Bøger af Kathryn S. Olmsted

Just four months after Richard Nixon's resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The country's best investigative journalists and members of Congress quickly mobilized to probe a scandal that seemed certain to rock the foundations of this secret government. Subsequent investigations disclosed that the CIA had plotted to kill foreign leaders and that the FBI had harassed civil rights and student groups. Some called the scandal 'son of Watergate.' Many observers predicted that the investigations would lead to far-reaching changes in the intelligence agencies. Yet, as Kathryn Olmsted shows, neither the media nor Congress pressed for reforms. For all of its post-Watergate zeal, the press hesitated to break its long tradition of deference in national security coverage. Congress, too, was unwilling to challenge the executive branch in national security matters. Reports of the demise of the executive branch were greatly exaggerated, and the result of the 'year of intelligence' was a return to the status quo. American History/Journalism

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II

';Olmsted finds in Depression-era California the crucible for strong-arm policies against farm workers that bolstered the conservative movement' (Kirkus Reviews). At a time when a resurgent immigrant labor movement is making urgent demands on twenty-first-century Americaand when a new and virulent strain of right-wing anti-immigrant populism is roiling the political watersRight Out of California is a fresh and profoundly relevant touchstone for anyone seeking to understand the roots of our current predicament. This major reassessment of modern conservatism reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR's New Deal. Noted historian Kathryn S.Olmsted tells how this brief moment of upheaval terrified business leaders into rethinking their relationship to American politicsa narrative that pits a ruthless generation of growers against a passionate cast of reformers, writers, and revolutionaries. ';Olmstead's vivid, accomplished narrative really belongs to the historiography of the left... As her strong research shows, race and gender prejudice informed, or deformed, almost the whole of American social and cultural life in the 1930s and was as common on the left as on the right.' The New York Times Book Review ';An accessible work that aids in contextualizing the rise of future conservative leaders such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.' Publishers Weekly ';A major reworking of the Republican right's origins, this is also a compelling read for anyone interested in California's outsize importance in America's recent past.' Darren Dochuk, author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt

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