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"Mercer University's Thomas and Ramona McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles exists to encourage the study of the texts and ideas that have been instrumental in shaping the regime of the United States of America. This short volume includes four texts that not only articulate the regime's highest ideals, but provide a lasting framework for governance, and offer a glimpse of the centuries-long struggle to realize those ideals more fully. Together, the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the United States Constitution, and Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address serve as an introduction to a regime committed to the ideals of individual liberty, human equality, the rule of law, government by consent, and popular sovereignty. Citizens and students alike can benefit from this handy primer on American ideals and institutions"-- Provided by publisher.

• Castaway
• From cheese cutter to factory owner
• Living the American Dream
• Betrayal and grace.

"Leal came to the U.S. penniless as a teenager, speaking almost no English; he literally slept in the boiler room of a Wisconsin cheese factory for months before he was caught. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. He is widely credited with introducing Mexican cheeses to the U.S. market, and grew his company to a multi-million-dollar success story. Yet, like many successful entrepreneurs, Leal's great successes were matched by personal failures: the end of a marriage; trouble with law enforcement; and the deeply felt sense that there must be something more to life than great wealth. Leal's memoir is both a quintessential immigrant success story--one that beautifully illustrates the immigrant experiences: isolation, fear, and ambition for a better life and assimilation--as well as a thoughtful personal account of entrepreneurship and all its benefits and costs."-- Provided by publisher.

• Wilting Office Flowers
• Leaving Home
• Precarious Life Under the Radar
• Surviving Around the Neighborhoods
• Racial Talk: Shin Issei Palefaces and Dark Nikkei
• Shin Issei and Nikkei Searching for Community.

"This book offers a story of new migration and community transformation. Via an ethnographic study of young Japanese women migrants (shin Issei), Tritia Toyota details how they make place/space for themselves among generations of Japanese Americans with shifting alterations of membership and belonging that are neither seamless nor easily acknowledged"-- Provided by publisher.

• The body upstream
• "This means something"
• Hurry
• Emergencies and catastrophes
• What it took
• The tar pit
• Heist
• 50.1 percent
• Just the beginning
• Vox
• Turning and turning
• The punch bowl
• Conviction
• 2020
• The cathedral and the gargoyle
• New friends
• "What we used to be".

A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures--including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today's Republican Party--written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic. Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump's GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces he believes are poisoning the party he once led. Romney was the first senator in history to vote to remove from office a president of his own party. When that president's supporters went on to storm the US Capitol, Romney delivered a thundering speech from the Senate floor accusing his fellow Republicans of stoking insurrection. Despite these moments of public courage, Romney has shared very little about what he's witnessed behind the scenes over his three decades in politics--in GOP cloakrooms and caucus lunches, in his private meetings with Donald Trump and his family, in his dealings with John McCain, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Joe Manchin, and Kyrsten Sinema. Now, exclusively for this biography, Romney has provided a window to his most private thoughts. Based on dozens of interviews with Romney, his family, and his inner circle as well as hundreds of pages of his personal journals and private emails, this in-depth portrait by award-winning journalist McKay Coppins shows a public servant authentically wrestling with the choices he has made over his career. In lively, revelatory detail, the book traces Romney's early life and rise through the ranks of a fast-transforming Republican Party and exposes how a trail of seemingly small compromises by political leaders has led to a crisis in democracy. Ultimately, Romney: A Reckoning is a redemptive story about a flawed politician who summoned his moral courage just as fear and divisiveness were overtaking American life.

• Of uncertain origins: The early years of "Sir Charles"
• "Sir Charles" in the Pacific, 1942-45
• Victory and the occupation of Japan
• The Korean War: The curtain rises
• "A period of miscalcuations"
• The dragon sharpens its claws
• "Don't let a bunch of Chinese laundrymen stop you!"
• "A mishandling of intelligence"
• Post-war paranoia
• Watchman of the Republic
• To the grave ... and beyond.

