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51523 results in American studies

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  • 13 - Anthony Fauci’s America

  • Sidney A. Shapiro, Wake Forest University School of Law, Joseph P. Tomain, University of Cincinnati College of Law
  • Book:
    How Government Built America
    Published online:
    08 May 2024
    Print publication:
    09 May 2024, pp 160-166

  • Summary

    Bashing bureaucrats is an old American political tradition, and no one took this further than Donald Trump, who actively sought to fire civil servants and find other ways to subvert the bureaucracy. Over the nation’s history, the government has taken on an increasing and successful role in ensuring prosperity, protecting people, and promoting equality, and this success is due in no small part to the contribution of civil servants. Like all institutions, the government fails because its employees let it down, but it also fails because of incompetent political leaders who ignore the advice of knowledgeable and experienced civil servants or reject their advice because it conflicts with an ideological agenda. Andrew Jackson famously thought running the government did not require any special skills, and Donald Trump went even further in thinking that he did not need to know anything about how the government ran or what the civil service advised. The results were disastrous for both presidents and the country. Government needs administration, especially in times of emergency, and government needs public servants like Anthony Fauci to carry out its programs.

How Government Built America
  • Sidney A. Shapiro, Joseph P. Tomain
  • Published online:
    08 May 2024
    Print publication:
    09 May 2024
  • How Government Built America challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by highlighting the role government has played in partnering with markets to build the United States. Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain explore how markets can harm and fail the country, and how the government has addressed these extremes by restoring essential values to benefit all citizens. Without denying that individualism and small government are part of the national DNA, the authors demonstrate how democracy and a people pursuing communal interests are equally important. In highly engaging prose, the authors describe how the government, despite the complexity of markets, remains engaged in promoting economic prosperity, protecting people, and providing an economic safety net. Each chapter focuses on a historical figure, from Lincoln to FDR to Trump, to illustrate how the government-market mix has evolved over time. By understanding this history, readers can turn the national conversation back to what combination of government and markets will best serve the country.

The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
  • Franziska Rueedi
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 April 2021
  • Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.

  • “Probably the Most Perfect Symbol of Our Democracy”: The Army, Sports, and the Re-education of German Youth during the Early American Occupation of Germany, 1945–1946

  • WENDY TOON
  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 2 / May 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 May 2024, pp. 220-247
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    May 2024
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  • During World War II, Germany and the United States fought it out on the battlefields, but once the Allies were victorious, American attention quickly turned to the playing fields. Despite recent enmity, in the spirit of amity GIs quickly started recreational games with German youngsters. This seemingly natural development was at odds with both American expectations of the Germans and vice versa. Reeducation of Germany, and especially its Nazi-indoctrinated youth, was viewed as essential to peace, and the army, through sports, became perhaps unlikely early reeducators. This article outlines sports’ inherent Americanness, this impromptu playing, and its relationship to the formal army program of youth activities.

  • “How Many Black Hippies Do You See?” The Counterculture in Black and White

  • CHRIS A. RASMUSSEN
  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 2 / May 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 May 2024, pp. 275-300
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    May 2024

  • Historians have treated the counterculture largely as a white phenomenon and drawn sharp boundaries between its escapism and the political engagement of the Black freedom struggle. A look at the counterculture's origins and growth in the late 1950s and the 1960s reveals that the counterculture intersected with Black culture in many ways. White beats, hipsters, and hippies generally admired the civil rights movement's support for equality and nonviolence, but sometimes scoffed at its effort to gain integration into American society. Hippies considered themselves outsiders from society and imagined that they shared affinity with Black Americans. Blacks’ responses to the counterculture ranged from contempt to curiosity to embrace. Some Blacks despised the hippies’ lifestyle and political apathy, but others considered the counterculture an important challenge to “the System.” American culture, style, literature, and music were all affected by the counterculture's experimentalism. The counterculture changed white culture, Black culture, and American culture. Drawing boundaries between cultural forms proves less instructive than focussing on the connections between them.

  • AMS volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 2 / May 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 January 2025, pp. f1-f3
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    May 2024
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  • The Ethno-economy: Peter Brimelow and the Capitalism of the Far Right

  • QUINN SLOBODIAN
  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 2 / May 2024
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    06 May 2024, pp. 169-192
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    May 2024
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  • Recent research on the far right has remained surprisingly silent on the question of capitalism. This article takes another approach. It suggests that we must understand the far right emerging out of the economic: out of the dynamics of capitalism itself. It does so through an intellectual portrait of the financial journalist Peter Brimelow, one of the most influential proponents of far-right nativist politics and a self-described “godfather of the Alt Right.” It follows his passage from financial journalist to anti-immigrant firebrand through his encounters with neoliberal luminaries Peter Bauer, Julian Simon, and Milton Friedman. Rather than for an ethnostate, I argue Brimelow is best seen as making the case for an “ethno-economy,” with immigration determined by a racialized hierarchy of human capital.

  • AMS volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of American Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 2 / May 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 January 2025, pp. b1-b2
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    May 2024
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The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script
  • Edited with Introduction and Notes by James L. W. West III, Anne Margaret Daniel
  • Published online:
    25 April 2024
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    25 April 2024
  • The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work still has the capacity to surprise us. Perhaps few admirers of the novel know that it was also adapted for the stage by Owen Davis. In 1926 a successful production ran at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. This edition presents, for the first time in print, the original Broadway script: a fascinating social and literary document, now all but forgotten. The play re-forged Fitzgerald's novel into a fast-moving dramatization of parties and bootlegging, dancing and drinking, hot jazz, adultery and violence. It afforded an evening of first-rate entertainment for Manhattan theatergoers. Incorporating photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews, and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald's scrapbooks, this volume lifts the curtain anew on a singular drama.

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