...Theodore Ropp James Longstreet. I. Soldier . By Sanger Donald Bridgman . II . Politician, Officeholder, and Writer . By Hay Thomas Robson . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1952 . Pp. xii , 460 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953...

...Weymouth T. Jordan The Clays of Alabama: A Plantation-Lawyer-Politician Family . By Nuermberger Ruth Ketring . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1958 . Pp. x , 342 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 486 The South Atlantic Quarterly The most...

...Robert H. Woody Fighting Politician: Major General N. P. Banks . By Harrington Fred Harvey . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1948 . Pp. ix , 301 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 309 A Leonardo da Vinci of his own time...

...Nicholas Doman Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 POLITICS FOR POLITICIANS NICHOLAS DOMAN IS POLITICS discredited in the mind of the honest citizen? Does the politician deserve our scorn? Should we delegate legislative -duties to a body composed of businessmen, labor leaders...

... interesting. The total argument is obscure. DUKE UNIVERSITY ANNE FIROR SCOTT Preachers, Pedagogues and Politicians: The Evolution Controversy in North Carolina, 1920-1927. By Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. Chap­ el Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966. Pp. viii, 268. $5.95. This book depicts in great...

... change. While mainstream social science approaches like environmental economics are central to this effort, what of the wider social sciences and the humanities? They stand to be vital intermediaries between geoscientific claims about a changing planet and the publics, politicians, business leaders...

... to proceed. The looming threat of “theft” ironically reveals its own enchantment with democracy in that it suggests the U.S. system of electoral politics works perfectly well unless momentarily interrupted by rogue politicians, instead of framing duplicity as a problem that plagues this particular form...

... of talking about race in the political and public sphere. Morrison's letter endorsing Barack Obama's presidential candidacy stands as a critical example of how such prose can effectively operate, and it models an increasingly ubiquitous form of communication between black intellectuals and politicians...

... British politician Tony Benn. It argues that the strategic and analytical prejudices and shortcomings of this tradition ultimately proved fatal to Corbynism’s electoral prospects. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Tony Benn...

... organized social groups; soliciting support from politicians, celebrities, academics, and the media; forging local and international networks; and disregarding antigender, antifeminist reactive counterpublics and avoiding any direct confrontation with them. [email protected] [email protected]...

... of amplifying voices from the ground, including those of Kurdish intellectuals, activists, and politicians. Through critical reflexivity and engagement with diverse perspectives, the editors of this special issue call for a reimagining of Kurdish studies that prioritizes epistemic decolonization, centering...

...Ugo Mattei This essay introduces the Italian commons social movement—a diverse coalition of scholars, jurists, politicians, and activists—central to the success of the 2011 water referendum. This essay attempts to provide the context for the struggles to protect commons goods in Italy, as well...

... had kept the system going: central bank and finance ministry created rents, banks appropriated rents, politicians were sharing rents, diaspora remittances kept rent-creation going, and foreign governments were tolerating or even underwriting the mechanism. This rentier coalition has now fallen apart...

...Sarah Lamble This article considers the state’s punitive response to the civil unrest that swept across England in August 2011. Surveying measures taken by police, courts, and politicians—including lengthy prison sentences, violent police raids, increased surveillance, and proposals for new benefit...

... revolutionaries and reformers continue to give way to younger generations of politicians, scholars, artists, and activists. In light of these and other developments, it is important to ask about the future of Africana philosophy. More precisely, in light of the ideological, discursive, and methodological variety...

... politics. In parallel, a specific vein of postcolonial theory has treated queer/LGBTI+ activism in the region as “alien,” “foreign,” and even as a Trojan horse of imperialism, an idea that has been taken up, again, by sections of the Left as well as right-wing authoritarian politicians. Adopting the doubly...

... increasingly populate American mail boxes. Each warning ends with a request for a small contribution to target enemy candidates or thrust specific proposals upon weak-willed politicians. While mail-order solicitations are nothing new, the startling successes of conservative Poli­ tical Action Committees...

.... Since Mark Twain and Henry Adams initiated the assault on post-Civil War politics and politicians, writers and schol­ ars have persistently depicted the era as one dominated by corrupt spoilsmen pursuing their own material and political self-interest at the expense of the public welfare. Perhaps more...

... and appointive offices and the white candi­ dates to be supported. The Negro leader can no longer deliver a bloc of Negro voters and receive personal payment for that delivery. This old practice allowed the white politician, through personal pay­ ment, to square his obligation and give the Negro community noth­...

...H. B. Mayo Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 On the Nature of Politics H. B. Mayo Politics and politicians have a very bad name. Who hasn t heard such expressions as dirty politics and shady politicians? Politics is all too often regarded as the Victorians regarded sex...