"Major General Charles A. Willoughby served as Douglas MacArthur's stalwart chief intelligence officer (G-2) for over a decade, throughout World War II and the Korean War. This first full biography examines Willoughby's shadowy origins in his native Germany, his curious arrival in the United States, and his military service in World War I, as well as his work during the interwar years as a junior diplomat, budding historian, and neophyte intelligence officer. His chance encounter with MacArthur in the mid-1930s would prove to be the genesis of a near-symbiotic relationship between the two, with significant consequences for both. Throughout his life, Willoughby identified with strong, authoritarian leaders, notably Franco, and--especially--MacArthur. The author also assesses Willoughby's performance as a professional intelligence officer both in World War II and Korea, where he is often vilified for his inaccurate assessments of enemy strength and most likely courses of action, as well as his sycophantic relationship with his commander. Willoughby is most often criticized for his failing to foresee the entry of Chinese forces into the Korean War and its impact upon the US Army and the prosecution of the war. Following MacArthur's removal by President Truman in 1951, Willoughby retired and spent the rest of his days engaged in right-wing political activity and in staunchly defending his much-maligned boss. The legacy he left is one filled with lingering and important questions about loyalty to superiors, in civilian as well as military environments, how far that loyalty should extend, and walking the tightrope involved in telling truth to power."-- Provided by publisher.

• Environmental, ethnographic, and historic context
• Investigating the Pottery Hill site
• Historic period houses in Grass Valley and the Great Basin
• Investigation of Pottery Hill 2 houses
• Exterior hearths
• House and hearth clusters and activity areas
• Classifcation and description of Euro-American artifacts from the Pottery Hill grid
• The chronology of the Shoshone occupation at Potter Hill
• Summary and interpretations of Pottery Hill and the Grass Valley historic period.

"This archaeological study of the interactions between Western Shoshone families and Euro-American ranchers in the late nineteenth century helps fill the gap between what is known regarding Late Prehistoric foragers of the American West and ethnohistoric understanding of Native American peoples of the Great Basin. Pottery Hill, an archaeological site located in Grass Valley, Nevada, northeast of the historic mining town of Austin, represents a small settlement of Native Americans who lived there in the late 1800s. The Grass Valley Shoshone, whose environment and traditional lifeways were disrupted by the arrival of miners and settlers in the 1860s, found work on the ranches and farms in the valley. Archaeological fieldwork conducted in the 1970s investigated house remains, hearths, and artifacts. A recent analysis of these data, enhanced by the use of archival documents and oral history, provides new insights into the dynamics of late nineteenth-century life in central Nevada. The Pottery Hill Site addresses a critical period in the history of the Grass Valley Shoshone, who adopted and modified Euro-American artifacts and materials while maintaining important aspects of their traditional culture. It gives readers a deeper understanding of the effects of Euro-American settlement on the Shoshone, the history of the western United States, and the reciprocal impacts of cultural contact"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : politics at the poles
• The New York City liberty poles
• Regulation, ratification, and the right to resist
• Debating dissent in the Whiskey rebellion
• The Federalist popular politics of assent
• "Wandering apostles of sedition" : itinerant Republican activists
• From poles to polls : the elections of 1799 and 1800
• Partisan politics and poles in the nineteenth century
• Epilogue : "forgetting while remembering".

"This book is explores the deployment of liberty poles in the United States from the Revolution through the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : Lincoln's architecture and the fault in the nation's foundation
• Jefferson's abandoned stand against slavery
• A contested purchase
• Lewis and Clark, William Henry Harrison, and the northwestern frontier
• Jackson's southern strategy
• Missouri compromised
• Stephen Austin's invasive Texas colony
• Houston, Jackson, and the southwestern frontier
• Benton, Frémont, and the westward course of American empire
• Tyler, Calhoun, and the "reannexation" of Texas
• Mr. Polk's war and manifest destiny
• Wilmot's proviso and the Free Soil movement
• Douglas's southern exposure and popular sovereignty
• Conceiving "bleeding Kansas"
• Deconstructing the democracy.

