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John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel - Kenneth Womack - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel - Kenneth Womack - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded just outside of Oklahoma City''s Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Within a matter of hours, the FBI launched the largest manhunt in U.S. history, identifying the suspects as Timothy James McVeigh and John Doe No. 2, a stocky twentysomething with a distinctive tattoo on his left arm. Eventually the FBI retracted the elusive mystery man as a bombing suspect altogether, proclaiming that McVeigh had acted alone and that John Doe No. 2 was the byproduct of unreliable eyewitness testimony in the wake of the attack. Womack recreates the events that led up to this fateful day from the perspective of John Doe No. 2—or JD, as he is referred to in the book. With his ironic and curiously detached persona, JD narrates—from a second-person point of view—his secret life with McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and others in America''s militia culture as McVeigh and JD crisscross the Midwest in McVeigh''s beloved Chevy Geo Spectrum. John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel is the tragicomic account of McVeigh''s last desperate months of freedom as he prepared to unleash one of the deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in the nation''s history. Womack''s novel traces one man''s downward spiral toward the act of evil that will brand his name in infamy and another''s desperate hope to save his friend''s soul before it''s too late.

DKK 149.00
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Lincoln's Man in Liverpool - Coy Cross - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Lincoln's Man in Liverpool - Coy Cross - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Refusing to side with either the Union or the Confederacy, Great Britain officially declared neutrality in the U.S. Civil War, thereby putting into effect the Foreign Enlistment Act, which forbade all belligerents to arm ships in her ports. Unofficially, many British citizens sympathized with the Confederacy because the Union''s naval blockade stopped the flow of cotton from Southern fields to English textile mills. For this reason, the Confederate representative James Bulloch found British shipbuilders willing to fill his orders for battle-ready vessels without inquiring too closely into his intentions. The U.S. Consul in Liverpool, Thomas Haines Dudley, suspected Bulloch was commissioning warships for an assault on Union naval or commerce ships. Despite his lack of diplomatic experience—President Lincoln had appointed Dudley as a political favor—the consul committed himself to preventing vessels destined for the Confederacy from leaving the shipyards. Dudley hired private detectives, bribed workers, bought sworn affidavits, and provided room and board for turn-coat Confederate sailors willing to furnish evidence that could be used in court. Confronting innumerable political obstacles and even threats to his life, Dudley served his country faithfully and courageously. He achieved his greatest success years after the war''s conclusion when in 1872 an international tribunal awarded the United States $15 million in reparations for the British government''s failure to enforce its own neutrality laws. This true account of Dudley''s years of service sheds new light on a crucial diplomatic front of the American Civil War.

DKK 245.00
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Political Aesthetics - Crispin Sartwell - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Political Aesthetics - Crispin Sartwell - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

"I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system just are that political system, the concepts are separable. Typically, aesthetic aspects of political systems shift in their meaning over time, or even are inverted or redeployed with an entirely transformed effect. You cannot understand politics without understanding the aesthetics of politics, but you cannot understand aesthetics as politics. The point is precisely to show the concrete nodes at which two distinct discourses coincide or connive, come apart or coalesce."—from Political Aesthetics Juxtaposing and connecting the art of states and the art of art historians with vernacular or popular arts such as reggae and hip-hop, Crispin Sartwell examines the reach and claims of political aesthetics. Most analysts focus on politics as discursive systems, privileging text and reducing other forms of expression to the merely illustrative. He suggests that we need to take much more seriously the aesthetic environment of political thought and action.Sartwell argues that graphic style, music, and architecture are more than the propaganda arm of political systems; they are its constituents. A noted cultural critic, Sartwell brings together the disciplines of political science and political philosophy, philosophy of art and art history, in a new way, clarifying basic notions of aesthetics—beauty, sublimity, and representation—and applying them in a political context. A general argument about the fundamental importance of political aesthetics is interspersed with a group of stimulating case studies as disparate as Leni Riefenstahl''s films and Black Nationalist aesthetics, the Dead Kennedys and Jeffersonian architecture.

DKK 371.00
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To Raise and Discipline an Army - Joshua Kastenberg - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

To Raise and Discipline an Army - Joshua Kastenberg - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General''s Office—the legal arm of the United States Army—from thirteen uniformed attorneys to more than four hundred. Crowder''s recruitment of some of the nation''s leading legal scholars, as well as former congressmen and state supreme court judges, helped legitimize President Woodrow Wilson''s wartime military and legal policies. As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army numbered about 120,000 soldiers. The Judge Advocate General''s Office was instrumental in extending the military''s reach into the everyday lives of citizens to enable the construction of an army of more than four million soldiers by the end of the war. Under Crowder''s leadership, the office was responsible for the creation and administration of the Selective Service Act, under which thousands of men were drafted into military service, as well as enforcement of the Espionage Act and wartime prohibition. In this first published history of the Judge Advocate General''s Office between the years of 1914 and 1922, Joshua Kastenberg examines not only courts-martial, but also the development of the laws of war and the changing nature of civil-military relations. The Judge Advocate General''s Office influenced the legislative and judicial branches of the government to permit unparalleled assertions of power, such as control over local policing functions and the economy. Judge advocates also altered the nature of laws to recognize a person''s diminished mental health as a defense in criminal trials, influenced the assertion of US law overseas, and affected the evolving nature of the law of war. This groundbreaking study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers of US history, as well as military, legal, and political historians.

DKK 424.00
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