Biographies Of Political Leaders

"Wenn meine Mutter erzählte, battle das mein erster Unterricht in feministischer Ökonomie", sagt Mascha Madörin. Anschaulich wurde ihr dabei vor Augen geführt, dass Arbeit nach Geschlechtern unterschiedlich geregelt ist und andere Zugänge zur Macht ermöglicht. Ökonomie und Feminismus haben Mascha Madörin ein Leben lang nicht losgelassen. Vielerorts hat sie sich in politischen Bewegungen engagiert und zu einer alternativen Theorie und Politik beigetragen. Immer conflict sie früh dran, als Pionierin.
In diesem Band werden ein Leben erzählt und ein Werk vorgestellt. Durch die 68er-Bewegung politisiert, arbeitet Mascha Madörin in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. In Mosambik lehrt sie zwischen 1976 und 1980 in einem soeben unabhängig gewordenen Staat Politische Ökonomie und betreibt Feldstudien. Danach organisiert sie in der Schweiz jahrelang den Kampf gegen das Apartheid-Regime und für ein demokratisches Südafrika. Sie leitet Kampagnen und deckt die schamlosen wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen der Schweiz zum Apartheid-Staat auf. Sie ist die früheste und kompletteste Kritikerin des Finanzplatzes Schweiz und trägt zur allmählichen Abschaffung des Bankgeheimnisses bei.
Mit ihren Arbeiten ab 1995 wird Mascha Madörin eine Wegbereiterin der feministischen Ökonomie und einer neuen examine der Care-Ökonomie und deckt dabei blinde Stellen der Wirtschafts-
theorie und -politik auf.
Dieser Band lässt Mascha Madörin selbst zu Wort kommen. In einem grossen Interview schildert sie Herkunft und Entwicklung, ihre theoretischen Ansätze und Perspektiven. Annette Hug, Ueli Mäder, Barbara Müller und Res Strehle würdigen in einzelnen Beiträgen ihre wichtigsten Arbeitsbereiche. Eine umfassende Bibliografie dokumentiert die vielfältige publizistische und theoretische Tätigkeit. Der Band erscheint zum 70. Geburtstag von Mascha Madörin und gibt zugleich einen Einblick in die substitute politische Kultur der Schweiz.

Although it lasted just a unmarried time period, the presidency of George H. W. Bush used to be an surprisingly eventful one, encompassing the autumn of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf warfare, and contentious affirmation hearings over Clarence Thomas and John Tower. Bush has stated that to appreciate the background of his presidency, whereas “the documentary list is vital,” interviews with individuals of his management “add the human facet that these papers can by no means capture."

This ebook attracts on interviews with senior White residence and cupboard officers performed below the auspices of the Bush Oral background undertaking (a cooperative attempt of the college of Virginia’s Miller middle and the George Bush Presidential Library origin) to supply a multidimensional portrait of the 1st President Bush and his management. ordinarily, interviews explored officers’ thoughts in their provider with President Bush and their careers sooner than becoming a member of the management. Interviewees additionally provided political and management classes they'd gleaned as eyewitnesses to and shapers of history.

The members to 41—all pro observers of yank politics, international coverage, and executive institutions—examine how George H. W. Bush equipped and staffed his management, operated at the foreign degree, his personal model of Republican conservatism, dealt with legislative affairs, and made judicial appointments. A scrupulously target research of oral historical past, fundamental records, and former experiences, 41 deepens the ancient checklist of the forty-first president and gives clean insights into the increase of the “new international order” and its challenges.

Contributors: Henry J. Abraham, college of Virginia; Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist college; Hugh Heclo, George Mason collage; Sidney M. Milkis, collage of Virginia; Michael Nelson, Rhodes university and college of Virginia; Barbara A. Perry, collage of Virginia; Russell L. Riley, collage of Virginia; Barbara Sinclair, collage of California, la; Bartholomew Sparrow, collage of Texas at Austin; Robert A. robust, Washington and Lee collage; Philip Zelikow, collage of Virginia.

Die Geschichte einer bedingungslosen Freundschaft – die junge New Yorkerin Lauren nimmt ihre todkranke Hündin Gizelle mit auf ein letztes Abenteuer

Ein Herz und eine Schnauze: Die junge New Yorkerin Lauren und ihre Hündin Gizelle waren sieben Jahre unzertrennlich. Beste Freundinnen, Vertraute und Familienersatz. Als Lauren erfährt, dass ihr geliebter Hund Knochenkrebs hat, bricht eine Welt für sie zusammen. Den beiden bleibt nur noch eine kurze Zeit und Lauren erstellt eine Liste mit Dingen, die sie gemeinsam noch erleben wollen: eine Kanufahrt à l. a. Walt Disney, einen Hummer essen, mit Jungs flirten, in den frühen Morgenstunden auf dem instances sq. spazieren gehen … Bis Lauren eines Tages fühlt, dass es Zeit ist, Gizelle loszulassen.

»Ich drückte meine Hand aufs Herz. Dort, wo Gizelle nun lebte. Ich vermisse sie schrecklich, doch ich weiß, dass sie immer bei mir ist. Meine große Freundin mit dem noch größeren Herzen. Sie brachte mir bei, im second zu leben und jeden Tag als neues Abenteuer zu begrüßen. Ihr freier Geist und ihre bedingungslose Liebe halfen mir, ein besserer Mensch zu sein.«

Ein Buch, das zu Tränen rührt.