"Explores how an incipient rift between the states over slavery at the United States' founding lengthened and deepened, risking civil war, as the nation advanced westward" -- Provided by publisher.
"By the time Abraham Lincoln asserted in 1858 that the nation could not "endure permanently half slave and half free," the rift that would split the country in civil war was well defined. The origins and evolution of the coming conflict between North and South can in fact be traced back to the early years of the American Republic, as Stephen G. Hyslop demonstrates in Building a House Divided, an exploration of how the incipient fissure between the Union's initial slave states and free states-or those where slaves were gradually being emancipated-lengthened and deepened as the nation advanced westward. Hyslop focuses on four prominent slaveholding expansionists who were intent on preserving the Union but nonetheless helped build what Lincoln called a house divided: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk and Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who managed a plantation in Mississippi bequeathed by his father-in-law. Hyslop examines what these men did, collectively and individually, to further what Jefferson called an "empire of liberty," though it kept millions of Black people in bondage. Along with these major figures, in all their conflicts and contradictions, he considers other American expansionists who engaged in and helped extend slavery-among them William Clark, Stephen Austin, and President John Tyler-as well as examples of principled opposition to the extension of slavery by northerners such as John Quincy Adams and southerners like Henry Clay and Thomas Hart Benton, who held slaves but placed preserving the Union above extending slavery across the continent. The long view of the path to the Civil War, as charted through the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras in this book, reveals the critical fault in the nation's foundation, exacerbated by slaveholding expansionists like Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, and Douglas, until the house they built upon it could no longer stand for two opposite ideas at once" -- Provided by publisher.

• From Brewing to Brown Scare: 1917-1945. Beer, Subversion, and Bolsheviks: World War 1 and the First Investigative Committee ; The Left Embraces Countersubversion: The 1930s Brown Scare and the Growth of Countersubversion ; "Father of the Committee:" Rep. Samuel Dickstein and the Origins of HUAC ; "A Grave Injustice:" The Internment of Japanese-Americans, 1942-45
• McCarthyism and Red Scare: 1946-1959. Source for the Blacklist: The Origins of Appendix IX ; HUAC Goes to Hollywood, Aspects of the Blacklist ; Jackie Robinson Testifies Before HUAC, 1949 ; New Evidence in the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer ; "Have you left no sense of decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings, 1954 ; Pete Seeger and HUAC, 1955 ; Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC, 1956 ; "A Travesty Upon the Word 'Investigation:'" Mary Knowles and the Plymouth Meeting Controversy
• The Decline of Countersubversion, 1960-77. The First NSA Defection: 1960 ; Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers
• Espionage, Disinformation and Political Warfare in the Cold War. Active Measures ; The "Neighbors": The GRU in America, from "Ales" to "Fancy Bear" ; "False Alarm:" Communist Allegations of Biological Warfare in the Korean War ; "The Crime and the Lie:" The Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940 ; Congress Investigates the Katyn Forest Massacre, 1951-1952 ; Previewing the Film Katyn
• Echoes and Legacies: Countersubversion and Disinformation from the Late Cold War to Present. Congress Investigates Right-Wing Extremism, From the 1960s to Present ; 1983: The Bombing of the U.S. Capitol ; Russian Interference in the 2016 Election ; Foreign Election Interference in 2020.

"The core of this book consists of essays originally posted on the blog of the Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection, belonging to Academic Library Services, East Carolina University. The end result is a collection of 24 self-contained chapters, organized into five chronological/topical sections, covering various aspects of the efforts of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and other 20th Century congressional committees investigating real or alleged subversion. These entries have been revised, updated, and merged as needed. There is also an introductory essay that explores the broader history of congressional countersubversive investigations. Each brief essay contains its own list of sources. The entries span a variety of topics from the birth of congressional countersubversive investigations in the First World War and aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, all the way up to Russian election influence efforts in 2016-2020, and congressional investigations of white nationalism. Topics covered in-between include the origins of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the tragic injustice that was the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War Two, various aspects of McCarthyism and the Red Scare, especially the role of congressional committees such as HUAC, the 1960 Martin/Mitchell affair, the Black Panthers, and aspects of the broader Cold War espionage and political/information struggle. This volume is intended to provide an overview and guide to further research for students, members of the public, and professional scholars"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I. "The economy, stupid". How Arkansas educated Bill Clinton
• "The Cold War is over: Germany and Japan won"
• Winning the presidency
• Part II. Market Managers. Managing health care capitalism
• Health care corporatism in failure and success
• Opening Japan: a detour on the road to Neoliberalism
• Part III. Market Champions. Budget and boom
• NAFTA and its discontents
• Grand illusions: reinventing the American workplace
• Part IV. The New Deal in eclipse. Underclass men and welfare mothers
• The China price
• The committee to save the world
• Deregulating finance.

