, Swiss; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank; distinguished clergymen; retired military gentlemen; writers and thinkers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Her interests broadened and she listened intently to the radio, captivated by the political and financial stories, which failed to engage me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z These tribes retained some of the political complexity of the Cahokian culture. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Senate in 1914, he was absent for the debates on women’s suffrage and Prohibition—two of the biggest political issues of his time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As is often the case, the Toltec’s rapid military success led to political strife. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A portrait of Tariq might end up seeming political, but I just gotta do what I do, and try to get it right. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s running for state senate next year, even though he has no political experience. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Articles in the magazine were, as the title implies, written plainly and seemed as much political as religious. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I wrote that after that kid got killed, but I don’t know if I wanna be political from jump. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z These factors—cultural, technological, conceptual, political—were absent in China, and hence the Chinese admired clockwork but had no use for it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Any line of talk that departed from the family and verged on the political might mean the abrupt termination of the visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z C. J. could see that a military and political crisis was brewing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As he rose from one political office to another, he never once distinguished himself. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It violated the central premise of the revolutionary legacy—namely, that the people at large were the sovereign source of all political authority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Therefore, the only kind of political elite permissible was one that repudiated its elite status and claimed to speak for “the many” rather than “the few.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z During her senior year at Swarthmore College, she took a course in political science, which sparked her interest in political activism. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Klan burned down homes and businesses belonging to its political rivals, and frightened many others into leaving the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They worked it out before they left: Amy brings June and Henry back to the alley they have him swap cars like a political prisoner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He said that if outsiders could understand what political prison camps have done—and are doing—to children born inside the fence, it would redeem his lie and his life. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Haydn’s and Mozart’s obedient following of their favourite symphonic formula - Sonata Form - could not have come at a more disobedient junction in social and political history. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Adams let it be known that his political disagreements with Jefferson had never killed his affection for the man. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Congress later expanded the law to include Hispanic, Asian, Native American and other minority citizens, and in so doing, transformed America’s political landscape. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They were vilified in the media and condemned for their condition as part of a well-orchestrated political campaign to build a new white, Republican majority in the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This is political dynamite, which could provide material for explosive racial theories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The relevant area is not the area of an island but that of a political unit, which could be either larger or smaller than a single island. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While Madison's frame of reference was instinctively political, and idealized the dispersal of power naturally checked by the inherent diversity of diffused interest groups, Hamilton’s cast of mind was instinctively economic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Soon, I trust, those conventions will be every bit as mysterious as the ones that governed the writing of Whig political history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z People do have a political conscience of sorts here. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But in centuries past, pulpit preachers, rabble-rousers at political rallies, parliamentarians, and lawyers would be expected to thunder on—sometimes literally for hours—without a shred of a note. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The gene, meanwhile, invades discourses concerning race, racial discrimination, and “racial intelligence,” and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions coursing through our political and cultural realms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For many kids, the Net isn’t alienation, but its alternative; it’s their intellectual, social, cultural, and political wellspring. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their argument was that when he competed in Yugoslavia, he violated the trade sanctions purely as a political act against the United States, and he was now being punished for it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He felt that Farmer, with his communication and political skills, was spending too much time with patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I described how my initial doubts about the political process had slowly diminished week by week, replaced by something more encouraging and hopeful. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For the system to succeed—that is, for it to achieve the political goals described in chapter 1—black people must be labeled criminals before they are formally subject to control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For what evidence had he in reality that O’Brien was any kind of political conspirator? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Within the context of the revolutionary generation, however, giving one’s allegiance to a political party remained illegitimate. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It will be the working base for an action program designed to eliminate the political oppression, the economic exploitation, and the social degradation suffered daily by twenty-two million Afro-Americans.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The neat divisions between Whigs and Tories did not accord with the Adams sense of the political landscape during the 1770s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As long as demagogues continued to manipulate race for political ends, the group was sure to survive. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The most important political document ever adopted by the ANC is the Freedom Charter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hesitated for a moment, reluctant to discuss political matters with a prison official. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When communism spread, my family was in danger because their political status changed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Other statesmen fell by the wayside, lacking the stamina to handle the relentless political pressure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Others, the political prisoners, were subjected every fifth day to questioning under drugs. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The Klan was in cahoots with political, business, and law-enforcement leaders. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My intention was to give younger people a context for the hate surfacing in the news and in political discourse and to give them a reason to hope. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As freedom fighters and political prisoners, we had an obligation to improve and strengthen ourselves, and study was one of the few opportunities to do so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I write about poetry; the new Roman Catholic liturgy; learning to read; writing; political terminology. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A number of committees were formed that day, but the primary purpose of the Youth League was to give direction to the ANC in its quest for political freedom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This “feverish condition” was ignited in 1917 when a well-organized and militant political party known as the Bolsheviks staged a successful revolution in Russia and took over the government. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She wrote, “Church and state, priest and legislators, all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior being, subject to man.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Every year, Alex, June, and Nora fill up the East Room on the first floor with three hundred or so of their friends, vague celebrity acquaintances, former hookups, potential political connections, and otherwise notable twenty-somethings. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was not a judicial appeal at all but a political testament. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Realizing the sensitive political situation, he avoided the Washington apartment he shared with Conkling. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’s political to some extent. You have to understand that. And who knows if they’ll like the content of this play? We can’t control that. It’s really out of our hands.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In the first course, we discussed the different types of political and economic systems around the world as well as in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z During the political upheaval of the uncertain 1990s, the third female Russian cosmonaut was in training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Yet, Chief Buthelezi had consistently called for my release and refused to negotiate with the government until I and other political prisoners were liberated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Derby had pulled political wires to get into the army at his age. