[PDF] Exit Into History eBook

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0571322034

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'A book that takes you on an intimate journey through Eastern Europe at a time when the dust was still settling from the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Eva Hoffman travels from the Baltic to the Black Sea, building a compelling portrait of a region uncertain about its future.' Independent Shortly after the epochal events of 1989 Eva Hoffman spent several months in her native Poland and four other countries: the then-Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. She visited capital cities, wayside villages and provincial towns; stopped at shipyards, museums, and the coffee-houses of the intelligentsia; and talked to a great variety of people about the tumult they had lived through. Exit into History was the result: a portrait of the mosaic of the new Eastern Europe, a reconstruction of the turbulent post-war decades, and a meditation on the uses and misuses of historical memory.

Author : Jennet Kirkpatrick
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1469635402

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Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens purposefully opt out of politics? Exit—the act of leaving—is often thought of as purely instinctual, a part of the human "fight or flight" response, or, alternatively, motivated by an antiparticipatory, self-centered impulse. However, in this eye-opening book, Jennet Kirkpatrick argues that the concept of exit deserves closer scrutiny. She names and examines several examples of political withdrawal, from Thoreau decamping to Walden to slaves fleeing to the North before the Civil War. In doing so, Kirkpatrick not only explores what happens when people make the decision to remove themselves but also expands our understanding of exit as a political act, illustrating how political systems change in the aftermath of actual or threatened departure. Moreover, she reframes the decision to refuse to play along—whether as a fugitive slave, a dissident who is exiled but whose influence remains, or a government in exile—as one that shapes political discourse, historically and today.

Author : Daniel Oppenheimer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416597174

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A provocative look at the evolution of America’s political soul through the lives of six political figures who abandoned the left and joined the right—“thoughtful…engaging…political history at a very high level…and the pages fly by” (The New Republic). From the 1950s to the early 2000s millions of Americans moved left to right politically—a shift that forever changed the country. In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer takes us from the height of the Communist Party’s popularity in America in the 1920s and 30s, through the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and up through conservative resurgence of the 80s, before ending with 9/11 and the dawn of the Iraq War. Throughout, he tells the stories of six major political figures whose lives spanned these turbulent times and whose changing politics reshaped the American soul: Whittaker Chambers, James Burnham, Ronald Reagan, Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz, and Christopher Hitchens. As he maps out the paths that these six individuals have taken to conservatism, Oppenheimer explores the questions of why and how we come to believe politically at all. How do we come to trust one set of truths, or one set of candidates, or associate with one crowd of people—over all other alternatives? Exit Right is an “absorbing” (The Atlantic) look at the roots of American politics. This is a book that will resonate with readers on the left and the right—as well as those stuck somewhere in the middle. Through six dramatic transformations of six enthralling characters, Oppenheimer “writes with the assurance and historical command of someone who has been thinking about his topic for a long time” (The New Yorker).

Author : Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674276604

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An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, “exit,” is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, “voice,” is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change “from within.” The efficiency of the competitive mechanism, with its total reliance on exit, is questioned for certain important situations. As exit often undercuts voice while being unable to counteract decline, loyalty is seen in the function of retarding exit and of permitting voice to play its proper role. The interplay of the three concepts turns out to illuminate a wide range of economic, social, and political phenomena. As the author states in the preface, “having found my own unifying way of looking at issues as diverse as competition and the two-party system, divorce and the American character, black power and the failure of ‘unhappy’ top officials to resign over Vietnam, I decided to let myself go a little.”

Author : Stan Posner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Atlantic States
ISBN : 9781894979979

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Drive I-95 offers easy-to-follow 30-mile color maps providing mile-by-mile overviews of the road ahead. These help you quickly locate upcoming services on each side of the road going North or South. The maps and the fun stories of the road are useful for family travelers (Christmas, Spring break or summer), seniors, salesmen, truckers, campers and RVers, University students and their parents, military personnel and people who live and work near I-95.