"When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he was surrounded by advisors with radical ideas about everything from economic management to health care reform to labor relations to social policy. With the White House and Congress under full Democratic control, a new, more equitable vision of American capitalism seemed possible-even likely. And indeed, over the course of the 1990s, the economy performed remarkably well, real wages rose, and unemployment was at a 25-year low. In a 2001 book, Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen would term it "The Fabulous Decade." And yet today, Clinton's 8 years in office are seen by those on the left as a monumental failure, with these short-term gains achieved thanks to a full-sale capitulation to the neoliberal ideology of the right, which brought with it financial deregulation, privatization of government services, and the growth of class inequalities. In this comprehensive and sweeping political history of the 1990s, Nelson Lichtenstein considers why the Clinton White House ended up embracing neoliberalism so fully, despite the array of other options available-options being championed by those around Clinton, and sometimes even Clinton itself. Exploring the major issues of the time-deficit politics, NAFTA, labor relations, tech regulation, mass incarceration, and more-Lichtenstein reveals an "intellectual history of an economy that wasn't," and explores why neoliberalism was cemented into the US's economic and financial system by the end of Clinton's term in office"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• [Declaration of independence]
• The Constitution
• Bill of rights
• The Monroe doctrine
• The Gettysburg address
• The star-spangled banner.

• Notes on the Selections and the Text
• Excerpt: From Superman to Man, 1917
• From As Nature Leads, 1919
• "The Thrilling Story of the Maroons," Negro World, March 18, 1922
• "The West Indies," Messenger, September 1922
• From Blood-Money, New York Amsterdam News, April 1923
• From "The Ku Klux Spirit: A Brief Outline of the
• History of the Ku Klux Klan Past and Present," 1923
• "Jazz at Home," Survey Graphic, March 1925; also The New Negro, 1925
• "J. A. Rogers Makes Comparison of French and American Customs," New York Amsterdam News, October 14, 1925
• "J. A. Rogers Gets 'First Hand' Impression of 'Blue Blood' Boosters," Pittsburgh Courier, March 6, (Interview with Two White Supremacists)
• "What Are We, Negroes or Americans" Messenger, August 1926
• "Is Black Ever White?" Messenger, September 1926
• "Talks with Garvey in Prison," New York Amsterdam News, November 17, 1926
• ["Is There Such a Thing as Negro Art?"] Opportunity, December 1926
• Review of Paul Whiteman's book Jazz
• "J. A. Rogers Discusses West Indian Women," Pittsburgh Courier, February 26, 1927
• "Who Is the New Negro, and Why?" Messenger, March 1927
• "Is the Star of the Folies-Bergere Really Married?" Pittsburgh Courier, July 16, 1927
• Interview with Josephine Baker
• "The Negro's Experience of Christianity and Islam," Review of Nations, January-March 1928
• "Communism and the Negro," New York Amsterdam News, January 30, 1929
• "Ahead of Its Time," New York Amsterdam News, April 10, 1929
• Interview with Claude McKay
• "Paris Pepper-Pot," Pittsburgh Courier, June 15, 1929
• "The American Negro in Europe," American Mercury, May 1930
• "Ruminations: Take a Poke at 'The Emperor Jones,'" New York Amsterdam News, September 27, 1933
• From 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, 1934
• "Italy Over Abyssinia," Crisis 42.2, February 1935
• "J. A. Rogers Gets Exclusive Interview with Emperor" Pittsburgh Courier March 7, 1936
• Interview with Emperor Haile Selassie
• "Rogers Describes His 'Adventures in Jim-Crow Land,'" Pittsburgh Courier, August 8, 1936
• "J. A. Rogers Rips 'Veil of Hypocrisy' from 'Best-Seller,'" Pittsburgh Courier, February 27, 1937
• Review of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
• "The Suppression of Negro History," Crisis, May 1940
• From Your History, 1940
• From Sex and Race, 1941-44
• "Rogers Says: Exception Is Taken to Criticism of 'Black Boy,' Written by Theophilus Lewis," Pittsburgh Courier, July 14, 1945
• From World's Great Men of Color, 1946-47
• From Nature Knows No Color-Line, 1952
• From Africa's Gift to America, 1961
• From She Walks in Beauty, 1963
• "Civil War Centennial: Myth and Reality," Freedomways Winter, 1963