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Some measure of the political sensitivity and topicality of the Brecht-Weill musicals is apparent when compared with Stravinsky’s notoriously controversial Rite of Spring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Taken collectively, they are not simply twelve million people; in reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Kaede, you should realize that the chances of your making a political marriage with another woman are—well, it is unlikely. It has happened before, but you know that it’s rare.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I knew that he consumed volumes of political philosophy as if it were beach reading, that he spent all his spare change on books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Those demands included the release of all political prisoners, the lifting of all bans on restricted organizations and persons, the end to the State of Emergency, and the removal of all troops from the townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They would have a heyday reporting to Pefta that we had visited another political. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't get sappy, I don't get political. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z B. False political ideologies such as Communism and Fascism. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The political campaign, of course, lost all other issues, and resembled a campaign only in that it was something filling the hiatus between nomination and election. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Often in the pay of local political bosses, they had no national reach. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The nearest thing classical music had to a genuine political dissident in the 1930s was the Hungarian modernist Bela Bartok. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It seemed inevitable that their political power would continue to grow. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it is a truism to emphasize the stunting of free Greek city life in Hellenistic times, Cyrene in the early third century was no mere political appendage of Alexandria. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “Good. Now listen to me. I must come to lecture to you people so that you will be set upon the correct path. I have a rather extensive knowledge of political organization.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the nation baked under the unrelenting sun, and violence spread along the docks and waterfronts of the West, the national political dialogue also grew heated that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Once our visas expired, we applied for political asylum, but after two years without progress, we were told there was no record of our application. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Mom and Jack are listening to their political podcast again. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z States organized by or modeled on that Zhou Dynasty of North China spread to South China during the first millennium B.C., culminating in China’s political unification under the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Chris’s seemingly anomalous political positions were perhaps best summed up by Thoreau’s declaration in “Civil Disobedience": "I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunter-gatherer societies tend to be relatively egalitarian, to lack full-time bureaucrats and hereditary chiefs, and to have small-scale political organization at the level of the band or tribe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1652, with the political situation seemingly stabilized, Boyle visited Ireland, accompanied by the physician William Petty, to look into his interests in the family estates there. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Mayor Thompson quickly acted to shut down the gangs, but before long, the gangs’ political allies had them back in business. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “In light of all the political fuss that’s going on, I think my presence on the team challenges those misconceptions that people have about who a Muslim woman is and can be.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Frank’s currently watching one of those political analysis shows, so there’s no way they’re really paying attention to it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Meanwhile up in Quincy, that very friend was also dancing a minuet with his own political ambitions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Mobile bands of hunter-gatherers are relatively egalitarian, and their political sphere is confined to the band’s own territory and to shifting alliances with neighboring bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the more mundane truth is that they never faced and therefore never fully resolved all their political differences; they simply outlived them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He and the National Party conducted a sophisticated, expensive, American-style political campaign accompanied by extensive newspaper and television advertisements, bumper stickers, and colorful rallies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That was to be expected, since it was unusual for political offenders to be put on trial or even publicly denounced. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Marguerite warns me that he will one day use my son to fulfill his own political designs, for even churchmen long for empire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z What if it secretly hounded its political opponents? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Either the peaceful dissolution of the United States or a civil war would occur unless some sort of political bargain was struck. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “The problem isn’t with you yourself, Ji-li. What I mean is that the political background investigations at these academies are very severe.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The political conditions confronting the presidency in 1798 were tailor-made to call forth his excessive version of virtue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I’d been to a fair number of Barack’s political events by now and had seen him interact many times with big groups of constituents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This was done to prevent any fraternization with the political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Muller was also hounded for his political proclivities. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The disjunction between the prince’s all-too-human genetic inheritance and his all-too-exalted political inheritance must have seemed particularly evident to the critics of the monarchy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Reducing the black-white test score gap,” wrote the authors of one study, “would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy that commands broad political support.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Let him guarantee free political activity so that people may decide who will govern them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With this new funding came intense political pressure for scientists to meet the president’s deadline. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The plan succeeded, and Garfield won his first political office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Your older brother made a political marriage, didn’t he?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And the language they inherited framed the genuine political differences and divisions in terms that only exacerbated their nonnegotiable character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Lawrence replied that “the idea of a federation of democracies may have much practical merit, but... I would not think of using my position as a scientist in furthering such a political movement.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The most fundamental such distinction is that states are organized on political and territorial lines, not on the kinship lines that defined bands, tribes, and simple chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her language skills made her useful in political discussions. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z To keep track of the Reich’s racial, social, and political enemies, I had put the Führer’s list to melody. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Hamilton was, after George Washington, the most powerful figure in the Federalist party and, his advocates would have added, the intellectual wellspring for all the political energy that Washington merely symbolized. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Like Farmer in Haiti, Jim had to deal with political uncertainty and violence. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In addition to the ships themselves, Pizarro’s presence depended on the centralized political organization that enabled Spain to finance, build, staff, and equip the ships. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even in 1350 they were still an unimportant part of the political scene in the central Andes, and newcomers at that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I explained that as political prisoners we saw protest to alter prison conditions as an extension of the antiapartheid struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The two hit it off, and some people said they became lovers as well as political allies. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Everyone agreed that it would be a fitting, middle-of-America backdrop for what we hoped would be a different kind of campaign—one led from the ground up, largely by people new to the political process. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But people remembered his nasty political war with Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Much more it was because of a secretly held belief—or perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope—that O’Brien’s political orthodoxy was not perfect. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In any case, such organizations were a complete irrelevance to the heart of political life in this country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Designed as a laboratory for black economic and political development, Soul City was planned to accommodate 50,000 residents. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Was he trying to determine whether I had influential enough political connections to make trouble for him? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have not followed the political currents, so I’m not aware that he is running for office.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In a separate correspondence about the same time with John Taylor, another prominent Virginia planter and political thinker who had also questioned Adams’s views on aristocracy, Adams called attention to the irony of the situation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z From the first, it was not as though we were engaged in tense political arguments but a lively and interesting tutorial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Through knowledge, political will, and perhaps some luck, we seem to have tamed inflation and the budget deficit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Madison’s message signaled the resumption of what can be considered the most successful political partnership in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My mom wasn’t looking to be political; she was searching for religion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In the 1890s, Populists buckled under the political pressure created by the Redeemers, who had successfully appealed to poor and working-class whites by proposing overtly racist and increasingly absurd Jim Crow laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There is an elaborate system of control, complete with political disenfranchisement and legalized discrimination in every major realm of economic and social life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z But the early letters and leaks out of Monticello indicated that he was in fact disposed to agree and consider a bipartisan political alliance grounded in the personal trust of the once-great collaboration. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z On another perfect blue-sky day in Honolulu, we boarded a plane and flew home to Chicago, back into the chill of winter and into what for Barack was shaping up to be a political disaster. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We weren’t seeing her in her political capacity,” I protested. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Day of Protest was a political rather than an economic strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Judge de Wet looked to him to reply to Bram’s argument, and instead of offering particulars he began to give what the judge derided as “a political speech.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “His poetry is political but full of love and hope,” she said, and I nodded. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But in 1989, driven by a change in the Supreme Court's treatment of death penalty appeals and shifts in the political winds, the attorney general's office began vigorously seeking executions of condemned prisoners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One of those movements, within China itself, created the political and cultural phenomenon of China as we know it today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Compton placed the concerns of rank-and-file scientists about the social and political implications of the bomb on the committee record, via a memo from the Met Lab’s Franck. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The conference, the club decided, would deal with political questions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The term conveyed the political fear, so potent among the Antifederalist critics of the constitutional settlement of 1788, that the states would be absorbed by the new federal government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Guerrilla warfare, he explained, was not designed to win a military victory so much as to unleash political and economic forces that would bring down the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When that visa expired, we filed for political asylum. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They divided up the state’s water—as nearly as was possible—in direct relationship to a region’s political clout and economic pull. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the park itself, it was an American version of a Middle Eastern bazaar, with folk singers, storytellers, beggars, political dissidents, soapbox orators, and even the occasional snake charmer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was not inclined to join any political organization, and the advice of Mr. Sidelsky was still ringing in my ears. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z African music is often about the aspirations of the African people, and it can ignite the political resolve of those who might otherwise be indifferent to politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He denounced excessive partisanship, most especially when it took the form of political parties pursuing a vested ideological agenda or sectional interest groups oblivious to the advantages of cooperation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If you wear your hair naturally, are you making a political statement, claiming black power? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Although I agreed with this, I was nervous about joining the league and still had doubts about the extent of my political commitment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was crucial for him to know whether the Paravan had any political support or whether he was operating alone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson mentioned in passing “the political heresies” of Davila, which everyone knew to be written by Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Oh, I thought it was political,” he said, shrugging. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Given this formidable array of bad luck, poor timing, and the highly focused political strategy of his Republican enemies, Adams actually did surprisingly well when all the votes were counted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z With almost a dozen immortal emperors jostling for position, high-level Inka society was characterized by ramose political intrigue of a scale that would have delighted the Medici. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Inside was a petition that people could sign to ask for my release and that of my fellow political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today," she says, folding her hands like a nun, “I want you to tell me about your political education." Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, Polynesian political units ranged in size from a few dozen to 40,000 people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Your dad has been sent to political study class.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was taboo because, more than any other controversy, it possessed the political potential to destroy the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He was never a political man, so it is not likely a charge of rebellion drove him out, and he was scrupulously honest, which eliminates the police as prime movers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Wolf specialized in infiltrating the West German government, sometimes with "Romeo spies," who would strike up romances with unsuspecting single women—many of them secretaries to powerful generals and political figures. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He falsified his political creed to the German Consulate. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In the first few years on the island, the High Organ also acted as a representative committee for all the political prisoners in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack could happily end a day in a faraway hotel with all sorts of political battles brewing and loose ends floating. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Disillusioned with political organizations, he had distilled his thoughts down to three or four basic ideas, on which he built his whole philosophy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After the Civil War, survivors of slavery in North Carolina formed Equal Rights leagues to lobby for political changes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He lost the election, to nobody’s surprise save his own, but immediately launched another political campaign, this time for the presidency of the United States. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It promotes a return to the democratically elected political systems of the past. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Rumpff always stood for law, no matter what his own political opinions might be, and we were convinced that when it came to law, we could only be found innocent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, political bosses awarded these jobs to friends and loyal associates who donated money or helped with the campaign. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I will, Djo. Sometime. But for now, you tell me about political education.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The new president lived up to his promise to ease restrictions on political gatherings and permitted the march to take place, only asking that the demonstrators remain peaceful. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent almost all his time and a good part of his fortune on the political front. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered Nivea, Rosa’s mother, who, after her husband had retired from politics, terrified by the poisoned brandy, had begun her own political campaign. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But despite his Nazi trappings, he rarely talked about his political beliefs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Guiteau went on, “This is not murder. It is a political necessity. It will make my friend Arthur President.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Classes are groups of people of similar economic and social position; people who, for that reason, may share political attitudes, lifestyles, consumption patterns, cultural interests, and opportunities to get ahead. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Lysenko’s theory was immediately embraced by the Soviet political apparatus. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The rest of the day he was busy with the Congress, the club, playing golf, his business, and his political meetings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to suffrage, Victoria Woodhull's political platform called for labor reform, nationalizing railroads, prison reform, and rewriting the tax code. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z This political definition of “tribe” is thus often much smaller than what linguists and cultural anthropologists would define as a tribe—namely, a group that shares language and culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The people, I said, wanted democracy, and political leadership based on merit not birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Duke, though he never won the high political office he often sought, proved himself a master of information abuse. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And to the Athenian political class, they became indispensable. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Tariq was sitting at the board too, in turns watching the match, then listening in on the political chat at the adjacent table. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It wasn't the way I wanted it to go, it wasn't political. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The prevalence of illegal drug activity among all racial and ethnic groups creates a situation in which, due to limited law enforcement resources and political constraints, some people are made criminals while others are not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Why would you trust me with a political alliance if you think I’m such a child?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Warren Weaver, a New York Times journalist who reviewed the book upon its release, observed that Phillips’s strategy largely depended upon creating and maintaining a racially polarized political environment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Adam Clayton Powell used to stand on a podium right on 125th Street and make political speeches. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They also discussed the political situation in Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Can I take that to mean . . .” Jeanine purses her lips and pauses for a few seconds before finishing. “. . . that you agree with the reports that have been released about the political leaders of this city?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He briefed us on the detachment’s military training, political education, and valor in the field. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The overwhelming military superiority of even tiny numbers of mounted Spaniards, together with their political skills at exploiting divisions within the native population, did the rest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Suzuki and Bosnitch appealed to the courts on Bobby’s behalf for him to become a political refugee from the United States and be allowed to live in Japan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z While perhaps a more provincial cause, it had all the advantages of a more concerted and tightly focused political agenda in which each man played a clearly defined role. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Not only did potatoes grow in places where other crops could not, the plant was an ally in smallholders’ ceaseless struggle against the economic and political elite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were a duke and duchess, very important and wealthy, who had been cheated out of their estate by a political enemy and thrown into prison. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Burr embodied Hamilton’s daring and energy run amok in a political culture still groping for its stable shape. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We sneered at voting, for we felt that the choice between one political crook and another was too small for serious thought. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To think of his story as political fodder, and I'm ashamed of that to begin with, but when I stand down here, and hold his grandmother's hand, the world inverts. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Like his father, a high cleric, 8-Deer was trained for the priesthood, but political events and his own overweening ambition stopped him from following that path. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Both Mark Antony and Cleopatra must have realized the strength of their combined political power as their personal feelings for each other took hold. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z We were exhorted to obey God, respect the political authorities, and be grateful for the educational opportunities afforded to us by the church and the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1792 he told Washington that the bargain made that evening with Hamilton was the greatest political mistake of his life. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I used to want to become a doctor, but after everything we had been through, I began to think that becoming a political leader might be a better choice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Guiteau was convinced it was his responsibility to solve the political crisis, and God was telling him what he had to do. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Newton’s first move into the political limelight came early in 1687, after the Principia was off his hands and being seen through printing by Halley. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The kernel of truth in Hamilton’s distinction between personal and political criticism of Burr resides here. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Ever the political pugilist who felt obliged to answer every bell, Adams refused to back away from his belief that the new American government needed a strong executive presence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The rise of evangelicals has also coincided with the gradual shift of most of them from the Democratic Party to the Republican and their growing political activism. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Board in 1955, it left a good deal of “wiggle room,” and Hodges used every bit of it, in an effort to head off political attacks from his right. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A steady flow of men and women from East Bengal—those who had sensed the early political convulsions before their neighbors—had already started to fill the low-rises and tenements near Sealdah station. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I thought so. I’ve heard some grumbling that it’s not...appropriate for students to make political statements at school. What do you think about that?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s position on political parties, like his stance on slavery, seemed to straddle a rather massive contradiction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The political consequences were considered serious around the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z John J. Dilulio Jr., a political scientist who was then at Princeton, argued that we were seeing a new kind of juvenile criminal, utterly unlike the misbehaving teens of the past. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Every student here today was handpicked for both academic and political excellence. You will represent all the teachers and students of our school when we celebrate the Communist Party Birthday on July first....” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that what was happening was a good old-fashioned case of political correctness, the vilification of drivers and their cell phones. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I stared at Young, feeling that he was making a dreadful mistake, but fearing him because he had, by his own account, the sanction of high political authority. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That country has so many political and economic problems that it is almost impossible for the officials to enforce any of the wildlife laws and regulations. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Her odd, political name can easily be explained. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “But the fact is, take current immigration laws, adoption agency policies, and the political situation in Afghanistan, and the deck is stacked against you.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But white men with far more political power than that possessed by the Nation of Islam movement have been advocating exactly this, in effect, for generations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z If I was going to be a political spouse, I wanted to treat it seriously. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Program of Action approved at the annual conference called for the pursuit of political rights through the use of boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience, and noncooperation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The tumult of 1848—the bloody populist revolutions that swept fiercely through France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria and overturned social, political, and religious orders—largely passed him by, like distant thunder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was a recipe for political chaos that even the indomitable Washington would have been hard-pressed to control. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The widespread aversion to advocacy on behalf of those labeled criminals reflects a certain political reality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Making himself the spokesman for the ordinary American, he wondered aloud how politicians met the costs of their political expenses without putting those costs onto the taxpayer. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Park told Shin that the United Nations had begun to criticize human rights violations inside the North’s political labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Barack’s political opponents would criticize him for taking me to New York to see a show. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Only toward the end of my schooling and only because political issues pressed upon me did I write, and have published in magazines, essays intended for readers I never expected to meet. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In my experience, a political strike is always riskier than an economic one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Hamilton’s reference to “fifteen years” turned out to be a precise estimate of their history as political antagonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The conservative Christian political movement seldom developed in poor, rural Bible Belt towns. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But then, Comrade K. N. M. Pillai was essentially a political man. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association responded to the insult by passing a resolution that said, in part, “One-half of the citizens of this nation, after a century of boasted liberty, are still political slaves.