Roosevelts lost alliances Costigliola, Frank
2012., 20111227, 2011, 2012, 2012-01-01, 20120101
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In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. ...Roosevelt's Lost Alliances captures this moment and shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overcoming the different habits, upbringings, sympathies, and past experiences of the three leaders. In particular, Roosevelt trained his famous charm on Stalin, lavishing respect on him, salving his insecurities, and rendering him more amenable to compromise on some matters.
Wartime Basketballtells the story of basketball's survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game's growth after the war. Prior to World War II, ...basketball-professional and collegiate-was largely a regional game, with different styles played throughout the country. Among its many impacts on home-front life, the war forced pro and amateur leagues to contract and combine rosters to stay competitive. At the same time, the U.S. military created base teams made up of top players who found themselves in uniform. The war created the opportunity for players from different parts of the country to play with and against each other. As a result, a more consistent form of basketball began to take shape.The rising popularity of the professional game led to the formation of the World Professional Basketball Tournament (WPBT) in 1939. The original March Madness, the WPBT was played in Chicago for ten years and allowed professional, amateur, barnstorming, and independent teams to compete in a round-robin tournament. The WPBT included all-black and integrated teams in the first instance where all-black teams could compete for a "world series of basketball" against white teams.Wartime Basketballdescribes how the WPBT paved the way for the National Basketball League to integrate in December 1942, five years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball.Weaving stories from the court into wartime and home-front culture like a finely threaded bounce pass,Wartime Basketballsheds light on important developments in the sport's history that have been largely overlooked.
Scholars regard the March on Washington Movement (MOWM) as a forerunner of the postwar Civil Rights movement. Led by the charismatic A. Philip Randolph, MOWM scored an early victory when it forced ...the Roosevelt Administration to issue a landmark executive order that prohibited defense contractors from practicing racial discrimination. Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946 recalls that triumph, but also looks beyond Randolph and the MOWM's national leadership to focus on the organization's evolution and actions at the local level. Using the personal papers of previously unheralded MOWM members such as T.D. McNeal, internal government documents from the Roosevelt administration, and other primary sources, David Lucander highlights how local affiliates fighting for a double victory against fascism and racism helped the national MOWM accrue the political capital it needed to effect change. Lucander details the efforts of grassroots organizers to implement MOWM's program of empowering African Americans via meetings and marches at defense plants and government buildings and, in particular, focuses on the contributions of women activists like Layle Lane, E. Pauline Myers, and Anna Arnold Hedgeman. Throughout he shows how local activities often diverged from policies laid out at MOWM's national office, and how grassroots participants on both sides ignored the rivalry between Randolph and the leadership of the NAACP to align with one-another on the ground.
The March on Washington Movement and the Committee of Racial Equality were surveilled by the FBI, who were allegedly watching for Communists. In comparison with MOWM, the FBI's contact wiht CORE ...seems to have been a low-priority affair with reporting left to informants. (SJK)
The politically astute founders and members of the Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes violated the norms of academic practice and faced off to political leaders in the U.S. by mobilizing the struggle ...against totalitarianism. But their actions were appropriate during these extraordinary times as their efforts defended freedom and justice.
Newly uncovered data on money and prices in Greece and Hungary during their hyperinflations are used to re-estimate the Cagan money demand equation and to repeat the Sargent and Wallace causality ...tests. It is no longer necessary to exclude observations at the end of each episode on the premise that they represent the response to an anticipated monetary reform. The results for each country now conform to the Sargent and Wallace findings for most other hyperinflation episodes that causality runs from prices to money (i.e., that money is endogenous). (Printed by permission of the publisher.)