"Largely self-educated, Joel Augustus Rogers spoke several languages and researched archives throughout the world in search of Black history. He was known as the "people's historian," devoting his life, alongside his supporters Marcus Garvey and Arturo Schomburg, to chronicling Black life to counter the negative stereotypes prevalent in the first half of the twentieth century. His numerous newspaper columns exhibited a gift for speaking to the average person yet were well-researched enough to earn praise from his more formally trained contemporaries, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Hubert H. Harrison. Surprisingly, Rogers's works, with the notable exception of the two-volume World's Great Men of Color, have not been published by mainstream presses and are only available in unannotated electronic editions"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: of "Santa fakes" and other illusions
• Authenticity and Its discontents: what Is "real" Native American art?
• Cultural cross-dressers: a long history of imitating Indians
• Replication and reproduction on the Great Plains of nostalgia
• The deliberate forgery, the accidental fake, the visual fiction, and the replica
• Cross-cultural replication and Native revitalization: techniques of remembering
• Conclusion: vexed identities and the "destruction of mimicry" in the twenty-first century.

"Following more than a decade of research on various kinds of inauthentic Native American art, Janet Berlo presents a series of cases that demonstrate the range and complexity of the issues at stake. From Native and non-Native artists commissioned by Native communities to make replicas of original Native artistic works to non-Natives creating Native style art for commercial gain to uses of pastiche and obfuscation in creating artistic objects for various purposes, Berlo looks at misrepresentation and replication in nuanced and careful detail"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : our enduring quest for authenticity
• Casting reality television : stages of self-disclosure
• Social media designs : the amateur ideal
• Pop music's sponsorship play : the art of selling out
• The commercial brand sell : humanizing the corporate
• The rise of influencers : corporatizing the human
• Performative politics : unscripting the identity show
• Populist politics : technologies of informality
• Conclusion : the business of keeping it "real".

• Prologue: The promise
• Fast car
• Born on the bayou
• Amor eterno
• Keep their heads ringin'
• Crash into me
• On the bound
• How to save a life
• Everlong
• La trenza
• It's only love that gets you through.

"From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate, Alejandra Campoverdi, comes a riveting and unflinching memoir on navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering a broad examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balancing act of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you're going. Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama, a gang member's girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She's ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. She's modeled on the pages of Maxim and had a double mastectomy. Living a life of contradictory extremes often comes with the territory when you're a 'First and Only.' It also comes at a price. With candor and heart, Alejandra retraces her trajectory as a Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles, foregoing the tidy bullet points of her resume and shining a light on the spaces between them instead. What emerges is a moving testimony of personal struggle and triumph that shatters the one-dimensional glossy narrative we are often sold of what it takes to achieve the American Dream. Alejandra uses her own experiences to illustrate the emotional tolls First and Onlys often face that are widespread yet rarely acknowledged, providing a road to truth and healing in the process. It is a timely and revealing reflection, as social class continues to be a key determinant of career success. Part memoir, part manifesto, First Gen is a story of generational inheritance, aspiration, and belonging--a poignant journey to 'reclaim the parts of ourselves we sacrificed in order to survive.'"-- Provided by publisher.