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Most others believe that recent Mexican immigrants will eventually take their place in society, and perhaps someday muster political clout commensurate with their numbers, though significant impediments are slowing their progress. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z On this occasion the king released political prisoners, remitted taxes, endowed temples, forgave rebels, increased military preparedness and, in short, did all the things that modern rulers do when they wish to stay in office. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A devoted and talented writer with an eye for detail, her secret diary, which she began at fourteen, detailed her observations and encounters with the political, military, and diplomatic elite. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the wealth of Egypt had political effects that long outlasted the Hellenistic epoch. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Most high school and college students today have no recollection of the political and media frenzy surrounding the drug war in the early years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Like Tonga, Hawaii became a political entity encompassing several populous islands, but one confined to a single archipelago because of its extreme isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The room had gone mostly quiet now, the political team's nervous updates having given way to an expectant, almost sober kind of calm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z What is remarkable is that hardly anyone seems to imagine that similar political dynamics may have produced another caste system in the years following the collapse of Jim Crow—one that exists today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A political unit’s population size interacted with its population density to influence Polynesian technology and economic, social, and political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “No. Comparative politics. You can't do just Africa in political science graduate programs in this country. You can compare Africa to Poland or Israel but focusing on Africa itself? They don't let you do that.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A century earlier, a similar political dynamic had resulted in the birth of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This is called “selective truth telling,” and it is frequently used in political campaigns, toy advertisements, and other forms of propaganda. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z For bin Laden, who despised the Western influence on the Middle East, his religion, Islam, influenced his political beliefs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He understood—indeed, it was a crucial aspect of the collaboration—that Jefferson’s eventual reentry into the political arena depended upon sustaining the fiction in his mentor’s own mind that it would never happen. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In their minds, the political stakes were enormous, the threat posed by the Federalists put the entire republican experiment at risk, the battle was to the death, and taking prisoners was not permitted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jaime made fun of her political ideas and bearded friends, and scolded her for having fallen in love with a cafe terrorist. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that given the political climate, he himself could be in very serious trouble. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was already leaning toward some type of political involvement, but I did not know what or how, and I lingered on the sidelines, uncertain what to do. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian was given two separate code names inside the Agency: IRONBARK, for the military information he provided, and CHICKADEE, for his political espionage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Several months later, three hundred suffragists in Oakland, California, marched to a state political convention demanding the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Most of these men were common-law prisoners, but I knew diere would be some political prisoners among them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom’s asking me about my feelings, Dad’s turning it into a joke, Alice is getting political, and Nora is keeping her mouth shut. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z These people included Communists; political leaders; Polish intellectuals; homosexuals; and itinerant people, whom the Nazis called Gypsies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z While the Bunga was the most influential political body in the Transkei, its resolutions were advisory and its decisions subject to review by white magistrates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Among other areas of interest, their political beliefs and religion—both were Jewish—meshed perfectly, and eventually they married and settled in England. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Democrats were only secondarily interested in terrorizing the newly freed blacks—and then mostly because the former slaves had made political alliances with the Republicans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In its more extreme forms it is a recipe for anarchy, and its attitude toward any energetic expression of centralized political power can assume paranoid proportions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Every now and then parties of Bolivians drive down to Bolivia Mar to swim—a political gesture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Johnny’s fife with the Laphams had been so limited he knew little of the political strife which was turning Boston into two armed camps. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "But you were indignant. And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Matters of fact’, as opposed to matters of law and of faith, becomes an intellectual slogan and a powerful political weapon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a bear pit: an endless procession of vexatious litigants and political opportunists settling personal scores in front of a shouting, hooting, uncontrollable rabble of, um, jurors. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He hoped it would be a simple conversation, but there were layers to this case, political hurdles, just below the surface. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Egypt and Syria, reacting to a number of political factors, including growing American influence in the region, merged, creating the United Arab Republic. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Mass incarceration as we know it would not exist today but for the racialization of crime in the media and political discourse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Opinion polls showed that the Congress was far and away the most popular political organization among Africans even though it had been banned for a quarter of a century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were women representing the Red Cross, PTAs, political parties, religious groups, and social clubs, as well as women marching behind banners from every state. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I knew the updates were coming from David Simas, Barack’s political adviser, who was monitoring returns from the West Wing and who understood the precise county-by-county algebra of the electoral map. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Black political activists were from time to time found dangling from belts, shirts, pants, blankets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed the building where the Panthers held their political education classes. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Both the government and the ANC were working on two tracks: military and political. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The end of their political power in the region did not mean the end of the Mayans themselves. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This move would strengthen his role as a political leader in New York and in the Senate, while weakening Garfield's power. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The great volcano of American political debate was required to confine himself to purely private eruptions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When the Reichstag building burned down, which became the pretext for Hitler’s suppression of political dissent, Szilard was dismayed by the failure of his German friends to grasp the developing reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A British philosopher and political scientist who could read and write in Latin and Greek before the rest of us can tie our shoes. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z His political affiliations were dodgy: he had all kinds of friends who were Communists. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What Jefferson had described as “the reign of witches” even began to assume the shape of a political comedy in which the joke was on the Federalists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His political advisers easily entangled him in theoretical labyrinths. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She went on, “That smell of burning tires never quite leaves you. The smell is forever associated for me with political violence.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As we saw in previous chapters, that evidence is important because food production led to high population densities, germs, technology, political organization, and other ingredients of power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The level of public concern about crime and drugs was only weakly correlated with actual crime rates, but highly correlated with political initiatives, campaigns, and partisan appeals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Their pronouncements on scientific, social, and even political issues were eagerly sought and widely published. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The move, he explained, would give him political cover at home, where public sentiment against the bomb was steeply on the rise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Their role was to act as agents provocateurs, and they would attempt to push us around, take our food, and inhibit any political discussions we tried to have. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All his major published works on political philosophy, including his Defence of the Constitution of the United States of America and Discourses on Davila, along with his unpublished autobiography, lacked coherent form. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Before coming to prison, Ngendane was perceived as something of a political lightweight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Adams’s partner in the dance was Abigail, whose political instincts rivaled Madison’s legendary skills and whose knowledge of her husband’s emotional makeup surpassed all competitors. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The story of the political and economic underpinnings of the nation’s founding sheds some light on these recurring themes in our history and the reasons new racial caste systems continue to be born. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This was a risky action for a doctor in a town where political action by blacks was rare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On our ride into Havana, I got my first glimpse of a political billboard, an enlarged version of the famous photograph of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wearing a beret. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The public symbols and constant reminders of black subjugation were supported by whites across the political spectrum, though the plight of poor whites remained largely unchanged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “The coroner,” he wrote Margaret three days after the collapse, “is a disagreeable little doctor, a political hack, without brains, who distresses me.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Without the discovery of as yet unavailable research tools, we will probably never know what the ancient foragers believed or what political dramas they experienced. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember,” Noggle says, “unusual celestial events often presage important political changes, so with a new king on the horizon, it’s important for us to observe the signs carefully.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They don’t merely disagree on political issues, each side believes the other is evil. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There’s a mixed bag of political power players and family friends in attendance—including Rafael Luna, who falls under the heading of both. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Civil rights protests were frequently depicted as criminal rather than political in nature, and federal courts were accused of excessive “lenience” toward lawlessness, thereby contributing to the spread of crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The first Europeans settled on the coast, and it took them a long time to penetrate into the interior, but by 1960 European governments had established political control over most New Guineans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Larger, more densely populated political units concentrated more authority with the chiefs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the presence at the lab of James Franck, a German physicist of unassailable reputation who had devoted a great deal of careful thought to the social and political implications of atomic energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I responded that it was always unacceptable to live in degrading conditions and that political prisoners throughout history had considered it part of their duty to fight to improve prison conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t often write about the political situation, but I must tell you where the Russians are at the moment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A little creative lying can draw attention, indignation, and—perhaps most important—the money and political capital to address the actual problem. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the immediate post-1919 years, blacks began to join political organizations and to campaign for candidates who would aid their cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s so boring here in Switzerland,” Berg said, trying to draw Heisenberg into a political discussion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z All the time and money wasted on political posturing, the lives lost in wars, the populations abused by despots—all gone the moment the Thunderhead was handed power. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z That question was not difficult to answer, given the political and social context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So long as mass drug arrests are concentrated in impoverished urban areas, police chiefs have little reason to fear a political backlash, no matter how aggressive and warlike the efforts may be. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So far in this section, I have mainly described the economic and political history of Andean Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Dennis Brutus, another Coloured political activist, was a poet and writer from Port Elizabeth imprisoned for violating his bans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To begin with, some researchers—many but not all from an older generation—deride the new theories as fantasies arising from an almost willful misinterpretation of data and a perverse kind of political correctness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1933, Germany had forty different political parties, each one making promises as it struggled for power. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A new long-distance flight record in a Soviet plane would make a fine political statement to the Germans: our long-range bombers won’t have any trouble reaching Greater Germany if war breaks out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Having established some common ground, Adams then veered off in a direction that had always gotten him into political trouble—namely, the inevitable role that elites play in making history happen. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The end of our political life was finally in sight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I did not want to complicate the discussion by introducing grand political theories; I would rely on common sense and the facts of our history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Senator Trueba fought off his political enemies, who were making daily gains in the quest for power. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While the official center of the government remained in the executive and congressional offices at Philadelphia, the truly effective centers of power were located in two political partnerships based on personal trust. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Stimson did not minimize the international and political importance of the weapon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Another prisoner in his barracks had a red triangle, so he was a political prisoner who had opposed Hitler. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z As often happened on the island, we had learned significant political news before our own guards. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse by demanding “law and order” rather than “segregation forever.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Life on the frontier was difficult for both women and men, and communities in the West attempted to lure women there with the promise of political equality. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Govan was serious, thoughtful, and soft-spoken, equally at home in the world of scholarship and the world of political activism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack, for his part, took it more in stride than I did, having already seen in Springfield how nasty politics could get and how the truth was so often distorted to serve people’s political aims. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Jim Crow and mass incarceration have similar political origins. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “A political meeting? Ignatius! Ain’t that wonderful. Maybe you’ll make good in politics, boy. You got you a fine voice. What club, honey? The Crescent City Democrats? The Old Regulars?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or with complex irrigation systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in many years, I’m unhooked from any obligation as a political spouse, unencumbered by other people’s expectations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I said that I had been privileged throughout my political life to fight alongside colleagues whose abilities and contributions were far greater than my own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I must point out that the move I have taken provides you with the opportunity to overcome the current deadlock, and to normalize the country’s political situation. I hope you will seize it without delay.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The result, a compact treatise titled Generation of Animals, would serve as a foundational text for human genetics just as Plato’s Republic was a founding text for political philosophy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Now that Jefferson had raised the issue of political betrayal, he would have to “excuse the freedom of this discussion...which has taken off the Shackles I should otherwise found myself embarrassed with.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Goodness knows what political and ideological horrors lurk in his mind. He’ll torture you or worse.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was really proud of my cousin and slightly intimidated she wanted me to join her political activist team at school next year. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The development is described in history books as regrettable but predictable, given the virulent racism that gripped the South and the political dynamics of the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z White paint was used to erase the murals of doves and to remove all political posters from sight. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t wear it out, except at the piano. political hopefuls. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The house filled with political propaganda and with the members of his party, who practically took it by storm, blending in with the hallway ghosts, the Rosicrucians, and the three Mora sisters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Other Republican operatives like John Beckley, the Speaker of the House, were focusing on the political factions in Pennsylvania, another key state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Above all, we want equal political rights, because without them our disabilities will be permanent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Working on your political education, and learning to be a teacher. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The cornerstones of this country’s operation are economic and political strength and power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In a country where the writing of political slogans on walls was considered a serious crime, talking about political matters was tantamount to treason, punishable by hanging, if you were black. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z While I would not have considered fighting the political system of the white man, I was quite prepared to rebel against the social system of my own people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand how wearing a Halloween costume could become a political statement, but I admired her commitment. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z On January 31, 1985, in a debate in Parliament, the state president publicly offered me my freedom if I “unconditionally rejected violence as a political instrument.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the second stage, general elections would be held for a constituent assembly and legislature in which all political parties winning 5 percent or more of the vote would participate in the cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your dad said he considers himself a political prisoner. Would you agree with that?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Have you abandoned your project to form a political party or nominate a candidate for president by divine right? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But even that landmark precedent, so crucial in establishing the republican principle of rotation in office, paled in comparison to an even more elemental political and psychological realization. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Green Movement was a political uprising in Iran that was ignited by the 2009 election. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was a radical departure from the kind of fare then on television: it was edgy and political, and it tackled social issues that the television of the day avoided. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His knack for injecting himself into the cracks between warring political factions might have been interpreted as a sign of his independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But thanks in great part to the deft political maneuverings of Aaron Burr, all twelve of New York’s electoral votes went to Jefferson. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There were no political parties, no popular organs of government, no separation of powers; only the emperor, who was supreme. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And, in some broad sense, my writing is political because it concerns my movement away from the company of family and into the city. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Spoony and Berry tag-teamed me with the more political activism mumbo jumbo than I could stand, until at last, thank God, English, Shannon, and Carlos showed up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A place rented out for political meetings, weddings, or demonstrations by the occasional traveling clairvoyant? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Both my father and my grandmother believed that Jagu’s and Rajesh’s mental illnesses had been precipitated—even caused, perhaps—by the apocalypse of Partition, its political trauma sublimated into their psychic trauma. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Thus, political and religious ideas merged into a white supremacist way of viewing the world and its peoples. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Though we’d argued over the drain of his political career on our family for years now, I did love and trust Barack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Yes, my sin—my greater sin...and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran’s oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world’s greatest empire. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It’s a political cartoon strip from the 1940s. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z In the 1920s, Chicago alone had more than 1,300 street gangs, catering to every ethnic, political, and criminal leaning imaginable. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z People living on others’ goodwill cannot afford political opinions. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When I thought of maleness, I thought of whites with political or economic power and blacks with muscle. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by whites. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, the old bird isn’t much moved by emotion, so I suppose I’ll try to appeal to her with political strategy.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Yet in the 1950s, a civil rights movement was brewing, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decisions and a shifting domestic and international political environment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Ethiopians had both been schooled in Cairo, and they were living in Ryadh, the political capital of Arabia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I soon began to protest vigorously against my circumstances and demanded to be put with the other political prisoners at Pretoria Local. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was not Philadelphia, with its Brotherly Love and polite political history. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Even though he found the political play too obvious, he did not say so. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Tactics that would be political suicide in an upscale white suburb are not even newsworthy in poor black and brown communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Those of us in the civil rights community are not immune to the racial stereotypes that pervade media imagery and political rhetoric; nor do we operate outside of the political context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Programming, the installation of software, getting computers to speak properly to one another, all require very particular languages, protocols, and conventions—in sharp contrast to the emotional, visceral, manipulative drama of the political system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More than four million workers stayed home in what was the largest political strike in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But for President Johnson, it was a profound personal and political failure. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Those natives were grown trees when a political execution took place on Golgotha. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern American society and the Fayu differ in the presence or absence of a professional police force, cities, money, distinctions between rich and poor, and many other political, economic, and social institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some conservative political strategists admitted that appealing to racial fears and antagonisms was central to this strategy, though it had to be done surreptitiously. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At one point, I threw out Jonathan Swift just to watch the collective coronary they had at the thought of an Irish political satirist. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And, even though the Klan may not have been as deadly as generally thought, it was plenty violent and, perhaps worse, had ever greater designs on political influence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z On the political front, the government was pursuing its standard divide-and-rule strategy in attempting to separate Africans from Coloureds and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Real talk: Iran has dealt with its fair share of strife and political unrest. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For a number of years, I taught a course in political economy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told you that I have no political ambitions,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than create a central political body to direct all the various movements, they agreed to cooperate on matters of common interest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So there you have it: Hamilton safely buried and assuming legendary proportions as a martyr; Burr slipping out of town, eventually headed toward bizarre adventures in the American West, but already consigned to political oblivion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity—and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Without the right to vote, women could not change unjust laws or initiate political change. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The two countries struggled for supremacy using political maneuvering, stockpiling weapons, and fighting “proxy” wars in other, smaller countries where they didn’t directly engage each other. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z This had nothing to do with fashion or style; it was a political issue that went to the heart of his identity, something he’d never compromised about. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to show them that we were not everyday criminals but political prisoners being punished for our beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All of these corporate and political interests have a stake in the expansion—not the elimination—of the system of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My people in South Kivu ran into political problems because they lived in a Congolese province but spoke a language of their native Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z While I was his junior in the former realm, I believed I had advanced beyond my onetime mentor in my political views. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Wits opened a new world to me, a world of ideas and political beliefs and debates, a world where people were passionate about politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “The racial unrest that is running rampant throughout the country is now far beyond a political issue,” he charged. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His complicity in behind-the-scenes political plotting was common knowledge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In fact, law and order rhetoric—first employed by segregationists—would eventually contribute to a major realignment of political parties in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What was clear, however, was that a particular version of politics and political leadership embodied in the Washington and Adams administrations had been successfully opposed and decisively defeated. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I am bold to say I was his preceptor in politics and taught him everything that was good and solid in his whole political conduct.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Coroner’s a political appointment around here,” said Ibis. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The proliferation of many similar languages in the Philippines and Indonesia merely reflects the fact that the islands never underwent a political and cultural unification, as did China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even they, he said—a tiny group inside a small church, in what felt like a forgotten neighborhood—could build real political power. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Their wealth is washing over the upper reaches of society as it did a century ago, bringing cultural and political clout as they take up positions on museum boards and organize presidential campaign fund-raising dinners. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In 2000 we had taken on the subject of race, not as a political construct or an exercise in demography but more intimately, as a force in how we live our lives. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In political terms, the Hamilton pamphlet was fully as fatal, and perhaps suicidal, as his subsequent decision to face Aaron Burr on the plains of Weehawken. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “It was a private journey as much as a public one. He was searching for his personal essence as much as he was making a political statement.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z They were not a political party; they made pretense to no formal religion. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z By age twelve, I was a devotee of the political columnist Mary McGrory and the muckraker Jack Anderson. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z IN 1946, a number of critical events occurred that shaped my political development and the direction of the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt like a referendum not only on Barack’s political performance and the state of the country but also on his character, on our very presence in the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She did not like large churches with political preachers, nor Pentecostal churches that were too wild. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One among them is a well-known and highly respected political reporter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The quicker the better,” he said, “and the hell with the political credit, believe me.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Once writing had been invented by those few societies, it then spread, by trade and conquest and religion, to other societies with similar economies and political organizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the few local documents to survive from this time, the so-called Constitution of Cyrene, prescribes the kind of political machinery one might expect in a wholly independent polis. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z There were his political and religious theories, his vigilant search for dark conspiracies, his joy in languages, his affection for Zita, and of course, his abiding commitment to chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On November 18 he appointed Lilienthal, Acheson, and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson as a special committee to weigh the political, military, and technical aspects of the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This surge of public concern did not correspond to a dramatic shift in illegal drug activity, but instead was the product of a carefully orchestrated political campaign. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer could no more divest himself of political concerns than he could give up music and wine; they were all essential to his method of engaging with the outside world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In my eyes, one of the biggest blessings was that the campaign crossed all socioeconomic, religious, political, racial, gender, and age boundaries. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Black leaders backed their talk with political muscle. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Compromise of 1790 is most famous for averting a political crisis that many statesmen of the time considered a threat to the survival of the infant republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Populists took direct aim at the conservatives, who were known as comprising a party of privilege, and they achieved a stunning series of political victories throughout the region. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My father moved us to Panamá City when I was five because he had political ambitions. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z At the domestic level, then, Adams inherited a supercharged political atmosphere every bit as ominous and intractable as the tangle on the international scene. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Would it be too political, or would that fit in with Woodstock’s “peace and love” theme? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On the other hand, single large rugged islands were divided into many independent political units. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the case of technological innovations and political institutions as well, most societies acquire much more from other societies than they invent themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A morning train brought Mayor Thompson back into the city from a political junket in Wyoming. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Amid political graffiti scribbled in red paint on trees and rocks, we passed a group of women washing clothes in a gully. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He insisted that imposing political order on Haiti, no matter how much financial aid was provided, wouldn’t improve the problems of poverty and disease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Neville’s original suggestion eventually turned into a prisoners’ committee composed of people from all political parties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm X also admired The Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, in his Congressman political role: “I’d think about retiring if the black man had ten like him in Washington. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z General Macarthur and the judge had been pacing the terrace outside, exchanging desultory comments on the political situation. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I was going to stand Maxie up and miss my first political education class, to boot. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z It was, then, necessary to disturb the political balance of Italy and throw the Italian states into turmoil so that he could safely make himself the master of a part of them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z By collective stewardship of the land and a clan-village system of democracy it avoided giving all the political control and decision-making to a single group. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In effect, the political institutions and the very authority of the federal government were too new and ill-formed to cope effectively with the foreign and domestic challenges facing the new nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Venice had won the political battle with Rome and Sarpi’s influence in the Republic was stronger than ever. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Only someone thoroughly familiar with the political history of the 1790s could recognize what a major concession and personal confession of regret Jefferson was making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I had to fall back upon tradition and since it was a political meeting, I selected one of the political techniques that I'd heard so often at home: The old down-to-earth, I'm-sick-and-tired-of-the-way-they've-been-treating-us approach. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, she certainly had been carrying on a witch-hunt in the brown kitchen recently, asking him all sorts of questions concerning his political philosophy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He seized the opportunity to review the long political partnership he had enjoyed with her husband. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The tribe did not serve as a permanent political framework, and even if it had seasonal meeting places, there were no permanent towns or institutions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This combination of sexual fears and political power was an enormously potent and dangerous mix. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And she became positively irate when she found out that Woodhull planned to use the National’s membership as the basis of a political party that would nominate her for president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Beyond questions of appearance or language or personal style, the larger problem was imbedded within the political culture of postrevolutionary America itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I knew that Dad’s political study class, like mine, studied Chairman Mao’s works and Party Central Committee documents. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is to say that several secret meetings were occurring at the same time; and the political corridors were even more labyrinthine than Jefferson’s imperfect memory of events. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z With the protection of federal troops, African Americans began to vote in large numbers and seize control, in some areas, of the local political apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When a conservative majority took power in Congress in 1994, legal aid to death row prisoners became a political target, and federal funding was quickly eliminated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I was not going to let my involvement in the struggle and the scope of my political activities be determined by the enemy I was fighting against. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn't a member of the Nazi Party, or any political party. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z |
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