The International Commission of Jurists: Global Advocates for Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) Review
Since its founding in 1952, the International Commission of Jurists has inspired the international human rights movement with persistent demands that governments obey the rule of law.
Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism Review
In this fast-paced, captivating account of Billy Sunday's life, Roger A. Bruns masterfully unfolds the story of modern evangelism. Born in Iowa during the Civil War, Sunday rose to fame as the "fastest man in baseball" during his career with the Chicago White Stockings in the 1880s. But he turned his back on the game when he heard the call of God, first spreading his old-fashioned, fundamentalist message in Chicago's gritty saloons. By 1896, Sunday's swashbuckling campaign was on the road. He riled and rallied audiences across the country, firing off a slew of railing diatribes in his quest to expurgate the moral rot of society, board up bars and brothels, rid the world of cigarettes and dime novels, and save faithless, sinful, and rum-soaked souls from eternal damnation. In the tabernacles and tents of his traveling revival, Sunday served up a spectacle of rambunctious antics and quick-tongued invectives all grounded in his own moral and religious authority. He beseeched the "fal-da-rol" and "tommyrot" displayed by intellectuals, evolutionists, Unitarians, and left-wing radicals to build a massive religious dynasty that foreshadowed the successful careers of Jimmy Swaggart and Billy Graham. A stirring orator and consummate showman, Sunday's evangelical message reached millions of Americans, even before the advent of radio and television broadcasting. With unerring verve, Bruns chronicles how Sunday bridged the gap between the tent revivals of the nineteenth century and the evangelical empires of today.
Seven Myths about Christianity Review
The 7 myths are:1 Christians force their morality on others.2Christianity supresses women3 Christianity caused the ecological crisis4 Christians are antiscientifis5 Christians have done terrible things in the name of Christ6 Christian missionaries destroy native cultures7 Christians are arrogant.
The Twenties in America: Politics and History (BAAS Paperbacks) Review
The Twenties in America offers the first balanced account of the history and politics of this much-maligned decade. Niall Palmer focuses on the governing styles and political philosophies of presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He suggests that Harding's executive style and achievements were not as poor as traditional portraits have claimed and that Coolidge was largely successful in his efforts to distance himself from the financial scandals of his predecessor, reviving much of the US economy. Palmer argues that the pace of social and technological change created conflicts over race, religion, and poverty, and employment rights. Consequently, old solutions became increasingly irrelevant to the changing times.
Toxic Mix?: A Handbook of Science and Politics Review
Toxic Mix?: A Handbook of Science and Politics takes a topic very much in the center of public debate in the last decade and places it in a revealing historical context. It follows the often contentious relationship of science and politics from the FDR era to the current Obama administration, highlighting the many highly charged moments when the two were in conflict.
Toxic Mix? ranges across the major areas of scientific inquiry with public policy implications, including atomic energy, space science, public health, stem cells, sexual reproduction, environmental science, global warming, and evolution, to examine important events where political imperatives and scientific research were at odds. In addition, the book looks at another important area where politics and science are at cross purposes; immigration—as many of our most accomplished degree earners are foreign born and are unable to stay and work in the United States. A final chapter analyzes the attempts by the early Obama administration to build public policy that embraces science rather than manipulates it.
Smith Wildman Brookhart-95 Review
This is an examination of the career and character of Brookhart, Iowa's radical senator. He was labelled a socialist, a communist, a Bolshevik and a buffoon, but he offered a populist solution to the agricultural depression of the 1920s that advocated the formation of co-operatives.
Governor Smylie Remembers Review