Author : Ethan Chorin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1610391721

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In Exit the Colonel, Ethan Chorin, a longtime Middle East scholar and one of the first American diplomats posted to Libya after the lifting of international sanctions, goes well beyond recent reporting on the Arab Spring to link the Libyan uprising to a flawed reform process, egregious human rights abuses, regional disparities, and inconsistent stories spun by Libya and the West to justify the Gaddafi regime's "rehabilitation." Exit the Colonel is based upon extensive interviews with senior US, EU, and Libyan officials, and with rebels and loyalists; a deep reading of local and international media; and significant on-the-ground experience pre- and post-revolution. The book provides rare and often startling glimpses into the strategies and machinations that brought Gaddafi in from the cold, while encouraging ordinary Libyans to "break the barrier of fear." Chorin also assesses the possibilities and perils for Libya going forward, politically and economically.

Author : Christine J. Walley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226871819

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Winner of CLR James Book Prize from the Working Class Studies Association and 2nd Place for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills—just one example of the vast scale of deindustrialization occurring across the United States. The disruption of this event propelled Walley into a career as a cultural anthropologist, and now, in Exit Zero, she brings her anthropological perspective home, examining the fate of her family and that of blue-collar America at large. Interweaving personal narratives and family photos with a nuanced assessment of the social impacts of deindustrialization, Exit Zero is one part memoir and one part ethnography— providing a much-needed female and familial perspective on cultures of labor and their decline. Through vivid accounts of her family’s struggles and her own upward mobility, Walley reveals the social landscapes of America’s industrial fallout, navigating complex tensions among class, labor, economy, and environment. Unsatisfied with the notion that her family’s turmoil was inevitable in the ever-forward progress of the United States, she provides a fresh and important counternarrative that gives a new voice to the many Americans whose distress resulting from deindustrialization has too often been ignored. This book is part of a project that also includes a documentary film.

Author : Stefan Helgesson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042032529

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Preliminary Material -- Some Thoughts on the Idea of Exit: in Recent African Narratives of Childhood /Richard K. Priebe -- Generation and Complicity: in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light /Maria Olaussen -- “Let Me Tell You About Bekolo's Latest Film, Les Saignantes, But First . . . ” /Kenneth W. Harrow -- Tradition and Creativity: in Zakes Mda's Cion /David Bell -- Paton's Discovery, Soyinka's Invention /Bernth Lindfors -- Writing Out Imperialism?: A Note on Nationalism and Political Identity in the African-Owned Newspapers of Colonial Ghana /Stephanie Newell -- After Exit: Exile, Creativity, and the Risk of Translation /Stefan Helgesson -- African Presences and Representations: in the Principality/Markgrafschaft of Bayreuth /Eckhard Breitinger -- Taking Flight: and the Libertarian Crow-Scarer /Gerald Porter -- “In my end is my beginning”: The Death of Virginia Woolf /Catherine Sandbach-Dahlström -- Following the Race Track?: Swedish, Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Canadian in Diamond Grill by Fred Wah /Elisabeth Mårald -- Literature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation /J. Hillis Miller -- “Gazing into the future”: Beginnings, Endings, and Midpoints in Paul Muldoon's Why Brownlee Left /Lars-Håkan Svensson -- Exiting the Environmental Trap: Knowledge Regimes and the Third Phase of Environmental Policy /Sverker Sörlin -- The End of the “Earth” /Willy Bach -- Myself as a Puff of Dust: A Ghost Story /Jane Bryce -- TIXE YLNO: or Redefining Identities /Janice Kulyk Keefer -- Contributors.

Author : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0374151199

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Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. She explores the ways we leave one thing and move on to the next in an enthusiastic, uplifting lesson about ourselves and the role of transition in our lives.

Author : Anthony Swofford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847395902

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1989. Severin Boxx is the seventeen-year-old son of an Air Force pilot who lives on a military base in Japan. He loves -- from afar -- Virginia Kindwall, the daughter of the general who runs the base. Virginia is tough and sophisticated beyond her years, and when she falls in with the Japanese underground her dealings result in her disappearance and Severin is forced to return to America. 2006. Unhappily married and living in San Francisco, Severin's life is turned upside-down by the arrival of a postcard from General Kindwall, now dying in a hospital in Vietnam, asking him to find his daughter before he dies. But the search for Virginia will take him back to the country of his youth, and to unexpected consequences for both. Suffused with the same intensity of emotion and facility with language as Jarhead, Anthony Swofford's debut novel marks the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.