Tamyra Harrison has been the administrative Director of the Polk County Democrats in Iowa for eleven years. This booklet files existence in politics in the course of these years; who ran for place of work; who gained; who have been the workers; what occasions happened and extra, with own thoughts, tales and remark all through. This publication is a tribute to all of the employees, activists and volunteers who're the real heroes of elections in Polk County.

this can be a political biography of 1 of the 20 th century’s so much emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was once president of Chile until eventually he was once ousted via basic Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973.

Victor Figueroa Clark publications us via Allende's lifestyles and political undertaking, answering probably the most commonly asked questions. used to be he a progressive or a reformist? A bureaucrat or inspirational democrat? Clark argues that Allende and the preferred cohesion social gathering created a different fusion which was once either innovative and democratic.

The technique led by way of Allende used to be an emblem of desire for the left in the course of his couple of minutes in strength. 40 years on, and with left governments again in strength throughout Latin the United States, this e-book seems to be again on the guy and the method as a way to draw very important classes for the left in Latin the USA and around the globe today.

A landmark assortment, spanning 90 years of U.S. background, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, America’s most famed diplomat.

On a scorching July afternoon in 1953, George F. Kennan descended the stairs of the kingdom division construction as a newly retired guy. His occupation were tumultuous: early postings in jap Europe by means of Berlin in 1940–41 and Moscow within the final 12 months of worldwide struggle II. In 1946, the forty-two-year-old Kennan authored the “Long Telegram,” a 5,500-word indictment of the Kremlin that grew to become obligatory examining in Washington. A yr later, in an editorial in Foreign Affairs, he defined “containment,” America’s guiding procedure within the chilly struggle. but what must have been the head of his career—an ambassadorship in Moscow in 1952—was sabotaged by means of Kennan himself, deeply pissed off at his failure to ease the chilly conflict that he had helped launch.

Yet, if it wasn’t the top, neither used to be it the capstone; over the subsequent fifty years, Kennan might develop into the main revered international coverage philosopher of the 20 th century, giving influential lectures, advising presidents, and authoring twenty books, successful Pulitzer prizes and nationwide booklet awards within the process.

Through all of it, Kennan saved a diary. Spanning a spectacular eighty-eight years and totaling over 8,000 pages, his journals brim with prepared political and ethical insights, philosophical ruminations, poetry, and brilliant descriptions. In those pages, we see Kennan rambling via Nineteen Twenties Europe as a faculty pupil, despairing for capitalism in the middle of the melancholy, agonizing over the dilemmas of intercourse and marriage, turning into enchanted after which horrified via Soviet Russia, and constructing into America’s prime Soviet analyst. however it is the second one 1/2 this near-century-long record—the blossoming of Kennan the proficient writer, clever counselor, and biting critic of the Vietnam and Iraq wars—that showcases this striking guy on the top of his singular analytic and expressive powers, earlier than giving means, heartbreakingly, to a couple of his so much human moments, as his power, reminiscence, and eventually his skill to write down fade away.

Masterfully chosen and annotated by way of historian Frank Costigliola, the result's a landmark paintings of profound highbrow and emotional energy. those diaries inform the whole narrative of Kennan’s existence in his personal intimate and unflinching phrases and, via him, the arc of worldwide occasions within the 20th century.

This explosive, up-close view of Sarah Palin comes from an inner-circle confidant who stocks amazing information regarding how Sarah handled employees and perceived “enemies,” and the discrepancy among what she stated and what she did.

"My lifestyles has been given exact purpose," Jake Pickle says. "Some males reside to generate income, drink, chase girls, gather paintings, excel at a recreation, or pursue different issues that supply them excitement. the object I obtained addicted to used to be supporting humans. and i have had the privilege of aiding humans via the hundreds of thousands. Serving in Congress was once the best honor of my life."

during this ebook, Jake Pickle tells the tale of a life-time in public carrier, together with thirty-one years as consultant for Texas' 10th Congressional District. Jake tells his tale through telling stories—most of them funny, a few poignant—that upload as much as a warmly own account of his existence and career.

on the center of the publication are Jake's tales of political existence in Washington, Austin, and at the crusade path. those variety from hilarious money owed of all which can and does take place at small-town Texas parades and rallies to transparent, no-baloney factors of a few of the main laws that Jake helped to move. His tales approximately Social safety reform, tax-exempt organisations, and pension fund reform laws make those complicated subject matters effortless to understand.

This e-book was once written as a collaboration among Jake and his daughter, Peggy Pickle. It bargains the joys of hearing a born raconteur spin his stories, whereas it finds the ethics and integrity of a guy who by no means forgot that the folks elected him to serve them.

Eroe o tiranno, cinico o appassionato, artefice del proprio destino o strumento inconsapevole delle trame della storia, su Napoleone Bonaparte non è mai stato formulato un giudizio univoco e definitivo. Forse nell’intero corso della storia nessun uomo ha destato emozioni così opposte e severe, né attirato così tanta ammirazione, paura e disprezzo. A partire da una documentazione ricchissima ed eterogenea, lo storico Herbert Fisher racconta Napoleone muovendosi tra psicologia dell’individuo e descrizione degli eventi storici. Scritta nel 1913, l’opera guida il lettore verso una comprensione dell’uomo, della grandezza del suo progetto politico, come natural della fragilità delle sue conquiste. Spalancando davanti ai nostri occhi un mondo di visioni e memorie, Fisher restituisce tutta los angeles complessità di Napoleone Bonaparte, dagli anni della rivoluzione fino alla morte in esilio.